Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Director's Cut)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Director's Cut) is the Blu-ray Disc release of the director's cut of . This release featured the digitally remastered Director's Cut of the film, newly re-remastered from the original negatives, but also the originally remastered theatrical version of the film, done for its earlier, 2009 Blu-ray release.

The initial release was subject to a master assembly error , prompting Paramount Home Entertainment to open an exchange service for fans to receive a corrected copy.  It also explained why the Region B rollout only took place over a month later, which by that time was relatively late for DVD/Blu-ray disc releases.

Alongside the regular one, Region B saw a simultaneous release in the Steelbook variant (pictured on the lower right), which was initially intended to be a part of the . Nonetheless, all ten films saw concurrent European general, non-limited retail individual releases as well in the UK, Germany, Italy (where no regular release was issued), and France, the Steelbooks typically packaged in transparent plastic slipcases with the usual Blu-ray disc band imprinted at the top. In all cases the text imprints on the back of the Steelbooks were language adapted. Initially assumed to be the original 2009  Blu-ray disc release due to its generic cover art , it turned out however that it actually concerned the Director's Cut, as was confirmed a short while later by customers.   While in some cases marketed as region-restricted, this release is in actuality region-free as this has increasingly become commonplace for the Blu-ray disc format.

Special features
The "BD Live: Star Trek I.Q" excepted and save for a newly, by Roger Lay, Jr. produced one, all other special features were taken from the previous 2009 theatrical version Blu-ray disc release of the film, turning it into the most complete home video version commercially available at the time of its release.
† - in 1080p (others in standard definition)
Audio commentary by Director Nicholas Meyer (Director's Cut)
Audio commentary by Director Nicholas Meyer and Manny Coto (Theatrical Version)
Text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda (Director's Cut)
Library Computer (Theatrical Version, embedded)
The Genesis Effect: Engineering The Wrath of Khan (new for this release) † (28:11)

Production
The Captain's Log (27:21)
Designing Khan (23:55)
Original interviews with DeForest Kelley, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Ricardo Montalban (10:57)
Where No Man Has Gone Before: The Visual Effects of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (18:15)
James Horner: Composing Genesis (9:33) †
The Star Trek Universe
Collecting Star Trek's Movie Relics with Alec Peters (11:00) †
A Novel Approach (28:56)
Starfleet Academy SciSec Brief 002: Mystery Behind Ceti Alpha VI (3:07) † 
Farewell: A Tribute to Ricardo Montalban (4:43) †
Storyboards
Theatrical Trailer (2:22) †

Background information
It should be noted that this release is not quite an one-on-one remastered version of the 2002  release. The remastered version is slightly differently cut and lacks one short, ten seconds scene, in which Kirk mentions David being his son to Spock and Saavik – aka the "In the funnel"-scene – , that was included on the DVD version (at 1:21:04 on the NTSC version).
Concurrently, this also meant that the Okudas' original text commentary track was initially not included on this release as it was now out of sync, though it was (re-)inserted on the corrected version after all , in the process becoming the only Star Trek film to carry one on its Blu-ray disc version. On the other hand, Nicholas Meyer's original DVD audio commentary was already edited to fit the newly cut release.
Roger Lay's newly made The Genesis Effect: Engineering The Wrath of Khan special feature was actually produced with the larger, five-part Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen documentary in mind, as one of its chapters. That documentary was included on a bonus disc in the  Blu-ray disc set, released two months later. Incidentally, it was the Director's Cut that was included in that set as well, but without the theatrical cut.
On 10 and 13 September 2017, this version of the Director's Cut was given a limited theatrical release to celebrate the film's 35th anniversary.  
The Director's Cut had been remastered in the new 4K HD 2160p resolution format – incidentally having made a theatrical HD release even viable – , though it had been downscaled to the 1080p resolution format for the underlying Blu-ray disc home video release.  Still, a subsequent 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray home video format release has been under advisement ever since. 
It was only on 7 July 2021 that the long awaited Wrath of Khan 4K UHD BD was finally announced for a 2021 release in both film versions, albeit not as a stand-alone release, but as part of the aforementioned 55th anniversary "Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection" box set,  collecting the first four .

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