The Picard ep displayed as the other examples previously mentioned. I was able to upload it to my server remotely and add it to the library and test it on my phone here at work. Thanks for the suggestion to test, though.
As suggested above, it must have to do with the aspect ratio of the phones. Both my phone and my wife’s phone are close to 19:9. Plex media server must not be able to account for that.
This is not a major issue for me as Android is a tertiary method to watch for me. When I really want to watch a movie seriously, I use an HTPC and madVR. More often we use Roku devices (transcoded) without issues.
The android app does have a zoom feature with “fixes” the issue for those videos. Of course I have to remember to turn it off for videos that should not be zoomed (TV shows and some movies that I have that are not 1:1 rips and have been reencoded).
My initial suggestion, which may still make no sense, would be for it to handle it like Handbrake and just remove the upper and lower bars (when transcoding) and then fit the dimensions of that video to the dimensions of the display (which unfortunately can vary greatly with phones). Maybe my thought process is so off base that it makes no sense 
I definitely do not want to reencode my rips. I’ll deal with the zoom issue if I have to for the occasional movie I watch on Android.
Thanks again for everyone who gave feedback.
