New STAR TREK TOS, TNG Box Sets Coming in June

Back in November, CBS Home Entertainment released a three-season repackage of the remastered Star Trek: The Original Series on DVD, and this week they’ve announced a new series of releases coming this June for TOS on Blu-ray, as well as box sets for Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD and Blu-ray as well.

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The Blu-ray collection for Star Trek: The Original Series contains all twenty discs from the 2009 high-definition release in one box, with all of the bonus material and other features included. Like the first releases, the discs contain both the “classic” and “remastered” visual effects which can be each viewed independently. The set is projected for sale at $99.99.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation gets a fourth-round DVD release in this new box set. We’ve confirmed that these are not, as some have hoped, a DVD release of the remastered edition of the series, but this collection features the same 48-disc standard-definition masters as the original 2002 arrival.

In addition, this set also leaves out the 2007 bonus disc contained in the Twentieth Anniversary box set.

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Finally, the one thing many fans in North American have been waiting for: an all-in-one collection of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray. While we’ve been touting availability (and economic savings) of the region-free UK box set that’s been available since December 2014, we know there are those of you who didn’t want to import the collection from overseas.

This 48-disc set will have all the discs that were released as part of the individual season sets, but will not feature the Season 3 visual effects feature exclusive to Best Buy, nor will it contain the five standalone discs (“The Best of Both Worlds,” “Redemption,” “Unification,” “Chain of Command,” or “All Good Things…”) or their respective bonus material. The set will retail at suggested price of $208.99.

Preorders aren’t available yet, but we’ll update this post once they’re live.

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With yet another release of The Next Generation on DVD following just two years after the last one – and with a low price point of just $144.99 (compared to earlier editions, anyhow) – it remains odd that both Deep Space Nine (retailing on Amazon for over $500) and Voyager (at around $300 for the series) have never seen a second round on DVD since their original sale dates in 2003 and 2004.

Unfortunately, we’ve confirmed that right now, there are no plans for new DVD box sets for the two spin-off series, though as usual, we’ve been told that sales of these new June collections may determine if either show might get another chance on DVD. At this point, that would be the only hope to see the shows on store shelves again, as their upgrade to HD is now nothing more than a wish list item.

We’ll be sure to keep you all posted as we learn more about these releases, the upcoming 4K remaster of The Wrath of Khan, and the Blu-ray upgrade for The Animated Series coming later this year.