CBS Hosts Ad-Funded TV Series, Incl. Original Star Trek 276
eldavojohn writes "On Friday, CBS launched a TV Classics section to their ad based online service. Which means that Trekkies can now watch all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series online at the expense of a few commercials. Alongside this CBS is offering all of MacGyver, Twin Peaks and even three seasons of the original Twilight Zone. A side note, they seem to work perfectly fine in Linux. "
Re:Outside the US? (Score:5, Funny)
yah, but if the CBS execs went warp 10 around the sun, they could go back and, uh...
Re:Star Trek should be required in schools. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Are they dubbing over the original soundtrack? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Star Trek should be required in schools. (Score:3, Funny)
define "perfectly" (Score:3, Funny)
"A side note, they seem to work perfectly fine in Linux" (with the proprietary Flash plugin).
be new here (Score:1, Funny)
you must be new here
No, I be new here!
Re:indeed (Score:5, Funny)
More importantly there was no Wesley or Riker!
What was wrong with Riker? It's not like he ever lost the Enterprise to the Ferengi [wikipedia.org], made out with a little boy [wikipedia.org], got kidnapped [wikipedia.org], accused of murder [wikipedia.org], or lost the Enterprise to an obsolete Klingon rust bucket [wikipedia.org]. Oh, never mind ;)
You'd think from increased insurance premiums alone Picard would have had ample reason to find a new Number One ;)
Re:"On Friday"? (Score:4, Funny)
Obviously, the TV Classics section did a slingshot around the sun.
Re:Outside the US? (Score:5, Funny)
yah, but if the CBS execs went warp 10
They could "hyper-evolve" into salamanders and have gross salamander sex?
Re:Outside the US? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but hasn't it already been proven that just because a site in one jurisdiction allows viewers from another jurisdiction they can't be charged because the other jurisdiction forbids the content thats legal in the first jurisdiction?
Theory predicts that that would cause a trans-jurisdictional warp anomaly, which could lead to a subpoena cascade. Very dangerous. But Data and I think that if we can reconfigure the deflector array to emit bogus affadavits in the "do-whatever-I-want"-band, the high-energy subpoenas will be completely neutralized. It would be like stuffing a mailbox with scrap paper!
Re:indeed (Score:3, Funny)
Hey you weren't the one terrorizing all them convenience stores with the Klingon Batleth were you?
Re:indeed (Score:5, Funny)
You'd think from increased insurance premiums alone Picard would have had ample reason to find a new Number One
As opposed to Jean-Luc "I surrender" Picard? He may have had the British accent, but you could tell he was French by how quickly he was willing to surrender. To anyone.
To paraphrase the late Tasha Yar, "He surrenders at the drop of a hat. Any hat."
Off the top of my head, there was his surrender to Q.
He tried to surrender to the Ferengi in The Last Outpost.
In The Outragous Okona, he ordered the shields dropped "In case we decide to surrender to them."
and in A Matter of Honor, he surrendered to Riker (who had taken over a Klingon ship.)
Seen on Ebay : "2nd hand Phaser inscribed "JPL". Never fired. Only dropped once."
Re:Star Trek should be required in schools. (Score:3, Funny)
There are times when I'd rather it was Debbie Does Dallas in space.