PHE Press Release: Star Trek TOS: Season 3 (Blu-ray) - Page 4

Thanks Kevin. I'm glad I still have the HD-DVD set to have that missing Starfleet Access for The Galileo Seven.

Greg,  regarding fixing things that were missing from the first DVD release, the blu ray remedies everything as far as I can tell. But one thing was messed up and I'll get to that.

The Cage is nothing less then spectacular! It's got a near feature film quality to it now. I say that because of the cinematography. The set designs and such were of course limited to what they could afford, but it really sparkles now! The audio for the singing plants has been fixed. 

Regarding The City on the Edge of Forever on the first season BD, the original score of that episode and the song, "Goodnight Sweetheart" was restored when Paramount bought the rights for the song back in 1999 for the first DVD release. So I am not sure what music you mean that is missing. The BD has it too of course.

Another poster here noticed however a glitch on the blu-ray for City. During the close-up shots of the tricorder, as Spock is showing Kirk history after McCoy changed it, there is a glitch. The blu-rays allow you to watch with the original optical effects, or with the new enhanced CGI effects. They had replaced those close-up shots of the tricorder screen with a new CGI effect. However, during one of the close-ups, when viewing the original effects, the screen on the tircorder has the enhanced effects when it should be the original. Since I watched it with the enhanced effects, I missed that.

When the remastered Star Trek were airing in syndication and before they were released on standard DVD, the episode, Paradise Syndrone made an error with the deflector beam that came out of the obelisk. Miramanee mentions the blue flame that comes out of the temple. That beam was red! This blu-ray releases fixes that and it's blue now. (I think it was fixed on the standard DVD release too)

Are there other errors fixed? I think on the whole, we've been very fortunate with this terrific release.

Thanks, Nelson.  I haven't bought any TOS since the orange discs that had a couple of episodes on them, and was just trying to remember what was missing and whether it was back.  I wasn't all that clear on what that was, but it sounds like everything's fine now.

 Watching Day of the Dove right now. I have to say I am really enjoying season 3 of TOS on blu ray. I sold my DVD sets in 2006, when I heard about the remastered series coming. I've really missed having the episodes. I think I'm enjoying season 3 more than even the first two seasons due to the fact that I haven't seen season 3 episodes as much. Plus I really am enjoying the new effects for the remastered project as well as the work that was done to remaster all of the live action footage. 

Star Trek The Original Series has never looked this good in terms of video and sounded as good in terms of audio as it does on these blu ray sets. 

I hope Star Trek fans both old and new are enjoying these sets as much as I am. 

I also hope the sales are strong enough to warrant some of the other Trek series coming to blu ray soon too. 

I've been enjoying S3 too! 

Did you notice all the make-up come off the Klingon's when they grab Chekov and Kirk and leave marks on their tunics?! I never noticed that before.

Just saw That Which Survives and Losira is looking good!

After viewing all 3 seasons of the remastered TOS, it really makes me want similar treatment done to TNG.  It's a shame that its technically more difficult for them though, given the video transfers.  I keep holding off on getting the old existing TNG season sets in hopes that Paramount will release better sets eventually. 

Yea, ive noticed that. Same as when Kirk knocks Chekov against the wall. Chekov gets brown paint on the wall that came off his hands, after he tried to have his way with Kang's wife.

Also look for green paint on Kirk's hand in the episode Whom Gods Destroy, when the Orion Slave aka, Batgirl, Yvonne Craig tried to knife him as he slept.

Hey Rick! 

Oh yeah, I did see all the make-up rub off on the walls. I bet they painted the walls a lot!

Whom Gods Destroy is not one of my favorite episodes, but I'll watch it for completeness sake. When I saw that episode on the standard remastered DVD, I also noticed that she was bathed in green light too. So it should be interesting to see the BD.

I've watched the first two seasons, and I now up to disc 3 of Season 3.  Even though I'm 37, I have not seen most of the episodes, so many of these are "new" for me.  It's a been a real treat.  It's also been great seeing some of the make-up and body doubles.  Little did they know back in the 1960's we'd be watching these in 1080p on large displays one day. :)   I love how well these sets were created having both the original and new effects as well as audio.  They did a great job restoring these.  They look fantastic and film-like.  Really top notch treatment as they deserve.

Agreed on TNG. I have not bought the DVD sets and continue to hold off for the same reason.