Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (4K Ultra HD)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a two-disc 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray Disc/Digital set, released on , featuring the 4K UHD release version of the . As is currently usual with UHD/Blu-ray double releases of older productions, all special features (excepting the audio commentaries and isolated music score tracks, which are present on the 4K UHD disc as well) are only included on the Blu-ray disc of the release. The two discs are mounted in a standard plastic snapcase, which itself was for the North American release issued within a matching softboard slipover sleeve. The other releases came without the sleeve. 
File:Star Trek The Search for Spock UK 4K UHD back cover.jpg|UK box back cover (notice lack of the digital download option)
File:Star Trek The Search for Spock Australia 4K UHD cover.jpg|Australian cover (notice lack of digital and Blu-ray options)
The 4K UHD standalone version of the film 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, and was simultaneously released as part of the 4K UHD set. The remastering of The Search for Spock had actually already been completed a year earlier along with the other first three original crew films, and the 4K UHD version was then released as part of the preceding 55th anniversary . And while an individual downscaled standalone Blu-ray version was, it was decided to wait with the individual releases of the standalone 4K UHD versions until the remastering of the last two original crew films was completed a year later.
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 already applied for the Blu-ray disc format, whose region encoding had since late 2009 been 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/Australasian releases do not have these) a redeemable code is included to download the film in 4K resolution digitally.
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==40th anniversary reissue==
In 2024, on the occasion of the film's 40th anniversary, a "Limited Collector's Edition SteelBook®" release was issued in the UK as an Amazon.co.uk exclusive, though the release was made available worldwide as imports through several (online) retailers such as among others Amazon.com () or Walmart. The non-text imprinted embossed anniversary steelbook was packaged within a transparent plastic text-imprinted slipover sleeve. The released came with a film poster and information booklet as bonus collectibles, which incidentally, were in America only included by Wal-Mart in their imports as their own "Walmart Exclusive". As with the prior regular releases, the American imports also had an additional digital copy download option included, which was lacking on the original UK release. 
As is increasingly becoming commonplace, no DVD counterparts were issued for this particular release. Those dwindling number of DVD customers still wanting one, had to make do with the original release from 2003.
File:Star Trek The Search for Spock 4K UHD 2025 Amazon UK SteelBook exclusive cover.jpg|2024 Amazon UK SteelBook exclusive cover
File:Star Trek The Search for Spock 4K UHD 2025 Amazon UK SteelBook exclusive back cover.jpg|2024 Amazon UK SteelBook exclusive back cover
File:Star Trek The Search for Spock 4K UHD 2025 Amazon UK SteelBook exclusive contents.jpg|2024 Amazon UK SteelBook exclusive contents
File:Star Trek The Search for Spock 4K UHD 2025 Walmart SteelBook exclusive cover.jpeg|2024 "Walmart Exclusive" SteelBook cover
== Special features ==
As well as the extras originally featured on the prior Special Edition DVD, excepting the text commentary by Mike and Denise Okuda and the Easter egg, the release also included the special features in high definition, as originally done for the 2009 Blu-ray release.
*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 ==
* Contrary to the Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition and last two original crew films, Scandinavia waived the standalone version release of The Search for Spock, as it had already seen a release a year earlier, albeit as part of their Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection only, but that was not much of an issue for the customer base over there as any import would do.
* In similar fashion, the two Australasian (Australia and New Zealand) releases had dispensed with the separate Blu-ray disc in the set, but which was not that much of an issue either as Blu-ray versions had all become region-free as well by this time, meaning that any import would also do in the territory.
== Footnotes ==
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