Pluto TV Celebrates William Shatner’s Birthday With Star Trek Takeover Including All The Movies Streaming Free
https://trekmovie.com/2026/03/20/pluto-celebrates-william-shatners-birthday-with-star-trek-takeover-including-all-the-movies-streaming-free/
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Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 185d
The updated directors cut of TMP really improves that movie. It remains my favorite Trek film, with ST II: WoK a close second.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 2 pts · 184d
By updated you mean the one that was released on DVD all those years ago or is there a new version? Either way, I completely agree that the Director cut is very nice.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
There's a new 4k Blueray that has extensive effects and scene updates.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 1 pts · 184d
The dvd has updated graphics, I have the 4k copies, but I didn't get the $90 motion picture one.. let me review my copy and see what's up. Thanks 👍
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d
This explains it:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture_(4K_Ultra_HD)
CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 1 pts · 182d
I'm still slightly confused, but it sounds like the director edition is the same from the dvd release, which was well before 2010, but the special extra long version is new. I think...
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website · 4 pts · 185d
This doesn’t seem to be offered in Canada.
The ‘Pluto Spotlight’ still seems to be on Academy Award Winners.
I see the regular TOS all day channel offered, but the movies aren’t featured in the movie channels.
In the ‘On Demand’ offerings, there’s a ‘60 years of Star Trek’ that offers TOS, TNG & Voyager as well as some documentaries as usual.
In fact, it seems that none of the movies are available on PlutoTV in Canada.
kieron115@startrek.website · 4 pts · 185d
dang, that sucks. pluto is owned by Paramount Skydance so i'm not sure why they wouldn't be able to offer it in canada.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 185d
Pluto still needs to pay Paramount for the content.
kieron115@startrek.website · 2 pts · 185d
It's wholly owned and operated by Paramount Skydance. I'm sure they have to "pay" the parent company for tax reasons and stuff but why would that be an issue here? The content rights are all owned by the same company that owns Pluto TV. Maybe in Canda they aren't offering it because they operate in partnership with Corus Entertainment?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 185d
Pluto Canada will have a content budget. It must pay the full market rates. The rights may also have been sold to another broadcaster for Canada.
kieron115@startrek.website · 1 pts · 185d
well then i'll repeat what i said earlier. dang that sucks =(
th_in_gs@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 181d
Free with ads, right?
altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 184d
The Pluto app has a bunch of trackers by the way. Remove it.