Midnite, first off, yes I do remember Ashenrider very well. He was a great contributor to the old Sci fi B-board and I always enjoyed discussing DS with him. I hope he is doing well.
Secondly, thanks for checking on that scene for me. I have just not had the time, with work, to do it, but I knew it didn't look right to me and had all the charactristics of an edit. Now the question is, why the edit? When the edit was found in the last set, we were told that it was an error made by the company that is converting the masters to digital format and that there was no intention of trying to clean up the errors in the show. Okay now an edit has been found not just once now but twice and again it is at a point where an error existed (this time technical) but it also removed part of the scene that was originally there. Yet we have been repeatedly told the DVD's will be uncut versions of the original episodes. Now, it is true that these DVD's are being taken from a different set of masters than the VHS tapes were made from. It could well be that edit exists in the masters they are using for the DVD's, which was the reason given for poor quality in one scene in volume 5 of the DVD's that clearly doesn't show up in the VHS version. However, at the time that error was found people began questioning MPI about that difference and then the next set it was the editing out of one of the most famous goofs in the show and now this edit. I will buy that two versions of master tapes may differ somewhat, but two have two scenes edited in two sets of DVD's both times at points where errors of some type existed, makes the explantion of the first one questionable and the claims them not trying to clean up the show and that the DVD's are going to be uncut versions of the series, even more questionable. I would like very much to hear what our MPI rep has to say on the subject of this edit.
Raholt