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Star Trek Bloopers [VHS]

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I have collected bootleg bloopers from Star Trek since Gene Roddenberry leaked the first out-take reel to the fans. I have seen much better, and have better than the product being offered here. Save your money, spend it on an Aldeberan Shellmouth....anything. Do not waste your money on this trash. I came, I saw, I bought, I kicked myself. Call this recording a REHASH OF TRASH.

Very disappointed in this video. It is not worth the money. Looks like someone pieced together very old films that were worn out. It was not what I expected and I would highly recommend people do not waste their money.

Whoever produced this tape should be ashamed. It is an awful rip-off for Star Trek fans. I think someone sat in a theatre and videotaped the screen to come up with such poor quality, grainy, dark, in-audible material. I had high hopes for a great package of bloopers. This is definitely not it. Buyer beware!

This is the infamous Blooper Reel. Yeah, the picture quality is horrendous. No, it's not especially funny.

But it is exactly as I remember seeing it at a Philadelphia Star Trek convention in 1978. Right down to the dark images on the projection screen.

Its real value to a Trekker is that it's part of Star Trek history. Most of the early fans watched this at conventions. Foundational books such as "The World of Star Trek" (David Gerrald) to "The Making of Star Trek" (Stephen Whitfield) positively gushed over the Blooper Reel. So, for better or worse, you too can share in that experience with this video.

Think of it as primary research. It doesn't have to be pretty. It just has to be.

Live long and prosper--
Joe
Former boyhood president of "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" (ca. 1974!!)

I am nine years old. For one thing, I thought nothing was funny. Also, the cover was disappointing because it said "See the Enterprise explode." I don't remember it exploding at all!!! It also had a very bad picture quality! They cursed and they showed a naked person. This was a very bad video.

As a Trek fan, I was very disappointed with this video. I was expecting true Trek bloopers, instead, the film looks like an amatuer 8mm, very dark, and grainy. I counted only 2 times my family laughed at any of the Trek bloopers and most of the time, we looked at each other in dismay. The bulk of the tape is not Trek Bloopers at all, but outtakes from other 60's and 70's shows. While these were much better quality (and funnier) than the Trek bloopers, there was still a lot of off color language (G.. D..., S..., H..., and such) and one nude scene. This video is definitely not family material.

Of COURSE it looks and sounds bad! It is true - these were eventually rejected and trashed, folks. I saw them over 15 years ago, and the quality was just as bad then. This isn't a video for most people, it's for us die-hard TOS fans who love trivia and oddities concerning the series. If you are willing to accept it for what it is, it is certainly watchable and actually quite humorous. I guess we should be thankful that Mr. Roddenberry decided to save them in the first place, no matter how they were mistreated later on. As far as I know, these are the ONLY bloopers of TOS in existence.

I thoght this movie was funny, but I expected a little more of like the good episodes too. I would not reccomend this to Trekkies, but for people who want to see the "Lighter Side of Star Trek" then I would reccomend it.

I have done a little research and my understanding is that the STAR TREK outakes on this video were obtained directly from film stock found the dumpsters outside of the facilities where the show was edited. This means that they are vary rare and to my knowledge, don't exsist in any other public collection of Star Trek Bloopers. Unfortunately, this also means that that their veiwing quality is marginal because of their exposure to the outside elements. However, if you are a die hard Star Trek fan/collector (like many people I know), just possessing these rare and funny outakes more than makes up for their quality.

As for the the quality of the bonus bloopers, they are great, and are guarenteed to make you laugh until your sides ache.

I must admit surprise at all the negative reviews on this video.
There was a time when all manner of entertainment was not "Digitally mastered" (!)
Cripes! These are rare!
These scraps and pieces were headed for the trash can, not video distribution in the 21st century.
I first saw them at a Convention in the late 80's and, yes, they look hazy, sometimes dark, scratchy, broken and, -are in no particular order.
The video is very entertaining.