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Post by Gnom on Jan 7, 2002 7:07:19 GMT -5
Okay, time to bring this forum up to date, too. That "last post Dec 17th" probably doesn't make very favourable impression on Accidental Guest possibly considering membership... Where you live, how easy/hard it is to get your regular dose of Trek, old or new? Personally, I live in Trek backwoods. Living in a house without a cable and being too poor to invest satellite channels, I'm limited to what the four "regular" national channels (plus one Swedish) are broadcasting, and they don't bother with Trek. Not any more. About year ago one of them still did. They were showing DS9 and VOY, but quit them saying that there wasn't enough audience. Well, small wonder considering they did their best to alienate both possible new viewers AND the old ones! For one they seemed to think if it has Star Trek in it, it's all the same stuff, so they kept irrationally hopping back and forth between VOY and DS9, first-run and re-run episodes. And if there was something more important happening in the world, like a district competition in snowboarding, they skipped the Trek ep altogether. Or, which was marginally even more frustrating, changed the showtime so that when you had set yourself comfortably and switched on the telly, you found the end credits rolling. Finally, off the air they went, never being shown to the end and leaving us poor Trekkers on the dry land surviving the best we can. Copying, exchanging, buying... I haven't completely lost my faith that some day Trek will return in our airwaves, though. (I refuse to pay my TV license before it does! ) I'm placing my hopes on the Enterprise and the fact that there aren't the aggravating words "Star Trek" anywhere in it's name.
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Post by Trekzilla on Jan 7, 2002 8:23:26 GMT -5
Sorry to hear of your drought. Makes me appreciate what I have.
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Post by Holodoc on Jan 7, 2002 9:04:04 GMT -5
Sorry to hear of your drought. Makes me appreciate what I have. Ditto. Greetings, Trekzilla.
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Post by Gnom on Jan 7, 2002 9:21:32 GMT -5
Not sure whether I really want to hear, but... What is it you have? Welcome, Trekzilla.
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Post by star3 on Jan 7, 2002 11:33:49 GMT -5
Well, let's see. Here in the US, everyone with cable gets to see TOS and TNG regularly. TOS is shown on the Sci-Fi channel pretty much every day. TNN started airing TNG episodes this fall, and they currently show at least two a day. Whether or not you get DS9 or VOY depends on where you live - I'm able to get both shows five nights a week, but others aren't so lucky.
It's not as great as it seems - the Sci-Fi channel cuts TOS episodes to add commercials, and TNN destroys TNG by adding their universially despised black bar. But it's better than nothing.
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Post by StolenThunder on Jan 7, 2002 13:33:19 GMT -5
Hmm, on terrestrial TV here, we have TNG on Tuesdays and Wednesdays - 6.45pm. VOY on Tuesday 6.00pm. That is all at the moment, but Sky [Satellite] TV has a lot more. They give far more priority to it... Voy was on at 8.00pm every Monday, and from tonight, Enterprise is taking its slot... There is also an old Voy/TNG ep on twice a day... I do not have sky...
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Post by Holodoc on Jan 7, 2002 15:15:06 GMT -5
TOS on Sci Fi Channel daily plus the occasional marathon
TNG twice on TNN weekdays, once on Sundays, Friday four in a row
Voyager on UPN midnight weekdays. (five flights a week you know)
Enterprise is on 2x a week but I only watch if nothing else is on and I happen to be home. I'd rather watch Croc Hunter or TNG (usually no contest on Wed nights: either TNG or Croc).
NYC has the flagship station for UPN: WWOR
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Post by Ana Ng on Jan 7, 2002 22:56:05 GMT -5
Wow, I feel pretty lucky.
As well as the TOS eps on Sci-Fi, and the TNG episodes airing nine hundred times a week on TNN (for those of you who don't have TNN, they show TNG mini-marathons every Friday and Sunday, as well as the two episodes daily the rest of the week!), I get Voyager at 3am Monday-Friday, and DS9 at 4am Monday-Friday. Not wonderful times, but I don't mind. I usually stay up pretty late, but if I don't, I have my VCR permanently programmed to tape them. I've managed to get quite a collection of VOY and DS9 eps taped!
