Star Trek (Original Series): Complete 2nd Season (DVD)

If there is one thing that Paramount Pictures knows it is "Star Trek" and they certainly have gone full-tilt to try and impress "Star Trek" fans with their release of the original series finally presented as season box sets.

In August Paramount released the first season of "Star Trek" in a fancy plastic shell looking case that immediately catches your eye and now comes the complete second season in the series one month before the third and final season will be released.

My interest in the "Star Trek" series is certainly from the perspective of a fan as this show was light years ahead of its time, which is only obvious by the way it has managed to transcend generations and has spawned several spin-offs. Here in the second season we get a peek at several classic episodes, episodes that I remember, even though I have not seen the show for several years.

Easily one of my favorite episodes of all time can be found in this season, "The Trouble with Tribbles," and on top of the episode being one of the selected episodes for text-commentary it also gets a nice bit of attention in the featurette titled " To Boldly Go... Season Two."

Season two also brings us the memorable confrontation with "Apollo," Harry Mudd once again joins the fray, of course the Tribbles, Klingons, intergalactic Nazis, parallel universes and so much more.

Season two, in my opinion, is far more interesting than the first season was and will bleed right into the third and final season, which you will see on store shelves December 14th.

Along with the text commentaries and the featurette I already mentioned, the second season comes equipped with even more featurettes that, I think, are really aimed at "Trek" fanatics that more casual viewers will most likely find less interesting.

These featurettes include a look at Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle Nichols and their lives after "Star Trek", a look at Kirk, Spock & Bones and their classic bond, a set design feature, a writer's notebook with D.C. Fontana, a photo gallery and preview trailers.

Of these several features the writer's notebook and the Kirk, Spock & Bones feature will probably be most interesting to the majority viewers, except Leonard Nimoy does give away the origin of the Vulcan hand greeting in his personal featurette, which you may want to check out and Nichelle Nichols gives insight into the origin of Uhura's name in hers.

Overall this set is equally impressive as the first, and I actually found the featurettes on this one a bit more interesting than those on the first set.

If you have a "Trek" fan in the family or are one yourself this is a piece of TV history to own. Although these sets do carry a hefty price tag at $90.99 the value of each set for "Star Trek" fans is priceless as these sets offer everything you could want from the world of "Star Trek".