Star Trek - Alternate Realities Collective (DVD, 2008, Multi-Disc Set)

I like Star Trek. I've watched it in one form or another since it first aired on NBC back in the mid-1960's. I used to watch it, lying on the floor in front of our Color TV console with my mother [who was a giant Sci-Fi fan - at the time]. Some episodes are good, some great, some not so good, some a little-bit 'preachy'. The 1960's were like that. But the show, as a whole was ground-breaking television which has evolved into a sub-culture that has really gone main-stream since the year 2000.

As far as episodes go, I always enjoyed the Time-Travel episodes. I also liked the Alternate Realities episodes [although I never really grouped them together like that until Deep-Space 9 had it's flirtation with the Mirror Universe. Over the years, with Next Generation, I enjoyed the various episodes with Q. I really liked "Tapestry" - showing what Jean-Luc Picard's life would have been if he had not been so 'impetuous' in his young Academy Day [when he lost his Heart fighting Norsican's]. I addition to Q episodes, I also grew to enjoy the "Deeply Klingon" episodes. I tried to group Together "Yesterday's Enterprise" with "Klingon Civil War" [Tasha Yar's Daughter - Sela] episodes as well as other Klingon episodes onto 1 8-hour VHS tape [but it took time for the episodes to be on your cable channels and for you to remember to tape them.. that was then. Now you have Sets being groups [across the spectrum of series] into catagories that "mirror" my own [and alot of other Trekkers] tastes.

So, the Alternate Realities set really caught my eye. Due to it's complete representation of the Mirror Universe episodes from TOS, Deep-Space-9, and Enterprise. the episodes from Star Trek: Enterprise were prime Science Fiction from the opening sequence [where Zephram Cochrane Orders an all-out siege of the Visiting Vulcan's from First Contact, through the Opening Credits sequence showing all sorts of war-like history [in place of the Hope-filled Sailing and Flights imagery that are usually part of Enterprise's opening] and all through the well-written episodes. I wanted to see more! My next hope is that someone will be 'bold-enough' to offer a Star Trek "Mirror Universe" feature length movie! That would be awesome!

Sincerely,
Jim Madden
Full-time trekker!

This is a Fan Collective about What If stories and events that could happen if the characters didn't take the 1st approach. These were the darker episodes from all five shows.

1 - Star Trek: The Alternative Factor
2 - Star Trek: Mirror, Mirror
3 - Star Trek: The Enemy Within
4 - Star Trek: Turnabout Intruder
5 - Star Trek: The Next Generation: Yesterday's Enterprise
6 - Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Inner Light
7 - Star Trek: The Next Generation: Frame of Mind
8 - Star Trek: The Next Generation: Parallels
9 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 43: Crossover
10 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 66: Through The Looking Glass
11 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 76: The Visitor
12 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 92: Shattered Mirror
13 - Star Trek: Voyager: Before & After
14 - Star Trek: Voyager: Timeless
15 - Star Trek: Voyager: Course: Oblivion
16 - Star Trek: Voyager: Shattered
17 - Star Trek: Enterprise: Twilight
18 - Star Trek: Enterprise: E2
19 - Star Trek: Enterprise: In a Mirror, Darkly, Part 1
20 - Star Trek: Enterprise: In a Mirror, Darkly, Part 2

Grab this collection. Its cheaper that buying the shows. Great for Star Trek fans and Fans who like Alternat Timelines!

All I can say about this set is, IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME!!!! This set has a lot good episodes dealing with alternate timelines in all five "Star Trek" series. One of the best is the "Enterprise" two-parter, "In a Mirror, Darkly", which tells how the Mirror Universe comes to power. Very well done.
The worst part is the fact that only three of the DS9 Mirror Eps are included. My guess is that Paramount had to be fair and include four eps from each series, so I can't really complain.
All told, it's a great set that ranks up there with the Borg Collective and Klingon sets.

Great selection of shows, some I didn't see before. Will get the other Star Trek collections. A Must buy for Star Trek fans.!!

This is a good collections. My husband also has the Borg collections. That is why I got him this one. He likes that it takes the best of those that are the same from all Star Trek series and puts them together. So when he is talking about one in patrcular he can pull out his collection and go right to that one.