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Saved from the brink of cancellation by its loyal fanbase, Star Trek's third and final season rewarded them with a number of memorable episodes. Tight budgets and slipping creative control, however, made it the most uneven, though it did have some of the coolest episode titles ("For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", "Is There in Truth No Beauty", "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"). Some of the best moments involved a gunfight at the OK Corral ("Spectre of the Gun"), a knock-down drag-out sword battle with the Klingons aboard the Enterprise ("Day of the Dove"), the ship getting caught in an ever-tightening spacial net ("The Tholian Web"), TV's first interracial kiss ("Plato's Stepchildren"), Sulu taking command ("The Savage Curtain"), and Kirk's switching bodies with an ex-love interest ("Turnabout Intruder").
Also appearing in the set as a coda are two versions of the series pilot, "The Cage", a restored color version and the original, never-aired version that alternates between color and black and white. Starring Jeffery Hunter as Captain Pike, Leonard Nimoy as a relatively emotional Spock, and Majel Barrett (the future Nurse Chapel and Mrs. Gene Roddenberry) as a frosty Number One, this pilot was rejected, but a second was commissioned, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", now considered the "official" beginning of the series. But "The Cage" is very recognizably Star Trek with its far-out concepts (telepathic aliens collecting species samples), sexy humanoid women, character development, and of course cheesy costumes and special effects. Footage was later reused in the season 1 two-parter, "The Menagerie".
The best of the 63 minutes of bonus material focuses on three of the actors: Walter Koenig, George Takei, and James Doohan. Koenig discusses how he was cast and shows off his various collections, one consisting of Chekov figurines. Takei speaks movingly about the Japanese American internment and, in what is probably his last Star Trek appearance, Doohan, slowed by Alzheimer's but still with a twinkle in his eye, recalls his voiceover roles and his favorite episodes. The Easter eggs are amusingly called "Red Shirt Files" in tribute to those poor saps who everyone knew were only in the landing party so they could die. --David Horiuchi
DVD Description
7-disc set containing all the episodes from Series Three of the original Star Trek series (first broadcast between 1968 and 1969).
Episodes:
Disc 1:
- Spock's Brain
- The Enterprise Incident
- The Paradise Syndrome
- And the Children Shall Lead
- The Enterprise Incident
Disc 2:
- Is There In Truth No Beauty?
- Spectre of the Gun
- Day of the Dove
- For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
- Spectre of the Gun
Disc 3:
- The Tholian Web
- Plato's Stepchildren
- Wink of an Eye
- The Empath
- Plato's Stepchildren
Disc 4:
- Elaan of Troyius
- Whom Gods Destroy
- Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
- The Mark of Gideon
- Whom Gods Destroy
Disc 5:
- That Which Survives
- The Lights of Zetar
- Requiem For Methuselah
- The Way to Eden
- The Lights of Zetar
Disc 6:
- The Cloud Minders
- The Savage Curtain
- All Our Yesterdays
- Turnabout Intruder
- The Savage Curtain
Disc 7:
- The Cage (Colour)
- The Cage (Colour/B&W)
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Star Trek's Much Maligned But Marvellous Season !,
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This review is from: Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 3 [DVD] (DVD)
When Star Trek, on the brink of cancellation, was yet again rescued by the fervent campaigning of its ever-faithful fans, Season Three emerged. Although lacking for the most part the healthy mix of message-bearing moralising with straight shoot-'em up phaser-firing and stylised fisticuffs that made the first two years such a winning combination, this season has much to recommend it and, with exception of maybe a couple of episodes, can never be accused of being boring. Even when veering towards the realms of the absurd and tacky, it never forgets TO BE FUN ( something which the more sententious spin-offs of the franchise - Deep Space Nine take note ! - might have done well to remember ). And yet, for all that, there are some genuinely great episodes here which astound, move and satisfy to the core, my own personal favourite being "The Paradise Syndrome" which demonstrates Shatner's wonderful - and yes, subtle - acting skills, with the episode ending atypically on a beautiful downbeat note of tragedy. If it's suspense-ridden sci-fi you're after, "The Tholian Web" hits the spot, while the premise of "Spectre of the Gun" is the perfect merging of eerie surrealism with the Western. Not to mention the Original Series most convincing Klingon in "Day of the Dove" as played by Michael Ansara. Yes, there are guilty pleasures like the loopy "Spocks Brain" replete with kinkily-clad alien brain-nappers, the controversial "Turnabout Intruder" which some accuse of sexism and bad acting ( although I disagree on both counts ) and wacky science in "Wink of an Eye" ( you'll enjoy this a lot if you don't analyse the logistics ) But what the hell? It's Kirk, Spock and McCoy doing their thing - and here in Season Three, they do it so well !
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The storylines made Star Trek great,
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This review is from: Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 3 [DVD] (DVD)
The stories were engaging and politically relevant then and now, unfortunately today we live in a society where there is less dissention through televised fiction. Star Trek addressed real issues from the 60's, they talked about racism, sexism, diminishing workforce through automation taking over people's jobs and social inequity, the subject of communal euthanasia was also broached as was the topic of inter-racial relationships. Star Trek prides itself on showing the first inter-racial kiss on TV and William Shatner describes how he bungled this scene repeatedly so he could kiss Nichelle Nicholls again.
They sometimes reviewed our own species as barbaric and unjust. It is in our nature to build empires and then suffer bloody revolutions and Star Trek often depicted the freedom fighter struggling against oppression on some distant world, and by doing so waving an accusing finger at many of the global problems we create on our own world. Kirk may have rushed in where fools fear to tread but Shatner has explained the Kirk never sought vengeance and was compassionate, which indeed he was. Kirk often made unfashionable choices by today's standards when he chose to spare the enemy or find a solution that was a forced compromise, but which meant life went on. Star Trek was a wonderful phenomenon that died before its time, and for me as a child it provided awe and wonder and for me as an adult Star Trek shows that beyond the swashbuckling heroics it had very interesting and pertinent stories.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Wot no slip case??!?,
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This review is from: Star Trek: The Original Series - Series 3 - Complete [Blu-ray] [1966] (Blu-ray)
I too purchased this from Amazon, and was disappointed to see no 'metallic effect' slipcase over the packaging, like there was with the first and second series sets. I ordered 3 sets from Amazon and then gave up. They have the series with slipcases in HMV but they are more expensive than the Amazon ones... arghhh! Looks daft having 2 sets with and one without (and much thinner) so I think I\'ll save a bit extra and go with the HMV set instead. I wish Amazon would look into this with their distributors. I know it's just packaging at the end of the day, and it's the content that counts, but for the price each bluray set commands I don't think it's too much to ask that each set matches visually.
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