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Title:
Star Trek: The Original Series: Season Two
Region:
A
Media: Blu-ray Disc
Genre: Classic Science Fiction TV Series
Episode Disc One: “Amok Time”, “Who Mourns For Adonais?”, “The Changeling”, “Mirror, Mirror”
Episode Disc Two: “The Apple”, “The Doomsday Machine”, “Catspaw”, “I, Mudd”, “Metamorphosis”,
Episode Disc Three: “ “Journey To Babel”, “Friday’s Child”, “The Deadly Years”, “Obsession”, “Wolf In The Fold”
Episode Disc Four: “The Trouble With Tribbles”, Star Trek: The Animated Series: “More Tribbles, More Troubles” , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: “Trials And Tribble-ations”
Episode Disc Five: “The Gamesters Of Triskelion” A Piece Of The Action”, “The Immunity Syndrome”, “A Private Little War”
Episode Disc Six: “Return To Tomorrow” “Patterns Of Force”, “By Any Other Name”, “The Omega Glory”
Episode Disc Seven: “The Ultimate Computer”, “Bread And Circuses”, “Assignment Earth”
Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, and Majel Barrett Roddenberry
Guest Stars: Celia Lovsky, Michael Forest, William Windom, Jane Wyatt, Keith Andes, Mark Leonard, Roger C. Carmel, William Smithers, Stanley Adams, William Campbell, Chris Brill, Victor Tayback, William Marshall, Robert Lansing, and Teri Garr
Writers: Robert Bloch, Gene L. Coon, D.C. Fontana, Gilbert Ralston, Theodore Sturgeon, Norman Spinrad, John Meredyth Lucas, Max Ehrlich, Jerome Bixby, David P. Harmon, Stephen Kandel, David Gerrold, Gene Roddenberry, Jud Crucis, Margaret Armen, Art Wallace,. Robert Sabaroff, and John Kingsbridge
Created By: Gene Roddenberry
Executive Producers: Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon
Feature length: 21 hours and 47 minutes
HD Extras: Billy Blackburn’s Treasure Chest: Rare Home Movies And Special Memories Part 2, Starfleet Access For The Episodes Amok Time and The Trouble With Tribbles, Bonus Episodes: Star Trek: The Animated Series “More Tribbles, More Troubles” With Audio Commentary By David Gerrold, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: “Trials And Tribble-ations”
Extras: To Boldly Go… Season Two, Life Beyond Trek: Leonard Nimoy, Kirk, Spock, And Bones: Star Trek’s Great Trio, Designing The Final Frontier, Star Trek’s Divine Diva: Nichelle Nichols, Writer’s Notebook: D.C. Fontana, Production Art Gallery, Photo Gallery, Red Shirt Logs, Preview Trailers, Trials And Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends, Trials And Tribble-ations: An Historic Endeavor, BD Live Enabled, Content To Go™ Available Exclusively Via Mobile Blu : Disc One: Writing Spock, Disc Two: Creating Chekov, Disc Three: Listening To The Actors, Disc Four: Spock’s Mother
Languages:
English DTS HD 7.1 Master Audio and Two-Channel English, French and Spanish
Language Monaural Sound
Subtitles: English Subtitles For The Deaf And Hearing Impaired and French, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese Language Subtitles
Packaging: Seven-Disc Elite Blue BD Case Within A Cardboard Slipcase.
Sound: DTS HD MA 7.1 and Mono Sound
Year of Television Broadcast: 1967-1968/Blu-ray Disc Release: 2009
Home Video Distributor: CBS/Paramount Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
The second of season of “Star Trek” is where the series truly came into it’s own with so many memorable episodes that it is impossible to discuss each and every single one within the context of a Blu-ray Disc set review.
“Amok Time” is a terrific episode for so many reasons, but above all else it is the first time “Star Trek” fans get a glimpse of the planet Vulcan. The character of Vulcan Matriarch T’Pau was featured in a three-part episode of “Star Trek: Enterprise,” which gave viewers a clearer understanding of the internal politics that have shaped the lives of the Vulcan people. Since Vulcans tend to live more than twice as long as the average human being, it was a nice touch to introduce this character on “Star Trek: Enterprise” when she was about 100 years younger. Do the characterizations of the actresses playing “T’Pau” match up? Not one hundred percent, but just as people change over the course of decades, one can reasonably extrapolate that one hundred years worth of life experience is enough time for anyone to change and both characterizations did not seem terribly comfortable with humans being present in internal Vulcan affairs.
