DIS Season 5 Blu-ray

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

Series:

Star Trek: Discovery

Season:

Five

No. of episodes:

10

No. of discs:

4
5 (Region 2)

Run time:

576 minutes (NTSC)
553 minutes (PAL)

Director:

Various

Region 1 release date:

27 August 2024 (North America)

Region 2 release date:

19 August 2024 (UK, Benelux, Scandinavia)
22 August 2024 (Germany)
4 September 2024 (France)
6 November 2024 (Japan)

Rating(s):

Language:

English (DTS-HD MA 5.1)

Subtitles:

English SDH, French, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish

Dubbed:

French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (all Dolby Digital 5.1)

Reference:

ASIN B0D5RC2YD8 (Region 1, North America)
ASIN B0D6RJN4T4 (Region 2, UK)
EAN-13 8719372017876 (Region 2, Benelux)
EAN-13 7333018031050 (Region 2, Scandinavia)
ASIN B0D69K2CR7 (Region 2, Germany)
ASIN B0D6SZ4DPQ (Region 2, France)
ASIN B0DD6BDJVV {Region 2, Japan)

Year:

2024

Star Trek: Discovery – The Final Season is a DVD release, featuring the complete fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery in standard resolution. The set debuted in the UK and several EU countries on 19 August 2024, followed a week later by its North American release. The release came packaged as the standard four/five-disc holding plastic snap-case in a cardboard slip-over sleeve.

Even though the region-restriction is still upheld in full for the DVD home video format, contrary to its Blu-ray counterparts, contents are unified for all regions for cost efficiency reasons.

Disc contents[]

Note: contents organization as employed for the North American Region 1 release. Region 2 releases have their contents spread over five discs as specified to the bottom right.

Disc	Episode
1	"Red Directive" "Under the Twin Moons" "Jinaal"
2	"Face the Strange" "Mirrors" "Whistlespeak"
3	"Erigah" "Labyrinths" "Lagrange Point"
4	"Life, Itself" Special Features Audio commentary "Life, Itself" with writer/co-producer Michelle Paradise, producing director Olatunde Osunsanmi, and cast members Sonequa Martin-Green and David Ajala. 1 deleted scene "Life, Itself" Star Trek: Discovery – The Voyage Of Season 5 (39:00) – Writers, producers, directors, and cast are interviewed about the making of the ten episodes. Being Michael Burnham: The Captain's Log (13:00) – In this log Sonequa Martin-Green takes fans through her personal journey as the newly-promoted Captain Burnham. A Team Effort (20:00) – Co-showrunner Michele Paradise talks about the pressure of making a high quality show and how it comes down to teamwork to pull off a show with special emphasis on the production design department. Character Development (23:00) – Cast and crew discuss the character arcs over all five seasons. Discovery's Creative Force (10:00) – A tribute to Olatunde Osunsanmi. Gag Reel (4:00)

Background information[]

As with the previous four releases, this release features the same amount of special features as its DVD counterpart, constituting something of a break in release policies as the Star Trek franchise had until 2017 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 "second VAM controversy" that had followed in the wake of the home video format releases of the first two alternate reality films.
Though it had its own Blu-ray counterparts released as well, Spain became one of the Region 2 territories who opted to forego on the DVD iteration, trusting they could rely on imports from other Region 2 territories, the UK in particular, just like other Region 2 countries who had not even bothered to contemplate their own Blu-ray/DVD version releases (such as Italy) had to. This is indicative of the fast dwindling relevance of the DVD home video format in the current society.

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