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New for April 15, 2018:

Review: "Star Trek TNG: Unification"

Spock completes an epic transformation as Leonard Nimoy guest stars on Star Trek The Next Generation - a story with many outstanding highlights but which does not fully exploit the potential of its cross-over concept and is partially drowned in padding and filler.

New for April 13, 2018:

Review: "Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country"

A very classy, stylish film makes pertinent, healthy commentary about peacemaking... though sadly by backing into it from an overdose of vengeant opposition that ultimately hogs center-stage. But this is nonetheless a worthy conclusion to the Star Trek voyages of the original crew....

New for April 6, 2018:

Review: "Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier"

Our in-depth probe reveals the gloriously unique strengths and niggling problems of Star Trek 5, including what is REALLY missing from the ending, and where its philosophical influence might have the best impact....

Full In-depth Analysis Review:
"Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home"

Star Trek's first time travel big screen feature stays refreshingly clean, focusing instead on high philosophies and undeniably non-human species.
(First published on August 31, 2010)

Article:
"Star Trek Prime Directive: The Genesis Project"
Is there really any way that terraforming can obey the Prime Directive, if all matter is created out of a unified field of intelligence in the first place? Join us as we examine the implications of this subplot of Star Trek
feature films 2 and 3....

New for March 18, 2018:

Review: "Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock"

This second helping of the essence of the previous film organically advances the story and the characters, succeeding with a more personal focus. But thematically, charisma promotes a few false wisdoms, failing to challenge entrenched storytelling policies that deserve to be re-thought.

New for March 6, 2018:

Review:
"Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan"

Exposed: the secrets of turning a mediocre idea into a work of genius and a smash hit, through careful focus, timing, and application of taste.

New for February 16, 2018:

Review: "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"

Star Trek's first move to the big screen gets its core philosophy stunningly perfect and achieves a gorgeous level of audio-visual excellence. But is its sense of drama, adventure, and pace lagging too far behind?

New for February 15, 2017:

A New Beginning for Star Trek Reviews:
"The Cage"
"Where No Man Has Gone Before"
"The Corbomite Maneuver"
"Mudd's Women"
"The Enemy Within"
"The Man Trap"
"The Naked Time"
"Charlie X"
"Balance of Terror"
"The Conscience of the King"
"The Menagerie"
"Catspaw"

How well do these first episodes truly embody forward-thinking, optimistic philosophies of the future? The answers may not vindicate the same episodes many fans might at first suggest...

New for December 5, 2016:

More New TNG Reviews:
"Encounter at Farpoint (expanded)"
"11001001"
"The Child"
"Evolution"
"The Best of Both Worlds"
"Family"
"Darmok"
"Realm of Fear"
"Descent"
"Liaisons"
"Gambit"

Quite a number of these go against the grain of common fan opinion to present perspectives that many may not have thought of....


New for November 20, 2014:

"Star Trek TOS Music Catalogue" page listing all the details of the recent 15 CD box set, and providing a cue-by-cue comparison with the smattering of older CD releases available previously, whose track listings also receive a long overdue de-bunking....

New for October 10, 2014:

The Ron Jones Project Catalogue page detailing all the tracks and available mp3's from this glorious landmark 14-disc audio CD box set. Ron Jones' stunning compositions for the 1st four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation became the iconic fusion between classical and new-age music that flew under the radar (and the air-conditioning sound effects) until this set brought it all out into the daylight for our appreciation. Here, we rank the top few tracks from each disc as recommended downloads.

New for June 22, 2014:

"Star Trek Music Catalogue" page comparing the massive slew of new expanded Trek soundtracks with many of their older counterparts....


Settle back and read more in-depth Reviews for select Star Trek stories:

(Links to all review articles also appear further below in our chronological catalogue....)
Reviews for Deep Space Nine begin with the double-length pilot "Emissary", and continue throughout all seven years of the show.
The pilot for this Star Trek spin-off remains one of the greatest stories in the franchise,
and sets some precedents for how the following series would treat time and prime directive concerns.

Reviews: "Star Trek - Voyager Season One"

How well can a starship captain stick to her principles while isolated 70,000 light years from home and surrounded by hostile & mysterious alien races?

Our in-depth reviews begin with: "Caretaker", "Parallax", and "Time and Again"...
Plus, brief comments on all episodes in our Voyager Season One rankings

Reviews:
"Star Trek: Enterprise - Season One"

Star Trek loops in on itself with the novel idea of a prequel series, but is the concept too limiting for an ongoing show? Our reviews tackle the Temporal Cold War, the exploration of the Andorians, universal language translators, and the viability of non-character plot pawns....

"The map is not the territory," a profound truth releasing many pieces of time travel fiction from the artificial bonds their writers may have inflicted upon them. From finally honing in on successful philosophical models, to completely missing the point (and misusing the freedom) of getting such things right, each of these "Next Generation" feature films earned a full in-depth analysis review:
Star Trek 7 - Generations
Star Trek 8 - First Contact
Star Trek 9 - Insurrection
Star Trek 10 - Nemesis
and Star Trek 11

New for May 29, 2013:

In-depth Analysis Review:
"Star Trek 12: Into Darkness"
There's some healthy atmosphere, mystery, concepts, and plot twists in this one, in addition to a good cast.... but is it enough to salvage the film from its over-accelerated re-run status? Even if you haven't yet been to the theatres to see this one, you probably still have already seen it before.

New for March 24, 2017:

The instincts of writer/producer Gene Coon and some of his fellow staff writers come under closer scrutiny in these late season 1 stories....

"A Taste of Armageddon"
"Errand of Mercy", and
"Operation -- Annihilate!"

plus:
"Star Trek Season One Rankings"



Chronological Catalogue of Reviews and Products:

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The Original Series

(1966-69)

Season One (1966-1967)

  29 episodes @ 51 minutes

Individual story reviews:

-"The Cage"
-"Where No Man Has Gone Before"
-"The Corbomite Maneuver"
-"Mudd's Women"
-"The Enemy Within"
-"The Man Trap"
-"The Naked Time"
-"Charlie X"
-"Balance of Terror"
-"The Conscience of the King"
-"The Menagerie"
-"The Alternative Factor"
-"Tomorrow is Yesterday"
-"The Return of the Archons"
-"A Taste of Armageddon"
-"Errand of Mercy"
-"The City On the Edge of Forever"
-"Operation -- Annihilate!"

-Season One Rankings


Review Articles:

-Time Travel Season One
-Prime Directive Origins

8-disc DVD Original First Season Presentation

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Features include:

  • original restored broadcast versions of the 29 episodes.
  • "The Birth of a Timeless Legacy" documentary (24 min.)
  • Text only commentary by Denise & Michael Okuda on "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Menagerie Parts 1 & 2", and "The Conscience of the King".
  • "To Boldly Go" featurette (19 min.) discussing
    "The Naked Time", "City on the Edge of Forever",
    "The Devil in the Dark", and "The Squire of Gothos".
  • "Reflections on Spock" featurette (12 min.)
  • "Sci-Fi Visionaries" writing featurette (17 min.)
  • "Life Beyond Trek: William Shatner" featurette (10 min.)
  • "Red Shirt Logs" Easter Eggs (7 min. total)
  • Photo Log (still menus)
  • Original Trailers for every episode (1 min. each)
Blu-ray Remastered versions - CGI optional

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray features add:

  • option to watch episodes with original or new CGI effects.
  • Spacelift: Transporting Trek into the 21st Century featurette (HD, 20 min.) covering the restoration, CGI effects, and music upgrades.
  • Starfleet Access - Okuda interactive trivia plus picture-in-picture interviews on 6 episodes:
    • Where No Man Has Gone Before
    • The Menagerie Part 1
    • The Menagerie Part 2
    • Balance of Terror
    • Space Seed
    • Errand of Mercy
  • Behind-the-scenes 8mm home movies (HD, 13 min.) from Billy Blackburn (Lt. Hadley / Gorn)
  • Kiss 'N tell: Romance in the 23rd Century (8 min.)
  • Interactive Enterprise Inspection (HD)
  • plus all documentaries, featurettes, and episode promos from the standard DVD sets listed to the left.

