I am working my way through the just releases Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 2 on Blu-ray and there are 2 bonus Tribble related episodes on one of the discs. Should they get cast and crew data profiled or not?

If they are bonus material then no... The rule states no cast/crew for bonus material....

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Do not list actors and crew who appear only in special features, or whose scenes were deleted from the main feature, even if they appear in special features.

I recently had this with Bones Season 3 which included the first few episodes of Season 4 as a bonus.

The parent (which was copied from a US release) contained the bonus episodes....they were even numbered (incorrectly) as part of season 3.

When I created the child profiles I correctly listed these episodes as bonus episodes on their own bonus disc.

Quoting DJ Doena:

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@Pantheon: I've heard that these episodes will not be part of the regular season 4 box and thus are profiled nowhere. That doesn't seem right to me, even if it contradicts my above statement.

I've run into that same dilemma on occasion, too: generally, I certainly don't profile "bonus episodes", but if it's literally the only place a certain episode is available, then it gets a lot harder to ignore it.

Quoting Woola:

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It doesn't make it hard at all, Tim, all you have to do is FOLLOW the Rules. Yiou don't have the right to ignore the Rules. You have the right to do whatever you wish to do LOCALLY.

As do you! 

Maybe I am thinking about this the wrong way, but shouldn't bonus episodes be treated the same way we treat bonus feature films?

Edit: I see gardibolt had the same thought as I did...just a minute sooner. 

I realize this concerns bonus features and we don't normally profile bonus features by the rules, I think an exception could be made in the case of bonus "episodes."  Why do we profile episodes anyway, if not to show episodes where particular actors appear.  We all seem to be concerned about linking actors (crewmembers) in our databases -- so why would we want to ignore appearances in programs which we have merely because they are included as "bonus."

I'd like to know if I have an appearance by John Doe in an episode I can watch -- and I'm not that picky that it NOT be in a bonus feature on some other disc.

I would like to see an exception for TV Series episodes as I tend to keep that info myself locally. But what we need is for Ken to ok the exception... and then hopefully get it into the rules. I wouldn't just do it without an ok from Ken though.

NOTE: I know no one said that we should (do without Ken's ok) I just wanted to be completely clear before we started to see people try it.