Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

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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
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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/

Everyone knows Q is the center of the Universe.

bee-keeping Picard is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FKvQDZ3IWw

Watched the TOS episode about the future war fought using computers, always a favourite and reminds me of some of the great voyager standalone stories

"Counsellor Troi = WHY? She even sits on the bridge next to the Captain!! the message is in the 25th Century a bloody social worker is one of the most important jobs on a space ship."

Funniest thing ever. 12 years ago or something but never forget etc.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWq56gcbOi8

ok this is apropos of nothing but Mr Veg just told me the coolest stories

- in 1975 Leonard Nimoy did a signing in a model home, part of a promotion for a brand new housing development right up the road from Mr Veg's childhood home in Antioch CA. He was 10 years old and he went and he got an 8 x 10 glossy signed by Nimoy, 'Live Long & Prosper' etc. Mr Veg remembers thinking it was weird how Nimoy had big sideburns and longer hair than his tv counterpart

- in 1982 Scotty was doing a signing at an appliance repair store near where Mr Veg now lived, in a big suburban sprawl just outside of Sac. The appliance repair store had branched into selling videos so apparently that was somehow something to do with how Scotty came to be there. idk. Mr Veg was about 17 by then, and he got Scotty to sign the program he had of Star Trek: The Movie. Mr Veg asked him if he wanted to keep making more movies. Scotty said no, he wanted to go back to doing episodes. He didn't see how they could string the movies together without them getting dumb. <3

lol @ those low-rent gigs

lol but mostly sad

scotty otm, there is and has always been something aberrant about star trek in movie form, idgaf how fun wrath of khan was.

20 years since "All Good Things..." was first broadcast:

https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/star-trek-the-next-generation-series-finale-all-good-things-20-years-later-ronald-d-moore-brannon-braga-223132059.html

One thing I do like about TOS is that they weren't afraid to get weird, whether it's involving Greek Gods or Clint Howard as a dubbed alien god child or just lots and lots of Abe Lincoln. Something feels very 60's New Wave of Science Fiction short-stories with it, which makes sense as that's the pool they drew writers from.

I was thinking today about Star Trek III. They're pretty cavalier about transferring Spock's katra into the resurrected Spock. That's essentially a new person, right? Doesn't he have some claim to self-realization? They say that he's "Spock's body", which I guess means that he doesn't have a katra of his own, but he's still an intelligent being. Even if he cooperates in the ceremony, is he really in a position to consent? He's barely a day old. He doesn't even have language yet.

Was not ready to Frakes with white in his beard. T_T

Oh wait is that RDM?

I am always ready to Frakes, he seems cool.

*trombone solo*