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DVD Box Set Review: 'Star Trek: The Motion Pictures DVD Collection'

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(C) 2008 Paramount Home Entertainment Pros:  The few great Trek films are included; extras are mostly nice Cons:  If you have the two-disc Collector Editions, you don't need this! Although I've come to love the DVD (Digital Video Disk, or Digitally Versatile Disk) format ever since I purchased my first in the spring of 1999, there's one particular sales technique involving the admittedly-useful and versatile format that has made me somewhat annoyed with the various movie studios - the seemingly endless re-release and repackaging of popular films such as the  Alien  franchise, the Jack Ryan film series and the  Die Hard  series. All right, I confess: sometimes it's good that studios will backtrack and improve upon a "bare-bones" first edition of one of my favorite movies, particularly DVDs that lacked such extras as director's commentary tracks, deleted scenes, and behind-the-scenes featurettes. I tend to like those bonus features; as an...