True, but there is more to life than meeting one's barest minimum obligations.
Why does DIsney hate "Earth Star Voyager"?
- Thread starter Ian Keldon
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True, but there is more to life than meeting one's barest minimum obligations.
Not just profitable. Safe.
One of the bootleg DVD dealers at Shore Leave had Song of the South last weekend, and I was very tempted. Disney would turn a profit on SotS easily -- there are people who would buy it simply out of curiosity -- but they fear the hit they would take because it's not a "safe" release.
By the look of the film and the fact that disney released it, it looks like a kids kinda thing (although note i have not seen it so i can't be sure). but star trek would be good to do something like this. the star trek fanbase from the serieses (tos,ds9,tng,voy) are starteing to die out the films XI and XII on it's release will mostly be watched by people who wanna watch an action movie (as well as fans of course). my oint is star trek need something like this or a new series voyager being the most recent (excluding the bad enterprise) that looked modern and future like. someone like disney however could easily realease a show like this and gain sooo much fand from the star trek fanbase plus new ones purly because of the fact star trek have no new serises in the past decade. they would have the chance to make money they just have to play it so they don't breach copyright and possibly bring slight end to star trek and a new trend of earth star
And yet, Power Rangers gets a full DVD release when the rights get away from Disney. All Marvel animation has seen release overseas where Disney didn't have control.
I refuse to believe that all of these other companies are dumb with Disney being the only smart company in the room
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Unlikely through an official release, though.
I think most of us investigated this show already either on youtube or wiki, but thanks anyway.
I'm quite shocked that they haven't released the Aladdin, Little Mermaid, and Timon & Bumbaa TV series on DVD. I used to love them when I was a kid, and I would like to watch them again someday, just for nostalgia's sake if nothing else.
I just looked up Atlantis on wikipeida and it links to an article from Animation Magazine's website which says that it is due to come out on Blu-Ray later this year. The same article also said Treasure Planet came out on Blu-Ray July 3. I just checked Amazon, and here's their page for Treasure Planet's 10th Anniversary BR release.
Ian Keldon
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Why? There is a valid reason (given IN the pilot) why they need young people to form this crew.
The premise was interesting, the FX (for that day) were good, and the actors were more than acceptable.
Ian Keldon
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Hardly.
Ian Keldon
Fleet Captain
Disney is such a schizophrenic company anyways it's unreal.
And here I was thinking the internet had thrown me enough obscenely obscure curveballs with Earth 2 and Quark and Space Cases; I've really never heard of this before this thread. Reminds me of The Black Hole for obvious reasons...
Which is interesting because Song of the South was legally available over here. I had a VHS of it as a kid, as I did pretty much every other Disney film.
Awesome find! Thank you!
I think most of us investigated this show already either on youtube or wiki, but thanks anyway.
Actually, the Youtube page says that it's an unlisted video. Unless you have the link to it, you can't find it. So searching on youtube won't produce it.
It's always good to clarify something in-thread for those who haven't gone looking. And I couldn't let people miss that great intro.I think most of us investigated this show already either on youtube or wiki, but thanks anyway.
As for an official release... With shows and movies getting new lives on disc, the trend could hit Earth Star Voyager eventually. Or maybe it'll be made available as a download as you suggested. That's even more likely. Things change and develop. As long as the masters haven't been destroyed, anything can happen even if it takes years or decades.
A nice sentiment, but utterly irrelevant in this case.
Just watched the title clip at last. Wow, I remember having that Lalo Schifrin theme music stuck in my head for some time after watching the miniseries when it originally aired (I think they used it pretty extensively throughout the program), and now I've got it stuck there again.
If the show had gone to series, I wonder what kind of stories they would have done. The ship was travelling at sub light speeds toward a planet that was only a few light years away. There's not a lot out there, so what could they have done from week to week? The pilot had the crew visit a habitable outpost that might have been a terraformed moon or asteroid, I don't remember, so I suppose they could have had more of those for a while. I could also see them adding a mutant threat similar to the Reavers on Firefly to pad the show. And what about an end point? Given the duration of the mission, they wouldn't have had one within the series' run without some sort of deus ex machina. Then again, this was the 80s, so I don't think an end point was as big a consideration as building something they could milk for a while.
^Right. Back then, the goals of TV heroes were just excuses to put them on open-ended journeys and bring them into the crises-of-the-week.
I don't remember much about the show, but I think there were some internal conflicts established among the crew, and I imagine the focus would've been mainly on those, or on technical problems with the ship, or the like. They might've had the occasional aliens show up once they got desperate for ideas.
I don't remember much about the show, but I think there were some internal conflicts established among the crew, and I imagine the focus would've been mainly on those, or on technical problems with the ship, or the like. They might've had the occasional aliens show up once they got desperate for ideas.
