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Space. The Final Frontier. The 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. more info
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Problems with the sound!!
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I bought this because I wanted to replace my standard DVD copies and I love the star trek series and I will buy each of them as they are released on blu-ray, however I am writing this review because I have read most of the reviews that others have left and not one of them has touched on the problem that when you play an episode in the enhanced or original effects the audio drops out completely. At first I thought that it was limited to just the first disk but no I played an episode that was on disk #4 and encountered the same problem. I also bought a copy of this from borders and encountered the same problem so now I have to return both of them! I was playing it on a pioneer player, which is considered to be one of the best players around! I am planning on waiting until the second release if there is one so that this problem can be addressed.
Star Trek Season 1
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Haven’t owned any Star Trek episodes since I bought a few favorites on VHS 15 years ago. Love watching these in High Defintion and with the enhanced effects. Can’t wait until Season 2.
only two bad things about it.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
there is only two bad things about it.
its a full screen show thats not full.
i have side bars on a full screen tv… whats up with that?
other then that its not in the right order.
the singles was in the right order.
if it had not been for the great cleanup on the show i would of stayed with my singles.
at least they was in order.
but they did a great job cleaning it up.
so i had to keep them.
looks funny going from old screen to newer screen then back to old screen on the ship.
come on guys… what was you thinking? O.o
you had it right the first time.
thats why it was the last one i got as a box set.
i have all of the shows and the original series was the last i got as a box set.
and almost did not then being out of order.
but i just could not pass the the great cleanup job yall did.
so for you that can live with that i say buy them for sure.
as for the rest of the info on the show everybody else here covers that part well.
hope this helped.
Perfect for Trekkies Who Have Made the Move to Blu-Ray
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Everyone knows the superb quality of the episodes from TOS Season One, and with this Blu-Ray set you can watch either the remastered or original FX. The episodes do appear with black bars on the top, bottom, and both sides on 4:3 televisions. Picture and sound quality are excellent, as is to be expected with Blu-Ray.
Why aren’t the episodes in order?
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
My wife and I are a couple of Trekkies and couldn’t wait for the series to come out on Blu Ray. You can tell the people who worked on this project put a lot of love and respect into their work. The picture is awesome! I like just looking at the restored and enhanced Enterprise. We have just one quibble; why aren’t the episodes in order. We collected the series on VHS and each tape had two episodes with original air dates on them. The episodes in this set don’t coincide. What’s up with that?
Painstaking Restoration
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
For all of those that think that this is just another cheap re-release of TOS, think again. Each and every frame has been painstakingly restored to it’s like new condition. Almost every piece of dust, hair, and dirt has been removed. Make no “Bones” about it. 35mm was the HD of the day. And is in a way, superior to the digital HD of today. The film had grain,yes of course, but it also had incredible clarity and resolution. It is the equivalent of taking a modern 10 Megapixel camera and setting it to shoot at 24 fps. The results would be spectacular, as this remastered version is. The clarity is so good at times, as to make me believe that I could reach out and touch the actors. The colors are vibrant and real for the era. Anything you have seen before is washed out and drab compared to this. The time that was taken to manually and digitally remove almost every defect from the original film must have been staggering. This is truly a labor of love for Paramount and CBS. Admitedly, the new effects aren’t state-of-the-art. But they weren’t meant to be. They fit the era . And as such, add to the visual experience of TOS. My only complaint would be to release TOS in 16*9 in such a way that didnt distract from the original 4*3 aspect ratio. I just watched “Balance Of Terror” stretched to fit a 16*10 screen with no visible stretching or distorting of the actors at all. So it is possible to do this in a future release. This would look awesome on my 99″ projector screen, but the clarity that is lost from digitally expanding the image to 16*9 on my player is just unacceptable. CBS/ Paramount, take note. 16*9 is the modern day aspect ratio. Just as 4*3 was back then.
Stunning remastering of a classic
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Were it not for the fact that I’ve seen all these episodes many times over, I would think I was seeing these for the first time. The remastering of the special effects and the clarity of BluRay makes watching these classic episodes of Star Trek a true experience for those of us who have been following the Star Trek Universe for many many years. Can’t wait for Season 2!
It’s better than ever!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
It’s better than I remember. When I heard that they were updating the special effects I thought that this was the ONLY thing that needed to be fixed on the original ST. And, to have the original FX still on the blu ray, made this a great purchase!
Very Impressive
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The picture quality is excellent, never been better. And you have here the both versions of the series the original and the remastered version with the new digital remastering scenes of the enterprise and their universe, and let me tell you this new digital effects are totally awesome, they give to the series a sense of more reality!
One of the best
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I wasn’t much of a trekkie before I bought this, but I am a true believer now! With the improved picture, improved sound, and new special effects, this will help bring in those who shunned Star Trek previously. The picture quality is spectacular, and I have been extremely impressed with the clarity of the sound. The new special effects also help eliminate some of the show’s cheesiness. Star Trek is a great series, and this is easily one of the best blu-ray releases thus far. If you’re sitting on the fence on this one, and you’re wondering if it’s worth the money, it definitely is. I can’t wait for season 2 and 3!
A perfect Blu Ray release
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Everything that is advertised in the adverts for this set (featuring prominently in the Blu Ray Star Trek Movie collection) is absolutely true.
Painstaking effort was put into the digital mastering and restoration of the series, as evidenced in one of the documentaries on the first or second disc, which actually shows what I’ve never seen before: exactly HOW footage is “digitally mastered” or restored. They show them doing such disgustingly brutal and time-consuming things such as rubbing out and scrubbing scratches, dirt, dust, and other imperfections from film footage. They also show how all the music was re-recorded EXACTLY as it had been in the original show.
