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Star Trek Deep Space Nine

For those of us who where waiting for DS9 to return:

Starting 4/5 on SPKE (DirecTV Channel 325) there is a massive lineup - I hope you have your Tivo's suped up for this one

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There was another thread about this a few days ago but anyways it looks like 9 shows every day for the first week. I wish they didn't do it that way I don't really have 45 hours to spare the first week and I can't give up the rest of my schedule to just watch this all day Also the 8:00 PM showing will conflict with some other season passes I have. I really wanted to see the whole season since I have seen all or most of TNG and I watched the whole season of Voyager last year minus the first two episodes, go figure . I have only ever seen a maybe a dozen DS9 episodes in random order so it would be cool to see it all in order. I have an HD DirevTiVo coming the week after that will hold 200 hours of SD but it's going to be a week to late

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SpikeTV seems to like having all day marathons lately.

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What do you expect. It's the first TV network for (obsessive compulsive) men. But seriously, this isn't really a new thing. I remember several years ago as TNN, they used to have Star Trek: The Next Generation marathons all the time (it seemed like they did it one whole weekend about every month or two).

As for me, I'm dying to see the whole series again. I started watching it about season 3, and the first few seasons I've seen piecemeal. DS9 is severely underrated, and I was beginning to fear that nobody was ever going to rerun it. However, like others, I don't have that much TiVo space (nor that much time on my hands in one week), so I'm going to have to resort to...gasp...the VCR.

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Ewwww you still have one of those things!?!?!

-Joe

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Wouldn't it just be easier to order the discs from Netflix and watch them commercial-free and on your own time?

According to this review:

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/revie...rtrekds9s1.html

You even get Dolby Digital 5.1, plus lots of extras on the discs that you wouldn't get from the TV broadcast.

Once you experience the convenience of watching when you want to plus the advantages of DVD's, TV broadcasts of something that's available via Netflix are much less exciting.

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Originally posted by jrock
There was another thread about this a few days ago but anyways it looks like 9 shows every day for the first week. I wish they didn't do it that way I don't really have 45 hours to spare the first week and I can't give up the rest of my schedule to just watch this all day Also the 8:00 PM showing will conflict with some other season passes I have. I really wanted to see the whole season since I have seen all or most of TNG and I watched the whole season of Voyager last year minus the first two episodes, go figure . I have only ever seen a maybe a dozen DS9 episodes in random order so it would be cool to see it all in order. I have an HD DirevTiVo coming the week after that will hold 200 hours of SD but it's going to be a week to late

-Joe

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I have a similar complaint. I've probably seen more than half of the DS9 shows, but far less than TNG or Voyager. I'm hoping I can see the ones I haven't seen, but with that many shows that fast, something will probably get lost.

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I do have Netflix and was considering it over the past year but there's always other things I want more. I get 3 movies a week now as it is and still have a huge 100 movie queue that keeps growing.

-Joe

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You're joking, right? A ST series without at least 3 runs of syndication? I think this contract was signed years ago.

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and I was beginning to fear that nobody was ever going to rerun it.

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No, I wasn't joking. DS9 was rerun late at night (midnight or 1AM) while new episodes were still coming out. Once the series wrapped up, not long after that the reruns stopped. Since then, I haven't seen anyone pick it up. I've seen TNG rerun to DEATH!!! I've seen Voyager reruns, I've even seen the original series several times, but never DS9.

Regarding Netflix, I don't subscribe to it. It's not worth the money to me.

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The problem with these DS9 reruns is that they never complete the series. I've tried twice now to see all the episodes. As in the upcoming SpikeTV instance (do a View Upcoming on an episode), they run about two years worth of shows and then start back at the beginning again.

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When DS9 went off the air, I read that it wasn't going in to syndication until 2004. Here we are.

I just deleted about forty hours worth of Twilight Zone episodes I hadn't watched from the July 4th TNN marathon last year (TNN is now Spike of course) to make room for the onslaught of upcoming DS9 episodes.

I used to have every episode on video tape until my basement flooded. I did buy season four on DVD, but at $100 a season, I'm not in a hurry to buy all of them.

I like Netflix. At about seven DVDs per season and seven seasons, you'd need to rent almost fifty discs to see them all.

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All I want is the 2 hour series finale which we missed. ("What you leave behind" I believe.) Does Spike have accurate guide data?

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I too love DS9 and have been waiting for ever for somebody to pick it up for sindication. There is actually enough hours of star trek out there to have an all star trek channel. wouldn't that be cool. I went to Spike Tv's website and here is what it said:
Catch the Star Trek: DS9 marathon coming to Spike TV on April 5 from Noon to 9 p.m. (ET/PT) all week long! Then beginning on April 12, watch Star Trek: DS9 every weeknight at 7 p.m. (ET/PT).

So hopefully we don't have to record every episode of the marathon but catch it like anything else with a SP. Either way it makes me want a DVD recorder.

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1. after the weeklong marathon, spike tv goes back to the beginning and runs the eps in order at 7 p.m. every night.

2. if i set a season pass, will it tape them in order? How will i know what order they're supposed to be in?

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1. after the weeklong marathon, spike tv goes back to the beginning and runs the eps in order at 7 p.m. every night.

2. if i set a season pass, will it tape them in order? How will i know what order they're supposed to be in?

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2. if i set a season pass, will it tape them in order? How will i know what order they're supposed to be in? [/B][/QUOTE]

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/vi...odes/index.html

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For those who never knew:

What was at the time TNN signed an exclusive deal with Paramount for the then three series of ST:TNG, STS9, and ST:VOY. The Next Generation was to air first, which it did. Deep Space 9 was to start airing two years later (Today) followed by Voyager two years after that (two years from now).

TNN (now called Spike) gained exclusive broadcast rights for all three of the series for the periods starting with their initial airing on TNN (Spike). Once they start airing on TNN (Spike), they will no longer be aired anywhere else. This was to allow for the syndication contracts of the other series to run their course.

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I did some checking, and if the guide data is correct it looks like they are showing all of season 1, all of season 2 with the exception of "Tribunal" and the first episode of season 3 (2 part series).

Not a bad start.... I'd like to know why they skipped over that one episode though.

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Hmm I think I will just do what someone else suggested, rent it from Netflix and get the nice DVD quality and special features. There won't be any skipped episodes or marathons to keep up with there.

-Joe

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