Posted by Martin:
Star Trek The Wrath of Kahn 
The Video: B
The Audio: B
The Extras: A
This is the fan favorite of the long running Star Trek movie series and it gets a great treatment on Blu-Ray.
The Video: B
The transfer is great. I give this one a B because the original cinematography I would not consider A material. There is not a lot of crispness to the image in places, but in all honesty Wrath of Kahn as never looked better.
The Audio: B
Presented in Dobly TrueHD 7.1 this is a fine sounding track. This track is not reference level. The track can lean more toward the higher frenquency due to the musical score. The sound stage is not used fully for this film.
The Extras: A
This is where the disc really shines, there is a flood of extras. There are two feature commentaries, although one of the commentaries is from the original DVD release.
Library Computer offers on-screen information about the different elements on the screen. An interesting way to learn about phasers, and starships.
The most informative piece is about the production of the film. You learn that producer Harve Bennet has never seen a Star Trek episode when he was brought on board, so he spent several months catching up and watching all the episodes.
You also learn that Leanord Nimoy (Mr. Spook) wanted to leave the series, he wasn’t even sure that he wanted to do the movie in the first place. Thus the death of Spock was written into the script. Since this came out two years after The Empire Strikes Back, I couldn’t help but think about the parallels with Harrison Ford thinking about leaving his series and the Han Solo storyline.
There are other featurettes about Star Trek collections and collectors. A piece that passionate fans may enjoy. I learned about the ill-fated Phase 2 Star Trek series in this section, as someone was connected enough to have clothing from that unproduced series.
The featurette about Star Trek authors is really for the true Trekkies. Here you have two talking heads that talk about Star Trek books, these two talking heads are REALLY intro Star Trek. The information here was well above my Trek level.
Overall, this is a great Blu-Ray. This is a great example of how well done extras can add to the knowledge and experience of a movie, especially a well loved movie such as this one.
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