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Star Trek Beams Down to the iTunes Store

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 at 8:15 AM - by

Classic Star Trek fans have a new way to spend two dollars now that season one of the original Trek series is available on the iTunes Store. The list of available episodes includes Balance of Terror, The City On the Edge of Forever, Space Seed, and more. Each episode is priced at US$1.99, or you can buy all 29 for $56.99.


Star Trek at the iTunes Store.

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Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:14 am

Are these the ones with the new effects?

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Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:29 am

Anonymous wrote:
Are these the ones with the new effects?

I believe these are the digitally remastered episodes. Check out the clip for Space Seed - it shows a very clean and crisp Enterprise closing in on a nicely rendered and adrift Botany Bay.

Jeff

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BradC said:

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Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:43 pm

Definitely looks new to me, although I don't have the original episode for comparison. The new effects, at least the ones I've seen so far, look very videogame-y to me. If you're going to upgrade the effects, CBS/Paramount, put more than 10 dollars into it!

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gslusher said:

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Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:35 pm

Or, you could get the set of DVDs for $51.43, with free shipping. If you want to "save" more, get the complete original series (three seasons) for $137.31, with free shipping, or $45.77 each season.

Based upon my experience with The Daily Show, which runs under 22 minutes, it could easily take 40+ minutes to download an episode, nearly 20 hours total. Each one would be about 560 MB, so you'd have over 16 GB in files.

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A guest said: (hide)

Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:58 pm

I believe Costco has also had each season for $45 each.

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Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:35 pm

yes, the are the new ones with updated CGI. Take a look at the preview for the episode "Miri". There are clouds over the planet now, which were added in the update (i.e., the original episode had no clouds on the planet)

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Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:14 pm

gslusher wrote:
Based upon my experience with The Daily Show, which runs under 22 minutes, it could easily take 40+ minutes to download an episode, nearly 20 hours total. Each one would be about 560 MB, so you'd have over 16 GB in files.

Or you could have a cable modem like me, and be able to pull down 500+ MB episodes of Battlestar Galactica in only 10-12 minutes.

It is very cool that classic Trek has FINALLY showed up at the iTunes store. Can't wait to download Balance of Terror and City on the Edge of Forever, which easily stand among the best TV sci-fi EVER.

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Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:49 pm

Almost forgot to mention... The Galileo Seven is also well worth the download. A very underrated episode of Classic Trek, its an early and great test of Spock's character and command.

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