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This Trekker Give Star Trek All Seasons 100 Stars!!!!

This Trekker Give Star Trek All Seasons 100 Stars!!!!

How could anyone give Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock anything but 5 Stars!!!! Would give it 100 stars, if I could!!! The episodes look great, very crisp. Color is awesome. Haven't seen them in a while and I thought they would appear too "60ish", after living on Next Generation for so many years. They were and are the forerunner for all SciFi series and movies that came after. They stories are still as cool as they appeared to be in 1965, and still love all the characters. The only thing that was a little disappointing is that the pilot two-part episode was not included in Season 1 (unless I missed it). It was cool seeing young Majal Barrett who is Dr. McCoy's nurse, and who became Counselor Troi's Mom in STNG, and a young Dr. Polaski in ST, who made it into STNG, and was also Will Riker's Dad's love interest. Also, don't miss a young Mark Leonard as a Romulan, who later became Spock's Dad in NG. By the way, the picture is of me and my Tribble, who I named Arthur!!

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Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2024
It's generally acknowledged that the first season of "Star Trek" ("The Original Series") was its finest, primarily because of the quality of the scripts. While there are some flops (we're looking at you, "The Alternative Factor," and wish we hadn't), this was the season that gave us episodes written by sci-fi masters Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon, Jerry Sohl, and Harlan Ellison (whose "City on the Edge of Forever" is justly regarded by most as the series' finest hour). Also included are "The Menagerie" (a retooled version of Roddenberry's original pilot) and "Space Seed" (introducing Ricardo Montálban as Khan). The image and audio are crisp. The special features, including original "Next Voyage" trailers, are varied and reasonably plentiful (albeit drawn from Paramount's earlier iterations). The remastering includes enhanced FX that were technologically unavialble in 1966–67. While I still remember the clunky charm of the originals (yes, I am that old), the updates are deftly handled.
I was able to purchase this set at $18.00, which works out to less than 60 cents per episode, not including the add-ons. Good value for money. While affordable, I don't intend to buy Seasons Two and Three, whose quality continuously dropped. That's only my take on things. Your mileage may vary.

