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Star Trek Fan Collective - Time Travel

With the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise last May, the uncertain future of the franchise, and the fact that every episode of each incarnation already on DVD, how can Paramount find a way to milk additional dollars out of the old cash cow? Well, they took a cue from another Science Fiction show, the X-Files, and started collecting episodes that centered on specific themes and releasing them in DVD sets called the Star Trek Fan Collectives.

The second set of the collective was released this week and it focuses on the very popular (just slingshot around the sun!) theme of time travel. The twelve episodes included in the four-disc set are:
Disc 1:

• "Tomorrow is Yesterday" -from The Original Series (TOS)
  
• "The City on the Edge of Forever" -(TOS)
  
• "Yesterday's Enterprise" -From The Next Generation (TNG)
  
• "Cause and Effect" -(TNG)

Disc 2:

• "Time's Arrow, Part I" -(TNG)
  
• "Time's Arrow, Part II" -(TNG)
  
• "All Good Things..." -(TNG)

Disc 3:

• "Little Green Men" -From Deep Space Nine (DS9)
  
• "Trials and Tribble-ations" -(DS9)
  
• "Year of Hell, Part I" -(Voyager)
  
• "Year of Hell, Part II" -(Voyager)

Disc 4:

• "Endgame" -(Voyager)

The only special features are text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda on "Tomorrow Is Yesterday," "Yesterday's Enterprise," and "Little Green Men". I really hope that doesn't mean it is a page of text displayed on the screen because there is nothing worse than trying to read that off of a TV. Hopefully they just appear as subtitles while the episode plays.

The first set in the collective series, Star Trek Fan Collective - Borg, is already out while a set devoted to the (always-enjoyable) recurring villain Q is due out in early June.

While trying to own the entire series of the various incarnations of Star Trek might be a little cost prohibitive (except for more well financed and hard core Trekkies), the Fan Collective sets provide a cheaper alternative for the more casual fan. Be warned, though, Paramount has double-dipped and included the Voyager episode "Endgame" on both the Time Travel and Borg collective sets. --Matt Callahan



Photo: © 2006 Paramount

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Posted by on April 6, 2006 6:50 PM
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