Real world article
(written from a production point of view)
Star Trek: The Animated Series – The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek is a DVD collection containing all twenty-two episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series. The original release came in identical, hard plastic case packaging for both region 1 and 2. The region 2 re-release of 2009 was packaged in a standard snap case.
Releases[]
| Release | Cover | Release date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | ||
| Star Trek: The Animated Series – The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek | 
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21 November 2006 | 4 December 2006 23 March 2009 (re-release) |
11 January 2007 |
Special Features[]
- Text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda on "Yesteryear", "The Eye of the Beholder", and "The Counter-Clock Incident".
- Audio commentary by David Gerrold on "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "Bem", and by David Wise on "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth".
- Storyboard gallery on "The Infinite Vulcan".
- "Drawn to the Final Frontier: The Making of Star Trek: The Animated Series", a behind the scenes look with the writers and animators of the show.
- "What's the Star Trek Connection?", a look at how the Animated Series ties into the various live action series.
- A history of the show.
- Animated Trek: Real or Not? (booklet article).
Background information[]
- CBS remastered the series in 1080p HD for this release, however the DVDs themselves feature the episodes in "enhanced-definition" 480p/24p. A high-definition release of "More Tribbles, More Troubles" was included on the TOS Season 2 Blu-ray in 2009, before a full Blu-ray release followed in 2016.
- Some of the special features of this DVD were done by Andy Mangels who, for several years, did special features for other DVDs. He reflected, "When Paramount did the TAS series on DVD, I proposed to do the special features. They passed, but I did end up providing a lot of material they used for their set and documentary." [1]
- The release artwork on the DVDs feature main characters of the series, in animated form, with the first disc featuring James T. Kirk, the second Spock, the third Montgomery Scott, and the fourth Leonard McCoy.
- Incongruously, one section of the booklet refers once to Spock as "Dr. Spock".
- This collection has four discs. The first two discs contain six episodes each, while the latter two contain five episodes each. The final disc also contains the Special Features. The episodes are placed in release order as opposed to production order, which is used by all previous releases.
Cover gallery[]
Provisional cover artwork
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Star Trek: The Animated Series DVD |
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