The voyage begins. Apple has added Star Trek: The Original Series to their iTunes Store.
The year is 2264, 201 years after man first traveled faster than the speed of light, and 113 years after the first voyage of the Enterprise NX-01, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew set forth in the constitution-class USS Enterprise.
So far, only season one’s 29 episodes are available. Each episode is priced at iTunes Store’s standard $1.99 per episode.
The entire season one is available for $56.99 (you’ll save 72-cents there, buddy!)
Find Star Trek: The Original Series via iTunes Store here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Adam W.” for the heads up.]
Well, beam me up slappy!
This is a good step forward, but:
1) let’s see some of this stuff outside the US (please come to Canada!)
2) the full-season price should be lower. Guess it’s hard to please everyone, so may as well make money in the process.
I prefer Star Wars
Why does my breath smell like… you know.
Kirk “Alright, men. Set phasers on Uhura, I meand stunning-er stun.”
Bones “Dammit, Jim, get your knockers off her mind. I mean-Wait.”
Spock “Gentlemen, that was shockingly nipple.”
Schweet! Can B5 be far behind?
this price sort of stinks. You can get all three seasons of the original series on DVD for $110.86 at Barnes & Noble:
http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?ean=97360553871
Why I think this is great…and I might have indulged a bit of my inner geek if the price was right…but for less than best quality and without the ability to burn to a DVD…I’ll pass. I’ll just buy the DVDs and use handbrake if I want to watch it on my video iPod (which I don’t have yet)
Great. 5,000 years of technological advancement so people in the 21st Century can watch and drool over mid-20th Century dreams of what 23rd Century life might be like. Great. Just great. I can hardly contain my enthusiasm. Oooh, like, I’m shivering.
Uhra “Captain, I’m recieving a mating call from the bridge”
Jim “Open all frequently, er frequencies”
Scotty “Captain, are ya givin er all yew gite?”
Jim “Ahead, full thrusting”
Sulu “I’ll take some of that!”
Bones “Bones?”
Spock “WTF?”
The original Star Trek rocks! No, I’m not a Trekkie, but this series was FUN! The more recent versions are just B-O-R-I-N-G.
Luckily for Apple most Americans can’t add otherwise nobody would buy this shit on iTunes.
That’s probably why TV shows aren’t available elsewhere, cos everyone would work out it makes more sense to buy the friggin DVD, rip it to whatever you want.
Are they the new re-mastered versions with CGI rendered starships and planets?
@ Thomas
What!!!!!!!!!!!
Y’all’s missin’ the point.
ITMS better get a subscription (at least video) service going soon. People are just not going to buy a lot of this video. But a LOT of people WILL pay a monthly subscription for all this content. Apple will be making a big mistake to introduce “the iTV” and no subscription video (Netflix/cable replacement) service along with it!
“iTV” and the “iPhone” and $20 month? They’ll have a steady stream of “lifelong” income.
The point everyone seems to be missing is that they are starting to add older content. There was a bunch of stuff from the ’50s that was quite good. I’m anxious to see that added to iTunes.
> Are they the new re-mastered versions with CGI rendered starships and planets?
These would have to be original versions, since the “Star Trek Remastered” episodes are not being redone in series sequence, so they could not possibly have ALL the first season’s episodes to sell on iTunes.
HEY HEY!!
I live in Belgium, for crying out loud! 🙁
Just downloaded Arena. It’s the enhanced version. I haven’t checked one of the episodes that hasn’t been enhanced yet.
Sigh. Each episode was over 50 minutes long. By comparison, the new Battlestar Galactica is under 44 minutes. That’s 6+ more minutes of commercials. No wonder everyone is moving to DVRs. I can’t stand it anymore.
ST:TNG is what I’d love to see. But… I’ve put off all movie purchases until HD versions come out.
My mother was a trekkie — well, not the obsessive kook type, but the kind who loved reading sci-fi, but couldn’t stand the usual sci-fi crap dished out on TV during the 1960s — Twilight Zone excluded.
As for Apple, the more complete the iTunes library, the stronger Apple becomes as a competitor. This is good.
the enhanced versions rule. the fx aren’t too obtrusive, but they make the show waaaay better. way to go apple/paramount!
“Me” …….you are wright!!! Not only for the reasons you stated but for the added storage space on my network.
Unfortunately, City on the Edge of Forever is not the enhanced version.
However, Balance of Terror, The Menagerie Pt 1 & 2, Arena, Space Seed, The Corbomite Maneuver are enhanced. Those are the ones I downloaded so far.
Star Trek=Mac
Star Wars=PC