Season Two (1967-1968)

  26 episodes @ 51 minutes

Individual story reviews:

-"Catspaw"
-"Friday's Child"
-"Who Mourns for Adonais?"
-"The Apple"
-"Mirror, Mirror"
-"Bread and Circuses"
-"A Private Little War"
-"The Gamesters of Triskelion"
-"A Piece of the Action"
-"Patterns of Force"
-"The Omega Glory"
-"Assignment: Earth"


Review Articles:

-Rise of the Prime Directive

7-disc DVD Original Second Season Presentation

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

Standard DVD Extras include:

  • To Boldly Go... Season Two featurette (20 min.)
  • Designing the Final Frontier featurette (22 min.)
  • Writer's Notebook: D.C. Fontana (8 min.)
  • Kirk, Spock, & Bones: Star Trek's Great Trio (7 min.)
  • Nichelle Nichols - Divine Diva (13 min.)
  • Life Beyond Trek: Leonard Nimoy (12 min.)
  • Text Commentaries on "Amok Time" and
    "The Trouble with Tribbles"
  • "Red Shirt Logs" Easter Eggs (8 min. total)
  • Production Art & Photo Log (still menus)
  • Original Trailers for every episode (1 min. each)
Blu-ray Remastered versions - CGI optional

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray features add:

  • option to watch original or new CGI effects.
  • Audio commentary on "The Trouble with Tribbles"
    by writer David Gerrold.
  • Starfleet Access - Okuda interactive trivia plus picture-in-picture interviews on 2 episodes:
    • "Amok Time"
    • "The Trouble With Tribbles".
  • Behind-the-scenes 8mm home movies part 2 (HD, 12 min.) from Billy Blackburn (Lt. Hadley / DeForest Kelley stand-in)
  • Star Trek TOS on Blu-ray (HD, 10 min.) restoration and upgrade featurette.
  • Star Trek's Favorite Moments (SD, 17 min.)
  • Mobile-Blu Content-To-Go Exclusives: "Creating Chekov", "Listening to the Actors" "Writing Spock" "Spock's Mother"
  • "More Tribbles, More Troubles" with commentary from the animated "Season 4" DVD box set.
  • "Trials and Tribble-ations" in HD this time, with
    two featurettes from the DS9 season 5 DVD box set.
  • plus all documentaries, featurettes, and episode promos from the standard DVD sets listed to the left.

Season Three (1968-1969)

  24 episodes @ 51 minutes
(plus a restored version of
the original pilot "The Cage")

Individual story reviews:

-"Spectre of the Gun"
-"Elaan of Troyius"
-"The Paradise Syndrome"
-"The Empath"
-For the World is Hollow...
-"All Our Yesterdays"


Review Articles:

-Prime Directive Season Three

7-disc DVD Original Third Season Presentation

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

Standard DVD Extras include:

  • To Boldly Go... Season Three featurette (22 min.)
  • Life Beyond Trek: Walter Koenig (11 min.)
  • Chief Engineer's Log (6 min.)
  • Memoir from Mr. Sulu (9 min.)
  • Star Trek's Impact (9 min.)
  • Original Prop recreation featurette (7 min.)
  • Text Commentaries on "The Savage Curtain" and "Turnabout Intruder"
  • "Red Shirt Logs" Easter Eggs (19 min. total)
  • Production Art (still menus)
  • Original Trailers for every season 3 episode (1 min.@)
  • "The Cage" (all colour, 63 min.)
  • "The Cage" (BW/colour mix + Gene's intro, 71 min.)
Blu-ray Remastered versions - CGI optional

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray features include:

  • option to watch original or new CGI effects.
  • "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (unaired version, HD)
  • Captain's Log: Bob Justman (HD, 10 min.)
  • Behind-the-scenes 8mm home movies part 3 (HD, 11 min.) from Billy Blackburn (Lt. Hadley / DeForest Kelley stand-in)
  • David Gerrold hosts "2009 Convention Coverage" (HD, 20 min.)
  • "The Anthropology of Star Trek" ComiCon Panel 2009 (HD, 4 min.)
  • "The World of Rod Roddenberry" ComiCon 2009 (HD, 7 min.)
  • BD Live Portal
  • main featurettes from previous releases
  • "The Cage" pilot versions from previous releases

"Season Four" (1973)
The Animated Series

  22 episodes @ 25 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-
"Yesteryear"
-"The Magicks of Megas-Tu"
-"The Time Trap"
-"Bem"
-Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth
-"The Counter-Clock Incident"


Review Articles:

-Time Travel Season Four
-Prime Directive Season Four

4-disc Standard DVD Presentation

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
(slimline)

original
DVD Extras include:
  • "Drawn to the Final Frontier: The Making of Star Trek The Animated Series" featurette (24 min.) with producer Lou Scheimer, director Hal Sutherland, writers D.C. Fontana, David Gerrold,
    Larry Brody, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Mike Sussman, and others...
  • Audio Commentary by writer David Gerrold on his episodes "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "Bem".
  • Audio Commentary by co-writer David Wise on his episode "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth".
  • Text Commentaries by Michael and Denise Okuda on "Yesteryear", "The Eye of the Beholder" and
    "The Counter-Clock Incident"
  • "What's the Star Trek Connection?" (6 min.)
  • Show history text pages
  • Menu-based Storyboard Gallery for
    writer Walter Koenig's "The Infinite Vulcan".

NEW for December 13, 2016:

The Roddenberry Vault - Blu Ray only

  12 episodes @ 51 minutes
This collection is available on Blu Ray only. It features 12 episodes as originally edited and broadcast. 11 of the episodes feature optional isolated music tracks ("The City on the Edge of Forever" is the episode that does not). I'd be going nuts for those, if only I didn't already have all the music thanks to this 15-CD set. Still, the music tracks are nice to have in this format, right on the episodes. There are apparently small bits of lost footage incorporated into the package's lengthy documentaries, but many fans were disappointed with the small quantity of this type of material. Really, I'd recommend this for those interested in the documentaries/featurettes, audio commentaries, and music tracks, but not for deleted scenes or lost footage.


Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

  • Episodes:

  • isolated music tracks on all episodes except "City on the Edge..."
  • NEW audio commentaries on:
    • 25. This Side of Paradise, with writer Dorothy D.C. Fontana and DS9's Gabrielle Stanton
    • 28. The City on the Edge of Forever, with
      Blu-ray producer Roger Lay Jr., Access Hollywood's Scott Mantz, and fan Mark A. Altman
    • 42. The Trouble With Tribbles, with writer David Gerrold and Enterprise's David A. Goodman
  • Documentaries and Featurettes:
    • Inside the Roddenberry Vault (Parts 1-3)
    • Star Trek: Revisiting a Classic
    • Strange New Worlds: Visualizing the Fantastic
    • Swept Up: Snippets from the Cutting Room Floor

The First Six Movies

(1979-1991)
Summit Six-Pack
Blu-ray U.S.

Summit Six-Pack
Blu-ray Canada

Summit Six-Pack
Blu-ray U.K.

Also includes exclusive bonus 7th disc, with
"The Captain's Summit" discussion (HD, 70 min.) between
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy,
Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, and Whoopi Goldberg.

Star Trek One:
The Motion Picture

  Director's Cut: 136 min.

-In-depth Analysis Review

Director's Cut 2-disc DVD Special Collector's Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Features include:

  • Director's cut (2001) with new CGI shots (136 min.)
  • Audio commentary by director Robert Wise,
    actor Stephen Collins (Decker), VFX geniuses
    Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra, and
    composer Jerry Goldsmith.
  • Text commentary by scenic artist Mike Okuda.
  • "Phase II: The Lost Enterprise" pre-production
    featurette (13 min.)
  • "A Bold New Enterprise" making-of doc. (30 min.)
  • "Redirecting the Future" on 2001 upgrades (14 min.)
  • Deleted & alternate scenes (37 min.)
  • Trailers & TV spots (1979 & 2001, 13 min.)
  • Storyboard archives (still menus)
Theatrical version 1-disc Blu-ray

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features include:

  • Original 1979 theatrical cut
  • Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda,
    Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
    and Daren Dochterman
  • Library Computer
  • The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture
  • Special Star Trek Reunion
  • SCISEC 1: Mystery Behind Voyager
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Trailers and TV Spots
  • BD-Live--Star Trek I.Q
The blu-ray and director's cut DVD versions of
this first movie are virtually completely different
packages with no overlapping content.

Star Trek Two:
The Wrath of Khan

  Director's Cut: 116 min.

-In-depth Analysis Review

Director's Cut 2-disc DVD Special Collector's Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Features include:

  • Director's cut with additional scenes (116 min.)
  • Audio commentary by director Nicholas Meyer.
  • Text commentary by scenic artist Mike Okuda.
  • "The Captain's Log" making of featurette (27 min.)
  • "Designing Khan" (the film, not the man) (24 min.)
  • "The Visual Effects of..." (18 min.)
    with supervisor Ken Ralston.
  • Original interviews (11 min.)
  • ST Universe: Novel Approach (29 min.)
  • Theatrical Trailer (2 min.)
  • Storyboard archives (still menus)
Theatrical version 1-disc Blu-ray

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features include:

  • original 1982 theatrical cut
  • Commentary by Nicholas Meyer and Manny Coto
  • James Horner: Composing Genesis HD
  • Collecting Star Trek's Movie Relics HD
  • A Tribute to Ricardo Montalban HD
  • SCISEC 2: The Mystery Behind Ceti Alpha 6 HD
  • Library Computer (Blu-ray Exclusive)
  • Star Trek I.Q. (BD-Live)
  • Farewell
  • Theatrical Trailer HD

Most featurettes from the 2-disc DVD are included.
A re-jigged version of the original solo audio
commentary by Meyer may be included on some
post-2009 editions of the movie in some regions,
but remember this was recorded for a different
version of the film with a different length.

