A LITTLE BACKGROUND
Originally started by Gene Roddenberry in 1964 Star Trek quickly established itself as one of the most groundbreaking and intelligent plot led science fiction series ever made. For the first time the genre was targeted at an adult audience and often very problematic themes ... Read review
Saved from the brink of cancellation by its loyal fanbase,Star Trek's third and final ... more
season rewarded them with a number of memorable episodes. Tight budgets and slipping creative control, however, made it the most uneven, though it did have some of t...
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STAR TREK ?SERIES 3 takes the viewer on board the USS Enterprise. This seven disc set ... more
contains all 26 episodes, as well as over three hours of new material for the hardened trekker.The release also includes colour and black and white versions of 'The Cage', the original pilot for Star Trek. Extras not featured on the US generic release include: Collectible Trek, Walter Koenig's home, one of James Doohan's last interviews, Memoir from Mr. Sulu, and many more.
Captain Kirk and the intrepid crew of the Starship Enterprise set sail for their final ... more
season of mind-blowing small screen adventures. The final mission of the original Starship Enterprise is one no science fiction fan can afford to be without. Episodes Comprise: 1. Spock's Brain 2. The Enterprise Incident 3. The Paradise Syndrome 4. And the Children Shall Lead 5. Is There In Truth No Beauty? 6. Spectre Of The Gun 7. Day Of The Dove 8. For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky 9. The Tholian Web 10. Plato's Stepchildren 11. Wink Of An Eye 12. The Empath 13. Elaan Of Troyius 14. Whom Gods Destroy 15. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 16. The Mark Of Gideon 17. That Which Survives 18. The Lights Of Zetar 19. Requiem For Methuselah 20. The Way To Eden 21. The Cloudminders 22. The Savage Curtain 23. All Our Yesterdays 24. Turnabout Intruder
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Captain Kirk and the intrepid crew of the Starship Enterpriseset sail for their final ... more
season of mind-blowing small screenadventures. The final mission of the original Starship Enterpriseis one no science fiction fan can afford to be without. Episodes: 1. Spock's Brain 2. The Enterprise Incident 3. The Paradise Syndrome 4. And the Children Shall Lead 5. Is There In Truth No Beauty? 6. Spectre Of The Gun 7. Day Of The Dove 8. For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky 9. The Tholian Web 10. Plato's Stepchildren 11. Wink Of An Eye 12. The Empath 13. Elaan Of Troyius 14. Whom Gods Destroy 15. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 16. The Mark Of Gideon 17. That Which Survives 18. The Lights Of Zetar 19. Requiem For Methuselah 20. The Way To Eden 21. The Cloudminders 22. The Savage Curtain 23. All Our Yesterdays 24. Turnabout Intruder
Production Year: 1987 - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Futuristic - Director: Paul Michael Glaser - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Dawson
Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Production Year: 1979 - Science Fiction - Director: Ridley Scott - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright
Advantages: Essential for the true fan, good extras Disadvantages: not remastered
...by Gene Roddenberry in 1964 Star Trek quickly established itself as one of the most groundbreaking and intelligent plot led science fiction series ever made. For the first time the genre was targeted at an adult audience and often very problematic themes were dealt with which could only get past the restrictive censorship of the time due to the fantastical nature of the program.
The vision of the future was a benign one where humanity ... ...all the episodes the original Star Trek series (first broadcast between 1968 and 1969).
On disc 7 Star trek fans get a real treat, the original pilot episode first commissioned in September 1964 featuring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike (with no captain Kirk!) Indeed two different versions are included one in colour and one where the action switches from colour to B/W, which was never shown. Apart from Kirk missing we also get to see ... more
A LITTLE BACKGROUND
Originally started by Gene Roddenberry in 1964 Star Trek quickly established itself as one of the most groundbreaking and intelligent plot led science fiction series ever made. For the first time the genre was targeted at an adult audience and often very problematic themes were dealt with which could only get past the restrictive censorship of the time due to the fantastical nature of the program.
The vision of the future was a benign one where humanity despite having gone through further wars (thought to be an inevitability in the cold war times in which the series was made) the essential human spirit of tolerance and the advancement of technology and science had produced and bright future.
