Star Trek: Stardate Collection - The Movies 1-10 (Remastered) [DVD] [1979]

Well again I will start with the service, I ordered this product around 10pm on Thursday the 3rd of may, and it arrived early on Saturday the 5th of may 2013. The price is excellent against other retailers like HMV it was £15 cheaper. Again I can't fault amazon so far.The box set it's self is the newer Stardate collection and is very compact in size. It has a booklet in side detailing each movie. And two bonus discs of extras. So far I have watched the first three movies and as you would expect the picture quality is excellent I have only ever seen them on VHS and Television. So seeing them on Blue-ray has been like seeing them in a new light.I am not going to sit and give you a review of each movie as most of us have seen a trek movie at some point. You either love them of hate them. Some are better than others. But if is a box set of the lot you want. (not including the newer number 11 movie.) then this is the one you should buy. They are theatrical versions not the extended movies but I am happy with that.Great product and a good service.

Star Trek is my favourite show of all time. The quality and clarity in these dvd's are superb. Star Trek is my fave show of all time and these are my fave films. To atart with the box is really nicely presented. It is quite big and has pictures on the sides and on one side, it has ships and descriptions/writing. The Dvd's are stacked inside in little slots which hold together nicely. These are all remastered dvd's (which means the picture quality and special effects have been improved/tweeked) and it contains all ten movies plus a special features dvd. It is also an amazing bargain in my view, and each dvd has the same shiny/sparkly layout, with differing pictures and contents. On each dvd, you get a play button, some special features, languages, subtitles and all the films play in wide or whatever you want (in great screen format) I have watched these movies loads of times over, even before I bought the set and i will now go through them one by one:The Motion Picture: This is the first one. And it is definately the worst. It was quite boring, it didn't really go anywhere and it was just slow. But there were some good moments. Like seeing all kirk's crew old and coming together again for the first time, spock's logic, the re-design of the enterprise (which i loved) and the special effects were magnificent. Just watching the effects makes it believable. But i must stress the director's cut because it was ot as boring but still slow. In this one there was no real character development, and no real character expression. Thew story was interseting and a bit wird and mind-bogling. It is remastered anyway, so fans of Trek will still enjoy it. i did. But its the worst. 5.6/10The Wrath of Khan: I can honestly say that this is one of the best movies of all time. Without a doubt it is the best of kirk's movies. There is great action, some comedy, it is thoughtful, well thought through, emotional and it had some really powerful scenes. It also staged a trilogy which is Trek's 2,3 and 4. amazing film and i have seen it loads of times. 10/10The Search for Spock: This is a really underrated Star Trek film. Of course, it isn't as good as Star Trek 2, but is still of very good quality. It is really fun and enjoyable, the best part was when Kirk steals the Enterprise. It has the action, the story and powerful moments. It shows how the crew will do anything to get their ex-officer back. 8.5/10The Voyage Home: This is good. A great plot, and it wasn't like standard Trek. It reminded me ofthe original series a bit too. I think this one would appeal to general audiences rather than just trek fans because it was basically about finding whales. That dosen't sound like much, but it was really nicely done. It was much more light-hearted and enjoyable. It was a fantastic film. Great stuff! 8.5/10The Final Frontier: This is the one that everyone hated and considered it the weakest in the Trek franchise. I disagree, i thought the Motion Picture was the worst. The Final Frontier is the one where the crew come face to face with a god-like being. It was daft and silly, quite stupid, but it was fun. Obviously, i didn't take it seriously. I went with it and it was an average film. The second worst on the set, don't plan on watching this one first, if i was you i would watch 2 first "The wrath of khan" to show you what Trek is really all about! 5.8/10The Undiscovered Country: I love this film, aand it is my second third favorite trek film, and my second favorite kirk film. It has a great plot and excellent twists. All the cast played great and it was a perfect send off for the original crew. Plus, the klingons were the best in this film. Outstanding! 9/10Generations: This one is the passing of the torch to the "Next Generation" crew. it has had some critisicm, but personally i loved this film. I guess it was hard trying to fit them all into it, but everyone wanted a cross over film in which cpatain's kirk and Picard would come together. It was slightly rushed and parts seemed confusing and flaws were obvious. But despite this, it was a unique idea using the nexus and it was very original. Partly the reason i loved this one so much is because i watched it a lot when i was a kid, and i always liked watching kirk and picard team up. The music was great in this too (particularly the overture) The premise was great and the film tried to tel you something. It my view, the film was trying to tell you about time, life and death. For example, it tells you that picard's newphew died, they were moving on from the original crew, the enterprise D gets destroyed, picards crew moves on amd Kirk dies. this is the only star trk moment that made me cry, because it was really emotional. Kirk was ace. Generations was good