Star Trek Three:
The Search for Spock

  105 minutes

-In-depth Analysis Review:
The Search for Spock

-Prime Directive:
The Genesis Project

2-disc DVD Special Collector's Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Features include:

  • Audio commentary by writer Harve Bennett,
    director Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock),
    actress Robin Curtis (Lt. Saavik), and
    director of photography Charles Correll.
  • "The Captain's Log" making-of retrospective (26 min.) adding William Shatner (Captain Kirk),
    Christopher Lloyd (Kruge), and
    associate producer Ralph Winter.
  • "Space Docks..." model effects featurette (28 min.)
  • Klingon language with Marc Okrand (21 min.)
  • costume design featurette (12 min.)
  • "Terraforming and the Prime Directive" (26 min.)
  • Okuda text commentary
  • storyboard and photo archives
  • theatrical trailer
  • easter egg (7 min.) with Ken Ralston
1-disc Blu-ray

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features add:

  • Commentary by Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor
  • Library Computer
  • Industrial Light & Magic: Visual Effects of Trek
  • Spock: The Early Years
  • Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
  • SCISEC 003: Mystery Behind the Vulcan Katra Transfer
  • BD-Live--Star Trek I.Q.

Star Trek Four:
The Voyage Home

  118 minutes

-In-depth Analysis Review

2-disc DVD Special Collector's Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Extras include:

  • Audio commentary by William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and director Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock).
  • Okuda text commentary
  • "Future's Past: A Look Back" making-of featurette (27 min.) adding writers Harve Bennett and Nick Meyer, producers Ralph Winter and Kirk Thatcher (Punk on Bus), and actress Catherine Hicks (Gillian).
  • "On Location" production featurette (7 min.)
  • "Below-the-Line: Sound Design" featurette (12 min.)
  • Dailies Deconstruction (4 min.)
  • 2 visual effects featurettes
  • original interviews of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy).
  • Time Travel: The Art of the Possible
  • The Language of Whales
  • A Vulcan Primer
  • Kirk's Women featurette
  • Tribute to Mark Lenard (Sarek)
  • Theatrical trailer (2 min.)
1-disc Blu-ray

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features add:

  • Commentary by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman
  • Library Computer
  • Pavel Chekov’s Screen Moments
  • Star Trek: Three-Picture Saga;
  • Star Trek for a Cause;
  • SCISEC 004: The Whale Probe
  • BD-Live--Star Trek I.Q.

Star Trek Five:
The Final Frontier

  106 minutes

-In-depth Analysis Review

2-disc DVD Special Collector's Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Extras include:

  • Audio commentary by director William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and Liz Shatner author of "Captain's Personal Account of the Making of Star Trek V".
  • "The Journey" making-of featurette (29 min.) adding producers Harve Bennett and Ralph Winter, actor Leonard Nimoy, screenwriter David Loughery, designer Herman Zimmerman, cinematographer Andrew Lazslo, scenic artist Michael Okuda, concept artist John Eaves, science advisor Dr. Charles Beichman.
  • 5 additional production items
  • A Tribute to designer Herman Zimmerman (19 min.)
  • Original Interview: William Shatner (15 min.)
  • Cosmic Thoughts (13 min.) w. author Ray Bradbury.
  • That Klingon Couple (13 min.) interview of Todd Bryant (Captain Klaa) and Spice Williams (Vixis).
  • "A Green Future?" (9 min.) on preserving Yosemite park for the 23rd century;
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Okuda text commentary
  • storyboard and photo archives
  • Trailers and TV Spots
1-disc Blu-ray

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features add:

  • Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Daren Dochterman
  • Library Computer
  • Star Trek Honors NASA
  • Hollywood Walk of Fame: James Doohan
  • SCISEC 005: Nimbus III
  • BD-Live--Star Trek I.Q.

Star Trek Six:
The Undiscovered Country

  113 minutes

-In-depth Analysis Review

2-disc DVD Special Collector's Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Extras include:

  • Commentary by director Nicholas Meyer and screenwriter Denny Martin Flinn.
  • "The Perils of Peacemaking" featurette (26 min.) on how parallels to current events helped trigger the making of the movie...
  • "Stories From Star Trek VI" 6-part making-of documentary (57 min.), adding William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Spock), Christopher Plummer (General Chang), producer Ralph Winter, and composer Cliff Eidelman.
  • Okuda text commentary
  • "Conversations With Nick Meyer" interview (9 min.)
  • "Klingons: Conjuring the Legend" (21 min.), with Plummer, William Campbell (Koloth), Michael Dorn (Worf), make-up designer Michael Westmore, costume designer Bob Blackman, and set designer Lee Cole.
  • "Federation Operatives" on actors with multiple Trek roles (5 min.)
  • "Penny's Toy Box" prop featurette (6 min.)
  • "Together Again" featurette (5 min.) on the history between Shatner and Plummer.
  • A Tribute to DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy) (13 min.)
  • Original 1991 Interviews (44 min. total) of Shatner, Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan (Scotty), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), George Takei (Sulu), Walter Koenig (Chekov), and Iman (Martia).
  • Trailers (4 min.)
  • 1991 Convention Presentation by Nick Meyer (5 min.)
  • storyboard and photo archives
1-disc Blu-ray

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features add:

  • Commentary by Larry Nemecek and Ira Steven Behr
  • Library Computer
  • Tom Morga: Alien Stuntman
  • To Be Or Not To Be: Klingons and Shakespeare
  • SCISEC 006: Praxis
  • BD-Live--Star Trek I.Q.



The Next Generation

(1987-1994)

Season One (1987-1988)

  pilot movie @ 92 minutes
+ 24 episodes @ 46 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"Encounter at Farpoint"
-"Code of Honor"
-"Where No One Has Gone Before"
-"Justice"
-"The Battle"
-"Too Short a Season"
-"Angel One"
-"11001001"
-"Home Soil"
-"Symbiosis"
-"We'll Always Have Paris"


Review Article:

-Evolution of the Prime Directive

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
(regular)
7-disc DVD set
DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

DVD Extras include:

  • "The Beginning" origins Featurette
  • "Selected Crew Analysis" cast Featurette
  • "Making of a Legend" production featurette
  • "Memorable Missions" key episode featurette
Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.


Blu-ray


6-disc Blu-ray box set

Blu-ray features add:

  • Energized! Taking TNG to the Next Level (HD, 23 min.) detailing the high-definition restoration for Blu-ray.
  • Stardate Revisited: The Origin of TNG (HD, 93 min.) with
    Patrick Stewart (Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Riker),
    Brent Spiner (Data), LeVar Burton (Geordi), and
    producers Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman,
    Robert Justman, and D.C. Fontana.
    • Part 1: Inception
    • Part 2: Launch
    • Part 3: The Continuing Mission
  • Gag Reel (8 min., standard definition)
  • Star Trek: TNG Archives: The Launch
  • Promos for each individual episode
  • plus, all featurettes from the DVD version.

Season Two (1988-1989)

  22 episodes @ 46 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"The Child"
-"The Measure of a Man"
-"The Dauphin"
-"Time Squared"
-"Pen Pals"
-"Q Who"
-Season Two Top Ranking

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
(regular)
6-disc DVD set
DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

DVD Extras include:

  • Mission Overview (14 min.)
  • Selected Crew Analysis
  • Starfleet Archives
  • Departmental Briefing: Production (17 min.)
  • Departmental Briefing: Memorable Missions (16 min.)
Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
Dec. 4, 2012.
Blu-ray Canada


NEW for
Dec. 4, 2012.
Blu-ray U.K.


NEW for
Dec. 10, 2012.
5-disc Blu-ray box set

Blu-ray features add:

  • 2 Audio Commentaries:
    • "The Measure of a Man" by writer Melinda Snodgrass and scenic/graphic artists Mike and Denise Okuda.
    • "Q Who" by director Rob Bowman, visual effects supervisor Dan Curry, and the Okudas.
  • TNG 25th Anniversary Cast Reunion (HD, 62 min.) with
    Patrick Stewart (Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Riker),
    LeVar Burton (Geordi), Michael Dorn (Worf),
    Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Troi),
    Brent Spiner (Data), and Wil Wheaton (Wesley).
  • "Making It So: Continuing The Next Generation" (HD 2-part documentary, 81 min.)
  • Energized! Season Two Tech Update (HD, 8 min.)
  • Gag Reel (HD, 10 min.)
  • Deleted Scenes
  • "The Measure of a Man" HD extended version (57 min.) and hybrid version (56 min.)
  • Promos for each individual episode
  • plus, all featurettes from the DVD version.

Season Three (1989-1990)

  26 episodes @ 45 minutes

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and crew hit their stride in this third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and truly began to shine as only they could. Watch all 26 ground-breaking episodes, culminating in the season cliffhanger that many regard as the first half of the best Next Generation story of all time.