A
major classic episode from the second season is “The Trouble With Tribbles,” which features an audio
commentary by Author David Gerrold, whose career as a science fiction writer got
a big boost from his teleplay for “Star Trek” as well as the two sequel
episodes entitled “More Tribbles, More Troubles” from “The Animated
Adventures Of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek” and “Trials And Tribble-ations,”
which used technology to place Actors from “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” into
the episode similar to the manner that Tom Hanks was placed into historical film
clips for the Oscar® winning film, “Forrest Gump.”
Both of these sequel episodes are included here in this Blu-ray Disc set
in high definition as additional features, including the Deep Space Nine
supporting featurettes Trials And Tribble-ations: Uniting Two
Legends, Trials And Tribble-ations: An Historic Endeavor.
As with the previous Blu-ray Disc set for season one, all of the second season episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series have been presented in their digitally overhauled 1080p/24fps high definition (1.33:1) aspect ratio complete with a thunderous English DTS Digital 7.1 Lossless Master Audio High Definition Theatrical Surround Soundtrack and in their original, but digitally cleaned up form in high definition form complete with English, French, and Spanish Language Two-Channel Monaural Sound Soundtracks as well as English Subtitles For The Deaf And Hearing Impaired and French, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese Language Subtitles. Through seamless branching, one can toggle between the remastered and original version of each episode while they are in progress.
Standard definition bonus features carried over from the previous DVD sets include “To Boldly Go… Season Two” (19:40), which features interviews with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, and Walter Koenig with clips from the episodes “Amok Time”, “Catspaw”, “Journey To Babel”, “Mirror, Mirror”, “A Private Little War”, and “Who Mourns For Adonais?” The “Life Beyond Trek – Leonard Nimoy” featurette (12:11) focuses on his interest in photography and his experimentation with trying to create a series of images that deal with the passage of time or something like that. The fact that Mr. Nimoy shows viewers a stopwatch where he has calculated an approximate amount of time he expects to live seemed somewhat morbid in my opinion. Anyone think his alter ego “Spock” would possibly do the same thing though?
“Kirk
Spock, And Bones – Star Trek’s Great Trio” (7:19) is pretty much a self
explanatory vignette detailing how the actors brought insight into their roles
enough to create back stories for the writers to explore in future episodes.
“Designing The Final Frontier” (22:27) is somewhat interesting with sketches
from some of the classic episodes and various technical comments about the
series with a special focus on Matt Jeffries. There is a companion sketch
gallery as well as a still photo gallery included among the extra value features
on disc seven too. A focus on Actress Nichelle Nichols (13:12) as well as a
featurette on Writer D.C. Fontana (7:44) is also included.
Other
high definition and first time on Blu-ray Disc extra value material includes
another round of 8mm film footage provided by Billy Blackburn (12:00), as
mentioned already, the animated series episode More Tribbles, More Troubles
with audio commentary by David Gerrold (24:00) and in standard definition Trials
And Tribble-ations (46:00) upconverted from the original DVDs along with
companion featurettes that are available within the Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine fifth season DVD box set too. Picture-In Picture interview clips are
available under the heading Starfleet Access for the episodes Amok
Time and The Trouble With Tribbles. BD Live Access and video that can
be streamed exclusively onto the mobile device like the I’Phone are also
included within the Blu-ray Disc set along with a few Easter eggs. Here are
instructions on how to access them.
On
each of the discs, if you are on the main menu page and use the remote control
to type in the corresponding code below, it will access them. The fun part
is that the codes are all facts about the Star Trek series.
Disc 1. 1966
- Year Star Trek first aired on TV.
Disc 2. 2265
- Year 2265 was the first year of the historic five-year mission of the
USS Enterprise.
Disc 3. 2232 –
Spock’s Birth Year
Disc 4. 1229
- December 29th
is original air
date of The Trouble With Tribbles
Disc 5. 1701
– Number on the Enterprise
Disc 6. 1616
– Year
Shakespeare died (referring to “By Any Other Name”)
Disc 7. 1968
– Year the crew returns to in “Assignment Earth”
Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 2 is available on Blu-ray Disc now as a Seven-Disc Set at retailers on and offline now courtesy of CBS/Paramount Home Entertainment.
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Copyright 2009 By Mark A. Rivera
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