Star Trek TOS Season 3 - Dec. 15th

[Wdm81]

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Star Trek Original Series Wraps Up on Blu-ray
Posted September 21, 2009 07:02 AM by Juan Calonge

Who would have thought it? The whole original Trek series is going to be released on Blu-ray within the year. 'Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2' is not even out until tomorrow, but Paramount Home Entertainment has already scheduled the third and final Season 3 for a BD release on December 15. A three-season pack is also set for December 15.

Special features include:
-"Where No Fan Has Gone Before": the restored, unaired alternate pilot episode
-David Gerrold Hosts "2009 Convention Coverage"
-Life Beyond Trek: Walter Koenig
-"The Anthropology of Star Trek" ComiCon Panel 209
-Chief Engineer's Log
-"The World of Rod Roddenberry" ComiCon 2009
-Memoir From Mr. Sulu
-Captain's Log: Bob Justman
-Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest: rare home movies and special memories Part 3
-"To Boldly Go..." Season Three
-Collectible Trek
-Star Trek's Impact
-Trailers
-BD-Live

How awesome is this news, Season 2 isn't even out yet and Paramount has already set a date for the final season, and it looks to be a great set. I wonder if the 3 season set will come in any special packaging or with other bonuses to entice fans to double dip?


Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3 Blu-ray
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3 Blu-ray Review

[P@t_Mtl]

A little too close together for me, I will have to wait until January to buy this third set, just too many darn things to buy in December

[Wdm81]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

A little too close together for me, I will have to wait until January to buy this third set, just too many darn things to buy in December

Yeah i don't know why Paramount decided to squeeze in the third season into 2009 and only 3 months after season 2 (i belive the gap between season 1 and 2 was 5 months), I was expecting not to see it until March or so of next year

I won't complain though, earlier is better and it'll make for a really great x-mas marathon

[DC_Street]

why release it during the non-holiday season when they can release it right before Christmas and make a lot more $$$ especially considering they have probably had the 2nd and 3rd season blu-rays completed the same time the 1st season came out. Why let it sit on a shelf and collect dust?

[benricci]

Originally Posted by DC_Street

why release it during the non-holiday season when they can release it right before Christmas and make a lot more $$$ especially considering they have probably had the 2nd and 3rd season blu-rays completed the same time the 1st season came out. Why let it sit on a shelf and collect dust?

+1

December 15th is the perfect time, as spouses across the country will be purchasing seasons 2 and 3 (or possibly the complete series) for their geeky partner...

[jason00]

When they released the Next Generation sets on dvd, they released both the season 6 and 7 sets in December, so this is nothing new for them.

I could hold off on this season, since the majority of the episodes are below average, but I will probably pick it up as an Xmas gift to myself.

[Wdm81]

Originally Posted by benricci

+1

December 15th is the perfect time, as spouses across the country will be purchasing seasons 2 and 3 (or possibly the complete series) for their geeky partner...

Or people like me will be picking it up for themselves to add a little joy to an otherwise lonely Christmas

No real humans love me but at least I can shrug off the x-mas blues with a bottle of romulan ale and the crew of the USS Enterprise

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Wdm81

Special features include:
-"Where No Fan Has Gone Before": the restored, unaired alternate pilot episode

Here is a clip of it from 'io9'. VERY interesting!

http://io9.com/5384574/star-treks-un...-movie-delayed


"Star Trek's second pilot — a longer version of "Where No Man Has Gone Before," introducing Captain Kirk — has never appeared anywhere, but it'll be on a new Blu-Ray set. Meanwhile, the next Trek movie is delayed one year.

