Star Trek: Voyager – Season Two is a DVD release containing all of the episodes which were broadcast during the series' second season. The DVD set includes special features and all episodes are presented in 5.1 Surround Sound format.
2017 Region 1 reissue cover
2007 Region 2 slimpack back cover
2007 Region 4 slimline snapcase 1/4 cover (notice deviant rating for this part of the slimpack)
A 7 minute piece showing him in makeup, on set, and otherwise.
Red Alert: Visual Effects Season 2
A 12 minute segment discussing the challenges of the constructed body in "Lifesigns", lighting effects, Kim's death in "Deadlock", the lizards in "Threshold", and the landing of the ship.
About 14 minutes of Easter eggs "hidden" throughout the special features menus.
One of the Easter eggs is Tim Russ performing the title track from his second album, Kushangaza, which is Swahili for "Amazing".
A Special Text Trivia Version of "The 37's"
This is a PiP (Picture-in-Picture) text commentary for the episode, found on disc 1. While no authors are mentioned on either the disc or in the accompanying booklet, it is save to assume that Mike and Denise Okuda, the franchise's resident home media format text commentary writers, authored the text.
Bonus DVD
Region 1 DVD sets sold through the retail chain store Best Buy included, as a "retailer exclusive", a bonus disc with additional featurettes which were not included on the regularly sold Region 1 DVD sets, but which were standard on the Region 2 sets. [1](X) For this season release it concerned,
This is the only season of Voyager during which an image that appears during the loading screen does not appear as part of the episode selection menu screen.
The initial US Region 1 release was issued as a transparant five-page hard plastic "booklet", with a disc mounted on each of the "pages" and came packaged within a transparant two-piece slipover plastic casing (with a disc-sized image printed on the front and the title on the spine – the art on the discs themselves was bland), mounted on a cardboard holder which had the release info printed on its back. The retailer exclusive back had the bonus DVD extra mentioned. Collected on a cardboard tray it was later reissued in December 2004 as part of the first Star Trek: Voyager - The Complete Collection, along with the other six DVD season releases.
The Canadian Region 1 release (ASIN B0001NBNFW) was somewhat differently executed; it had its discs (which were art-printed) stored in standard neutral DVD sleeves, all packaged within a carton box, which otherwise featured the same (back) cover art as the US release.
Region 2 continued for the Voyager debut season DVD releases with the packaging format as previously introduced for the Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine DVD season releases, and consisted of a stylized hard plastic "Special Premium Box" in which the discs, and the accompanying twelve-page foldout booklet were mounted. This packaging format was utilized for all 2003 Region 2 European and Japanese "Complete Limited Edition" (ASIN B00028G44G) releases with only the accompanying booklet and the cardboard box holder backcover release information translated in the language of the target market.
While the hard plastic box case had become the European Region 2 regular release format, it was not in Japan where it was released as a limited edition. The regular 2004 release format in Japan was very differently executed. It consisted of a carton foldout in which the discs were mounted, that came within a cardboard slip-over wrapper ("obi" in Japanese).
As with the 2004 hard plastic box case, the 2007 Region 2 "slimline" release, consisting of four one/two-disc holding standard plastic snapcases in a hardboard slipcase, became the European 2007 reissue standard, likewise with only the booklet and DVD case inlay sleeves translated in the various languages.
German 2009 Part 2.2 reissue with altered cover
German 2009 Part 2.2 reissue back cover
Italian and German fans had been on the receiving end of market discrimination with their respective December 2007 and April 2009 reissues of the slimline variant which was split up in two releases, Parts 2.1 (ASIN B0041KY6IW, Italy/ASIN B000UA2JZY, Germany) and 2.2 (ASIN B0041KXGV0, Italy/ASIN B000UA2K08, Germany), a somewhat dubious practice exercised by the local branches of CBS Home Entertainment for almost all contemporary Star Trek series home video format releases in Italy and Germany at one time or another. Part 1.2 had its cover altered by having The Doctor replaced with Harry Kim. Both parts came in the same slimpack packaging as the rest of the Region 2 (complete) releases.
A complete German "slimline" variant was finally released in December 2014, over seven years after the rest of Europe had received theirs. (ASIN B00LXUGQPE) Released in November 2013, the Japanese variant had earlier already lagged six years behind the UK release. (ASIN B00F27CQZ8) Italy incidentally, had to make do with imports from other European Region 2 territories.
The 2004 Region 2 releases relied for its foldout booklet and disc cover art relied on the artwork as utilized by the Region 1 release. CBS Consumer Products however, commissioned renowned film poster artist Brian Bysouth, who had already provided the service for their preceding Deep Space NineVHS and The Next Generation DVD UK releases, to provide similar artwork for the 2007 Region 2 "slimline" reissue artwork, which reciprocally was used for the 2017 Region 1 reissue. [2]
The 2007 UK "slimline" reissue, became the motive for Region 4 to concurrently receive its own Season 2 DVD set in the form of the near-identically executed Australasian release.
German 2009 Part 2.2 reissue with altered cover
German 2009 Part 2.2 reissue back cover
