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Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete Second Season (Remastered) | 
| Actor: William Shatner
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 248
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Original Recording Remastered, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 8
Running Time: 1311 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.5 x 2.3
MPN: PARD132664D
UPC: 097361326641
EAN: 0097361326641
ASIN: B0017VG69U
Release Date: August 5, 2008
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/05/2008
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The most famous episode in franchise history, "The Trouble with Tribbles," is one of the highlights of the second season of Star Trek: The Original Series. A deserved classic, the humorous story centers on an ever-expanding mass of furry creatures that memorably rain themselves down on top of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and into the middle of a Federation-Klingon showdown. It inspired one of the most memorable episodes in the spin-off series Deep Space Nine, "Trial and Tribble-ations." Also in the second season, the Vulcan culture of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is fleshed out in "Amok Time" (in which Spock is faced with the possibility of killing his captain and friend) and "Journey to Babel" (introducing Spock's father, played by Mark Sarek, in what would turn out to be a long-recurring role). A new character, navigator Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), was introduced; his Monkees haircut was intended to appeal to the younger audience, but he was also a Russian, which at the height of the cold war reflected Gene Roddenberry's optimistic vision of a more enlightened future. Other social-commentary opportunities presented themselves in "The Omega Glory," "The Doomsday Machine," and "Assignment: Earth," the last also one of those periodic opportunities to scrimp on the budget by time-traveling to an earlier version of Earth. Another example was "A Piece of the Action," a comic episode set in the Roaring Twenties and memorable for, among other things, Kirk's teaching a made-up card game called Fizzbin. In other significant episodes, "I, Mudd" saw the return of the bounder from season 1, "The Changeling" was the original inspiration for the first Trek feature film a decade later, "Wolf in the Fold" (penned by the author of Psycho) provides an example of the series' great writing, and "Mirror, Mirror" introduced the concept of the parallel universe inhabited by vicious, amoral counterparts of the regular crew, another theme later borrowed (more than once, and to good emotional effect) by DS9. On the DVD
The remastered episodes are the highlight of the 2008 second-season release; like in season one, the reworked visual effects might irk purists but are an improvement overall, and some of the space exteriors are very exciting. It's not in high definition, however; season one was released in 2007 on two-sided combination HD DVD and standard DVD discs, which are now obsolete. Season two mimics the packaging, but is only standard-definition DVD, not Blu-ray. The picture, while obviously not high-definition quality, is still much improved over the 2004 DVD release. Special features here mostly mirror that 2004 set: 80 minutes of featurettes ("To Boldly Go" season recap, " Kirk, Spock & Bones: The Great Trio," "Star Trek's Divine Diva," "Designing the Final Frontier," and "Writer's Notebook: D.C. Fontana"), though missing from this set are the text commentaries on two episodes, the Red Shirt Logs, the production art, and the photo gallery. There are two new featurettes: "Star Trek's Favorite Moments," in which cast members of later Trek franchises and fans recall certain episodes, and "Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest, part 2," in which a Trek extra tells stories and shows some of his on-set home movies. And because season 2 includes "The Trouble with Tribbles," the set includes two bonus episodes: "More Tribbles, More Troubles" from the Animated Series and "Trials and Tribble-ations" from Deep Space Nine. Conveniently, all three Tribble-centric episodes are on the same disc, and include the bonus features from the earlier DVD releases (the commentary by writer David Gerrold on "More Troubles" and the two featurettes--"Uniting Two Legends" and "An Historic Endeavor"--from "Tribble-ations"). The bonus episodes were not remastered, and you can tell the difference when comparing the original Tribble episode on this set with the grainier footage that was used in the DS9 episode. A minor annoyance is that the discs are one-sided but appear to be two-sided, as if they had been designed for combo HD DVD again before a late change. That means the info on the disc is restricted to a ring around the middle, rather than a full label that could have listed the episodes on each disc; as is, they're only listed on the glossy "collector's data cards." And once again, the plastic shell is clunky and the disc spindles are way too tight. All in all, it's a nice package, especially if one doesn't already have the other Tribble episodes, but it feels like it's floating in a standard-definition limbo, stuck in the transition between HD DVD and Blu-ray. --David Horiuchi
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Red Shirt Issue November 18, 2008
John Ellis (New York, NY United States)
Given that this is obviously the issue before the Blu-Ray version, perhaps it should come packaged in a red shirt. For those of us who resist the HD charms to come, this is fine, though the extras on the first issue should have been included. Of the three seasons, this is the most stable without the lows of the other two (when it could sink to "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" level, as in "Spock's Brain", the ludicrous first episode of season three, or the standard space monster plot of the very first broadcast) and with several very good episodes. The acting relationships were well established, and the cast secure in their jobs, so they could riff on each other and Shatner could show some humor, though his opinion of his own acting as revealed in the better image is, well, over the top. He is always one of those actors who wears his ego on his sleeve. Roddenberry would have certainly done the better space effects here if he could have afforded them at the time, whether or not he would have wanted the specific choices made (relative to the material, those shots for instance of the circling vehicles in "Tribbles" are nifty). They do invite comparisons for the series to more recent sci-fi productions which on a technical level it can't win, so it's a trade-off. As if your childhood lunches were retroactively made with home baked organic bread; you're a half-inch taller so it's better but you remember and miss the memory of the Wonder Bread all the same.
One unmixed improvement is the colors - which are fauvistically vibrant in many scenes, with very imaginative lighting, very Jack Kirby primary colors used in bold patterns. Like hearing remastered Rolling Stones singles in mono, they didn't ever come through the broadcast channels like this. At this point, there's not a lot to discover in these stories if you grew up with them, but if you want to relive it it's done well. "Star Trek" was the Grimm's fairy tales of the boomer generation. The packing is visually fun but the packaging engineer is no Scotty, mallomars are more carefully enclosed. Given the price (though it's down from the last issue) it could be more ergonomically sound. That thin piece of floppy squared off plastic that slides around the plain multi-disk pack is doomed to die on a lonely planet just before the second commercial.
 Star Trek 2nd Season Remastered November 5, 2008
Captain Kirk (Space the final fronteer)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This supplier sent item at breathtaking speed. Extradionary Service.
5 Stars are not enough to express my delight. Perhaps 8 stars.
Star Trek The Original Series - Second Season (Remastered) November 3, 2008
Timothy T. Welch (Brentwood, Ca. USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If your a fan of Star Trek, this is a must have for your collection!
The remastered scenes are done with a lot of care and do not change the
flow of the original story. Great way to get new fans to watch,
and give old fans a little something new to see.
Star Trek The Original Series - Second Season October 17, 2008
T. J. Daniel (Texas)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The discs themselves are in great condition. The box however was broken so doesn't work as expected.
big excitement, super detail October 6, 2008
J. KNOWLES (Wimington, MA USA)
I watched scratchy Star Trek reruns on UHF when I
was younger. The difference is...well, light-years!
These discs seem to beyond even the usual cleanup
effects. There is detail, but the color is spot-on
true to the cheesy props, and some of the added
footage, like in "Amok Time", is super. You can
see the pulp sci-fi art-work, the wardrobe details
in "A piece of the Action", the funky face pigments
on the 'aliens'. Sound is super. My daughter is
enjoying the cool packaging,too.
It costs, but it's great.
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