SEASON 3
After the highs of season 1 and 2 the third series was set to continue the success. The crew was cast and had become familiar and much loved amongst fans. The advantage of having largely well developed characters is the writer could concentrate on the storylines. However things didn't quite go to plan. The premise of the show was still the same the Starship Enterprise is still on a five-year mission…'To seek out new life and civilizations-to boldly go where no man has gone before.' But in the eyes of most fans series 3 was the worst and some of the storylines were of very poor quality, maybe in this case the success and familiarity of the previous series led to complacency amongst the programme makes and it wasn't long before this (along with disastrous re-scheduling of the series) audiences dropping. Tightening budgets and decreasing creative control by Roddenberry didn't help either and eventually the series was axed at the end of season 3.
The complete season three collection is on a 7-DVD set containing all the episodes the original Star Trek series (first broadcast between 1968 and 1969).
On disc 7 Star trek fans get a real treat, the original pilot episode first commissioned in September 1964 featuring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike (with no captain Kirk!) Indeed two different versions are included one in colour and one where the action switches from colour to B/W, which was never shown. Apart from Kirk missing we also get to see an early incarnation of a much more emotional Mr Spock as science officer and Majel Barrett who later went on to become Nurse Chapel and Mrs. Gene Roddenberry as the female first officer. Some may be surprised on watching this to recognise some of this footage without having ever seen the original pilot, this is explained by the fact that some of the pilot was used in a season one episode called 'The Menagerie'.
Episodes:
Disc 1:
Spock's Brain The Enterprise Incident The Paradise Syndrome And the Children Shall Lead
Disc 2:
Is There In Truth No Beauty? Spectre of the Gun Day of the Dove For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Disc 3:
The Tholian Web Plato's Stepchildren Wink of an Eye The Empath
Disc 4:
Elaan of Troyius Whom Gods Destroy Let That Be Your Last Battlefield The Mark of Gideon
Disc 5:
That Which Survives The Lights of Zetar Requiem For Methuselah The Way to Eden
Disc 6:
The Cloud Minders The Savage Curtain All Our Yesterdays Turnabout Intruder
Having said that season 3 might not have been up to the high standards of the previous seasons that is not to say that it didn't include some excellent episodes some of which have come to be the most memorable of the show as a whole.
THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT- Kirk goes Romulan. A complex story line sees the crew of the enterprise try to steal the Romulan cloaking device. The female Romulan commander tempts Spock and Kirk is killed!… Surely not!?
THE THOLIAN WEB- the enterprise ventures into 'interphase' and is caught like a giant fly in an electronic spider's web created by the mysterious Tholians.
THE PARADISE SYNDROME- Kirk loses his memory and goes native on a world resembling Earth amongst a society very similar to the Native Americans.
PLATO'S STEPCHILDREN- The first interracial kiss on TV. The crew of the enterprise are trapped by psychokinetic beings that can exert physical control over them. During one of the many games they are forced to play Kirk and Uhura kiss.
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS- Time travel antics. Kirk Spock and McCoy step through a time portal and get trapped in the past on a planet about to be destroyed by a dying star.
William Shatner…Capt Kirk Leonard Nimoy …Spock Deforest Kelley…Dr Mcoy James Doohan…Scott (Scotty) Nichelle Nichols…Lt Uhura George Takei .... Lt. Hikaru Sulu Walter Koenig … Pavel Andreievich Chekov
This 7disc DVD collection comes in a brightly coloured red high tech looking box (actually plastic!) The individual DVDs have nice pictures of the individual characters on the front all nicely presented with obvious appeal to Trek fans. The presentation as in the previous two offerings is great and the special features also live up to the season 2 high standards.
Special Features
Once again there is affair collection of special features included in the box set.
Collectible Trek -
This is a mini-documentary explaining how over the years as the series has gained cult status a huge industry has built up in Start Trek memorabilia and merchandise. Some items being extremely collectible and being worth decent amounts of money the items can be anything to do with the series from original props used in the show communicators, etc to merchandise like mugs, posters or even lunchboxes. The feature included interviews with some collectors, designers and Leornard Nimoy.
To Boldly Go Season 3 -
Members of the cats and production crew tell tales of the making of the third and final series. It seemed likely to all concerned when the ratings started to slip that the threat of cancellation was present. The contributors to this interesting piece tell us of some of the tension and difficulties this caused behind the scenes.
