| Star Trek: The Original Series - Season One (Remastered Edition) |  | Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei
Studio: CBS Paramount International Television
Category: DVD
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Rating:  178 reviews
Sales Rank: 4,409
Format: Color, NTSC, Full Screen
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 10
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1474 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 6.1 x 2.3
MPN: 097361311944
UPC: 097361311944
EAN: 0097361311944
ASIN: B000VDDDY6
Theatrical Release Date: September 8, 1966
Release Date: November 20, 2007
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Product Description
From Paramount Home Video! The complete first season of Star Trek: The Original Series is now available in HD-DVD/DVD Hybrid disks! This set contains all 29 episodes - in airdate order - from Season One of the original Star Trek series, along with newly produced bonus features exclusive to this DVD release.
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In 1966, Star Trek set out to boldly go where no series had gone before, beginning a three-year mission that led to a franchise that would last decades. Here at last is the first season of the original series all in one box, 29 episodes in their original broadcast order. That means starting with "The Man Trap," and soon followed by "Where No Man Has Gone Before," the second pilot filmed and the first one starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk. The many highlight episodes include "Balance of Terror" and "Errand of Mercy" (introducing, respectively, the Romulans and the Klingons), the two-part "The Menagerie" (which recycled footage from the original pilot, "The Cage," which featured Christopher Pike as the captain of the Enterprise and is not included in this set), "Space Seed" (introducing Ricardo Montalban's Khan character), and "The City of the Edge of Forever" (written by sci-fi giant Harlan Ellison and considered by many the best-ever episode of the series). The first-season DVD set is supplemented by 80 minutes of featurettes incorporating 2003-04 interviews with Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, other cast members, and producers, and some 1988 footage of Gene Roddenberry. The longest (24 minutes) featurette, "The Birth of a Timeless Legacy," examines the two pilot episodes and the development of the crew. Slightly shorter are "To Boldly Go... Season One," which highlights key episodes, and "Sci-Fi Visionaries," which discusses the series' great science fiction writers (most famously in "The City of the Edge of Forever"). Shatner shows off his love of horses in "Life Beyond Trek," and, more interestingly, Nimoy debunks various rumors in "Reflections of Spock." As they've done for many of the feature-film special editions, Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda provide a pop-up text commentary on four of the episodes filled with history, trivia, and dry wit. It's the first commentary of any kind for a Star Trek TV show, but an audio commentary is still overdue. The technical specs are mostly the same as other Trek TV series--Dolby 5.1, English subtitles--but with the welcome addition of the episode trailers. The plastic case is an attempt to replicate some of the fun packaging of the series' European DVD releases, but it's a bit clunky, and the paper sleeve around the disc case seems awkward and crude. Still, the set is a vast improvement both in terms of shelf space and bonus features compared to the old two-episode discs, which were released before full-season boxed sets became the model for television DVDs. --David Horiuchi
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 Film is naturally HD September 12, 2007
Michael Dempsey (East Haven, CT)
176 out of 189 found this review helpful
To rebut another review, anything professionally shot on 35 mm film, whether from the 1960s or 2007, is natively high-definition--that is, the amount of information that has been recorded on the MASTER is equal to or greater than HD standards. It's only the duplications that, until HD mastering, were of lesser definition. That's the reason studios at first were so hesitant to adopt HD DVDs--it diminished the value of their master if everyone had a copy as good. So when a film is remastered in HD from an original film master in good condition, it's true HD and not "extra pixels filling in empty space." Remastering, of course, can be done well or poorly, accounting for differing quality in the final product. Anyone who's seen these remastered episodes knows how fantastic they are--both for how great they look and, yes, how they show up the wooden sets and cheap costumes, etc. from the period. But that's part of the fun! What's astonishing is how well this show holds up in HD, and how much the new effects extend its original vision. Kudos to the remastering creative team and crew for a Star Trek experience that's reverent to the original yet new again!
5 stars for the series terrific first season, 2 stars flimsy packaging & for the price (with amazon discount). September 1, 2007
Wayne Klein (My Little Blue Window, USA)
186 out of 212 found this review helpful
Advantages:
1) HD-DVD/DVD dual format so fans that don't have HD-DVD can watch and enjoy the show.
2) New visual effects.
3) Beautifully restored high definition transfers
4) Nice packaging (at least for the shell itself)
5) The new visual effects are often stunning(the second season episodes "Amok Time" and "The Doomsday Machine" were the most impressive--not included here but "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and other first season episodes look terrific as well. It should be noted, however, that some fans have had issues with the new visual effects being inaccurate but these are mostly nitpicking).
