re mudd’s women i think of this post a lot
mudd's women was one of the three stories roddenberry pitched for the star trek pilot. he was using the fantastic allegorical power of sci-fi to tell the story of a pimp who lives in a cave.― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, August 10, 2016 8:10 PM bookmarkflaglink
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, August 10, 2016 8:10 PM bookmarkflaglink
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 19 March 2021 03:38 (three years ago) link
ok i will do some extra curricular reading
I think people also talk about it earlier in this thread? Certainly ILE was where I found out about it.
― trishyb, Friday, 19 March 2021 09:55 (three years ago) link
Yes, there is some discussion upthread.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 March 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
Vulcanian?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 March 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
daily voyager repeats now on season 3 in the UK. they go back in time and space to... Earth 1996. that'll save on props. and i bet it'll be somewhere in the los angeles area... (see also ST:IV)
― koogs, Friday, 6 August 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
LA, yes. also with guest slots from sarah silverman and ed begley jr.
― koogs, Friday, 6 August 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
Lol.
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 August 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
Lower Decks S2 premieres next Friday... the 13th! BUM BUM BUMMMM.
― Action Bell (Leee), Friday, 6 August 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
wahoo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 August 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
For a split second I wondered why you were telling us about the horny yacht crew programme.
― trishyb, Friday, 6 August 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
need a supercut of
JR OFFICER: In visual range.
CAPTAIN: On screen.
(*a small blur*)
CAPTAIN: Magnify!
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 September 2021 03:35 (two years ago) link
Have recently been watching Star Trek Continues, which faithfully re-creates the look & feel of the original series and has episodes which follow on from TOS as well, e.g. "The Fairest of them All" after the events of "Mirror Mirror".
All the episodes can be found here (are free to view on YouTube): https://www.startrekcontinues.com/episodes.html
some good guest stars too! Erin Gray, Colin Baker, Sophie Aldred. Getting Chris Doohan in to play Scotty was a nice move.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 3 September 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
Didn't know this existed. Thanks!
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 3 September 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
Cool. How does that compare to Phase II?
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 September 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
oops, *not* Sophie Aldred, Nicola Bryant! Getting Ace and Peri confused. The makers were presumably Who fans, at any rate.
Lou Ferrigno plays an Orion slave trader. Guess he's used to playing green people.
How does that compare to Phase II?
Don't know. Haven't seen it.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 3 September 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
I just watched the first episode (or I guess first two episodes) of Prodigy and it's actually pretty good: the lead is annoying but the rest of the crew seems interesting, the jokes mostly avoid being cringey (some were real lolz), and the reveal at the end really hit me hard, and I'm not even that much of a Voyager fan.
― Nelleee Hooper (Leee), Friday, 26 November 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
i tried but i felt like i was watching a videogame & ingesting sugary cereal through my eyes lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 November 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
This is fun:
The Trouble with NFT's pic.twitter.com/hEluFsA60Z— Jellicle Josh (@joshuamartian) November 17, 2021
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 28 November 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link
Magnificent.
― Millsner, Sunday, 28 November 2021 06:21 (two years ago) link
love it lol
― Nhex, Sunday, 28 November 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
today's voyager was the civilisation that had never heard music until the doctor started singing. leader of this civilisation = paul williams, lol.
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
!
― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
love that episode. Watching all of Voyager during the pandemic was a great move.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
horror channel repeats are nearing the end, i think, and they are getting to be quite a bit more varied, possibly disjointed. Irish village in the holodeck, the doctor sings, the planet they are orbiting evolves 1000s of years in a month... might be less obvious if these were one a week and not one a day.
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 04:01 (two years ago) link
lol i also watched voyager for the first time over the past year and literally the only episodes i skipped were the irish village in the holodecks x2
fuckin hated how they reduced the borg to rubes tho
(nevertheless the planet that evolved 1000s of years in a month was *awesome*)
but honestly most of the characters (maybe all of the humans?) were annoying af. the doctor, seven and tuvok were maybe the only ones i cared enough about to care about
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 04:33 (two years ago) link
(i mean the doctor was largely an asshole but at least interesting about it)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 04:37 (two years ago) link
Doctor + 7 + neelix + tuvok make the show IMO. Paris and Torres and Kim all dud as fuck
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 07:07 (two years ago) link
Finally getting round to DS9 (lol shuddup), and cannot unsee the Bablyon5 theft. Its ok, but its... blatant. I'm enjoying it though. Up to start of S2 3 parter with the Bajor/Cardassia conflict around the religious extremists. Which is one of the B5 things I noted (Quark getting branded on the forehead, same as a Minbari did by an extremist in B5).
