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The Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 Blu-ray set brings home all 29 episodes from 1966-67, including “Balance of Terror,” “Space Seed,” “The Menagerie” and the Hugo Award-winning “The City on the Edge of Forever,” with remastered effects. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley star. It is in stock and dispatched within 2 business days. Add it to your cart today.
| Format | Blu-ray |
|---|---|
| Discs | 7 |
| Studio | Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Released | April 28, 2009 |
| Run time | 24 hours and 20 minutes |
| Condition | Not specified |
| Availability | In stock |
The Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 Blu-ray set brings home the first season of Gene Roddenberry's classic science fiction series, which aired on NBC from September 8, 1966 to April 13, 1967. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley star as Captain Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy across 29 episodes.
This is a Blu-ray release, so you will need a Blu-ray player or a game console that plays Blu-ray discs. It will not play in a standard DVD-only player.
Season 1 has 29 episodes, the most of any season of the original series. It premiered in Canada on CTV on September 6, 1966, two days before its NBC debut in the United States.
Several of the best-known Star Trek stories come from this first year. "Balance of Terror" introduces a Romulan ship with a cloaking device. "Space Seed" brings Khan aboard from his sleeper ship and later serves as the backstory for the second Star Trek film. The two-part "The Menagerie" sees Spock take his former captain, Christopher Pike, to the planet Talos IV, using footage from the original pilot, "The Cage."
"The City on the Edge of Forever" won a Hugo Award and was ranked No. 92 by TV Guide in 1997 and No. 80 in 2009.
The first season debuted on Blu-ray on April 28, 2009, with remastered effects. Before that, it appeared in 2007 as a 10-disc HD DVD set on hybrid DVD/HD DVD discs. The season was later reissued on September 6, 2016 as part of the Star Trek 50th Anniversary set.
In 2019, CBR rated this the 10th-best Star Trek season up to that time, a strong showing for a 1960s debut season. Owning Star Trek TOS Season 1 on Blu-ray keeps the voyages ready to replay in high definition.
Continue with the 1970s animated series, Star Trek: The Animated Series on Blu-ray, or jump ahead to Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1. Browse all our classic TV and sci-fi titles. For the full episode guide, see the Wikipedia article on the first season.
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 Blu-ray: Questions Buyers Ask
How many episodes are in season 1?
There are 29 episodes, the most of any season of the original series.
Does it have the remastered effects?
The season debuted on Blu-ray on April 28, 2009 with remastered effects.
Will it play in my DVD player?
No. The Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 Blu-ray needs a Blu-ray player or a console that plays Blu-ray.
Which season 1 episode won a Hugo Award?
"The City on the Edge of Forever."
The Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 Blu-ray is in stock and dispatched within 2 business days. Standard US shipping is $4.99, and orders over $50 ship free. Read our return policy, then add it to your cart and boldly go.
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This is the Blu-ray edition, 7 discs.
majorcrampas –
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Castiglioni Luca –
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E. A. Solinas –
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Warp One, Mr. Sulu.
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations… to boldly go where no man has gone before!” It would be hard to find many TV shows as wildly influential as the original series of “Star Trek,” which inspired a devoted fandom, several spinoffs of varying quality, a string of films, and most recently an alternate-timeline reboot directed by J. J. Abrams.
And it all started with “Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1,” a groundbreaking and intelligent sci-fi series that brought interstellar exploration to TV screens — aliens, androids, strange phenomena and the odd planet that generates giant rabbits and school bullies. Yes, it has the late-sixties color schemes and miniskirts, but it also has a moral complexity and wide-eyed earnestness that most TV shows lack, along with crisp writing and a solid cast.
In the twenty-third century, mankind has spread out among the stars, and established a Federation of like-minded worlds. The starship Enterprise is part of their Starfleet division — and it does pretty much everything, from fighting hostile aliens like the Klingon and the Romulan Empires, investigating distress calls (including from a planet infested with pain-producing alien blobs), and exploring planets with weird and freakish creatures on them (including a furry creature that sucks salt out of its victims).
The captain is James T. Kirk (William Shatner), who is assisted and guided by his two trusted friends: the logic-driven, half-Vulcan science officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the crusty, blunt-spoken doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy (Deforest Kelley). With the faithful crew of the Enterprise behind them, they travel through time, encounter godlike aliens, fall prey to some weird diseases (including one that makes you drunk!), crash a shuttlecraft, encounter a war fought with computers, and deal with androids, rock monsters, plague-infected kids, genetically-engineered Übermenschen, a giant lizard and the White Rabbit.
A lot of stuff in “Star Trek: The Original Series” has become sci-fi cliche by now, but that only underscores that the entire first season must have been wildly fresh and groundbreaking when it first aired. There are a few episodes that are hit-and-miss (“This Side of Paradise”), but many of them are wildly inventive and cleverly-written — and it’s not just about weird alien Threat Du Jour. The Enterprise crew also deals with some truly bizarre problems, ranging from Kirk being accused of murder to a visitor from an antimatter universe.
One of the best aspects of this season is that it never loses the human element. When the characters encounter problems, they often must grapple with issues of morality, revealing a great deal about themselves in the process — Kirk’s passionate love for a woman who is fated to die, his struggle to pass judgment on a mass murderer without giving in to his own base hatred, Spock’s conflicted nature, his fierce loyalty to his old captain, an officer widowed during a battle, and so on. It’s the personal part of the writing that gives it greater depth, beyond merely “Kirk fights with a big lizard-man by shooting diamonds at him.” And yes, that does happen.
