VHS is a video format utilizing a contained tape reel system within a cassette frame, designed to play on television screens through a player system designed in the 1970s and 1980s. VHS succeeded earlier formats such as CED and BetaMax and was in turn deprecated and replaced by later formats such as LaserDisc, DVD and Blu-ray in the 1990s and 2000s.
Paramount Pictures licensed Star Trek material to be released on VHS, both in the United States of America and overseas as well.