Star Trek Sr V40: Amazon.ca: DVD: DVD

Product Description

Video Details

"Turnabout," Ep.79 - A female scientist, jealous of Kirk's career, uses an ancient alien device to trade places with him and take command of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series' final episode! "The Cage," Ep.99 (B&W and color) - The two versions of Star Trek's rarely seen pilot star Jeffrey Hunter as captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise. On an earlier voyage of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise, Kirk's predecessor Captain Christopher Pike tries to rescue an Earth crew that disappeared eighteen years earlier. But it's a trap! Pike is imprisoned in a zoo-like cage and studied by a mysterious higher life-form. "The Cage" Ep.99 was reconstructed with black-and-white footage from Gene Roddenberry's work print and color footage from "The Menagerie" Ep.16. "The Cage" Ep.1 (Color) - This episode includes the long-lost color footage (believed to have been destroyed) from Gene Roddenberry's pilot episode. 185 minutes.

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

(What's this?)

Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)

star trek(6)

star trek the original series(3)

blu-ray(3)

science fiction(2)

william shatner(2)

classic science fiction(2)

complete series(2)

classics(1)

television(1)

green aliens(1)

Customer Reviews

21 Reviews

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

4.1 out of 5 stars (21 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most helpful customer reviews

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Space - Began Here!, Jun 5 2002

By

Lorenzo M. in the Hollywood CA Area "Movie Wa... (North Hollywood, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek Sr V40 (DVD)

This DVD is a must for the collector. It contains a lot of Star Trek history.

A) First the original pilot - complete and in full color. The full color print was found in the vaults of Paramount. (Apparently found in the 90's)

B) The original piot TV Special airing "The Cage" - the original pilot when they only had the orignal black and white prints and used material from another two-part episode - "The Menagerie". This is because the original full color print was thought to be lost in the Paramount Vaults. (Apparently found int he 80's)

C)The very last episode to air. "Turnabout Intruder". (William Shatner gets to play a woman!)

Basically you are getting three epsiode. See Spock before he was the Spock we knew. The Doctor before McCoy and a female in the "second in command" position. (The wife of Gene Roddenberry, the Creator, himself - Majel Barret who later is Nurse Christine Chapel.)

The costumes were espcially influced by the 60's. And the props, well, you just have to see them.

So in essenace you get to tsee the first and the last of the original Star Trek. A must DVD for every Star Trek fan!
Live Long & Prosper!

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the Price of Admission for Historical Value!, Feb 10 2004

By

doctorwholittle "doctorwholittle" (Here) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek Sr V40 (DVD)

I'm just gonna go ahead & skip any kind of review of "Turnabout Intruder". More eloquent slams of this episode have been made by others, so there's no need to go into it again.

The primary reson to buy this DVD (whether you're a die-hard Trek geek or just a casual sci-fi fan) is to see the unaired, uncut 1964 pilot, "THE CAGE", and Roddenberry really had it on the money with this one.

Jeffrey Hunter's turn as Captain Christopher Pike exudes the stern, stoic demeanour that would become such a trademark of Jean-Luc Picard, yet he does manage to showcase a glimpse into his humanity, which he keeps hidden from most of the crew, as every good captain must. There are moments in this pilot that act as harbingers of things that audiences would take for granted some thirty years hence on other incarnations of TREK, but they'll more than likely fail to remember or appreciate that it ALL began here. Without this pilot, there would be no Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, or Archer.

The SPFX in this show, while cheesy by today's ILM-on-Steroids standards, were surprisingly good & still manage to impress, even today. This pilot, which was ultimately refused by NBC (Shatner's "WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE" was what finally sold the suits on the show), is TREK at its most distilled. There was really no guideline to go by, no Prime Directive, no purists' / revisionists' history, no continuity to adhere to, no writers' staff to make sure everything fit in the box -- just plain ol', good character-driven science fiction TV.

It's a shame that there wasn't an opportunity to see where Jeffrey Hunter & HIS Enterprise crew would have gone, but thank goodness he was there at all.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Not too bad, Feb 6 2004

By

Kristopher Vincent (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek Sr V40 (DVD)

I only give this one four stars because the final episode--"Turnabout Intruder"--was pretty lame. Bad way to end the series. The inclusion of two versions of "The Cage" makes the DVD worthwhile, however, along with Gene Roddenberry's little featurette. One point of contention with Jared's review: "The Cage" has, in fact, aired during reruns. While I still have my "all-colour collector's edition" VHS copy, it was played at least once on the Sci-Fi Channel, back when Sci-Fi ran sort of a 23rd-century two-hour program block (Star Trek the first hour, and Babylon 5 the second, which is when I actually got into J. Michael Straczynski's television gem).

I only watched the the B&W/Color version of "The Cage," once for the novelty of it.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all 21 customer reviews on Amazon.ca

Want to see more reviews on this item?

› Go to Amazon.com to see all 194 reviews 4.5 out of 5 stars

Most recent customer reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Worth watching for historical value
Turnabout Intruder-Star Trek closed with one of its oddest and campiest offerings, in which an old flame switches bodies with Captain Kirk. Read more

Published on Sep 16 2003 by toby_tsang

3.0 out of 5 stars Turnabout 2 stars, The Cage 3 1/2
Roddenberry's original pilot plus the reworked version which showed up as the two part episode The Menagerie are included on this DVD. Read more