Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season

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Star Trek Memories, 2008-11-02
Watched the 1st DVD - was amazed by the picture quality and sound - well done!!!!!

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Out of Sequence ...?, 2008-09-05
One thing I noticed when looking at the playlist for Season 1 is that the episodes at the beginning are out of sequence. For example, the VHS tapes I have (also published by Paramount) have the first four episodes listed as: The Cage (not in the set, by the way); Where No Man Has Gone Before; The Corobomite Maneuver; Mudd's Women. The first disc, according to the booklet (haven't had a chance to watch these yet) shows: The Man Trap; Charlie X; Where No Man Has Gone Before; The Naked Time. This is radically different in sequence. While I am not a 100% purist, particularly where the original series goes (since the main characters were all at the same place at the end of each episodes), it is still odd that we have such a huge dichotomy in the sequence of the shows. It's at least slightly disturbing.

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Philosophy clothed in Action / Adventure in Space, 2008-08-20
The strength if the original Trek series is the philosophical underpinnings of its structure and story lines. br / br /Even in the silliest episodes, there is an exploration of age-old questions. br / br /What is man? What is logic, will , emotion and how do they co-exist in the human psyche to achieve human ideals. br / br /The first season of Trek was the best and its representatives of the human troika (Kirk=Will, Spock=Logic, McCoy=Emotion) create the tension of human strivings in the simplest of interactions. br / br /Ignore the silly FX. Enjoy the ideas. For its time, Trek was the best series that was actually about ideas.

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Back to the future which is now the past, 2008-07-16
Kirk had the first cellphone -- with GPS. But all the science and technology and special effects are pleasant reminders of a simpler time in television. What is important about this series is the human story. Kirk and Spock and McCoy demonstrate the beautiful interplay of emotion, logic, humanity and leadership -- all at their best. The crew of the Enterprise, and the entire Federation, were a people of high moral character and ethical behavior. Never was a mean remark allowed to stand, nor a bad act go unpunished. If a rule were broken, it had to be done to accomplish a greater good.

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Don't these Star Trek DVDs of the original TV series!, 2008-07-01
After careful of the contents list of each episode, I have noticed that one episode is missing - "Assignment Earth". It was the story of an alien (played by Robert Lansing) who is intersepted by the Enterprise. His assgnment: To save earth from itself during a critical period in earth's time (the '60s no less). The episode was to be a spin-off and, like all of Star Trek, far ahead of its time. Appartently, too far for the corporate suits.