I definitely feel the set I have (2017) is better. It embossed and season 7 is separate so the disks are not piled on top of eachother. As I’ve been watching ds9 on the 2020 set I completely agree with your complaints. I think the 2017 is much better than the 2020 sets, although I understand the 2020’s are less expensive. All the special features are fantastic and a treat to watch after a seasonal watch. The 2017 set has the Borg Queen in the middle of the cardboard which is a nice touch. One thing I like is that the season 7 set has a picture of the the entire cast of the show inside the dvd set. I agree the synopsis are pretty good and the back designs are gorgeous. The inside of mine has all the special features listed so you can get to what episode you want. Overall, I hope someday you can get the 2017, but I’m glad you get the chance to watch them.
The 2020 releases are definitely the budget releases. I kinda want to get at least one set of the original DVD release of Voyager and do a video on that. I'd get that whole collection except I think the entire collection is pretty 💲.
Man I have had it with these cases treating the discs like fucking nachoes. I have a better idea, probably cheaper too so the companies will love this as well, and it'll be easy enough to handle that you won't feel like you're gonna snap or scratch up a disc. You ready? Make a box set with 2 CD Spindles. One with all the discs on it, one with no discs, that way, there's WAY less plastic, less weight=cheaper production and shipping costs and "eco-friendly" if that's the company's excuse of choice, and on the user's end, the spindle is a blessing, it basically has a plastic pike through the center hole of all the discs and a cover, preventing ANY lose discs from shipping, and the empty one for feeding discs onto as you go for the disc you want to use, and you can just funnel them between the two, and this also has the added bonus of being somewhat of a book mark of where you are in a series. There. Done, I've solved the fucking problem. The problem with this? I'm in no position of power to implement this 218 IQ move. Well, shit.
This was such a beautiful Star Trek review ..it brought 7 of 9 tears to my eyes! May she live long and prosper! Whats good is that the discs have a front side grey side!...the first release sets are very scratchable front and back and hated that!
I would like you to review The Killing Game with the Hirogen and the holographic Nazis. When you get the time of course. 😅 It was interesting to see the set pieces and attitudes of the time who thought they were in that role and also the attitudes of those "awakening" out of the program. Katherine was very sauve, charismatic and "dapper", if the word can be applied to a lady. 😅
I've only been through Voyager once, but I remember not being all that thrilled with the Hirogen. Still, people really seem to like The Killing Game, so I'll have to give it another chance.
@@JanelleWaz I admit the Hirogen were not a fav of mine either. They seemed to be the perfect hunters, with powerful ships and powerful armour and weapons. I do believe they have some honour though, as they let Voyager go, when 7 of 9 beams the wounded Species 8472 off the ship, the Hirogen stop following it. And one of them was played by Tony Todd, so that is a plus. 😃 I just like the WW2 atmosphere of The Killing Game. Plus we spoke of the Marquis before. It was interesting how in the holodeck the crew were actively resisting in their own ways against the Nazis and then of course the Americans come, which was Tom Paris and Commander Chakotay and Harry Kim was still in the real world trying to resist the Hirogen, while still keeping Voyager basically a holoship throughout. The doctor warning the Hirogen too many injuries to the crew and even he could not save them. Which leads into a later episode of the holograms or holotech Voyager supplies them with, some how rebel and then become unstoppable and start killing all the Hirogen.
Grey discs?!? At least they could have given each season its own color, so you could tell them apart more easily. I really don't like stacked discs! They are a pain to manage. Example:The A-Team set came stacked, but the seasons were different colors. Great review!
Don't know if you knew this, but the gray throughout the discs on the TNG, DS9 and Voyager releases is not just a Trek thing-- it's a CBS thing (CBS/Paramount and CBS Home Entertainment). What I mean by that is that this is how CBS has packaged all their all-in-one (complete series) releases, and many of their regular seasonal releases as well. I have quite a few all-in-ones from CBS (like Have Gun Will Travel, The Untouchables, Hogan's Heroes, The Streets of San Francisco and the original ABC Anderson MacGyver, all with all-gray discs) and a good many individual seasonals (the volumes of Perry Mason, and seasons 1-8 [also season 12] of the original Jack Lord Hawaii Five-O); the gray on those seasonals started quite early in the runs (season four w/Five-O, and season three with Perry Mason [the first three on the former, and the first two on the latter, had quite colorful labels; when I saw the gray on future ones, I knew that CBS was going in a far different direction than I was accustomed to]).
CBS is getting lazy. I know disk design isn't much, but there's something about a nice disk design that can make a DVD collection feel really polished.
@@JanelleWaz Thanks for that response! I have the all-in-ones from Shout! of Hart to Hart and T.J. Hooker, and both of those have wonderful designs (images of Jonathan and Jennifer Hart on the former, and a crosshair for T.J. Hooker on the latter; both, IMO, represent those series quite well). I should say also that I have the all-in-one of original 60s NBC Trek remastered, and those discs are gray as well.
Yeah, I started leaning that way myself while putting together this, but then I thought "but it should have a green hue or something." I thought maybe it was Engineering on Voyager, but Engineering never looked that industrial (for lack of a better word).
