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Series: | Star Trek: Discovery |
Season: | One |
No. of episodes: | 15 |
No. of discs: | 4 5 (Region 2 and 4) |
Run time: | 671 minutes (NTSC) 645 minutes (PAL/SECAM) |
Region 1 release date: | 13 November 2018 |
Region 2 release date: | 18 November 2018 (Scandinavia) 19 November 2018 (UK) 22 November 2018 (Germany) 5 December 2018 (France) 12 December 2018 (Italy) 19 December 2018 (Japan) |
Region 4 release date: | 21 November 2018 (Australasia) |
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Language: | English, Klingon (DTS-HD 5.1) |
Subtitles: | English, French, Portuguese (Region 1) English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish (Region 2) |
Dubbed: | French (Region 1) French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1, Region 2) |
Reference: | ASIN B07G1THTZY (Region 1) ASIN B07GT4PMBN (Region 2, UK) ASIN B07H657XDV (Region 2, Germany) ASIN B07HNFX4CJ (Region 2, France) ASIN B07H9GL2G7 (Region 2, Italy) ASIN B07JFK25PV (Region 2, Japan) ASIN B07G21QKNN (Region 4, Australia) |
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Star Trek: Discovery - Season One is a DVD release, featuring the complete first season of Star Trek: Discovery. The five-disc set was released in North America on 13 November 2018, with other international releases beginning on 19 November 2018. The release was issued as a standard plastic snapcase within its own cardboard foldout slipover cover.
This release was a year later reissued as an otherwise unaltered part of the Region 2-only DIS L'intégrale des saisons 1 & 2 collection, two years later followed as such by the DVD DIS Seasons 1-3 Collection.
Disc contents[]
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Special features[]
Remarkably this release features the same amount of special features as its Blu-ray counterpart, constituting something of a break in release policies as the franchise had up to that point in time favored the Blu-ray format with the inclusion of more special features. Quite conceivably this had been an intentional franchise attempt to avoid the 2014 "The VAM controversy" that had followed the home media format releases of the first two alternate reality films.
The Region 2 and 4 releases had the special features split off on its own, 5th disc.
- Discovering Discovery - The Concepts and Casting of Star Trek: Discovery
- Featurette discussing the initial development of the first season and the casting process, with interviews with producers, writers and actors.
- The Star Trek Theme
- Alex Kurtzman and Jeff Russo discuss the creation of the score for the series, including developing the main title theme.
- Creature Comforts
- Exploring the make-up and prosthetics work on the series, looking at the updated designs for the Klingons, Vulcans and Andorians, as well as the development of the Kelpiens.
- Designing Discovery
- Spotlighting the work of Discovery's production design team, led by Tamara Deverell.
- Creating Space
- Looking at the visual effects of Discovery, and how the team turn initial designs into final sequences.
- Prop Me Up
- How Discovery's props are designed, iterated, and built.
- Feeding Frenzy
- How the work of the series' food stylist contributes to the atmosphere of the sets.
- A Female Touch
- Exploring the strong female presence in Discovery, both on- and off-screen, and the importance of the series' inclusionist message.
- Dress for Success
- Discovery costume designer Gersha Phillips and her team show how they create the extensive range of uniforms, armor, and clothing needed for the series.
- Star Trek: Discovery - The Voyage of Season One
- Featurette looking at the storyline and plot twists of the first season.
Background information[]
This particular release is one of the few individual Star Trek releases followed by the professional industry site The Numbers and for which domestic US home video format sales are known; The Numbers has reported that by November 2021 domestic sales had been realized of US$9.5 million for both this and its Blu-ray counterpart releases. [1] The for a brand-new Star Trek production seemingly disappointing sales could be explained by the sharply divided fan reception the series had engendered. However, there were by this time also generic societal trend issues at play, which had nothing to do with Star Trek, additionally explaining the diminishing sales of physical home video formats. (see: main article)
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