The TOS picks I like too, Space Seed and Journey to Babel are amoung my favorite TOS episodes. This is all obviously marketed towards fans of the movie trying to ease into the series, and these are good picks for that, especially Journey to Babel with some backstory on Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites.

Me too.

I’m grateful that it’s finally come out in a form that gives me an excuse to purchase it. For years I’ve wanted to try to identify all the extras playing crime bosses in Krako’s office. Especially, because I’m a bit of a Paul Sorvino fan and my brain keeps flashing on him being in the episode but I’ve never caught a frame with him in it to absolutely verify whether that gut feeling is true.

I also think that people are falling for the marketing term “Best of” as marketing intended but ultimately taking it far too literally. It’s not as if Paramount submitted these collections to a scholarly board for suggestions of what their compositions should be. No, these collections are largely what marketing research tells them will not only move these discs off the retail shelves but also with at least one episode that most would find unexpectedly entertaining and lead to more discs being purchased.

I cannot find the posting anymore.

I am not sure why that is, but I hope to correct that deficiency once I find a job.

Plus both stories have been featured on other collections, which is the problem I have with these collections. Paramount is double dipping too many time using the same episodes from one collection to another.

and I agree… they should try using stories that are more cognizant of the ensemble.

I have to agree; it’s moderately amusing between cringe-worthy moments, but nowhere near a candidate for a “Best Of” collection. How many of these are they planning to release, does anyone know?

A Piece of the Action is a great episode with the humor and history behind it. The ship that leaves “the book” behind on that planet is the “Horizon”. This is the same cargo ship that Ens Travis Mayweather from ENT was born on. The ship visited the planet for some repairs and left behind some articles. The currently available paperback book from the ENT series titled “Kobiashi Maru” explains this.