Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection (4K Ultra HD)

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

Series:

Star Trek films

No. of discs:

4 (4K UHD)
4 (Blu-ray disc)

Run time:

445 minutes

Director:

David Carson, Jonathan Frakes, Stuart Baird,

Release date:

3 April 2023 (UK)

Other release date(s):

4 April 2023 (North America)
6 April 2023 (Spain)
31 May 2023 (France)
5 October 2023 (Germany)

Rating(s):

Language:

English (Dolby TrueHD 7.1)

Subtitles:

English, English SDH, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Dubbed:

German (Dolby TrueHD 5.1), Japanese, French, Spanish, Japanese (all DD 5.1)

Reference:

ASIN B0BWFWKCD8 (UK)
ASIN B0BSNWGP7M (US)
ASIN B0BVDCQ9MM (Canada)
ASIN B0BXTCSQG1 (Spain)
ASIN B0BW2X8YTT (France)
ASIN B0CC6DV24G (Germany)

Year:

various

Star Trek The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection 4K UHD contents — Set contents (UK)

Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection is a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray Disc/Digital boxset, released on 3 April 2023 (UK), collecting the 4K UHD releases of Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis. As is currently usual with UHD/Blu-ray double releases, all special features (excepting the audio commentaries and isolated music score tracks) are only included on the Blu-ray version of the release.

The set constituted the completion of the remastering project to 4K HD 2160p resolution standards of the first ten Star Trek films which had started two years earlier with the Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection. All discs are in two Viva Elite cases (each containing the four respective 4K UHD and Blu-ray discs), packaged in a slipbox. As usual with these releases (geo-restricted to the US and British Canada only, as the – former Blu-ray Region B^[1] – European releases do not have these) redeemable codes are included for the 4K resolution digital download versions of the films.

As is increasingly becoming commonplace, no DVD counterpart was issued for this release. Each of the four films though, saw an individual release in both a concurrent Blu-ray, and 4K UHD (without special features, save for the audio commentaries and isolated music scores) format version.

Contents[]

For contents and special features, please refer to the individual entries for

Background information[]

Unlike the prior Original 4-Movie Collection, Australasia and Japan did not see their own set version releases, having to make do with imports, which was not much of an issue as the 4K UHD format was region-free with uniform contents for all territories, meaning that any import would do in those territories – or in any other territory elsewhere in the world for that matter. Both regions did see their own individual 4K UHD standalone releases though – albeit limited to three titles only in Japan's case.
Germany on the other hand, saw the standalone versions released first before the set release six months later.
While each of the four film titles have seen individual standalone Blu-ray releases, the box as a whole has not. Still, a corresponding Blu-ray box with identical cover art has seen a release later that year in November, though not as an individual standalone release, but rather as part of the Star Trek: The Picard Legacy Collection Blu-ray gift set release.

Footnote[]

↑ The Region geo-restricting encoding had, for all intent and purposes, been dispensed with all together by the industry upon the advent of the UHD format, even though that policy change has never been made public officially. This incidentally, has also applied for the Blu-ray disc format, whose region encoding was since late 2009 silently, but gradually, abandoned as well – which in Star Trek's case started with the Blu-ray releases of TOS Season 2 and Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection [1]^(X) – , only to pick up speed from the mid-2010s onward.