Star Trek: Menagerie-Remastered. In Theaters, Nov. 13th!

[MadonnasManOne]

This is awesome news! I love this two-part episode, and it remains a favorite of mine. I will definitely be there, on Tuesday, November 13th, to see this on the big screen! Luckily, there is an IMAX in my city that will be playing this. StarTrek.com has a link on the first page of this release, where you can check if this will be playing near you!

From StarTrek.com:

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/n ... dm4.228844

10.05.2007
SPECIAL EVENT: Remastered "Menagerie" in Theatres!


On Tuesday, November 13, the two-part Star Trek Remastered version of "The Menagerie” will beam onto the big screen in a special engagement with selected theatres. The screening — a first for episodic Star Trek on this scale — will be seen in nearly 300 venues across the U.S. and Canada. This one-night-only event will also feature a special introduction by Eugene "Rod” Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, plus an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Remastered series.
"The Menagerie" will be presented in its digitally remastered, high-definition format and in Cinema Surround Sound. The screening is in part to promote the HD-DVD/DVD release the following week (Nov. 20) by CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment.

If you recall, the two-part "Menagerie" is the only episode to feature the casts of both the original pilot and the regular series, with Spock the only character to make the transition from from the pilot to the series. Much of the footage, of course, is taken from the rejected first pilot "The Cage." The story sees the Vulcan hell-bent on returning Captain Pike to Talos IV, the intention being that this is where his injured former commander can peacefully live out the rest of his days. Spock risks his career in Starfleet by hijacking the Enterprise and faces a court-martial for his actions. All this is eventually revealed to be an illusion, courtesy of the Talosians and their very strong telepathic hallucinations. Spock is then exonerated, Pike is returned and everything works out in the end. (Oops! Sorry to give it away!) "The Menagerie" was the 16th episode of Star Trek produced, and the 11th one to air.

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10.05.2007
SPECIAL EVENT: Remastered "Menagerie" in Theatres!


"STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES" EPISODE "THE MENAGERIE" TO BE PRESENTED IN SPECIAL BIG SCREEN THEATRICAL EVENT
National CineMedia's FATHOM, CBS Home Entertainment and STARTREK.COM Present Digitally Remastered Episodes Along With Never-Before-Seen Footage and Behind-the-Scenes Featurette in Nearly 300 Select Movie Theatres Nationwide on November 13

Complete First Season of "Star Trek: The Original Series"
Debuts in High-Definition on DVD One Week Later

Centennial, Colo. – Oct. 5, 2007 — "Star Trek" fans can now boldly go where no man has gone before to see two of the most famous episodes of the original television series — their local movie theatre. "Star Trek: The Original Series" is being beamed onto the big screen in a special one-night event in select movie theatres nationwide on Tuesday, Nov. 13th, featuring original Season 1 episodes "The Menagerie" Parts 1 and 2, digitally remastered in High-Definition and Cinema Surround Sound. Fans will also be greeted by an introduction from creator Gene Roddenberry's son, Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, and given a behind-the-scenes look at how the episodes were digitally re-mastered from the original negatives — including the reinvention of the old TV show special effects using new CGI animation, and the orchestral re-recording of the show's theme music — in a new 30-minute in-theatre exclusive featurette.

"Star Trek: The Original Series" special in-theatre event will be presented by NCM FATHOM, CBS Home Entertainment and STARTREK.COM on Tuesday, Nov. 13th at 7:30 p.m. local time in nearly 300 participating AMC, Cinemark, Georgia Theatre Company and Regal Entertainment Group movie theatres across the country. Tickets for this special one-time-only event are on-sale now for $12.50 at presenting theatre box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of presenting theatre locations, please visit the website (theatres are subject to change).

A week after the special screenings, the entire first season of "Star Trek: The Original Series," from Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS Home Entertainment, will be available in High-Definition on DVD for the first time. The 10-disc boxed set offers the best of both worlds with each disc offering a Standard-Definition picture on one side and a High-Definition picture on the other. The set will be available on Nov. 20th.

The national in-theatre event leading up to the DVD launch will include an introduction by creator Gene Roddenberry's son, Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, and the two-part episode "The Menagerie," which features footage from the original "Star Trek" pilot episode titled "The Cage." "The Cage" (first screened in 1965 and rejected by NBC — not airing on television until a full color print was discovered in the 1980s) featured Leonard Nimoy as Spock — the only character that made it from the pilot to the "Star Trek" series — as well as Jeffrey Hunter in the role of the original commander of the starship Enterprise, Captain Christopher Pike.

In the two-part episode "The Menagerie" (Season 1, Episode 11 — originally aired on television on November 17, 1966), we rejoin Spock and the new (and familiar) crew of the Enterprise including William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy, James Doohan as Scott, and Nichelle Nichols as Uhura. In this episode, Spock is on trial for hijacking the Enterprise, telling a strange tale of former Enterprise Captain Pike's imprisonment on Talos IV 13 years earlier and the past crew's attempts to rescue him — shown in "flashback" footage taken from the original pilot episode.

"Star Trek" debuted on Sept. 8, 1966 on NBC in the U.S., telling the story of the crew of the starship Enterprise and its five-year mission, "to boldly go where no man has gone before." William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Spock starred in the series which addressed issues of the 1960s including war and peace, imperialism, class warfare, racism, human rights, sexism and feminism. After just three seasons, the show was cancelled and the last episode aired on June 3, 1969, but it became popular in reruns and a cult following developed. The "Star Trek" franchise went on to include the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987-1994), "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993-1999), "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995-2001), "Star Trek: Enterprise" (2001-2005), and "Star Trek: The Animated Series" (1973-1974) as well as 10 feature films.

[TM2-Megatron]

Nice... very, nice. I"m going to have to keep my eye on that site for when they start listing the Canadian locations... there are a few IMAX screens around me. I'm just hoping the tickets don't sell out before I get one. I like the idea of seeing a Digitally Remastered version of this on the big screen, but surely they can do better than HD resolution for a theatrical presentation. 1080 may suffice for a 40" screen (though I've found that to be pushing it on low-quality flat-panels), but not for a theatre.

[deathie mouse]

Any Super-35 movie negative scanned at 2K (Lord Of The Rings, Pirates, etc) is scanned at 1080p, TM2-Megatron. So yes for theatre. In fact the active vertical image scanned for those "Scope" presetation films is around 800 pixels.

[AwallaceUNC]

Cool that they're doing this for TOS fans. Hopefully this happens for TNG.

-Aaron

[TM2-Megatron]

Any Super-35 movie negative scanned at 2K (Lord Of The Rings, Pirates, etc) is scanned at 1080p, TM2-Megatron. So yes for theatre. In fact the active vertical image scanned for those "Scope" presetation films is around 800 pixels.

And what about movies that are shown using traditional projectors? I know that up here, the majority of films still aren't shown in digital projection... just the odd ones like the Star Wars films, Meet the Robinsons, etc.

Personally, I still prefer the look of film to digital... especially when the original thing was done on film.