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The Ultimate Star Trek Collection
roelbj writes "For those Star Trek fans wondering what to ask for this Christmas, you may wish to consider The Ultimate Star Trek Collection to be released on November 15. For just (cough) $2499.99, you'll get 212, count them, 212 DVDs with everything ever produced under the name, including all seasons of all five telvision series as well as the ten feature films. Before loading up your disc changer and hitting play, remember to get up once in a while."
Sorry, that's the deal breaker.
Hardly "Ultimate".
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It was only a matter of time. :)
It doesn't seem to contain Star Trek: The Animated Series!...
I really don't see the point of this. Every true geek has already seen all of that anyway. It's not something they really need.
On the other hand $2500 will pay for a lot of hookers.
I love Star Trek, hell I grew up watching it. I even love bad Star Trek. I can't justify spending $100+ per season on it though and I never will. Paramount needs to put the crack pipe down and get those seasons in the $49-$59 range. It's not worth what they're asking. At $49 bucks a season I'd probably own most of it by now.
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Seeing that you will be paying more than $10 a disc is this worth it? Shouldn't you get some kind of discount for getting so many discs?
Wait until it's at least 30% off.
It's full of Star Treks!
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It was completely irrelevant to the topic at hand and serves no purpose but to make light of a seriously ill person (who subsequently died).
There's something sickening here, and it's the editors' lack of respect for others and journalistic integrity.
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It's missing The Animated Adventures, which Paramount has said they plan on releasing on DVD at some point next year.
And I think it's sad that of the Star Trek stories to be posted, this makes the front page where as the passing of Michael Piller doesn't.
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It's like CD's in 1994... the sheer amount of data works as a copy protection...
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When I was reading the article "480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch" (second link) I had a "Breakfast Bistro Sandwich" ad on the top of the page. What an irony!
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What makes owning this set of dvds and, presumably, rewatching the material worthwhile?
The only movies I've watched repeatedly are Casablanca, Apocalypse Now and to a lesser extent Alien and Blade Runner, but I've no idea why I can watch Casablanca and Apocalpse Now over and over. I know the material very nearly by heart, but have no idea what the mechanism is that hooks me in.
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Oh wait... Star Trek
That explains the 212 DVD's too.
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I'll admit that even a very casual fan like me finds that set rather attractive looking (though its presence in my house would remove any possibility of a date so long as it was visible). However there are a couple problems. I'm too lazy to do the math and see if buying the whole set at once is a bargain at all (I know that some would say the conveniance of having it all at once is worth it anyway.) Another problem is that if someone is hardcore enough of a fan to want all seven seasons of Voyager, well, they probably have it already, like the first user review on Amazon indicated. It is however a nice display of the great treatment Trek has gotten on DVD these last couple years.
Yup...
Does anyone have a torrent?
This is only worth it if: 1) You are a huge Star Trek Fan (no problem I'm sure these people are out there) 2) You are a fan of 4+ of the serries: It's cheaper to buy any 3 seasons individually + all the movies 3) You aren't already collecting the dvds. Now here is my POV: I am a huge tv on dvd collector but there is a limit to how much I am willing to spend (example: I'm going to pick up the BuffyBox when it comes out, even though I already have the first four seasons.) I am also a fan of all of Star Trek, and would love to pick this up, except for the fact that I bought TNG as it came out, DS9 as it out and voyager as it came out. I'm not saying that this is intended for everyone, infact if they sell more then say, a thousand of them, I will be impressed. Anyway just my $.02 oh and wtf is with Enterprise costing 120+ per season before discounts?
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Ooo, does it have the one where they modify the main deflector, meet a strange new lifeform, and have to make some crucial decision about ethics and/or sexy blue aliens? 'cause I think that's the only episode I missed...
i love the badge next to the price that says "Low Prices!"
somehow $2,400 isn't that low of a price to me, given that's half of my car loan.
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According to Amazon, the Animated Star Trek Series will be released on Dec 31st, 1969.
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Star Trek - The Animated Series (1973)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JN6D/002-7
So find yourself a gateway into the past (and try to avoid saving any sexy pacifists by accident).
I'm curious how much trektoday get if somebody buys that set through their handy referal link in this slashdot story, nice that the editors left the link intact.
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So...it's a very, very boring night at work...
