Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

Oh yeah at the beginning of cosmos I thought they were going to sing ITS BEEN A LONNNNNG ROAAAAAD

does cosmos go into the whole klingons thing

oh god the enterprise theme song

Cosmos actually had a Mass Effect feel to me.

v curious about Tuomas reaction to BSG's later seasons

my prob with later seasons of BSG was there was too much confusion, and I couldn't get no relief

spoiler

I honestly love the yacht-rocky Enterprise theme - certainly beats Voyager and DS9

Same!

The DS9 theme song (original version), is my favorite of the entire franchise.

lol I said to Mr Veg that the Cosmos theme sounded like a mashup of DS9 and Enterprise

with a little bit of theme song from Elf thrown in :)

omgggggggggg I love the DS9 theme. Or at least from seasons 1-3. They changed it in season 4 and I don't like that one as much.

i never much liked the spinoff themes but appreciated that they tried to embed some kind of continuity within the theme songs by putting a little snippet of another trek theme inside it.
i always found it weird how the paramount fanfare at the end sounded so close to the star wars theme though.

the enterprise theme song is one of the worst things foisted on the human race, ever

I sing it at my cat when he's been a shithead

i'm cooking dog foooooooood
cause you've been a real shitheaaaad

I love the Ron Jones-era music (they fired him in the fourth season I believe). It's totally John Carpenter-esque and weird and great. The music gets pretty boring after he left.

OTM, I really dig the Ron jones sound.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/vlcsnap-00001_zps19cdcf20.png

oh god it's the Next Generation episode where Data learns about "humour" from holodeck Joe Piscopo

he does have the good grace to admit that "jokes aren't my forte" at least

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/07/star-trek-actress-lends-her-gravitas-to-film-promoting-idea-that-sun-revolves-around-earth/

well okay.

About one in four Americans believe in geocentrism, which places the Earth at the center of the universe and the sun, planets, and stars revolving around it.

Oof. I'm hoping Mulgrew didn't know what she was in for.

Her brother is a colleague of mine at work, and the impression that I get is that she's a little cuckoo.

She's very pro-life, too.

:(

Is she herself geocentric?

Maybe get time in prison affected her more than we realized.

I dunno; I think if you were just going to go all-in, voicing a documentary done by a Holocaust-denying geocentrist seems like it reaches the next level.

in unrelated news, I feel this three-dollar purchase of a John DeLancie figure found in my travels last year was worth it:

https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/554639_10151618369786596_903039504_n.jpg

So much 90s "collector"-era goodness on the packaging serves as a reminder of what we once stooped to.

EXCLUSIVE SKYBOX PLAYMATES COLLECTOR CARD so important they had to mention it twice, in case you couldn't see the actual card clearly displayed beside the figure.

ATTENTION COLLECTORS!

Toy collecting is one of the most baffling parts of fandom to me... Like, if you're taking it seriously, you never even take the toy out of its box, right? So the toy actually has no point or purpose to you beyond its "collector value"...

My childhood would have sucked if I'd had to compete with "collectors" for my toys. It really creeps me out, and sucks all the fun out of play.

mischevious omniscient being

Collectibles are a derivatives market.

q struck me as more omnipotent than omniscient. he didn't know lots of things!

Or better yet, an illustration of commodity fetishism.

My childhood would have sucked if I'd had to compete with "collectors" for my toys. It really creeps me out, and sucks all the fun out of play.

― there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Tuesday, April 8, 2014 10:58 AM (7 hours ago)

^^^ thank fuck people my age got to play with Star Wars figures before all this 'collector' shit

There's always plenty of toy lines from everyone, don't worry, they'll never miss an opportunity to downsell or upsell

This one was also in that discount bin, but didn't seem worth the three bucks American.

http://www.figurerealm.com/Galleries/startreknextgenerationplaymates/PicardRetired-TNGSeries4-Front.jpg

I thought about getting Paul Winfield's figure, since how often did Paul Winfield ever get an action figure?

http://www.figurerealm.com/Galleries/startreknextgenerationplaymates/Dathon-TNGSeries2-Front.jpg

YOU FULE, SENILE PICARD IS WORTH ALL THE LATINUM.

Isn't there a figure for Tyrell? Shame they've made the Dathon figure look like a surprised Dara O'briain and/or Steve Balmer
http://academicanonymous.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dara-o-briain-007.jpg

xp at least twice!

http://www.cooltoyreview.com/DiamondSelect/StarTrek/Terrell/header.jpg

Sounder action figures were surprisingly unpopular.

oh man that all good things picard; i want that. i'd take it out of the box tho. probably.

also i love that paul winfield ep, with picard telling the story of gilgamesh over the fire.

YOU FULE, SENILE PICARD IS WORTH ALL THE LATINUM.

Xpost best goddam tng episode

http://time.com/54684/star-trek-kate-mulgrew-the-principle-film/