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Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season 
Actors : William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelly
Studio : Paramount
by Paramount
Brand : STAR TREK ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON ONE D (DVD
Release Date : 2004-08-31
Publisher : Paramount
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 8
EAN : 9780792197768
UPC : 097360509243
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 181 reviews)
List Price : $69.98
Our Price : $42.99
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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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Product Description |
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Finally and for the first time ever the complete landmark epic sci-fi television series Star Trek is available in a complete set on DVD. In these definitive collector's boxed sets with completely remastered sound fans of the landmark series can finally own and enjoy the entire first season featuring hours of new and never-before-seen bonus features.Season One is an 8-disc set that includes all 28 first run episodes and exclusive retrospective featurettes that are out of this world!Special Features: Full Screen Format Dolby Digital: English 5.1 Surround English Dolby Surround Text Commentary by Michael Okuda & Denise Okuda The Birth Of A Timeless Legacy Life After Trek: William Shatner To Boldly Go (Season One) Reflections on Spock Red Shirt Logs SCI-FI Visionaries Original Promotional Trailers Photo GalleryFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097360509243 Manufacturer No: 050924 |
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Bargain price - get em while they last! Oops, it was nice while it lasted! - Oops, wait a minute........ |
As an owner of all 40 of the 2-episode discs, I've always wanted to have all three of the ST:TOS clam-shell sets but bristled at the though of buying something I already had. But with each set presently priced at a reasonable $35.49 each I finally made the leap. Each season set is uniquely packaged in a colored plastic clam-shell case with the DVDs stacked in a clear-plastic holder with a sleeve that I'm sure will not hold up all that well. The insert with content details is a nice touch.
For me, probably best viewed when the weather turns hot 'n humid here on the East coast this summer.
UPDATE: 05.03.08
Well, the price is back up again but still not at the ~$100 level that each set started with. For a series that only had 81 episodes due to corporate suits with short-sighted vision, this show & it's future iterations continue to grow in popularity.
UPDATE: 05.05.08
Well, the price is back down again; price index must be tied to the stock market:) - Now is the time to get em again. Great quality; a bit of a pain as they are not in the order of broadcast. This $36-38 range is fairly reasonable. |
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better than locally |
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There's a local reseller of used DVD's and other items who is charging 70.00 for this item. I was happy to find it on Americancivilwar for considerably less. |
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Watching it with the "Next Generation" |
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I bought these to watch with my twelve year old son-"The Next Generation". He had never seen any Star Trek series and now he is in love with the original. They are better than I remember them. I last watched them in college on a small black and white set, to watch them on a large color sceen makes them better. Although a little dated, especially the special effects, they were still great stories and to watch and hear the dialogue between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy again is quite a treat. |
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FANTASTIC SERIES!!! |
STAR TREK - The Original Series, First Season. I stayed to 3am every night watching until I finished the whole episodes! This is Sci-Fi at its best. The Plots in the original Star Trek are almost all story-and-character driven and each story is a classic in its own sense. Time travel? Nothing better than the classic "City on the edge of Forever", a story that will remain edged on your mind for a long, long time? Wandering where James Cameron got the ideas for his Terminator Series? The ideas are all there in Star trek starting with the very first episode "The Man Trap" in which you see a "morphing" character that obviously the T1000 in T2 was based on. "What are little Girls made of?" is also a Robot Classic that I believe would have help Cameron conjure up the Terminator Series. By the way the morphing Character in "Man Trap" is female, so think of "T3".
I just wish Hollywood would remake some of the series as full length features with younger characters and bigger special effects. I would definitely like to see a modern remake of "The city on the edge of Forever" and "Arena" in which the "GORN" Monster is given better effects a more viciousness.
I just acquired the rest of the Original series and I foresee many sleepless nights ahead for myself! |
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Episodes out of Order |
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Although it is real nice having the set in one package, it is a shame that they did not have the foresight to think we might want to watch them in the order they were numbered, i.e. episode 2 before 3, 3 before 4, 4 before 5, etc. They are on the disks in air date order, which is not the correct order, if you want to watch in actual order, you must juggle between disks. Wait to purchase until the idiots at Paramount get it right. Maybe this is why sales were not so good and went from $129 - $199 per season to less than $40.00 per season. |
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