Individual story reviews:

-"Evolution"

-"Who Watches the Watchers?"
(Prime Directive Special)

-"The Vengeance Factor"
-"The Hunted"
-"The High Ground"

-"Yesterday's Enterprise"
-"Captain's Holiday"
-"The Best of Both Worlds"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
(regular)
7-disc DVD set
DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

DVD Extras include 4 featurettes:

  • Season 3 "Mission Overview" (17 min.)
  • Crew Changes (14 min.)
  • Dept. Briefings: Production (20 min.)
  • Dept. Briefings: Memorable Missions (13 min.)
These extras feature interviews by cast and crew discussing favourite memories, cast input and response to character development, and new writer Michael Piller's insights into episodes' story mechanics.
Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
April 30, 2013.
Blu-ray Canada


NEW for
April 30, 2013.
Blu-ray U.K.


NEW for
April 29, 2013.

6-disc Blu-ray box set

Additional Blu-ray Bonus Features include:

  • 5 Audio commentaries including:
    • "The Bonding" with writer Ronald D. Moore and scenic/graphic artists Mike and Denise Okuda.
    • "Yesterday's Enterprise" with Moore, the Okudas, and co-writer Ira Steven Behr.
    • "Yesterday's Enterprise" with director David Carson.
    • "The Offspring" with writer René Echevarria and the Okudas.
    • "Sins of the Father" with Moore, the Okudas, and visual effects technician Dan Curry.
  • "Assimilating the Next Gen." (HD) 3-part season three making-of documentary (90 min. total), with Moore, Behr, Echevarria, Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Brent Spiner (Data), Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher), Michael Dorn (Worf).
  • "Inside the Writers' Room" (HD) roundtable interview (71 min.) with Moore, Echevarria, Brannon Braga, and Naren Shankar.
  • A Tribute to head writer Michael Piller (HD, 14 min.)
  • Gag Reel (HD, 9 min.)
  • In Memoriam: David Rappaport (5 min.)
  • Promos for each individual episode
  • plus, all featurettes from the DVD version.

The Best of Both Worlds (1990)

  2 episodes @ 45 minutes

(The season three cliffhanger and season four opener combine to form a single self-contained story)


In-depth analysis review:
-"The Best of Both Worlds"

Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
April 30, 2013.
Blu-ray Canada


NEW for
April 30, 2013.
Blu-ray U.K.


NEW for
April 29, 2013.

Exclusive Blu-ray Extras include:

  • Audio commentary by director Cliff Bole,
    actress Elizabeth Dennehy (Commander Shelby),
    and scenic/graphic artists Michael and Denise Okuda.
  • "Regeneration: Engaging the Borg" making-of featurette
    (30 min.) with Dennehy, Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard),
    Brent Spiner (Data), Michael Dorn (Worf),
    Marina Sirtis (Troi), and others.
  • Gag Reel (5 min.)
  • Episode promos

Season Four (1990-1991)

  26 episodes @ 45 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"The Best of Both Worlds"
-"Family"
-"Remember Me"
-"Clues"
-"First Contact"
-"The Drumhead"
-"Half a Life"
-"Redemption"


Review Article:

-Prime Directive TNG Season 4

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
(regular)
7-disc DVD set
DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

DVD Extras include 5 featurettes:

  • Mission Overview (16 min.)
  • Selected Crew Analysis (17 min.)
  • Departmental Briefing: Production (16 min.)
  • New Life and New Civilizations (13 min.)
  • Chronicles From the Final Frontier (18 min.)
Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
July 30, 2013.
Blu-ray Canada


NEW for
July 30, 2013.
Blu-ray U.K.


NEW for
July 29, 2013.

Blu-ray features add:

  • 2 Audio Commentaries:
    • "Brothers" by director Rob Bowman and scenic/graphic artists Mike and Denise Okuda.
    • "Reunion" by writers Ronald D. Moore and
      Brannon Braga, and the Okudas.
  • Multi-part documentary "Relativity: The Family Saga of ST:TNG" (HD, 60 min.) with Patrick Stewart (Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Brent Spiner (Data), Michael Dorn (Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher), Wil Wheaton (Wes), Ron Moore, and make-up artist Michael Westmore.
  • In Conversation: The Art Department (HD, 65 min.) with designer Hermann Zimmerman, the Okudas, make-up artist Doug Drexler, and visual effects supervisor Dan Curry.
  • Gag Reel (HD)
  • Deleted Scenes (HD)
  • Archival Mission Log: Select Historical Data
  • Archival Mission Log: Inside the Star Trek Archives
  • Episodic Promos
  • plus, all featurettes from the DVD version.

Redemption (1991)

  2 episodes @ 45 minutes

(The season four cliffhanger and season five opener combine to form a single self-contained story)

-"Redemption" story review


Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
July 30, 2013.
Blu-ray Canada
[import]

multilingual

NEW for
July 30, 2013.

Blu-ray features include:

  • Audio Commentary by writer Ronald D. Moore and scenic artists Mike & Denise Okuda.
  • "Survive and Succeed: An Empire at War" documentary (30 min.) including Michael Dorn (Worf), Robert O'Reilly (Gowron), Gwynyth Walsh (B'Etor), Ron Moore, and others.
  • Episodic Promos
  • with English, German, French, and Japanese audio tracks.

Season Five (1991-1992)

  26 episodes @ 45 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"Redemption"
-"Darmok"
-"Ensign Ro"
-"Unification"
-"A Matter of Time"
-"The Masterpiece Society"
-"Ethics"
-"The Outcast"
-"Cause and Effect"
-"The Perfect Mate"
-"I, Borg"
-"Time's Arrow"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
(regular)
7-disc DVD set
DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

DVD Extras include:

  • Mission Overview: Year Five
  • Production & Visual Effects
  • Memorable Missions: Year Five
  • A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry
  • "Intergalactic Guest Stars" clip
  • "Alien Speak" alien writings and speech
Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
Nov. 19, 2013.
Blu-ray Canada


NEW for
Nov. 19, 2013.
Blu-ray U.K.


NEW for
Nov. 18, 2013.

Blu-ray features add:

  • 4 Audio Commentaries:
    • "Cause and Effect" by writer Brannon Braga and moderator Seth MacFarlane.
    • "The First Duty" by writers Ronald D. Moore and
      Naren Shankar.
    • "I, Borg" by writer René Echevarria and scenic/graphic artists Mike and Denise Okuda.
    • "The Inner Light" by co-writer Morgan Gendel and the Okudas.
  • Two-part documentary "Requiem: A Remembrance of ST:TNG" (HD, 59 min. total) with 1981 interview clips of the late Gene Roddenberry, plus Patrick Stewart (Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Marina Sirtis (Troi), Michael Dorn (Worf), writers Moore, Braga, and Shankar, and executive producer Rick Berman.
  • In Conversation: The Music of ST:TNG (HD, 65 min.) with composers Ron Jones, Dennis McCarthy, and Jay Chattaway, and host Jeff Bond.
  • Deleted Scenes (HD)
  • Gag Reel (HD)
  • Episodic Promos
  • plus, all featurettes from the DVD version.


Also:
The mid-season 5 two-part story "Unification", uniting
Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Brent Spiner,
Mark Lenard, and Denise Crosby.
Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
Nov. 19, 2013.
Blu-ray Canada


NEW for
Nov. 19, 2013.

Bonus Features include:

  • Audio Commentary by co-writer Jeri Taylor and scenic/graphic artists Mike and Denise Okuda.
  • "From One Generation to the Next" featurette (17 min.)
  • Deleted Scene (2 min.)
  • Episodic Promos

Season Six (1992-1993)

  26 episodes @ 45 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"Time's Arrow"
-"Realm of Fear"
-"The Quality of Life"
-"Chain of Command"
-"Tapestry"
-"Suspicions"
-"Rightful Heir"
-"Timescape"
-"Descent"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
(regular)
7-disc DVD set
DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

DVD Extras include:

  • Mission Overview: Year Six (17 min.)
  • Crew Profile: Lt. Commander Data (18 min.)
  • Bold New Directions (17 min.)
  • Dept. Briefing: Production (15 min.)
  • Dept. Briefing: Dan Curry Profile (19 min.)
  • Select Historical Data (17 min.)
  • Starfleet Archives: Sets and Props (12 min.)
  • Bonus Trailers: Star Trek Nemesis
    & Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on DVD
Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
June 3, 2014.
Blu-ray Canada
Import

NEW for
June 3, 2014.

Season 6 (Bilingual)

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray features add:

  • 3 Audio Commentaries:
    • "Relics" by writer Ronald D. Moore and
      scenic/graphic artists Mike and Denise Okuda.
    • "Tapestry" by Moore and the Okudas.
    • "Frame of Mind" by director James L. Conway and director of photography Jonathan West.
  • Three-part documentary "Beyond the Five Year Mission - The Evolution of ST:TNG" (HD, 84 min. total) with all seven regular castmembers, plus Colm Meaney (O'Brien),
    Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), John de Lancie (Q), writer/producers Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Ronald D. Moore, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar, Frank Abatemarco, director of photography Jonathan West, and many others.
  • Gag Reel (HD, 5 min.)
  • Deleted Scenes (HD)
  • Episodic Promos
  • plus, all featurettes from the DVD version.
  • Main audio tracks in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.


