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03-15-2004, 05:45 PM
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Of interest to fans of Star Trek Voyager, the following is from Trekweb which got this information from our friends at TVShowsonDVD.com regarding S2 of Voyager:
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TVShowsonDVD has confirmed the official specs for the second season of STAR TREK: VOYAGER on Region 1 DVD from official sources at Paramount.
The new DVD set, which will be released to stores May 18th, will be a 7-disc set containing all 26 episodes from VOYAGER's second season, in their original broadcast order. This includes the four episodes produced during the series' first season - "Projections", "Twisted", "Elogium", and "The 37's" - which were held over and shown early in the second season.
In addition, the following bonus features will be included on the seventh disc of the set:
- BRAVING THE UNKNOWN: SEASON TWO, a look at the production of the second season
- VOYAGER TIME CAPSULE: TUVOK, a profile of the Tim Russ cbaracter
- SABOTEUR EXTRAORDINAIRE: SESKA, a look at the evolution of Martha Hackett's character during the second season
- A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ETHAN PHILLIPS, to possibly include makeup sessions transforming him into his character of "Neelix" and more
- RED ALERT: VISUAL EFFECTS SEASON TWO, a look at the growing effects and CGI library during the second season
- REAL SCIENCE WITH ANDRE BORMANIS, a featurette on STAR TREK's science consultant
- LOST TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE DELTA QUADRANT
- a special text trivia version of "The 37's"
The seventh disc is also expected to include several bonus Easter egg features similar to the DS9 and VOYAGER's first season DVDs. No announcement has been made as to what content the bonus eighth disc in the Best Buy sets will include.
As with the previous set, the second season of VOYAGER will be shown in its original fullscreen format with English Dolby Digital 5.1 sound and English Dolby Surround sound, with English subtitles and closed captions. The total running time of the second season DVD set is 19 hours, 43 minutes. No list price has been officially confirmed by Paramount Home Video, but fans and collectors should expect the set to be priced around $100 in the U.S
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03-15-2004, 05:54 PM
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Too Much Money.
Paramount.Wake up!
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03-15-2004, 07:29 PM
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Season 2 had some greats. There was "Deadlock," with an alternate Voyager; "Projections" with Lt. Barclay; "Twisted," with a spatial anomaly of a different sort; "Dreadnought," a good stop-the-weapon thriller with a nice Alpha Quadrant connection; and "Threshold," a twist on the evolutionary ladder.
It will great to see this awesome and typically underrated show in the pristine DVD format with no commercials or station bugs.
The extras sound good too.
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03-16-2004, 01:23 AM
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Those were some good shows from the second year Sean. Deadlock always bugged me because of the resolution. Typical of Brannon Braga, he likes to do these twisted sci-fi shows that play with time and alternate universes. The ending still sticks with me today after first seeing it on broadcast. Without giving it away, Is he really him, is he himself? Plays with your mind.  |
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03-16-2004, 01:41 PM
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This includes the four episodes produced during the series' first season...which were held over and shown early in the second season.
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I was floored when I read this, no wonder the 1st season was so light.
Since there wasn't season-ending cliffhanger, they really should have added these episodes back to 1st season.
When DS9-S1 came out with 19 episodes, no one complained.
That should have been the standard for V-S1 too, 15 episodes is pushing it. |
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03-16-2004, 02:25 PM
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Season 2 had some greats..."Threshold," a twist on the evolutionary ladder.
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I'm torn between two responses:
(1) ::brain exploes::
(2) Oh, so you're the guy who liked it.
That's the salamander one, right? I seem to recall it generally being considered alongside Star Trek V as a contender for the franchise's lowest point.
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03-16-2004, 04:04 PM
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Threshold... definitely the worst hour of Trek I've ever seen. But then again Voyager's season 2 really killed my interest in Star Trek for a long long time. After a several non-trek years I've gained enough interest to finally get up and watch the remaining DS9 seasons 5-7. I'd like to give Voyager another chance because I really liked some of the characters, but not with that pricetag Paramount.
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03-16-2004, 05:02 PM
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My vote for the worst Voyager episode of S2 was called Thaw, the one where Michael McKean plays a maniacal clown who imprison's Torres and Kim.
I didn't mind Threshold as I recall it, Paris knocks up Janeway!
But the two best shows of S2 are Tuvix and Deathwish. Tuvix was interesting for the moral dilemna Janeway faced. What if she left them? And I liked Deathwish for the alegorical story and the two Q's facing off.
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03-16-2004, 05:34 PM
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My vote for the worst Voyager episode of S2 was called Thaw, the one where Michael McKean plays a maniacal clown who imprison's Torres and Kim.
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Ugh. That one was awful. Another one I hated, hated, hated was The Fight, where Chakotay faced off against Kid Chaos in an allegory about communicating with an alien species, or some such bilge. I've sat through that one twice, thinking it might be better the second time. It wasn't.
Interestingly, Joe Menosky had a hand in both episodes. I'll say one thing about Menosky: he takes chances. He's definitely trying to "boldly go" with his writing. Thing is, I'm not really sure his efforts really work, for the most part. Most of my least-favorite episodes feature his writing. Look at his DS9 record: Dramatis Personae, Rivals, Distant Voices, Time's Orphan. I know I didn't like Dramatis Personae, and I hated Distant Voices (yet another one of those "dramatic realizations of the mind" episodes). I don't remember much about Rivals, but Time's Orphan was kind of ill-advised. I'm actually ambivalent about that one, but it strikes me as one of those life-changing stories that never resonates beyond that episode. Or, to state it in standard Trek critical terms, a reset-button episode.
That doesn't even get to his TNG writing. I guess Darmok was kind of interesting, but Masks and some of the others were pretty painful. But, that's way too much about Menosky for this thread. Maybe it would be worth starting a thread just about him. I don't know. |
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03-16-2004, 11:32 PM
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I'm looking forward to this, though I think the show was kind of weak until somewhere during the third season. Seasons 3 through 5 are the ones I really want.
Also, allow me to throw in and agree that Threshold is the low point of this series. Absolutely ridiculous.
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