Film composer James Horner, best known for creating the original music scores to some of the biggest motion pictures of all time, died on Monday after a small aircraft he had been piloting crashed about 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, CA. He was 61.

Since there isn’t much home video news to report this week, I’ve decided to make this edition of The Digital Wire a special one. In light of the recent deaths of Leonard Nimoy and producer Harve Bennett this week’s Wire will be devoted to a list of the five best films in the Star Trek franchise starring the legendary Original Series cast available to own on Blu-ray.

Each title provides a link to its corresponding Amazon page so you can order a copy of your very own if you choose (you can also get the 6-film Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection, which comes with a bonus disc). Also, although this is a special edition of the Digital Wire, I’ve still provided a list of this week’s major releases on Blu-ray and DVD, complete with their own purchase links. We would greatly appreciate it if you use those links to order because a small percentage of each order helps keep this website running at max power.

Netflix is preparing to remove Star Trek III: The Search For Spock from its extensive movie database because they reportedly feel that the version they currently have does not have authentic enough subtitles for the Vulcan and Klingon dialogue.

And I’ll be honest with you, even though I own this movie on DVD and Blu-ray (and VHS), I totally panicked when I read this news and immediately went into my Netflix Instant Queue where, of course, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock perpetually sits at the #2 slot (behind Star Trek III: The Wrath Of Khan) and watched the movie. The version currently streaming on Netflix that I watched had no subtitle translations for the Klingon and Vulcan dialogue, of which there is plenty, so unless you’ve seen this 1984 movie a million times like me, then you might find it hard to follow.