In early 1980, directly pursuant the premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Paramount Home Entertainment (then known as Paramount Home Video) released ten selected episodes on the new VHS and Betamax home media formats in the United States, in five volumes of two episodes each as part of their "Television Classics" collection: "The Menagerie, Part I" /"The Menagerie, Part II" , "Amok Time" /"Journey to Babel" , "Mirror, Mirror" /"The Tholian Web" , "The Trouble with Tribbles" /"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" , and "Balance of Terror" /"The City on the Edge of Forever" . [1] [2] Released in conjuncture, or rather as appetizers for the in October released The Motion Picture videotape formats, they together are as such the earliest known official (thereby discounting any and all possi