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Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 3 [DVD] [1968]

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  • Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 7
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 6 Dec 2004
  • Run Time: 1267 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000273LSY
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,701 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Star Trek's Much Maligned But Marvellous Season !, 25 Dec 2004
By W. S. Barklam - See all my reviews
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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 !
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The storylines made Star Trek great, 4 Jul 2005
By Omer Ahmad (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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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.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Star Trek -Season Three - neither a big bang nor a whimper., 20 Mar 2007
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By season three big changes were at hand within the world of Star Trek -these stem from the introduction of a new producer Fred Freiberger after Star Trek's timeslot had been moved and its budget cut. It's difficult to believe these days that at the time of Star Trek's original airing it really wasn't a popular show and it was only due to protests by its core fans that it managed to last on air as long as it did. Fred Freiberger and his staff strongly believed Star Trek should be primarily a serious science fiction show and he went about cutting out much of the humour and warmth which had been building successfully in the previous two seasons and in doing so the characters also began to lose their identities a little too. This resulted in a certain 'coldness' which seems apparent at this point in Star Trek's history.
However, despite this, and despite its notoriously bad reputation season three still has plenty to offer. Freiberger dropped two mainstay storylines from the first two seasons - mad computers which jeapodise the safety of the enterprise (that Kirk talks to death) and the parallel earth theory which had both been done to death. With what little budget he had left his Star Trek would predominantly involve 'alien' planets and on occasions more elaborate special effects.
The quality of season three is certainly a lot more uneven than series one and two and the worst episodes do represent Star Trek reaching its lowest point - 'That Which Survives', 'Spock's Brain', 'Whom Gods Destroy', 'The Way To Eden' - yet that's only part of the story, i do believe there still are predominantly more good to great Star Trek stories
on offer here including 'The Tholian Web', 'The Paradise Syndrome', 'The Enterprise Incident', 'The Day Of The Dove' and 'All Our Yesterdays' and Star Trek also effectively continued to incorporate moral issues into its storylines.
I think it's fair to say Star Trek's third and final season didn't go out with a big bang, however this series in terms of quality (for those that were watching at the time) hardly went out on a whimper, either.

I may be biased being a diehard Star Trek fan, perhaps, but it's still worth five stars to me especially when compared with some of the other Star Trek related series's and films that have come much later.

Not forgetting there is also the highly desirable first Star Trek pilot 'The Cage' starring Jeffrey Hunter included in this package.
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