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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792156925
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0792156927
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 23, 2000
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 42650
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1967
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"A Taste of Armageddon," Ep. 23 - The U.S.S. Enterprise is caught in a bizarre interplanetary war fought entirely by computers, but with real deaths. "Space Seed," Ep. 24 - The U.S.S. Enterprise is commandeered by a 20th century genetic "superhuman," Khan (Ricardo Montalban), who along with his followers has survived for centuries aboard a "sleeper ship." This episode inspired the film "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."
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Volume 12 in the classic Star Trek series on DVD begins with "Space Seed," which introduced Khan Noonien Singh (a viperlike Ricardo Montalban) to Trek lore. The trouble begins when Kirk & crew discovers a derelict ship and its crew of 70 supermen aboard, all in suspended animation. Led by Khan, these strange people turn out to be the product of genetic experimentation in the 1990s and instigators of a so-called Eugenics War, i.e., the Third World War on Earth often mentioned on various Trek programs. Though displaced from his more violent time and place, Khan quickly overcomes his disorientation and shifts into conqueror mode, quickly overtaking the Enterprise with the aid of a comely Federation historian who is swooning at his feet. As any Trek fan knows, "Space Seed" inspired Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, regarded by many as the best of the Trek feature films.
"A Taste of Armageddon" is one of classic Trek's occasional, obvious metaphors for the absurdity of the then-cold war between East and West. Gene Lyons stars as a Federation ambassador named Fox, who boards the Enterprise to reach the planet Eminiar VII, where he hopes to negotiate a peace treaty with the inhabitants. Instead the crew of the Enterprise gets caught in the middle of an interplanetary war between Eminiar and neighboring planet Vendikar. The twist is that the war is being fought on computers, and compliant residents of those "destroyed" areas obediently report to disintegration chambers, where their "virtual" death is made literal. When the Enterprise is "hit" in one of these simulations, both the warlords of Eminiar VII and Ambassador Fox fully expect Capt. Kirk & crew to report to the disintegration center. The feisty Kirk has other plans, of course. And while the madness of this controlled armageddon makes a suitably surreal satire of the arms race in the 1960s, the story also evoked the endless, daily reports of body counts during the Vietnam war, with no resolution in sight. Aside from its parable aspect, however, the episode gave Kirk one of his earliest and most compelling scenes of Kirkian preachiness in a bold monologue about peace, reportedly written and rewritten numerous times by series producer and indispensable creative hand, Gene L. Coon. --Tom Keogh
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Every successful story has to have a great villain; Khan is physically and mentally superior and knows it, what more could you ask for? How can Kirk possibly defeat him? This is from the 60's so it's quite primitive TV viewing now, but it was ahead of it's time back then.
This is where the movie franchise got it's start. The second movie picks up the story line 20 years after the TV show.
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Star Trek episodes Space Seed and the Taste of Armageddon are on this DVD! These episodes are about War! I recommend "Space Seed" more because This is the episode that inspired the film, Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan! Space Seed tells the first appearance of Khan Noonian Singh (Ricardo Montalban) and his crew of supermen from the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s. They were rescued by Captain Kirk and his party form the starship Enterprise. they were in suspended animation on spaceship called the Botany ... Read More
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If you are picking and choosing the best volumes to keep, this one is indispensable. This volume is a must-have for "Space Seed" alone but thankfully, "A Taste of Armageddon" is also an excellent episode. In "Space Seed" we get an introduction to Khan Noonian Singh, the protagonist in what was to arguably become the best classic Trek movie ever. Ricardo Montalban turns in an excellent performance as Singh, a superhuman and the product of eugenics gone wrong awaken from a 200-year slumber.
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The very first STAR TREK tv series (1966-69) was broadcast on NBC on September 8, 1966. It was a DESILU production, a company put togther by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz ("I Love Lucy") when they bought RKO. It was Lucy who chose "Star Trek" along with other proposed tv series' and said to go with it.
I became a fan of Star Trek when the series was syndicated in the later 1970's. My father had it on. I liked the colorful sets and those red elevator doors, the sound effects were good to hear and ... Read More
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Eugenics selects the best strains for a sampling and promotes this survival strain in a limited population group. In "Space Seeds" the Enterprise encounters the "Botany Bay" spaceship, named after a penal colony. The Botany Bay has been a drift in space for centuries and barely operational. It nuclear fission reactors have managed to keep a group of "super humans" alive and, as Kirk and the crew beam on the Botany Bay, they active the revival routine, for the leader, Khan. The enterprise team immediately ... Read More
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