6) If you decide to get an HD-DVD player you'll be set to roll with this DVD.
7) Newly recorded score, new prints struck from the original elements,some new extras including home movies shot by extra Billy Blackburn, the ability to navigate outside the ship, look at the development of the new visual efects and a couple of new featurettes highlight this set.
Disadvantages:
1)In a format that hasn't proven its staying power yet and you're paying for it.
2)Way too expensive
3)Sort of a double dip
4)Some have complained that the digital visual effects don't have the surface detail of a model or even of the original Enterprise visual effects.
5)Not available in Blu-Ray for those that don't have HD-DVD players.
6)The packaging could become easily damaged in shipping.
7) Dual sided discs which tend to be more easily damaged than single sided discs.
8)HD-DVD only Special Features that will play only on HD-DVD players (not on DVD machines).
Previewed at Comic Con, the new set will please those fans that have HD-DVD although the price for this set won't. Those that enjoyed the recent syndicated run of the series with its new visuals will also enjoy this set.
Conclusion: This is a terrific series and the first season had some of the best episodes however this is way too expensive even considering that it is in a HD-DVD/DVD dual format. Why? Because some fans may not want to commit to the new HD-DVD format since we don't know which format is going to win the high definition format war. The bottom line is that Paramount/CBS has miscalculated pricing this at an insane price. Sure many fans will buy it but I doubt that it will sell in the droves that Paramount/CBS wants it to.
Final Words:As always the series itself is terrific and this, along with the bulk of the second season, was the original series highmark. The new visual effects when they are effective only enhance the original film. Also, it hasn't been reformatted for widescreen so it keeps the original aspect ratio (black bars appear on the sides of the screen).
Ultimately your decision about whether you want to get this depends on how badly you want it given the price. Priced at nearly TWICE the original DVD box sets, my advice is to wait until Paramount lowers the average retail price or grab it at a deep discount while you can.
More info on the set (added): The content has all the first season episodes. I suspect that "The Cage" will probably be held over (as with the original box sets) for the third season as an enticement for fans since that is the worst selling of the three seasons. There are a number of featurettes including "Starfleet Academy" special features are tied into the HD side ONLY as is the tour of the ship. We do get Billy Blackburn's "Treasure Chest" a series of home movies shot behind-the-scenes in Super 8 with comments from Billy who was an extra on the series.
DVD Featurettes:
Birth of a Timeless Legacy
Billy Blackburn's Home Movies
Life After Trek: William Shatner
Reflections on Spock
Sci-Fi Visionaries
Kiss and Tell
To Boldly Go
Trekker Connections
Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
Preview of online game
Many of these featurettes were available in one form or another on the previous release.
The HD side has seven episodes highlighted; "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Menagerie, Parts I & II", "Balance of Terror", "The Galileo Seven", "Space Seed", and "Errand of Mercy". Because "Trek" is presented in its original 4x3 transfer so there are black bars on the side of the screen where you can select more information. YOu can watch a split screen with comments on the episodes mentioned.
There's also the HD tour of the "Enterprise".
Episodes:
The Man Trap
Charlie X
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Corbomite Maneuver
This Side of Paradise
A Taste of Armageddon.
The Naked Time
The Enemy Within
Mudd's Women
What Are Little Girls Made of?
Miri
Dagger of the Mind
The Menagerie Parts 1 and 2
The Conscience of the King
Balance of Terror
Shore Leave
The Galileo Seven
The Squire of Gothos
Arena
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Court Martial
The Return of the Archons
Space Seed
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The Alternative Factor
The City on the Edge of Forever
Operation: Annihilate
ST: TOS-R - Season 1 Set review November 24, 2007
The Writer (of the Great U.S.A.!)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Well, blame me for being over-eager if you want.
I've just received my copy of TOS-R season 1 on HD-DVD/DVD. I do not have an HD-DVD player, so imagine my relief when they went with these hybrid discs. Very considerate for those of us who can't spend $[...] on every new gadget every 5 minutes.
There are 10 discs in the set, in a new design clear plastic container. 5 plastic cards list the details of each disc. Side 1 of each disc is HD-DVD, while side 2 is standard DVD. Both sides contain the same features.
