I totally get they were originally shot and intended for full-screen presentations and that's why CBS restored them for high definition in their original ratio, and so pillarboxing was necessary to lock the 4:3 image into the center of the 16:9 format, but for some reason I just cannot "accept" the pillarboxing areas to the left and right of the episodes as presented on Blu-ray as I can with accepting the letterboxing on widescreen films on Blu-ray and DVD.īeyond that, I found that many of the Season One episodes were actually "too clear" for their own good in 1080p - watching many of the classics including "The City on the Edge of Forever" and "Space Seed," I was able to CLEARLY make out the fake sets, ridiculously cheesy costume budgets, mismatched makeup jobs on faces and more (and this is rendered even worse when selecting the "Enhanced Special Effects" versions of the episodes on CBS' Blu-rays because they tend to be much cleaner than the Original Effects variants).
But immediately, I had some issues with the Blu-rays of Season One: First (and I know this will be frowned upon by purists), I couldn't get around the rather annoying (to me anyway) pillarboxing of the 4:3 image in the widescreen frame for these full-screen Trek episodes.
As a fan of the original show from the '60s and who grew up on a steady diet of the reruns and then varying home video formats (self-recorded VHS tapes from public access station over-the-air broadcasts and now Blu-ray/DVD), I am in a bit of a conundrum with what to do in a particular situation.let me start by explaining that I picked up the first season of Trek on Blu-ray around '08 with a Best Buy gift certificate I received from my wife's mom (either for the holidays or as a birthday gift can't recall which) and just never got around to getting the remaining two seasons because of expense.
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