Extra features, pretty much all of which are carried over from previous home video releases of the four films in the collection, are spread across the eight discs in the set as follows:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Theatrical Cut):

The UHD disc for the first movie includes an isolated score in Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo (the only new extra in this entire collection, everything else for all four films having been seen on previous home video releases) as well as an archival audio commentary featuring Michael and Denise Okuda, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Daren Dochterman.

The score and commentary are also found on the Blu-ray disc, as well as a host of other extra features. When enabled, the Library Computer Viewing Mode option allows, via the remote control, access to different facts and trivia about various aspects of the movie and those who made it as the film plays out. Production: The Longest Trek: Writing The Motion Picture is an eleven minute piece that looks into what went into bringing the TV series to the big screen and getting the script put together and polished enough for production. Also look out for a ten minute Special Star Trek Reunion where some of those involved in the film look back on their work while the Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 001: The Mystery Behind V'Ger is a four minute is an amusing fluff piece where a STNG officer discusses the events in the film.

Finishing up the extras are eight minutes of deleted scenes, a selection of storyboard, a theatrical trailer, a teaser trailer and seven TV Spots.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Director's Cut):

The UHD for the Director's Cut includes a commentary from David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren Dochterman. A second commentary features Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Jerry Goldsmith, and Stephen Collins. There's also a text commentary featuring Michael and Denise Okuda and an isolated score track.

The Blu-ray disc for the Director's Cut includes those same extras, while a bonus disc contains a whole bunch of additional supplements such as a forty-eight minute, eight-part documentary called The Human Adventure, a trio of deleted scenes, four minutes of effects test footage, five minutes of costume test footage and three minutes of computer display graphics footage.

In the Star Trek Universe section we get eight featurettes, teh first of which is the thirteen minute Phase II: The Lost Universe, followed by the thirty minute A Bold New Enterprise, the fourteen minute Redirecting The Future, the eleven minute The Longest Trek: Writing The Motion Picture, the ten minute Special Star Trek Reunion, the four minute Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 001: The Mystery Behind V'Ger, the half hour The New Frontier: Resurrecting Star Trek and the twenty-nine minute Maiden Voyage: Making Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Also include on the Blu-ray are a selection of storyboards, seven deleted scenes from the theatrical cut, eleven deleted scenes from the 1983 TV version of the movie, two trailers, a few TV spots, menus and chapter selection options.

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan:

The UHD disc contains an audio commentary featuring Nicholas Meyer and a second audio commentary (available on the theatrical cut) with Nicholas Meyer and Manny Coto.

Again, those commentary tracks are also included on the Blu-ray disc as well as a bunch of other supplemental material starting with a text commentary on the director's cut version from Michael and Denise Okuda. We also, once again, get a Library Computer Viewing Mode available for the theatrical cut only. The twenty-eight minute The Genesis Effect: Engineering The Wrath Of Khan featurette looks at what went into getting the film made and serves as a nice behind the scenes piece. The twenty-seven minute Captain's Log segment is more behind the scenes material that gives us a good look at what went into making the movie. The twenty-four minute Designing Khan featurette looks at the design work that went into creating the ships, sets and costumes that appear on screen in the movie. There's also eleven minutes of vintage interviews here with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley and Ricardo Montalbán in a section simply titled Interviews. Next up is Where No Man Has Gone Before: The Visual Effects Of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan which is, as you'd probably guessed, a look at the special effects work featured in the picture. In runs eighteen minutes. The ten minuet James Horner: Composing Genesis piece spends some time with the composer discussing the score for the picture. The eleven minute Collecting Star Trek's Movie Relics shows off a neat collection of props and related materials from the franchise's history, while the twenty-nine minute A Novel Approach featurette goes into quite a bit of detail about what all was involved with the different novelizations that were written for the series over the years. The three minute Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 002: Mystery Behind Ceti Alpha VI is similar to the Starfleet Academy featurette on disc one, just tailored to the events in this second movie.

Closing out the extras for the second film is the five minute Farewell: A Tribute To Ricardo Montalbán retrospective piece, a selection of storyboards and the film's theatrical trailer.

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock:

The UHD disc features an audio Commentary featuring Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Charles Correll and Robin Curtis as well as a second audio commentary, this one featuring Ronald D. Moore amd Michael Taylor.

