The Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection is a DVD collection, featuring the six Original Series films. Each film has been digitally remastered, and is based on the theatrical cut in each instance. The set is the down-scaled derivative of its Blu-ray counterpart, for which the remastering had been undertaken in the first place. The original 2009 release came with a seventh extra special feature bonus disc.
As with its Blu-ray counterpart, the set had each disc come mounted in its own individual Viva Elite slimline plastic snapcase, all of them stored in a hardboard slipcase. The Region 1 hardboard slipcase box itself was protected by a transparent plastic slipcover on which the texts were imprinted, whereas the lenticular, holographic picture was imprinted on the box. The Canadian English/French bilingual release, was issued with a slightly re-designed slipcover. The Region 2 releases though, had all texts imprinted on the box itself which did not come with the plastic slipcover.
The Region 1 release has been reissued twice, but without the bonus disc; the first time was in 2016 on the occasion of Star Trek's 50th anniversary when it was released in a single six-disc plastic snapcase in a cardboard slipcover. The second reissue occurred in 2023 with the snapcase stored within a hardboard slipcase that featured the new Star Trek film posterart as introduced at Star Trek's subsequent lustrum in 2021. No such reissues saw the light in the other regions.
This DVD Collection (along with its Blu-ray counterpart) has been nominated for a Saturn Award for "Best DVD Collection" in 2010, [1] which it won. [2]
Contents[]
Only the newly made special features were included on the discs, contrary to the Blu-ray counterpart set which had the older legacy features stemming from the 2004-2005 "Special Edition" DVDs also included – somewhat ironically in this case.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture[]
- Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Daren Dochterman
- The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture
- Special Star Trek Reunion
- Starfleet Academy: Mystery Behind V'Ger
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan[]
- Commentary by Nicholas Meyer and Manny Coto
- James Horner: Composing Genesis
- Collecting Star Trek's Movie Relics
- Starfleet Academy: Mystery Behind Ceti Alpha VI
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock[]
- Commentary by Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor
- Industrial Light & Magic: The Visual Effects of Star Trek
- Spock: The Early Years
- Star Trek and the Science Fiction Museum Hall of Fame
- Starfleet Academy: Mystery Behind the Vulcan Katra Transfer
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home[]
- Commentary by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman
- Pavel Chekov's Screen Moments
- The Three-Picture Saga
- Star Trek for a Cause
- Starfleet Academy: The Whale Probe
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier[]
- Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Daren Dochterman
- Star Trek Honors NASA
- Hollywood Walk of Fame: James Doohan
- Starfleet Academy: Nimbus III
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country[]
- Original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1
- Commentary by Larry Nemecek and Ira Steven Behr
- Tom Morga: Alien Stuntman
- To Be Or Not To Be: Klingons and Shakespeare
- Starfleet Academy: Praxis
Star Trek: The Captains' Summit[]
A bonus disc, featuring a 70-minute round table discussion between William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, and Jonathan Frakes, chaired by Whoopi Goldberg.
Background information[]
This particular release is one of several individual Star Trek releases followed by the professional industry site The Numbers and for which domestic (USA & Canada) home video format sales are known; The Numbers has reported that by January 2023 domestic sales had been realized of US$16 million for both this and its Blu-ray counterpart releases. [3]
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