Star Trek: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		5.0
Video		4.5
Audio		4.0
Extras		5.0
Overall		4.5

Star Trek: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Martin Liebman October 21, 2021

CBS/Paramount have released the full three season collection for 'Star Trek: The Original Series' to Blu-ray as part of an attractive new SteelBook set. The series has been released season-by-season and in full series collection before, but this is the first time in SteelBook packaging. There is no new content on the Blu-ray discs proper. See the 'Special Features and Extras' section of the review below for more on the SteelBooks' look and feel.

For full content reviews, please click through the following links:

• Season One
• Season Two
• Season Three

Star Trek: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

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• Season One
• Season Two
• Season Three

Star Trek: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

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• Season One
• Season Two
• Season Three

Star Trek: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

The outer box could not be said to be the sturdiest on the market. It is decently thick but the SteelBooks slip into a removable cardboard insert. The box front is predominantly white with the Starfleet uniform colors -- yellow (gold or mustard, however one wants to describe it), blue, and red -- bursting around and trailing behind the Enterprise, which is bottom right. The series title runs vertically along the top and right hand sides and is embossed. The rear panel, underneath a glued-on spec sheet, continues with the three color rainbow pattern, here filling all but the bottom right of the panel. A studio logo and some legalese appear bottom center. The spine features the three color streaks at the top and the series title embossed in large print center. A CBS logo appears at the top while Blu-ray and Paramount logos appear at the bottom.

All three SteelBooks are stylistically similar, so rather than a breakdown of all three what follows are overview comments and a few more specific observations on a SteelBook-by-SteelBook basis as needed. Each one features front and rear image collages, all grouped identically. The front panels feature two images across the top, two in the middle, and two at the bottom; the bottom ones feature one more elongated than the other while the ones at the top are both more or less the same size. The series title (along with accompanying season number) appears in black against a sliver bar. Each season number ("1," "2," and "3") appears in blue, red, or yellow, but the color does not correspond to the primary SteelBook color (see the spines and rear panels). The rear panels feature that one dominant color (yellow season one, blue season two, red season three) with six middle images of varying widths. The front and rear panel images feature both main cast and important secondary characters from specific episodes. At the bottom of each SteelBook are black lettered studio logos and legalese. Both front and rear panels are glossy-smooth and will show handling fingerprints. The spines are the same corresponding color from the rear panel. Each features the series title center in black with a CBS logo at the top and a Paramount logo at the bottom. Season "1," "2," and "3" identifiers are also included, with the numbers the same color as the front, and it is here where the color differentials make sense, to ensure that the number does not blend into the spine color.

Inside, the discs are stacked directly one atop another on two hubs on the left- and right-hand sides. Each features unique "pop art" style artwork depicting various characters in the midst of transport against, again, a blend of Star Trek yellow, blue, and red colors. Curiously, there is some blank space in the season three inner print's right-hand side where the season one and two interiors are full.

For full coverage of the on-disc supplemental content, please click through the following links:

• Season One
• Season Two
• Season Three

Star Trek: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Chances are serious Star Trek fans already own one or two of the several TOS Blu-ray releases on the market, whether the above-linked standalone boxes, the full series set, or the series as part of the 50th Anniversary collection. This, of course, is a SteelBook variant with nifty artwork on the cases proper and even on the outer box. There is no new content on the discs, but for packaging collectors and franchise enthusiasts this is well worth buying, even for the second (or maybe even third or fourth) time. Bring on a full-series TNG SteelBook set! This one earns my highest recommendation.