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This is the most bizarre way to release movie franchises... "Star Trek: The Motion Picture Trilogy" does not even include "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." If you do want it, you'll have to buy "Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection," which, according to the info on Amazon, doesn't even include Robert Wise's Director's Cut of "ST: TMP." (As everyone knows, the "theatrical version" of "ST: TMP" wasn't even finished when it showed. Who knows what weirdo actually wants to pay -- PAY! -- to see that incomplete film.)
The truth is that Paramount and other studios discovered from their DVD releases that people really will buy their products twice, sometimes three or four times, all they have to do is release the inadequate version first. They are not getting me this time, I've learned my lesson.
Paramount, let me know when the cake is ready.
Rating:  -
I have been awaiting the blu-ray edition of the wrath of kahn for some time now and they put it out in this affordable 3 movie set along with trek 3 and 4. I happily popped it in and although the sound and picture quality were fantastic, the added scenes from the last dvd release were missing once again. Clearly yet another example of paramount wanting to soak the fans for as much as they can. It was bad enough asking for well over $100 a season full retail for the different series when most other non trek seasonal series went for around $40-$60, they also like to sell the same fan as many copies as they can by adding a little more each time. So they have all the footage why not put out the complete extended movies with all the 2nd disc goodies...oh yea, they are currupt tribble farmers soaking us for all they can.
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The picture quality in Blue Ray is awesome...better sound as well...brings great movies back to life! D. Moore
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Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy [Blu-ray]
Fantastic in 1080p and the 7.1 surround sound is fabulous. Another plus is the exclusion of the first movie in the series which was a bit of a "bomb". The three movies in the trilogy are the best of all those filmed with the orginal televisio cast.
Rating:  -
Okay so I'm one of the people who was really upset to find out about Paramount's misleading tactic up upconverting a DVD and putting it out on a Blu-ray disc and calling it high definition. Since my one-star review of the six-disc box based on the process used by Paramount to master these, I found this trilogy on sale at my local blue and yellow retailer for $29.99. Hell, for $30.00 I figured Star Trek II is probably worth every penny of that and $10 each for any Blu-ray discs is a bargain so I jumped on the chance. Besides, I had already paid $35 for the laserdisc many years ago, and another $25 for the deluxe DVD version of STII so it's one I know I'll watch over and over again.
I am pleased to report that the quality isn't as bad as I expected. If you can find these movies, despite their being a DVD transfer, especially for around $10 a disc, I can make the recommendation to buy. I've given this trilogy three stars because it does look every bit as good as the DVD versions of I and III.
Star Trek II did look better than the other two, but the sound was really narrow bandwidth with very little bass or treble. THX pm3 studio reference monitors so I'm not an audio neophyte and the audio limitations on this disc were not a factor of my system. I hope they do another remaster of STII with some remastering of the audio because it sounded pretty poor.
In Star Trek III, was struck by the obvious special effects where I could clear see the cutouts around the film of the Enterprise as it approached space dock. This is the same effect one could see in the original Star Wars before they used computers to spruce up the effects. They used to literally cut film of the ships against a black background and lay that on top of film of the larger frame so you can clearly see the edges of the cutout around the ship as it moves. This movie really needs a computer face-lift and I doubt they'll ever give it that treatment but we can hope.
In short, if you find this trilogy for $30 and you don't already own the DVD versions, I think it's worth the investment. If you already own the DVDs and have to pay more than that, I'm not sure you're going to be thrilled with the investment.
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