{"id":29695,"date":"2022-04-02T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29695"},"modified":"2022-04-02T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T15:25:00","slug":"on-the-best-of-star-trek-the-original-series-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/02\/on-the-best-of-star-trek-the-original-series-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series<\/em> (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookAs you know, gentle reader, I am about half way through James Blish’s short paperbacks collecting episodes from the Star Trek<\/em> series (see also Star Trek<\/em><\/a>, Star Trek 2<\/a><\/em>, Star Trek 3<\/a><\/em>, Star Trek 4<\/a><\/em>, and Star Trek 5<\/a><\/em> for the recent re-reads or click here<\/a> to see earlier and future<\/em> re-reads–which will include the others in this timeline that I post later than I post this). Last Christmas, I received gift certificates for the antique mall again, $100 worth this time (with a six month expiration and no change returned, so a very old school type of giftcertificate). As I mentioned in the report on Star Trek 4<\/a><\/em>, I looked for episodes of the original series at Relics Antique Mall last month. Although I did not find any physical media for the original series on that trip–one in which my buying focus was finding one big thing, like a set of fencing equipment, a receiver to serve as a back up in the parlor, or something that cost $100, I went again later with two certificates to look specifically at DVDs and videocassettes, and amongst a number of videos that I have not yet begun to watch, I spotted this DVD (and bought it, of course).<\/p>\n

This 2009 release comes at a time when Paramount released the first season of the original series on Blu-Ray, remastered and with remixed sound. One assumes that this was a bit of a loss leader, a way to pitch the new set to people who maybe casually or perhaps a little more than casually enjoyed the original series but hadn’t seen it in a while. 2009, man. They probably still had video stores like Suncoast back then, ainna? Certainly the Best Buys and Walmarts still had fairly robust video sections in Electronics.<\/p>\n

So this single DVD collects four episodes:<\/p>\n