Star Trek: The Original Series - Season Two (Remastered Edition)
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Actor: DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, William ShatnerBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1311 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Star Trek: The Original Series - Season Two (Remastered Edition)
DVD Review: Worth preserving
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought the memories of the show would continue to suffice, as they had for more than 25 years, but when I came across this collection for less than fifty bucks I thought I'd give it a try. After all, this show certainly qualifies as a classic, if only for its impact on popular culture.
I am extremely pleased to see how well the show withstands the test of time. Many of the scripts are excellent, and thankfully devoid of pseudo-scientific nonsense... when the scenario demands the use of some made-up device or concept, it usually uses pretty vague terms that keep the script from sounding dated. The interaction between the main characters is still as funny as in the late 60s.
My only reservation concerns the revamped special effects in many scenes. I understand that given the many releases of this series on VHS and DVD, it probably makes sense to add something to invite customers back in. I'm not sure that the new CGI imagery adds anything to the show, however... in fact, I'd argue that it takes something away from it. I don't find super-sharp and brightly colored computer-generated images any more convincing than the old model-kit shot against a black background images. Both look fake, but the old images at least looked fake for a good reason; besides, the current transition between scenes with backgrounds made of plywood and styrofoam and scenes generated in a computer is a little jarring.
The bonus material is also pretty good, and certainly qualifies as "bonus" instead of as "filler". For example, in addition of the classic episode "the trouble with tribbles", this set includes its sequels from the Trek animated series and from the Deep Space Nine series. A very good move indeed!
DVD Review: Nice compilation, but heavily modified
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good compilation of these episodes at a good price, but if your a purist you probably won't enjoy how heavily they have updated the special effects. It leads to a strange transition between 1960's quality television to 1990's quality special effect between scenes.DVD Review: The Best of the Star Trek Seasons
Summary: 5 Stars
Most of my favorite Star Trek episodes are in Season Two, and that is why I purchased it. The stories are well-written, directed and acted. The remastering was extremely well done, and the updated special effects are awesome. If you can get only one Season at a time (like me), this is the Season to start with!DVD Review: A fresh look
Summary: 5 Stars
I know the focus is on the special effects, but I am excited just to see the complete stories again. I watched these episodes as a boy when they first came out and over and over again in syndication. I read in one of the Gerrold books that local engineers would shorten scenes to make more time in the hour for advertisements. There is more backstory depth in Mudd's Women that I hadn't seen in years, and a bridge officer that I had completely forgotten.DVD Review: Greatest TV of all time is even better now!
Summary: 5 Stars
What more can be said, The original Star Trek is the best show ever shown on TV, now it is even better. I have already watched the Doomsday Machine 3 times so far. Just wish they had extended the space battles, maybe they will do a special edition one day.
Description of Star Trek: The Original Series - Season Two (Remastered Edition)
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/05/2008The most famous episode in franchise history, "The Trouble with Tribbles," is one of the highlights of the second season of Star Trek: The Original Series. A deserved classic, the humorous story centers on an ever-expanding mass of furry creatures that memorably rain themselves down on top of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and into the middle of a Federation-Klingon showdown. It inspired one of the most memorable episodes in the spin-off series Deep Space Nine, "Trial and Tribble-ations." Also in the second season, the Vulcan culture of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is fleshed out in "Amok Time" (in which Spock is faced with the possibility of killing his captain and friend) and "Journey to Babel" (introducing Spock's father, played by Mark Sarek, in what would turn out to be a long-recurring role). A new character, navigator Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), was introduced; his Monkees haircut was intended to appeal to the younger audience, but he was also a Russian, which at the height of the cold war reflected Gene Roddenberry's optimistic vision of a more enlightened future. Other social-commentary opportunities presented themselves in "The Omega Glory," "The Doomsday Machine," and "Assignment: Earth," the last also one of those periodic opportunities to scrimp on the budget by time-traveling to an earlier version of Earth. Another example was "A Piece of the Action," a comic episode set in the Roaring Twenties and memorable for, among other things, Kirk's teaching a made-up card game called Fizzbin. In other significant episodes, "I, Mudd" saw the return of the bounder from season 1, "The Changeling" was the original inspiration for the first Trek feature film a decade later, "Wolf in the Fold" (penned by the author of Psycho) provides an example of the series' great writing, and "Mirror, Mirror" introduced the concept of the parallel universe inhabited by vicious, amoral counterparts of the regular crew, another theme later borrowed (more than once, and to good emotional effect) by DS9.
On the DVD
The remastered episodes are the highlight of the 2008 second-season release; like in season one, the reworked visual effects might irk purists but are an improvement overall, and some of the space exteriors are very exciting. It's not in high definition, however; season one was released in 2007 on two-sided combination HD DVD and standard DVD discs, which are now obsolete. Season two mimics the packaging, but is only standard-definition DVD, not Blu-ray. The picture, while obviously not high-definition quality, is still much improved over the 2004 DVD release. Special features here mostly mirror that 2004 set: 80 minutes of featurettes ("To Boldly Go" season recap, " Kirk, Spock & Bones: The Great Trio," "Star Trek's Divine Diva," "Designing the Final Frontier," and "Writer's Notebook: D.C. Fontana"), though missing from this set are the text commentaries on two episodes, the Red Shirt Logs, the production art, and the photo gallery. There are two new featurettes: "Star Trek's Favorite Moments," in which cast members of later Trek franchises and fans recall certain episodes, and "Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest, part 2," in which a Trek extra tells stories and shows some of his on-set home movies. And because season 2 includes "The Trouble with Tribbles," the set includes two bonus episodes: "More Tribbles, More Troubles" from the Animated Series and "Trials and Tribble-ations" from Deep Space Nine. Conveniently, all three Tribble-centric episodes are on the same disc, and include the bonus features from the earlier DVD releases (the commentary by writer David Gerrold on "More Troubles" and the two featurettes--"Uniting Two Legends" and "An Historic Endeavor"--from "Tribble-ations"). The bonus episodes were not remastered, and you can tell the difference when comparing the original Tribble episode on this set with the grainier footage that was used in the DS9 episode. A minor annoyance is that the discs are one-sided but appear to be two-sided, as if they had been designed for combo HD DVD again before a late change. That means the info on the disc is restricted to a ring around the middle, rather than a full label that could have listed the episodes on each disc; as is, they're only listed on the glossy "collector's data cards." And once again, the plastic shell is clunky and the disc spindles are way too tight. All in all, it's a nice package, especially if one doesn't already have the other Tribble episodes, but it feels like it's floating in a standard-definition limbo, stuck in the transition between HD DVD and Blu-ray. --David Horiuchi
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