Star Trek - The Film Collection [1979] - DVD (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes - Dir: )

Offering all ten Star Trek movies to date in one complete set, this particular collection is a terrific guided tour through the highs and lows of one of the world's most enduring and important science fiction franchises. The highlights and lowlights are, as folklore correctly dictates, generally determined by whether the movie in question is odd or even numbered. Certainly adventures 1, 3, 5 and 7 are on the weaker side, although this reviewer does profess a soft spot for the ninth film in the series, Insurrection. But the even numbered entries in the series, with the possible exception of the last--Star Trek: Nemesis--have offered some terrific big screen science fiction over the past decades.

If there's a highlight, then Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan is generally regarding as good as the best the cinematic franchise got, although the humour-laced Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is also great fun. The original cast bow out with the similarly strong Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, while the Next Generation crew had taken over come the terrific, action-packed Borg-fight in Star Trek: First Contact.

Certainly, the movies of Star Trek have seen their off days, but there's enough sci-fi entertainment in this excellent set to easily warrant its asking price. --Jon Foster

Customer Reviews of Star Trek - The Film Collection [1979]

Chrispy
UK
9th October 2008

Fantastic must own for any Star Trek fan!
Fantastic product! Double disk edition of every film. In a great box. Slimline Dvds. What more could you ask for?! (Although I only paid £35 in September 2008 from Amazon, not the £98 they now are asking for!)

ladyevenstar22
saint-martin,caribbean
27th August 2008

i'm gonna order this asap ,ratio quality/quantity cant beat it!!!
i cant believe i nearly bought this set 10days ago but decided to postpone my order until next month, it was around 50£ now its 35£ my heart nearly blinked talk about a bargain, i'm gonna order it now coz i doubt it will or can go any further down..lol..

G. Staniforth
UK
3rd July 2008

ok but
note: theres a new film coming out therefore its going to look silly with 10 films all together then 1 film next to it.

One drop in an ocean of billions
Scotland, UK
5th March 2008

Well worth the money for sure
Ten movies plus extras, you would think it would cost more, wouldn't you? In some places I've seen it priced at up to £200+, here it was just £50, that was with p&p added. For ten movies, plus extras, that's well worth the money for sure.
The movies range from the 1979 Star Trek the Motion Picture up to 2004's Star Trek Nemesis. The picture and sound quality is excellent, the menus on both the feature discs and the extras are low level CGI with scenes or glimpses of what were seen in the movies.

Star Trek the Motion Picture in the collection is the Directors Cut version, so it has CGI fitted in to update some scenes. The rest of the movies have been cleaned up and the sound has been improved.
There are tributes to Deforest 'Bones' Kelly and to others who have starred or worked on Star Trek over it's 40+ years added in with the extras on some movies and a few of the movies have deleted scenes in them. The interviews can be dull, but that happens.

So ten movies, plus extras, still doubting over getting the collection? Bad pun time: Resistence is futile.

strato666
Clydebank, Scotland
12th February 2008

Cant Get Much Better
This is an essential purchase for any self respecting star trek fan, needless to say, and even if u arent a "trekkie" this is still bloody brilliant value! i mean you get the special editions for all ten movies (2 discs for each movie! unbelieveable amount of extras right here). ok, 50 pound is stil a fair amount of money and not all of the movies are here great, but considering exactly what you get here, and the general quality of the movies themselves, not to mention the overall presentation of the set (beautiful, chunky yet somehow still fairly slim generally fantastic looking thing)means that this is a serious bargain for money. Below is my opinion and small review of each individual movie.

The Motion Picture - U - 07/10 - in my opinion betetr than most people think it is: very talky and doesnt make great use of characters, but it has a certain charm about it that still makes it a great watch.

The wrath of Khan - 12 - 10/10 - the daddy of em all. not much to say except that it is a brilliant, intense and seriously thrilling chase movie that, unusually for star trek, gives u some genuine emotional moments as well, as well as humanising the main cast (though mostly only Bones, spock and kirk) than u may be used to.

The search for spock - PG - 09/10 - Great movie as well as being quite dark it carries on the slightly more emotional character based substance of the previous movie and develops on it a bit. overall great movie with brilliant action scenes, and some genuinly intense moments.

The Voyage home - PG - 09/10 - another brilliant movie: very different, little in the way of emotional kicks or intensity, but ENDLESSLY entertaining and as funny as anything. Quite feel good in a lot of parts as well. entertainement doesnt get much more literally entertaining than this.

The final fronteir - PG - 05/10 - def the worst trek movie, it undos all the progress the movies had really amde in humanising the characters, showing them to be at times stunningly stupid and the whole boring, dragging unfunny mess leaves a bad taste in the mouth

The Undiscovered country - 08/10 - ah, this is more like it! not quite as good as movies 2-4, but still great stuff, excellent for its potrayal of kirks racist side, has some great drama in there occasionally: all in all, some emotional bits, an interesting plot and some exciting moments really keep you entertained and thrilled throughout

Generations - 09/10 - i know i will be lambasted for this, but i dont care, i LOVE this movie! a lot of people point to the rather empty story but i dont care! it was the first star trek movie i ever saw and to this day i still find it to be one of the series most intense, entertaining and best acted movies, even if kirks (spoiler) death was unspectacular.

First contact - 09/10 - great stuff here, great stuff. This is defintely an action based movie, but it throws in some nice character moments here and there and some neat comedy, which all adds up to an awesomly entertaining sci-fi action movie.

Insurrection - 07/10 - lot of people dont like this and i can understand that, its plot is seriously thin, and the comedy is frankly weak, but there is just something about this that i like: i can watch it without getting bored: nothing perticularly brilliant about this, but its a good, entertaining sci-fi morality fable.

Nemesis - 05/10 - god, what a crappy note to go out on! it aims to be really dark, and just seems like its trying to be hard, it aims for a realtively complex story and its effect is an uninterested meh. some good scenes, but its a reallt very tried, boring seeming movie that does little to advance any of the characters, who all seem a tad like carictatures (sorry if the spelling is wrong) by this point, for some reason. generally fairly bad movie.

So there u go, hope my review has helped u. all i can say is this is a great bunch (for the most part) of movies available with excellent extras, in an awesome box, for a seriously good price. take advantage of this price, who knows how long it will last.