Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter)
Feast your eyes on the new poster for Star Trek: XI. Star Trek.com was the first to reveal the artwork for the poster which coincides with this week’s ComicCon in San Diego, CA.
In another bit of Star Trek news, CBS DVD and Paramount Home Entertainment announced this week that they will be releasing the Star Trek Animated Series on a 4-disc DVD on November 21, 2006. The title will be “STAR TREK: The Animated Series,” and will include all 22 episodes from the popular television program that acted as a continuation of the series once the live-action show went off the air nearly 40 years ago and covers the years 1973 and 1974.
The animated series includes the voices of original live-action stars like William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett. the 4-disc set includes the Peabody award-winning episode “How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth,” Walter Koenig’s “The Infinite Vulcan,” which was the first episode ever written by a Star Trek cast member, as well as a number of episodes that serve as sequels to original Star Trek episodes. Many episodes were written by veterans of the original live-action TV series, such as D.C. Fontana and David Gerrold, and the show won a daytime Emmy in 1975 for Outstanding Children’s Series.
Some of the special features included in the package will be “Drawn to the Final Frontier – The Making of Star Trek: The Animated Series,” “What’s the Star Trek Connection?” documentary, a photo gallery, show history, wallpaper, AIM Icons and important text commentaries from Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda (“Yesteryear,” “The Eye of the Beholder,” “The Counter-Clock Incident”).
The DVD set will be presented in its original full screen with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, English Mono and Spanish Mono and will be available to own for a suggested retail price of $62.99.
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