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Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season | 
 enlarge | Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelly
Studio: CBS Paramount International Television
Category: DVD
Buy New: $137.99
New (3) Used (5) from $79.93
Avg. Customer Rating:  190 reviews
Sales Rank: 12974
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 8
Running Time: 1461
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.6 x 2.1
MPN: PARD050924D
ISBN: 0792197763
UPC: 097360509243
EAN: 9780792197768
ASIN: B0002I831S
Theatrical Release Date: September 8, 1966
Release Date: August 31, 2004
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Product Description
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006
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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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 Star Trek Memories November 2, 2008
Watched the 1st DVD - was amazed by the picture quality and sound - well done!!!!!
 Out of Sequence ...? September 5, 2008
One thing I noticed when looking at the playlist for Season 1 is that the episodes at the beginning are out of sequence. For example, the VHS tapes I have (also published by Paramount) have the first four episodes listed as: The Cage (not in the set, by the way); Where No Man Has Gone Before; The Corobomite Maneuver; Mudd's Women. The first disc, according to the booklet (haven't had a chance to watch these yet) shows: The Man Trap; Charlie X; Where No Man Has Gone Before; The Naked Time. This is radically different in sequence. While I am not a 100% purist, particularly where the original series goes (since the main characters were all at the same place at the end of each episodes), it is still odd that we have such a huge dichotomy in the sequence of the shows. It's at least slightly disturbing.
Philosophy clothed in Action / Adventure in Space August 20, 2008
The strength if the original Trek series is the philosophical underpinnings of its structure and story lines.
Even in the silliest episodes, there is an exploration of age-old questions.
What is man? What is logic, will , emotion and how do they co-exist in the human psyche to achieve human ideals.
The first season of Trek was the best and its representatives of the human troika (Kirk=Will, Spock=Logic, McCoy=Emotion) create the tension of human strivings in the simplest of interactions.
Ignore the silly FX. Enjoy the ideas. For its time, Trek was the best series that was actually about ideas.
Back to the future which is now the past July 16, 2008
Kirk had the first cellphone -- with GPS. But all the science and technology and special effects are pleasant reminders of a simpler time in television. What is important about this series is the human story. Kirk and Spock and McCoy demonstrate the beautiful interplay of emotion, logic, humanity and leadership -- all at their best. The crew of the Enterprise, and the entire Federation, were a people of high moral character and ethical behavior. Never was a mean remark allowed to stand, nor a bad act go unpunished. If a rule were broken, it had to be done to accomplish a greater good.
 Don't these Star Trek DVDs of the original TV series! July 1, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
After careful of the contents list of each episode, I have noticed that one episode is missing - "Assignment Earth". It was the story of an alien (played by Robert Lansing) who is intersepted by the Enterprise. His assgnment: To save earth from itself during a critical period in earth's time (the '60s no less). The episode was to be a spin-off and, like all of Star Trek, far ahead of its time. Appartently, too far for the corporate suits.
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