
CBS Paramount International Television - CBS Paramount International Television
Release date: 2004-08-31
DVD
Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelly
1, 1st, First, One, Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie, TV Shows, Television




One thing I noticed when looking at the playlist for Season 1 is that the episodes at the beginning are out of sequence. For example, the VHS tapes I have (also published by Paramount) have the first four episodes listed as: The Cage (not in the set, by the way); Where No Man Has Gone Before; The Corobomite Maneuver; Mudd's Women. The first disc, according to the booklet (haven't had a chance to watch these yet) shows: The Man Trap; Charlie X; Where No Man Has Gone Before; The Naked Time. This is radically different in sequence. While I am not a 100% purist, particularly where the original series goes (since the main characters were all at the same place at the end of each episodes), it is still odd that we have such a huge dichotomy in the sequence of the shows. It's at least slightly disturbing.
The strength if the original Trek series is the philosophical underpinnings of its structure and story lines.
Even in the silliest episodes, there is an exploration of age-old questions.
What is man? What is logic, will , emotion and how do they co-exist in the human psyche to achieve human ideals.
The first season of Trek was the best and its representatives of the human troika (Kirk=Will, Spock=Logic, McCoy=Emotion) create the tension of human strivings in the simplest of interactions.
Ignore the silly FX. Enjoy the ideas. For its time, Trek was the best series that was actually about ideas.