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List Price: $69.98 | | Label: CBS Paramount International Television
Salesrank: 37946
Released: November 2, 2004 |
| Our Price: $93.80 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
STAR TREK: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON features many exciting adventures with the Enterprise crew, including Spock experiencing the Vulcan mating drive, the crew being captured by a powerful alien once worshipped on Earth as the Greek god Apollo, the return of an ancient space probe launched centuries ago, aging at an incredible rate after exposure to an unknown form of radiation, and other episodes.
Description of Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete Second Season:
The most famous episode in franchise history, "The Trouble with Tribbles," is one of the highlights of the second season of Star Trek: The Original Series. A deserved classic, the humorous story centers on an ever-expanding mass of furry creatures that memorably rain themselves down on top of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and into the middle of a Federation-Klingon showdown. It inspired one of the most memorable episodes in the spin-off series Deep Space Nine, "Trial and Tribble-ations." Also in the second season, the Vulcan culture of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is fleshed out in "Amok Time" (in which Spock is faced with the possibility of killing his captain and friend) and "Journey to Babel" (introducing Spock's father, played by Mark Sarek, in what would turn out to be a long-recurring role). A new character, navigator Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), was introduced; his Monkees haircut was intended to appeal to the younger audience, but he was also a Russian, which at the height of the cold war reflected Gene Roddenberry's optimistic vision of a more enlightened future. Other social-commentary opportunities presented themselves in "The Omega Glory," "The Doomsday Machine," and "Assignment: Earth," the last also one of those periodic opportunities to scrimp on the budget by time-traveling to an earlier version of Earth. Another example was "A Piece of the Action," a comic episode set in the Roaring Twenties and memorable for, among other things, Kirk's teaching a made-up card game called Fizzbin. In other significant episodes, "I, Mudd" saw the return of the bounder from season 1, "The Changeling" was the original inspiration for the first Trek feature film a decade later, "Wolf in the Fold" (penned by the author of Psycho) provides an example of the series' great writing, and "Mirror, Mirror" introduced the concept of the parallel universe inhabited by vicious, amoral counterparts of the regular crew, another theme later borrowed (more than once, and to good emotional effect) by DS9.
Special features are a bit lighter than on the season 1 set, but they do feature such contributors as Shatner, Nimoy, George Takei (Sulu), Koenig, Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), and editor-writer D.C. Fontana. Of chief interest are "To Boldly Go," a 20-minute season recap; " Kirk, Spock & Bones: The Great Trio," discussing the interplay among Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley); "Star Trek's Divine Diva," shining the spotlight on the development of Nichols's character (she was originally considered to play Spock); and "Writer's Notebook: D.C. Fontana," discussing her various roles in the series (she used her initials to avoid the anti-female bias in science fiction at the time). --David Horiuchi
Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete Second Season Reviews:
Original Star Trek- second season 
2009-11-29 - Excellent! Exactly what I was looking for, and in great shape! Thanx so much!
Good but not great
2009-07-06 - video quality is good but not great. These are the originals without remastering which I liked. Not alot of extras. I enjoyed then
star trek tv series 
2009-05-07 - This is the Source. For Star Trek fans, it is a must have item. Highly recommended.
Great
2009-05-04 - This item I got off Amazon.com was in great condition and was just what I wanted. I would suggest this to all Star Trek Fans.
Not bad--at a lower price
2009-03-10 - For those who love Star Trek and want the third season, well, this is it. It contains the full episodes of the third season, complete with English subtitles for the hard of hearing.
My main complaint is with the price. It is possible to get it for a better price, as I did, but $100 is quite a lot. Another minor complaint is hard-to-read type in the episode descriptions.
I'm not reviewing the quality of the episodes themselves--one either likes Star Trek or doesn't, and should know beforehand whether one likes it or not. This is the only release of the original series, as far as I know.
