Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Blu-ray)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is the Blu-ray Disc release of , and had made its debut as part of the earlier issued and the near-concurrently released . Reissued as an individual release with new cover art, it features the widescreen theatrical cut of the film, digitally remastered from the original negative.
Region B saw a 2016 reissue in the Steelbook variant, which was initially intended to be a part of the . Nonetheless, all ten films saw concurrent European general, non-limited retail individual releases in the UK, Germany, Italy, and France, the Steelbook® typically packaged in transparent plastic slipcases with the usual Blu-ray band imprinted at the top. In all cases the text imprints on the back of the Steelbook were language adapted.
File:Star Trek The Search for Spock Blu-ray cover Region A back.jpg|US Region A back cover
File:Star Trek III The Search for Spock Blu-ray back cover.jpg|UK Region B back cover
File:Star Trek The Search for Spock Blu-ray cover Region A (Japan).jpg|Japan Region A cover
File:Star Trek III The Search for Spock Blu-ray cover Region B steelbook reissue.jpg|Region B 2016 Steelbook reissue
While in some cases still being marketed as region-restricted, of the 2016 reissues and beyond is known that these are in actuality region-free as this has increasingly become commonplace for the Blu-ray format.
== Improved 2021 reissue ==
File:Star Trek III The Search for Spock Blu-ray 2021 Remaster cover.jpg|Region A cover
File:Star Trek III The Search for Spock Region B UK Blu-ray 2021 Remaster cover.jpg|Region B cover
File:Star Trek III The Search for Spock Region B UK Blu-ray 2021 Remaster back cover.jpg|Region B back cover
In September 2021 the box set was released, which contained the in re-remastered first four which were also issued separately, The Motion Picture excepted. Additionally, to 1080p downscaled Blu-ray versions of each film, The Motion Picture included, were concurrently issued as well. The Search for Spock reissue was essentially the technically improved upgrade version of the otherwise identical 2009 original release, featuring the same below-mentioned special features. The Region A release though, had an additional digital download version available as well, obtainable by a to North-America geo-restricted redeemable code, which was not included on the Region B release.
== Special features ==
As well as the extras originally featured on the prior , excepting the text commentary by Mike and Denise Okuda and the Easter egg, the release also includes new special features in high definition.
*Commentary by Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Charles Correll and Robin Curtis
*Commentary by Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor * 
*Captain's Log (26:13)
*Terraforming and the Prime Directive (25:53)
*Industrial Light & Magic: The Visual Effects of Star Trek (13:50) †
*Spock: The Early Years (6:22) †
*Space Docks and Bird of Prey (27:49)
*Speaking Klingon (21:04)
*Klingon and Vulcan Costumes (12:16)
*Star Trek and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (16:52) †
*Starfleet Academy SciSec Brief 003: Mystery Behind the Vulcan Katra Transfer (2:42) †
*Photo Gallery: Pre-Production, The Movie
*Storyboards: Main Titles, The Klingon Attack, Entering Spacedock, Searching for Life, Finding Spock, The Destruction of the Grissom, Stealing the Enterprise, Self Destruct, Kirk Fights Kruge, The Katra Ritual
*Theatrical Trailer (1:12) †
† - in HD (others in standard definition)
== Background information ==
While the DVD counterpart still had to make do with the standard Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, this Blu-ray release did feature the new, superior Dolby TruHD 7.1 soundtrack.