in my view, not the best, and not the worst. But it taught you something and had lots of memnorable quates, particuarly picard's at the end. It also had a great villain, good film. Generations has a perfect blend of comedy, action, sadness, story, quotes, and fun. 7/10First Contact: This is without a shade of doubt the best film in the box! This was a top-class movie. I could go on forever about this film, because only one trek film comes to mind when i think trek "First contact!" This is next gneneration at its pinnacle. It has the best borg represenation, it has the star trek nativity scene, it has a great story, it has perfect acting. Especially the acting of patrick stuart and that is saying a lot. There were strong lines, this was emotional and dark, at times very provoacative. This is the best trek film out there, and it is in my top ten films! Also, the music was fantastic, one of the best scores i have ever heard. 10/10Insurrection: I don't care what others say, because i really enjoyed Star Trek 9! I admit it does feel like an extended episode of TNG's tv series, but who cares! It has a great plot and story moments. It explores backstory and all sorts. The story was un-original which is why i didn't like it as much as Generations. This is reallt close behind Generations though. this one had great action and was really enjoyable. It is a very under-rated Trek film. this si definately another good one. Ignore what others say. 6.9/10Nemesis: And finally we reach the final trek film in this set. There are actually eleven out there, but star trek 2009 is nothing like the other ten, not saying its bad, its actually good. Nemesis however, is not good. This is my third least favorite. But i will say the effects in this film were great, along with the ship's and action. But this was more confusing than the other TNG films. My main gripes: firstly, the story (where is the explanation of stuff?) another is Data's death left you on a low, when you should have been coming out from this one with a shiny face. Its a bit like what happened on Generations with kirk, but he fit in with the purpose of the film. I think killing data was unesecary. Another gripe is the new enemies, like the remons came out of nowhere. This was silly, i never heard of them until this film. Something just didn't feel right and it was the worst of the TNG films. It had big banging explosions and not much else. 6/10So thanks for reading my reviews of the films, i will now outline the plots in short synopsis to give you a better idea of what you are getting:The Motion Picture - Kirk and his crew set out in the new enterprise to confront an alien lifeorm agressor- head on.The Wrath of Khan - Khan was abandoned on a planet by kirk fifteeen years ago in TOS episode "Space Seed" he now escapes and takes over a federation starship to steal project genesis (a powerful device) and goes for revenge on kirk and to plot his destuction of the enterpriseThe Search For spock - Kirk steals the enterprise and heads off to the planet genesis to save their crewmen spock, but klingons head there too, but for genesis.The Voyage Home - . The crew of the enterprise are branded as fugitives. An alien entity probes earth scanning for a life form that no longer exists. It was whales, so kirk and his cre go back in time to find some to save the future.The Final Frontier - A mad vulcan steals the enterprise and sets off toward the great barrier in space to search for a mthical planet where he believes "god" to beThe Undiscovered Country - A lunar catalcysm brings the klingon empire to its knees, so peace with the federation is finally within reach. Kirk and crew will excort the klingons for negotiations, but in the course of doing so, they are implicated in the brutal assasination of the klingon chancellor. This brings both the klingons and federation to the brink of full scale war...Generations - A mad scientist trys to bring an enery ribbon close to him, but he must destroy worlds to do it. Kirk and Picard must work together to stop the geneside of an entire planetFirst Contact - the Borg go back in time to stop humnaity ever making first conatct with aliens so the borg can assimilate humanity. However, the neterprise intervenes and they will make a stand and fight to stop the borg, no matter what the cost.Insurrection - picard uncovers a plot my members of starfleet to take over a planet and to do away with the race. So, picard and the senior officers form a rebeliion/insurrection to go against starfllet and maintain the paradise of what's right.Nemesis - picard encounters the evil Shinzon who rules the planet remus and he has a destructive weapon, and Picard is involved in the middle of Shinzon's plot. The Enterprise confront them, head on.The special features dvd contains the captains's summit and star trek evoloutions. These are just round table evets of star trek cast (whoopi goldberg, patrick stuart, jonathan frakes, william shatner and leonard nimoy) this was quite funny, it also contains documentaries, some spoofs, interviews and in-the-making of star trek. there are also some special features on each dvd/film in the box. I would highly recommend you get this set and not the blu ray set because it looks really good and getting the blu-ray box is a rip off in my view. The dvd's are remastered anyway, they already look fine. plus the original movies are old and they will have grains in the transfer, plus they look fine on dvd. Just get the dvd version because it is a bargain. my price was 40 quid, the blu-ray is like 70! that is not worth it. I got this for christmas and it is the best set i have becuse star trek is my favorite thing, i always look up at the stars dreaming of what's out there and these films bring that dream to life. Also, i would not get the individual releases because they look really nice in a set like this, the