Star Trek: The Original Series - Season Two [7 Discs] [Blu-ray]

William Shatner

Overview

Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and the USS Enterprise crew seek out new civilizations in this seminal sci-fi series. The ship's five-year mission may have only lasted three seasons on NBC, but its impact has proved timeless. By the 1970s, its rabid fans---dubbed Trekkers---turned the show into a pop-culture phenomenon and syndication juggernaut that yielded a merchandising boom, a number of hit sequel and prequel spin-off TV series, a successful movie franchise and even a children's cartoon.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/22/2009
UPC:	0097360717648
Original Release:	1967
Rating:	NR
Source:	Paramount
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound, Dolby AC-3 Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	21:10:00
Sales rank:	16,097

Special Features

Star Trek: TOS on Blu ray; ; Special Tribbles Disc with New Commentary; ; Starfleet Access Mode and Select Episodes

Editorial Reviews

The 1967-68 season of the original Star Trek featured some of the best sci-fi stories broadcast on television up to that time. Series creator Gene Roddenberry made occasional concessions to the network by supplying some action-oriented episodes that smacked of immature "space opera," but mainly he presented unusually fine, character-driven stories. The season opener, "Amok Time," was a showcase for Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock, the Vulcan first officer whose emotions come to the fore as he begins to manifest the mating impulses of his species. "Who Mourns for Adonis?" was Star Trek's first exploration of a popular sci-fi supposition: that the creatures believed by ancient humans to be gods were actually aliens with unusual powers. "The Doomsday Machine" featured guest star William Windom as the Ahab-like commander of the Enterprise's doomed sister ship, obsessed with destroying the seemingly indestructible weapon that killed his crew. "The Ultimate Computer" showed the starship's officers and crew under great strain while deploying an experimental computer system intended to obviate them. Other memorable episodes among the 26 collected here on eight discs: "Mirror, Mirror," in which Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spock, Scotty (James Doohan), and Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) find themselves transported to a parallel universe; "Assignment: Earth," an unsuccessful spin-off attempt for a series that would have starred Robert Lansing as Gary Seven and Teri Garr as his secretary; and "The Trouble with Tribbles," a comedic romp that became one of the series' most popular installments.