Yes Paramount - nothing will sale more copies than insulting the fan base. Talk about cringe-worthy.
Adrenaline
08-09-04, 05:23 PM
Wow what a crappy way to ruin Trek, Paramount good job.
El-Kabong
08-09-04, 05:31 PM
Insulting? What trailer were YOU guys watching? That was pretty damn cool.
RoboDad
08-09-04, 05:33 PM
Originally posted by Shannon Nutt
Yes Paramount - nothing will sale more copies than insulting the fan base. Talk about cringe-worthy.
I don't know. I wasn't insulted. I actually found it kind of amusing, and an affectionate throw-back to the days when the show was still "new."
Most amusing pairing of lines from different episodes:
Uhura: "Why don't you tell me I'm an attractive young lady?"
McCoy: "Are you insane?!?"
El-Kabong
08-09-04, 05:49 PM
'Sides - it's not like they made the show cheesy by editing it like that. Face it, as cool as old school trek is, there's a healthy dose of cheese to go with it.
That's part of the charm. Mini-skirts, lines like "EYEEEEEE'm Cap-TAIN KirrrrK!" and really bad special effects - hoaky but we love it.
(Fact - that's one of the big things that newer trek badly needs. Lets get a captain who talks with his fists and his diplomatic relations consist mostly of his love making. This talk the enemies to death crap in next gen and beyond is BOOOOR-ing.)
stinkeye
08-09-04, 09:12 PM
Originally posted by El-Kabong
'Sides - it's not like they made the show cheesy by editing it like that. Face it, as cool as old school trek is, there's a healthy dose of cheese to go with it.
That's part of the charm. Mini-skirts, lines like "EYEEEEEE'm Cap-TAIN KirrrrK!" and really bad special effects - hoaky but we love it.
(Fact - that's one of the big things that newer trek badly needs. Lets get a captain who talks with his fists and his diplomatic relations consist mostly of his love making. This talk the enemies to death crap in next gen and beyond is BOOOOR-ing.)
I agree, the intentional and unintentional humor in this show is a big part of it's charm, the trailer is just cashing in on that. The other shows always took themselves a little too seriously IMO. There are other reasons why this show is still entertaining to me today, but I think anyone insulted by the trailer has their Klingon headdress glued on a little too tight.
philo
08-10-04, 12:37 AM
I've been a huge fan of TOS since I caught reruns as a kid and I thought that was great! :) Not the usual boring ad I'd expect. It captured the fun, adventurous, vibrant spirit of the show.
Chew
08-10-04, 07:52 AM
If those turn out to be the menus and we get classic bridge sounds, then :up::up:
Insulting? What trailer were YOU guys watching? That was pretty damn cool.
Agreed...that was a very cool trailer!
Cemetery Man
08-11-04, 08:38 PM
Awesome.
AGuyNamedMike
08-11-04, 08:56 PM
[total TOS geek] As poor as I am, I'm all over this like the dark pantyhose on Yeoman Rand's legs. [/total TOS geek]
sracer
08-12-04, 11:03 AM
Great teaser! Great menus! Great show! I can't wait for the set! For YEARS, I've held off buying it on VHS... and on DVD. But now it looks like it is the perfect time to do it.
RoboDad
08-12-04, 03:42 PM
Originally posted by AGuyNamedMike
[total TOS geek] As poor as I am, I'm all over this like the dark pantyhose on Yeoman Rand's legs. [/total TOS geek]
:eyebrow:
The video AD for ST TOS grew on me the 2nd and 3rd time I watched it. Sent it to my other ST friends, can't wait to see what their reaction is.
Shazam
08-18-04, 11:32 AM
That was simply awesome.
Cant't wait for S1!!!!!!!
Captain Pike
08-18-04, 01:11 PM
I own the full set of two episode discs. I'm not thrilled about re-buying the series but I'm doing it anyway. I think the menus look cool actually. Very in keeping with the show.
Captain Pike
08-18-04, 01:14 PM
Originally posted by Shannon Nutt
Yes Paramount - nothing will sale more copies than insulting the fan base. Talk about cringe-worthy.
I'd say that I'm "fan base" and I really dug the trailer.
icruise
08-18-04, 02:15 PM
Originally posted by Captain Pike
I own the full set of two episode discs. I'm not thrilled about re-buying the series but I'm doing it anyway. I think the menus look cool actually. Very in keeping with the show. Are you selling the old disks? I sold mine and made enough to finance the new sets plus about $100. Not too shabby.
