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Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete Second Season 
Actors : William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelly, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols
Studio : Paramount
by Paramount
Release Date : 2004-11-02
Publisher : Paramount
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 7
EAN : 9780792198345
UPC : 097360509342
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 65 reviews)
List Price : $69.98
Our Price : $42.99
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The most famous episode in franchise history, "The Trouble with Tribbles," is one of the highlights of the second season of Star Trek: The Original Series. A deserved classic, the humorous story centers on an ever-expanding mass of furry creatures that memorably rain themselves down on top of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and into the middle of a Federation-Klingon showdown. It inspired one of the most memorable episodes in the spin-off series Deep Space Nine, "Trial and Tribble-ations." Also in the second season, the Vulcan culture of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is fleshed out in "Amok Time" (in which Spock is faced with the possibility of killing his captain and friend) and "Journey to Babel" (introducing Spock's father, played by Mark Sarek, in what would turn out to be a long-recurring role). A new character, navigator Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), was introduced; his Monkees haircut was intended to appeal to the younger audience, but he was also a Russian, which at the height of the cold war reflected Gene Roddenberry's optimistic vision of a more enlightened future. Other social-commentary opportunities presented themselves in "The Omega Glory," "The Doomsday Machine," and "Assignment: Earth," the last also one of those periodic opportunities to scrimp on the budget by time-traveling to an earlier version of Earth. Another example was "A Piece of the Action," a comic episode set in the Roaring Twenties and memorable for, among other things, Kirk's teaching a made-up card game called Fizzbin. In other significant episodes, "I, Mudd" saw the return of the bounder from season 1, "The Changeling" was the original inspiration for the first Trek feature film a decade later, "Wolf in the Fold" (penned by the author of Psycho) provides an example of the series' great writing, and "Mirror, Mirror" introduced the concept of the parallel universe inhabited by vicious, amoral counterparts of the regular crew, another theme later borrowed (more than once, and to good emotional effect) by DS9. Special features are a bit lighter than on the season 1 set, but they do feature such contributors as Shatner, Nimoy, George Takei (Sulu), Koenig, Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), and editor-writer D.C. Fontana. Of chief interest are "To Boldly Go," a 20-minute season recap; " Kirk, Spock & Bones: The Great Trio," discussing the interplay among Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley); "Star Trek's Divine Diva," shining the spotlight on the development of Nichols's character (she was originally considered to play Spock); and "Writer's Notebook: D.C. Fontana," discussing her various roles in the series (she used her initials to avoid the anti-female bias in science fiction at the time). --David Horiuchi |
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STAR TREK: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON features many exciting adventures with the Enterprise crew, including Spock experiencing the Vulcan mating drive, the crew being captured by a powerful alien once worshipped on Earth as the Greek god Apollo, the return of an ancient space probe launched centuries ago, aging at an incredible rate after exposure to an unknown form of radiation, and other episodes. |
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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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Its blurry at times |
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I grew up knowing practically every line from every episode. I am disappointed in this DVD collection because so many of the episodes are terribly blurry at times. The opening of "A Piece of the Action" shows the Enterprise bouncing from white to gray...etc. Its weird. At times, the quality is marvelous...other times...its bad!! |
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Star Trek season 2 DVD is fantastic! |
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Star Trek Season 2 DVD set is fantastic! This is great Star Trek DVD set to own! You have the original cast in their younger days back in the 1960s! William Shatner is Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy is First Officer Mr. Spock, Deforest Kelly as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy and the rest of the original cast! Some of the great episodes in Star Trek Season 2 are Amok Time, The Domesday Machine, Mirror, Mirror, Journey to Babel, The Trouble with Tribbles, The Ultimate Computer, and Assignment: Earth! Mirror, Mirror is one of my favorite episodes of Star Trek: TOS! Buy it! Highest Possible Recommendation! |
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The REAL Star Trek (instead of soap operas) |
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It's nice to be able to watch the original Star Trek series. The "Second Generation" bored me to death. It was like a science fiction soap opera. The original series had far more variety, action, and clever innovative plots. It also had a good bit of humor. The Second Generation seemed to be all about "inner space" (What's going on inside your head? How do you FEEL about something, etc.) It seemed to be pitched to the interests of women. (I can feel the feminists coming off the walls already. Oh well - tough!) I find a good face-off with the Klingons far more entertaining than someone's inner conflict. In summary, I found the product enjoyable and I can even see the episodes I missed. I now have all three seasons. |
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Star Trek: Season 2 |
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Perhaps the best season of the best show ever produced for television, season 2 offers some of the finest episodes of the entire series including: AMOK TIME, A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR, THE CHANGELING, THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE, WOLF IN THE FOLD among many others. A classic show for fans of intelligent television of any age. |
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