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Thou few blow-up 70mm prints were struck for 6track DOLBY STEREO discrete very few have ever shown up over the years at STAR TREK cinema marathons often only 35mm optical DOLBY STEREO print will be exhibited to audiences.

The release version on DVD/Bluray can only be described as disaster!

1 the film was never mixed or intended for Dolby 7.1 and the odd fake sound has serious mixing flaws on what must be a very poor sound re-recoding mixer who doesn’t know his craft very well.

I guess if Paramount never decided to go with Dolby 7.1 it might have been a flop on bluray market.

Customers are always suckers for originals and these are not the originals because the soundtrack has been tampered with!

Errors that stick out badly to an experienced listener (like myself that has seen and listened) to these films countless times at the cinema, I know what the film mix is suppose to be like and the bluray isn’t it.

If you want to listening to film your best bet is the laserdisc widescreen NTSC edition!

When Scotty informs the bridge that the warp drive is not ready the voice which is panned to right front carries a horrible echo effect that bleeds onto left side and rear back surrounds and partly over to left surround WHAT A SHAMBLES OF A MESS!

This lead me to understand it was a cheap poor mix that was rushed by inexperienced young re-recoding mixers that need to be named and shamed and Paramount are held liable for this MESS!

The Dolby mix also has missing sound effect.

When Captain. Kirk, gives new orders to Sulu to fly over the “cloud intruder” Sulu presses a button on helm panel that should sound on left just before McCoy exits the bridge though turbo-lift.

The new so called stereo surrounds really doesn’t work on me for this STAR TREK film or even the rest as only a few was ever mixed and released in 70mm DOLBY STETEO with split-surrounds. star trek vi the undiscovered country (1991) was mixed with stereo surrounds and DOLBY SR which I heard at the CIC/ Empire Leicester Square, on 14th February 1992, in 70mm THX sound system.

What I have noticed that was most strange was the televised STAR TREK originals on Channel 4 a few years ago.

The first STAR TREK had the same annoying echo on the mix when Scotty is heard over the intercom.

The sound effect of Sulu pressing the button on the helm was now intact on the Dolby mix!????

I had a suspicion this might have been a US version with PAL speed-up 4% on TV because I watched the film while playing the Bluray which fell out of sync within seconds due to TV version running at faster frame rate.

Should I take a chance on US bluray box set or not because it does get worse I’ll bring this up on STAR TREK II The Wrath of Khan!

The DVD has the same issues so it’s not a localized issue its total technical re-mixing issue of the poorest quality control I have ever listened to over the years, from a major film studio.

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