Some What DisappointedJuly 20, 2010 JDTX First off my season 1 set is not a HD / DVD combo set it's just a regular DVD set. The packaging is a joke all you are paying for is the 3 hard outer cases. The DVD's are not well protected. No disc lables on them just the center ring telling you the season and disc #. This was a way for Paramount to have a cheap product and charge a hefty price. Some of the new effects are ok but will never beat the originals that I grew up with. Also CBS DVD must not believe in a play all feature. This is the second TV series by this company that I bought and you have to pick one episode at a time instead of watching the entire disc. In season 2 I don't understand why they put 1, 2, 3, or 4 episodes to a disc to have an 8 disc set. That was so that they could fill the hard outer case up. I also don't like these flimsy Episode Guide cards. If you had the VHS complete set there is a diffrence in order. To me the VHS set is by Production # and it is more in the correct order than the DVD set that goes by the original air date. This is going to take some time to get used to. My opinion $188 plus is to much for this cheap manufatured set. I probably would have been happier with the 2004 set from other reviews I have read.
Star Trek - REMASTERED???July 13, 2010 Geoffry J. Salzman(Roanoke VA) I truely don't wish to put down anything, but I just don't understand why
they call this set remastered. Every outer space sequence has been redone
by computers. Everything that was originally created for the outer space
scenes (ships, planets, special effects...etc.), has been brutally removed
and then replaced by these new so called "remastered" visual effects. Fortun-
ately they did leave most of the rest of the show intact. But frankly, I
am very disturbed that Paramount would do this to this wonderful tv series.
But don't get me wrong, this still is a good dvd set to have. But if you are
a true diehard trek fan like me, and love all the fun and original, corny
and outdated effects of the 60's, save your money. Track down and invest in
the 2004 version dvd set of this original Star Trek series, you'll be glad
you did.
Remastered? You Mean "Reproduced". Modified.July 10, 2010 RJ 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to say that I largely agree with R. Roberts. The labeling - when having multiple programs on one disk, in a series of disks - should have been a lot more informative. And, Paramount should have just improved the picture quality (with digital remastering, etc.) - not completely redone all of the special effects. While the external views of objects in space(ships, etc.) may look sharper/better-defined and more realistic, unfortunately, their appearance is incongruent with the (lesser) quality of everything else - which was largely retained in original form - not to mention, some obvious object motion creations that were poorly done and that clearly defy the laws of physics. For instance, there was at least one re-done scene where the Enterprise was now depicted externally as having almost flipped-over (bordering on the Titanic) from an attack, but the internal scene - kept in its original form - showed everyone standing on level ground (180 degrees).
What will Paramount do a few years from now, to "remaster" the series, again - or "improve it", in their point of view: redo the series and add more Iron Gym-like definition to McCoy's build? Put Invisalign on Scotty? Add hair to where Kirk's hair was thin? Re-clothe the crew with uniforms from Star Trek: The Next Generation? Replace Kirk's outmoded Judo-like fight sequences, with mixed-martial art moves? Voice-over all of the date references, so that the characters' typical references to the "past" - like to "World War III", instead go a few centuries beyond the 1990's (since we are now past those years, and WW III didn't happen)?
One Silly QuestionJune 28, 2010 J. Newton(Franklin, N.H. United States) I have the Remastered version of ST-TOS on standard DVD. I'm quite pleased with everything about it and haven't experienced any difficulties in viewing. I couldn't find any mention in the reviews I read regarding my one small question: Where are the star Trek Bloopers???? Not including those was the biggest oversight in releasing this supposedly definitive edition. I was hoping they would at least be an easter egg but Nooooo! Stupid Stupid Stupid! How silly earthmen are.
Love Star Trek but don't love the Blu Ray versionJune 22, 2010 Rene Perez(CA) I gave 4 stars because Star Trek is the best and the idea of the new FX into the old footage is inspired. But the Blu Ray conversion on these episodes isn't that great. Neither are the new FX. They could have done so much with this production idea but all they did was generate new looking ships with no detail.
The ships have such little detail in fact that they look like prototypes or work in progress ships. These FX are far inferior to the old movie's because in the movie's the ships had detail. The new FX are better than the old TV show FX but it's obvious that these guys at paramount got lazy.
Star Trek is one of the most inventive of all time. Paramount pictures are just lazy money grubbers who want to keep re-packaging these old episodes with no added value. 5 stars for Star Trek. 2 stars for the Blu Rays.
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