Also:
The mid-season 6 two-part story "Chain of Command",
with Patrick Stewart, David Warner, and Ronny Cox.
Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
June 3, 2014.
Blu-ray Canada


NEW for
June 3, 2014.

Bonus Features include:

  • Audio Commentary by Ronny Cox (Captain Jellicoe),
    director of photography Jonathan West, and
    scenic/graphic artists Mike and Denise Okuda.
  • "The Privilege of Rank" making-of featurette (28 min.) with Cox, Patrick Stewart (Picard),
    Natalia Nogulich (Admiral Nechayev), and
    writers Frank Abatemarco & Ronald D. Moore.
  • Deleted Scenes (13 min.)
  • Episodic Promos
  • Audio and subtitles in English, German, and French

Season Seven (1993-1994)

  26 episodes @ 45 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"Descent"
-"Liaisons"
-"Gambit"
-"Parallels"
-"Homeward"
-"Thine Own Self"
-"Journey's End"
-"Firstborn"
-"All Good Things..."

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
(regular)
7-disc DVD set
DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

DVD Extras include:

  • Mission Overview: Year Seven
  • A Captain's Tribute
  • Departmental Briefing: Production
  • Starfleet Moments and Memories
  • Special Profiles
  • Inside Starfleet Archives: Dressing the Future
  • The Making of "All Good Things..."
Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
Dec. 2, 2014.
Blu-ray Canada


NEW for
Dec. 2, 2014.
Blu-ray U.K.


NEW for
Dec. 15, 2014.

Blu-ray features add:

  • 3 Audio Commentaries:
    • "Parallels" by writer Brannon Braga (2008).
    • "Lower Decks" by co-writer René Echevarria and
      scenic/graphic artists Mike and Denise Okuda.
    • "Preemptive Strike" by the Okudas and
      writers René Echevarria and Naren Shankar.
  • Three-part documentary "The Sky's the Limit - The Eclipse of ST:TNG" (HD, 90 min. total) with all seven regular castmembers, plus Wil Wheaton (Wesley), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Natalija Nogulich (Admiral Nechayev), and John de Lancie (Q), writer/producers Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore, Braga, Echevarria, Shankar, Larry Nemecek, André Bormanis, producer/director David Livingston, and many others.
  • "Journey's End: The Saga of ST:TNG" (45 min.) (1994)
  • "Closed Set: A Tour of the Real Enterprise" (11 min.)
  • "In Conversation: Lensing ST:TNG" (42 min.) with Livingston,
    director James L. Conway, D.O.P. Jonathan West, and
    camera operator Kris Krosskove.
  • Gag Reel (HD, 5 min.)
  • Deleted Scenes (HD) from 15 episodes.
  • Episodic Promos
  • plus, all featurettes from the DVD version.
  • Main audio tracks in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.


Plus, the double-length series finale:
"All Good Things..."

Blu-ray U.S.


NEW for
Dec. 2, 2014.
Blu-ray Canada


[Import]

Bonus Features include:

  • Audio Commentary by writers Ronald D. Moore and
    Brannon Braga. Moderated by Roger Lay.
  • "The Unknown Possibilities of Existence" making-of featurette (26 min.), adding all seven regular castmembers, plus John de Lancie (Q), executive producer Rick Berman, and others...
  • Deleted Scenes (8 min.)
  • Episodic Promos

The Next Generation
Feature Films

(1994-2002)
4-movie Box Set
Blu-ray U.S.

4-movie Box Set
Blu-ray Canada

4-movie Box Set
Blu-ray U.K.

Box Set includes a bonus disc (HD, 77 min.) with 7 extra items:
  • "The Evolution of the Enterprise"
  • "Villains of Star Trek"
  • "Charting the Final Frontier" interactive map of the Trek galaxy
  • Influence of the Trek movies
  • and 3 Star Trek Experience featurettes

plus the 4 movies and bonuses detailed below....

Star Trek Seven:
Generations (1994)

  118 minutes


-In-depth Analysis Review

2-disc DVD Special Collector's Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Extras include:

  • Audio commentary by writers Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga.
  • Okuda text commentary
  • 3 making-of production featurettes:
    • "Uniting Two Legends" (26 min.)
    • "Stellar Cartography: Creating Illusion" (9 min.)
    • "Strange New Worlds: Valley of Fire" (22 min.)
  • 2 visual effects featurettes (20 min.)
  • 4 Star Trek universe featurettes (51 min.)
  • Scene Deconstructions (17 min.)
  • Deleted Scenes and alternate ending (33 min.)
  • Storyboards & Photo Gallery
1-disc Blu-ray

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features add:

  • New Commentary by director David Carson and Manny Coto
  • Scoring Trek
  • Next Generation Designer Flashback: Andrew Probert
  • Stellar Cartography on Earth
  • Brent Spiner :Data and Beyond Part 1
  • Trek Roundtable: Generations
  • Starfleet Academy: Trilithium

Star Trek Eight:
First Contact (1996)

  111 minutes


-In-depth Analysis Review

2-disc DVD Special Collector's Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Extras include:

  • Audio commentary by writers Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga.
  • Audio commentary by director Jonathan Frakes (William Riker).
  • Okuda text commentary
  • "Making First Contact" featurette (20 min.)
  • "The Story" writing featurette (15 min.)
  • 4 additional production featurettes (46 min.)
  • 3 Borg Collective featurettes (40 min.)
  • Jerry Goldsmith interview & Tribute (19 min.)
  • Extra-Terrestrial Contact featurette (19 min.)
  • The Legacy of Zephram Cochrane featurette (12 min.)
  • Scene Deconstructions (20 min.)
  • Storyboards, Photo Gallery, & Trailers
  • Easter Eggs
1-disc Blu-ray

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features add:

  • Commentary by Damon Lindelof and Anthony Pascale
  • Greetings from the International Space Station (HD)
  • Spaceshipone's Historic Flight (HD)
  • Brent Spiner: Data and Beyond Part 2 (HD)
  • Trek Roundtable: First Contact (HD)
  • Starfleet Academy: Temporal Vortex (HD)

Star Trek Nine:
Insurrection (1998)

  103 minutes


-In-depth Analysis Review

2-disc DVD Special Collector's Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Extras include:

  • "The Story" writer Michael Piller interview (17 min.)
  • "Making Star Trek: Insurrection" featurette (25 min.)
  • "Director's Notebook" featurette (18 min.)
  • 4 additional production featurettes (57 min.)
  • Okuda text commentary
  • 3 visual effects featurettes (18 min.)
  • 2 Star Trek universe "alien" featurettes (29 min.)
  • Deleted scenes, including alternate ending (13 min.)
  • Storyboards, Photo Gallery, & Trailers
  • Easter Eggs
1-disc Blu-ray

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features add:

  • Commentary by director Jonathan Frakes (William Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi).
  • Original Electronic Press Kit
  • Westmore's Legacy (HD)
  • Marina Sirtis: The Counselor is In (HD)
  • Brent Spiner: Data and Beyond Part 3 (HD)
  • Trek Roundtable: Insurrection (HD)
  • Starfleet Academy: The Origins of the Ba'ku and Son'a Conflict (HD)

Star Trek Ten:
Nemesis (2002)

  116 minutes


-In-depth Analysis Review

2-disc DVD Special Collector's Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Extras include:

  • Audio commentary by director Stuart Baird.
  • Audio commentary by producer Rick Berman.
  • Okuda text commentary
  • "Nemesis Revisited" making-of featurette (26 min.)
  • 6 additional production featurettes (45 min.)
  • 3 Star Trek universe featurettes (37 min.)
  • 5 Romulan Empire featurettes (53 min.)
  • Deleted scenes (27 min.)
  • Storyboards, Photo Gallery, & Trailers
  • Easter Eggs
1-disc Blu-ray

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features add:

  • New Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
  • Reunion with the Rikers (HD)
  • Today's Tech Tomorrow's Data (HD)
  • Robot Hall of Fame (HD)
  • Brent Spiner: Data and Beyond Part 4 (HD)
  • Trek Roundtable: Nemesis (HD)
  • Starfleet Academy: Thalaron Radiation (HD)

Deep Space Nine

(1993-1999)

Season One
(Winter/Spring 1993)

  pilot movie @ 90 minutes
+ 18 episodes @ 45 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"Emissary"
-"Captive Pursuit"
-"Dax / The Passenger"
-"Battle Lines"
-"The Storyteller"
-"Progress"
-"In the Hands of the Prophets"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
6-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Crew Dossier featurette: Kira Nerys
  • DS9: A Bold New Beginning featurette
  • "Section 31" barely hidden featurettes on individual episodes
  • Secrets of Quark's Bar - Penny Juday's props
  • Alien Artefacts - Joe Longo's props
  • DS9 Sketchbook Season 1 with Rick Sternbach
  • Michael Westmore's Aliens
  • Original DS9 preview

Deep Space Nine
Season Two
(Fall 1993 - 1994)

