There are some rumors that CBS will make a remastered version of TNG:
http://trekmovie.com/2011/05/09/rumor-c ... d-project/

If this goes through, I will definitely buy the DVDs

Although I am getting tired of them selling us the same thing over and over. If only they would let you trade in the old set for credit.

I have now watched the remastered TOS and trust me when I say that it was really worth it. Of course, I may be a bit biased as I didn't have the TOS in DVDs before that and my only memory of the show was from watching it from some crappy local greek TV channels. In any case, I won't blindly buy it, but I will wait to see the end result (if it actually comes out).

It is great, but there are many stuff they could have done better.

More rumors that TNG might get the hi-def remastered treatment:
http://www.trektoday.com/content/2011/0 ... y-in-2012/

The remastered version is *almost* confirmed (see LeVar Burton's comment):
http://trekmovie.com/2011/09/14/new-det ... y-project/

Cover Art for the blu-ray

The long rumored effort to remaster Star Trek The Next Generation is confirmed! Just in time for the 25th anniversary in 2012. CBS has once again shown its commitment to the Star Trek franchise by remastering it in HD. Each of the 178 episodes from The Next Generation’s seven seasons will be transferred to high-definition 1080p for release in the Blu-ray format and, eventually, for runs on television and digital platforms in the U.S. and across the world.

That's awesome news



I really doubt the across the world part Netflix et al for the time being do not work in the EU.

Brannon Braga:
CraveOnline posted a brief interview with former Star Trek producer Brannon Braga focusing on Terra Nova and here is an excerpt.

CraveOnline: Would you be interested in incorporating a version of The Next Generation into the new Star Trek timeline?

Brannon Braga: Personally, yeah, of course I would but you’d have to ask that question of J.J. Abrams.

More on TNG:

Transferring STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION® to high-definition presented numerous challenges – The series was originally shot on film and then transferred to videotape, which was used to edit episodes together. In order to create true HD masters, CBS is going back to the original uncut film negative – all 25,000 plus film reels of it – and cutting the episodes together exactly the way they originally aired. The visual effects were all shot on film and will be painstakingly recompositioned, not upconverted from videotape. The newly cut film will then be transferred to true high-definition with 7.1 DTS Master Audio. Denise and Mike Okuda are consulting on the project.

While the first full season won’t be available until later in 2012, CBS Home Entertainment is releasing STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION® – THE NEXT LEVEL, a single Blu-ray disc to give fans a taste of the series in HD, on January 31, 2012. The disc will include the feature-length pilot – “Encounter at Farpoint” – as well as two more “fan favorite” episodes, “The Inner Light” (Season 5) and “Sins of the Father” (Season 3). The single disc will be available for a suggested retail price of $21.99.

One of the most popular series in the STAR TREK franchise, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION® celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012. It premiered in first-run syndication during the week of September 28, 1987 and ran through 1994.

Set in the 24th century on the Starship Enterprise, about 100 years after the original STAR TREK series took place, the series starred Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker, LeVar Burton as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge, Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi, Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data, Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Worf, Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher and Wil Wheaton as her son Wesley Crusher.

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION® won numerous accolades, including 18 Emmy® awards, and was the first – and only – syndicated television show to be nominated for the Emmy® for Outstanding Drama Series for its seventh season. It was also ranked #46 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list in 2002.

Gotta watch that again. Glad they are preserving it in HD