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2009
The Program:
If I could find something new to say about Star Trek, that would be a feat in itself. Let it suffice to say that it's the most successful TV sci-fi franchise of all time, was a pioneering show in many respects, and is just darned entertaining to watch, whether you're a "true believer" or not.
Season One of the Original Series is a great place to start for newbies and fanatics alike. We are introduced to the Romulans, Klingons, Khan, Starfleet, the Federation of Planets, and the whole crew short of Chekov, who appears in Season Two. We are presented with 29 episodes, at least 6 of which are absolute masterpieces, and another 10 of which are really, really good. In this package, you'll get classics such as "The City on The Edge of Forever," "Where No Man Has Gone Before," "Balance of Terror," "The Menagerie," "The Devil In The Dark," and "Space Seed." Overall, it's the Original Series' strongest season, and it only has two real clunkers in the group ("Shore Leave" and "The Galileo Seven").
There's really not a whole lot to be faulted in this season. It's an absolutely rock solid item for any Trekkie, and indeed any sci-fi fan, to own.
The Blu-Ray:
So the question becomes, how is the presentation?
Well, it should be said right off the bat that the HD transfers of these shows are absolutely sparkling. Detail is through the roof, making every smile line, button and dial, star, and ship detail just pop right off the screen. Black levels are rock solid, especially in space scenes. Color saturation is deeper than deep, and bright colors are radiant in a way that the previous DVDs just can't replicate. The show is presented in its original 4:3 aspect ratio - thank goodness CBS/Paramount didn't try to stretch these shows in a manner similar to many "HD" rebroadcasts of older shows on cable.
The Original Series was shot on 35 mm film stock, which has more detail than any 480i TV broadcast can resolve (or 480p DVD for that matter). Thus, it is truly benefited by a high definition transfer. This isn't a release where you look at it and say "well, it looks pretty good for what it is." In fact, it has just as much fine detail and the same superior color as the newest shows currently broadcast on TV in HD. And it really does blow away the previous DVDs, too. There are, of course, a few shots here and there that betray their age. This is just the nature of the beast when dealing with 40 year old celluloid elements. But all told, a good 90% of the shots are competitive with modern HD. So as far as a video rating goes, it's at least 4 star material on average.
Audio is a tad problematic. Some of the sound balancing seems to be a bit off - dialogue can have a tough time keeping up with music and sound effects. It's perfectly clear, don't get me wrong. But I found myself fiddling with the volume controls more than I'd like throughout an episode. On the other hand, the audio in general is great. The re-recorded theme song is breathtaking - especially when the Enterprise "wooosh-es" by from the front speakers to the rear surrounds. Red Alert klaxons and atmospheric sounds generally are mixed towards the surround channels. It's very cool.
Special effects sequences have been redone with modern CGI and in high definition. For the most part they look great, and it is quite refreshing in the era of the "Lucas-ing" (or is it Abrams-ifying?) of old material that the producers of the new effects went to such great lengths to respect the original design aesthetic of the 1960's material. I will say I kind of wish they had done new model work, as CG still just isn't to the point where it looks "real" (setting aside the fact that this is inherently unreal stuff being filmed...). But I understand that it would never have been done in that case, since it costs so much more these days to do model work as opposed to CGI. On balance, having new effects is much more good than bad.
But the kicker, and the reason it would be no big deal even if one hated the new effects, is the fact that the original effects are on the same disc. You can watch an entire show with the old or new effects, or, if you'd prefer to irritate your friends and significant others, switch between them in real time with the "angle" button on your remote. Are you paying attention, George Lucas? This is what we want in a Star Wars Blu-Ray! The beautiful new with the respected old, side-by-side. Big kudos go to CBS/Paramount and the Trek team for the job they've done here.
Also included are several extra features. Mini-documentaries, mostly reprised from the previous DVD set, are included one on each disc. The "pop-up" text commentary from the DVD has been retained as "Starfleet Access," a combination video-text commentary. The videos are nice, but they talk over the audio from the episode, whereas the older text commentary did not interfere with the audio. I wish both could have been included. New features include a mini-doc on the HD restoration and effects, and a set of "home movies" from an extra on the Trek set. Especially cool is an interactive "tour" of the original series Enterprise, showing many nooks and crannies not often seen or discussed, on the same gorgeous HD CGI model that the new shots use. All in all, a healthy set of extras.
The packaging is nowhere near as bad as some previous DVD Trek seasons, but it still has its issues. Why can we not be presented with episode titles on each disc? The discs are just blank silver paint, with loads of empty space that helpful titles could have occupied. Instead, the episodes are listed on the INSIDE of the Blu-Ray insert, and are covered by both the filler material in the front, and by a disc in back. Being required to pop out a disc to see the contents of three more is really not convenient.
*****
The audio niggles and the packaging stupidity might be enough to make some downgrade this to a four star rating. I am swayed however, by the consistently good (and occasionally astounding) HD clarity of the video, and the wonderful options for old and new special effects. The other things are minor issues in the scheme of things. This is a tremendously good presentation of an absolutely seminal television show and science fiction saga. The respect with which the "restoration" was handled is truly commendable.
Any Trekkie/Trekker who has a Blu-Ray player should own this set. It's just that simple. If you are just a general sci-fi fan, you also should give this serious consideration.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2015
"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations... to boldly go where no man has gone before!" It would be hard to find many TV shows as wildly influential as the original series of "Star Trek," which inspired a devoted fandom, several spinoffs of varying quality, a string of films, and most recently an alternate-timeline reboot directed by J. J. Abrams.
And it all started with "Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1," a groundbreaking and intelligent sci-fi series that brought interstellar exploration to TV screens -- aliens, androids, strange phenomena and the odd planet that generates giant rabbits and school bullies. Yes, it has the late-sixties color schemes and miniskirts, but it also has a moral complexity and wide-eyed earnestness that most TV shows lack, along with crisp writing and a solid cast.
In the twenty-third century, mankind has spread out among the stars, and established a Federation of like-minded worlds. The starship Enterprise is part of their Starfleet division -- and it does pretty much everything, from fighting hostile aliens like the Klingon and the Romulan Empires, investigating distress calls (including from a planet infested with pain-producing alien blobs), and exploring planets with weird and freakish creatures on them (including a furry creature that sucks salt out of its victims).
The captain is James T. Kirk (William Shatner), who is assisted and guided by his two trusted friends: the logic-driven, half-Vulcan science officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the crusty, blunt-spoken doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Deforest Kelley). With the faithful crew of the Enterprise behind them, they travel through time, encounter godlike aliens, fall prey to some weird diseases (including one that makes you drunk!), crash a shuttlecraft, encounter a war fought with computers, and deal with androids, rock monsters, plague-infected kids, genetically-engineered Übermenschen, a giant lizard and the White Rabbit.
A lot of stuff in "Star Trek: The Original Series" has become sci-fi cliche by now, but that only underscores that the entire first season must have been wildly fresh and groundbreaking when it first aired. There are a few episodes that are hit-and-miss ("This Side of Paradise"), but many of them are wildly inventive and cleverly-written -- and it's not just about weird alien Threat Du Jour. The Enterprise crew also deals with some truly bizarre problems, ranging from Kirk being accused of murder to a visitor from an antimatter universe.
One of the best aspects of this season is that it never loses the human element. When the characters encounter problems, they often must grapple with issues of morality, revealing a great deal about themselves in the process -- Kirk's passionate love for a woman who is fated to die, his struggle to pass judgment on a mass murderer without giving in to his own base hatred, Spock's conflicted nature, his fierce loyalty to his old captain, an officer widowed during a battle, and so on. It's the personal part of the writing that gives it greater depth, beyond merely "Kirk fights with a big lizard-man by shooting diamonds at him." And yes, that does happen.
As stories, these episodes are crisply and solidly written, with a good blend of intelligent sci-fi, action and pathos. The dialogue was well-written ("Do you play God, carry his head through the corridors in triumph? That won't bring back the dead, Jim") but with moments of humor to keep it from ever getting pompous ("I'll protect you, fair maiden!" "Sorry, neither"). That's what allows even the slightly silly (Spock attacked by a flying brain cell) to be pulled off well.
It also has a very good cast, from the central three characters to the underused supporting characters like Uhura and Sulu. For all the gags about Shatner's acting, he plays Kirk as a man of both brains and passion -- he's driven and emotion, with a love for his ship, his crew and the unexplored crannies of the galaxy that rules his life. But he's also intelligent and canny, and more than once we see him outwitting a foe, whether it's making a primitive gun by hand or playing the ultimate bluff against a vast alien ship.
And he has uniquely solid chemistry with Nimoy and Kelley, so that you can really believe that these three characters are fast friends who bicker, joke and advise each other... well, mostly Bones and Spock snipe at each other, while Kirk sits there smiling. Nimoy gives a brilliant performance as the half-Vulcan, half-human Spock, struggling with the emotions that his Vulcan nature doesn't allow him to express. Kelley plays McCoy as the exact opposite -- a fiery Southern doctor whose determination to do the right thing sometimes clashes with his duty. Yes, he boozes it up while on duty, but who doesn't want a doctor like McCoy?
Few TV shows have had the impact on nerd culture that "Star Trek: The Original Series" has had, and the first season of this show is still an entertaining, thought-provoking story. Live long and prosper!
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Reviewed in Mexico on December 30, 2024
Llevaba aaaaños tras de esta presentación que incluye la versión original de los 60 y la restaurada con el doblaje mexicano de aquellos años y por fin la pude incluir en mi videoteca personal.