Great review! Sadly, I don't own this set. I simply have the individual season DVD sets for Voyager seasons 1 and 2 (and on the hunt for the rest of the seasons). So, that's the ceiling of Voyager's Bridge behind Janeway on the front cover of the outer box, and a Borg ship interior behind Janeway and Seven on the back.
@@JanelleWaz Yeah, the lack of a green Hugh...I mean...hue threw me too. Yeah, that part of the ceiling is right around the command area. And of course we didn't get quite as many shots of the bridge's ceiling on Voyager as we did the Enterprise-D on TNG and the refit 1701/1701-A in the TOS movies.
Thought I would share these, not sure you or others are aware there are quite a few Star Trek audio books on RU-vid for free. For those who do not own the books or would prefer to hear them or while multitasking. These are some of my favorites that I have discovered so far.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ME-VamPG4OM.html ST: Voy - Caretaker Read by Robert Picardo, might be the abridged version. He actually is pretty good at imitating the rest of the bridge crew and it has other sound effects. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hrgg084C1lg.html ST: Voy - Mosaic Read by Kate Mulgrew, might be the abridged version. (Actually not a favorite, but I did enjoy that "Captain Janeway" read it. You may enjoy it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M1zF_lc0ceI.html ST: DS9 - Objective Bajor Not read by a Star Trek actor as far as I know, but is read in full length, over ten hours long. I actually quite enjoyed this one and showcased one of my favorite races in Star Trek in a good light, or at least an honorable one anyway.
Janelle, the disc's are Grey to match the ship's hull!! LOL! I actually enjoyed the first few seasons but after season 5 (before it but it started really bothering me at that time) the techno babble got out of hand. I quit watching but came back for the final episode, which I did enjoy. For this series, I don't know if I'd buy the box set, but like you I would have to put the disc's in a DVD/CD binder. Great video as always! PS: Seven of Nine always stands out for, um, reasons! (Insert Quagmire "Giggity!" GIF)
I do like Voyager, but I always thought it could have been a lot more than it was. There are individual season sets from the early 2000s: I run across them occasionally.
DVD packaging and manufacturing in general has become very lazy. The special features look good though...that's one plus of DVDs over streaming or electronic copies of the show. I really liked Voyager, but my favorite DVD set is the green plastic TNG set.
Also, you were criticizing how this Voyager release makes you remove the 5 discs of the first go (season) to get to the first disc of the second one-- quite a few of my all-in-ones (mostly from CBS, albeit I have one from Universal, that being Emergency!) are like that as well (on Emergency!, I have to remove the four discs of the first season, to get to the first one of the second season, same as what you're having to do here).
I think the packaging is more of a Paramount/CBS Home Video decision than anything else. Almost all of Paramount's newer complete series DVD sets are uniform with the stacked discs and grey coloring.
I agree. I own a couple of these sets, and yep: stacked disks, grey theme. I wish they'd re-release the TNG disks with the episodes listed on the disk. It's not like I would rebuy my TNG set, but for any new buyers out there, no episode titles on the disks is annoying.
@@JanelleWaz Believe it or not, at least one of my CBS all-in-ones is like that (the original Untouchables that had Robert Stack, et al.), and one of my regular seasonals is like that as well (season 4 of Jack Lord Five-O); fortunately, all future ones through the end of the latter do have the episode titles on them.
I have this release. The video quality on mine is terrible. Because of that I got the original DS9 releases and they look so much better. To top it off the pilot starts skipping 20 minutes in, not a scratch on the disc. The quality on DVDs these days is terrible.
Interesting... I haven't really noticed bad video quality on mine. I kinda want to get at least one season of the older DVDs are review them at some point to compare.
The discs should be the same as the original ones in early 2000's. Both Ds9 and Voyager got better PQ as the series went on. DS9 season 1 is pretty terrible.
2:32 - it's not the Captain Proton set, is it? all that clunky stuff looks like it fits...not sure about the thing hanging from the ceiling, though, nor why they'd choose that, since it's got nothing to do with Janeway, she was only there once I hate the way those discs are put in there, too...and what boring looking discs, the discs from the set I have (the 2004 multi-colored plastic cases), have the characters (one per season), & I'm pretty sure they have the titles on the discs; from the clips you pulled, those are the same menus & such, from the set I have (my sets do have the eps listed by disc, on the back of each season case...and each disc has its own plastic 'page') ...oh, and...first (LOL, I never get to say that!)
The Captain Proton set would be odd. I think it only appeared in a couple of episodes. It would be like putting Tosk on the DS9 box. The early 2000s sets seemed to handle disk management a lot better. I have the 2002 TNG set, and that set was amazing compared to the 2020 set (I did a review on it, and spoke very highly of it). I kinda want to get at least one of the earlier Voyager season sets and do a video on that. And congrats on being first! 😁
Was going to make a comment for the algorithm... you know, mention some trending stuff, try to get some traction for the channel. Went to YT's "Trending" page. Got confused and angry. Sorry, nothing is worth that crap. 😉
