The 2009 widescreen DVD release of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home included a series of newly made special features, and a digitally remastered version of the original theatrical cut. Having made its debut in the May 2009 Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy release, it was also part of the Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection, concurrently released with the individual title.
The remastering was actually done for the concurrent Blu-ray counterpart release and it was these masters that were downscaled to the SD resolution required for the corresponding DVD release.
Special features[]
Only the newly-produced special features are included on this release, as, ironically, those of the prior Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Special Edition) DVD were only included on its Blu-ray counterpart, excepting the text commentary. This was by no means for technical reasons but entirely intentional; the industry favored the then still relatively new Blu-ray home video format over the DVD, giving it preferential treatment where the special features were concerned in order to entice consumers to make the switch from DVD to the new format. This incidentally, was not limited to Star Trek alone, but concerned an industry-wide phenomenon at the time.
- 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
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