So I’ve been watching Star Trek TOS on DVDs borrowed from my library. I’m halfway through season 2 and last night, I was pleased to find 2 of my absolute favorite episodes back-to-back on the DVDs. The first was The Trouble with Tribbles and the second, A Piece of the Action. Maybe because these episodes are light-hearted instead of the serious nature of the rest, they just a real pleasure to watch again. The latter episode, filmed on a back lot at Paramount, is easily recognizable as the filming location used a few years later, for The Godfather, Part II, in a number of the street scenes.

On a side note, the producers of the disk, did a great job of restoring the original film and converting it to digital. The images are sharp and the pastel colors they alway used really pop. The second is, during the sixties, TV shows produced twice the number of episodes that they have today. Season 1 & 2 consisted of 26 episodes as opposed to the 10-13 produced today (well, will be when the strike is over).