Looked at this today and it said usual price £8.99 per issue. Next Gen is first. First the movies, then the series with three episodes per disc. For the entire TV series that's 59 discs x £8.99 = £530.41p.
These box sets are floating around at approximately £35 in various stores / sites which works out at £245. They come with extra features, in much slicker packaging and take up less than half the shelf space.
The magazine is stuff reprinted from the interminable "Star Trek Fact Files" magazine (does anyone know if it ever finished?), so nothing new, or of much interest there.
The plan is to do Voyager, DS9, Classic ST and Enterprise as well.
So in about 8 years you can have complete Trek, no shelfspace and will have paid more than twice the price for the privilege.
Sad thing is I know some Trek fanboy/girl types who in Next Gen alone have all the standard DVD box sets, the "Best Of" compilations, the "TV Movies" box set (i.e. the same double episodes from the standard box sets, but spliced together as 90 minute "movies"), and the Borg Cube (all 7 DVD box sets in a cardboard box basically). These same individuals are as we speak
wetting themselves in anticipation of forking out yet more money for this incarnation of the series.
The call it being "loyal Star Trek fans". I call it having too much money, and too little common sense.
The Paramount cash cow strikes again!
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