Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
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Actor: DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner
Brand: NCircle Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1460 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Studio: CBS Paramount International Television

Movie Reviews of Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

Movie Review: Remastered Special Effects and Casualty Report
Summary: 5 Stars

Season One Remastered is a fantastic investment for Star Trek fans who want something different. ALL views of space and ships are redone with modern CGI effects. No longer do we Trekkers have to suffer through gritty stock footage of the Enterprise orbiting the same red planet. Each planet looks different. Even if you do not have HD (I don't, and HD got discontinued anyway), the picture is sharp! Some noticable changes include:

-Where No Man Has Gone Before: the Enterprise goes through the galaxy barrier evasively. The nebula colors are beautiful!
-Mudd's Women: Excellent effects of the Enterprise chasing Mudd's ship in an asteroid field, where it explodes!
-The Menagerie I, II: Star Base 8 looks REAL, not cardboard cut-out. The sky has realistic atmosphere with planets in the background. It's as cool as seeing the Remastered Star Wars trilogy back in the 1990's!
-Balance of Terror: this shows the ships entering a comet that LOOKS like a comet, instead of a blue smudge of paint!
-Galileo Seven: By far this is THE BEST EPISODE FOR IMPROVED SPECIAL EFFECTS! The green nebula is so real, with cool shots of the shuttles flying in and out of the Enterprise.
-Court-Martial: More stunning shots of a starbase. City towers actually have people inside. The Enterprise orbits the base with an extra star ship and shuttles buzzing around.
-A Taste of Armageddon: Alien planet's city has futuristic monorails and people walking around.
-Errand of Mercy: REAL KLINGON SHIPS, one even blown up. We no longer have to wait until the third season to see a Klingon battle cruiser!
-Alternative Factor: Great ship-to-surface phaser blast effects.

One other benefit to the sharp picture is that we Trekkers can clearly see the faces of the dying "extra crewmen." This means we can appreciate how human they really were, and how life is too precious to waste. Let us now honor their memories by recalling how they died in the line of duty:

-The Man Trap: 3 dead on alien planet, 1 on ship, after monster sucked crewmens' salt from their bodies.
-Where No Man Has Gone Before: 1 crewman dead after he was telekinetically strangled by a chord, by Gary Mitchell
-The Naked Time: 1 Joe "Red Shirt" goes mad, stabs self with butter knife.
-Balance of Terror: 1 soon-to-be-married crewman poisoned by pink gas
-Galileo Seven: 1 crewman stabbed by spear-throwing caveman creature, 1 choked
-The Arena: 2 "Red Shirts" killed by Gorn disruptors
-The Devil in the Dark: 1 slow-moving "Red Shirt" melted by angry mother horta.

May these twelve brave crewmen rest in peace!

Summary of Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]

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. System Requirements:Run Time: 1460 minutes Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: NR UPC: 097361311944

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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