# The Original Star Trek Finally Approved for Season DVD Sets **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091 "2003-10-17T20:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/1 "2003-10-17T20:27:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Complete season box sets of the original Star Trek series are in the planning stages for DVD release in both Region 1 and Region 2. > > Paramount gave the long-awaited confirmation to The Digital Bits about the upcoming U.S. release. > > “I’ve officially confirmed with Paramount that complete season box sets of Star Trek: The Original Series are in the planning stages for DVD release here in the States,” wrote Bill Hunt. “However, you probably shouldn’t expect them until after most of the work on the Star Trek: Voyager complete season DVDs is finished.” > > Voyager is expected to be released one set at a time throughout 2004, so the original series may not hit the market until 2005. > > The R2 Project reports that the original series will be released in box sets on DVD in Region 2 as well, beginning in 2004. DVD Answers also has a brief item on the planned sets. > > [http://www.trektoday.com/news/161003\_02.shtml](http://www.trektoday.com/news/161003_02.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/2 "2003-10-17T20:43:39Z")
Finally, we can all join **tracer** in getting to the bottom of **canivorousplant** ’s misremembered musings. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/3 "2003-10-17T20:52:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Finally, we can all join **tracer** in getting to the bottom of **canivorousplant** ’s misremembered musings. \*\* There was an _Original_ Series? I thought Star Trek always was. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/4 "2003-10-18T00:10:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > Finally, we can all join **tracer** in getting to the bottom of **canivorousplant** ’s misremembered musings. Only if the complete season sets of _ST:TOS_ contain the **Canadian** cut of “Devil in the Dark.” ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/5 "2003-10-18T00:14:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > \*\*I thought Star Trek always was. \*\* Sure feels that way sometimes, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/6 "2003-10-18T00:18:42Z")
actually, it is that way for me, since it predates my existance. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/7 "2003-10-18T00:44:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Finally, we can all join **tracer** in getting to the bottom of **canivorousplant** ’s misremembered musings. \*\* oh shit ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/8 "2003-10-18T01:24:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\*Only if the complete season sets of _ST:TOS_ contain the **Canadian** cut of “Devil in the Dark.” \*\* 'splain, please. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/9 "2003-10-18T01:31:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*'splain, please. \*\* shit ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/10 "2003-10-18T02:11:08Z")
Splain? you guys ready to read 13 pages of non trek stuff just to get to it? I’ll try a specific post search tomorrow morning when the Dope isn’t so ham§stered. Promise. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/11 "2003-10-18T02:12:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*shit \*\* What? What’d I say? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/12 "2003-10-18T02:14:12Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=216760](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=216760) It’s in the OP, **Blue Sky**. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/13 "2003-10-18T02:37:43Z")
**Phaser cutting phasers** [The start of it all.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3277811&highlight=phaser+cutting#post3277811) [Serious developement](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3288883&highlight=phaser+cutting#post3288883) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/14 "2003-10-18T02:39:37Z")
The reference to phaser cutting phasers is in here somewhere. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=946357&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=946357&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending) Note that there are some 900 posts in one of them. Anyway, Wearia said something about phaser cuttung phasers. In an attempt to help out a pal, cause Mrs. Plant might talk me into going back to New Hampshire, and I could get lost and wind up in Vermont or Canada, the place being so small, New Hampshire, not Canada, and I would need to call someone for directions, but I digress. So I mentioned that in the TOS episode _The Devil In The Dark_, Spock says “The miners have Phaser One, but we have Phaser cutting Phasers”. Because he’s a mor…trusting soul, Tracer goes out and buys the complete set of DVDs to see this. Are you following me? Someone goes out and drops a hunk of cash on something I said. Pay attention, there will be a test on Tuesday. So I point out that was the Canadian version, which was censored by some Canadian TV ministry, it being so cold and all, and they thought that phaser cutting phasers would frighten children, and eventually all copies of the Canadian version were destroyed, and it’s Not My Fault. And then somebody brings it up again. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/15 "2003-10-18T02:39:57Z")
What’s the point in having a FAQ if we don’t use it, **Clueless**? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/16 "2003-10-18T02:43:58Z")
Bite me, **Aes**. 😉 The FAQ thread provided no details. You linked to the FAQ thread, I linked to the original. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/17 "2003-10-18T02:45:36Z")
WTF is that all about? You two play nicely or we will make you stand in the corner. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/18 "2003-10-18T02:46:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > **So I point out that was the Canadian version, which was censored by some Canadian TV ministry, it being so cold and all, and they thought that phaser cutting phasers would frighten children, and eventually all copies of the Canadian version were destroyed, and it’s Not My Fault.** Waaaaaaaaait a minute! I thought y’all said that the Canadian version was the only version **with** the phaser-cutting phasers line left in! _I call foul!_ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/19 "2003-10-18T02:48:44Z")
[A joke about phaser cutting phasers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3911943&highlight=phaser+cutting#post3911943) ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091/20 "2003-10-18T02:49:01Z")
Then post your links in the FAQ. Der. :wally [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-star-trek-finally-approved-for-season-dvd-sets/208091.md?page=2)