STAR TREK Original Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray

STAR TREK Original Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: May 27th, 2009 at 10:01 pm

The short version review of Star Trek Original Motion Picture Collection is this: there have been some complaints about the picture quality of some of the Star Trek Blu-ray’s. I’m not saying I’m a greater expert than some of the people who’ve reviewed these things, but whatever qualitative differences that are to be had seem to come from the source material over anything else. If you love these films and have a Blu-ray player, you’re getting something close to definitive for at least half of the collection (the only question would be the three films that have director’s cuts). If you’re a casual fan, you might be better off buying the trilogy version. But there are plusses and minuses to most of the films, and if you’re a fan of the franchise, you can even find things to like in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. All films come in widescreen (2.35:1) and in Dolby Digital 7.1 TrueHD, and all films come with a trivia track called a library computer with factoids about the universe (not about the actors, etc.), and each film comes with a Starfleet academy brief about the film at hand (these run from 3-5 minutes and have a pretty girl talking about the science of the films. Grrr). I would argue these transfers are as good as they get. All films also come with BD-Live content, which appears to mostly be trivia games.

As for Star Trek, I was not a fan for a long time, until I came to the original series recently, and so I can respect anyone who says that Star Trek V is unredeemable garbage. It is (it even has a satellite that screams when shot), if you don’t care about the characters or the franchise enough to look past its myriad of problems. And in The Motion (less) Picture. That’s the sad part of fandom. The concessions that repetition of a bad thing can create those pockets of good, and arguably even the worst of these six have their moments.

For my reviews of each film, continue reading after the jump:

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