These are the voyages of the Starship iTunes. As part of Apple's continuing mission to rule to known universe of downloadable TV shows, season one of the original iconic scifi television series Star Trek (affectionately known as TOS to Trekkers) has just been added to the iTunes store. So now for only $1.99 per episode (or $56.99 for all of season one), you can take Kirk, Spock, and McCoy with you on your iPod wherever you go. Unfortunately, casual inspection of some of the preview clips seems to show inconsistent quality (i.e. some of the shows seem to be from the digitally remastered bunch that CBS is slowly releasing and others not). Now if only my iPod would make the communicator bleepy-da-bleep noise when I turn it on to watch Trek all would be golden.
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1-03-2007 @ 9:22AM
Chuck Yoder said...
Speaking of originals: when was the original series of Battlestar Galactica from 1978 added? And where is Galactica 1980? Not that anyone would actually buy it...
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1-03-2007 @ 9:39AM
Walt Atwood said...
I fail to understand why anyone would buy and download a whole year's worth of Treks from iTunes for nearly $60, when you can snag a bushel of the very same Treks on DVD from Amazon for considerably less.
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1-03-2007 @ 10:04AM
Brian Peat said...
I bought Space Seed last night and figured they must have just added them as there were NO reviews posted yet. The biggest thing I noticed was that ALL of the outside shots of the ship(s) were new and computer generated. It was noticable enough that I wish they'd simply left them alone.
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1-03-2007 @ 1:12PM
Word Diggity said...
Amazon is selling the complete set of Star Trek for $176. That's more than the cost of the series on the iTunes store, BUT. It's the original series, not the "remastered" version AND it's full DVD quality. Of course, if you want to watch it on the go you have to buy the DVDs and use MTR + VisualHub or iSquint to get the iPod-compatible files. It's a trade off. Quality vs convenience. Personally I'd rather have the DVDs and roll my own iPod videos when and if I ever needed them.
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1-03-2007 @ 2:05PM
Pete Ruksakiati said...
Ah, Star Trek Enhanced. Love 'em or hate 'em (similar to Star Wars - Lucasized). I've liked the few episodes I've seen. More info at this link:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/23775.html
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1-03-2007 @ 3:52PM
ClunkClunk said...
Personally, I enjoy the Star Trek Enhanced series, as it's very restrained, and only minor changes. Keeps the whole look and feel of the original series.
As for the iTunes Store, they really should label what is truly the original, and which are the Enhanced series.
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2-09-2007 @ 4:50PM
monbois said...
When I tried to buy the Star Trek TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine" today (2/9/07) I got a message that said ST:TOS is not available in the U.S. store! I downloaded 2 other episodes the other day, so I don't know what the problem is. I tried ST:Enterprise and got the same message, and the same was true when I tried to buy them on a different computer!
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