We were all extremely excited to see the newly-restored, extended edition of “The Measure of a Man” on the Next Generation Season Two Blu-ray set back in December, and now, another never-before-seen extended cut of a Next Generation episode has appeared online!

Last night, Cyril Paciullo – a Canadian poster who goes by the name of “Patchou” on the social site Reddit (and elsewhere online) – revealed a long-lost VHS copy of “The Wounded“, the Season Four episode introducing the Cardassians to the Star Trek universe. Paciullo acquired several similar TNG episodes – a total of nine tapes – at the 2010 Propworx Star Trek auction, all of which contain unfinished, preliminary cuts which are missing visual effects, music, and other post-production material.

The other episodes he acquired are:

The tape containing “The Wounded” is labeled “Peter’s Cut – 11/26/90” – referring to TNG co-producer Peter Lauritson, and is dated during the time of the episode’s production – and contains an extended version of the episode which runs approximately three minutes longer than the final broadcast version.

Workprint vs. Finished Episode In this early cut, all the live-action monitor shots exist as separate elements… …and none of the visual effects that complement the final episode appear.

Paciullo has already made the entire episode available to view online at his website (linked above); we haven’t embedded that video here due to uncertain copyright issues which may apply. We’ve been provided a copy of the original VHS transfer, so we’re happy to share an exclusive cut-down package highlighting the four most prominent deleted scenes, in proper context with the finished episode!

TrekCore has already connected Cyril with CBS – unfortunately, this discovery apparently comes too late to allow any of the material to be included on the Season 3 Blu-ray set. For Season 4 however, we’re hopeful that CBS will be able to include some of the deleted material in the original rough-cut VHS form as a standalone bonus feature (similar to the deleted scenes from “The Icarus Factor” and “Up the Long Ladder” in Season 2). Any restoration of the same ilk as “The Measure of a Man” seems somewhat unlikely given time constraints and the limited amount of new material.

Check back with us soon as we will continue to follow this developing story!