Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season
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Movie Reviews of Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: Fun Classic TV
Summary: 5 Stars
I sometimes think there are three stages in the life of a Star Trek viewer. As a child, you're fascinated with all the neat monsters and lasers, especially if you grew up when the show was first in syndication and there was little like it. When you're in your late teens or twenties, you become more jaded, realizing the effects are rather crude and the acting a bit hammy (or for a minority, you go in the opposite direction and become a die-hard Trekkie). Finally, you get a little older and you learn to look beyond the faults and re-realize just how fun the show was.
The Complete First Season of Star Trek features 29 episodes plus a few bonus features. For me, many of the episodes were vaguely familiar, even if they hadn't been seen in twenty years or more; others seemed completely new. Although not presented in original broadcast order, they generally move from the beginning to the end of the season.
Of course, the central character in the series is William Shatner's Captain James Kirk, but almost as important are the half-Vulcan, Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and DeForrest Kelley's Dr. "Bones" McCoy. These two act as rivals for Kirk's ear, the former representing the coldly logical approach to problems and the latter the more irrational humanistic approach. In the end, Kirk is the one making the choice, however. Other series characters are rather minor, even if they recur. Uhura, Sulu and Scotty only rarely add much to any story.
Not every story is fantastic, and 29 is too many to individually review, but I will comment on a couple. The Corbomite Maneuver shows Kirk at his best, taking on a vastly more powerful alien with little more than his wits. The Galileo Seven features Spock in a key role as he tries to save a shipwrecked crew and realizes that hard choices will need to be made if any are to survive. Shore Leave and Mudd's Women are a bit on the lighter side, but they never get completely silly. And The City on the Edge of Forever - considered by many (including myself) as the best episode of the whole series - gives Kirk his greatest moral dilemma.
Not every episode is good. Errand of Mercy and A Taste of Armageddon both are a little over-the-top in their anti-war messages. Miri suffers from both bad child actors and a huge plot hole: the story takes place on a planet identical to Earth, but there is no reason why this should be the case. Most episodes are good or great, however, and even these weak ones are still fun to watch. In the end, you have to also take these episodes in the context of their time, and in this sense, the show was far above any other science-fiction show out there. So if you're past that second stage of a Star Trek viewer's life, and you can look beyond the faults, this is well-worth watching.
Movie Review: star trek the original series first season
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great sets to have if you love "STAR TREK" and the price on amazon can't be beatMovie Review: True Star Trek Fans will Love it
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, I am a Star Trek Fan, Not sure if I am a Trekkie, I do not go to conventions, or collect Star Trek Characters, dolls and others, but I enjoy the series. I think like most people about the great story line, moral lessons and the characters. The first season I believe is the best of the three, with great stories, building of the characters and learning about us, the people and how we think and who we are in the scope of the universe.
The last disk also has special features about the first season with the Actors interviews, comments and insights, along with other people involved with the series.
I will keep watching Star Trek every 4 to 6 months and still like what I see. Very enjoyable.
Movie Review: Excellent DVD Quality
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow! I finally bought the Star Trek The Original Series with all 22 disc on 3 seasons. All episodes are in excellent quality with 50 minutes in each episode. But so sad that are not in order. I finally saw The Pilot "The Cage" Restored Version in color episode (1) also Original Version Black & White/color episode (99) unseen both from Season 3. Kind of dumb that are not in order as the same as "American Gothic"
Best episodes that I liked the most!
The Pilot: "The Cage)
"Where No Man Has Gone Before"
"The Squire of Gothos"
"Shore Leave"
"Balance of Terror"
"Charlie X"
"The Enemy Within"
"The City on the Edge of Forever"
"Tomorrow is Yesterday"
"This Side of Paradise"
"Catspaw"
"Mirror, Mirror"
"The Deadly Years"
"The Gamesters of Triskelion"
"Bread and Circuses"
"By Any Other Name"
"Assignment: Earth"
"Spectre of the Gun"
"Spock's Brain"
"That Which Survives"
"The Cloud Minders" Charlene Polite as Vinna She is so beautiful where is she?
"All Our Yesterdays"
"The Savage Curtain"
And More...........
Movie Review: Season One: The Holy Grail of '60s Sci-Fi!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first and best season of TOS. Some of my own favorites from this season are "Miri" guest starring Kim Darby on a duplicate Earth (though a cloudless one) where only kids have survived a longevity experiment gone haywire. But Grup Kirk comes to the rescue with "NO BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!" and Kim's subtlety is a good foil to Shatner's intensity. Also here is one of the "kids" Michael Pollard who was 26 at the time. That one kid is so annoying, the one who always shouts "BONK BONK ON THE HEAD!" Spock, who a few episodes earlier was saying stuff like, "Ah yes, one of your Earth emotions", is here explaining Miri's emotions to the others.
Another good one is Charlie X who sees Janis and asks Kirk, "Is that a girl?" Actually a poignant take on adolescence guest stars Robert Walker Jr. After Charlie says, "No laughing", that girl without the face is always scary.
The Naked Time is ill-conceived, though a vehicle for developing the show for later superior episodes. The Enemy Within is good with the dubplicate Kirk. The Conscience of the King is here, the war criminal one and some Shakespeare thrown in. Galileo Seven and yes, "City on the Edge of Forever" closes out the Season.
Some comments on "City". How exactly does Edith Keeler influence FDR to delay entry into the war... do they mean AFTER Pearl Harbor he delayed? Hmmm. Also Uhuru's comment to Kirk, "Happiness at least sir" was so out of place...though not as much as her comments during his recent roast.