I’ll watch this more in detail later (maybe even today) but here’s once scene difference: from the main release of The Motion Picture on Blu-Ray (top), the 2000 director’s edition (middle) and the new 4k Director’s edition (bottom).
The 2000 director’s edition’s posited that this scene, given that we’re rear facing, should include the nacelle, so we’re somewhere on the saucer rim. Now they’ve gone one step further and redone the windows (and removed half a wall) to match an exact area of the ship and the nacelle now appear lower as this probably corresponds to the rear of the bridge module, below the docking port behind the bridge:
One of the more fucked up thing trek has done, especially the scream on top that sounds like a baby’s wail.
And you have to read roddenberry’s novelization (and the lost years books) to grasp that the other person in the beam has been kirk’s lover for the last few years.
Again this hallway is rendered a bit darker than in previous version but what’s interesting is that originally there a computerized voice comes on from engineering advising of an auxiliary power text. in the 2000 version, that line of dialogue is omitted. In the 2022 version, Chekov comes on the intercom asking engineering to “show him the readings on photo capacitators.” Now, idk why that would be blaring throughout the ship (likely just a piece of audio they had that they were able to splice in). I prefer the computerized voice.
