William Shatner Movie:

		List Price: $321.99		Label: Paramount Salesrank: 834 Released: December 15, 2009
		Our Price: $170.99
		MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: Blu-ray

Star Trek: The Original Series - Seasons 1-3 [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Excellent restoration!
2009-12-23 - Received this item today (ordered it yesterday... thanks Amazon Prime!) and it is quite amazing! Watch any episode, and you can see the amount of work that went into restoring these! Kudos to CBS and Paramount. The price for the 3 season set was actually LESS (on 12/22/2009) than purchasing each season individually by almost 15 dollars. Great value at the current price of about $170

Just to be clear
2009-12-21 - There is no special box with this like that other reviewer reported. I'm sure that was just something the studio threw in for early reviewers/gifts etc etc. It comes shrink wrapped with a sticker. That's it. This is NOT a boxed set, it is a shrink wrapped bundle of 3 smaller boxed sets. Its very compact, the size is about 4 single blu-ray cases stacked up. Its not deluxe or impressive, its not a "Luxury Boxed Set". You are buying the contents not the packaging.

The stellar first season, shining second and the white dwarf of the third-maybe less expensive to buy individually
2009-12-12 - You can read my formal review at dvdivas.net

Depending on when you purchase this the individual sets MAY be a better deal (as of 12/09 they are about $24 less)


This is for the Blu-ray three season set. Many folks are rating this based on THE PRICE (that's not what the star sysem is for folks--it's for the overall quality of the sets)my rating is based on the quality of the sets, their packaging and the original episodes themselves NOT THE PRICE.


In a nutshell: The show looks terrific and you can toggle between the original visual effects and the new ones with ease most of the time. The writing for the first two seasons was top notch with the third very much a hit-or-miss affair. The show looks stellar with new digitally prepared "prints" that have been cleaned up, color corrected and had damage repaired.

Extras are virtually identical to the last DVD set which also had the new visuals but we also get 3 new "Trek" extras (for all three seasons) Billy Blackburn's behind-the-scenes footage. This color footage was shot on location but without sound which gives us a unique look behind the production of the show. Ideally CBS/Paramount would have incorporated these into a new featurette with narration by Blackburn, Nimoy, Shatner and others discussing production for the various episodes but they are nice to have here with Blackburn's memories of working on the show.

Included is the original unaired alternate pilot for "Where No Man Has Gone Before" which keeps the original visual effects intact as well as alterned music and the edit is slightly different compared to the aired version. "The Cage" is included with both the "restored" color version as well as the black and white version that has come with all the previous sets BUT it is NOT in HD (I suspect the source material may only be SD videotape) it does, however, feature Roddenberry's original introduction.

We also get two Comicon 2009 featurettes (one hosted by David Gerrold writer of "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "The Cloud Miners" and an award winning novelist)as new featurettes on the third season set.

There are no additional discs or special features if you buy this boxed set of three vs. the individual titles.

For those who want to know the case for the third season is slightly thinner than the first two.


Bottom Line: Price wise (at this writing of 12/09) the individual sets are LESS expensive with the same features which makes that the better deal.

CBS/Paramount has added a couple of special features here unique to each set but not every single special feature on the previous boxed sets appear here either (although most do). Buy whichever one you can get for the least price since there's nothing "special" about this bundling at this time.



More Out-of-Touch Pricing
2009-12-09 - I see this kind of sales stupidity all the time. Where a package is priced higher than the sum of buying the individual items. So is it $30 for the cardboard box that holds all three?

Stupid sales people...

WHAT'S UP WITH THE PRICE?
2009-12-08 - IT'S IDIOCY IF YOU BUY THIS PACKAGE WHICH IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN BUYING ALL THE SEASONS SEPARATELY. MAKE IT WORTH IT TO US! BRING DOWN THE PRICE! DRASTICALLY!