Well yeah, I think just about EVERYONE except nimoy hated shatner. Guy seems insane!
― original bgm, Saturday, 23 July 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Damn, I don't think I was ready to see all the white in Avery Brooks's goatee. :(
― I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Man Grown (Leee), Saturday, 23 July 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
The Sisco ages.
― Jeff, Saturday, 23 July 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
just laughed hard at the end of "the return of the archons", when kirk talks a civilization-controlling computer into self-destructing
― SuedeHOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 July 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
Also it could have been Shatner's own book and maybe my interpretive skills were stronger as akid than I thought.
Shatner's two Trek autobios are largely comprised of his ghostwriter interviewing the other actors at length about what a dick Shatner was, and then interviewing Shatner reacting in ruminative surprise at their resentments
― Booger T. Jones (sic), Monday, 25 July 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
Whenever there's a website login checkbox for "Remember Me", I mentally hear/say Spock's "Remember" from The Wrath of Khan.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Avery Brooks, styling it up at conventions:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/AveryBrooksAtConvention_crop.jpg/524px-AveryBrooksAtConvention_crop.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
If they ever want to make another Blade movie where Blade's dad shows up (like Connery/Ford in Last Crusade), then they know who to call.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
If any of you enjoy Star Trek novels, I highly recommend the Destiny Trilogy.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 16 April 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
Two seasons of Star Trek all at once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS8OGMbj1kg
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Amazing how many of those are close ups on someone going "whuh?"
― ILX uh-huh-uh uh-huh uh-huh BEEP BOOP BOOP BEEP (snoball), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
this is like some acid flashback shit
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
In the future we will watch every television show this way.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
/banaka
whoa
(gonna treat it as a bingo card drinking game - take a shot if I get a full row/column of the crew all beaming up/down / being shaken out of their seats / Shatner being shirtless)
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
It's awesome at the end when the theme tune kicks in, just slightly out of sync, 56 times simultaneously.
― ILX uh-huh-uh uh-huh uh-huh BEEP BOOP BOOP BEEP (snoball), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
At about 2:35, in the bottom row, you see the Enterprise pass seamlessly from one pane to another!
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 27 April 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
this is amazing
― original bgm, Friday, 27 April 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
the end credits part, specifically.
also dug the pre-end credits bit where you can watch 56 corny jokes being made at once.
― original bgm, Friday, 27 April 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
like when Joan Collins' death destroys Captain Kirk?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 April 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
hah, that was actually the only example of a trek episode ending with something other than a corny joke that I could think of but I'm sure there are others
― original bgm, Friday, 27 April 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
"let's get the hell out of here"
― original bgm, Friday, 27 April 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
"forget.... forget..."
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 27 April 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
I got 3 of the photobook graphic novel things when they were around. I assume that mint copies would be worth something these days. anybody know?Though these have sat on a shelf for about 30 years so are probably a bit yellowed
― Stevolende, Friday, 27 April 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
& maybe they were very heavily mass produced, just seen the prices Amazon has for them
― Stevolende, Friday, 27 April 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
the gold key ones? i think the guide to use is overstreet in terms of what you can expect to pay for one, but i'm not sure it will reflect how much you can get for it.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 27 April 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
Fucking hell, I watched about ten minutes of the 56 episode Star Trek blipvert at full screen and I feel like I inherited Roky Erickson's brain.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 28 April 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
deleted goddamn
― poxen, Saturday, 28 April 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
So Leonard Nimoy posted this to his FB last night:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/601232_433501863336665_925751118_n.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
TOS is pretty damn classic. The others may be good but the 60's one is just so stylish and cool and fun.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
I flipped out over TOS a few years ago after HATING it as a child. I've watched every episode and still tune in every Saturday night to watch the reruns on METV (it's Memorable Entertainment Television!). I've just started season one of TNG (which I also HATED as a child) and I am loving it, too. The first season is extremely faithful to the memory of TOS, i think. I know that it will eventually become less so, though.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Oh and that picture of Spock and Kirk is something else.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
Jeff and I are making our way through TOS and it is challenging. It's just so damn sexist. But as a TNG/DS9/VOY superfan, I feel compelled to make sure I've seen all the originals, too.
― carl agatha, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Always found the sense of camaraderie in TOS rather touching. Never got madly into anything after. I'll happily watch an episode of Next Gen, but I don't love it. Sorry to get snobby, but without the original iconic characters I'd rather read a good Space Opera novel.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
Next Gen = office in space
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
it's okay and there are some very good episodes but the design/characters/pacing are all less engaging than TOS imho
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
― If There's a POLL Below, We're All Going to Vote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Putting this here in case someone hasn't seen it:
TNG Season 8@TNG_S8Plots from the unaired 8th season of Star Trek: The Next Generationhttp://twitter.com/#!/TNG_S8
― mh, Monday, 18 June 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
Always found the sense of camaraderie in TOS rather touching. Never got madly into anything after. I'll happily watch an episode of Next Gen, but I don't love it. Sorry to get snobby, but without the original iconic characters I'd rather read a good Space Opera novel.― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, June 18, 2012 8:19 PM (1 hour ago
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, June 18, 2012 8:19 PM (1 hour ago
back in the '70s david gerrold (who wrote the original 'tribbles' episode wrote something about all the things wrong -- logically, dramatically, and otherwise -- with the original series. all the way from things like 'too many episodes that end with fistfights' to 'the captain shouldn't be beaming down with the away team.' they 'fixed' all those things in TNG, which explains all those episodes where basically nothing happens and picard solves everything in the last 30 seconds by glaring indignantly at a screen.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 18 June 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
Sometimes I don't even think we are watching the same series.
― Jeff, Monday, 18 June 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
picard solves everything in the last 30 seconds by glaring indignantly at a screen.
Yes, this is awesome.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
It's how I solve most of MY life's problems.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
that foto is shit hot
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
According to that Dave Gerrold book, every episode is awful except the one that he wrote
― Stumpy Joe's Cafe (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Have Picard glare indignantly at them? Because I would pay for that problem solving service.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
Replace "David Gerrold" with "Harlan Ellison," still true!
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
My first venture onto this thread: to answer the c/d as best I can. This series has given great pleasure to more people than Pamplamoose ever will. Somehow, this does not answer the question adequately. Perhaps, if I compared it to I Dream of Jeannie things would become clearer?
― Aimless, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
The awesomeness of Gene Rodenberry making TOS exist on 60's tv for so long cancels out any qualms I have wrt to Kirk's boneriffic explorations of other lifeforms. It's the frakking bomb, and I still get a lot of joy out of revisiting old episodes. And the remastered ones they were running on TBS looked fkning cool as hell.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
Seems appropriate to post this here
http://io9.com/5919079/watch-an-animated-reinterpretation-of-the-orignal-star-trek-intro
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
TNG is as adorable with its (stilted, talky) 90s idealism as TOS is with its (imperialistic, sexist) 60s idealism; i love watching both of them as the most optimistic dreams their respective cultures could muster. but when it comes down to it, if i'm watching a tv show about spaceships i'd rather have golden-age-sf Concepts featuring a fixed set of lovable cardboard adventurers than tv writers' character development. personal choice obv.
anyway one of my favorite kirk-being-o_O moments is in the "grups" episode where he is openly flirting with a 12-year-old and yeoman rand (i think it's yeoman rand?) says something about what's he doing with that girl and spock says "THAT 'GIRL' IS OVER THREE HUNDRED YEARS OLDER THAN YOU, YEOMAN. THINK ABOUT IT."
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link