However, I do not understand the people who decide which eps will air. Both VOY and DS9 seem to be eternally stuck on seasons 6 and 7... I don't know what TPTB have against the early seasons. We did get some early VOY for a while, but once again they've zapped forward to the later years. And DS9 is approaching season 7 again, which happened to just be finished less than two months ago.
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Post by Peter_Pevensie on Jan 8, 2002 5:10:52 GMT -5
Where you live, how easy/hard it is to get your regular dose of Trek, old or new? Personally, I live in Trek backwoods... I'm suffering with you, Tng'er... Here on our little mid-Atlantic island, we get absolutely nothing in terms of Trek. Zero. Nada. Not even a little bit. Fortunately, a friend of ours has a relative back in the States who tapes episodes and sends them, so we get our Trek fix that way...our friend has about 90% of all the episodes of all the series on tape, and though the quality isn't always that great, it's certainly better than nothing. In fact, she just received her first tape of Enterprise, and I got to watch "Broken Bow" for the first time yesterday! It was so exciting, after waiting for so long, to finally see it! (What a coincidence that I saw it on the same day that it premiered in the UK, huh?) Anyway, prior to this friend arriving here, the only Trek we got was the few (like 12) episodes of TNG that I had on video, plus the films (I have all of those). I pick up a few Trek books everytime I'm in the States, but they rarely last me more than a few weeks...
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Post by Holodoc on Jan 8, 2002 7:51:29 GMT -5
However, I do not understand the people who decide which eps will air. Both VOY and DS9 seem to be eternally stuck on seasons 6 and 7... I don't know what TPTB have against the early seasons. We did get some early VOY for a while, but once again they've zapped forward to the later years. Yes. Second Seasonus Interruptus. I don't know why on startrek.com they don't include mention of Voyager's reruns at the bottom of the main page for their next on TV feature, as those reruns are nationally syndicated and all UPN affiliates run the same ones. ("Aww Mom! Alice AGAIN??")
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Post by Andorian_Incident on Jan 8, 2002 9:27:24 GMT -5
I agree that Trek seems to be on almost all the time over here. Enterprise three times a week, Voyager at least five times, but I think its even more than that, TNG and TOS everyday. Hmmmmmmm, I don't know if DS9 is still playing on any of the stations around here or not. I rarely watch the reruns on TV--if I want to see a particular episode I just go and find the tape that I have it on and watch it on my schedule and not on the TV stations schedules.
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Post by StolenThunder on Jan 8, 2002 14:06:38 GMT -5
I'm sorry, I lied. ST:VOY has been taken off the air, about 4 episodes into season 7...
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Post by StolenThunder on Jan 8, 2002 14:09:20 GMT -5
Apologies to you all...
I just looked in next weeks TV guide, and there Voyager is... They just decided not to show it today...
What is wrong with the schedulers!?
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Post by Elric3960 on Jan 10, 2002 10:57:29 GMT -5
Belated greetings to Trekzilla!
I don't have cable, so I don't watch TOS and TNG as the other American posters do, but I can get Enterprise and those loopy season 6 & 7 VOY eps on late-night as well as the occasional DS9 repeats at 3:00am when I can't sleep. I get my Trek fix satisfied on both WWOR in New York (like Holodoc) and the Philadelphia affiliate WPSG.
I think that TPTB don't make an effort to air all of the Treks in their entirety because all but ENT are available on Paramount Home Video. The precious bottom-line strikes again!
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Post by Chakotay on Jan 11, 2002 20:28:46 GMT -5
I was getting 'Five Flights a Week' of Voyager until two weeks ago. Now I'm getting DS9 on my UPN station. I'm glad they started at the beginning of the series because I've not seen enough of DS9 to say I've seen it. ;D
I don't have cable, satellite, or anything extra - just broadcast stations.
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