From Paramount Home Video! The complete first season of Star Trek: The Original Series is now available in HD-DVD/DVD Hybrid disks! This set contains all 29 episodes - in airdate order - from Season One of the original Star Trek series along with newly produced bonus features exclusive to this DVD release. System Requirements:Run Time: 1460 minutes Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: NR UPC: 097361311944

In 1966, Star Trek set out to boldly go where no series had gone before, beginning a three-year mission that led to a franchise that would last decades. Here at last is the first season of the original series all in one box, 29 episodes in their original broadcast order. That means starting with "The Man Trap," and soon followed by "Where No Man Has Gone Before," the second pilot filmed and the first one starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk. The many highlight episodes include "Balance of Terror" and "Errand of Mercy" (introducing, respectively, the Romulans and the Klingons), the two-part "The Menagerie" (which recycled footage from the original pilot, "The Cage," which featured Christopher Pike as the captain of the Enterprise and is not included in this set), "Space Seed" (introducing Ricardo Montalban's Khan character), and "The City of the Edge of Forever" (written by sci-fi giant Harlan Ellison and considered by many the best-ever episode of the series).

The first-season DVD set is supplemented by 80 minutes of featurettes incorporating 2003-04 interviews with Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, other cast members, and producers, and some 1988 footage of Gene Roddenberry. The longest (24 minutes) featurette, "The Birth of a Timeless Legacy," examines the two pilot episodes and the development of the crew. Slightly shorter are "To Boldly Go... Season One," which highlights key episodes, and "Sci-Fi Visionaries," which discusses the series' great science fiction writers (most famously in "The City of the Edge of Forever"). Shatner shows off his love of horses in "Life Beyond Trek," and, more interestingly, Nimoy debunks various rumors in "Reflections of Spock." As they've done for many of the feature-film special editions, Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda provide a pop-up text commentary on four of the episodes filled with history, trivia, and dry wit. It's the first commentary of any kind for a Star Trek TV show, but an audio commentary is still overdue. The technical specs are mostly the same as other Trek TV series--Dolby 5.1, English subtitles--but with the welcome addition of the episode trailers. The plastic case is an attempt to replicate some of the fun packaging of the series' European DVD releases, but it's a bit clunky, and the paper sleeve around the disc case seems awkward and crude. Still, the set is a vast improvement both in terms of shelf space and bonus features compared to the old two-episode discs, which were released before full-season boxed sets became the model for television DVDs. --David Horiuchi

UPON LOOKING BACK I AM AMAZED THAT THIS SERIES WAS ON NETWORK TELEVISION IN THE 1960'S! NO WONDER I WAS DRAWN TO IT! IT WAS SOOOOOO FAR AHEAD OF IT'S TIME!!!!!!!

This DVD set is brilliantly remastered with a recreated musical score with the same orchestral arrangement used in the original. Faithful to Gene Roddenberry's original vision and visually stunning.

The new enhancements are great! My only complaint with this set is there is no master list of episodes and what disc they are on. However, die-hard trekkies like us are ok with that, just put any disc in and enjoy.

The re-mastered episodes are incredible for the vivid colors and clarity. The "table of contents" are in the form of Translucent plastic cards that will almost certainly get lost some day and are hard to read. They also didn't number the episodes.

Season One "A MUST!" buy for Star Trek fans of every stripe. With all the uncut classic episodes, high definition/standard format, to top It off beautifully remastered graphics! Plus all the bonus features. I am very happy that I found this set here, Delivery was fast and ordering at amazon was user friendly! Excellent Deal! Thank You Amazon! Thomas Healey, San Pablo, CA