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cmn32480
on Tuesday November 03 2015, @05:41PM
from the where-no-internets-have-gone-before dept.
from the where-no-internets-have-gone-before dept.
Cut and pasted shamelessly from StarTrek.com:
"CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new Star Trek television series in January 2017."
"The brand-new Star Trek will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966."
"The new television series is not related to the upcoming feature film Star Trek Beyond which is scheduled to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in summer 2016."
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You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @05:55PM
The pilot episode will air on TV, the rest will be available at your favorite torrent site.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:28PM
Very funny, but essentially accurate.
CBS would be better off I think putting this series on broadcast TV, complete with the 20 minutes of obligatory commercials, and let everyone enjoy it. They can stream it without commercials, or with deleted scenes or some other added value to get the viewer to pay for the service.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @02:49AM
HAHAHAHAHAHA. This is CBS All-Access. You will watch even more commercials than on TV.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday November 03 2015, @09:03PM
That's how most of the world watched Enterprise and Voyager -- I remember staying up very late when Broken Bow aired, DCCing it on a rockingly fast 10Mbit connection at uni. Far better than when I downloaded 100kbit/sec episodes of SG1 season 4.
Back in the days of DS9 the only way to watch it was to buy the VHS tapes. At £13 for 2 episodes, or about $15 per episode in todays money. 33k modems at $1/hour (today's money) just weren't fast enough. On TV (Pay TV too - Sky) it was nowhere near US airdates, about 8 months delayed, but the only online community to talk about it was uk based (umtss) that wasn't too bad.
Take Children of Time, DS9 season 5 near the end of the season. US air date May 5th, UK Tape release Sep 1st, Sky release the following February. It's never been on free UK tv.
TNG didn't make the screens in the UK until after Best of Both Worlds part 2 was broadcast.
For years, even since before the beta site of SN existed, we as an online non-us community have been demanding that companies take our money and show us the goddam show.
Sadly it appears this will be another missed opportunity.
(Score: 1) by kazzie on Wednesday November 04 2015, @10:01AM
I recall watching DS9, (and TNG, VOY) on Free-to-view BBC2. Did they skip season 5?
(I know for certain that season 6 was on BBC2, as I bought some Dominion War novels in Canada, and later saw the stories broadcast on TV in the UK)
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday November 04 2015, @02:47AM
The pilot episode will air on TV, the rest will be available at your favorite torrent site.
Who watches TV any more? I haven't had antenna since 2004 and haven't had cable or satellite since 2008.
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