Just after setting out they receive a garbled distress call from a science outpost, asking why he is removing the Genesis Project a top-secret device which has the power to create life where there was none. But it can also be used to wipe out an entire civilized planet. Set after one of the original television series episodes and cast with Ricardo Montalban as Khan, Star Trek II is set around a compelling story line with plenty of emotion, humor, drama and action. There s even a scene with computer graphics that are incredibly advanced for when it was made. The anamorphic video quality is quite good, especially considering the age of the film.
Colors are rich, black levels are well calibrated, dirt and lint is almost non-existent.
However, it s not particularly even. But many others wear their graininess like a badge of honor. At least the DVD can t be faulted for this it s doing a perfect job of reproducing the original flaws. The single-layered disc contains 17 chapters and 4.4 gigabytes of data and features English subtitles and closed captioning information. On the audio front, the first few trumpet notes will have you worrying about the condition of the new Dolby Digital 5.1 mix on this disc.