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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine DVD Details Announced
l0key432 writes "The first season of Deep Space Nine will be released on DVD in late-February next year in the form of a six-disc box set, Paramount Home Entertainment officially announced on StarTrek.com. The DVDs will contain, of course, all of the season one episodes, newly remixed Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and many extras. The following six seasons will be released one or two months apart from each other, as the Next Generation box sets were. Good to see this show finally coming out on DVD and getting some of the recognition it truly deserves."
I'm not so sure how releasing something on DVD is providing recognition it deserves. I could understand saying that if Paramount went all out trying to promote it I could call it recognition. But if, not keep in mind how much low quality stuff gets put out that is "gaining recognition".
A planet where apes evolved from men? Long live the apes.
Victimized? $100 is pretty expensive, but when you think about it, you're getting about 26 40 minute episodes (of the best series ever -- refering to TNG) I'd say the price is resonable.
That is a pretty strong word to use unless Paramount had a gun to your head. I think they didn't charge enough, because if you consider yourself "victimized" you would have probably payed even more (considering that you act as if you had no choice).
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
It's too bad the many talented folks on DS9 were let go to work on so many great other shows after the show ended.
Of course, the rich tapestry that was DS9 probably threatened Brannon and Rick and thus we ended up with Voyager and Enterprise.
I have to agree with this. Though The Original Series should be due a little more credit, maybe 3rd place on the list. The Original Series not only kicked off the whole Star Trek phenomenon, but also spawned 6 movies. 3 of which are some of the best Star Trek to ever be released. Also, Voyager was certainly not as strong as any of the other series but it did have it's good points. Good space battles every now and then, and sometimes even a good plot. As I have a Klingon symbol tattooed on my right arm, you may take the above comments as somewhat biased...
Funny that you mention it... I've been tuning in recently to TNN's TNG broadcasts, and remembering how good, and how BAD Trek can be. Some episodes are funny, spooky, interesting or downright cool, but seeing it now as an adult, its not nearly as cool as I remember it being when I was a kid.
The Best of Both Worlds may have been better than most of the movies, but half the time the script didn't live up. The chemistry of TNG had that special something that later series tried to capture with little success, but it DIDN'T have the awesome writing of later series.
Late-season voayger had some fantastic writers at the helm, and as for DS9, a decade after TNG, I'll say that it's severly underrated. Never had Trek ventured so much into politics and religion, never had individuals had so powerful motivations and messages. DS9 had better characters and a deeper milieu than TNG. But because there was no space opera, no flying around and blasting aliens, it wasn't as successful.
Nevermind, I guess I'll buy the DVDS. But that's just my 2 cents.
> I did manage to watch the entire run of Babylon 5
Funny you should mention that.
Continuity was always a strong part of B5, and never a feature of Trek. The former was basically Straczynski's vision, whereas the latter has always had mostly-unrelated scripts by a diverse crew of writers.
Trying to watch B5 when it was first on the air was always frustrating because I could never sit down for it the same time every week, and there would be so many things going on that I didn't understand because I'd missed a couple of episodes. I've caught virtually all of DS9 in reruns, but there's no way I could bring myself to watch Babylon 5 again unless I had the whole series in some sort of box next to me.
They also beat the last battle of Return of the Jedi, claiming for a short while, 'most ships on screen in a battle'.
Idiot. The noteworthy fact about ROTJ is that one shot included more motion-controlled model shots optically composited together than ever before. As far as I know, that record still stands.
"Most ships on the screen" doesn't mean a damn thing. But the challenge of optically compositing umpty-bump layers together without having the result look like one big blur is... well, it's more well than you can imagine.
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I thought /.ers don't hate MPAA/RIAA so much, right? But then, every week, we see this "Oooh, shiny DVD/CD" on some shit repackaged over and over, over (ok, I don't know if this one is repackaged or not, as I don't watch TV for the last five years now). And then every new or repackaged DVD/CD is a must-have.
/. prefereneces if I can filter out all these movie/tv/CD/DVD-related junks.
No wonder we get all these stupid DMCA, permanent mickey mouse copyright extension, regional DVD encoding, "copy protection scheme" CD, etc. People would scream "bloody hell" one minute and rush to spend money on whatever MPAA/RIAA care to put on the market the next minute after. If I were an executive of an MPAA/RIAA-member corporation, I would have done exactly the same thing to milk you people, because that's too easy.
Sometimes, you can feel so lonely trying to make people understand MPAA/RIAA are bad, and there are many ways you can change things, and one of these is to vote with your money. Am I the only person here who don't own DVD player, don't have cable TV and don't watch TV, don't buy CD, don't go to cinema?
(I do go to live concerts tho).
Whatever, you can mod me down into oblivion for venting here, but I'm going to look at
I'll be getting them both.
Because one story is good doesn't render the other bad. I think they were both good series, for very different reasons.
That they're both set on a space station is pretty much where most similarities end.
It will be a GREAT set to own, and I can't wait!
The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
"..that it had no coherent plot arc that spanned more than four episodes in a row"
What? The last 2 seasons were one big arc.
And for once, do as I say and not as I do!
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