Star Trek: Generations Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		4.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		5.0
Overall		4.5

Star Trek: Generations Blu-ray Movie Review

Paramount has re-released the 1994 Sci-Fi film 'Star Trek: Generations' to the Blu-ray format. New specifications include remastered 1080p video and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 lossless audio. Supplements from the original release carry over. A standalone UHD disc is also available, which may also be purchased as part of a four film UHD boxed set.

Star Trek: Generations Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Rather than simply regurgitate the wholly underwhelming transfer from the ancient 2009 Blu-ray presentation, Paramount has wisely remastered the Blu-ray while preparing the UHD. Gone is the less-than-stellar DNR image that was, replaced here with a very healthy and filmic 1080p transfer. To be sure, the UHD is worlds and away better for clarity, detail, grain texture, and color excellence, but this Blu-ray is still a very solid step forward that more closely replicates the look and feel of film for this release.

The image is good, offering grain that is a little on the sharp side where it is more fluid and graceful on the UHD. Nevertheless, the picture is well improved over the last issue, capturing a more pleasantly stable and natural image that does show Blu-ray's limitations but that, at the same time, offers pleasing detail in close-up, clarity throughout the film (minus some of the more challenging VFX shots), and bolstered stability. The picture comes satisfyingly close to perfect within the film's essential parameters, only showing some minor compression related issues along the way and, again, some softer elements in more difficult shots and scenes. General excellence is commonplace.

Colors are bright and vivid, especially down on Veridian III where rocks formations are soaked in bright sunlight and delight the visual senses. The mix-and-match Starfleet uniforms, showing some transition between classic TNG season 3+ uniforms and the DS9/Voyager uniform styles offer bold colors on the chest or shoulder and good black level definition and depth elsewhere. Skin tones are pleasantly stable and realistic. The color palette can look a little washed out at times (the sequence on the Enterprise-B being a fine example, where the red uniforms look gaudy) but overall the palette pleases. The UHD is well superior in this area, too, but the Blu-ray holds its own and offers a very real improvement in all areas over the last 1080p offering.

Star Trek: Generations Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Rather than retain the existing 5.1 lossless soundtrack, Paramount offers a new Dolby TrueHD 7.1 mix. This track offers some upgraded components, with a fuller, denser, more satisfying surround yield presenting the Nexus ribbon during the Enterprise-B sequence, with plenty of back-channel din during chaos on the bridge and hefty low-end engagement and ample surround integration when the ship is fighting against the ribbon. All of the film's action scenes offer excellent surround usage and low-end push, including, of course, the famous crash sequence. Listeners will feel immersed into every location, and the added back channels allow for enhanced positional accuracy and larger engagement. Musical clarity is excellent, sound effect detail is first-rate, and dialogue is clear, well prioritized, and grounded in the front-center channel. This is an excellent little upgrade from Paramount. Fans might bemoan the lack of an Atmos presentation, but there's nothing at all wrong with this 7.1 configuration experience.

Star Trek: Generations Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

This Blu-ray release of Star Trek: Generations includes a huge assortment of bonus content from the legacy collection.

• Audio Commentary: Director David Carson and Manny Coto.
• Audio Commentary: Writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore.
• Text Commentary: Michael and Denise Okuda.
• Library Computer
• Production
  
  
  • Uniting two Legends
  • Stellar Cartography: Creating the Illusion
  • Strange New Worlds: The Valley of Fire
  • Scoring Trek
• Visual Effects:
  
  
  • Inside ILM: Models & Miniatures
  • Crashing the Enterprise
• Scene Deconstruction:
  
  
  • Main title Sequence
  • The Nexus Ribbon
  • Saucer Crash Sequence
• The Star Trek Universe:
  
  
  • A Tribute to Matt Jefferies
  • The Enterprise Lineage
  • Captain Picard's Family Album
  • Creating 24th Century Weapons
  • Next Generation Designer Flashback: Andrew Probert
  • Stellar Cartography on Earth
  • Brent Spiner Data and Beyond Part 1
  • Trek Roundtable: Generations
  • Starfleet Academy Scisec Brief 007: Trilithium
• Deleted Scenes
  
  
  • Orbital Skydiving
  • Walking the Plank
  • Christmas with the Picards
  • Alternate Ending
• Archives:
  
  
  • Storyboards
    
    
    • Enterprise B
    • Worf's Promotion
    • Two Captains
  • Production Gallery
• Trailers:
  
  
  • Teaser Trailer
  • Theatrical Trailer

Star Trek: Generations Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Star Trek: Generations is the most underrated of the four TNG feature films, but there can be no mistake that its new Blu-ray should also not be underrated. The picture is very good, as is the new audio, and the avalanche of returning bonus content will take fans a day at minimum to dig through. Highly recommended!