Comments on: More Details On Alternate Reality Collective DVD Set + TOSR Season One Price Drop

By: byron

byron — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:52:54 +0000

Yeah, Year of hell 1 and 2 are some of the only VOY I can stomache.

By: JB Gestl

JB Gestl — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:57:32 +0000

E2 & Twilight are 2 awesome episodes. Maybe I’ll go watch them on the DVDs I already own.

By: Bill Cox

Bill Cox — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:36:26 +0000

I totally agree with you, #14. Paramount has stuck it to the fans for ages with their criminally priced DVD sets. Newer shows with larger fanbases are being released on DVD at a fraction of what Paramount is charging for Trek, which has already made back its production costs a long time ago. It’s price gouging, plain and simple.

By: OneBuckFilms

OneBuckFilms — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:38:56 +0000

#32 – Accepted that my phrase was not correct english.

Perhaps “far more acceptable” would be applicable.

The point that it is a better price remains valid, regardless of my use of incorrect English.

By: Joe Burns

Joe Burns — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:29:32 +0000

Well, it may not be The Year of Hell, but Before and After is a sort-of alternative prequel.

For those who don’t recall, this is the one where Kes is dying of old age and starts to jump back in time, including to the Year of Hell.

This was done prior to that ep, and they took some liberties with the 2-parter’s continuity with this, but since both episodes involve fixing the timeline I suppose we have 3 timelines: the desirable one, and the 2 bad ones from each episode, which have enough similarities to be mistakenly identified as the same.

A bit OT, but this sort of reminds me of where things are with the Terminator franchise; what with all the failed efforts by Skynet over the years, the timeline has been changed, allowing the conflicting T3 and Sarah Conner Chron. timelines to come and go, but never quite taking out John and the future defeat of Skynet.

By: Al Hartman

Al Hartman — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:53:47 +0000

#24 #27

It’s not “whining”. It’s a valid complaint.So stop being so harsh and nasty.

And “far more fair” is not a proper phrase in english. Fair is binary. It either IS or ISN’T. $200.00 for three seasons of a show that should sell for $29.95 a season ISN’T fair. It’s a rip-off!

I’ve paid $24 apiece for two episodes on VHS. I’ve already invested quite a bit of money. Paramount made it’s money on me for over 40 years.

DVD’s cost pennies to make. The set probably has about $5.00 in cost. Maybe less. Selling that set for $79 or even $69 is a rip off.

The sets should retail for $29.95 as do seasons of BSG, Stargate, Smallville and other shows.

THAT would be “far more fair”.

By: Crusade2267

Crusade2267 — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:30:42 +0000

#29

But so was “Yesterday’s Enterprise” and that one is in here. I suppose one repeat isn’t too bad, though.

By: David

David — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:41:57 +0000

I meant to say ‘I agree that the inclusion of the Alternative Factor is eyebrow raising’ in case anyone is wondering ;).

By: David

David — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:40:18 +0000

I think with this set they didn’t want to have repeats from other sets like they did with “Endgame” on both the Time Travel and Borg sets.

“City on the Edge of Forever” and “Year of Hell” were already on the Time Travel collective.

I agreem thie inclusion of “Alternative Factor” is eye-brow raising. I am glad they are starting to include the remastered TOS episodes, since I can’t afford to buy the TOS Remastered sets.

Personally, the exclusion of “Resurrection” and “Emperor’s New Cloak” are not a big loss, because those are the only two Mirror universe episodes that I did not like.

By: Beam Me Up

Beam Me Up — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:22:45 +0000

Next year comes TOS RR Really remastered episodes!