Ezri Dax was fiiiiiiiine.
― smashing aspirant (milo z), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Meantime:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/buzz-log-r2-d2-star-trek.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh my gosh guys Riker drawings. Kate Beaton's are cracking me up:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kts84l4t5a1qzfxk0o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1259692039&Signature=cxSZhqHXxvae911RzR0arJgokwY%3D
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 30 November 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Edward Gorey's Star Trek
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 30 November 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome
― kingfish, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Ryan North is clearly not a great draftsman but his "Season One" Riker is spot on
http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kts5bidlxP1qzfxk0o1_400.jpg
― George Mucus (ledge), Monday, 30 November 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes – that jaw. What a great drawing.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 30 November 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Uhura's the only lonely one iirc
But what about this classic moment:
http://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/nakedtime/sulu_uhrua.jpg
Swashbuckling Sulu: I'll protect you, fair maiden!Uhuru: Sorry...neither!
Best line ever!
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 30 November 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
What if Star Trek was an ITC production in the mid-70s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhRGqT31WZg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=414TmP12WAU
― poster x (ledge), Monday, 21 December 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Turns out the story about Star Trek showing the first kiss between a black and white actor on American television isn't true after all... Nancy Sinatra had already kissed Sammy Davis Jr. on TV in 1967, a year before "Plato's Stepchildren" aired:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movin%27_With_Nancy
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 December 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think Sammy-Nancy was a "hot" kiss
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 December 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy/status/12536477742
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Crazy Nimoy! Zoe Saldana didn't exist even on a cellular level back then.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
1973 star trek convention:
http://www.youtube.com/user/beyondspock
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 5 March 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
One-upping that:
http://www.badassdigest.com/2011/05/08/from-the-pre-history-of-fandom-1971-star-trek-fan-film
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 May 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
And then of course:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20061024-71.html
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 May 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
i can't even believe this question was ever asked. anyone who doesn't like Star Trek, even in a secret way, can fuck off and die.
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
i remember having the trek/wars argument when i was in school and saying star wars. i was so fucking wrong. wrath of khan and search for spock alone > star wars.
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
absolutely.
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
star wars has become such a joyless industry to me
― no slouch of a snipster (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
well so did ST there until the reboot.
― akm, Monday, 9 May 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Enterprise had its moments, i thought.
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but I could just ignore things like Enterprise (space Bush!) - the OST DVDs were not replaced/scarred with CGI additions, etc.
― no slouch of a snipster (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
right. TNG is still my fave, but that's because i grew up with it.
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Star Trek just seems like so much more of a flexible and accomodating sort of universe to explore and work with - Star Wars has become so claustrophobic/autistic, always treading over the same water, endlessly filling in and fiddling with details of a single, heavily revered story arc, the self-referentialism is suffocating.
― no slouch of a snipster (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
true. i can't imagine star wars ever getting rebooted with Simon Pegg as Han Solo. Although I would prefer that to the prequel movies.
― akm, Monday, 9 May 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
the OST DVDs were not replaced/scarred with CGI additions, etc
Actually, didn't they do exactly this? I remember Paramount came out with new CGI for the old episodes a couple years ago. Maybe the DVDs have both versions?
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 9 May 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I've seen the eps with added CGI late night on tv a few times. from what I've seen, it was done fairly tastefully.
the blu-ray discs allow you to pick either version.
― original bgm, Monday, 9 May 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
dig this shot:
http://www.marcwade.com/startrek/remastered/tos-050/planetscape/Ep50_planetscape.jpg
of course, the crummy effects are half the fun, so I opt for my old dvds if I have the option.
― original bgm, Monday, 9 May 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:20 (2 hours ago)
^
― zingstreet (latebloomer), Monday, 9 May 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
my point was you can still get the actual aired versions of the OST episodes - they are readily available.
― no slouch of a snipster (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 May 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
we didn't talk about the recent *amazing* film much on here. was there a seperate thread devoted to it?
― piscesx, Monday, 9 May 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
aha Young Kirk n Spock + Lost = new Star Trek movie
God that movie was great.
― piscesx, Monday, 9 May 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
it was good. in order to be great it would have needed a better villain.
― no slouch of a snipster (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
it was better than it had any reason to be. as in, it was like the third or fourth best star trek movie and there are like,, 200 of them.
― akm, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
paramount showed way more respect to the original episodes with those CGI updates than lucas did to his own films -- all the ones i've seen have been tasteful and non-distracting.
any consensus on what the best TNG seasons are? i kind of want to watch it again but don't really want to slog through those early episodes again.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
my favorite stuff is actually fairly early on - the arc with the Federation conspiracy/cosmic earwig infestation, Q's stories. the Data/Lore stuff is pretty good. Seems like reruns are on all the time, but it's always the boring "office in space" type shit. series was definitely on for too long.
― Wrinkles (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
hmm.. i like the first four the best, for the same sorts of reasons.
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
the arc with the Federation conspiracy/cosmic earwig infestation
shit yeah
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
^ should run that every halloween
lol I guess that was only 2 episodes at the end of season 1
― Wrinkles (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
"it was like the third or fourth best star trek movie and there are like,, 200 of them."
if you're going by star trek parody movies that were surprisingly better than most star trek movies, there's lots! Galaxy Quest, Futurama, hm.. well I guess that's it.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, so bummed that they never went back to it. strange in that it's the only star trek storyline i know of where you get the idea that the federation is a complex, political and morally questionable organization. stealth smack down on roddenberry's midcentury utopian idealism.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
x-post there
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, those eps were dope. was also super-disappointed that they never really touched on the conspiracy stuff again.
season 3/4 was the sweet spot for me iirc.
also always have time for the crystalline entity.
― original bgm, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
Seasons 3-5 are TNG at its best IMO. I do agree it went on for too long though - the last season was extremely bland (and often plain bad).
The Conspiracy bugs should definitely have made a comeback, but producers decided not to, simply because fans thought it too icky. The "Section 31" episodes of DS9 did a pretty similar thing for the Federation.
― Duane Barry, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
they did bring the conspiracy back, kind of. the borg were originally supposed to be those space maggots
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
thanks, alan
― always have time for the crystalline entity (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link