doubleofive said:

pittrek said:

The interesting thing is that all the remastered special effect shots are widescreen
I believe that ILM shot the effects for the pilot on widescreen film, as evidenced by the recreated credits seen on an early trailer:

http://picasaweb.google.com/102542760950977079734/TNGHD

You'll notice that the two "new" close ups are actually reuses from the shots from the credits, and the long shot is mostly CGI so they rendered it in 16:9 to match the others. The other preview shots (using effects NOT from the opening credits) have been cropped, as the Blu-ray is.

What still bugs me is that they rendered ALL the new TOSR shots in 16:9 for some reason.

I remember seeing the TOS footage widescreen but only in some promo pictures. Was the widescreen render actually used ?