^Some of those postcard images are good, but some seem like the artist knew nothing but the title or a brief plot summary.
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Got the Blu-Ray with the NX-326!
The movie was in the cinemas 0.5 years ago. It is a shame that models only become available now (outside the USA). There's loads of merchandise and toys when Star Wars comes out, and we don't even have a proper model of the Narada (other than the Hot Wheels attempt) or Scimitar. We only get bobble heads.
What is wrong with Star Trek?
The movie was in the cinemas 0.5 years ago. It is a shame that models only become available now (outside the USA). There's loads of merchandise and toys when Star Wars comes out, and we don't even have a proper model of the Narada (other than the Hot Wheels attempt) or Scimitar. We only get bobble heads.
What is wrong with Star Trek?
Arriving Down Under this week:
Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr
"Star Trek: New Visions: The Hidden Face" (issue #13)
"Star Trek: New Visions" omnibus Volume 4
"Star Trek: The Original Series: Adult Colouring Book"
"Star Trek: The Next Generation: Adult Colouring Book"!
Trek author Andy Mangels is a writer of the new "Wonder Woman '77"/"The Bionic Woman" crossover comics.
Trek stuff by Ian McLean, on Flickr
"Star Trek: New Visions: The Hidden Face" (issue #13)
"Star Trek: New Visions" omnibus Volume 4
"Star Trek: The Original Series: Adult Colouring Book"
"Star Trek: The Next Generation: Adult Colouring Book"!
Trek author Andy Mangels is a writer of the new "Wonder Woman '77"/"The Bionic Woman" crossover comics.
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Tonight's Trek haul by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Above: "Star Trek: Boldly Go" #3 from IDW, "The Roddenberry Vault" Blu-Ray (3 discs, including unseen TOS footage!) and the "50th Anniversary" rarities CDs (4 discs) including Filmation's TAS soundtrack!
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Just picked up "The Face Of The Unknown.
Recent Trek by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Above: Issue #1 of the second "Star Trek"/"Green Lantern" crossover comic mini-series, "Stranger Worlds", from IDW; Issue #59 of "Star Trek Magazine"; and Christopher L Bennett's new TOS novel, "The Face of the Unknown". These are accompanied by the tragically ironic "Pop!" figure, "Chekov in Survival Suit".
WRT merchandising, I've wondered that for years. Star Wars clearly has their sh*t together in that regard.
Supply and demand. There are simply more "Star Wars" fans, across a much wider demographic, which includes young children, than there are "Star Trek" collectors.
The Trek novels are regularly on the best-seller lists, but the two times action figures found success were the original Megos (when TAS was airing in children's viewing times on Saturday mornings, and TOS repeats were stripped daily in prime time), and the first few waves of TNG figures from Playmates (when TNG was the #1 first-run hour drama in prime time syndication).
Not so sure that the Trek merchandise needs to be more aggressive when no young kids are being attracted to new Trek, and the last three TV series have aired so late at night. The Bad Robot movies (and IDW tie-ins) seem to be aimed at trendy young adults and nostalgic older fans, not small children.
I would disagree with that. Sure "Star Wars" has had it's occasional TV cartoon, but they were never really big or lasted for long. But I still remember in the 90's, prior to Episode One being made, there were still toys, cereal and video games being made that were targeted at kids that still kept Wars on the fore front.
But with Trek, the last series that seemed to be promoted towards kids was DS9, were it was sponsored by Shreddies cereal and it had a game on both the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis (the two big game consoles in the 1993-95 era that many kids had or knew of someone who did), plus the toys were available in the big box stores like Wal-Mart, Sears and K-Mart. Ds9 even had a kids novel series. Whereas nowadays, even for Star Trek Beyond" there was very little to attract kids.
I was under the impression that DS9 sank later and later in TV schedules in the USA as the series progressed. That it started out in prime time and was even dropped from some syndicated channels in its seventh year?
Here in Oz, DS9 was airing after 10.30 at night, and poor ol' ENT ended up after midnight.
Since it was syndicated, there wasn't anything as regular as that going on. When and whether it was shown depended on the market. Here in Cincinnati, IIRC, the later seasons weren't shown at all locally, and I had to watch the static-laden signal from a Dayton station 50 miles away. There were many episodes of DS9 that I didn't see clearly until years after the fact in syndication.
Yep. The final seasons didn't air at all on WXIX, had to pull in the signal from WRGT-45 in Dayton.
We moved from a couple hours outside of Chicago to about half an hour outside of Phoenix part way through DS9's run, and the later seasons after we moved aired pretty consistently at a reasonable time. I don't remember exactly when it aired in Phoenix, but I know it was on one of the local non-network stations on the weekends either in the late afternoon or evening.
I remember that in the 1993-1995 era, CHRO airedTNG & DS9, but after Season 3 lost DS9 and their plans to air Voyager (which I even have on tape one of the station hosts telling people not to worry, but CHRO would have Star Trek Voyager in January 1995, even though Voyager would not begin to air on the channel until the summer of 1998 when they started with reruns of Season 4, and then the started with Season 5 in the fall of 1998 --- of course they held "Dark Frontier" back until November of 1999, so I tend to think of DF being a Season 6 episode rather than a Season 5 episode; Voyager would air Saturday's at 8 p.m. until August 2000, September 2000 moved Voyager to 5 p.m. on a Monday to Friday schedule for reruns of Seasons 1-6, with Season 7 not airing till around Christmas 2001, and Voyager stayed there till about 2005) didn't materialize till after the station had dropped its network affiliation and changed ownership. So I remember that a few of us at the time were wondering if, the reason why CHRO lost DS9 and didn't air Voyager till years later, was because of financial reasons. (They were also airing a number of other High-Profile series at the time such as Babylon 5, Lonesome Dove, Seaquest DSV, Home Improvement and Lois & Clark The New Adventures of Superman.)
But I remember TNG aired at the time from 7-8 Mon-Fri, and 7:30-8:30 on Saturday. DS9 aired Monday and then Thursday's at 9:30 or 10 p.m.
But I remember that when we moved in the summer of 1996 and got cable, for a few months we got WUHF FOX Rochester, and WUHF every Saturday would air from 2 p.m. to 5p.m. a 3-hour block where they would re-run TNG, then air the newest DS9 and Voyager back-to-back.
So the argument that DS9 and Voyager were not marketed towards kids in their airings is extremely weak.
Enterprise on the other hand had terrible marketing. I remember that CITY-TV in Toronto had it and "A"-Channel out of Edmonton, and SPACE , but otherwise the majority of markets in Canada had no access to Enterprise unless they subscribed to the packages that had those channels (and in my area, SPACE was the only channel on my local cable service that offered Enterprise, while A was satelite only, and then CITY was available on the cable service in Ottawa, so occasionally I would have my uncle and aunt tape to VHS from CITY 6 or 8 episodes). So forget what time Enterprise was scheduled at, whether it was 4 p.m. On Saturday afternoon or 1:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. Enterprise just wasn't available to the majority of people until it hit DVD.
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Got the new Encyclopaedia for Christmas. Very nicely presented.
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