It's been hinted at before but now it's for real! The dazzling Star Trek Remastered series - Season 1 - is being released in a 10-disc HD DVD/DVD combo-disc set, marking the first release of Trek product in the high definition format.

Released by CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment, the Star Trek Remastered episodes are, quite literally, the ultimate way to view the classic series. With the original camera negative as the source, combined with new 21st-century computer generated images and remastered sound, Star Trek looks better than it ever has.

Besides the beautiful picture, HD DVD contains interactive features available only on this format. Also, as detailed on the Page 2 press release, this set has numerous new special features. Of particular interest to fans will be "Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest: Rare Home Movies and Special Memories." Other features include "making of" documentaries and a 3D Interactive Enterprise Tour where viewers can explore the ship's interior and exterior while piloting a shuttlecraft.

The set will feature all-new packaging in a futuristic, clear case.


Bonus features on the HD DVD side are as follows:

• On-screen graphical interface allows viewers to access Picture in Picture video commentaries, comparisons of re-mastered vs. original effects, encyclopedic information (science, life forms, technology), episode trivia and more.
• Spacelift: Transporting Trek into the 21st Century
• Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest: Rare Home Movies and Special Memories
• Interactive Enterprise Tour
• Perpetual Entertainment's "Star Trek Online” MMO Game Preview

Bonus features on the standard DVD side are as follows:

• Spacelift: Transporting Trek into the 21st Century
• The Birth of a Timeless Legacy
• Reflections on Spock
• Life Beyond Trek: William Shatner
• To Boldly Go…Season One
• Sci-Fi Visionaries
• Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest: Rare Home Movies and Special Memories
• Kiss & Tell: Romance in the 24th Century
• Trek Connections
• Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
• Episode Preview Trailers
• Perpetual Entertainment's "Star Trek Online” MMO Game Preview