Trek to DVD

The original Star Trek series is being released on DVD.

It's time to go back to the beginning, as Paramount Home Entertainment release the original Star Trek series on DVD.

A box set featuring the first season will be released on 30th August. Highlights include Where no Man has Gone Before in which Captain Kirk is forced to do battle with his close friend Lieutenant Mitchell, who threatens to take over the galaxy.

In The Conscience of the King Kirk suspects the head of a theatre troupe to be a notorious mass murderer on the run, while in the two-part The Menagerie, Spock faces a court-martial after hijacking the Enterprise in a bid to return a dying former Starfleet captain to a forbidden planet.

The box set comes with a whole host of extras, including:

• Preview trailers
• Text commentary for the episodes Where No Man Has Gone Before, The Menagerie Part I and Part II and The Conscience of the King
• Trailers for Star Trek The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, and Star Trek: Voyager
• The Birth of a Timeless Legacy
• Life Beyond Trek: William Shatner
• To Boldly Go... Season One
• Reflections on Spock
• Sci-Fi Visionaries
• Photo Log
• Kiss 'n' Tell: Romance in the 23rd Century
• Trekker Connections game

Related Links

• BBC Star Trek site
  

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