Star Trek: Abismo Espacial 9
April 23, 2021 8:46 PM Subscribe
I want to practice my Spanish by watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Please help me find it. With captions.
- Must have captions in Spanish. (English captions are a bonus.)
- I am willing to pay.
- DVDs ok. Downloading ok. Streaming ok. VHS not ok. Amazon not ok.
- If you can find a choice between Spain-Spanish and American-Spanish, I'd prefer American-Spanish.
- Must have captions in Spanish. (English captions are a bonus.)
- I am willing to pay.
- DVDs ok. Downloading ok. Streaming ok. VHS not ok. Amazon not ok.
- If you can find a choice between Spain-Spanish and American-Spanish, I'd prefer American-Spanish.
I am in Europe but I did an experiment: I set my VPN to "Mexico" and then booted up an episode of ST:DS9. Spanish was available as a subtitle choice (also as audio.) In my home country, Spanish wasn't offered (nor when I set location to USA.) If you have a VPN that works with Netflix, that seems like it could work.
posted by profreader at 4:18 AM on April 24, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by profreader at 4:18 AM on April 24, 2021 [2 favorites]
Missed the edit window but I just realized I didn't clearly say at the beginning -- ST:DS9 is on Netflix (at least it is where I am -- but it also showed up when I changed my location to Mexico.)
posted by profreader at 4:39 AM on April 24, 2021
posted by profreader at 4:39 AM on April 24, 2021
I can't guarantee these would work, but it seems like a good start:
http://www.tvsubtitles.net/subtitle-326-5-es.html
Looks like standard SRT files, so you'll need a player that understands them.
posted by kschang at 11:21 AM on April 24, 2021
http://www.tvsubtitles.net/subtitle-326-5-es.html
Looks like standard SRT files, so you'll need a player that understands them.
posted by kschang at 11:21 AM on April 24, 2021
Netflix doesn't appear to offer ST:DS9 with Spanish dubbing or captions.
posted by mmascolino at 2:05 PM on April 24, 2021
posted by mmascolino at 2:05 PM on April 24, 2021
I've been looking for the same type of thing, but for German. In Netflix, when I change my default language to German, then suddenly I find **all sorts of programs** that previously had no German subtitles available, now have German subtitles.
So that is a little trick you could try with Netflix - no VPN required.
To do this in Netflix, log into Netflix in a browser. Select the profile you want to change to your language (Spanish) (ie, click on the little icon for your profile near the upper RH corner of the screen, then "edit profile"). In your profile, "select language" is very near the top.
Once you have selected Spanish, all screens, text, messages, etc, for that profile will be Spanish.
Note that you can have a different language for each profile, so you could set one up to be your Spanish profile and another to be your English.
Now - when I do this, unfortunately I don't find any Spanish subtitles for DS9 showing up. In fact I don't see any Spanish subtitles for any Star Trek series or movies (though I didn't try every single one).
But still, it might be a useful trick for finding more Spanish-language programs, movies, subtitles, etc. even though it doesn't work for DS9.
(FYI the various language tracks for non-Netflix shows often seems to be licensed with geographic restrictions, so that is why it is so hard to get them to show up via something like a streaming service, even when they exist.)
posted by flug at 12:21 AM on April 25, 2021
So that is a little trick you could try with Netflix - no VPN required.
To do this in Netflix, log into Netflix in a browser. Select the profile you want to change to your language (Spanish) (ie, click on the little icon for your profile near the upper RH corner of the screen, then "edit profile"). In your profile, "select language" is very near the top.
Once you have selected Spanish, all screens, text, messages, etc, for that profile will be Spanish.
Note that you can have a different language for each profile, so you could set one up to be your Spanish profile and another to be your English.
Now - when I do this, unfortunately I don't find any Spanish subtitles for DS9 showing up. In fact I don't see any Spanish subtitles for any Star Trek series or movies (though I didn't try every single one).
But still, it might be a useful trick for finding more Spanish-language programs, movies, subtitles, etc. even though it doesn't work for DS9.
(FYI the various language tracks for non-Netflix shows often seems to be licensed with geographic restrictions, so that is why it is so hard to get them to show up via something like a streaming service, even when they exist.)
posted by flug at 12:21 AM on April 25, 2021
Response by poster: Netflix doesn't work for me. Got it.
Can anyone point me to a Spanish-language set of DVDs or downloads, please?
posted by aniola at 11:02 AM on April 25, 2021
Can anyone point me to a Spanish-language set of DVDs or downloads, please?
posted by aniola at 11:02 AM on April 25, 2021
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