- 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.
Well, for those of you too lazy to look, yet interested enough to somehow care, it would seem that the Region 1 Season 1 release of TOS will not include "The Cage". All episodes will be presented in the order which they were aired versus production order. Evidently, "The Cage" will be on the Season 3 set...which strangely makes sense.
The release dates of TOS season sets (region 1) are: - Season 1 on 8/31 - Season 2 on 11/2 - Season 3 on 12/7 - The Complete Series on 12/7
That is all.
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I've been a loyal obedient customer and bought the set today (hooray for an earlier release date than the US! ).
Despite the fact that the box can only just stand up on it's own (it's very precarously balanced), everything is Good. I've just seen Balance of Terror, and it still is the best Trek space battle.
quote:All episodes will be presented in the order which they were aired
That's outrageous. We're supposed to pay 95 Euros, yet they dare to use the illogical airing order.
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Suppose they just want us experience it as they did 40 years ago when it first aired...nevertheless, at least we wont be stupid enough to buy it as 40-double discs.
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At least the double discs are in chronological order, aren't they?
quote:Suppose they just want us experience it as they did 40 years ago when it first aired
But I don't want to. I want to watch it in a logical order without having to constantly switch disks. What bugs me most is that this is so typical for all Paramount Star Trek DVD releases (at least Region 2). They charge a high price but deliver an inferior product.
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The box is in airing order. I actually don't have a problem with it. Because, after all, *this* is the original series as it was on television in the 60s.
How was/is TOS aired in syndication? I know the BBC aired them in production order, even starting out with "The Cage", around 1999 or so. But Paramount still seems to adhere quite strictly to the airing order. So did some Trekkie BBC employee put them in the right order?
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So...are these DVD versions cleaned up digitally or just transfered onto the new format?
If it's the same quality I can see any day on Sci-Fi channel, I'll pass.
....but if I could just get nicely restored versions of Arena, Doomsday Machine and Balance of Terror, I'd be pretty happy.
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1/ Why are people so outraged that the episodes are in airing order? Didn't we work out just recently that air-date order as oppossed to production order affects roughly one episode? Ever?
2/ I don't know why everyone seems to think that the BBC aired them in production order, but all the repeats I remember had WNMHGB as the third episode. So, production order.
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quote:Didn't we work out just recently that air-date order as oppossed to production order affects roughly one episode?
Because it's the pilot episode with different uniforms and other significant differences. And as Harry mentioned they've already released TOS in production order, so I really don't understand why they decided to go back to the airing order.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: 2/ I don't know why everyone seems to think that the BBC aired them in production order, but all the repeats I remember had WNMHGB as the third episode. So, production order.
I have VHS tapes as proof. Somewhere 1999-ish, the BBC showed reruns of TOS on Sunday-mornings. Sadly, it apparently had such a low priority that it was frequently replaced by sports and other nonsense. It even dissapeared completely somewhere halfway through season 2. But it was very definitely shown in production order.
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Ahh, okay. The repeats done in the mid-90s (when they first showed "The Cage" on UK TV) were definitely air-date order though, as it was the first time I'd ever seen TOS.
quote:Originally posted by Spike: Because it's the pilot episode with different uniforms and other significant differences.
Okay, that makes sense. But apart from the pilot occuring as the third episode, is there any difference? At all? Is one single episode really worth being so outraged? Is it really enough to call it an "inferior product"?
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