The Blu-ray deal of the week over Amazon now is up to 62% off sale on Star Trek: The Complete Original Series on Blu-ray and Seasons 1, 2 and 3 of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray.

— Star Trek: The Original Series – Seasons 1-3 [Blu-ray] box set for $82.49
(that’s 54% off the list price of $179.98)

— Star Trek: The Original Series Season Blu-rays for $33.99 each
(56% off the list price of $76.99): Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3

— Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Blu-rays for $49.99 each
(62% off the list price of $129.99): Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is the Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray Edition for only $19.99 (that’s 66% off the list price of $57.99).

This 5-disc Blu-ray collection contains all four Star Trek The New Generation feature films – First Contact, Generations, Insurrection, and Nemesis – along with bonus features.

The DVD box set is also on sale for only $17.99 (that’s 55% off the list price of $39.98).

Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Raise The Dawn
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Paperback | Kindle
Written by David E. George III
Pocket Books
Release Date June 26, 2012

When it comes to the expanded universe for Star Trek, I am a bit of a newbie but so far my adventures into the universe of the books has been well worth it. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Raise The Dawn is a follow-up book to Plagues of Night which sees the destruction of Deep Space 9 by the Typhon Pact, which is made up of the Romulan Star Empire, Tholian Assembly, Breen Confederacy, and Gorn Hegemony. Tensions have risen been the Typhon Pact and the Federation for a while and now there could be total war.

Raise The Dawn picks up with Captain Benjamin Sisko (who was played by Avery Brookson the show Deep Space Nine) on his knees on the bridge of his ship, the U.S.S. Robinson, watching the destruction of his station and his wife’s ship. From there we go to the U.S.S. Enterprise, which is going through the wormhole on its way back to the alpha quadrant. While traveling through the wormhole, the Enterprise crew finds a chunk of Deep Space Nine floating through it and on board is not only Kassidy Yates Sisko, but Major Kira. Meanwhile, Starfleet Command tells the U.S.S. Defiant to track down the Romulan vessel that was seen leaving the station just before the explosion.

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is an up to 62% off sale on Star Trek: The Complete Original Series on Blu-ray and Seasons 1, 2 and 3 of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray.

— Star Trek: The Original Series – Seasons 1-3 [Blu-ray] for $88.99
(that’s 51% off the list price of $179.98)

— Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season 1 [Blu-ray] for $49.99
(that’s 62% off the list price of $129.99)

— Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season 2 [Blu-ray] for $49.99
(that’s 62% off the list price of $129.99)

— Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season 3 [Blu-ray] for $57.49
(that’s 56% off the list price of $129.99)

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 3 – Blu-ray
Starring Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton, Colm Meaney, Whoopi Goldberg
Paramount Home Entertainment
Release Date: April 30, 2013

Paramount is slowly but surely remastering and enhancing each season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and now sees the release of the Blu-ray for Season 3, which was the season when the series really took off. When TNG started coming out on DVD, Season 3 was the first box set I purchased, because while I’m a great fan of TNG, I’ve had difficulty sitting through some of those early episodes where the show was still finding its footing in the late 1980s (although, the pilot was awesome). Back in those days, people were used to one Star Trek and one Star Trek only. Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, Chekov – those were the characters who entered people’s living rooms each week and these are who viewers wanted to see. TNG was initially met with resistance, especially since it had a new Captain commanding a new Enterprise in the future.