Paramount Home Entertainment will be releasing the first theatrical films in the Star Trek series as a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack presentation titled Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection on Sept. 7.
Included in the collection are director Robert Wise’s 1979 Christmas-season launch of the future film franchise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, starring the original series cast members, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nicoles, Grace Lee Whitney and Majel Barrett, with newcomers Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins and Mark Lenard (who would have the distinction of being cast as a Romulan in the “Balance of Terror” episode of the original Star Trek television series, as Sarek, a Vulcan, in “Journey to Babel,” and in Star Trek: The Motion Picture he plays a Klingon … quite a combination).
Bonus features include commentary, deleted scenes and a collection vintage featurettes.
Next in the series was director Nicholas Meyer’s summer of 1982 release of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, starring Kirk and company, plus Kirstie Alley as Saavik, Bibi Besch (Meteor, The Beast Within) as the mother of Kirk’s son, David, (played by Merritt Butrick) and Ricardo Montalban reprises his iconic role, Khan, from the television series (“Space Seed” episode) and secures his place in the Star Trek universe of great villains.
There is a vintage commentary (with Nicholas Meyer), plus numerous vintage featurettes.
The third arrival in the Star Trek film franchise series came in 1984 with Leonard Nimoy as the director of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
There are two vintage commentary options included here. The first features Leonard Nimoy, who is joined by writer/producer Harve Bennett, director of photography Charles Correll and Robin Curtis, who took over the role of Saavik. The second teams Star Trek: The Next Generation producer Ronald D. Moore with Star Trek: Voyager episode writer Michael Taylor … plus there are vintage featurettes.
And finishing up this 4K Ultra HD collection is director Leonard Nimoy’s 1986 release of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. No Enterprise, instead a captured Klingon Bird of Prey — renamed “The Bounty” — and a time trip to save the planet.
Catherine Hicks (Child’s Play, Fever Pitch, Peggy Sue Got Married) is the focus here as Dr. Gillian Taylor, a marine biologist with whales that Kirk and Spock need to take back to the future.
Bonus features include commentary from William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, plus vintage featurettes.
Also announced this past week from Paramount Home Entertainment is a 20-disc Blu-ray SteelBook collection of Star Trek: The Original Series, which will also be available on Sept. 7.
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