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And where's the problem anyway? You've got the first four episodes on one disc and can therefor choose your own preferred viewing order, can't you? So stop bitching and enjoy the great technical quality of the eps!
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Well, in defense of the box set, while the episodes are in airing order, they are numbered by production order, so you can watch them that way if you so desire, albeit it means more disc swapping.
I was disappointed by the extras...or the lack of them. Where are the old network promos? The piece with Shatner...who cares about his damned horses!
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Remember a few years ago they aired TOS in the States with Shatner, Koenig, Doohan, Nimoy and Takei doing intros to each episode - talking about something they remember about each episode. Plus they put back in edited footage etc. Do they include these on the DVDs? If they don't - that really sucks... Might make me second guess buying them.
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Yeah, when the Sci Fi Channel got the exclusive airing rights to TOS and they aired each episode in their original NBC order. After commercial breaks they'd cut to cast and crew involved with that episode stretching it out to an hour and a half. I assumed each episode on DVD would include these since Sci Fi doesn't play them with the episodes anymore.
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There are no intros by the cast on the RC2 edition of the DVDs, yet they at least managed to re-insert all the footage that had been cut by either the BBC or the ZDF in the 70s and 80s.
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That wouldn't surprise me. Also commercial breaks are to blame. In the 60s they were a lot shorter than today. So with longer commercial breaks they have to cut the show to still fit in an hour.
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Keeping in mind that TV is commercials with something else shown in between (the "programming" is basically to keep people "hooked" between commercials), we can expect to eventually reach a point where there's 45 minutes of commercials with only 15 of anything else... (or worse)
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Uh, Star Trek is on the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. every day at noon. Or at least I seem to hear it in the other room when I am asleep at that hour. (When my father is home with the TV on. To that channel.)
Re: Supercommercial Future: I find this highly unlikely. There comes a point of diminishing returns. The idea is to get as much money as possible for time watched by as many people as possible, and these factors must balance. More likely, I think, is that commercials as we know them will simply disappear, replaced by some other revenue format. We already see companies making such attempts. Consider the wide success of the Tivo. (Suggesting a future in which you never see a commericial as we know them again, but instead every so often you get to see a brief spot directed at you personally, written by people who, thanks to data mining, know more about you than you do, probably.)
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Uh, Star Trek is on the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. every day at noon. Or at least I seem to hear it in the other room when I am asleep at that hour. (When my father is home with the TV on. To that channel.)
Thats entirely possible. I dont have cable anymore so I couldnt really say, however recently whenever I have been to my dads and want to catch its always listed at 3am on fridays or tuesdays or something.
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Well, I guess one could always just look it up.
According to their website, the schedule is highly variable. For instance, today, it isn't on at all. Tomorrow, "The Enterprise Incident" at 3:00 AM. But next Wednesday it's Star Trek from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
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I was disappointed by the extras...or the lack of them. Where are the old network promos? The piece with Shatner...who cares about his damned horses!
However, they do have the original episode promos, which cannot be said about the other series. Hell, it was the promo for "The Jem'Hadar" which pretty much focus on the last 10 minutes of the episode that first got me into DS9 - the promo dammit!
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(If a person really wanted DS9 and TNG promos, he or she could try tracking down the CD versions of the concordances for those shows, which, I believe, included them.)
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quote:Originally posted by F.G.: Sci-Fi Channel BUTCHERS TOS when they air it, which is like some shit hour like 3am, but they cut out a tremendous amount from each episode...
They must cut out the good parts....most of the episodes they show involve Mudd, Spock losing his sight/emotional control/brain or mythological/historical figures coming to life to re-use props from Desilu's other shows.
Give me Balance of Terror, The Doomsday Machine, Arena and The Cage on one DVD and I'll skip the rest....gladly.
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