A crisis arises in a nearby sector of space and the Enterprise B is called into service for a rescue mission- a mission in which Captain Kirk is lost. Unfortunately, his fine work is done a disservice by this presentation. In addition to lacking the anamorphic component, the Letterboxed transfer seems to come from the previous Laserdisc issue of about four years ago. Unfortunately, this transfer has begun to show its age.
Colors appear over-saturated and lack the stability that one fines in the best transfers.
It's quite apparent that the less than perfect transfer used to master this DVD caused the compression artifacts that were noticeable in a number of places. The Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack packs a punch with a lot of sound effects jumping out of all the discrete channels, including the surrounds. Additionally, Both bass and dialogue reproduction are strong. A matrixed Dolby Surround soundtrack has also been included as well as a French language track. English captioning and Spanish subtitles have been encoded into the disc.