Star Trek on Sci-Fi, with the commercials mostly muted

This Fuji sleeve has a TDK tape inside, recorded from a late-1990s Sci-Fi Channel Star Trek marathon. It has Charlie X, Where No Man Has Gone Before, The Naked Time, and The Enemy Within, then Metamorphosis with an introduction by William Shatner.

The first stretch keeps its commercials. Baked Ruffles takes a shot at Pringles. Oldsmobile puts a car on a roller coaster. H&R Block has a man going way too hard. There is Chunky Soup, Teddy Grahams, a Subaru Forester chase with Crocodile Dundee, and the Sci-Fi Shop trying to sell Star Trek collectibles and AT&T calling cards in the same breath.

Then the recorder starts muting most of the breaks. You can still see a Pontiac roller coaster ad, an animated Nestle Crunch Dracula, and a Gateway cow computer, but the sound is gone. Somebody wanted the Enterprise and had limits.

The tape was streamed across February 5, February 10, February 18, and March 29, 2026.