Life Beyond Trek: Walter Koenig
A short profile of Walter Koenig (Chekov) and what he's up to since Star Trek. TV projects are highlighted as well as the different conventions and charity work that he undertakes. We also get a chance to see his home and his collection of Star trek memorabilia.
Chief Engineer's Log -
Sadly actor James Doohan who famously played Chief Engineer Scotty in the series died in July 2005. This short film is one of the last interviews he gave before being forced to retire though ill health in 2004. He began suffering from Alzheimer's disease at this time. A frail looking Doohan discusses his role in the series and the spin off films.
Memoir from Mr Sulu
One of the most groundbreaking aspects of Star Trek when it first began was its use of ethic characters as part of the crew. Uhura was a woman of African origins, Chekov was Russian quite a statement to make with the spectre of Cold war politics still firmly in the public mind and Sulu was Asian again bringing to mind overtones on the threat of communism and the last war. However all these characters were very positive role models and the show projected a bright united future for the peoples of the world. This can seem quite naïve looking back on it now but at the time it was a bold statement to make. For George Takei the actor that plays Sulu these themes resonated even more strongly as this short film explains. In it he visits the interment camp in which his family were placed during the World War 2. Takei was American born and even though he was only a child at the time his Japanese origins still made him and his family as perceived threat during the war. Of course he was not alone as 120,000 Japanese Americans were unjustly treated in this way. This sad chapter in US history provokes some deep emotions in the Japanese American community and Takei illustrates this in this film.
It seems clear that a vision of a united world at ease with racial differences as that portrayed in the TV show would resonate well with ethic communities at the time and for Takei himself.
Star Trek's Impact
As I have hinted above the vision of Star Trek is above all hopeful for humanity. Created at a time were nuclear war seemed inevitable and had almost happened a few year earlier of the coast of Cuba with the infamous missile crisis Gene Roddenberry put forward a vision of a world were past difference between races and nations had been resolved. The Earth was now a symbol of unity as part of the federation of planets and technology had made life better for everyone. Yes this was only a Sci-fi show on TV but it reached a young audience whose sensibilities can't have failed to be affected by it optimistic visions of the next centuries.
Eugene Roddenberry Gene Rodenberry's son give a personal account of how his father's vision of the future impacted on its' time and discusses some of his father's belief and hopes for the future.
A Star Trek Collector's Dream Come True
This is another short item looking at the collectibility of the shows original props. Model maker John Long tells us how he made accurate reproductions of the original items such as the communicators and phasers.
Red Shirt Logs -
Short interviews and anecdotes form the cast including Shatner and Nimoy of their time on the show, hidden features included.
Format: PAL Language English Region: Region 2 Classification: PG Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) DVD Release Date: 6 Dec 2004 Run Time: 999 minutes ASIN: B000273LSY
OVERALL
As I mentioned before on the reviews of the series one and two collections it would've been nice for the producers to have spent a little extra money re-mastering the prints used on the DVD to rejuvenate the picture quality. Despite this the collection is worth having for any series trek fan and will provide hours of interesting viewing in between star trek conventions!
So much as been written about the series and so many interviews have been given that is difficult to find something new to say but by looking at some different aspect of the lives of the people involved in making the show I think this box set just as the previous one adds something worthwhile to the overall Start Trek 'world'. While the possession of the complete list of the TV show will a must for hardened fans I think for new viewers especially younger ones the show still has the ability to captivate and provoke thought even after all these years. It's still the daddy of them all!
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Mauri 20.09.2006 (20.09.2006)
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Review of Star Trek - The Original Series - Series 3 - Complete (DVD)
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Release date
06/12/2004
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
PHE 8418
Barcode
5014437841834
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
4:3 Full Frame
DVD Description
Produced by Fred Freiberger, STAR TREK – SERIES 3 takes the viewer on board the USS Enterprise. This seven disc set contains all 26 episodes, as well as over three hours of new material for the hardened trekker. The release also includes colour and black and white versions of 'The Cage', the original pilot for Star Trek. Extras not featured on the US generic release include: Collectible Trek, Walter Koenig's home, one of James Doohan's last interviews, Memoir from Mr. Sulu, and many more.
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