Frustrated by my inability to find a job 
, I took a couple evenings to do a quick project that I've had in the back of my mind for a while.
I've merged "The Best of Both Worlds" Parts 1 and 2 and select segments of "Family", "Q Who?" and DS9's "Emissary" into an epic 110-minute "movie".
The credits begin with a clip from the "First Contact" teaser trailer of the Borg-ified Star Trek symbol. After the credits is a five minute prologue segment of action sequences from "Q Who" to introduce the Borg and give some punch to the beginning of the movie.
After the prologue, the movie jumps "one year later", with Picard in civilian clothes arriving at his family home in France. After Robert tells Picard to make himself at home, we go back to the beginning of "Best of Both Worlds". The opening credits sequence is removed and act ins/outs are smoothed as much as possible. Instead of fading to black and "To Be Continued", we just keep going with the second part of "Best of Both Worlds". The recap and opening credits are removed from this part of the episode, as well.
After Data tells Riker "Starfleet has engaged the Borg at Wolf 359," we go into the Wolf 359 sequence from the pilot episode of Deep Space Nine. After Sisko tells the Bolian lieutenant to order an evacuation, we cut back to Riker's call from Admiral Hanson. We cut back to Sisko trying to save his wife and the Lieutenant forcing him out of the room and into the escape pod.
Just before we see the scene of Picard's assimilation being finalized, we cut to the scene from "Family" where Robert asks Picard, "What the devil happened to you up there?" and Picard storms out of the room.
We continue through "Best of Both Worlds" as we normally would until we come to the climax of the episode. After Locutus awakens and Data restrains him, we cut to the long zoom from "First Contact", only in reverse - we move through the Borg ship and zoom into Picard's eye and find ourselves in the scene from "Family" where Picard and Robert fight in the vines and Picard breaks down. Robert tells him he has to live with what the Borg have done to him, but he has a choice: to live with it under the sea with Louis, or "above the clouds, on the Enterprise". It is here where we segue back to Data's lab, and Picard breaks through Locutus to help Data.
As the Borg begin to slice up the Enterprise with their cutting beams, I've cut in various shots of destruction from "Generations" and "The Undiscovered Country" to punch up the desperate climax.
And finally, after Picard stares out his ready room window as the Enterprise heads for repairs, we go to the final scene from "Family", where Picard, now back in his Starfleet uniform, says goodbye to his family and walks back to town.
Is the final product perfect? No. These episodes weren't ever meant to be recut in such a fashion. So while it's not perfect, it is, however, perfectly adequate. As an added challenge, I reframed the entire thing to 1.78:1 Widescreen, and it looks pretty good. The widescreen really helps to give it that "movie feel" that it otherwise wouldn't have.
I'll post some screenshots later.
, I took a couple evenings to do a quick project that I've had in the back of my mind for a while.I've merged "The Best of Both Worlds" Parts 1 and 2 and select segments of "Family", "Q Who?" and DS9's "Emissary" into an epic 110-minute "movie".
The credits begin with a clip from the "First Contact" teaser trailer of the Borg-ified Star Trek symbol. After the credits is a five minute prologue segment of action sequences from "Q Who" to introduce the Borg and give some punch to the beginning of the movie.
After the prologue, the movie jumps "one year later", with Picard in civilian clothes arriving at his family home in France. After Robert tells Picard to make himself at home, we go back to the beginning of "Best of Both Worlds". The opening credits sequence is removed and act ins/outs are smoothed as much as possible. Instead of fading to black and "To Be Continued", we just keep going with the second part of "Best of Both Worlds". The recap and opening credits are removed from this part of the episode, as well.
After Data tells Riker "Starfleet has engaged the Borg at Wolf 359," we go into the Wolf 359 sequence from the pilot episode of Deep Space Nine. After Sisko tells the Bolian lieutenant to order an evacuation, we cut back to Riker's call from Admiral Hanson. We cut back to Sisko trying to save his wife and the Lieutenant forcing him out of the room and into the escape pod.
Just before we see the scene of Picard's assimilation being finalized, we cut to the scene from "Family" where Robert asks Picard, "What the devil happened to you up there?" and Picard storms out of the room.
We continue through "Best of Both Worlds" as we normally would until we come to the climax of the episode. After Locutus awakens and Data restrains him, we cut to the long zoom from "First Contact", only in reverse - we move through the Borg ship and zoom into Picard's eye and find ourselves in the scene from "Family" where Picard and Robert fight in the vines and Picard breaks down. Robert tells him he has to live with what the Borg have done to him, but he has a choice: to live with it under the sea with Louis, or "above the clouds, on the Enterprise". It is here where we segue back to Data's lab, and Picard breaks through Locutus to help Data.
As the Borg begin to slice up the Enterprise with their cutting beams, I've cut in various shots of destruction from "Generations" and "The Undiscovered Country" to punch up the desperate climax.
And finally, after Picard stares out his ready room window as the Enterprise heads for repairs, we go to the final scene from "Family", where Picard, now back in his Starfleet uniform, says goodbye to his family and walks back to town.
Is the final product perfect? No. These episodes weren't ever meant to be recut in such a fashion. So while it's not perfect, it is, however, perfectly adequate. As an added challenge, I reframed the entire thing to 1.78:1 Widescreen, and it looks pretty good. The widescreen really helps to give it that "movie feel" that it otherwise wouldn't have.
I'll post some screenshots later.
