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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097361326641
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 8
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 05, 2008
Running Time: 1311 minutes
Sales Rank: 1937
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 08, 1966
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Product Description:
" Space...The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds to seek out new life and new civilizations to boldly go where no man has gone before !" The series is set in the 23rd century where Earth has survived World War III then moved on to explore the stars.System Requirements:Running Time: 1311 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097361326641 Manufacturer No: 132664
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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.
On the DVD
The remastered episodes are the highlight of the 2008 second-season release; like in season one, the reworked visual effects might irk purists but are an improvement overall, and some of the space exteriors are very exciting. It's not in high definition, however; season one was released in 2007 on two-sided combination HD DVD and standard DVD discs, which are now obsolete. Season two mimics the packaging, but is only standard-definition DVD, not Blu-ray. The picture, while obviously not high-definition quality, is still much improved over the 2004 DVD release. Special features here mostly mirror that 2004 set: 80 minutes of featurettes ("To Boldly Go" season recap, " Kirk, Spock & Bones: The Great Trio," "Star Trek's Divine Diva," "Designing the Final Frontier," and "Writer's Notebook: D.C. Fontana"), though missing from this set are the text commentaries on two episodes, the Red Shirt Logs, the production art, and the photo gallery. There are two new featurettes: "Star Trek's Favorite Moments," in which cast members of later Trek franchises and fans recall certain episodes, and "Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest, part 2," in which a Trek extra tells stories and shows some of his on-set home movies. And because season 2 includes "The Trouble with Tribbles," the set includes two bonus episodes: "More Tribbles, More Troubles" from the Animated Series and "Trials and Tribble-ations" from Deep Space Nine. Conveniently, all three Tribble-centric episodes are on the same disc, and include the bonus features from the earlier DVD releases (the commentary by writer David Gerrold on "More Troubles" and the two featurettes--"Uniting Two Legends" and "An Historic Endeavor"--from "Tribble-ations"). The bonus episodes were not remastered, and you can tell the difference when comparing the original Tribble episode on this set with the grainier footage that was used in the DS9 episode. A minor annoyance is that the discs are one-sided but appear to be two-sided, as if they had been designed for combo HD DVD again before a late change. That means the info on the disc is restricted to a ring around the middle, rather than a full label that could have listed the episodes on each disc; as is, they're only listed on the glossy "collector's data cards." And once again, the plastic shell is clunky and the disc spindles are way too tight. All in all, it's a nice package, especially if one doesn't already have the other Tribble episodes, but it feels like it's floating in a standard-definition limbo, stuck in the transition between HD DVD and Blu-ray. --David Horiuchi
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Rating:  -
I watched scratchy Star Trek reruns on UHF when I
was younger. The difference is...well, light-years!
These discs seem to beyond even the usual cleanup
effects. There is detail, but the color is spot-on
true to the cheesy props, and some of the added
footage, like in "Amok Time", is super. You can
see the pulp sci-fi art-work, the wardrobe details
in "A piece of the Action", the funky face pigments
on the 'aliens'. Sound is super. My daughter is ... Read More
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Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete Second Season (Remastered)
We LOVE it!! Fabulous job remastering! I would highly recommend it to Trekkies and non-Trekkies alike.
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Just got my season 2 and I love it! the box is small beautiful & elegant the new visual effects are very nice I think Star Trek needed the face left so that newer generation can actually watch it and understand its value this is a premium product and a must have for Star Trek fans and collectors the only down side is that I was expecting it to released in Blu-ray since season 1 was available on HD which unfortunately is gone anyhow DVD is good enough for me all in all excellent product that I highly ... Read More
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This was for my husband who is a fan, but like the TOS First Season set, the remastering is really nice with added effects and the clean up of the original is so good you can see seam lines on the actor's clothes and the colors are vibrant and accurate to when originally aired. This comes from a reliable source-my husband who is not only a professional costumer, but worked on Next Gen, and has been asked over the years to authenticate quite a few original costumes from the TOS era. The only complaint ... Read More
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I grew up on the original series. Kirk was my hero as a child. Over the years, with the many, many viewings of these three all-too-short seasons, they began to age and lose some of the vitality they once held. I recently bought the 2nd Season Remastered and I am about 2/3 of the way through viewing it. I am so pleased with it!
The clean up of the film, restoring the colors and crispness of the images, together with the recreation of the special effects of the ships, planets, etc., have turned ... Read More
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