Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection is a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray Disc/Digital boxset, released on 7 September 2021, collecting the in 4K HD 2160p resolution remastered 4K UHD releases of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Theatrical and Director's Edition versions), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Theatrical and Director's Cut), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Theatrical and Director's Cut). As is currently usual with UHD/Blu-ray double releases, all special features (excepting the audio commentaries and isolated music score tracks) are only included on the Blu-ray version of the release.
The Motion Picture and Undiscovered Country "Director's Edition/Cut" versions made their HD debut home video format appearances in this set, the first one actually having done so simultaneously in the concurrently released Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition Complete Adventure 4K UHD set.[1]
The set was almost to the day released a year after the preceding 2021 55th anniversary Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection 4K UHD set had been. All discs are in two Viva Elite cases (each respectively containing the seven 4K UHD and eight Blu-ray discs), packaged in a hardboard slip-box. As usual with these releases (geo-restricted to the US and British Canada only, as the – former Blu-ray Region B[2] – European releases do not have these) redeemable codes are included to download the theatrical cuts in 4K resolution digitally.
As is increasingly becoming commonplace, no DVD counterpart was issued for this upgraded release, nor had an exact Blu-ray counterpart of this set for that matter.[3]Save for the Theatrical Cut of the Motion Picture however, each of the six films did see a concurrent individual 4K UHD (without special features) format version standalone release. Additionally, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (The Director's Edition), The Final Frontier, and Undiscovered Country (Theatrical Cut only) were also individually released on Blu-ray. The others did not need an individual Blu-ray release on this occasion, as they had already seen one in similar fashion the year previously with the 4-Movie Collection set release.
Contents[]
For contents and special features, please refer to the individual, standalone entries for
- 4K UHD
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition (with Theatrical Cut disc which was not issued as a standalone release)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Director's Cut
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Director's Cut
- Blu-ray
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition (with its separate special features bonus disc)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Director's Cut)
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Background information[]
- This was the set most Star Trek fans had actually been waiting for and for which several of them had deferred purchase of the 55th anniversary 4-Movie Collection of the year before in order to avoid what they themselves usually refer to as "double-dipping" as evidenced in some of the Amazon.com customer reviews, [2] and as specifically touched upon by TrekNews.net in their below-linked review. The apparent premature release of that issue can almost certainly only be explained by the franchise's desire, not to let Star Trek' anniversary slip by unnoticed in the home video department, obviously bypassing the circumstance that the 4K UHD re-remastering work for The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country, and the "The Director's Edition" of The Motion Picture had not been completed yet at that particular point.[4]
- It was only with the 6-Movie Collection release that the individual 4K UHD versions were also concurrently released, along with the individual Blu-ray concurrent releases of the final two original crew films.
- Unlike previous 4K UHD releases, no separate release of this set was issued in Germany, and German customers had to make do with North American or UK imports, which was hardly an issue anymore as region encoding had entirely been done away with by this time. The standalone release versions on the other hand, continued to see separate German issues though.
Footnotes[]
- ↑ While the Undiscovered Country Director's Cut did, the Director's Edition of The Motion Picture did not premiere on a home video format, but five months earlier as an exclusive on streaming service Paramount+ on 5 April 2022.
- ↑ The Region geo-restricting encoding had, for all intent and purposes, been dispensed with all together by the industry upon the advent of the UHD format, even though that policy change has never been made public officially. This incidentally, has also applied for the Blu-ray disc format, whose region encoding was since late 2009 silently, but gradually, abandoned as well – which in Star Trek's case started with the Blu-ray releases of TOS Season 2 and Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection [1](X) – only to pick up speed from the mid-2010s onward.
- ↑ The 2009 Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray and DVD sets can not be exactly viewed as acceptable older counterparts, if only for their lack of the Director's Versions of The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, and The Undiscovered Country, besides their older, as lesser perceived, remastering quality.
- ↑ According to Star Trek.com, the upgrade took over six months to complete, meaning the work on the Director's Edition had only just begun in late Summer of 2021 when considering its April 2022 premiere on Paramount+.
External links[]
- Review at TrekCore
- Review at TrekNews.net
- Review at Blu-ray.com
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