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Here's the tally, this doesn't include any special features, commentaries, or otherwise useless filler:
ST TOS:
47 mins, 79 eps, 22 discs, 3,713min = 2days 13hrs 53mins
ST TNG:
45 mins, 178 eps, 48 discs, 8,010min = 5days 13hrs 30mins
ST DS9:
45 mins, 176 eps, 48 discs, 7,920min = 5days 12hrs
ST Voyager:
45 mins, 172 eps, 47 discs, 7,740min = 5days 9hrs
ST Enterprise:
42 mins, 98 eps, 27 discs, 4,116min = 2days 20hrs 36mins
The Motion Picture (Directors Cut): 136mins 2 discs
The Wrath of Kahn (Directors Cut): 116mins 2 discs
III: The search for spock: 105mins 2 discs
IV: The Voyage Home: 119mins 2 discs
V: The Final Frontier: 107mins 2 discs
VI: The Undiscovered Contry: 113mins 2 discs
Generations: 118mins 2 discs
First Contact: 106mins 2 discs
Insurrection: 103mins 2 discs
Nemesis: 116mins 2 discs
Grand Total (Minus Commentaries, deleted scenes, additional features)
212 Discs
32,638 minutes
3wks 1day 15hrs 58mins
References:
Amazon.com product info
IMDB Star Trek search
No, actually you posted AC because you know your opinion is wrong, although you are entitled to it. If you look at all the replys to this "Was the link necessary" post, you will notice a strange phenomenon, all 5 of your type posted AC, only 1 posted such under his account. I don't call that watching your mod point karma, I call that being ashamed of your view, which you should be, the sad part is you don't know why you are ashamed of your view, so you try to justify it by your ability to proclaim yourself above it.
I'll wait a few years then i'll just buy it on one disc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile _Disc/
Now personally, If I had than many eps, id put em all on HD-converted to mpeg4 or something.
One 600giger will take care of it, though a lof of CPU time to convert though, but more portable
than 3 folders of 80 DVDs each.
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It's missing the theatrical cut of The Wrath of Khan, which I vastly prefer to the extended/alternate footage television version on the two-disc set - and I'm not even a big enough dork to own ANY of the television episodes.
Over two thousand dollars and they can't throw in a second copy of the best Trek film evar? What a swindle.
Man, I think the first Slashdot post I ever made was a complaint that the two-disc set didn't include the original release. What were they thinking? Extended is great. Replacing certain scenes - that I thought were great - with alternate takes, and then not including both versions a la the Terminator 2 DVD, that's lame.
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$2500!? Where's the cheap gimmick that makes it worth that much? How about TNG in the Borg Cube box? If I were to get all those individually at deepdvddicsount(dot com) I could get it for about $150 less, or $750 less if I leave out Voyager. Greedy Paramount wants to sell Star Trek at $100 a season, I guess they're going for PROFIT over total sales. SG-1 can be had for $30-40 a season, for those who don't like math, that's 60%-70% less, yes they're only 22eps/season while Star Trek is mostly 26eps, but even that doesn't make it worth the more than doubled price. If you want TNG and DS9 I suggest a cheap, or not so cheap, TV card or even a TiVo and SpikeTV, 2 eps of DS9 and 3 of TNG, you'll have the entire series in a couple weeks.
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After watching all the DVDs, does William Shatner appear and tell you to "Get A Life"?
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Romulans were officially known to Starfleet during TOS "Balance of Terror", although the Vulcans and Romulans had been engaged in minor disputes and actions for a long time before that, some of which were known to other races and Starfleet... the Vulcans hid the existance of Romans by shrugging them off as radical Vulcan splinter factions, although at least some non-Vulcan individuals knew of them.
Klingons look like they do in TNG. During TOS they were Klingon-Human hybrids (well, technically Klingon-Engineered-human hybrids) due to an accident involving theft of military genetic enginering technology left over from the Terran Eugenics Wars. See Enterprise season 4.
Stardates are a way of creating a system of time that accounts for differences in relativity. As a result they vary (and they vary in speed) depending on where you are in the galactic plane. The system was revised between TOS and TNG, at the same time pulsed warp made it necessary to revise the warp factor (to a logarithmic scale with 10 being infinite speed).
There are some much nicer places of contradiction. Those are pretty well established.
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from the editorial review:
The only omissions from the set are the animated series (1973-75), which as of 2005 was not available on DVD, and the two officially sanctioned fan-focused documentaries, Trekkies and Trekkies 2. So perhaps The Ultimate Star Trek Collection isn't quite as ultimate as it could be...
'nuff said.
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I dont think that 32 cents an episode for a good t.v. show is too much to ask. Is it expensive? Yes! Is this better than watching the garbage on today? Yes!! !!Golly Geepers!!
For whatever its worth (not much to most people, I guess), the animated series was released some years back as a boxed set of Laserdiscs. You remember Laserdiscs, right? They were just as good as DVDs in most respects, only bigger. And yes, I have the discs, I just don't have a working LD player at the moment.