  26 episodes @ 45 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"The Circle"
-"Second Sight"
-"Armageddon Game"
-"Profit and Loss"
-"The Maquis"
-"The Collaborator"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Crew Dossier featurette: Jadzia Dax
  • New Frontiers - The story of DS9's continuing development
  • "Section 31" barely hidden featurettes on individual episodes
  • New Station, New Ships featurette
  • Michael Westmore's Aliens
  • DS9 Sketchbook Season 2 with Rick Sternbach and Jim Martin

Deep Space Nine
Season Three (1994-1995)

  26 episodes @ 43 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"The Search"
-"The Abandoned"
-"Past Tense"
-"Destiny"
-"Visionary"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Crew Dossier featurette: Odo
  • The Birth of the Dominion and Beyond
  • Time Travel Files - "Past Tense"
  • Sailing Through the Stars - "Explorers"
  • Michael Westmore's Aliens

Deep Space Nine
Season Four (1995-1996)

  opening movie @ 86 minutes
+ 24 episodes @ 43 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"The Visitor"
-"Little Green Men"
-"Crossfire"
-"The Sons of Mogh"
-"Accession"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Crew Dossier featurette: Worf
  • Charting New Territory season 4 featurette
  • "Section 31" barely hidden featurettes on individual episodes
  • DS9 Sketchbook - John Eaves
  • Michael Westmore's Aliens

Deep Space Nine
Season Five (1996-1997)

  26 episodes @ 43 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"Trials and Tribble-ations"
-"Things Past"
-"Rapture"
-"For the Uniform"
-"Children of Time"
-"In the Cards"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Crew Dossier featurette: Miles O'Brien
  • Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
  • Trials and Tribble-ations: A Historic Endeavor
  • "Section 31" barely hidden featurettes on individual episodes
  • Inside DS9 with Mike Okuda tour of the promenade revealing hidden jokes
  • Michael Westmore's Aliens
  • Photo Gallery

Deep Space Nine
Season Six (1997-1998)

  26 episodes @ 43 minutes


Individual story reviews:

-"Sacrifice of Angels"
-"Waltz"
-"Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night"
-"The Reckoning"
-"Time's Orphan"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Crew Dossier featurette: Julian Bashir
  • Crew Dossier featurette: Quark
  • Mission Inquiry: "Far Beyond the Stars" in-depth episode featurette
  • 24th Century Wedding featurette
  • "Section 31" barely hidden featurettes on individual episodes
  • DS9 Sketchbook - John Eaves
  • Photo Gallery

Deep Space Nine
Season Seven (1998-1999)

  24 episodes @ 43 minutes
+ finale movie @ 91 minutes


Review Articles:

-DS9 Season Seven
-DS9's Ten-part Finale


Individual story reviews:

-"Image in the Sand"
-"Shadows and Symbols"
-"Prodigal Daughter"
-"Penumbra"
-"'Til Death Do Us Part"
-"What You Leave Behind"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Crew Dossier featurette: Benjamin Sisko
  • Crew Dossier featurette: Jake Sisko
  • Ending an Era featurette
  • The Last Goodbyes featurette
  • "Section 31" barely hidden interviews of
    DS9's recurring guest cast
  • Photo Gallery

Voyager

(1995-2001)

Star Trek Voyager
Season One (Spring 1995)

  pilot movie @ 86 minutes
+ 14 episodes @ 43 minutes


Review Articles:

-Star Trek Voyager Season One


Individual story reviews:

-"Caretaker"
-"Parallax"
-"Time and Again"
-"Eye of the Needle"
-"Prime Factors"
-"State of Flux"

- Season One rankings

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
5-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Time Capsule featurette: Kathryn Janeway
  • The First Captain: Bujold
  • Braving the Unknown: Season One
  • Cast Reflections: Season One
  • Red Alert: Visual Effects - Season One
  • Real Science with André Bormanis
  • Launching Voyager on the Web
  • On Location with the Kazons
  • Photo Gallery

Star Trek Voyager
Season Two (Fall 1995 - 1996)

  26 episodes @ 43 minutes


Review Articles:

-Star Trek Voyager Season Two


Individual story reviews:

-"Non Sequitur"
-"Parturition"
-"Prototype"
-"Death Wish"
-"Alliances"
-"Threshold"

- Season Two rankings

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Time Capsule featurette: Tuvok
  • Braving the Unknown: Season Two
  • Saboteur Extraordinaire
  • A Day in the Life of Ethan Phillips
  • Red Alert: Visual Effects Season 2
  • Real Science with André Bormanis
  • Lost Transmissions from the Delta Quadrant
  • A special text trivia version of "The 37's"

Star Trek Voyager
Season Three (1996-1997)

  26 episodes @ 43 minutes


Review Articles:

-Star Trek Voyager Season Three


Individual story reviews:

-"Flashback"
-"False Profits"
-"Future's End"
-"Unity"
-"Before and After"

- Season Three rankings

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Time Capsule featurette: Kes
  • Time Capsule featurette: Neelix
  • Braving the Unknown: Season Three
  • the making of "Flashback" with George Takei
  • Red Alert:
    Amazing Visual Effects with Ronald B. Moore
  • Real Science with André Bormanis
  • Lost Transmission cast & crew interviews
  • Photo Gallery

Star Trek Voyager
Season Four (1997-1998)

  26 episodes @ 43 minutes


Review Articles:

-Star Trek Voyager Season Four


Individual story reviews:

-"Scorpion"
-"The Gift"
-"Nemesis"
-"Year of Hell"
-"Random Thoughts"
-The Hirogen Arc
-"Prey"
-"Retrospect"
-"The Omega Directive"
-"Living Witness"

- Season Four rankings

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Time Capsule featurette: Seven of Nine
  • Time Capsule featurette: Harry Kim
  • Braving the Unknown: Season Four
  • The Birth of Species 8472
  • The Art of Alien Worlds
  • Photo Gallery

Star Trek Voyager
Season Five (1998-1999)

  26 episodes @ 43 minutes


Review Articles:

-Star Trek Voyager Season Five


Individual story reviews:

-"In the Flesh"
-"Timeless"
-"Infinite Regress"
-"Nothing Human"
-"Thirty Days"
-"Counterpoint"
-"Dark Frontier"
-"The Disease"
-"Relativity"
-"Equinox"

- Season Five rankings

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Time Capsule featurette: B'Elanna Torres
  • Time Capsule featurette: Tom Paris
  • Braving the Unknown: Season Five
  • The Borg Queen Speaks
  • Delta Quadrant Makeup Magic
  • Photo Gallery

Star Trek Voyager
Season Six (1999-2000)

  26 episodes @ 43 minutes


Review Articles:

-Star Trek Voyager Season Six


Individual story reviews:

-"Dragon's Teeth"
-"Pathfinder"
-"Blink of an Eye"
-"Memorial"
-"Muse"
-"Fury"

- Season Six rankings

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Time Capsule featurette: Chakotay
  • Braving the Unknown: Season Six
  • One Small Step: A Mars Encounter
  • Guest Star Profile: Vaughn Armstrong
  • Red Alert! Amazing Visual Effects
  • Lost Transmissions from the Delta Quadrant

Star Trek Voyager
Season Seven (2000-2001)

  26 episodes @ 43 minutes


Review Articles:

-Star Trek Voyager Season Seven


Individual story reviews:

-"Nightingale"
-"Flesh and Blood"
-"Shattered"
-"Repentance"
-"Prophecy"
-"The Void"
-"Q2"
-"Friendship One"
-"Natural Law"
-"Homestead"
-"Endgame"

- Season Seven rankings

- Borg story rankings

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Time Capsule featurette: The Doctor
  • Braving the Unknown: Season Seven
  • Coming Home: The Final Episode
  • Real Science with André Bormanis
  • The Making of Borg Invasion 4-D
  • Lost Transmissions from the Delta Quadrant

Enterprise

(2001-2005)

Star Trek Enterprise
Season One (2001-2002)

  pilot movie @ 86 min.
+ 24 episodes @ 43 min.


Reviews:
- "Broken Bow" (pilot story)
- "Fight or Flight"
- "Unexpected"
- "The Andorian Incident"
- "Cold Front"
- "Shockwave"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • Pilot story audio commentary by writer/creators Brannon Braga and Rick Berman.
  • Featurette: Creating Enterprise
  • Enterprise Profile: Scott Bakula
  • Cast Impressions: Season One
  • Inside Shuttlepod One
  • Star Trek Time Travel: temporal cold wars and beyond
  • Enterprise secrets
  • Admiral Forrest takes center stage
  • Outtakes and deleted scenes
  • hidden NX-01 File featurettes
  • text commentary for the pilot story "Broken Bow".
  • text commentaries on "The Andorian Incident"
    & "Vox Sola".
Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.


NEW to Blu-ray for March 2013!