As for the trailer, I was a bit taken aback at first, but I was totally into it by the end. Pretty cool.
Mike Long
08-18-04, 03:08 PM
I'm not sure if fans are going to be happy with the R1 packaging of TOS. The plastic "communicator" case is cool, but once you open that, you're left with a flimsy plastic stack of DVD holders and a slim booklet.
Bleddyn Williams
08-18-04, 03:43 PM
Is that any different from the R2s, though?
Captain Pike
08-18-04, 04:34 PM
Originally posted by icruise
Are you selling the old disks? I sold mine and made enough to finance the new sets plus about $100. Not too shabby.
As for the trailer, I was a bit taken aback at first, but I was totally into it by the end. Pretty cool.
I've thought about doing that. Where did you sell them?
buckee1
08-18-04, 05:05 PM
I don't know about anybody else but, the trailer for TOS is pretty cool me thinks! Can't wait til these street.
stinkeye
08-18-04, 05:28 PM
Originally posted by Mike Long
I'm not sure if fans are going to be happy with the R1 packaging of TOS. The plastic "communicator" case is cool, but once you open that, you're left with a flimsy plastic stack of DVD holders and a slim booklet.
I'll reserve judgement till I have it, but I don't have any idea how I'm going to store this thing
Originally posted by stinkeye
I don't have any idea how I'm going to store this thing The one nice thing about the set is that the box is essentially the same size as any boxed set, so you shouldn't have any problem getting it on your shelf.
icruise
08-19-04, 04:19 AM
Originally posted by Captain Pike
I've thought about doing that. Where did you sell them?
Ebay. Of course, that was a little while ago, so more people may know about the new sets, and more people may be selling, so prices could have changed. I haven't checked.
Chew
08-19-04, 07:35 AM
Yup, as soon as I heard about these sets I put up the 40 original discs on Half.com and made about $10-$12 each. There could still be plenty of people that don't know about the new boxsets (until they actually get released) if you still want to try to sell the original releases.
ksgemini
08-19-04, 08:39 AM
Does anyone know if the video on these sets is any different from the mastering on the single disc volumes? I am probably the only person on these boards that generally is not interested in so called "special features"(with some exceptions such as Cold Mountain) I hesitate to buy again.
Chew
08-19-04, 08:59 AM
IIRC, they were remastered on the original releases. I highly doubt they would re-remaster them.
John-In-VA
08-19-04, 01:48 PM
Just watched the trailer and had a TOS-gasm.
Mike Long
08-19-04, 03:13 PM
This will give you an idea of the size of the box and what the actual DVD holder looks like:
Originally posted by Mike Long
This will give you an idea of the size of the box and what the actual DVD holder looks like:
Ah, thanks Mike, I was struggling with the scale of this thing. But it looks like it will fit nicely with my storage.
Not too impressed with this though:
http://img12.exs.cx/img12/8360/StarTrek004.jpg
stinkeye
08-20-04, 12:47 PM
Digital Bits review is up (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews3/startrektoss1.html)
I'd have to agree with Bill that the more I look into the extras, the more I'd wish they'd really pulled out all the stops for the geek-completist (esp. for the MSRP).
Chew
08-20-04, 02:05 PM
Originally posted by Mike Long
This will give you an idea of the size of the box and what the actual DVD holder looks like:
Ah. Thanks for putting the sizing issue to rest. :up:
The quality of what actually holds the discs in place seems to be going down though.
Red Dog
08-20-04, 02:20 PM
Originally posted by stinkeye
Ah, thanks Mike, I was struggling with the scale of this thing. But it looks like it will fit nicely with my storage.
Not too impressed with this though:
http://img12.exs.cx/img12/8360/StarTrek004.jpg
Yeah - I don't like that.
At least the total size is consistent with other DVD packaging.
Adrenaline
08-20-04, 03:01 PM
Originally posted by ksgemini
Does anyone know if the video on these sets is any different from the mastering on the single disc volumes? I am probably the only person on these boards that generally is not interested in so called "special features"(with some exceptions such as Cold Mountain) I hesitate to buy again.
The Digital Bits review said the video quality was slightly better, which is likely due to the better MPEG2 compression.
Buy: