iTunes Store is schizophrenic about Star Trek
By tunequest May 22, 2007
One can only wonder what’s up between CBS/Viacom/Paramount and Apple these days.
The first season of the original Star Trek appeared for sale at the iTunes store, only to be removed a short time later. Then, about a month after that, the first season of Enterprise showed up, only to suffer the same fate. Both those shows eventually returned to the domain of the $2 digital download and remain available.
The old adage though is that events happen in sets of three.
And thus, the third Star Trek series to find a home at the iTunes Store, Voyager, also seems to have beamed in, only to beam right back out. Voyager became available a couple weeks ago, receiving top billing on the main iTunes Store front, as well as promotion at Apple’s Livepage. However, at the moment, if you do a casual search for it, you’ll find not a single episode or mention of the series.
Whatever is going on between the two companies needs to be ironed out; this kind of teasing just isn’t healthy.
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UPDATE 6/5: A quick glance at the store shows that Voyager’s first season is once again available via $2 digital download. Curious though, if you search for it, the store says it’s a “partial season” even though all fifteen episodes are there. Anyway, check it out.
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:33 am
Sounds like a problem with the space time continuum.
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tunequest Reply:
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
perhaps it’s an effect of some kind of “temporal cold war” …shudder…
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May 24th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
A lot of us bitched and moaned on iTunes regarding the abridged nature of the Voyager episodes. These were not complete episodes Paramount sent over! Perhaps that’s the issue here?
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tunequest Reply:
May 25th, 2007 at 8:05 am
I hadn’t heard about those complaints, but if that’s the case, I’m not surprised that the show is missing.
What I do find surprising is that Apple would release the show in a compromised format to begin with.
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