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The Ultimate Star Trek Collection

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As 2006 will be the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, I'm guessing there will be something available next year at this time that will potentially blow everyone's doors off. I think this is just a way to fuel the cash cow that is Star Trek.

The BBC didn't do something this grand in 2003 for their 40 year old show, "Doctor Who". However, I'll give them props for dropping the bomb that they were going to begin making the program again.

I'm sure this time next year, we'll have a complete package with TAS plus a whole slew of bloopers to gawk at. I'm sure this will also come with a wonderfully inflated price tag of $3000. After all, it's the 40th anniversary.

I really don't know where Paramount get off charging this much for Star Trek sets. Realistically this should be more around the $1500 range.

$40 per season of programming x 28 seasons = $1120
$30 per movie x 10 films = $ 300
Total $1420

Add on some premium for packaging, etc. $1499

Tacking on that extra $1000 for this set is a bit much and just plain greedy.

Trust me I love star trek and have since I was a kid in the 1960's but the price PARAMOUNT want's for this STAR TREK mega set is OUT OF THIS WORLD! Like many others have said their are better series than Star Trek out here that are still in production that have DVD sets on sale MUCH CHEAPER than the per episode price PARAMOUNT DEMANDS here for Star Trek. I would pay a slightly higher price for star trek because I love TREK but, I would not submit myself to the brand of blatant highway robbery being proposed here at this overly inflated price.

I already have most of the star trek episodes I really like. I brought the star trek movies when they were being offered at a better price on DVD individually. Most of the Star Trek series while good were and are not worth the amounts of money Paramount is asking people to pay here. Most of the Star Trek Series is way overpriced and I vote on this Star Trek rip off series pricing by letting this crap stay right on the shelf unsold.

PARAMOUNT overpricing the its Star Trek merchandise is doing more to cure me of my Star Trek addiction than anything my family had tried over the years. I still have a warm place in my heart for Star Trek and likely always will. Paramount has done a great job of cooling my love of Star Trek to that of a tepid pool, a love for trek that most of my life had the passionate energy well beyond that of any SuperNova.

PARAMOUNT continues to overplay its hand regards Star Trek and in so doing is alienating its once loyal fan base. After Paramount finishes killing off the rest of its most loyal fan base with its preditory pricing in the fullness of time these way overpriced Star Trek items will be priced realistically and at that time like the Wolf I am I might actually buy them. Until these overpriced DVD's come down in price segnificantly the best place for these overpriced lamers is the UNSOLD Inventory Sheet's of Paramount Studios \ Viacom Corp'S DVD werehouse.

My hats off to all Paramount Exec's you sure knew how to ruin a once great STAR TREK FRANCHISE. Congratulations I hope you enjoy your Bonuses.

Right after Christmas 04, the price for season 1 of the x-files dropped from about $100 to $35. I grabbed it off amazon. 2 weeks later, it was back up to $100. Now a year later, the price is dropping again and it looks like for good. The behind the scenes story here is pretty easy to read: The marketers set the price high (like an overpriced house) and hoped it would sell and probably sold few. Then finally the price dropped, thousands of x-heads like me grabbed it cheap. The price went back up and it didn't sell. It took another year for the marketers to figure out the x-files season dvd's will not sell for a premium price.

Right after Christmas 06 the price for seasons 1 - 3 of TNG was cut in half. I own them now. Seasons 4 - 7 are still sky high and actually getting higher. But they won't sell. Fans aren't stupid. We'll wait until the marketers wise up and price this stuff reasonably. Until then, we'll watch seasons 1, 2 & 3 over and over again.

The ONLY Star Trek series that can be released in Hi Def is the ORIGINAL SERIES. That show was shot and finished on film. It won't be widescreen, but the masters are on film so hi def resolution is supported.

However, Next Gen, DS9, Voyager and most of Enterprise was SHOT on film, but edited and finished on NTSC VIDEO (in fact TNG was the first show ever to do this). That means the master tapes for these shows are all 525 line video and they will never look better than they do on DVD. It is physically impossible to release them in hi-def.

Enterprise switched over to 16:9, but it was not actually finished in hi def until late in the game.

