THE RODDENBERRY VAULT Arrives December 13

We’ve been looking forward to the new Star Trek: The Roddenberry Vault project ever since it was announced at Comic Con in July, and now we have a release date: December 13.

Revealed today by Entertainment Weekly, the new three-disc set will feature not only the twelve episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series already announced, but there’s now new detail on the documentary features as well as a few new audio commentary tracks – and for the first time, isolated music tracks on the classic shows.

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – THE RODDENBERRY VAULT ARRIVES DECEMBER 13 FROM CBS HOME ENTERTAINMENT AND PARAMOUNT HOME MEDIA DISTRIBUTION

Blu-ray™ Collection In Limited Edition Packaging To Include Twelve Classic Episodes, Three Exclusive Special Feature Documentaries Presenting Unseen Footage And New Interviews With Notable Star Trek Figures

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (September 1, 2016) – Fans can dive into the making of pop culture history when STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – THE RODDENBERRY VAULT is released on Blu-ray December 13. In honor of the show’s 50th Anniversary, and just in time for holiday gift giving, the three-disc collector’s edition Blu-ray set from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution gives fans unprecedented access to never-before-seen footage from the production of Star Trek: The Original Series.

During the shooting of Star Trek, bits and pieces of episodic footage were left on the cutting room floor and later preserved in film canisters by The Roddenberry Estate. Recognizing the value of the footage, CBS painstakingly catalogued, transferred, analyzed, and pieced together these Vault materials, which include alternate takes, deleted scenes, omitted dialogue, outtakes, and original visual FX elements.

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – THE RODDENBERRY VAULT includes twelve classic episodes chosen for their relevance to the Vault materials, and presented in 1080p High Definition with both DTS 7.1 Master Audio as well as newly restored original Mono. Eleven of these episodes contain isolated music tracks. Newly recorded audio commentaries appear on three fan-favorite episodes.

Each of the set’s three discs features documentaries that weave together the previously unseen Vault materials with all-new interviews by key creative and production personnel and famous fans. The three new documentaries exploring the “making of” the celebrated series and its enduring legacy are:

Inside The Roddenberry Vault: Rod Roddenberry introduces viewers to the discovery of his father’s long-lost Star Trek film reels. With footage from each of the 12 episodes, this three-part special feature offers a guided exploration into the historical significance of the newly discovered material through new interviews with dozens of Star Trek alumni and historians

Star Trek: Revisiting A Classic: A look back at the origins of the iconic series, including glimpses of life on the set with new interviews featuring guest stars, directors and production personnel.

Strange New Worlds: Visualizing the Fantastic dives into the creation of spaceships, transporters, and the classic Star Trek visuals. The in-depth feature combines newly found original visual effects elements photography along with interviews with effects masters and Star Trek veterans such as Industrial Light & Magic founding member Richard Edlund, Doug Drexler, Dan Curry and Gary Hutzel.

Giving fans access to even more fragments of unseen footage and omitted dialogue from the groundbreaking series is a collection of Vault materials entitled Swept Up: Snippets from the Cutting Room Floor.

Star Trek figures interviewed for these exclusive documentaries include William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk); writers Dorothy “D.C.” Fontana, David Gerrold and John D.F. Black; director Ralph Senensky; casting director Joseph D’Agosta; visual effects artist Richard Edlund; and actors from the 12 featured episodes such as Clint Howard (“The Corbomite Maneuver”), BarBara Luna (“Mirror, Mirror”), Leslie Parrish (“Who Mourns for Adonais?”), Charlie Brill (“The Trouble with Tribbles”), Michael Forest (“Who Mourns for Adonais”), Bobby Clark (“Arena”) and Elinor Donahue (“Metamorphosis”). Plus, the collection features new interviews with an impressive array of some of Star Trek’s biggest fans including The Big Bang Theory co-creator Bill Prady, The Simpsons writer/producer David Mirkin, Family Guy writer/producer David A. Goodman, NASA’s Bobak Ferdowsi, Bill Nye (The Science Guy), and more..

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – THE RODDENBERRY VAULT will be initially available in limited edition deluxe packaging. The Blu-ray is Not Rated in the U.S. and rated G in Canada.

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The disc breakdown is as follows:

Disc One:

“The Corbomite Maneuver” (with Isolated Music Track)

“Arena” (with Isolated Music Track)

“Space Seed” (with Isolated Music Track)

“This Side of Paradise” (with Isolated Music Track)

NEW! Audio Commentary by Dorothy “D.C.” Fontana and Gabrielle Stanton

Special Features

NEW! Inside the Roddenberry Vault (Part 1)

NEW! Star Trek: Revisiting a Classic

Disc Two:

“The Devil in the Dark” (with Isolated Music Track)

“The City on the Edge of Forever”

NEW! Audio Commentary by Roger Lay Jr., Scott Mantz and Mark A. Altman

“Operation – Annihilate!” (with Isolated Music Track)

“Metamorphosis” (with Isolated Music Track)

Special Features

NEW! Inside the Roddenberry Vault (Part 2)

NEW! Strange New Worlds: Visualizing the Fantastic

Disc Three:

“Who Mournes for Adonais?” (with Isolated Music Track)

“Mirror, Mirror” (with Isolated Music Track)

“The Trouble With Tribbles” (with Isolated Music Track)

NEW! Audio Commentary by David Gerrold and David A. Goodman

“Return to Tomorow” (with Isolated Music Track)

Special Features

NEW! Inside the Roddenberry Vault (Part 3)

NEW! Swept Up: Snippets from the Cutting Room Floor

In addition to being presented in both DTS 7.1 Master Audio and original English Mono, the episodes can also be played in Italian Mono, German Mono, and Castilian Mono audio. Both the episodes and special features include English SDH, Italian, German, Castilian, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish subtitles.

Entertainment reporter (and rabid Trek fan) Scott Mantz is contributing a new audio commentary track to the “City on the Edge of Forever” presented in this set, the first of three new TOS audio commentary since the initial Blu-ray release in 2009.

What an HONOR to do a commentary track w/ @RogerLayJr1980 & @markaaltman for the best #StarTrek ever! VAULT 12/13! pic.twitter.com/QLrDUDTkKG

— Scott Mantz (@MovieMantz) September 2, 2016

Here’s our first look at the Roddenberry Vault Blu-ray packaging design, leaning heavily on a film-canister aesthetic to go with the source of this never-seen archival footage.

We’ll be chatting with one of the project’s producers this weekend at the Mission: New York convention about The Roddenberry Vault, so if you’ve got questions you want to know about this new endeavor, sound off in the comments below!