The Star Trek DVD & Blu-Ray Is Fat-Packed with Joy

By Rob Bricken in DVDs, Movies
Thursday, Jun. 25 2009 @ 3:05PM
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Now consider this a rumor, because Paramount hasn't announced anything officially yet. But the Blu-ray Blog and others got ahold of an early press release of the DVD and Blu-ray versions of the new Star Trek mobvie, and goddamn is it full of awesomess (or "win," as the kids like to say). Check it.
• Audio commentary (JJ Abrams, Bryan Burke, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Roberto Orci)
• Featurettes:
        ◦ Where no man has gone before:
             ▪ The Shatner conundrum
             ▪ The redshirt guy,
             ▪ The green girl
             ▪ Trekker alert!
        ◦ Casting
        ◦ A new vision ("Savage Pressure")
        ◦ Starships:
             ▪ Warp explained
             ▪ Painting work
             ▪ Accelerated bridge construction
             ▪ The captain's chair
             ▪ Operating the buttons
             ▪ Shuttle shuffle
             ▪ Accelerated Narada construction
        ◦ Aliens:
             ▪ The alien paradox
             ▪ The girl with the big eyes
             ▪ Big pro Quinto
             ▪ Klingons
             ▪ Drakoulias anatomy 101
        ◦ Planets:
             ▪ Additional businesses
             ▪ Confidentiality
        ◦ Equipment and costumes: Klingon costumes
        ◦ Sound
        ◦ Music
        ◦ Gene Roddenberry's vision

• Deleted scenes:

        ◦ Spock's birth
        ◦ Klingons capture Narada
        ◦ Young Kirk, Johnny and Uncle Frank
        ◦ Amanda and Sarek argue after Spock's fight
        ◦ Interrogation and escape from prison
        ◦ Sarek and Amanda
        ◦ Bedroom and Kobayashi Maru (original version)
        ◦ Kirk apologizes to the green girl
        ◦ Sarek sees Spock Prime

• Starfleet vessel simulator (probably BD only)
• Star Trek gag reel
• Trailers:

        ◦ Teaser trailer
        ◦ Theatrical trailer "The wait is over"
        ◦ Theatrical trailer "Prepare for the beginning"
        ◦ Theatrical trailer "Buckle up"

• Star Trek: D-A-C demo (trailer) for XBOX 360
• BD Live options

That's a hell of a lot, and for the first time in a long time, I'm genuinely excited about watching some deleted scenes from a movie, if only to Greg Grunberg as Uncle Frank belittle young Kirk and possibly throw corn at him (actually, I'd much rather see Diora Baird as the other Orion non-Slave Girl, but let's move on). Right now, the Trek home edition is set for October 8th, but write that in your calendars in pencil not ink.
Tags: Star Trek