Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition (4K Ultra HD)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition is a two-disc (three-disc for Europe) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray Disc/Digital boxset, released on , featuring the 4K UHD release version of the Director's Edition of . As is currently usual with UHD/Blu-ray double releases, all special features (excepting the audio commentaries and isolated music score tracks) are only included on the Blu-ray disc of the release. The Polish release contained the 4K UHD disc only.
The set was released on the occasion of the completion of the long awaitedTalks of a High Definition release of the Director's Edition had been floating around since April 2013, but various reasons conspired against such a release for nearly a decade. For further background information on this subject matter, see main article. in remastered version of the in 2022,Essentially the High Definition (HD) upgrade of the original 2001 DVD release, the same David C. Fein, Michael Matessino and Daren Dochterman production team responsible for that release was re-assembled again for the HD upgrade oversight, and who on that occasion took on the other two film versions as well. According to , the upgrade took over six months to complete. and was simultaneously released as part of the and 4K UHD sets. As usual with these releases (geo-restricted to North-America only, as the – former Blu-ray Region BThe Region geo-restricting encoding had, for all intent and purposes, been dispensed with all together by the industry upon the advent of the UHD format, even though that policy change has never been made public officially. This incidentally, has also applied for the Blu-ray disc format, whose region encoding was since late 2009 silently, but gradually, abandoned as well – which in Star Treks case started with the Blu-ray releases of TOS Season 2 and – only to pick up speed from the mid-2010s onward. – European/Australian releases do not have these) a redeemable code is included to download the Director's Edition version of the film in 4K resolution digitally.
File:Star Trek The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition 4K UHD back cover.jpg|Box back cover
File:Star Trek The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition 4K UHD UK back cover.jpg|UK box back cover (notice lack of the digital download option)
File:Star Trek The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition 4K UHD Australia cover.jpg|Australian cover (notice lack of digital and Blu-ray options)
The two discs are mounted in a standard plastic snapcase, which itself was issued within a matching softboard slipover cover.
As is increasingly becoming commonplace, no DVD counterpart was issued for this release, but an individual downscaled concurrent Blu-ray standalone release was on the same date(s). Those dwindling number of DVD customers still wanting one, had to make do with the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture (The Director's Edition) DVD release from 2001.
The European releases differed in this respect that the extra disc included in the set actually concerned the downscaled Blu-ray counterpart version, featuring the exact same special features as its concurrent standalone Blu-ray release counterpart. This Blu-ray discs was not included in the North American set, but the third Blu-ray disc in the European was the same bonus disc as included in the American release. 
==Contents==
;From the back cover,
:Director Robert Wise’s definitive vision – eagerly anticipated by STAR TREK fans for over two decades – is now meticulously restored and remastered in 4K Ultra HD with HDR-10 and Dolby Vision for optimal picture and Dolby Atmos for immersive sound. This must-have release features a Blu-ray disc with hours of new and legacy special features, including extensive behind the scenes footage, deleted scenes, and more. The adventure begins when an unidentified alien intruder destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers. Captain James T. Kirk boldly returns to the helm of a newly transformed to take command. This bold adventure launched one of the longest running movie franchises of all time and features the cast of the original STAR TREK series, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, and James Doohan.
:Note: Disc contents as included in the North American release.
*Disc 1
**4K UHD feature presentation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (The Director's Edition)
**Special Features
**Audio commentary by David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren R. Dochterman (New)
**Audio commentary by Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Jerry Goldsmith, and Stephen Collins
**Text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
**Isolated Score Track (Dolby Digital 2.0).
*Disc 2
**Special features in Blu-ray – see here (Disc Two) for content breakdown.
For the contents of the extra Blue-ray counterpart disc contained in the European sets, please refer to the identical individual disc entry of (Disc One).
==Background information==
*The 4K UHD version premiered on as a special theatrical screening event at the Paramount Theatre, with the producers present to take questions from the audience afterwards. The following day, "First Contact Day", it made its general debut on the streaming service Paramount+, only to be followed by the home video format releases six months later.
*Aside from the picture remastering to 4K UHD standards, the film has also undergone a soundtrack remastering from Dolby TrueHD 7.1 to Dolby Atmos 7.1.
*Of the three versions of the film, only the Director's Edition was also issued in a standalone 4K UHD release; neither the Theatrical, nor the Special Longer Versions saw a standalone 4K UHD release at that point in time, and remained for the time being UHD exclusives to the two aforementioned simultaneously released boxsets. The theatrical version at least did see a newly remastered Blu-ray counterpart in 2021, downscaled from its brand new 4K UHD variant, whereas the Longer Version did not. Still, a standalone 4K UDH release of the theatrical version was eventually issued in 2024 on the occasion of the film's 45th anniversary.
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