Star Trek - The Original Series: The Complete Series

This review is about the "Paramount / Star Trek: The Complete Original Series [Blu-ray]" from CBS Blu-ray (barcode %231-91329-21149) from Walmart online. I paid a little over $50 for this set which I though was a great price. I was looking for a Star Trek TOS set with the original effects (and optionally, also the enhanced effects--they are nice, after all); I was worried when it arrived because the case only advertised "enhanced effects." Thankfully, the discs do offer the option to switch between the original enhanced versions, right there on the pop-up menu. The packaging is minimal: no booklet or pictures. Although the outer case is a pretty solid plastic, the inner plastic "pages" that hold the discs are flimsy and make accessing discs difficult because multiple discs are stacked on top of each other. Luckily, no pages were broken or discs scratched, but a few discs were floating loosely upon arrival. Besides the episodes, it does include "The Cage" and "The Cage Extended version," as well as "9 hours of special features" which I have not yet explored. Video quality (1080p) is great and I appreciate the audio option of 7.1 surround or original mono. The episodes themselves need no review; everyone agrees that it's the best tv show of all time, with the greatest cast ever assembled, particularly William Shatner. One thing I did not like was that a preview of a JJ Abrams Star Trek movie automatically ran as soon as I loaded the first disc. I found this to be in extremely bad taste. Basically, though, this set gets the job done, if what you want to do is watch old Star Trek!!

The disks on the front and back were loose, opening it for the first time. The dusk one had a scratch on the outer 1/4 of an inch. This is the final section of Blu-ray disks. It's playing well, and the rest of them are fine. FedEx put them in my apartment complex's mailroom; I did not ask for that. I ran out to get it.