The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series

AN INTRO TO THE ORIGINAL SERIES
This set gives the newbie a taste of the original adventures of Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, Chief Medical Officer McCoy, Chief Engineer Scott, Lieutenants Uhura and Sulu, and Ensign Chekov. You get three excellent thought-provoking episodes, as well as the light-hearted "The Trouble with Tribbles."

In "City on the Edge of Forever", Captain Kirk and First Officer Spock must save the future when the time line is altered and history is changed for the worse.

The taut Cold War-era infused "Balance of Terror" pits two determined warriors as we meet the Romulans for the first time.

The usually logical Mr. Spock looses all emotional control in "Amok Time" as he is compelled to return home to Vulcan to consummate his arranged marriage.

Four solid episodes for a great price!
With the release of the latest Star Trek film in theaters, Paramount is making sure they are releasing a good number of Star Trek related films and TV series on Blu-ray but two DVD's that would showcase both "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" on DVD with four episodes.

Personally, any "Best of" is subject for criticism by fans. But the good news that for this series, these four episodes are on the top of the lists for various polls of "Best of Star Trek: The Original Series". Granted, there could have been many episodes that could have made the cut but for these four episodes alone, you can't deny how attractive this DVD is for its price ($10 or less) and the fact that it is the enhanced remastered version (although presented in standard definition on DVD).

For me, I was excited to see "THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER" included. This is such a classic, well-written episode that I remember buying an original VHS release for this one episode alone...

Four great episodes--remastered
I own all three seasons on dvd in their original format--I have no desire to buy the remastered sets with enhanced special effects. But--I jumped at the chance to have examples of the remastered shows, and these are four of the very best in the whole series' run. Top notch entertainment for $10.00!

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The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation

I remember having to pay nearly $70 to get "Best of Both Worlds" on LD, now you can get it on DVD for around $10
"STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION", the series which is noted for its popularity and winning 18 Emmy Awards and the first syndicated television show to be nominated for an Emmy for Best Dramatic Series. Back in the late 80's and early 90's, I practically became a Trekker because of this series. The well-written storylines, awesome acting and most of all, hoping that this series can generate interest in encouraging further development of technology and possibly more research and development in the space program.

The series was shot entirely in 35mm film, among the first shows to be recorded in Dolby Surround and would feature four feature films with the characters from the series and also help pave the way for three more "STAR TREK" related series. The TV series was released on VHS and all episodes released on DVD and in 2006, "Fan Collective" DVD box sets containing ten episodes that were voted by fans revolving around the theme of the "Borg", "Time Travel", "Q" and...

"Best of" is a bit generous.
The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Less than a week after the new motion picture hit the big screen, Paramount rushed two single disk "Best of" DVD releases to the store shelves with no bonus material, and a mere four episodes per disk. One might accept four episodes chosen out of the 79 episodes from the original series, but, one could reasonably expect more episodes to be included in "The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation" considering the complete series consists of more than twice as many episodes as its predecessor. One might also expect better episodes than the four included. These four aren't terrible, but all represent writing that rush the all to convenient endings almost as much as the releases were rushed into production.

The four episodes include a two part outing featuring the relentless Borg, a story revolving around the rights of Data to control his "life", and a story with time travel at it's center, which has become a tired theme in...

For the casual fan only!
I have bought the other compilation sets (Time Travel, Klingon etc.) as they are a great compromise between not owning them or buying the entire series. Unfortunately all these episodes are already released in the other compilations. I see this as an impulse buy by the people that just saw the New Movie and want a bit more. I still gave it 3 stars as these episodes are really indeed some of the best.

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Sister, Sister: The Second Season

Sisters are doing it for themselves!
Sister Sister (Season 2) features 18 episodes which originally ran from January - June 1995. It has a different theme tune, that was originally used for the first season. The list of episodes are as follows:
01 Get A Job
02 Joey's Choice
03 A Tall Tale
04 It's A Love Thang
05 Free Billy
06 Operation: Deja Vu
07 Tattoo
08 Two For The Road
09 It's A Party Thang
10 Field Trip
11 Put To The Test
12 Kid In Play
13 Dream Lover
14 Scrambled Eggs
15 Smoking In The Girls Room
16 Playing Hooky
17 Single White Teenager
18 I Do?

All in all, a great second season of the comedy classic, which made household names of Tia & Tamera. Buy it!!

My favourite childhood show...
I love this series so much..I would really like to know why the remaining seasons have not been released. I've been waiting about 2 years for the rest to come out and they haven't :( It's an awesome show and there is no point releasing the first two seasons without the rest. Other shows that are not even half as good have been released on DVD. If anyone has any news on if these are going to be released please let me know!!!

Love it
This brought back so many memories of my childhood, I love it, cant wait for the rest of the series to come out.

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