Blu-ray Bonus features include:

  • All extras from the standard DVD set, plus:
  • Pilot story audio commentary by Connor Trinneer (Chief Engineer Trip Tucker), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), co-writer Brannon Braga, director James L. Conway, and FX producer Dan Curry.
  • Audio commentary by Dan Curry and
    writer André Bormanis on "Silent Enemy"
  • Audio commentary by writers Mike Sussman and Phyllis Strong on "Shadows of P'Jem"
  • Audio commentary by Braga, Trinneer, Keating, and director David Livingston on "Shuttlepod One".
  • "To Boldly Go: Launching Enterprise" 3-part documentary (HD, 90 min.)
  • "In Conversation" w. Berman & Braga (~one hour)
  • "Cast Introduction" (2001)
  • "On the Set" behind the scenes of "Vox Sola"
  • Network and Syndication Presentations

Star Trek Enterprise
Season Two (2002-2003)

  26 episodes @ 43 min.


Reviews:
- "Shockwave"
- "Carbon Creek"
- "Minefield"
- "Dead Stop"
- "Regeneration"
- "The Expanse"

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • 2 Audio commentaries: "Dead Stop" and "Regeneration"
    by writers Michael Sussman and Phyllis Strong.
  • 2 Text commentaries: "Stigma" and "First Flight"
    by scenic artists Denise & Mike Okuda.
  • "Enterprise Moments: Season 2" (19 min.)
  • Enterprise Profile: Jolene Blalock (T'Pol) (14 min.)
  • Levar Burton: Star Trek director (7 min.)
  • Enterprise secrets (5 min.)
  • Inside "A Night in Sickbay" (11 min.)
  • Outtakes (11 min.)
  • Photo gallery
  • Deleted scenes
  • Easter Egg interviews (8 min. total)
    with Bakula, Park, and Montgomery
Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.


NEW to Blu-ray for Aug. 20, 2013!

Blu-ray Bonus features include:

  • All extras from the standard DVD set, plus:
  • 3 new audio commentaries:
    • "Carbon Creek" and "First Flight"
      by co-writer Chris Black and
      scenic/graphic artists Mike & Denise Okuda.
    • "Regeneration" by John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox) and wife Bonita Friedericy (arctic researcher Rooney).
  • "In Conversation: The First Crew" (HD, 90 min.) with writer Brannon Braga and the entire main cast.
  • New 3-part documentary: "Uncharted Territory" (HD, 90 min.)
    1. Destination Unknown
    2. First Crew
    3. Course Correction

Star Trek Enterprise
Season Three (2003-2004)

  24 episodes @ 43 min.


Reviews:
- "The Xindi"
- "Anomaly"
- "Twilight"
- "Carpenter Street"
- "Azati Prime"
- "Damage"
- "The Forgotten"
- "E Squared"
- "The Council"
- "Countdown"
- "Zero Hour"

- Season Three rankings

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
7-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • 2 audio commentaries:
    • "Similitude" with writer Manny Coto.
    • "North Star" with first assistant director Michael DeMeritt.
  • 3 text commentaries:
    • "The Xindi"
    • "Impulse"
    • "Countdown"
  • The Xindi Saga Begins (13 min.) with creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, and cast and crew.
  • Star Trek Enterprise moments: Season 3 (13 min.)
  • Enterprise Profile: Connor Trinneer (17 min.)
  • Day in the Life of Director Roxann Dawson (17 min.)
  • Deleted scenes, outtakes, and photo gallery
  • hidden NX-01 File featurettes
Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

NEW to Blu-ray for 2014 January 7 NEW in U.K.
2014 Jan. 27

Blu-ray Bonus features include:

  • All extras from the standard DVD set
  • 6 new audio commentaries:
    • "Impulse" with director David Livingston, and staffmember David A. Goodman.
    • "Twilight" with writer Mike Sussman and web-moderator Tim Gaskill.
    • "North Star" with writer David A. Goodman and staffmember Chris Black
    • "Similitude" with writer Manny Coto and actor Connor Trinneer (Trip)
    • "The Forgotten" with Connor Trinneer and writers David A. Goodman & Chris Black.
    • "Countdown" with writers Chris Black and André Bormanis.
  • "In A Time of War" 3-part documentary (HD, 89 min.) with the main cast, creators, regular writing staff, and crew.
  • Temporal Cold War: Declassified (HD, 20 min.) with Brannon Braga, Matt Winston (Daniels), and John Fleck (Sillick/Silik)

Star Trek Enterprise
Season Four (2004-2005)

  22 episodes @ 43 min.


Reviews:
- "Storm Front"
- "Home"
- "In a Mirror, Darkly"
- "Demons / Terra Prime"
- "These Are the Voyages..."

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.
slimline

(regular)
6-disc DVD set

DVD Extras include:

  • 3 audio commentaries:
    • "In a Mirror, Darkly, Parts 1 & 2" by co-writer Mike Sussman and web-moderator Tim Gaskill.
    • "Terra Prime" (Part 2 of 2) by co-writers Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Tim Gaskill.
  • 3 text commentaries by Mike & Denise Okuda:
    • "The Forge" (Part 1 of 3)
    • "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part 2" (of 2)
    • "These Are the Voyages"
  • Enterprise moments, Season 4 (16 min.)
  • Inside the "Mirror" episodes (15 min.)
  • Enterprise secrets (6 min.)
  • Visual effects magic (13 min.)
  • That's a wrap (9 min.)
  • Links to the legacy (4 min.)
  • Deleted scenes and outtakes
  • Photo gallery
  • hidden "Save Enterprise" featurette
Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

NEW to Blu-ray for 2014 April

Blu-ray Bonus features include:

  • All extras from the standard DVD set
  • 6 new audio commentaries:
    • "The Forge" (Part 1 of 3) and "Observer Effect" with
      writers Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens and
      scenic/graphic artists Mike and Denise Okuda.
    • "United" (Part 2 of 3) with the Reeves-Stevens and director David Livingston.
    • "In a Mirror, Darkly (Part 1)" with writer Mike Sussman, director James L. Conway, and the Okudas.
    • "Demons / Terra Prime" (parts 1 & 2 of 2) with Connor Trinneer (Trip) and Dominic Keating (Reed).
  • "Before Her Time: Decommissioning Enterprise" 4-part documentary (HD, 118 min.) with the main cast, creators, regular writing staff, and crew.
  • In Conversation: Writing Enterprise (HD, 90 min.)
  • Westmore's Aliens: Dr. Phlox and Beyond
  • Enterprise Goes to the Dogs
  • Original script ending of "Home"
  • Extended scene from "Home" (HD)

Star Trek Eleven

(2009)

Star Trek Eleven
(2009)

  126 minutes




-In-depth Analysis Review

Standard DVD 2-disc Edition

DVD U.S.

DVD Canada

DVD U.K.

DVD Features include:

  • Audio commentary by director J.J. Abrams,
    writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and
    producers Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk.
  • "To Boldly Go" featurette (17 min.)
  • "Casting" featurette (29 min.)
  • "A New Vision" featurette (20 min.)
  • "Aliens" featurette (16 min.)
  • "Score" musical featurette
  • Deleted Scenes (13 min.) with optional commentary
  • Gag Reel (6 min.)
Blu-Ray 3-disc Edition

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.

Blu-ray Features add:

  • BD-Live: NASA News
  • Branching pods on featurettes leading to more in-depth material
  • Starships - design featurette (24 min.) plus pods
  • Planets featurette (16 min.)
  • Props and Costumes featurette (9 min.)
  • Sound featurette (10 min.) with Ben Burtt.
  • Gene Roddenberry's Vision featurette (9 min.)
  • Starfleet Vessel simulator

Special features from the 2-disc DVD are also included.

Star Trek Twelve:
Into Darkness (2013)

  132 minutes




-In-depth Analysis Review

Standard DVD Edition

DVD U.S.


NEW for
Sept. 10, 2013.
DVD Canada


NEW for
Sept. 10, 2013.
DVD U.K.


NEW for
Sept. 2, 2013.
Blu-Ray Edition

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.




Blu-Ray 3D Edition

Blu-ray 3D U.S.

BR 3D Canada

Blu-ray 3D U.K.

Star Trek Thirteen:
Beyond (2016)




Standard DVD Edition

DVD U.S.


NEW for
2016
DVD Canada


NEW for
2016
DVD U.K.


NEW for
2016
Blu-Ray Edition

Blu-ray U.S.

Blu-ray Canada

Blu-ray U.K.



How to Tell the Latest Products Apart:

The Movies - 2-Disc Special Collector's Edition Series

These editions of the first 10 Star Trek movies may well remain the definitive ones for the standard DVD format, featuring the latest Director's cuts of the films with upgraded effects, audio commentaries by people who actually made each film, informed text commentaries, and a generally superior batch of supplementary featurettes and extras on a second disc.

Be warned, they are becoming rare though. See the individual listings in the catalogue above, and get them while the bargains last!

Blu Ray 1-disc-per-movie
"Summit Six-Pack" 2009 release
with bonus 7th disc
Region 1 NTSC, U.S.
Region 1 NTSC, Canada
Region 2 PAL, U.K.

