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List Price: $129.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 2639
Released: April 28, 2009 |
| Our Price: $79.93 |
| Used Price: $62.45 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: Blu-ray |
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Editorial Review:
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. The First Officer is Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. The Chief Medical Officer is Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen lead by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 [Blu-ray] Reviews:
WOW! 
2009-12-18 - I was at 1st a little leery about buying this set as I already have it on DVD. Now that I have it all I can say is WOW! I realy enjoy being able to switch back and forth between the original and the enhanced versions. While the picture quality was realy cleaned up vs the DVD version, the audio and special effects enhancements realy add to my viewing pleasure.For those worried that they would realy fubar everything there realy was no need to worry.
If there is a negative in this set it would have to be the way the menus are setup, I think they realy could have been don e a lot better. However this didnt distract me very long.
Now my only remaining concern is trying to sell my Star Trek Original season 1-3 sets.
Extremely Bad packaging ! Shipping department is incompetent 
2009-12-03 - These items would have arrived ok if they were not but in a 11x14 box , an inch and a half deep that would fit 3 of these season cases .They had one dvd case worth of room to slide back and forth , you ever hear of bubble wrap ? These boxes were not even taped . Thanks alot for wasting my time going to UPS to return the original shipment and the damaged replacement order too . Your shipping department needs to fire whom ever is in management to allow this ! You cost me time and gas !!!
Top flight cheesiness 
2009-12-03 - Nothing like st tos. Cheesy, poorly written, overacted, sexiest, low budget, and yet still one of my favorite series of all time. Some of the episodes on the first season Ill rarely watch, while others Ill watch over and over again. All look great on blu ray and its amazing the detail of such an old series shot on a budget. Menu system is a little funky, Id rather see a synopsis of each episode as I page through the episodes on the disk, but if you watch them even a fraction of the number of times Ive watched them you too will learn your favorite episodes by just 'title' eventually. Great series, well done on blu (season 1 anyway) and Ill treasure owning this series again and again through the years.
Great show, with a few minus points 
2009-11-26 - Pros:
- Great restoration work. Really astonishing. Good color, contrast and HD.
- Very nice new special effects, done from scratch. Also possible to see both effects: original and new one. I enjoy this feature a lot.
- Fully remastered digital sound, but keeping the original music and effects.
Cons:
- No wide screen. (I suppose this is technically impossible to accomplish, without distorting the image on screen) So you will see black bars on both sides. Not a big deal, considering this is a 1960s TV show!
- Sound too quiet. Even if you increase volume, it seems that some details are lost.
- Episodes are not in the right order. Can anyone explain why is this? Annoying...
Conclusion:
- If you are a Star Trek fan (even if you are a Sci-Fi fan), you definitely MUST have this. It is a classic, ...and made in HD.
- You can live with the minor cons.
Problems with the sound!! 
2009-11-01 - I bought this because I wanted to replace my standard DVD copies and I love the star trek series and I will buy each of them as they are released on blu-ray, however I am writing this review because I have read most of the reviews that others have left and not one of them has touched on the problem that when you play an episode in the enhanced or original effects the audio drops out completely. At first I thought that it was limited to just the first disk but no I played an episode that was on disk #4 and encountered the same problem. I also bought a copy of this from borders and encountered the same problem so now I have to return both of them! I was playing it on a pioneer player, which is considered to be one of the best players around! I am planning on waiting until the second release if there is one so that this problem can be addressed.