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Did 'ST:Insurrection' get a fullframe/fullscreen/4:3/academy DVD release?

Everything seems to have the yellow "widescreen" band on it. I've searched Amazon and ebay. It seems weird given this was a late 90s film. The film after, ST:Nemesis has a widely available 4:3 release...

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..preferably I'm looking for a PAL DVD.
 

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^ doesn't help much but I know first hand that it came out on vhs in both widescreen and full screen versions. Did a quick gis and couldn't find a full screen dvd cover.
 

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Can't remember if this was posted before....

A fan edit of the Star Trek Starfleet Academy video game into a movie...
While the cadet characters acting is often cringe worthy, seeing veteran Trek alumni strut their stuff is very enjoyable.

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFjKV9IcGV8[/video]
 

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SEASON GREETINGS!!!! ho ho ho! lol

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cCTgRax94o[/video]

Loved this!!!!  Hilarious!  :D
 

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A recent 40-minute "Star Trek at 50" discussion with Nichelle Nichols at the 'British Film Institute' for their 'Black Star' season...

 

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While I knew the chances were very slim, it is still disheartening to learn that my absolute favourite Trek series DS9 will never get the HD treatment....

http://screenrant.com/star-trek-deep-space-nine-voyager-hd-release/

In another article I read a long while back but can't find the link anymore, I guess the blu rays of TNG sold far below studio expectations thus they are reluctant to risk the cost of attempting HD on the remaining series.  Its a shame, I picked up the complete HD TNG at Xmas for super cheap, and it looks freaking amazing!!!!   One of best tv show upgrades I have ever seen to date.  If you were hesitant about picking it up, trust me, it is worth every penny.
 

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A doc by Nimoy's daughter about her father's battle with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.... 

http://https://vimeo.com/201314307[/video]
 

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I mentioned this a few pages back--documentary about the greatest Trek series EVER, DEEP SPACE NINE --

The Indiegogo campaign is now officially underway....

http://https://vimeo.com/203190266[/video]

Get out your wallets!!!!  :D
 

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While still unlikely DS9 will ever get the full HD treatment, word comes that the DS9 doc has exceeded it fund raising goals significantly and are going to use some of the extra cast to redo some scenes from the show in HD.

In the meantime, a fan created this which I found to be very impressive...

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDWyfGjFsyU[/video]

This is done by Mojo, he is a professional FX artist, he worked on the STTMP directors cut, nuBSG, etc

He also created this amazing BSG vid which I have posted before...

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQSePpOv6Hc&t=54s[/video]
 

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Happy 86th Birthday to the Captain himself, Mr. Bill Shatner!

 

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Gaith said:
Happy 86th Birthday to the Captain himself, Mr. Bill Shatner!


Love it!  Well done.

And happy b-day to the greatest starship captain of them all!!!!  :D
 

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Over at the Trek BBS, I argue that the next movie (which, should it get made, will require a significantly lower budget), should be a Mirror Universe flick:

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The Kelvin series first screwed up by retreading old ground with Khan, then they screwed up with an "original" story with the abysmal mindless shoot-'em-up of Beyond. It desperately needs a strong hook to bring people back, and Hemsworth-not-as-Thor is not that. We need Quinto with a goatee, Pine vs. Pine, and women being all sexy without demeaning the integrity of female Federation characters. A Mirror Universe allows for multiple fun and iconic villains without having to hire extra actors, and allows everyone to have fun while simultaneously raising the stakes without yet another trite revenge-seeking villain. It's a slam dunk!

Hell, they could even bring in Khan as a terrifying Starfleet dictator, played by an actual Indian for once, as the John Harrison surgery wouldn't have happened. He could be a background presence most of the movie, like the Emperor in ANH/ESB, while our heroes spend most of the movie trying to get back to their home timeline, and the third act is a mission to acquire the tech to do so. But, in the end - TWIST! They fail, and Khan is now on to them, and eager to learn how to cross over into their home reality and steal their tech. Which leads directly to the fifth movie: the ISS Enterprise vs. Khan and his all Augments. BOOM!! *Mic drop*

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"My name is KHAN!
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No, really, guys, my name is Irrfan Khan. That's my actual name."


