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Customer Reviews
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Beautiful
I saw all of these episodes on TV but they didn't even begin to compare to the HD version. They exhibited attention to detail and continuity. The episodes were in the original order that they appeared on TV.
My only issue was with the menus. The interface took a minute to figure out what they wanted me to do and I am normally really good at picking up anything and just going with it.
Bottom line is if you are a Trekker and you have a HD-DVD player you need this. If you don't have an HD-DVD player it is still a great collectible and the DVD side is clear and very entertaining.
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All-time greatest sci-fi television series receives an enhancement
Finally, the Star Trek I grew up with gets a revamp in the visual effects department. What's better is that they left the original storyline and dialogue intact, unlike a certain Hollywood filmmaker I won't name here.
The discs themselves are of the hybrid HD-DVD/DVD type, which means that not only do they play in the abandoned HD-DVD format, but also will work with your standard DVD player, with a minimal loss of extraneous features. The original Starship Enterprise has never looked better on the small screen.
A word of caution though:
Not recommended for close-minded purists
The vast majority of enhanced effects concern exterior shots of the Enterprise flying through the interstellar medium. Planets no longer look like solid discs of green or orange, now they are rendered with more realistic terrain and cloud cover. Alien spacecraft are given physical form as opposed to anonymous blobs of light.
Give the remastered Star Trek: The Original Series a spin, you probably won't regret it.
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Classic show looks great remastered, but packaging is horrible
What is there left to say about this classic show? The episodes are wonderful and are the foundation for decades more of Trek in its various forms. The PIP feature is nice as well on many key episodes. The remastering is done tastefully, not heavy handedly, and blends in seamlessly with the rest of the shots so you never feel you are watching something new, although it definitely looks better than what you remember. Every so often the shots of the Enterprise scream CG, but basically, these remastered shows are the complete opposite of what George Lucas would do had he thought of Star Trek and wanted to go back and "improve" it. For me, that's a good thing. The reason I don't give this a higher rating is the terrible, awful, cheap, flimsy packaging. Honestly, this is one of those times where you ask yourself, "What were they thinking?" The discs are housed in a cheap plastic book that is probably cracked when you open the set for the first time because it is so fragile. (I returned this set three times because the packaging was cracked and damaged before I just gave up!) Removing a disc is cumbersome and one has to take great care not to scratch anything. Information about what's on the discs is given in plastic collector cards that look nice, but detract from functionality because you have to remove all the cards from a paper pocket that houses the plastic book of DVDs and search for the one card that relates to the disc you are viewing after you have fumbled through the cracked case for the right DVD and taken great care not to scatch the darn disc! Aaaarghhh!!! For the price on this item, even at discount rates, Paramount should have done better with the packaging.
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Heresy in cutting dialog......
For those of you like me who know the Classic Star Trek so well that you can quote whole episodes, this new DVD set is a travesty!!!! I am speaking of the chopped, missing dialog in every episode I have seen!!! (Of course, it may be the station which airs this show, trying to squeeze in more commercials, but I seriously doubt it because the cuts are soooo subtle, you have to KNOW the dialog as I do.) However, going on my first impression: There seems to be some probably 30 something, Yuppish Newbie to Star Trek, who thinks in the modern day style of only allowing 15 to 20 seconds of a take. EXAMPLE: Take "The Lights Of Zetar". Mira says, " I'd rather die than hurt you Scotty, I'd rather die". The last "I'd rather die" is cut for some reason. I can hear some stuffy college Prof saying "that is redundant'!!! to say it twice. But the idea that the emotion is running so high for Lt. Romaine that she HAS to say it twice is, I believe, essential. There are MANY, MANY other example of this modern day editing by someone who thinks they know Star Trek. If you are reading this Mr( or Ms.) Director, let me say this; I knew what Gene and his writers had in mind...you don't, and never will, until you leave your prepacked, hightech, super revved playpen and dwell in the original series for a while instead of trying to leave your mark on it. You stink ....what you are doing is like removing the lamp of the Statue of Liberty because you THINK it obscurs the skyline of New York!!
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Star Trek as Gene would have wanted it
This is a milestone in Star Trek History. We are finally able to see the original series as Gene Rodenberry would have done it if the technology (and the money) were available to him. The beauty shots of the Enterprise are so spectacular that you'll replay them again and again. The shots of other ships, along with their manuevers and weapons fire, are breathtaking. The planets look like real planets, and the rocks don't look like styrofoam anymore.
If you are a Trek fan, this is a MUST HAVE!