Reviewed in France on June 21, 2023
La saison 1 de Star Trek dans sa version remasterisée est une expérience incroyable qui permet aux fans de redécouvrir les origines de cette série de science-fiction culte. Avec des améliorations visuelles et sonores, cette version offre une expérience de visionnage immersive et captivante.
La saison 1 de Star Trek est l'introduction de l'univers épique de la Fédération des planètes unies, de l'équipage du vaisseau spatial USS Enterprise et de son capitaine emblématique, James T. Kirk. Les 29 épisodes de cette saison présentent des aventures passionnantes, des rencontres avec des civilisations extraterrestres fascinantes et des dilemmes moraux complexes.
La version remasterisée de la saison 1 offre des améliorations visuelles spectaculaires. Les épisodes ont été soigneusement restaurés, avec une augmentation de la qualité d'image et des détails plus nets. Les effets spéciaux ont également été modernisés, ajoutant une nouvelle dimension visuelle à l'univers de Star Trek. Les couleurs vives et les décors réalistes renforcent l'immersion dans chaque épisode.
Le son a également été amélioré dans cette version remasterisée. Les dialogues, la musique emblématique et les effets sonores ont été retravaillés pour offrir une expérience sonore plus nette et plus immersive. Cela permet aux spectateurs de profiter pleinement de la riche bande-son de Star Trek et d'être transportés dans l'espace aux côtés de l'équipage de l'USS Enterprise.
En plus des améliorations visuelles et sonores, cette version remasterisée de la saison 1 de Star Trek comprend également des bonus exclusifs. Ces suppléments offrent un regard en coulisses sur la création de la série, des interviews avec les acteurs et l'équipe de production, ainsi que des commentaires audio des créateurs. Cela ajoute une valeur supplémentaire à l'ensemble, permettant aux fans de plonger encore plus profondément dans l'univers de Star Trek.
En conclusion, la saison 1 de Star Trek dans sa version remasterisée est un must-have pour les fans de la série et pour tous les amateurs de science-fiction. Avec ses améliorations visuelles et sonores, cette version offre une expérience de visionnage époustouflante qui ravira les fans de longue date et attirera de nouveaux adeptes. Préparez-vous à embarquer pour des voyages intergalactiques captivants et à découvrir les débuts légendaires de Star Trek d'une manière tout à fait nouvelle et immersive.

Reviewed in Spain on June 6, 2020
Me costó encontrarla a un precio que no fuera desorbitado. Si buen, es una versión alemana, pero con idioma en español. Está remasterizada, por lo que teniendo en cuenta que se trata de una serie de mediados de los 60, se ve bastante bien.

Reviewed in Japan on October 20, 2023
30代後半にTVで見ていました。DVDレコーダーで何話か録画したものを今でも持っています。シーズン１（３０タイトル）がこの値段で、超お得です。DVDですが画質もよく満足しています。この中で特に好きなのが、宇宙暦元年7・21、危険な過去への旅です。
残念な点は吹き替えの音量がかなり小さく効果音が入るとビックリするときがあります。
英語字幕のほうはバランスが良いので現在はこちらで見ています。

Reviewed in Australia on May 13, 2023
Worked as described. No issues encountered.