I think at the time it was for backers and if you was late to the party there would be a general release, as far as I know it wasn’t released in uk or most of the world, just the US
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It was released in the UK, just not on physical formats.
I simply bought it in 4K on iTunes and it worked out great in terms of quality, convenience and the number of special features (which seem to match those on the Region A two-disc Shout! release).
I have the box set on DVD and regularly watch it in chronological order, once a year
Are your season boxes falling apart like mine are? Did you find something good to repackage them?
The whole thing with Zack Snyder’s Justice League getting $30 million by HBO Max to finish post-production of his cut got me thinking: Would CBS consider remastering DS9 and debuting it on CBS All Access? Perhaps start preparations for a remaster for its 30th anniversary in 2023. It may not be the kind of prestige treatment that TNG got with the blu-ray sets, but I’d settle for the streaming option and then grab the blus when they come out later down the line. It’s a different climate from where things were in 2012 when Netflix wouldn’t debut their own shows until the following year.
Sadly, I honestly can’t see CBS caring enough about DS9 to remaster it. DS9 was the bastard stepchild back in the 90’s and there’s no evidence The Powers That Be hold it in any higher regard now. I’m still a little irked that the near-apocalyptic events of DS9 (specifically the Dominion war) didn’t warrant a single mention in Picard, whereas Voyager got more of a look-in, and one of its characters in the cast. I fear DS9 will forever be swept under the carpet, even though in many ways it was the template for the newer iterations of Trek .
Where would the Dominion War logically have been added to the conversation? Where was the missed opportunity?
9/11 changed our world, I can tell you that it hasn't come up in my conversations with anybody in the past few months. Never even been mentioned on the news until today, oddly, but it's directly linked to the COVID crisis (Very sad, the man in the famous photo fleeing the cloud of smoke passed away from COVID). Important events go without mention more often than not.
Pretty much, and given this is a TV show, it's not surprising the Dominion War wouldn't ever be brought up unless something about it was relevant to the plot. Consider this: When the Cardassians were introduced in the fourth season TNG episode "The Wounded" that's when we actually found out that the Federation had been in a 19 year long bloody war that had only just ended sometime in 2366, which was around the third season, and there was never any mention of them during the first three seasons. And to be honest, that's fine by me. This reminds me of fan complaints about how introducing the Xindi in ENTERPRISE broke canon because they were never mentioned in the previous shows. The galaxy is a BIG place. I'm sure there are TOOONNNNS of things about the Trek universe that we're not remotely aware of. To suggest we should know about such things prior is to suggest that the Trek universe should merely be small and comparable to how we know our own world.
Indeed, there's no reason for the Dominion War to be mentioned in Picard - 20 years have gone by. It would be like talking about WW2 in the 1960s. It's no doubt a part of the cultural zeitgeist, but isn't going to be the subject of discussion on a daily basis, when the world had moved on to the Cold War.
The Dominion War wasn't particularly important in geopolitical terms - by the time of Picard, the main events are the Romulan supernova and the Mars Attack. It seems like the Dominion met their treaty obligations and kept to their side of the wormhole.
I would love to revisit the Cardassians in a future season. What's happened to them after the war? Are they now Federation allies, or is there still an uneasy relationship? What about the Bajorans? Plenty left to explore.
The Dominion War wasn't particularly important in geopolitical terms - by the time of Picard, the main events are the Romulan supernova and the Mars Attack. It seems like the Dominion met their treaty obligations and kept to their side of the wormhole.
I would love to revisit the Cardassians in a future season. What's happened to them after the war? Are they now Federation allies, or is there still an uneasy relationship? What about the Bajorans? Plenty left to explore.
I imagine the Cardassians sort of become an analogue of Japan post-WWII, moving forward after the devastation of the war and reconciling as a culture from inward. A society rebuilding itself to what it used to be at least pre-military takeover.
Behr never wanted the Bajorans to join the Federation, so I imagine over time they became more of a powerhouse after becoming a more stable government post-Dominion War. Having a wormhole kinda helps that. Seeing themselves as a people that can hold their own as a truly independent power, and perhaps liking the idea that the Federation needs Bajor more than Bajor needs the Federation.
Behr never wanted the Bajorans to join the Federation, so I imagine over time they became more of a powerhouse after becoming a more stable government post-Dominion War. Having a wormhole kinda helps that. Seeing themselves as a people that can hold their own as a truly independent power, and perhaps liking the idea that the Federation needs Bajor more than Bajor needs the Federation.
I'm hoping that Marc Bernardin will be able to counter Kirsten Beyer's Voyager focus in Picard season two.
He has a picture of Sisko on his office door.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9piO7IhCec/
He has a picture of Sisko on his office door.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9piO7IhCec/
I don't think it warranted a mention because it largely sets the backdrop for the conflict within Picard, in addition to the Romulan attack, the Synth attack and losses suffered by Starfleet over the years.
Even without being directly mentioned I definitely felt it.
As Ru'afo once pointed out: "The Federation is old. In the past twenty-four months, they've been challenged by every major power in the Quadrant. The Borg, the Cardassians, the Dominion. They all smell the scent of death on the Federation."
You know, PICARD gets so much flack now for how darker the stories got, and it's ironic because now DS9 gets a pass, likely just because it's been so ingrained in Trek for so long we no longer see it as the more experimental show it used to be back in the 90s. Fans have normalized DS9, so when a new show does something radical there's cries of "Gene's vision is ruined!" Like, did a lot of you guys forget that the Federation turned a blind eye to MASS GENOCIDE? Heck, even in TNG characters contemplated doing that to the Borg, and Picard only changed his mind because Hugh became an individual. Had he remained a seemingly mindless drone, it's likely Picard would have gone through with the procedure to wipe out the Borg. By "Descent", he started to regret not taking that action.
PICARD: He was in this room, Will. I could have rid the Federation of a mortal threat, and I let him go.
RIKER: Sending Hugh back to the Borg was a very risky, a very dangerous choice, but it was the moral thing to do.
PICARD: It may turn out that the moral thing to do was not the right thing to do.
I think I just heard Gene rolling in his grave after reading that. Anyone else? But seriously, that's just flat out quintessential Ron Moore dialogue.
Chabon commented some of his fellow writers told him to not reference the war. But if Beyer can reference Voyager, I think anything can be.
https://redshirtsalwaysdie.com/2020/03/02/star-trek-picards-dismissal-dominion-war/
https://redshirtsalwaysdie.com/2020/03/02/star-trek-picards-dismissal-dominion-war/
