Does Paramount really not want to sell anything besides the Abrams movie? Looking around online, the prices on new copies of the various DVD sets hover around $50. (Except the fan collectives, which retail about $40.) Admittedly, that's only about two bucks an episode, or three for the collectives (which have far fewer episodes than a season.)
iTunes is selling the first three seasons of DS9, the run of TOS, and the first seasons each of Voyager and Enterprise for very reasonable prices - $13-$14 for seasons, and a buck or two per episode if you'd rather go a la carte. Not bad. But they aren't selling any other season of any of the above shows, and they're not selling TNG at all. I'm thinking about grabbing season 3 of DS9 because that's when Saint Ron joined the creative team... but I never got into DS9.
There's rumors around that Paramount is going to do a big re-release on TNG, do it up in a nice blu-ray edition and probably remaster the effects and so forth the way they did TOS in the past couple of years.
Oh, goody. So they'll be charging $90 for each season. Maybe I'll be able to get it on iTunes by then... but I don't much like iTunes.
Except for one season of TOS on NetFlix, I can't find any season of any of it available for streaming.
The only thing it would cost Paramount to put these things up for streaming, or to sell them on iTunes or Zune or similar, would be some server space (and they may have to convert episodes to the appropriate formats.) Have I missed something? Are hard drives getting more expensive? If the recent Bionic Woman remake can get online, why the hell can't Trek?
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