On Movies & Movie Collecting: Red Alert! Red Alert! A Quick Update on My ‘Star Trek’ 6-Movie Box Set


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James T. Kirk: Mr. Sulu, ahead warp one.

Hikaru Sulu: Warp one, sir.

Chief DiFalco: Heading, sir?

James T. Kirk: Out there. Thataway – Star Trek: The Motion Picture (final lines)

Before I log off from my computer for the night, I just want to give you a quick update regarding my Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection box set:

As it turns out, as I was finishing my first blog post for today, UPS handed over the Amazon package to the U.S. Postal Service at the Post Office in Lithia, and as of 12:40 PM, it was being prepared for a delivery tomorrow afternoon.

According to the information on the tracking page on the Postal Service’s website, my 2.7 lb. box is scheduled to be dropped off by 3:15 PM on Tuesday, September 13.

Well, if all goes well and a Klingon boarding party doesn’t intercept the Post Office delivery van on the way to Fish Hawk, I’ll have my six-films, nine-cuts box set of Star Trek movies – in glorious 4K UHD Blu-ray video – tomorrow afternoon.

Oh, Warp 10 excitement!

[The Enterprise crew see Sulu and the Excelsior bridge crew]

James T. Kirk: Captain Sulu! As much to the crew of the Enterprise, I owe you my thanks.

Capt. Hikaru Sulu: Nice to see you in action for one more time, Captain Kirk. Take care. [Excelsior leaves]

Commander Leonard McCoy: By God, that’s a big ship.

Montgomery Scott: Not so big as her captain, I think.

Commander Pavel Chekov: So, this is goodbye.

Kirk: I think it’s about time we got underway ourselves. [sits on captain’s chair]

Commander Nyota Uhura: Captain, I have orders from Starfleet Command. We’re to put back to Spacedock immediately…to be decommissioned. [long pause as Kirk contemplates the order]

Spock: If I were human, I believe my response would be…go to Hell. [Kirk looks at Spock] If I were human.

Chekov: Course heading, Captain?

Kirk: Second star to the right…and straight on till morning.

Published by Alex Diaz-Granados

Alex Diaz-Granados (1963- ) began writing movie reviews as a staff writer and Entertainment Editor for his high school newspaper in the early 1980s and was the Diversions editor for Miami-Dade Community College, South Campus' student newspaper for one semester. Using his experiences in those publications, Alex has been raving and ranting about the movies online since 2003 at various web sites, including Amazon, Ciao and Epinions. In addition to writing reviews, Alex has written or co-written three films ("A Simple Ad," "Clown 345," and "Ronnie and the Pursuit of the Elusive Bliss") for actor-director Juan Carlos Hernandez. You can find his reviews and essays on his blogs, A Certain Point of View and A Certain Point of View, Too.

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