Those two audio commentary tracks are also included on the Blu-ray disc as well quite a bit more, starting again with the Library Computer Viewing Mode option. The twenty-six minute Captain's Log segment is another general making of/behind the scenes pieces, while Terraforming and the Prime Directive, which also runs twenty-six minutes, looks at the science behind the potential of humankind actually, one day, terraforming the Red Planet. The fourteen minute Industry Light & Magic: The Visual Effects Of Star Trek looks at what ILM did behind the scenes to pull off the film's ornate effects work. The six minute Spock: The Early Years is a quick piece that catches up with the different actors that have played the iconic Vulcan in different phases of the character's life. Space Docks And Birds-Of-Prey spends twenty-eight minutes going over details of the effects work and model work that went into bringing the difference space ships featured in the movie to life, while the twenty-one minute Speaking Klingon looks at how the Klingon language has evolved over the span of the series and become an important part of the series. Klingon And Vulcan Costumes is a twelve minute piece that goes over the different costumes created for the film's two primary alien races, while the seventeen minute Star Trek And The Science Fiction Museum And Hall Of Fame heads to the titular museum in Seattle, Washington to show off the different Star Trek related exhibits that are part of the museum's collection.

Closing out the extra on the Blu-ray disc for the third film is a selection of Photo Galleries, the three minute Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 003: Mystery Behind the Vulcan Katra Transfer, an Easter egg featuring Ken Ralston On Models And Creature Effects , some storyboards and a trailer for the feature.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home:

The UHD disc for the fourth film in the collection once again features some commentary tracks, this time around with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and the first track and Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman on the second track.

The Blu-ray features those same commentary tracks as well as the, by this point, requisite Library Computer Viewing Mode option in addition to a plethora of other material starting with the twenty-eight minutes Future's Past: A Look Back that is a retrospective piece made up of cast and crew interviews wherein the participants reminisce about the making of the movie and tell some interesting stories from their time on the shoot. On Location is a seven minute piece that explores the locations that were used in San Francisco for the production, while the four minute Dailies Deconstruction looks at a few different takes and alternate angles for some of the key scenes from the film. Below-The-Line: Sound Design is a twelve minute segment that explores some of the sound design work featured in the picture, while the six minute Pavel Chekov's Screen Moments gives Walter Koenig a few minutes to look back at the character he's famous for playing and the career that it has given him. Time Travel: The Art Of The Possible spends eleven minutes with a group of physicists that discuss the science behind time travel and if it's something that we'll ever actually be able to accomplish. The six minute The Language Of Whaleslooks at how whales communicate and how this was worked in the movie, while the eight minute A Vulcan Primer is a quick history and exploration of the series' most popular alien race. Kirk's Women is an eight minute featurette that interviews a handful of the actresses that have acted alongside William Shatner since he took the role of Captain Kirk, while the ten minute Star Trek: The Three-Picture Saga explores the connections between the second, third and fourth films in the series and how they work together. Star Trek For A Cause is a six minute segment that looks at how the movie raised awareness for the environmental issues that it so clearly addresses. From Outer Space To The Ocean is a fifteen minute piece that looks at some of the effects work featured in the film, which ties into the three minute The Bird-Of-Prey pieces that further explores some of the effects related to the ship. There are also some vintage interviews in here as well: a fifteen minute piece with William Shatner, a sixteen minute piece with Leonard Nimoy and a thirteen minute piece with DeForest Kelley, all of which are interesting and worth checking out if you haven't seen them on the various other releases that they've made it onto over the years.

Closing out the extra on the Blu-ray disc for the fourth film is the four minute Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 004: The Whale Probe, the eight minute Roddenberry Scrapbook, a thirteen minute tribute to Featured Artist: Mark Lena, a production gallery, some storyboards and a trailer for the feature.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier:

Extras start off with an audio commentary William Shatner and Liz Shatner. It's a reasonably interesting track but could probably have used a moderator as it is a bit slow at times. Still, the duo covers what it was like getting the gang back together for this picture, the film's budget, working with the studio, the chemistry that exists between the core group of actors and a good bit more. A second audio commentary gets Michael and Denise Okuda, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Daren Dochterman on board. They talk about what it was like working with Shatner as an actor and as a director, what it was like on set and some of the difficulties that arose during the shoot, thoughts on how the film turned, how some of the key scenes were put together and more. These are the only extras on the UHD.

The Blu-ray disc includes the commentary tracks and more. The Production section includes six different mini-featurettes starting with the two minute Harve Bennett's Pitch To Sales Team which goes over the concept for the film. The Journey: A Behind-The-Scenes Documentary is a twenty-nine minute featurette that takes us backstage during the making of the movie and which gives us a look at the production process. From there, we get ten minutes of Makeup Tests for a few different characters and two minutes of Pre-Visualization Models that shows off some of the miniature work used in the movie. Rockman In The Raw is a six minute piece that shows what went into creating the costume while the Star Trek V Press Conference is a fourteen minute piece with the main cast members fielding questions from the media about the movie.

