Theatrical Release Date:December 10, 1998 Release Date:January 1, 2010 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Synopsis:
Lt. Cmdr. Data, on a mission to observe the race of Ba'ku, suddenly behaves as if having to fear for his existence. The peaceful Ba'ku, whose planet offers regenerative radiation and therefore incredible lifespans, live in harmony with nature and reject any kind of technology. Their planet and their culture is studied by Starfleet and the associated Son'a in secrecy. But the So'na, lead by Ru'afo, intend to abduct the Ba'ku in order to take the planet for themselves and for the Starfleet officials who all would like to regenerate their bodies. But they did not think of the loyalty of the Enterprise's crew to the Prime Directive.
Great setJune 24, 2010 Eric Aderhold(Seattle, WA USA) This is the ultimate Star Trek movie DVD set. Its 20 discs contain all ten films in the original (pre-reboot) Star Trek timeline, as well as one disc of special features for each film. Obviously, not all movies in this set are masterpieces. Some fans will say that Star Trek: The Motion Picture is too long and drawn out, Star Trek V was bad all around, and that Insurrection seems more like a long TV episode than a movie. These criticisms are more or less accurate. However, no Star Trek collection can be complete with only a couple of the movies. This particular set may be showing its age a little bit now that many of the films have been re-released on Blu-Ray, but it's still quite a collection nonetheless.
Simple review for a great collection.June 18, 2010 Andrew J. Gray(Loveland, CO USA) Owning all of the original Star Trek films on VHS is great, but with the transition to newer, digital formats, this is a must-have for Star Trek fans. Watching Star Trek II on DVD is completely awesome. If you don't feel like purchasing every DVD individually, this is a great, neat looking set with each film (except for the 2009 Star Trek).
Don't Order From Them!!!!!June 7, 2010 C. Sanchez 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
They are horrible. They screwed up the shipping label & then took over 3 weeks to get the package back & could not offer tracking on the reshipment. I asked for a refund & their reply was that I provide better shipping info. My info was PERFECT & I had placed more than 3 other orders with other vendors & received my order with NO issues.
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Great set, though with some minor problemsMay 17, 2010 Daniel Dawson(Spokane, WA USA) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First things first. I see a lot of reviews here actually seem to be about the movies themselves. This is not the place. For that, go to IMDb. Instead, I'm going to review this product, which is the box set of the first ten Star Trek movies on DVD. Well, I'm also going to review the DVDs themselves collectively, but not as movies.
First impressions: Nice and simple. Basically, they just took all of the special edition DVD releases and packaged them into a paperboard box. The box lists all of the movies on the top and side, a picture of Kirk on the front end, and a picture of Picard on the back end. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (ST:TMP) looks a little out of place in the set; all the rest of the DVD covers have more or less the same design with a brushed-metal background, but ST:TMP is totally different and has a yellow background.
On closer inspection, there are a few issues. Most noticeable is that the individual DVD packaging is rather shoddy. On some cases, the jacket (which holds the cover sleeve in place) is not fully attached and can end up folded back when the case inserted back into the box, probably leading to eventual complete detachment, so that the sleeve might get separated. The casing itself on a couple of cases is poorly fabricated, with numerous extra incompletely cut bits of plastic (especially around the closing snaps), and one case doesn't even join properly at the top when closed. Also, the retaining hubs look flimsy, though they do seem to be easy to use.
Moving on to the discs themselves, my fairly new (good quality) DVD+RW drive has trouble even recognizing most of the discs for some reason; however, after installing an ancient 12-year-old DVD-ROM drive I happen to still have and testing with it, they work just fine. It might be the copy protection, or it might be something with the newer drive, but they're not compatible.
On the plus side, the content is pretty good, technically speaking. The first two movies are Director's Editions, which means they've been recut according to their respective directors' wishes, a definite improvement for ST:TMP, which originally was missing many important special effects. I'm not familiar with the changes in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, but no doubt it was remastered, as the picture looks a lot better than the previous release. The rest of the DVDs are Special Collector's Editions; I don't know what that means, aside from the presence of an audio commentary, a text commentary, and lots of featurettes. But wait--I and II have those too; I guess the only difference is, the rest of the movies are largely unchanged (are they?).
All of the movies include 5.1 sound mixes, preferable IMO to Dolby Surround if you have the equipment. Dolby Surround is available in all cases; I have no idea how faithful it is to the original mixes, though it's important to note that II-VI were released in 70 mm format with 6-track sound, so 5.1 may be more faithful anyway. Even better, the TNG movies all include DTS mixes, which carry much better dynamic contrast than Dolby Digital; loud sounds actually have punch instead of being merely a little louder (and it's said that DTS is also clearer). Well, that's how it works out on my setup anyway.
Overall, a pretty good box set if you want all ten of these movies together. I would give 5 stars, but I'm taking one off due to all the annoyances mentioned above.
The Worst of the NextGen MoviesJanuary 21, 2010 Joshua Cohen(Boston, MA) 1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Though its production values are excellent, this is easily the worst of the Star Trek Next Generation movies. The story is stupid, even by liberal Star Trek standards, and it contradicts other established story lines. It took four or five novels to fill in the blanks just to make the movie fit into Star Trek lore. It is no wonder the producers and writers of the latest Star Trek movie chose to re-start the entire series' story after this.
If you just want to see cool space battles, this is the movie for you. If you are a Star Trek fan, you will be unhappy.
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