box on the outside is amazing. If you are to get a blu-ray i would only get "Generations" because the transfer is suppose to be good, the rest are not much off an improvement on the dvd's and the originals are not good with the transfer.But guys, i must stress that you should buy this, becuause they are remastered man! they look amazing, and the films are great as you could tell from my individual film reviews of them. Now there are some more details you might want to be aware of, i will list them:The Wrath of Khan, First Contact and Nemesis are twelve's, so you might not want to show it to anyone below that age. they didn't scare me!They all have a white box at the bottom of each dvd explaining the content and formats and things. it has the languages of english french and german, it ha feature subtitles (english for hearing impaired, english, danish, dutch, finnish, french, german, norwegian and swedish. They have commentary subtitles for english, french and german. The aspect ratio is good and has anarmorphic widescrren, but you can change the features to suit your viewing, i like wide and auto best. They also have the company information like paramount, dolby, etc. All the films are in colour as shown by the shiny outside and each dvd has a feature running time to guide your viewing times. It has dolby digital surround sound. At the bottom of each dvd it has the cast names, just in case you wanted to know.Special Features on each dvd:The Motion Picture:New commentary by: michael and denise okuda, judith and garfiled reeves, and daren dochtermanThe LONGEST Trek: Writing the Motion PictureSpecial Star Trek ReunionStarfleet Academy: The mystery behind V'gerThe Wrath of Khan:New commentary by: Director Nicholos Meyer, and Manny CotoJames Horner: Composing GenesisCOLLECTING STAR TREK'S MOVIE RELICSStarfleet academy: The mystery behind ceti alpha VIThe Search for Spock:New commentary by: Ronald D. Moore and Michael TaylorINDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC: Visual effectsSPOCK: the early yearsSTAR TREK AND THE SCIENCE FICTION MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAMEStarfleet academy: The vulcan Katra TransferThe Voyage Home:New commentary by: Roberto Orci and Alex KurtzmanPAVEL CHEKOV'S SCREEN MOMENTSTHE THREE-PICTURE SAGASTAR TREK FOR A CAUSESTARFLEET ACADEMY: The Whale ProbeThe Final Frontier:New Commentary by: Michael and Denise Okuda, Judith and Garfield Reeves-stevens and Daren DochtermanSTAR TREK HONOURS NASAHOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME: JAMES DOOHANSTARFLEET ACADEMY: Nimbus IIIThe Undiscovered Country:New commentary by: Larry Nemecek and Ira Steven BehrTOM MORGA: Alien stuntmanTO BE OR NOT TO BE: Klingons and ShakespeareStarfleet Academy: PraxisGenerations:Commentary by: Director David Carson and Manny CotoSCORING TREKNEXT GENERATION DESIGNER FLASHBACK: Andrew ProbertSTELLAR CARTOGRAPHY ON EARTHBRENT SPINER: Data and beyond part 1TREK ROUNDTABLE: GenerationsSTARFLEET ACADEMY: TrilithuimFirst Contact:Commentary by: Damon Lindelof and Anthony PascaleINDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC - THE NEXT GENERATIONGREETINGS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONSPACESHIPONE'S HISTORIC FLIGHTBRENT SPINER: Data and beyond part 2TREK ROUNDTABLE: First ContactSTARFLEET ACADEMY: Temporal VortexInsurrection:COMMENTARY BY: Jonathan Frakes and Marina SirtisWESTMORE'S LEGACYMARINA SIRTIS: the counsellor is inBRENT SPINER: Data and beyond part 3TREK ROUNDTABLE: InsurrectionSTARFLEET ACADEMY: The Origins of the Ba'ku and Son'a conflictNemesis:COMMENTARY BY: Michael and Denise OkudaREUNION WITH THE RIKER'STODAY'S TECH TOMMOROW'S DATAROBOT HALL OF FAMEBRENT SPINER: Data and beyond part 4TREK ROUNDTABLE: NemesisSTARFLEET ACADEMY: Thalaron RadiationStar Trek: Special featuresStar Trek The captain's Summit - insightful interviews with cast membersStar Trek Evoloutions - Moments in Star Trek history.NOTE - IT SAYS AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH DVD "THESE DISCS WERE CREATED IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE DVD SPECIFICATIONS. CERTAIN ADVANCED FEATURES MAY NOT PLAY ON ALL MACHINES."So that's it! I hope i have helped you with the information and contents in this set and i would highly recommend you purchase this item - it is a bargain - you get all ten films - amazing films - experience all of the trek films. I have also got all th other star trek series TNG, TOS, VOY and more!!! So get this huge box and watch the remastered trek on dvd.Thanks for reading and Live long and prosper. Your the best! Trekies!!!!!!!!!!

The last time i saw these movies was on VHS many years ago BUT i remember the quality of the videos was amazing, it had a real good film quality.Now they are remastered on Blu-RaySo i had to buy them as it's time to watch them after all these years.In a higher definition, there are some DRAWBACKs:It's not too bad so i don't want to exaggerate but let me explain:The effects look rather bad in the motion picture for example because you can see more in a higher definition. It looks like the footage (filmed actors etc) looks great but the effects shots (space) looks a bit bad BUT if you get into the film you will forgive it.In the second film i actually noticed that Chekhovs head was a FAKE when he put the thing in his ear (i never noticed that when i last watched on VHS (i'll put it down to a quality thing).Now don't go mad at me for pointing these things out, i'm a star trek fan but i'm just saying.I used to watch these a lot when i was a kid and after all these years they are still amazing.The discs themselves are in separate little disc holder that's detached from the case, it makes it a bit easier to find your movie as the case isn't trying to close and get in your way.CONCLUSION:I would definitely upgrade to blu ray because these films are epic.