The Movies - 2009 Blu-Ray rereleases and derivatives

As the first six movies get rereleased for the Blu-Ray format in 2009, the world of Star Trek movie products becomes a much more confusing place. If you have a Blu-Ray player, and want all six movies (possibly again), the "Summit Six-Pack" is the deal for you. Each movie comes on one disc, packed with a new transfer of the film and all the audio commentaries and other featurettes from the standard DVD 2-disc collector's edition, PLUS additional new commentaries and featurettes. New in-movie pop-up extras replace the text commentaries of the collector's edtions. A seventh disc, unique to this set, features William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and Whoopi Goldberg having an open chat about their experiences making Star Trek for 70 minutes - an event dubbed "The Captain's Summit".

The only caveat is that the first two films are the old theatrical releases instead of the directors' cuts, which have very different timings, and so the audio commentaries from the collector's editions are not included. So hang on to your collector's editions of "The Motion Picture" and "The Wrath of Khan", or seek them out as well if you don't already have them.


Standard DVD 1-disc-per-movie
"Summit Six-Pack" 2009 release with bonus 7th disc
Region 1 NTSC, U.S.
Region 1 NTSC, Canada
Region 2 PAL, for the U.K.


Standard DVD 1-disc-per-movie
Four-Pack 2009 re-release box set
Standard DVD U.S.
Standard DVD Canada
Standard DVD

The Movies - 2009 standard DVD derivatives

Like their Blu-Ray counterparts, the standard DVD derivative 2009 releases are also single-disc creatures, which means they haven't got nearly the same amount of space and can't hold all the same extras. And so these discs exclusively present the new 2009 extras instead of the old. So remember to also hang-on to your older 2-disc collector's edition sets as well, or seek them out if you didn't already have them, as word is those were generally the better extras.

The somewhat watered-down standard DVD version of the "Summit Six-Pack" is now available to Regions 1 & 2 - see the links to the left. Also, many of the movies are gradually becoming available individually. We now have a complete set of full-fledged Blu-ray individual versions for Regions A/1 and B/2, however only region B/2 has produced all of the Standard DVD derivatives with the new extras. In Region A/1, we still have only movies 2, 4, 6 & 8 in this format, and perhaps that's all that the studio will do. Time to either upgrade to a Blu-ray player if you want to pick and choose amongst the new 2009 Star Trek movie packages, or grab the whole lot as a standard DVD package deal from the link to the left.....


Trilogy Box Set: Star Trek 2, 3, & 4
Standard DVD:
Region 1 NTSC, U.S.
Region 1 NTSC, Canada
Region 2 PAL, for the U.K.
Blu-ray:
Region 1 NTSC, U.S.
Region 1 NTSC, Canada
Region 2 PAL, for the U.K.

The 2009 derivative Trilogy Sets

If you are in Region 1 (Canada or the U.S.), your options are still a bit limited at this time. The new 2009 standard DVD derivative version of "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" is still only available in the full "Summit Six Pack" or this "Trilogy" box set featuring Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The trilogy set is also available for Blu Ray.

Check for listings of extras on "The Wrath of Khan" as well. The Nicholas Meyer solo audio commentary from the 2-disc Collector's Edition Director's Cut appears to have been rejigged and included on the individual 2009 release of the movie (see above), but not in the "Summit Six Pack" or these "Trilogy" box sets that came out a few months earlier.

Yeah, it's confusing. It may be wise to hang on to your 2-disc Special Collector's Editions, or seek them out if you don't already have them, until Paramount gets its act together regarding the new re-releases.

Season One (1966-1967)
Get your copy of this 8-disc DVD set
from the links below:
Region 1, NTSC, U.S.
Region 1, NTSC, Canada
Region 2, PAL, U.K.

The Original Series: "Purist" Standard DVD Release

As someone interested in researching how the episodes actually looked and sounded originally, and when and exactly how certain musical cues first debuted, this was the DVD set for me, and it remains the most untampered-with full-season collection of Star Trek out there. Unique extras include pure text commentaries on select episodes. Sadly, these sets are starting to become rare, and prices are now rising as these become collectors' items....

These sets also introduced "staple" extras that continue to be included
in all subsequent releases of Star Trek - The Original Series:

  • "The Birth of a Timeless Legacy" Documentary
  • Featurette "To Boldly Go" (1 per season featuring cast and crew discussing individual episodes).
  • Life Beyond Trek: (William Shatner on Season One, Leonard Nimoy on Season Two, Walter Koenig on Season Three)
  • Special Interview featurettes on the writers, Spock, the Kirk-Spock-Bones trio, individual cast-members, designers, publicists, and fans.
  • original tv trailers
  • Photo Galleries
  • Production Art
Get your copy of this 10-disc DVD set
from the links below:
DVD/HD Combo, U.S.
DVD/HD Combo, Canada
DVD/HD Combo, U.K.
Standard DVD only, U.K.

DVD/HD Combo Season 1 Exclusive extras:

  • Starfleet Access interactive trivia plus picture-in-picture interviews for "The Galileo Seven" (HD version only).
  • "Beyond the Final Frontier" History Channel documentary (SD, 90 min.) with host Leonard Nimoy.
  • Trekker Connections interactive DVD game (SD side)
  • Star Trek online game preview (SD, 3 min.)

The Original Series Remastered Sets

The re-mastered Star Trek sets are more readily available, and in addition to picture and sound quality restoration, liberties have been taken with "upgrading" the episodes. Most famously, new CGI effects and optical shots have replaced many space scenes, matte paintings, and phaser effects. Unlike similar upgrades applied to select Doctor Who DVD releases since 2002, the CGI effects can not be turned off to see the original effects and optical shots. The kicker for me comes from reports that the episodes have been rescored with new music. Interesting, funky, but since it's primarily the original music I'm after in the first place, this was not the set for me.

Another curiosity: Season One was released on double-sided discs, with standard DVD on one side and HD on the other. Reportedly, not all extras are accessible on the standard DVD side. However, by the time the remastered versions of seasons two and three were released, HD had clearly lost the standards war to Blu-Ray, and so seasons two and three "remastered" offer standard DVD only yet again.

Standard DVD 8-disc Season 2 set
remastered with new CGI:
Region 1, NTSC, U.S.
Region 1, NTSC, Canada
Region 2, PAL, U.K.

Standard DVD 7 disc Season 3 set
remastered with new CGI:
Region 1, NTSC, U.S.
Region 1, NTSC, Canada
Region 2, PAL, U.K.

Get your copy of this BluRay set
from the links below:
Region 1, U.S.
Region 1, Canada
Region 2, U.K.

Season One - Blu Ray

  29 episodes @ 51 minutes
Star Trek sets are now becoming available on Blu Ray. Picture and sound quality restoration has gone up yet another notch since the remastered version, as have the liberties taken with "upgrading" the episodes. Once again, even newer CGI effects and optical shots have replaced many space scenes, matte paintings, and phaser effects.... but this time the upgrades have the same respect and user-functionality applied to select Doctor Who DVD releases since 2002, as the CGI effects can now be turned off to see the original effects. Ahh, much more respectful! Just the way it should be. Good show. It seems that the music has still been tampered with too much for my liking though.
Region 1, NTSC, U.S.
Region 1, NTSC, Canada
Region 2, PAL, U.K.

A series of "Fan Collective" DVD Sets are also on the market, offering a sampling of episodes from across all Star Trek series and spinoffs. "Alternate Realities" is apparently the first of those to offer the remastered versions of original Star Trek episodes, with the upgraded special effects. Those who are dubious about this process may wish to try this less-expensive-than-a-full-season set to see what all the fuss is about.

We also get some long-awaited audio commentaries on a few of the episodes, a welcome rarity for Star Trek's live-action tv shows, although some British fans have complained that the audio commentaries are missing from the Region 2 version.

Star Trek Fan Collective:
Alternate Realities

20 episodes @ 43-51 minutes each:
  • Mirror Universe
    • TOS: "Mirror, Mirror"
    • DS9: "Crossover" (with audio commentary by director David Livingston)
    • DS9: "Through the Looking Glass"
    • DS9: "Shattered Mirror"
    • Ent: "In a Mirror, Darkly (Part 1)"
    • Ent: "In a Mirror, Darkly (Part 2)"
  • Parallel Dimensions
    • TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
    • TNG: "Parallels" (with audio commentary by writer Brannon Braga)
  • Twisted Realities
    • TOS: "The Enemy Within" (with audio commentary by TOS authors Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens)
    • TOS: "Turnabout Intruder"
    • TNG: "Frame of Mind"
    • Voy: "Shattered"
  • Alternate Lives
    • TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" (with audio commentary by director David Carson)
    • TNG: "The Inner Light"
    • DS9: "The Visitor"
    • Voy: "Before and After"
    • Voy: "Timeless"
    • Voy: "Course: Oblivion"
    • Ent: "Twilight" (with audio commentary by writer Mike Sussman and web moderator Tim Gaskill)
    • Ent: "E2"

  • Short Featurettes:
    • Mirror Universe: Part 1 (14 min.)
    • Mirror Universe: Part 2 (5 min.)
    • Parallel Dimensions (7 min.)
    • Twisted Realities (13 min.)
    • Alternate Lives: Part 1 (11 min.)
    • Alternate Lives: Part 2 (15 min.)
  • Audio Options (may vary for different regions)
    • English
    • Español
    • Portugues





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