Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 40, Episodes 79, 99 & 1: Turnabout Intruder/ The Cage (B&W/Color Version) / The Cage (Full Color Version)
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Actor: DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, William ShatnerWriter: Gene Roddenberry
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 185 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-11
Studio: CBS Paramount International Television
DVD Reviews of Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 40, Episodes 79, 99 & 1: Turnabout Intruder/ The Cage (B&W/Color Version) / The Cage (Full Color Version)
DVD Review: Husband was THRILLED with these DVDs!!
Summary: 5 Stars
He's very happy with the picture quality and sound. Also, in every episode we've watched, there are scenes he's never seen before, which totally delights him. DVD Review: Just A Great Show
Summary: 5 Stars
I gave this DVD set to my brother for Christmas a few years ago and now that he has Blu-Ray, it was re-gifted. It was wonderful to revisit this show and experience the excitement of Star Trek. I was little when the show came out and I used to lay on my father's stomach while he sat in his reclining chair. Later when I was older, I used to watch the reruns every day at 5 p.m. before dinner. Star Trek looks great on DVD and the show was restored nicely. The first season is definitely Star Trek's best season and contains the bulk of its classic shows such as The City on the Edge of Forever. Yeoman Janice is on hand in the first episodes and she was one of my favorite characters. The Menagerie is still my favorite episode in two parts. A wonderful show. DVD Review: My review for "Star Trek: The Original Series: Volume 40, Episodes 79, 99 & 1"
Summary: 4 Stars
If, like me, you started collecting the original series on VHS and DVD before they released the season box sets on DVD, then I highly recommend this one. Not for the final episode "Turnabout Intruder" which was a terrible end to the series, but for the original pilot episode "The Cage".
Review for "Turnabout Intruder"
This was the final episode made for the original series, and apart from the original pilot, it was the last to be aired. I suppose they could have chosen a worse episode to air last like "Requiem for Methuselah" or "Plato's Stepchildren"; compared to those ones "Turnabout Intruder" was pretty damn good. But it's really just a mediocre episode at best, and a disappointing end to a great series.
Dr. Janice Lester, who was once involved in a love relationship with Kirk, wants Kirk's command and uses an alien device to switch bodies with him. It is a bit silly at times, but at other times it was quite dramatic. Like when the crew begins to suspect that their captain is no long Jim Kirk, when the crew mutanies, and when Janice sentences Spock and the real Kirk to death. But it's just silly thinking of William Shatner as a woman and it's really unlikely that a woman in the 23rd century wouldn't be allowed a command of her own - one of the reasons she wants Kirk's body, not the only reason, but one of them. I also get creeped out when Shanter (playing Janice Lester) deplays homosexual emotions towards Dr. Arthur Coleman. And the end was crap too. In all, not the worst episode of them all, but certainly not the best either. Two stars.
Review for "The Cage"
This was the show's first pilot. It was rejected by the network and replaced with a second pilot called "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Halfway through the show's first season, they started having money problems as well as script problems, and Gene Roddenberry hated wasting his first pilot so he wrote an envelope story around it which became the two-part episode "The Menagerie". I still think I like "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and "The Menagerie" better, but this was still a pretty damn good episode. This version of "The Cage" is its original version with no envelope story around it and with all filmed scenes included in it. Most of the added scenes were nice to see, but the picnic scene could have been shortened as it was in "The Menagerie".
The ENTERPRISE, at this point in time commanded by Captain Christopher Pike (Jeffery Hunter), receives a distress call from an Earth ship on the planet Talos IV. The ENTERPRISE races to the scene only to find out that it's a trap, and Pike is taken prisoner by a group of mysterious telepathic beings! In all, not a bad episode. A pretty good one if you ask me. Four stars.
DVD Review: Great Blu-ray Transition
Summary: 5 Stars
Most DVD to blu-ray conversions are just "okay." Some are downright horrible. However, Star Trek: Season 1 was ported over beautifully. Not to mention this particular blu-ray season collection isn't absurdly overpriced.
