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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Well... WOW!

I just have to say that Voyager hasn't had a slump YET in season 6... I've you're wondering what I'm going on about - the 5th video of season 6 was just released in Australia. Top stuff Voyager.

Andrew

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Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

Lucky you... I live in Holland, and I'm still waiting for the release of Voyager 6.3 ... Fortunately one of our television stations aired Voy's 6th season until "One Small Step", then they quitted.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

Alpha: Tape 6.3 has been out for a while now in Holland.

Actually, tape 6.4 should be out this week.

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Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

Haha, another Dutchman.
Why did they stop with Voyager anyway, and why do they start rerunning the series in the middle of a season, it just doesn't make sense!

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Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

*agrees with Prakesh*

Altair: You're right, I was mistaken. And I saw 6.4 today, too. BTW, the 6th season tapes have really ugly covers. I liked the 5th season covers very much.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

I really have no idea Prakesh.

At least now they have enough time to go all the way to the season 7 final. I hope they are going to do just that.

BTW: If you are buying your tapes at Virgin in The Netherlands, you can wait a long time. They aren't getting any tapes of any kind for at least 3 weeks... I recommend going to another store for a while. Good ones are Free Record Shop, Warp 9 at Leiden and The Hague, or order then at 'Sorry no Subtitles'.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Hm... Why do your Dutch stores have English names?

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Universal Forum Translator, working in our benefit?

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Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

TSN: It seems like that *everything* in Holland has English names... not only our stores.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

Dutch names just aren't 'cool' enough...

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Maybe they're just too hard to pronounce... :-)

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

This reminds me of a thing that happened last week at my work.

We gave a little demonstration and someone asked if we could just give a server a random Dutch name. The person who renamed it called it: "Demo Data Server".

Anyway, Virgin and the Free Record Shop are also in other countries. But Warp 9 (which is indeed 'warp nine') and 'Sorry no Subtitles' are Dutch stores...

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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :

I just got 6.3 and 6.4.

There are few places to buy original Trek videos in Germany. The according shop might be named "Sorry, not dubbed". There is virtually no chance to see anything in the original version, the stations almost always prefer stereo. Well, sometimes there is a Mexican film with a Chinese sound channel and Bulgarian sub-titles

Still, I wonder why almost all shops call themselves "shop" and everything cool is called "cool" in German. Probably to ease communication with Dutch customers

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

It says 'cool' not just cool.

I meant to say that English names are used because they sound more impressive somehow. I think it is because we all grew up with English from very early on. We learn English at school when we are about 9-10 years old or so.

Shop names in Dutch just don't have that sertain ring to it... I cannot really explain it well.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

In Japan a few years ago, the big rage was Romanized characters, e.g. the Roman alphabet most of the world uses. The people liked the way ceratin letters looked alone & formed together, but didn't really care what they said, so they were selling things like tote bags that read "COO COO LITTLE BIRD YOU LOOK HAPPY TODAY EAT FOOD IN CORN".

Anywhat, there's a park in Tokyo where all the bands go & play for people...& there was this one 50s-era "greaser" band with the whole deal--pompadours, leather jackets, et. al. And obviously they had--like the rest of their countrymen--adopted the spirit & not the letter of the craze, for they had a big sign out front announcing their name in giant Roman letters.

Perhaps they should have researched the words with someone before deciding to call themselves "KING FUCKER CHICKEN."

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

*LOL*

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"Good, done. Let's eat!"

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Actually, most of the Japanses merchandise I've got (Transformers, Pokemon) has roman characters on it somewhere. The Pokemon stuff always has "Pocket Monsters" on it in roman characters somewhere, and often copyright info too. The Transformer stuff has "Cybertron" (Autobot/Maximal) or "Destron" (Decepticon/Predacon) on it in huge letters on the front too.

Do the japanesehave their own numbers? Or do they use the arabic (is that what the western number systems called? I can't for the life of me remember) number system all the time.

Oh, and the 5th season voyager boxes were HORRIBLE. The same freaking shot of Janeway on all the last 9 boxes. I KNOW WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE!

Damn Mulgrew for signing that video cover contract.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I'm not sure what is commonly used today, but historically, I believe the Japanese alphabet served double-duty, standing in for numbers as well.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

Most of Japan has now adopted the Arabic numeration system. Makes it a little bit easier on us gaijin...

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

UPDATE!:

Voyager tape 6.5 will be available sometime next week in Holland.

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"Yes."
"Put you hand on the book and say 'I do'."
"I do."
"Good, done. Let's eat!"

- G'kar and Sheridan, Babylon 5.

Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

Cool, which episodes are on 6.5? I believe "The Voyager Conspiracy" or "Pathfinder", but I'm not sure of that.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

Yes, those two are on it (but in reverse order

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"Good, done. Let's eat!"

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Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

Well, it seems that Holland is on of the few places where they use subtitles ISO dubbing with other voices. That's why English sounds pretty damn cool in our country, while in Germany everything is German, even computer-jargon like Tastat�r, wich is plain simple 'keyboard' in Dutch

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

I am glad English is used so much here. Like you said with computer stuff, we use English words like: E-mail, Joystick, CD-(re-)writer and even Reset in our language. Most of them are even made it in the latest versions of Dutch dictionaries!
Being fairly good in the English along with my e-mail ending with @usa.net I have fooled a lot of people into thinking I'm an American.

Anyway, I even buy tapes without subtitles. I like it that they don't dub it, but subtitles with Star Trek doesn't seem to work out sometimes. Weird mistakes are sometimes made, like the Prometheus from 'Message in a Bottle' being a 'Deep Space Technical ship' (litteraly translated back to English) instead of Tactical...

Nothing better than watching Star Trek on tape in English without subtitles. Although watching it on the BBC comes close to it.

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"Do you want to be President?"
"Yes."
"Put you hand on the book and say 'I do'."
"I do."
"Good, done. Let's eat!"

- G'kar and Sheridan, Babylon 5.

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