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I am only halfway through the first season, but am amazed at the quality of work performed on these blu-ray discs. The color and clarity restoration is superb. I have found only a few scenes where artifacts appear on the screen, and they are noticeable only because everything else is pristine. The same can be said of the audio.
A few technical issues: there is a pop-up menu option that allows the user to switch screen angles, which serves to switch between original graphics and re-created graphics that use existing technology but are made in the old style to match the rest of the episodes. That is, the graphic detail does not look like that in the newer movies. It is visually pleasing and supportive of the story lines. The problem is that the switching is available ONLY when the new graphic scenes are being displayed. So, you cannot switch angles except while those graphics are appearing, and there is no way to know when those graphics are showing! It's a catch-22. Obviously, the exterior scenes of the Enterprise are all new, but there are interior scenes that are sometimes new as well, whether it's a background graphic or a time display on a console. It would be nice/interesting to have a split-screen display option to show both versions simultaneously.
[UPDATE at end of paragraph] Secondly, on some of the discs, the user is granted special "Starfleet Access," to selected episodes that brings up a picture-in-picture display showing things like pre- and post-restoration. It also brings up picture-in-picture of staff apparently describing what they did technically to the scenes, but it's impossible to tell on my display since there is no audio selection to hear what they are saying. Even under the "Audio" options, there are no selections for "director's notes" or "English 3" or anything that might play the audio notes. Sad. So very sad. [UPDATE: after searching the internet on these issues, others noted that the player has to enable "secondary audio" to hear the overlaid audio. I have a Sony BDP-BX370 blu-ray player. On this player, the "BD Audio MIX Setting" needs to be set to "On." Doing so mixes the overlaid audio into the output. Yes, I now hear the extra audio.]
Having said all of that, I first saw Star Trek episodes as re-runs on a black and white television. I haven't seen most of the shows in 40 years or so. I had forgotten some episodes entirely, and others are just amazingly wonderful to see in fully restored color. I had no idea that the insignia on the shirts was different based on profession, e.g., science, medical, command, etc. Also, in the earliest of episodes, I don't think that they had much in the way of air conditioning: in almost all shots, all of the faces continuously show beads of sweat. In some of the later episodes, they seem to have gotten the overheating of actors under control.
Mr. Spock gets special notes: in the earliest of episodes, they seem to have experimented with the color of his face, which in some episodes is downright yellow. In other episodes, he has typically "human" skin color. Also, Mr. Spock's cadence changed from the earliest shows where he sounds like an officer giving commands on a submarine (through odd voice inflection), but later takes on a more "normal" voice. Of course, Mr. Spock's ears and eyebrows changed a lot from the earliest episodes (eyebrows were almost vertical and thick as caterpillars in the earliest episodes). Also, my memory had only one instance of Mr. Spock showing emotions. How wrong I was: Mr. Spock shows emotions in most of the episodes (at least the early ones). In some of them, he downright laughs/smiles, but in almost all episodes, he shows a slight grin, especially at the end of the shows when he banters with Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy.
There also appears to be much more romance than I remember from 40 years ago. In almost every episode, there is romance for Captain Kirk. I remember that he was a ladies' man, but it's almost every single episode...even with Yeoman Rand.
I suppose that the best part of my journey through these shows is that I now see them through adult eyes (not the pre-teen and teenager eyes of my first viewing). I now see all of the nuances and moral values that are embedded in the series. This show was not just a science fiction series: it was a reflection of a generation of hopes and dreams. I thoroughly enjoyed (and am still enjoying) my romp through the past.
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Star Trek 50th Anniversary TV & Movies Collection
Embark on a mission to the final frontier with the biggest, most comprehensive Star Trek collection ever offered with the Star Trek 50th Anniversary TV And Movie Collection. This epic gift set includes 30 Blu-ray Discs and every feature film and television show made with the original crew, plus a brand new, multi-part documentary with nearly 2 ½ hours of footage chronicling the franchise’s amazing 50-year journey. The collection also includes the Animated Series, remastered on Blu-ray for the first time ever, the newly released Director’s Edition of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan with a documentary detailing the fan-favorite film’s development and production, over 20 hours of bonus content, an exclusive Starfleet pin commemorating the 50th anniversary and new mini-posters for the first six feature films designed by acclaimed artist Juan Ortiz.
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Star TrekA massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everything in its path. As it heads towards Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. |
Star Trek II: The Wrath of KhanIt is the 23rd century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is on routine training maneuvers and Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) seems resigned to the fact that this inspection may well be the last space mission of his career. But Khan is back. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan (Ricardo Montalban) - brilliant renegade of 20th century Earth - has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk... with the threat of a universal Armageddon! |
Star Trek III: The Search for SpockAdmiral Kirk's defeat of Khan and the creation of the Genesis planet are empty victories. Spock is dead and McCoy is inexplicably being driven insane. Then a surprise visit from Sarek, Spock's father, provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence. With one friend alive and one not, but both in pain, Kirk attempts to help his friends by stealing the U.S.S. Enterprise and defying Starfleet's Genesis planet quarantine. But the Klingons have also learned of Genesis and race to meet Kirk in a deadly rendezvous. |
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage HomeIt's the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien power is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In a frantic attempt to save mankind, Kirk and his crew must time travel back to 1986 San Francisco where they find a world of punk, pizza and exact-change buses that are as alien as anything they've ever encountered in the far reaches of the galaxy. A thrilling, action-packed Star Trek adventure! |
Star Trek V: The Final FrontierThe crew of the Federation starship Enterprise is called to Nimbus III, the Planet of Intergalactic Peace. They are to negotiate in a case of kidnapping only to find out that the kidnapper is a relative of Spock. This man is possessed by his life long search for the planet Shaka-Ri which is supposed to be the source of all life. Together they begin to search for this mysterious planet. |
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryAfter years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter. |
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Star Trek: The Animated SeriesBoldly continuing where Star Trek: The Original Series left off, these animated adventures chart the progress of Captain Kirk and his crew in a universe unconstrained by "real-life" cinematography! With all characters voiced by their original actors, join Kirk, Spock, Bones and the crew for 22 new adventures: to boldly go where no animation has gone before! |
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five-year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. The First Officer is Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. The Chief Medical Officer is Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen lead by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. |
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five-year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. The First Officer is Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. The Chief Medical Officer is Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen lead by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. |
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. The First Officer is Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. The Chief Medical Officer is Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen lead by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. |
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How to Remove Difficult Blu-ray Disc:
Many reviews have grievances with damaging their disc's upon removal...which stems from the rigid catches the cases use. [1st picture: white plastic]By clipping away the erroneous bindings to the sides of one of catch pointers while maintaining the integrity of the opposing pointer, they then become malleable enough to release the Blu-ray without requiring dangerous bending of the disc itself. [2nd picture: white plastic]Each double-sided, four disc tray snaps into its brethren to create a unbound collection of disks for the original ST and animated series. The movie collection does not appear to suffer from the same rigid catches as it lacks the erroneous plastic bindings of the other collection. [last picture: blue pastic]
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