Star Trek: Section 31 (DVD)

Real world article
(written from a production point of view)

Star Trek: Section 31 is the DVD release of Star Trek: Section 31, issued in Regions 1 and 2. [2] The Spanish Region 2 DVD issue though, is a double-region encoded release as it is also playable in the Latin America/Australasia Region 4 territories.

Special features

  • Alpha Squad – A breakdown of each of the six members of the Section 31 Squad: Alok Sahar, Quasi, Zeph, Rachel Garrett, Melle and Fuzz.
  • Stunts Squad – Stunt Coordinator Christopher McGuire and his team take us through the prep and execution of many of the stunts designed for the film.
  • Gear Squad – Prop Master Mario Moreira gives a look inside the prop closet and all the gadgets.
  • Georgiou – Philippa Georgiou is one of the most complex characters in Star Trek history and her further development is discussed by the producers, screenplay writer Craig Sweeny, the team that created her look, and Georgiou performer Michelle Yeoh herself.
  • Gag Reel

The DVD release is shy of the "Art Squad" special feature (dealing with the film's production design), which is included on its HD home video format counterpart releases.

Background information

  • Contrary to its HD counterparts where the practice is all but abandoned entirely[1], the in the meantime having become completely obsolete region encoding is still upheld in full force by the motion picture industry for the DVD format (see main article for the reasons why, where it is also explained why the DVD release is shy of one special feature). But this is no hindrance for later model Blu-ray/4K UHD player owners (DVD-only players have been taken out of production since the mid-2010s), since the vast majority of manufacturers have made these backward compatible for DVDs without any of the region restrictions by completely disregarding the motion picture industry's once compulsory directive to incorporate these into their products as being considered an useless exercise in utter futility in the age of streaming
  • Section 31 incidentally, was in effect specifically produced for streaming service Paramount+, and not for a theatrical release.

Footnote

  1. ↑ The Region geo-restricting encoding had, for all intent and purposes, been dispensed with all together by the industry upon the advent of the 4K Ultra HD format, even though that policy change has never been made public officially. This incidentally, had already been applied to the Blu-ray disc format as well, whose region encoding was since late 2009 silently, but gradually, abandoned too, which in Star Trek's case started with the Blu-ray releases of TOS Season 2 and Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection, [1](X) only to pick up speed from the mid-2010s onward.

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