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| Used Price: $99.99 |
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Editorial Review:
The adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise, representing the United Federation of Planets on a five-year mission in outer space to explore new worlds, seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before. The Enterprise is commanded by handsome and brash Captain James T. Kirk. His First Officer and best friend is Mr. Spock from the planet Vulcan, and Kirk's Medical Officer is Dr. McCoy. With its crew of approximately 430, the Enterprise battles aliens, megalomanical computers, time paradoxes, psychotic murderers, and even Genghis Khan!
It is the 23rd century and together with the crew of the Federation starship Enterprise we travel across the galaxy to meet new and exciting life forms on distant planets. The 80 episode TV series which was produced from 1966 to 1969 has now cult character and has fans all over the world.
Star Trek: The Original Series Complete Series DVD (Chosen Collection) (Star Trek) Reviews:
It should be called "Bootlegged Asian Collection". 
2009-08-02 - This is not like the Star Trek: Original Series remastered edition that was released last year. The Chosen Collection is a bootlegged edition that was released in the Asia Pacific several years ago. Paramount issued an official statement concerning the Asia Pacific releases, "Paramount Home Entertainment or CBS studios has never licensed to a 3rd party to replicate/produce/manufacture discs in Asia Pacific." - Joe Ruvalcaba, Paramount Licensing.
I bought this collection from Ebay a couple years ago for about $50. It is the complete series, Season 1-3 on 22-disc. I might have been lucky but I had no problems playing the dvds in any DVD player and each episode seemed to be in good condition with no parts missing(that I noticed). The episodes play in widescreen and are designed to be compatible with region 1 dvd players. It does have cool packaging and each disc is in a plastic sleeve. However, the episodes are completely out of order and are not remastered. Episodes 1-5 were scattered across several dvds.
If you can get past the fact that this collection is bootlegged, I found it to be a low cost, decent set to own if your looking to re-watch the entire series again.
Cheap Chinese Bootleg. No matter how cool and unique the packaging looks... BUYER BEWARE! 
2008-11-23 - I spent a small fortune on this after loving my chinese import of Transformers G1. However, this time it was very disappointing. Whatever transfer method they used creates a worse then broadcast viewing experience. I would rather have the show on VHS, taped directly from TNN when they squashed the screen to make room for a banner ad at the bottom of the screen.
At time the color almost drops completely, as if they tried to copy it without first figuring out how to disable macro protection. Okay... maybe that last sentence was a bit too nerdy... but buy the real genuine US DVD sets with the official paramount/CBS seal! (That are also printed and made in China, but are at least authorized to do so with quality controls. LOL)
Why you may NOT want to choose the "Chosen Collection". 
2008-09-23 - Anytime you come across a Star Trek "complete series" DVD release using the term "The Chosen Collection", you need to understand what you're looking at;
The "Chosen Collection" is a product intended for distribution in China. The quality of the video is substandard when compared to the US (and other region) releases. If you intend to watch these episodes on a TINY monitor (less than 19") you may not notice that much of a difference. 19" and higher will reveal a poor quality image.
Also, these collections are notorious for having "glitches" that leave tiny chunks (a few seconds) of some episodes missing. You might get lucky and get one without problems, but then again....
Know what you're getting, and never pay a lot of money for one of these.
JM
