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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

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

Disc 3:

• The Tholian Web
  
• Plato's Stepchildren
  
• Wink of an Eye
  
• The Empath

Disc 4:

• Elaan of Troyius
  
• Whom Gods Destroy
  
• Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
  
• The Mark of Gideon

Disc 5:

• That Which Survives
  
• The Lights of Zetar
  
• Requiem For Methuselah
  
• The Way to Eden

Disc 6:

• The Cloud Minders
  
• The Savage Curtain
  
• All Our Yesterdays
  
• Turnabout Intruder

Disc 7:

• The Cage (Colour)
  
• The Cage (Colour/B&W)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   9 of 9 people found the following review helpful: Remarkable for their age but an OPPORTUNITY missed., 3 Sep 2006 By  Mr. P. J. R. LEWIS (Llandudno N Wales) - See all my reviews       Who would have thought that in six days after writing this review Star Trek received its first ever televised showing way back on the 8th September 1966 in America. Gene Roddenberrys remarkably timeless series has stood the test of time extreamly well and because of production costs and believe it or not poor viewing figures it never reached a forth series.It took a new audience me included to realise back in 1974 that Star Trek was a brilliant idea with clever and often funny scripts and storylines.There was nothing else on television back in the seventies to compare it with and this was the main reason for its new found popularity. For it to take so long to release these episodes onto dvd was extreamly annoying and equally annoying was that the extras you were given in each series box set were pretty poor considering the amount written over the years on the subject. A profile of William Shatner spends the majority of its time showing his skills as a horseman hardly anything about his memories as Cpt Kirk.What should have been included is interviews with all the surviving members of the cast. Leonard Nimoy talked at length about his love of photography,hardly anything about playing Spock. These box sets were so eagerly anticipated that it took a fair while to sink in that the extras didnot match up to the beautifully remastered episodes.I would in hindsight have paid even more for a episode by episode analysis by the relevant experts,even the important pilot episode The Cage was tucked away on the final disc in the series as if it was placed there to fill up disc space. How many of you out there are annoyed that all the episodes seemed to be jumbled up as if taken randomly from a hat,and the delicate pull out production notes for every episode in each box almost fall apart after each handling. Here then was a beautifull dvd transfer let down by annoying inexcusable notes,having to play a disc everytime to find what episode number you are after and no background history to each episode such as when was it first televised etc. You end up feeling that Paramount rushed these dvds onto the market to satisfie waiting fans,the money was clearly spent on the remastering of the episodes which really shows,it would have been better if there were no extras atall just a clearly defined order for every episode,and remember two years ago we were being asked to fork out almost £80 for the pleasure of watching Star Trek once again.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   16 of 17 people found the following review helpful: Star Trek's Much Maligned But Marvellous Season !, 26 Dec 2004 By  W. S. Barklam - See all my reviews    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 !  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   13 of 14 people found the following review helpful: The storylines made Star Trek great, 4 Jul 2005 By  Omer Ahmad (London, UK) - See all my reviews    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 br