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DVD Star Trek - The Original Crew Movie Collection (Special Edition)
Devoted Star Trek fans will surely cite the "even number" rule in evaluating the Original Crew Movie Collection, but all six of these films qualify as rousing entertainment. Undeniably, the even-numbered films in Paramount's lucrative Trek franchise tended to be the best, as demonstrated by the superiority of The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, and The Undiscovered Country. And yet each film has something to offer die-hard Trekkers, beginning with the epic-scale wonders of the first Motion Picture (presented here as a two-disc special edition). Evolving from Gene Roddenberry's aborted attempt at a second Star Trek TV series, the effects-laden Motion Picture divided fans while proving that Star Trek had a promising big-screen future. Nicholas Meyer's The Wrath of Khan made good on that promise, reviving the Star Trek spirit and proving, in the case of Mr. Spock, that beloved characters "never really die." It's widely regarded as the best of these half-dozen features.
With its deadly Klingon confrontation, the Leonard Nimoy-directed Search for Spock was a thrilling (albeit contrived) excuse for Spock's inevitable resurrection, and its somber tone was readily countered by the Earth-based humor of Nimoy's The Voyage Home, combining a planetary crisis with a lively--and phenomenally popular--time-travel plot line. Unfortunately, William Shatner then lobbied for the director's chair, and The Final Frontier--an uneasy mixture of cheesy humor and grandiose themes--was the regrettable outcome. Paramount rallied by inviting Nicholas Meyer to repeat his Khan success, and Meyer rose to the occasion with the sharply scripted thrills of The Undiscovered Country. By ending the film with an official signature send-off from the "classic Trek" cast, the original crew brought their big-screen legacy to a graceful and upbeat conclusion, setting the stage for a transitional adventure in Star Trek: Generations. --Jeff Shannon
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Star Trek -The Original Crew Movie Collection
Great I just finished what you might call a marathon with this collection. I just had a ball.
A great fathers day idea-JUST NOT FROM HERE
I have been trying to find the best gift for my hubby of 7 years for his second fathers day. I ran across this on another site, Columbia House, for MUCH cheaper!! The sites and people that are selling you these movies for $156 and upwards are RIPPING YOU ALL OFF. The movies are great, but really try and look elsewhere for better prices. I got my 12 disk set for $67 with shipping included from CH online. Its crazy to think that others are paying WAY more for thier sets, just a warning thats all. The hubby will be so excited that I got him the DVD's wheras before he only had the VHS set. I can't wait to surprise him and he thinks I spent TOP dollar! HAHA!!:)
Star Trek for the 21 century
This is a very good buy for anyone who is a Trekky, the box and cd's are to die for in of themselves. However, don't let them fool you in thinking that the first one has been cut down. The enterprise shot in the beginning is just as long as in the older VHS versions. I say this because I had heard with the director's cut it had been spliced down some.
The music does make up for this very long scene however, if you're willing to stick around and watch it. Other than that, unlike the star wars series you can pretty much sit back and watch these without having to watch for new scenes that for some reason you don't remember being there.
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The sacrifice of a beloved character is just one of many highlights in Nemesis, the 10th feature in the lucrative Star Trek franchise. Enigmatically billed as the beginning of "A Generation's Final Journey," this richly plotted Next Generation adventure maintains the "even number rule" regarding Trek's feature quality, and it's one of the best in the series. It hits its brisk stride when Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his Enterprise-E crew encounter Shinzon (Tom Hardy), a younger clone of Picard, rejected by the Romulans as the human weapon of an abandoned conspiracy. Raised on the nocturnal Romulan sister planet Remus, Shinzon now plots revenge against Romulus and Earth but needs Picard's blood to carry out his scheme. A wedding, a childlike... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Patrick Stewart - Jonathan Frakes - Brent Spiner Director(s): Stuart Baird DVD Release Date: Released the 04 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Even-numbered Star Trek movies tend to be better, and First Contact (#8 in the popular movie series) is no exception--an intelligently handled plot involving the galaxy-conquering Borg and their attempt to invade Earth's past, alter history, and "assimilate" the entire human race. Time travel, a dazzling new Enterprise, and capable direction by Next Generation alumnus Jonathan Frakes makes this one rank with the best of the bunch. Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his able crew travel back in time to Earth in the year 2063, where they hope to ensure that the inventor of warp drive (played by James Cromwell) will successfully carry out his pioneering warp-drive flight and precipitate Earth's "first contact" with an alien race. A seductive Borg queen (Alice Krige)... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jonathan Frakes - Patrick Stewart - Brent Spiner - LeVar Burton - Michael Dorn Director(s): Jonathan Frakes DVD Release Date: Released the 15 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Star Trek fans were decidedly mixed in their reactions to this, the ninth big-screen feature in Paramount's lucrative Trek franchise, but die-hard loyalists will appreciate the way this Next Generation adventure rekindles the spirit of the original Trek TV series while combining a tolerable dose of New-Agey philosophy with a light-hearted plot for the NextGen cast. This time out, Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his executive crew must transport to a Shangri-la-like planet to see why their android crewmate Data (Brent Spiner) has run amuck in a village full of peaceful Ba'ku artisans who--thanks to their planet's "metaphasic radiation"--haven't aged in 309 years.