The blu-ray conversion is great. The colors turned out wonderful. I've never seen this show look so great. The audio sounds okay, and they've redone a lot of the special effects with new CGI and 3D technology. I think that the new special effects look great, but if you're a purist and would rather view the original versions, you can switch back and forth between the two.
There are some nice extras included as well, and the packaging is nice. I would recommend this to any Star Trek fan who is looking to jump into the world of blu-ray.
DVD Review: No Hype, Its That Good
Summary: 5 Stars
I was 10 years old when this show premiered, and it definately changed my life. Never been a dvd collector, but I decided to revisit TOS in Blue-Ray. OMG, what a striking difference! Not only am I enjoying history breaking sci-fi, but the picture quality is remarkable. Well worth buying.
Description of Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 40, Episodes 79, 99 & 1: Turnabout Intruder/ The Cage (B&W/Color Version) / The Cage (Full Color Version)
"Turnabout," Ep.79 - A female scientist, jealous of Kirk's career, uses an ancient alien device to trade places with him and take command of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series' final episode! "The Cage," Ep.99 (B&W and color) - The two versions of Star Trek's rarely seen pilot star Jeffrey Hunter as captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise. On an earlier voyage of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise, Kirk's predecessor Captain Christopher Pike tries to rescue an Earth crew that disappeared eighteen years earlier. But it's a trap! Pike is imprisoned in a zoo-like cage and studied by a mysterious higher life-form. "The Cage" Ep.99 was reconstructed with black-and-white footage from Gene Roddenberry's work print and color footage from "The Menagerie" Ep.16. "The Cage" Ep.1 (Color) - This episode includes the long-lost color footage (believed to have been destroyed) from Gene Roddenberry's pilot episode. 185 minutes.In 1966, Star Trek set out to boldly go where no series had gone before, beginning a three-year mission that led to a franchise that would last decades. Here at last is the first season of the original series all in one box, 29 episodes in their original broadcast order. That means starting with "The Man Trap," and soon followed by "Where No Man Has Gone Before," the second pilot filmed and the first one starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk. The many highlight episodes include "Balance of Terror" and "Errand of Mercy" (introducing, respectively, the Romulans and the Klingons), the two-part "The Menagerie" (which recycled footage from the original pilot, "The Cage," which featured Christopher Pike as the captain of the Enterprise and is not included in this set), "Space Seed" (introducing Ricardo Montalban's Khan character), and "The City of the Edge of Forever" (written by sci-fi giant Harlan Ellison and considered by many the best-ever episode of the series).
The first-season DVD set is supplemented by 80 minutes of featurettes incorporating 2003-04 interviews with Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, other cast members, and producers, and some 1988 footage of Gene Roddenberry. The longest (24 minutes) featurette, "The Birth of a Timeless Legacy," examines the two pilot episodes and the development of the crew. Slightly shorter are "To Boldly Go... Season One," which highlights key episodes, and "Sci-Fi Visionaries," which discusses the series' great science fiction writers (most famously in "The City of the Edge of Forever"). Shatner shows off his love of horses in "Life Beyond Trek," and, more interestingly, Nimoy debunks various rumors in "Reflections of Spock." As they've done for many of the feature-film special editions, Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda provide a pop-up text commentary on four of the episodes filled with history, trivia, and dry wit. It's the first commentary of any kind for a Star Trek TV show, but an audio commentary is still overdue. The technical specs are mostly the same as other Trek TV series--Dolby 5.1, English subtitles--but with the welcome addition of the episode trailers. The plastic case is an attempt to replicate some of the fun packaging of the series' European DVD releases, but it's a bit clunky, and the paper sleeve around the disc case seems awkward and crude. Still, the set is a vast improvement both in terms of shelf space and bonus features compared to the old two-episode discs, which were released before full-season boxed sets became the model for television DVDs. --David Horiuchi
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