How’s that wait going then, what… three years later? Good for you is it? Watching this incredible, historic restoration of Star Trek TOS-R has certainly been good for me. You do realise you will die “waiting”… don’t you? This is the one and only restoration, as no one would be stupid enough to merge state of the art ultra realistic effects with 1960’s live action scenes. It would clash and jar the viewer. The CGI was done to look like the original model-work for a reason. Like they would have made it had the technology to sue computers instead of models. Also, seeing as they have both the original effects and updated effects, it seems everyone but you is catered for.

But I am finding that there is one draw back to the set that I would tell people needs to be fixed before purchasing the set. On my Samsung Blu-Ray BD-1590 the Star Trek movies set plays fine with the audio commentary and all that, plus all the other Blu-Rays that I have from Paramount and other studios, but with the Star Trek Season 1 Blu-Ray, whether I’m watching an episode with or without the Starfleet Access turned on, my Blu-Ray player doesn’t seem to pick up the Starfleet Access all that well and it will go back to where Starfleet Access segment that it’s on started, or even when watching an episode that doesn’t have the Access or with an episode that has the Access but switched off, the player does the same thing. And sometimes it’ll only repeat the last 10 seconds, while other times it will repeat the last 10 minutes.

Somehow I think that when CBS and Paramount were encoding the Blu-Ray’s there must’ve been a tiny mistake or something that was left over from the HD-DVD encoding that does not sit well with Blu-Ray players, and is causing a lot of “hiccups” in the playback.

But as I said, this is only happening on the Star Trek Season 1 Blu-Ray set, and on none of the other sets or movies that I have on Blu-Ray. So, hopefully, CBS and Paramount will resolve the issue before they release Season 2 of the show.

It is really unfortunate that considering the movie coming out May 7 and featuring Capt. Pike, that they did not also include at least the fully restored color version of “The Cage” as bonus material on this disk, even if they supply the it with the B&W version on the 3rd season. Anyone who buys this collection as the result of seeing the film (i.e. NOT ALREADY A FAN) would benefit from the inclusion. But I guess the Menagerie handles this chapter of Trek well enough.

Too bad they organized the series by airdate rather than production order which makes so much more sense. Why on Earth would they do this?

But thats ok. As long as the original, unaltered episodes are included
with the remastered ones, I dont see why everyone wouldnt be
happy with this release.”

The gaps above the ship (seen above in the original FX from “Tomorrow
Is Yesterday”) are just not fixable (take it from me, I work in Photoshop
all day). It’s actually easier to re-render the whole shot, like they did,
than to clean up a misaligned hole-shaped-like-a-ship.

Amazon just lowered the price on this set to $65! If you’ve already pre-ordered it, the new price should automatically be entered in your cart (I checked and mine was change).

If you haven’t pre-ordered, do it now while this price lasts!

Jon