According to TrekWeb, the Star Trek Season 3 Blu-Ray set will include the longer cut of "Where No Man Has Gone Before," which has never aired or appeared on DVD or VHS. (The Youtube video above includes all the sections that are different.) The original cut started with a view of our galaxy, while Captain Kirk talks poetically (in an "Enterprise Log," about Earth and its sun being specks of dust as the Enterprise ventures out of the galaxy. There's also a long scene of the crew stalking down a hallway as the ship goes on full alert, and a bit more Kirk/Spock banter. Not only that, but the opening and closing credits are totally different, with the televised "whoooo-ooooo" music being replaced by some music that sounds more like the show's other incidental tunes.

Given that the season three box set also includes season three, it's good that there's some incentive for fans to buy this thing.

Separately, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman told the Screenwriters Expo in L.A. that they think the next Star Trek movie is coming out in 2012, not 2011 as we've been told previously. Orci and Kurtzman had planned to have the screenplay done by Christmas, but with the new timeframe, they're going to take longer with it. As for what happens in Trek 2, says Kurtzman:

They're established now in the second movie and they're finally a crew so it will resemble what you see in terms of they are already who they are."


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[P@t_Mtl]

^^^

Looking forward to that new cut of Where No Man As Gone Before.

[dcowboy7]

Cool....never got any seasons yet so hope the 3 pack is a good deal.

[Grand Bob]

I'm glad it's coming out soon after season 2. I am looking forward to seeing a nice HD rendition of "The Tholian Web".

[Deciazulado]

Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3 Blu-ray Review

[Trekofile]

First off, the case is kind cool, slim w/ slip cover. The episode/disc listing is inside case, having to read through plastic w/ center spindle in the way, totally poor design.

But I'll take this case design over the complete garbage design of the ultra cheap thick cased(guaranteed to break easy hinge/clasp) plastic case on the previous TOS-R design.

The BD exclusive features/etc are a mixed bag.

1 previous featurette was jestisoned for some reason, whereas most all prior were ported over from the TOS-R release. The BD excl. featuettes w/ Rod Roddenberry/David Gerrold are lame and thankfully short. The iPhone BD feature only is a dissappointment, allowing access to items though brief, would have been nice to view.

I did view the first few minutes of the never aired alternate WNMHGB 2nd pilot. The beginning footage, although HD, looked like a boot vhs copy w/ the opening Kirk voiceover/nebula. Then it's gets better, but occassional film flaws are seen, as well as less impressive mono sound.

The not too hidden easter eggs(1 per disc) on discs 1-4 are too brief to be enjoyable or have time to find interesting for the most part.(Okuda's, Gerrold and 2 other who worked on remastered project). The menu's are new and cool, w/ skematrics of ship, episode snipbits.

Unfortunately my standard and Bluray players do NOT have angle buttons, but my HD playe does. I was trying to toggle back and forth to watch the orig. FX/remastered. I was able to use my pop-up menu button on my BD player and I had already began watching Spock's Brain rematsered version, and tried to toggle to original effects, and it simply wert to the original footage version of episode...unfortuantely in doing so, took me back to the beginning all over agan, instead of switching back and forth from new ot old....I got a menu to choose either, but not go back and forth while watching, as I assumed was an option. So essentially, you can view one or the other, not view either in tandum and go back and forth on the fly.

Where as this does allow you to view them as seen on tv before the upgrade, it also is painfully clear the quality of video and orig. mono makes the reality of what was avail. for years was clearly inferior to what the remastered/bluray quality can offer to step up the enjoyment factor and visually and audio-wise take what was once presented in sub-standard means to a beautifully and sharp clarity and enhanced manner never before made available.

My TOS-R/HD are gorgeous, but the BD format makes the image crisp, color are more vibrant & pop and generally polished and have more depth.

Since this episode has only 1 shot of newer fx(alien ship), not a good judgement on angle/toggling from older to newer FX. Since I don't have this button, not sure if I'll be able to take advantage of swtiching on the fly back and forth to compare each in real time. What is amazing is BD won over HD cause it holds more data. So, why have featuettes, text commentaries, etc been dropped from previous standard and TOS-R releases?
It means, I cannot simply get rid of my former editions in the interest of redundancy or shelf space, or lose what is on those.

