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1. The Motion Picture:Released in 1979 - yes it really was
that long ago. A life form know as V-ger threatens to destroy earth. Kirk and
the Enterprise crew intercept to investigate and end up ... oh that would give
away the plot. The Plot is very clever although thin with an I should have seen
it coming sort of appearance, and this film was better than I remembered
it.
2. The Wrath Of Khan:This movie was released in 1982 and
Kirk and his crew in the Enterprise go to protect the genesis project. This is
my second most favourite film of the series and it is the one that sees the
death of Spock. This film leaves you waiting for the follow up to see what has
happened to Spock. (You thought that the main characters could never
die.)
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3. The Search For Spock:I remember seeing this one in the
cinema as a young lad back in 1984 - oh those were the days. There was a scene
in this film that scared me witless but now it all seems so pleasant and nice!
The crew return to recover Spocks body and they get more that they bargained
for on the new mystery planet. This follows on from 2. and it is unique as no 2
Star Trek Movies have been as plot interwoven as this.
4. The Voyage Home:This is my favourite film of the series
and was released in 1986. Kirk and his crew have to whiz around in a Klingon
Bird of prey (No Enterprise this time!) and save the universe again. Very much
a save the whales campaign the crew return to earths distant past the early
1980's when leg warmers were fashionable. It's so funny to see the enterprise
crew trying to blend in with 1980's life on earth.
5. The Final Frontier:This movie from 1989 sees Spocks half
brother Hijacking the Enterprise to find God who he believes lives through the
frontier as the distant side of the Galaxy (A barrier which no man has ever
passed). When they get there things are not quite what they seem and the
intrepid Kirk leaps into action.
6: The Undiscovered country:
Released in 1991 we see
McCoy and Kirk wrongly accused of assassinating a Klingon chancellor -
something which did not impress the Klingon empire. There mission is to escape
and find the killers before more damage is done to a peace treaty between the
Klingons and the Federation. Yes the Enterprise is in this one too!
7: Generations:
This is the last of this set. Released in
1994 we see the change over to the Generations crew. Kirk dies twice! A mad Dr
Soran is desperate to get back into the Nexus a utopian place where time does
not exist. His plans however see the destruction of a whole Galaxy and even the
Enterprise has to eject it's warp core and crash land. Excellent plot with
lot's of twists. The intro sequence with the generations crew is hilarious.
There are two Enterprise in this one and the new Enterprise does not have too
good a time! |
Picture: |
Picture quality was
excellent (above average) on the last 4 titles but I assume that the early
originals had degraded a little so the picture quality on the first 3 titles
was good (About average for video cd) (I'm talking from a purists 'sitting 2 inches
away from the screen' point of view!) |
Sound: |
Sound was excellent
throughout - the integrated player worked well and I would say as good as Media
Player (TM). |
Overall: |
BUY THIS COLLECTION - How
else will you get to own so many movies for so little money. (The DVD versions
have very little in the way of extras and cost so much more I would heartily
recommend the video cd Version which should play on most DVD players and on all home
computers over 166 MHZ with a CDROM drive! - Check yours for Video-cd
complience!) |
Notes: Some of the disks in this set auto ran on my PC with
a generic video cd player console popping up - everything ran fine. 'DOLBY STEREO'.
Distributed by Movie Channel SDN. BVD licenced by Paramount. All CD's were each
in 2-cd plastic jewell cases and presented in a presentation box. There were no
Inlays in the plastic cases- just the video cd's. |
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