When I heard of this set, I was concerned what they meant by 'season 1', since they've been airing the new versions all out of order. This set indeed contains the entire 1st season of TOS, including episodes which have not yet aired in their edited-for-more-commerical-time format. So NUTS TO THE NETWORK!! Thanks to this set, you won't need to worry about the air-dates for 1st season episodes anymore. You get them complete, and uncut, as opposed to network TV, which brutally chops out 10 minutes of footage to advertise the latest fad.
The price is admittedly a little hefty, but Amazon had it for nearly $[...] off the reported $[...] price for pre-orders. I placed mine back in Sept.
The menu is fairly straightforward, set in the transporter room (as opposed to the Enterprise bridge, as the original versions did) with characters from each episode in the chamber. On the transporter console are the listed episodes on each disc, while bonus features on each disc are found under "Additional Data".
CGI remastering can, of course, only do so much for film as old as these episodes, so of course there was some grain in the episodes, but not so much that it deters from the enjoyment of the story. Thanks to the clean-up work though, the images are also darker, a little more realistically shaded, which is, IMHO a major improvement over the blaring studio-style lights of the original versions.
I encourage anyone who reads this to get the set! I will not regret this!
Now I just want to know one thing - when's Season 2 due out?
40 Years Overdue December 18, 2007
Home Gamer (Burbank, Ca.)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Make no mistake about it. This is exactly what Star Trek fans, like myself, have been waiting for.
The Star Trek phenomenon speaks for itself. The offspring of the original show--the movies and the series--have been able to keep pace with effects technology. But, the original Star Trek had become an embarrassment.
But, now, that's all changed. Every old effect is gone. They have been completely replaced, including the opening credits (with a newly recorded theme, to boot).
This replacement has not "butchered" the series, as one reviewer complained.
Nor do the new effects need to be compared to the effects of other Star Trek shows.
The fear of re-vamping the old effects to modern standards was whether they would stand out too much compared to the rest of the show. And that is why the new effects are a happy compromise between today and yesterday. The crew at Paramount has done an amazing job of modernizing all the effects, while staying loyal to the original look. The effects are not so modern as to make them look out of place, yet they do not look old or cheesy. There are no longer any "stock" shots of the Enterprise, that are recycled from episode to episode. There are new points of view of the Enterprise, and I get a much better sense of how large the ship actually is. And there are plenty of surprising effects that were never in the original show. It is, quite simply, breath-taking.
In 40 years, I have watched every episode countless times. But never have I been so excited to watch them as I do now.
Besides the new effects, the entire look of the show has been restored--frame by frame. Scratches, blemishes, skin tones, and lighting contrast have all been fixed.
Along with the space shots, there are marvelous enhancements to city scapes, planet surfaces, and even Sulu's chronometer is no longer made of those stupid-looking plastic wheels.
No, the sound is not perfect, but it's better than what it used to be.
Yes, the packaging is horrible. My set was broken when it arrived. But I don't care.
Yes, it's a bit too expensive and will probably come down in price eventually. But I don't care.
I have what I have always wanted...Star Trek the way it should be, the way it always deserved to be.
It is obvious that this restoration was done with love and reverence.
Sure, Paramount is going to make money for this. But they deserve it.
And, as a fan of Star Trek, you deserve to see the show the way it was intended.
You can now let your kids see the show without being too embarrassed. After all, there are still the same charming foibles to see: the sets, the costumes, and some rather silly episodes.
If you love Star Trek as much as I do--and I know you do or you wouldn't be reading this--then purchase this DVD set and go where you have always wanted to go before!
Amazing quality, amazing new effects... November 27, 2007
Deacon Boogie (Omaha, NE USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I grew up during The Next Generation (TNG) era and was not a fan of the Original Series (TOS). The stories were good but as TV is a visual medium much of the drama of the series was lost due to the distractingly poor quality of the special effects of the era.
When I first heard of CBS's project, I was curious from a technological standpoint. Then I saw some official comparison shots and became more interested. As my HD-DVD investment grew, I found myself becoming excited about the release of these discs. When they were announced, I immediately said "I've got to buy these!"
Now that I've watched them, I am amazed at the amount of work and care that they've put into restoring this classic show. I find myself able to watch complete episodes and not be distracted by the fact that it's 40 years old. The clean-up that was done to these 2nd generation prints (frame-by-frame removal of scratches, damage, etc) is spectacular! The new CG effects shots are top notch! I believe the producers when they state that their intent was to create visuals that truly match those which the original writers and designers would have wanted but simply could not in the 1960s. Every new effect shot adds to the enjoyment of the show and fits with the style of the production era.
If you always found yourself uninterested in TOS for similar reasons, check this collection out! It's changed my mind completely!
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