For a low-budget TV series in the 1960s, the picture quality is stunning. It never falls below DVD quality, though true Blu Ray perfection is elusive, as many shots suffer from some minor scratching that escaped notice, or blurry or scratchy bits that could not be fine-tuned any further. There are still hundreds of shots and moments that are in perfect Blu Ray detail, and perfect colors and contrast. You can see perfectly now that, keeping true to his green blood, Spock’s skin almost always has a greenish tint.
One of the great things about it that always appeases people like me is that you can choose BOTH the original episode or the Remastered versions, separated only by the option once starting an episode, or switching with the previously completely useless “Angle” button.
The show itself utterly astounds and blows me away by just how mature and ahead of its time it is in storytelling and morality. Almost no episode has a clear cut “black and white” context, and there are very infrequently any real villains who are evil simply because script demands it to be so.
Some of the highlight episodes include “Where No Man has Gone Before”, the second pilot episode, which features Gary Lockwood (Frank Poole in “2001: A Space Odyssey”) playing Gary Mitchell, a navigator on the Enterprise who suddenly gains godlike powers and silver-covered eyes after the ship attempts to blow through an Electromagnetic barrier at the edge of the galaxy.
Rather than explaining anything, it’s a complete mystery just what has happened to Gary. We are told and explained how it involves ESP and his psychic response to it, but we never KNOW if his mind was permanently changed, or if an energy creature took control of his mind, or if he was genuinely becoming corrupted. There are scenes where he is struck with extreme energy, causing his silver eyes to disappear, and he looks to Kirk with his normal eyes and calls out weakly “Jim…”, only a moment later to have his silver eyes return, and his attitude returning to the haughty “A God am I” sort, leaving Captain Kirk AND us wondering whether Gary could truly be saved, or if it was a trick.
A great many episodes follow this format of morality, and conflicts between what is right and what is logical, and even between two different versions of right. One of the most jarring and mind-blowing episodes for me involved the Enterprise attempting to establish diplomatic relations with a peaceful planet, only to discover they’ve been at war with their neighboring planet for 500 years… and have fought the war entirely on computer (like video games), and when people die in the computer, they report to suicide booths in real life, in order for the war to progress. No one likes it, but they accept it, because if they do not, they break a treaty, and invite REAL war that could destroy both planets.
And then the episode with Khan, “Space Seed”. What I found truly wonderful about the end is how Kirk understands that Khan is not truly evil; he is simply himself. He knows nothing else but to dominate others, and lead them. So rather than imprison Khan for the chaos he caused on the ship, he ‘exiles’ him and his crew to Ceti Alpha V to form his own little Kingdom, and test his strength and intelligence in surviving the harsh conditions of that world. Khan joyfully accepts the challenge, though “Wrath of Khan” shows us just what became of that ‘exile’.
All the discs except one have bonus documentaries on them, with the only questionable one I think being an ego-service one focused entirely on William Shatner, who spends the entire documentary talking about his love of horses and horseriding.
The only flaw with the set involves the sound. The sound quality is superb, but the sound effects and music are INSANELY loud compared to the softness of the dialogue. It is a serious unbalance between the two that causes a constant need to be at the helm of the remote control’s volume level.
Aside from that, the set is huge with the episodes, original version or remastered version, extra features, select episode commentaries, and documentaries on a wide variety of subjects, including interviews with Gary Lockwood, Ricardo Montalban, the entire original cast, and Billy Blackburn, who not only was an extra in many episodes, but provides home video footage from the set of some episodes.
A big fan
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve been holding out to buy the series for a very long time, and I’m glad I did. You have the best of both worlds here by having the original CGI or the original animation. I watched this series as a kid, like many of you, and I am simply thrilled at seeing them in HiDef for the first time. If you were fan of the original series, then this is a must have treasure to possess. I look forward to the next two seasons, and plan to buy both of them. Thanks CBS for making these, and thanks for the low, and very reasonable pricing.
Star Trek Classic on Blu-Ray a Winner
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Never been to a convention but have been a huge fan of Star Trek since the first broadcast in 1966. Season 1 on blu-ray is outstanding. For purists you can watch the original special effects and listen to the original sound track. But if you are daring enough to “Boldly go where no man (in this case) has gone before” you will re-experience Star Trek. The film had been cleaned up extraordinarily well and enhanced. The special effects do the kind of justice that this series deserves. The sound track extraordinary. I plan to purchase season 2 (available 9/22/09) and season 3 as available.
Worth my bucks!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Yeah it wasn’t cheap but its pretty sweet. I prefer the new effects. The sound is way quiet but whatever I just turn it way up.
An Original Trekkie in Love Again: New effects done w love & care
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Ok, First I am an Original First Generation Trekkie, A Geek and Proud of it. I also Love Anime & Manny Manny other things. I LOVE THIS BLU_RAY set! THe New Effects are treated with GREAT RESPECT for an ICONIC TV series. THE ORIGINAL VERSION IS ALL THERE IF YOU WANT TO WATCH IT THAT WAY. This is SO Good I am Very Happy.
NOTE: I bought this as my first Blu-Ray And bought my first Player just to see this. IMPORTANT: SAMSONG BD-P3600 Blu-Ray player has Seamless Branching Problems, that as of 08/29/09 have no firmware fix and no help from Samsung. I know this as I bought one, and after 3 months still was unable to watch without having scenes repeat several tine in each episode ! PLEASE make sure that this problem has been fixed first before you buy. I got an exchange though Best Buy. I Now have an LG BD390 that works GREAT.