As stories, these episodes are crisply and solidly written, with a good blend of intelligent sci-fi, action and pathos. The dialogue was well-written (“Do you play God, carry his head through the corridors in triumph? That won’t bring back the dead, Jim”) but with moments of humor to keep it from ever getting pompous (“I’ll protect you, fair maiden!” “Sorry, neither”). That’s what allows even the slightly silly (Spock attacked by a flying brain cell) to be pulled off well.
It also has a very good cast, from the central three characters to the underused supporting characters like Uhura and Sulu. For all the gags about Shatner’s acting, he plays Kirk as a man of both brains and passion — he’s driven and emotion, with a love for his ship, his crew and the unexplored crannies of the galaxy that rules his life. But he’s also intelligent and canny, and more than once we see him outwitting a foe, whether it’s making a primitive gun by hand or playing the ultimate bluff against a vast alien ship.
And he has uniquely solid chemistry with Nimoy and Kelley, so that you can really believe that these three characters are fast friends who bicker, joke and advise each other… well, mostly Bones and Spock snipe at each other, while Kirk sits there smiling. Nimoy gives a brilliant performance as the half-Vulcan, half-human Spock, struggling with the emotions that his Vulcan nature doesn’t allow him to express. Kelley plays McCoy as the exact opposite — a fiery Southern doctor whose determination to do the right thing sometimes clashes with his duty. Yes, he boozes it up while on duty, but who doesn’t want a doctor like McCoy?
Few TV shows have had the impact on nerd culture that “Star Trek: The Original Series” has had, and the first season of this show is still an entertaining, thought-provoking story. Live long and prosper!
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Both versions for one low price!
I have wanted to own all the episodes of the original series of Star Trek for quite some time. I noticed that the prices for the dvd releases of this series are ridiculously expensive at or about $100 per season. I found that I was also torn between which version to get, either the original production or the new re-stored “Lucasfied” version. I then came across this product right here on Amazon in Blu-ray for a fraction of the cost. I quickly realized that with the purchase of a Blu-ray drive (LITE-ON iHOS104) I could finally start a blu-ray collection and begin it with the entire collection of Star Trek the original series (BOTH VERSIONS!!!) re-mastered and re-stored for far less money then what the dvd sets would cost.
A NO BRAINER!
In Full HD, the video is astonishing; the color, blacks and detail of these episodes makes this set on blu-ray a must own for any fan. Every episode can be watched with its original special effects or the newly redone (Lucasfied) version. Each version is re-mastered and fully re-stored with amazing visual clarity and quality.
The “Lucasfied” versions of all the episodes include the original re-mastered and re-stored episodes, but ALL the special effects are redone with computer generated imagery (CGI). Every phaser blast, space scene, explosion and whatnot has been completely replaced with an excellent CGI that stays true to the concept of design. Keep in mind; you can still play every episode with the original special effects and they are still from a re-mastered and fully restored source.
Season One:
Disc One – The Man Trap, Charlie X, Where No Man Has Gone Before*, The Naked Time
Special Features – Preview Trailers, Spacelift: Transplanting Trek Into The 21st Century
Disc Two – The Enemy Within, Mudd’s Women, What Are Little Girls Made Of?, Miri, Dagger Of The Mind
Special Features – Preview Trailers
Disc Three – The Corbomite Maneuver, The Menagerie Part 1*, The Menagerie Part 2*, The Conscience Of The King
Special Features – Preview Trailers, Reflections On Spock
Disc Four – Balance Of Terror*, Shore Leave, The Galileo Seven, The Squire Of Gothos
Special Features – Preview Trailers, Life Beyound Trek: William Shatner
Disc Five – Arena, Tomorrow Is Yesterday, Court Martial, The Return Of The Archons
Special Features – Preview Trailers, To Boldly Go… Season One, The Birth Of A Timeless Legacy
Disc Six – Space Seed*, A Taste Of Armageddon, This Side Of Paradise, The Devil In The Dark
Special Features – Preview Trailers, Interactive Enterprise Inspection, Sci-Fi Visionaries
Disc Seven – Errand Of Mercy*, The Alternative Factor, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Operation: Annihilate!
Special Features – Preview Trailers, Billy Blackburn’s Treasure Chest: Rare Home Movies And Special Memories, Kiss `n’ Tell: Romance In The 23rd Century
Various episodes marked with an * have “Starfleet Access” a picture in picture behind the scenes commentary on the episode. The episodes and the special features are listed on the inside of the box cover (might be a little hard to read for some).
The original pilot with two versions are on the third season blu-ray release.
The ONLY downfall is the audio, I am no expert but it seems that the studio cut some serious corners in this aspect. The volume levels for the 8 channel audio are unbalanced. Voices seem to be soft… to correct this one must tweak the control panel for their system or simply place the audio to the optional original broadcast mono. I have settled for the mono as this is still a phenomenal audio presentation.
LITE-ON 4x Blu-ray Disc SATA Internal Optical Drive iHOS104
Read my review for this drive too, I address a lot of misconceptions about it.