The movies can all be hi def, except for (sadly) the new edition of ST: The Motion Picture. The special edition director's cut was only finished on NTSC and can never be upscaled to HDTV. Only the original theatrical version can be re-scanned to a higher resolution.

Use this info to plan your purchases accordingly!

Although it would be very nice to be able to pick up every piece of Trek ever shown on television in one massive swoop, the price here is just outrageous - especially compared to other television shows. Compare the cost here to the price of a season of other television shows:

A season of West Wing - $40
A season of The Shield - $42
A season of The Simpsons - $32
A season of The Sopranos - $65
A season of Law and Order - $30

Yet in this mega-collection you end up paying a staggering $85 per season after you subtract out the cost of the movies. I would be curious to know how Paramount justifies such high prices for shows that have been off the air for years when recently-run shows that are still in production go for less than half the price.

When I heard about this collection I was quite excited. It would be an opportunity for me to get all of Star Trek at a reasonable price. However, "The Ultimate Star Trek Collection" does not contain all the Star Trek episodes, and it is not reasonably priced. The animated series from the early 1970s is missing. To me this is a big omission. I have seen most of the episodes of every series except the animated series. One of the reasons that I considered buying "The Ultimate Star Trek Collection" was that I would finally be able to see all of the animated series. Failing to include it makes this product much less appealing to me. The price is another problem. US$2500 is a lot of money, particularly for an incomplete collection. Until a true complete collection is available, at a reasonable price, I will continue to get my Star Trek fix on Spike TV on nights when I can not sleep.

I have to wonder how much of a market there would be for this. Who out there is a big enough Trek fan to purchase all this, and not already have a portion of it collected already. This set basically takes everything that has been released so far and sells it as a complete package. Personally, I already have it all, except the 4th season of Enterprise because Costco let me down and didn't have it on the release date, so I'm about to order it on this site.

The only thing missing is the Animated Series. This is understandable because as stated this set is merely everything released so far, and TAS has not had a DVD release. I doubt such a release is far off, as Paramount no doubt wants to milk every cent it can by putting Trek on DVD, and TAS is pretty much all that is left. I definitely expect a 2006 release to be announced soon.

If you haven't purchaced any Trek DVDs yet, this is certainly a good deal. Or even if you have a limited collection, this might be an opportunity to purchase the whole Trek canon at a great price and perhaps sell off what you've already acquired. But if you already have a substantial collection, I suggest merely filling in the holes. Amazon.com has all the individual seasons, as well as all the complete series as specially packaged sets.

I give the collection 4 stars for having everything a true trek fan could possibly want. I still have to agree with what all the other reviewes said; the price is ridiculas. Yes you are getting a lot of material and a high price is to be expected, but over $2000? Honestly, who other than the immensly rich is going to be able to spend that kind of money on DVD's? That is more than many people pay for their rent or mortage. I have all the orginal series as well as TNG on DVD already, but with prices like these there is 0 chance of me buying any of Voyager, DS9 or Enterprise. Its a shame though since DS9 was a fine show and I am a fan of Scott Bakula (Captain Archer) of enterprise. I will have to settle for Scott's other Sci-Fi hit Qunatum Leap which is at least priced at a reasonable thirty something dollars price.

Paramount is charging way too much for all of the Star Trek series as compared to every other DVD box set. Another Paramount release, Macgyver, is below $30.00 per season, and yet they still have the nerve to charge $109.00 and more per season of Star Trek just because the fan base would pay it if they wanted it enough. Personally I am content to watch them in reruns until such a time that they reduce the price to no more than $200.00 for each entire series. They were great shows, but I would rather spend my money on Buffy seasons 1-7 for $169.99!

Star Trek in all its variations has been reviewed to death, but for all of you that think that this set is too expensive, here are the Amazon prices based on entire series boxed sets:

TOS - $285
NG - $785
DS9 - $637
Voyager - $810
Enterprise - $384
Original Crew Movie collection - $75 (And not even the special editions)
The rest - $60
And the total is $3036.

As you can see, the price for this set is very reasonably priced. For a Treker that is just starting their collection, a best buy.