Oh, and one more thing: a utopian society whose ideals have been perverted by an illegitimate tyrant? Not to get all political here, but what better way for Trek to regain some of its trademark (and sorely missed) contemporary relevance?!
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What says this forum?! :D
 

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Before I move that post, is it really related to Beyond?
 

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I figured it was either here, or "ST - Star Trek". Being specifically about the prospective follow-up to Beyond, I opted for here.
 

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The follow-up to Beyond is not about Beyond.

Moved.
 

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VOY: "Life Fast and Prosper" (6x21, 4/19/2000)

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When it comes to Trek, Voyager is my comfort food. Hell, when it comes to screen entertainment in general, Voyager is my comfort food. TOS and DS9 have never been my particular jams, much of ENT is just plain dull, and revisiting TNG can be awkward, like paging through an old family photo album, except this one talks, and makes one wince every time it dips below the greatness it embodies in one's memory. Voyager, on the other hand... Voyager can be the Goldilocks show, especially when it doesn't take itself too seriously, or even outright riffs on itself, as it does here, with a trio of con artists trading on the ship's good name. Or, since everyone seems fairly new to the sector, its lack of a bad one. So warm up a mug of milk, draw in your favorite blanket, and fire up "Live Fast and Prosper"! Any ep with a Tuvok fanboy is bound to be a good ol' time.

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Outside of TOS, Voyager was always my favorite, as well.
Watched it every night on UPN, then the reruns until those ended.
I have six seasons - well, five now.  Mailed my copy of S01 to my brother last week.
Could not finish that season, and I fear perhaps the whole series may have lost its allure for me.
 

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VOY: "Living Witness" (4x23, 4/19/2000)

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Trivia quiz time! What is the only Trek episode of any series (or film) to both feature no human characters and contain the last chronological scene of the franchise to date? ... No points for the correct answer. (Hint: it's "Living Witness", which, apart from a deliberately hilarious sequence in "Author, Author", is also the closest thing we get to a Voyager Mirror Universe tale.)

--> Good grief, Season Four had 26 episodes?! No wonder A) so many were lame, especially after all the prior Trek series had done so many eps and basic sci-fi setups, and B) the writers were wary of being too focused on continuity. Don't get me wrong: a lot of Voyager was straight-up bad, and the scribes were no geniuses. Still, with a mandate from above to always be on the move, often feature space battles and phaser fights, rely mainly on your core cast without being able to depend on or afford regular secondary crew characters and crank out ~25 eps per year for seven years straight... I'm not sure I've ever realized just what a Kobayashi Maru they were in. It's easy to say "well, they should have done story arcs", and sure, okay. But then think how frustrating it would have been to be meeting and getting to know interesting aliens over a course of time only to always leave them behind once more, and always start over from scratch. Again, the show could have and should have been better, but maybe it's a feat it was as good as it was at all.

Anyhow, this is a very solid ep with a great hook (and an even better ending), in which a backup copy of the Doctor (a bit of tech never mentioned again, and the possibility thereof denied, but I'm glad the ep exists anyway) is activated 700 years after Voyager passed through, and... things didn't necessarily go so well. (SF Debris had a field day with this one.) The alien culture(s) of the week are as un-subtle as usual, but to the ep's credit, at no point is it suggested that there are any easy answers to the problems at hand, even when it comes to Telling the Truth.

Voyager may have been a scattershot show, but if even a fifth of its 172 episodes were good and continue to hold up, that's 34 good eps. Maybe you only think a tenth were good? That'd make 17 good eps, and hey, that's not nothing.

A-, on the all-Trek scale.
 

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I always thought a lot of hate directed toward Voyager was because it was femme centric.
Janeway - Torres - Seven were strong females, and I suspected manboys were uncomfortable with womenfolk holding authority.
Writers backed away from potential thorny storylines, opting for idealism instead.
Gaith, you've floated with the fleet, you know how much sexual tension is onboard.
In TrekWorld, there ain't no mess of babies being birthed, AC DC, stalking, let alone furious breakups.

Anyway, after I gave my S01 to my brother, he tells me Voyager was always his favorite Trek series.
So yeah, there are fans out there, but don't count on a movie ever being made.
 
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