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Welcome to How to Spend $20, BOP's look at the latest Blu-ray discs and DVDs to hit stores nationwide. This week: Star Trek alters its universe, Drawn Together gets immortalized on DVD and Cameron Diaz practices law.

Pick of the Week

For people who can't decide whether Leonard Nimoy or Zachary Quinto makes a better Spock: Star Trek (Special Edition)

Having made the trudge to theaters to see the likes of all three Spider-Mans, The Dark Knight, Iron Man and District 9 (and, regrettably, Star Trek: Nemesis, which some figured at the time to have had the influence to outright end the franchise's theatrical life), I'm a bit shocked I never got around to Star Trek, J.J. Abrams' critically and financially successful reboot of the popular series. Being one of my least favorite genres, science fiction typically gets totally ignored by me, unless, of course, its production values are high and/or critical opinion is positive. With 95% of reviewers giving Star Trek the thumbs up at Rotten Tomatoes, I'd be a fool not to at least tack this one on to my Netflix queue.

Paramount proved theatergoers still had a thirst for Star Trek when it followed up the series' worst performing entry, 2002's Nemesis ($43.3 million domestic), with a reboot that scored nearly $150 million more than Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which previously held the domestic box office record at $109.7 million.

And because Abrams' film establishes an alternate reality through time travel, just about anything can happen in an anticipated sequel project, which could be here as early as 2011.

Disc includes: Deleted scenes, A New Vision featurette, To Boldly Go featurette, Casting featurette, Aliens featurette, Score featurette, gag reel, audio commentary, Star Trek game (free trial), digital copy





For people who don't think South Park is vulgar enough: Drawn Together: Complete Series, Party In Your Box (Set)

If there were ever a show that makes you want to take a nice, long shower after viewing it, it's Drawn Together, Comedy Central's three seasons and done laffer that dubbed itself as TV's first animated reality show when it debuted on cable in 2004. The gimmick was fairly simple and straightforward: eight strangers picked to live in a house – with cameras picking up their every move. Sort of like MTV's The Real World, but Drawn Together's characters were, well, cartoons.

It's embarrassing for me to admit to watching this dreadfully crude series, but I was a fairly religious follower of solely the first season. And I'm not throwing around "dreadfully crude" like it's any old thang. The lead story in one episode had Clara – a Disney princess knock-off (a la Little Mermaid's Ariel) – revealing to the group that her vagina was actually a dangerous, tentacled monster. What can I say? I was 18 and found it hilarious.

The series certainly wasn't a hit with critics, and its ratings were so low that even NBC would find reason to cancel it. To see that Drawn Together actually survived three seasons on Comedy Central is a bit surprising to me. Then again, we're talking about cable here.

Disc includes: Audio commentary, behind-the-scenes interviews, Karaoke Sing-Along, censored/uncensored game, deleted scenes

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