In The Star Trek Universe section we get eight more featurettes. Herman Zimmerman: A Tribute is a nice ninteen minute segment that goes over the composer's life and caeer. Original Interview: William Shatner is a fifteen minute archival interview with the actor/director talking about his work on the film and how he feels about the project. Cosmic Thoughts spends thirteen minutes going over man's role in the universe and space exploration while the thireen minute That Klingon Couple lets actors Todd Bryant and Spice Williams talk about their work under the makeup playing the main Klingons in the movie. A Green Future is a nine minute segment that goes over Yosemite National Park's history and significance in the movie and the real world, while the ten minute Star Trek Honors NASA looks at how the franchise had a real world effect on the space program. Hollywood Walk Of Fame: James Doohan spends three minutes showing off the actor getting recognition for his work, while the three minute Starfleet Academy SciSec Brief 005: Nimbus III is a three minute piece that looks back on the events of the movie from a futuristic perspective.

Finishing up the extras are four deleted scenes, a production gallery, a selection of storyboards, two different theatrical trailers, a few TV spots, a gag reel, menus and chapter selection options. The Library Computer viewing mode is also available for the movie as well.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country:

Director Nicholas Meyer and writer Denny Martin Flinn kick off the extras for the last film in the set with an interesting commentary track that talks about where the franchise was at when the movie was made, working with all of the principal cast members, notable contributions from many of the crew members, effects and production values, some of the themes that the movie explores, where some of the ideas for the movie came from and much more. A second commentary gets Star Trek experts Larry Nemecek and Ira Steven Behr together to talk about the history of the movie, its place in the franchise, how it compares to the other entries, details on the work that the cast and crew did and quite a bit more. Both of these play out over the theatrical cut, though a text commentary from Michael and Denise Okuda is available over the Director's Cut version on the UHD

Those commentary tracks are the only extras on the UHD, and both audio commentaries are found on the included Blu-ray release as well, which also offers a host of featurettes starting with The Perils Of Peacemaking a twenty-seven minute look at the way that science fiction can sometimes have a knack for effectively exploring real world issues and how this is exploited very effectively in the movie from a few different angles.

In the Stories From Star Trek VI section we find six shorter featurettes starting with the ten minute It Started With A Story piece that looks at how the socio-political climate of the eighties and nineties had an effect on shaping the movie and its story. Prejudice is a five minute piece that looks at how the movie deals with racism and how this was addressed while the movie was being made. Director Nicholas Meyer is a six minute piece that allows the cast and crew to talk about how much they enjoyed working with the man, while Shakespeare And General Chang is a six minute segment that looks at how including Shakespeare in the film and the work of Christopher Plummer sets the movie apart from other entries. The twenty-four minute Bring It To Life is a general making of documentary comprised of cast and crew interviews and behind the scenes footage while Farewell And Goodbye explores the final sequence in the movie and its importance to the picture.

In The Star Trek Universe section we get eight additional featurettes, the first of which is the ten minute Conversations With Nicholas Meyer that is essentially a selection of clips from various interviews that the filmmaker gave about the making of the movie. Klingons: Conjuring The Legend explores the history of the race and their importance to the franchise overall.Federation Operatives is a five minute piece that pays tribute to various actors that have played supporting roles over the years, while Penny's Toy Box is a six minute look at some of the props that are featured in the movie. Together Again is a five minute look at the history shared by Shatner and Plummer over the years and the five minute Tom Morga: Alien Stuntman explores Morga's lengthy career in the Star Trek universe and the different projects that he's been involved with over the years. To Be Or Not To Be: Klingons And Shakespeare is an amusing twenty-three minute piece that shows off a real world performance of Hamlet done entirely in Klingon! The Starfleet Academy SciSec Brief 006: Praxis is a quick three minute look at Star Trek VI, again from a futuristic perspective.

We also get a thirteen minute Deforest Kelley: A Tribute which is a nice retrospective piece that explores his contributions to the series, a brief five minute interview with William Shatner, a six minute interview with Leonard Nimo, a five minute interview with DeForest Kelley, a six minute interview with James Doohan, a six minute interview with Nichelle Nichols, a five minute interview with George Takei, a six minute interview with Walter Koenig and a five minute interview with Iman. There's also a five minute Star Trek Convention presentation relating to the movie from Nicholas Meyer.

Finishing up the extras for the last movie is the standard Library Computer viewing mode, a production gallery, a selection of storyboards, two different trailers for the feature, menus and chapter selection options.

Included inside the boxed set with the discs is an insert card containing a download code redeemable for digital HD versions of each of the films in the set.

Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection is what Paramount should have done when they released the four movie collection last year, regardless of if every movie in this collection is also being released as a standalone product. That said, this is a great set. Most of the movies in it hold up really well, and the picture quality is excellent. It would have been nice to see a few more new extras included here and maybe some new audio mixes too, but what's been carried over is very strong and there's hours and hours of extra content included for fans to dig through. Highly recommended.

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