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 - better than locallyThere's a local reseller of used DVD's and other items who is charging 70.00 for this item. I was happy to find it on Amazon for considerably less. Rating: - Watching it with the "Next Generation"I bought these to watch with my twelve year old son-"The Next Generation". He had never seen any Star Trek series and now he is in love with the original. They are better than I remember them. I last watched them in college on a small black and white set, to watch them on a large color sceen makes them better. Although a little dated, especially the special effects, they were still great stories and to watch and hear the dialogue between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy again is quite a treat. Rating: - FANTASTIC SERIES!!!STAR TREK - The Original Series, First Season. I stayed to 3am every night watching until I finished the whole episodes! This is Sci-Fi at its best. The Plots in the original Star Trek are almost all story-and-character driven and each story is a classic in its own sense. Time travel? Nothing better than the classic "City on the edge of Forever", a story that will remain edged on your mind for a long, long time? Wandering where James Cameron got the ideas for his Terminator Series? The ideas are all there in Star trek starting with the very first episode "The Man Trap" in which you see a "morphing" character that obviously the T1000 in T2 was based on. "What are little Girls made of?" is also a Robot Classic that I believe would have help Cameron conjure up the Terminator Series. By the way the morphing Character in "Man Trap" is female, so think of "T3". I just wish Hollywood would remake some of the series as full length features with younger characters and bigger special effects. I would definitely like to see a modern remake of "The city on the edge of Forever" and "Arena" in which the "GORN" Monster is given better effects a more viciousness. I just acquired the rest of the Original series and I foresee many sleepless nights ahead for myself! Rating:  - Episodes out of OrderAlthough it is real nice having the set in one package, it is a shame that they did not have the foresight to think we might want to watch them in the order they were numbered, i.e. episode 2 before 3, 3 before 4, 4 before 5, etc. They are on the disks in air date order, which is not the correct order, if you want to watch in actual order, you must juggle between disks. Wait to purchase until the idiots at Paramount get it right. Maybe this is why sales were not so good and went from $129 - $199 per season to less than $40.00 per season. Rating: - Some of the best Sci-Fi EVERYou can't miss the first season of original Trek. While season 2 may represent a time when all the characters were "hitting their stride" so-to-speak, season one has quite a few episodes that represent the best of TV science fiction writing. City on the Edge of Forever, Balance of Terror, The Naked Time, absolutely excellent. The documentary about William Shatner's horse business - not so much. I'm a bit of a purist, as well; so while I appreciate the new versions with the updated special effects (they did a great job on them), I really want to see Star Trek the way I remember it. The budget struggles and antiquated effects technology are part of the history, and tell you something about television production of the 1960s. I love this DVD collection.
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