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Darling_Jimmy: Oh, I was there from groanworthy pilot to hamfisted finale if only to keep my record of having watched every episode of Star Trek ever made.
The finale was bad, I pretend it doesn't exist and the episode before that is the finale. I similarly pretend X-Files season 9 does not exist. I disagree about everything else though... the pilot was awesome, the rest of seasons 1 and 2 were mediocre with sprinkles of bad, seasons 3 and 4 were very good.
Sounds really cool. Emjoyed the next generation and deep space 9. Hope they do the same thing for DS9 certainly would love to see some of the space battles redone in the dominion war.
DS9 > TNG
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EndlessKnight: I remember Paramount Pictures charging from $120-130 here for a season box set, when everyone else was asking $30-60.
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Aliasalpha: If only! $210 for us
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you mean whole series right? not a single season.
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Aliasalpha: If only! $210 for us
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lukaszthegreat: ?
you mean whole series right? not a single season.
Oh yeah of course, EXCELLENT value for that price </sarcasm>

Sadly no, it was the early days of DVD where it was still magic and they were gouging people mercilessly simply because they could, it was a high profile release and came in a shiny silver plastic clamshell case with pretty purple inserts so yeah, $210 for one season, nearly 10 bucks per episode for straight VHS transfers
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Metro09: DS9 > TNG
DS9 > Anything thats not Dr Who, Firefly or Babylon 5
Post edited September 14, 2011 by Aliasalpha
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Aliasalpha: Oh yeah of course, EXCELLENT value for that price </sarcasm>

Sadly no, it was the early days of DVD where it was still magic and they were gouging people mercilessly simply because they could, it was a high profile release and came in a shiny silver plastic clamshell case with pretty purple inserts so yeah, $210 for one season, nearly 10 bucks per episode for straight VHS transfers

DS9 > Anything thats not Dr Who, Firefly or Babylon 5
well 210 for whole series, 7 seasons is not that horrible. paid 180 for everybody loves raymond and thats 9 seasons with 24min episodes.

and yeah ds9 rox my feet clothes off
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lukaszthegreat: well 210 for whole series, 7 seasons is not that horrible.
But that was the sarcasm part, it was per season
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Aliasalpha: ... nearly 10 bucks per episode for straight VHS transfers
Yeah, Paramount loves to squeeze all it can out of us fans. I remember paying over 15 dollars per episode for the the Original and TNG on VHS before DVD's came out...I knew it was a rip then, but, Star Trek and computer games, summed up my fun at that time. ;)

hmmmm, most of my fun now too come to think of it. (Just watched Space Seed tonight) :-P Now I'll have to watch the Wrath of Khan again.
;) I always liked the episode where they said they couldn't do something because it violated "The Prime Directive" but then went ahead and did it anyway. ;)

But seriously my favorite episodes were:


Elementary, Dear Data - first Sherlock Holmes Episode

Q Who? - despite what they later may have become its the first borg Episode

The Offspring - Data builds and Android(which no-one else can seem to do)

Clues - The Crew is knocked out and data lies about the length of time

Darmok - "Darmok and Jilad . . . at Tenagra"

The First Duty - Wesley's flight team has a death

"The Next Phase" - Geordi and Ro are Cloaked - I just like the end payoff

"The Inner Light" - Mentioned previously ,its one coming out and is probably at the top of my list of favorites - probably Patrick Stewart's best

A Fistful of Datas - Computer malfunctions as Worf and Alexander are in the Holodeck where all computer characters are eplaced by data

Ship in a Bottle - the second Moriarty one

Starship Mine - Picard trapped on Enterprise during energy sweep

Lessons - Picard falls for an new officer

Timescape - A time anomaly episode

Phantasms - Data has a new dream program

The Pegasus - A search for a federation ship with a prototype device + Terry O'Quinn

All Good Things - One of the best series finales for any show ever(it left you satisfied with the ending but with hope(or at least a basis) that it could return - not that it would outside of movies - it just didn't "destroy" the basic premise of the show like so many series finales do.

Note These are just my favorites and even this is a trimmed list. I like "mystery" episodes with the occasional just well told story(Inner Light).

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Metro09: DS9 > TNG
Them's fighten' words -P

As for Enterprise, as stated the last 2 seasons far exceeded the first 2. Plus it had Commander Shran.

The majority of the episodes in the first 2 seasons suffered from what I call the "Instant Solution Syndrome". The episodes spent 40 minutes building to a climax then were resolved it seems in 2 minutes. Then the credits rolled.
I like the episode where they solved that problem that re-routing something through the main deflector dish.

Seriously though, it's kinda cool, but like a lot of others here, I can't see myself re-buying them all again just to see them in a higher resolution. (Especially considering that they don't look that terrible on my 1080i upscaling DVD player.)
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Buckid: Seriously though, it's kinda cool, but like a lot of others here, I can't see myself re-buying them all again just to see them in a higher resolution. (Especially considering that they don't look that terrible on my 1080i upscaling DVD player.)
I can't speak for everyone but I am more interested in the SFX being re-done. It was really well done in the Original Series HD-DVD/Bluray releases and there were a lot of space battles in TNG that suffered because of the lack of technology at the time. TNG and early DS9 were hamstrung by continuing to use physical models instead of computer generated ones which meant most ships were static and just fired blasts at one another despite what Picard ordered the ship to do. Episodes that could really use the CGI buffing are the obvious ones like Yesterday's Enterpise, Best Of Both Worlds, Redemption, The Wounded, Parallels and obviously All Good Things.
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Delixe: I can't speak for everyone but I am more interested in the SFX being re-done. It was really well done in the Original Series HD-DVD/Bluray releases and there were a lot of space battles in TNG that suffered because of the lack of technology at the time. TNG and early DS9 were hamstrung by continuing to use physical models instead of computer generated ones which meant most ships were static and just fired blasts at one another despite what Picard ordered the ship to do. Episodes that could really use the CGI buffing are the obvious ones like Yesterday's Enterpise, Best Of Both Worlds, Redemption, The Wounded, Parallels and obviously All Good Things.
Oooooh, Best of Both Worlds with re-done CGI effects. I might be tempted, at that.

Timing would be good too, in theory. I just finished watching the entirety of Star Trek in release order and have started from the beginning again, I'm about 6 episodes into TOS.
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lukaszthegreat: ?
you mean whole series right? not a single season.
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Aliasalpha: Oh yeah of course, EXCELLENT value for that price </sarcasm>

Sadly no, it was the early days of DVD where it was still magic and they were gouging people mercilessly simply because they could, it was a high profile release and came in a shiny silver plastic clamshell case with pretty purple inserts so yeah, $210 for one season, nearly 10 bucks per episode for straight VHS transfers
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Metro09: DS9 > TNG
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Aliasalpha: DS9 > Anything thats not Dr Who, Firefly or Babylon 5
TBF, as horribly overpriced as TNG season sets were (they were overpriced on this side of the pond too, but not as much as with you) they were phenomenal sets. Tons of bonus material, attractive volumes. Watched every season a few times. I started skipping the first one though (well except for the Q ones). Atrocious.
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Fist thought: yay!:)
Second: Oh, god, that's the one with Q..
Does Amazon have a preorder up yet for for this teaser ser?
Post edited September 14, 2011 by evmiller