Ben wrote:"6-film set"? I thought it was just the first three ("trilogy") coming out as a set, with the others as singles?
If there's an all-in six film collection I'd be up for that, though I'm one of the few that DO care for Generations and would like to see that in there. No doubt there will be a second, Next Gen set with that in later on, which I may just wait for, or indeed may just wait for the inevitable 10-film set, which is what I really want.
I love how this Trek-mania has started to grip old "this is going to be a big mistake" George and that even he is starting to wonder if the reboot might be something worthwhile. Don't do it George - I was adamant that Superman and Indy 4 were bad ideas before getting a little excited (yes, just a little, truthfully) and then hating the final results with a vengeance.
Keep your expectations low and you might be surprised...
I AM keeping my expectations low!
The last Trek teaser that aired during the Super Bowl looked good. I remember that ALL the Star Wars prequel teasers looked good, too!
Ah, but seriously, more good tie-in news courtesy of The Digital Bits (Tuesday edition Feb 17 2009)
"By the way, we mentioned in the original post that The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series and The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation would be released on DVD later this year. We've confirmed with CBS and Paramount that they're coming on 5/12 as well. The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series will include the episodes The City on the Edge of Forever, The Trouble with Tribbles, Balance of Terror and Amok Time. These will be the new "remastered" versions. The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation will include the episodes The Best of Both Worlds, Part I, The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2, Yesterday's Enterprise and The Measure of a Man."
That Next Generation set would be worth getting!
I don't plan on EVER buying the whole Next Generation series (although I do admit to having 3 of the 4 films on DVD) but this is too good of a series' selection to pass up! Not only does it have THE best two-parter that show ever made (The Best of Both Worlds -- does it have to be said?), but the other two shows are darn good, too!
(Disclosure -- I felt that TNG had two-and-a-half good years out of seven. Took them 3 years to figure out how to write the show well so Seasons 1 and 2 are a wash as far as I'm concerned, Seasons 3 and 4 are still among the best Trek ever made, but then for whatever reasons the show got bad AGAIN at the start of Season 5 continuing all through Season 6 and I felt about half of Season 7 was pretty good. The show DID end on a good note and I felt "All Good Things..." was one of the better two-parters, too, and a much better story than Star Trek: Generations. THAT should have been the first TNG movie, not Generations. Still, as successful as TNG was on television, it's never going to be the icon the original Star Trek was and still is. NOBODY'S topped Kirk and Spock. Not The Doctor, Not B5 or DS9, and certainly not Battllestar Galactica (take your pick!), either..)
Don't worry about skipping these episodes on DVD and buying them on Blu-Ray, guys. Paramount was short-sighted enough to transfer the FINAL edited versions of TNG WITH all those nice shots and edited on videotape special effects to standard def! It'll be years, IF EVER, before Paramount coughs up the cash to redo The Next Generation in hi-def (along with DS9 and Voyager). They have to find all the live-action film (IF it exists!) and THEN redo all the film editing AND the effects at hi-def level.
You're going to have to be satisfied with standard-def DVD in the meantime.
(P.S. -- More about the previously announced Trek Blu-Ray season sets, too. More blather about cut extras to TOS and changes to the feature films. FINALLY, some of those films will show up in their original aspect ratios on Blu-Ray for the first time!)
See, this is one of those things I've talked about a billion times. As long as there are old TV series that only exist on tape in final form -- NOT film -- and there are series and films that won't benefit from hi-def format, there'll be plenty of reasons for DVD to continue to co-exist along with Blu-Ray. I bet long after the big studios cease DVD replication the format will endure with hobbyists and companies that CAN'T afford Blu-Ray and don't see an economical reason to upgrade.
Of course, it goes without saying that you CAN fit more standard-def material on Blu-Ray than DVD but nobody is seriously going to put an entire season's worth of a show on one Blu-Ray and sell it that way! They want to parse it out on more discs and have you pay for it!
