To mark the second season release of Star Trek: The Next Generation on blu-ray in just over a week, I spoke with the consultants on the TNG: Remastered Project, Mike & Denise Okuda. We talked about the different challenges of Season 2 and how the remastering team at HTV with the help of Dan Curry have brought the show into high-definition. Mike & Denise Okuda: Season 2 TNG-R Interview, Part 2 TrekCore: One of the more infamous shots from the second season is the quite cheesy morphing sequence that we see in ' The Dauphin '. Were you able to recreate that shot to make it more convincing? Mike Okuda : The morphing shots in ' The Dauphin ' were -- back in the day -- an absolutely brilliant use of amazingly lo-tech techniques to create this very complex visual effect. Again, the original elements were done at video resolution so they could not be directly upscaled. In this particular case, it was entirely redone with present day visual effects technology, so it's a little bit different -- I personally think it's more convincing, but we'll leave that up to you. Once again we had Dan there who has a shelf full of Emmy's... Denise Okuda : We relied on his expertise to try to get it as perfect as we possibly could. TrekCore: One of the last shots I want to talk about in Season 2 is that of Nagilum. Looking back at the standard definition it's still a