As promised, here's the next segment of our
recent extended chat with Star Trek's longtime master of visual effects,
Dan Curry—this one targeted at his consulting work on the new remastered
TNG Season 2 Blu-ray set.
As with Season 1, this CBS Home Entertainment set got a big nationwide boost from
the Fathom Events screenings nationwide, including documentaries about how the remastering work was located, assembled and just
done. Not to mention the big roundtable cast reunion. In all, it's 120 minutes of NEW bonus footage—including
Robert Burnett and Roger Lay's ongoing massive new TNG doc, an
ALL NEW BLOOPER REEL of newly assembled outtakes put together fresh from the re-opened "dailies" of raw footage ... plus all the prior DVD-era docs carried over as well.
This new 5-disc set (
left) includes an incredible and rare
longer version of the Data-Picard classic "The Measure of a Man" with footage filmed but originally cut for timing—preserved by then-writer
Melinda Snodgrass, off the courtesy rough-edit VHS given her as a private gift!
But back to Dan—and yes, I finally do get the "baby poop planet" story on the record.
But that's not all—we'll have even more Trek tales with Dan in Part 3. And after that, Dan's very own "Trek2Chuck", whatever that might be. I never thought we'd have another
installment in our Chuck series ... but you just never know, do you? Just like "remastering"
TNG—who'da thunk it?
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