When I read a review that season 1 jetisoned a PiP commentary on Galileo 7 ep. that my HD version has, it makes one scatch one's head in disbelief and what where they thinking?

When my HD player eventually dies, it will be a loss that this featurette will be lost forever. I have reviews where some people's BD player has a firmware issue with an icon appearing each time a newer FX appears to alert you to be able to toggle between older footage and new. I do not get this icon or prompt. When viewing The Enterprise Incident, it was sweet to see a mix of Romulan BOP and Klingon ships, previously not seen in the orig. film footage produced.

Again, I could not simply go back and forth while viewing(newer/remastered) same scene, it just returned to the very beginning of the ep. in the orig. film footage. Is this what those with an angle button on their remotes also get? Or can you branch in real time, rather than just going to the beginning of the episode watching the orig. footage?

[Rik1138]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

^^^

Looking forward to that new cut of Where No Man As Gone Before.

Here's a question for you guys... The audio for this is just 2-channel mono, nothing fancy... Do you still want DTSHD-MA lossless audio, or is 640k AC3 good enough for ya?

[Weirded Wonder]

The more I think about it there is something missing from these box sets. I'm talking about the blooper reels. I have a couple vhs tapes that I bought at conventions and would love to see some decent looking versions of these. Don't know if there is a rights issue with that or not, because they're outtakes.

[Wdm81]

Originally Posted by beardmoen

The more I think about it there is something missing from these box sets. I'm talking about the blooper reels. I have a couple vhs tapes that I bought at conventions and would love to see some decent looking versions of these. Don't know if there is a rights issue with that or not, because they're outtakes.

I would also love to see the blooper reels (i've never seen them) but if i recall they have never been added to any official VHS or DVD's because most of the actors (especially Nimoy) hated the fact that Rodenberry kept the bloopers and would show them privitely and ocasionaly at fan conventions. I remember a quote from Nimoy saying something like "Acting is a craft, if we make a mistake the audience has no right to see it"

So I would assume thats why the bloopers have never been officially released on any of the DVD's. Personally I think they shoyuld put them out, The bloopers on the Enterprise DVD's were funny and i've seen the bootleg bloopers from Star trek 4 and they are also not only hillarious, but also show how much fun this group of actors had while making the movie

Maybe someday we will see them on some super dooper release or new format, i mean i doubt the bloopers are the only thing Paramount has been holding back from TOS

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by Rik1138

Here's a question for you guys... The audio for this is just 2-channel mono, nothing fancy... Do you still want DTSHD-MA lossless audio, or is 640k AC3 good enough for ya?

The sound issue is never much of a big issue for me, I am always more concern with PQ then SQ so whatever it's in I will be find I suppose. I don't really know all the differences in sound anyway

[substance]

any detailed info on this boxset?
Is it going to have the pilot episode "The Cage" included?

The remastered edition season 3 DVD has the episode "The Cage" in 2 alternate versions. per amazon.com dvd set is 1320 mins and blu is 1350min. looks like it should have it.

I have the 1st and 2nd seasons, cant wait for the 3rd one to complete my collection.

[Rik1138]

Originally Posted by substance

any detailed info on this boxset?
Is it going to have the pilot episode "The Cage" included?

The remastered edition season 3 DVD has the episode "The Cage" in 2 alternate versions. per amazon.com dvd set is 1320 mins and blu is 1350min. looks like it should have it.

Yes, The Cage is included on the final disc of the set. Two versions:
The Cage (in HD with recreated special effects like the rest of the series)
7.1 DTS-HD MA lossless audio (and original mono)
63 minutes long

The Cage (Extended Version) (SD video)
2.0 mono DTS-HD MA lossless audio
71 minutes long (including intro from Gene Roddenberry)

[whbinder]

Well, it's not the best pic, but I guess technically we had advance warning on this. Here's a picture for the three disc set. You can see that the case is slimmer.