Star Trek Into Darkness (Blu-ray)

Star Trek Into Darkness is the Blu-ray Disc release of . The release contains a Blu-ray, DVD (omitted from releases outside North America), and a digital copy of the film. Various limited edition sets are also available with many of them, most conspicuously the "retailer exclusives", including a bonus features Blu-ray disc in lieu of the DVD.
Most regular releases came with their discs mounted in the standard plastic snapcase and packaged within the customary cardboard slipcover, but there was a twist involved for the North America Region A release; instead of a cardboard slipcover, theirs was endowed with a transparent plastic one with the snapcase cover (which is otherwise similar to the Region B cover) partially visible through the Starfleet arrow shaped ruins.
File:Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray US Region A snapcase back cover.jpg|US Region A snapcase back cover
File:Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray French Region B back cover.jpg|French Region B snapcase back cover
File:Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray German Region B Metalpack back cover.jpg|German "Metalpak" back cover
While in several cases still being marketed as region-restricted, it is in actuality a region-free release as this has increasingly become commonplace for the Blu-ray format. The European releases even lack the once customary region indication on their back covers – though they were maintained on their equally region-free .
==Video==
The domestic release of the Blu-ray does not feature the scenes shot in resolution. It was reported that the German release contains the scenes shot for IMAX, shown in their full aspect, but this is false. 
== Special features ==
These are the standard special features common to all Blu-ray releases. 
*Creating the Red Planet
*Attack on Starfleet
*The Klingon Home World
*The Enemy of My Enemy
*Ship to Ship
*Brawl by the Bay
*Continuing the Mission (Region A only)
The iTunes Store contains a director's video commentary, which runs a half hour longer than the film. iTunes later released all special features as included on the 2014 Star Trek: The Compendium release. The deleted scenes are available on the app. The additional following special features are exclusive to the following stores:
;/ release,
*The Voyage Begins… Again
*Mr. Spock and Mr. Spock
*Rebuilding the Enterprise
*Vengeance is Coming
*Kirk & Spock
*Visual Affection
Sainsbury's had its bonus features included on a DVD, unlike Target which had them included on a separate Blu-ray disc.
;Best Buy/CinemaNow release:
*Down With the Ship
*NIF: Home of the Core
*Safety First
*Unlocking the Cut
*The Sound of Music and FX
*Aliens Encountered 
The Canadian Best Buy edition contains an additional disc for these bonus features, while American buyers will have to download them.
;Tesco release:
20 minutes of unspecified extra content exclusive to their Blinkbox service.
=== The VAM controversy ===
The decision to make the majority of special features retailer exclusives prompted intense criticism of Paramount Home Entertainment. According to , a source close to both Paramount and Bad Robot Productions stated that the latter reportedly had "100% control" over the production and dissemination of VAM ("Value Added Material" aka "special features") productions. This source speculated this material might have been delivered late as account-specific features generally have a deadline that is later than the Blu-ray. This would have resulted in the features being thrown to different SKUs (Stock Keeping Units), or contracts were negotiated with retailers wherein each was paid for the exclusive content specific to their stores. Simon Pegg voiced his support for the fans, saying the inconsistent release made him "sad". 
In June 2014, Paramount announced an all special features inclusive Blu-ray release, in the IMAX version (but without the 3D version), of the film as the The Compendium set referenced above. 
Deeply loathed by fans and consumers alike, and despite the upheaval, the retailer exclusive format was utilized yet again for the next, 2016 film Blu-ray outing.
File:Walmart exclusive STID BR with HW Vengeance.jpg|SteelBook® edition with Hot Wheels retailer exclusive
File:Japan retailer exclusive STID BR with HW Vengeance.jpg|Japanese 2014 retailer exclusive variant with bonus comic book
File:Star Trek Into Darkness target exclusive bluray.jpg| four-disc retailer exclusive cover
File:Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray Region B Sainsbury's retailer exclusive cover.jpg|Sainsbury's two-disc retailer exclusive cover
File:Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray Russian Region C cover.jpg|Russian Region C cover, released by Noviy Disk on 16 September 2013
File:Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray Chinese Region C cover.jpg|Chinese Region C cover, released by Excel on 7 November 2013
File:Star Trek Into Darkness 1-disc Blu-ray Region A-B Exclusive Embossed Metalpak cover.jpg|One-disc "Embossed Metalpak" US/Canadian /Japanese Region A, and Benelux Region B retailer exclusive
File:Star Trek Into Darkness Walmart & Best Buy Limited Steelbook Edition.jpg|One-disc US Region A, and UK Amazon.co.uk Region B retailer exclusiveThe same SteelBook was in North America also circulated by Walmart as their two-disc holding Blu-ray/DVD combo "Limited Edition" retailer exclusive variant. It was this version that was included in their exclusive "Hot Wheels" gift set retailer exclusive as well.
File:Star Trek Into Darkness Amazon.co.uk Limited Steelbook Edition.jpg|Embossed one-disc "Limited SteelBook" Amazon.co.uk retailer exclusive
Star Trek Into Darkness UK, Spain Amazon exclusive Limited Steelbook Edition.jpg|Two-disc "Limited SteelBook" Amazon.co.uk/ca/es, German , and Australian retailer exclusive
File:Star Trek Into Darkness Italian Limited Steelbook Edition.jpg|Two-disc Italian "Limited Edition" SteelBook
File:Star Trek Into Darkness Amazon.it Collector's Edition with phaser replica.jpg|Italian "Collector's Edition" gift set with Quantum Mechanix phaser retailer exclusiveThe Italian limited gift set release was an aberrant Blu-ray only version of the more ubiquitous similar version released in the same time-span for the , the version of which falsely indicated on the Italian box as being present as well, and had been a 4 December 2013 Amazon.it retailer exclusive.
File:Saturn Star Trek Into Darkness Limited Steelbook Edition.jpg|One-disc "SteelBook" German/Dutch exclusive
File:STID Best Buy Bluray.jpg| exclusive cover
File:STID meteor edition.jpg|Meteor Edition available via a competition 
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