The Ultimate Star Trek Collection 414
roelbj writes "For those Star Trek fans wondering what to ask for this Christmas, you may wish to consider The Ultimate Star Trek Collection to be released on November 15. For just (cough) $2499.99, you'll get 212, count them, 212 DVDs with everything ever produced under the name, including all seasons of all five telvision series as well as the ten feature films. Before loading up your disc changer and hitting play, remember to get up once in a while."
Really... (Score:2, Insightful)
No way (Score:5, Insightful)
worth it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Wait until it's at least 30% off.
Was the link necessary? (Score:2, Insightful)
It was completely irrelevant to the topic at hand and serves no purpose but to make light of a seriously ill person (who subsequently died).
There's something sickening here, and it's the editors' lack of respect for others and journalistic integrity.
More like Penultimate (Score:5, Insightful)
And I think it's sad that of the Star Trek stories to be posted, this makes the front page where as the passing of Michael Piller [startrek.com] doesn't.
Re:No figurines (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Was the link necessary? (Score:1, Insightful)
(yes, this is a bit of a troll, but hey, it's monday morning)
Re:No way (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, just those who want it in a week or so.
Like, the time it would take for a purchased set to be delivered.
Re:No way (Score:5, Insightful)
I was so happy when they announced that DS9 was finally coming out on DVD. I hadn't even looked at any of the others, as I wasn't interested (though I've since come to enjoy the original series). It came out, and I was TOTALLY ready to fork out $40 for each season. They might even have gotten $50 or so out of me.
They were something like $110 the first time I saw them. WTF? Those bastards can go to hell. Now I'm so pissed off at them that I'll likely never buy the seasons at all.
It was the same thing with the X-Files. I don't know if it's changed, but it was about $100 when it came out. Totally crazy.
Re:What makes a movie worth watching over again? (Score:5, Insightful)
But... the point of this kind of set is not to see something again and again. Hell, as one person pointed out, if you did one episode a day it would take you two years to finish. And when you've gone through the entire set, hell, there will be a new series on TV by then. After that new series finished, begin rewatching your set, after two years, you'll probably have forgotten most of the episodes. This set is about possessing it, having he capacity to watch ANY given episode on a whim at any given moment. To no longer be the slave of the fickle schedules of TV re-runs. All that jazz. It doesn't have to be Casablanca, very little of it ever comes close. All it has to be is A LOT of Star Trek.
Re:worth it? (Score:3, Insightful)
Seriously, who would pay this kind of money? There are the select few but I doubt their numbers are enough to keep this from getting clearanced at some point.
Re:Was the link necessary? (Score:4, Insightful)
She was not 'sick', she was a typical member of the parasitic consumer society in which she lives, consuming what the rest of the world produces until they (literally) keel over and die.
Posted anonymously to avoid being modded as a troll
Re:Was the link necessary? (Score:2, Insightful)
Okay, look. A 4'10" woman hits 250 pounds, it's conceivable that she just doesn't get to the gym and maybe likes her bon-bons a little too much, but this woman was way over 400 pounds. You don't just get like that from Twinkies and soap operas. Clearly there had to have been some kind of nasty metabolic problem involved. Could she have maybe fended off such a syndrome with an active lifestyle? Perhaps, but for all we know the same forces which were making her prone to obesity were also sapping her will to do much about it. Once that woman reached the point that she spent an entire day or two on that couch, somebody should have addressed the problem with both medical and psychiatric care. Six years of just sitting there? Unable to even get up for the bathroom??? That ain't right.
By the way (only slightly off the topic)... It's easy for somebody who never struggled with their weight to accuse fat people of some moral shortcoming, never mind that they themselves don't always lead perfectly healthy lives either. I know plenty of rail-thin people who couldn't run to the end of the block and back, while I know other people who are overweight yet can easily run five miles and enjoy it. Body shape may be a very visible metric of whether somebody is in good physical condition or not, and whether they have a good sense of discipline about taking care of themselves... but it's far from the most accurate indicator.
Im calling your BS out. (Score:3, Insightful)
No, actually you posted AC because you know your opinion is wrong, although you are entitled to it. If you look at all the replys to this "Was the link necessary" post, you will notice a strange phenomenon, all 5 of your type posted AC, only 1 posted such under his account. I don't call that watching your mod point karma, I call that being ashamed of your view, which you should be, the sad part is you don't know why you are ashamed of your view, so you try to justify it by your ability to proclaim yourself above it.
Re:The Animated Series!? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Was the link necessary? (Score:3, Insightful)
Because the laugh enables us to handle difficult questions of life. Laugh reveals the empty rhetoric we use to cocoon death and sickness. Laugh goes against what authorities want you to believe. Laugh is serious matter.
Re:The Animated Series!? (Score:2, Insightful)
6. Enterprise.
Re:Where's the torrent? (Score:3, Insightful)
Without the multiple audio tracks it wouldn't be worth the download.
Ogg/MKV please.
Borg Cube (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:No way (Score:3, Insightful)
The thing is, that's almost certainly not true, because their marketing people almost certainly did some trials on what people would be prepared to pay and picked the sweet spot that maximises their income. As much as I'd like to believe what you wrote, and see various over-priced sci-fi DVDs brought down to the same level as everything else, I can believe that in the case of ST there are enough super-geeks willing to pay almost any price that the "normal" fans are not the deciding factor here.
Re:Was the link necessary? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Was the link necessary? (Score:2, Insightful)
Consider that the post as a whole has an accusatory tone. To my eyes, it smacks of What kind of person, after all, would feel the need to buy this collection and at this price?
If indeed I am not reading too much between roelbj's well thought out prose, then the Hey look at the fat person link is not at all out of place. Indeed, it becomes not only on-topic, but also necessary to further the point of We're not like them. by forwarding what is obviously in his minds another example of a subgroup he wants to publicly separate himself from.
Furthermore, one can read into roelbj's inclusion of the link a need to connect with his reader through a mutual separation from suspect subgroups. Could the need to drive home the point We're not like them been a subconscious justification of the inclusion of the fat person post? And if so, from whence the need to emphasize commonality with others? Is that connection somehow lacking in roelbj's life? Hey look everybody... let's all do something together! Please?becomes a search for a link that nearly everyone would surely look upon in the same light as he, and the need for contact is fulfilled.
In the interests of full disclosure... Yes, I struggle with my weight, but no am not presently nor have I ever been bonded with my sofa. I also have a nagging, hard-to-let-go-of belief in journalism, and that even Slashdot may someday climb one more rung on the ladder up towards a journalistic ideal.
Re:Was the link necessary? (Score:5, Insightful)
I love it. You post about personal responsibility, then refuse to be held personally responsible for the comment. Classic!
Re:referal fee (Score:3, Insightful)
Would you rather:
- slashdot.org took the referer fees
- amazon pocketed the extra cash
- slashdot doesn't actually edit the submitted story for a change
Another poster suggests each purchase through that link is worth around $125 btw.Perhaps slashdot should setup referer accounts for all the sites it pimps, and then publish and use the revenue to create some form of slash fund, perhaps paying lawyers to fight some of the laws slashdot readers seem to hate so much, or funding development on slash dependencies or ...
THE PRICE IS NOT THAT HIGH!!!! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Was the link necessary? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:No figurines (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:The Animated Series!? (Score:2, Insightful)