- I was sort of expecting it, but it's nice to have confirmation that "The Cage" is included in the S1 box.
- Order by air-date. That sucks a bit. Even the BBC managed to air them in production order, with makes a lot more sense. But from a studio POV, 'making sense' is of course not a priority.
- Behind-the-scenes? Could that be an original 60s docu?
- Allegedly, these boxes are R2 only? R1 already has the over-expensive 2-episode sets.
- Box shots, and more. Labeled "Star Trek: The Original Series", and probably just a slight mod of the TNG/VOY box design. But they look like brightly colored blobs.
quote:Originally posted by Harry: [QBOrder by air-date. That sucks a bit. Even the BBC managed to air them in production order, with makes a lot more sense. But from a studio POV, 'making sense' is of course not a priority.[/QB]
You sure? When the BBC started showing TOS back in the 90s, they began with "The Man Trap", and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the third episode shown. Unless they changed at a later point, the BBC went with Air-Date order.
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quote:Originally posted by Harry: [QBOrder by air-date. That sucks a bit. Even the BBC managed to air them in production order, with makes a lot more sense. But from a studio POV, 'making sense' is of course not a priority.
You sure? When the BBC started showing TOS back in the 90s, they began with "The Man Trap", and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the third episode shown. Unless they changed at a later point, the BBC went with Air-Date order. [/QB]
The 2000-ish reruns of TOS did air in production order. They started with "The Cage", and sadly stranded somewhere halfway season two.
I've thought about it again, though.. Perhaps the original airing order is the most faithful representation of the series, even though it doesn't really work.
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I've always been under the impression that airing order was the favored order.
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not in my book..
airing order is wildly different from filming order for TOS, the order they were filmed shows a logical progression from the shows infancy to the later episodes, some installments from even a few weeks apart just are thematically out of place from the episodes they'd be placed in between if they were done in airing order (Where No Man Has Gone Before comes to mind).
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: I've always been under the impression that airing order was the favored order.
What exactly was it that gave you this impression? Even if it weren't for that whole common sense thing, (I mean, come on, airdate order puts "Where No Man Has Gone Before" AFTER "The Man Trap" and "Charlie X" !!) all of the official literature (Encyclopedia, Chronology) uses production order.
It's really the only way the progression of events makes sense. (Arguments about stardate order notwithstanding.)
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If they have a menu anything like the DS9 disks, you can watch them in order easily enough, however they're arranged. At worst you have to change disks more often. After all, those who don't know the proper order probably don't care, either.
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: blah official literature blah
actually, the Chronology uses airing order, which was quite annoying as it got the ball rolling on the whole 'showing them out of order thing' which has become fad.
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I mean, come on, airdate order puts "Where No Man Has Gone Before" AFTER "The Man Trap" and "Charlie X" !!
Strictly speaking, airing order would place "The Cage" AFTER everything else. But that's unnecessarily pedantic.
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i have the same edition, i should have been more clear, they decided to use airing order for DS9 and Voyager.. pointed out in the introduction.
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: Um, I can't speak as to the original edition of the Chronology, but the 1996 version uses production order. And so does the Encyclopedia.
Same deal in the original (1993) edition - production order.
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Well, they're obviously going to use airing order for TNG, DS9 and Voyager. Otherwise "Unification part 2" would come before part 1, Family would occur half way through the season, and so on...
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