I was just channel surfing and I came across the episode "Sins of the Father" of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This was the non-remastered version (Presented in 480 standard definition), so it's obviously a lot less "crisp" than the newer HD version. But there was this one moment, when Worf went to confront Kurn in his quarters on the Enterprise, where Kurn stepped into shadow and his eyes shone out of the darkness.
My god the moment was so powerful. Kurn was practically glaring from another world.
And the power simply isn't there in the HD version. I went and checked. The light still changes as Kurn walks, so he technically still stepped into 'shadow', but with the improved definition his visage is never fully obscured so the contrast with his eyes is much less.
I doubt that this effect was intentional in the original version. It probably came from the unique joining of watching the original version of the episode on a giant HD screen, without the "fuzz" of a CRT TV.
But intentional or not, for that one second I was ready to believe in the soul of a Klingon warrior.
