After last week’s Star Trek: Lower Decks season finale, and Star Trek: Discovery not returning until sometime in early 2024, we’re taking the last months of 2023 to focus on that other thing you come to TrekCore for… Star Trek screencaps!
If you’ve missed it over the last few months, we’ve been working hard to bring you new entries to our ever-growing Star Trek Blu-ray screencap galleries (thanks to the hard work of our own Alex Perry!) throughout 2023.
While we’ve recently added high-definition image captures from the recent Star Trek: (Very) Short Treks promotional spots, we’ve also debuted all of these additions since early summer:
- Star Trek: Picard — Season 2
- Star Trek: Prodigy — Season 1 (Part 1)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture — The Director’s Edition (2022 Remaster)
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (2021 Remaster)
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (2021 Remaster)
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (2022 Remaster)
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (2022 Remaster)
We’re also in the process of rolling out caps from the last few episodes of Star Trek: Discovery’s fourth season, we just launched the first episodic screencap galleries for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and we’re queued up to continue the new image expansions through the next few months.
Here’s what’s next in line:
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Season 1
- Star Trek: Prodigy — Season 1 (Part 2)
- Star Trek: Lower Decks — Season 3
- Star Trek: Picard — Season 3
- Star Trek: Generations (2023 Remaster)
- Star Trek: First Contact (2023 Remaster)
- Star Trek: Insurrection (2023 Remaster)
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2023 Remaster)
And of course, these will all be followed by Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 and Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 after those collections arrive on Blu-ray disc in December.
Beyond those additions, we’ve also been doing some housekeeping throughout our screencap galleries — both in an effort to tidy up our collections, but also to open up some storage space for all the new additions on the way.
We’re nearing a decade from the last release of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray, almost 15 years since the Original Series got its picture polished, and every motion picture has received a lovely restoration. So, except for where they’re necessary — like for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and the 2001 edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture — The Director’s Edition — we’re beginning to remove DVD-based screencaps from our series image galleries.
Over time, we plan to revisit our existing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager screencap collections. The original cap collections were generated nearly two decades ago from PAL (European) DVD sets, which resulted in some funky coloring in early-season episodes from both series.
Some episodes also simply have scenes missing, which isn’t great either!
Our Star Trek: The Original Series screencaps have also been tidied up, in two particular ways. First, the episodes are now organized in production order rather than airdate order. Second, we’ve made the decision to focus solely on captures from the Blu-ray presentation which contain only the original visual effects — and not the computer graphics added during the mid-2000s restoration.
The enhanced-VFX versions of the classic episodes can be found pretty much anywhere the show is available to stream, and have become the dominant way the series has been presented over the last 10-plus years. Since it’s extremely challenging to find the original 1960’s-era effects without owning the Blu-ray discs, we’ve decided to give that version of the show priority here at TrekCore.
Lastly, we have a favor to ask: please don’t use software or other tools to mass-download screencaps from our site, which can really eat up our hosting bandwidth. We can only continue the screencap collections if access to the galleries isn’t abused in ways that impact the functionality of our site. So thanks in advance for being cool people!
Beyond all of this, we’ll still be bringing you any important Star Trek franchise news when it breaks, and book, product, and Blu-ray reviews along the way. Thanks for staying with TrekCore for all these many years, and for sticking around as we warp into 2024!