And maybe it is just me, but Vedek Bareil is SO much like Sinclair from B5 in his Valen persona!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 09:27 (two years ago) link
The writers interviewed in "The Fifty-Year Mission" didn't bring up B5 much. Apparently Ira Steven Behr was trying to copy the light serialization in primetime dramas of the time, but he messed it up. The primetime dramas like ER and NYPD Blue would have the characters go through arcs while the basic episode setup remained the same. In DS9 there are substantial changes in the situation the characters are in, but the characters themselves don't change much.
I couldn't get past the first season of B5 for what it's worth, so I don't know about particular similarities.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 09:49 (two years ago) link
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Babylon_5#Premise_and_storylines
― Nelleee Hooper (Leee), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
Agreed about Voyager, though I also liked the Captain and Kess along with Tuvok, the Doctor, Seven, and Neelix. There's something very funny about the Captain that I really enjoy, maybe it's her penchant for replicating weird beverages. "Replicator: warm broth." What a weirdo!
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
I also still think some DJ or rapper should name themselves Yung Tuvok, because those episodes were awesome.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
Also loved the way the Pon farr played out for Tuvok, too.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
I’m not sure why I didn’t mention Janeway; I like her tooOr should I say KATIE O’CLARE
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 2 December 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link
i like Janeway but I have zero feelings for Voyager
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 December 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
The entire TOS was on sale in the iTunes store for $20 and good grief I am so devoutly old testament Trek.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 December 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link
i just recently watched TOS all the way through for the first time & found it v enjoyable. Also: so visually interesting! I find those colors so comforting, they remind me of late night tv as a kid <3 Conversely I am now on the third season of TNG (enjoying immensely) and I still can’t recover from the “Marriott hotel conference center” aesthetic of the Enterprise. Like they took such a hard visual turn away from TOS because it was the times and late 80’s tv looked terrible as a rule but jesus the ~lack~ of visual interest still makes me want to die inside.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 December 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
Marriott hotel conference centerIrlol/otm
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 2 December 2021 03:22 (two years ago) link
there's a rick berman quote about how hot chicks who can actually act are already in movies -- and by suggestion that he'd had to settle for those who can't
but even apart from being an incredible asshole, he's *wrong*
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 December 2021 03:52 (two years ago) link
I constantly am baffled by people who remark (negatively) on TNG's anesthetics, but then I grew up watching it so I just take it as given.
― Nelleee Hooper (Leee), Thursday, 2 December 2021 03:55 (two years ago) link
also you are a youngun, no?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 December 2021 04:18 (two years ago) link
It SHOULD look like a conference center imo, that is where ppl have meetings to peacefully sort out the problems of the universe via bureaucratic solutions.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 2 December 2021 10:35 (two years ago) link
but some of the early shots of the bridge look like the empty space at the front of a home-cinema, like bits of the set that the camera shouldn't be pointed at.
also one of the first episodes, maybe even the first, is Q-based and he's a dick.
― koogs, Thursday, 2 December 2021 11:52 (two years ago) link
https://i.stack.imgur.com/QAAsU.jpg
― koogs, Thursday, 2 December 2021 12:03 (two years ago) link
i just expected a better use of space in the future, somehow
― koogs, Thursday, 2 December 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
I just finished TOS and then TNG, what should I move to now?
― Ste, Thursday, 2 December 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link
Deep Space Nine is great.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 2 December 2021 12:55 (two years ago) link
Aw, I love the TNG normcore aesthetic and I think some of the remastered episodes look pretty ravishing
https://64.media.tumblr.com/601090eb4b03821aaacb790bf33d895a/tumblr_nu7v1jMDHB1ufg9h8o1_1280.jpg
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https://64.media.tumblr.com/88c35ee43364d2ad9dc540a55265a01f/tumblr_nyi30tdLZ91ufg9h8o1_1280.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 2 December 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
xpost DS9 is so great! As good as people've said. I'm doing a very slow binge, having never watched it the first time round. The first season is actually pretty solid (perhaps even slightly better than the second, which I'm watching right now).
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 2 December 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
I also love the anaesthetics of TNG— never really bothered me.
I should watch DS9, I've hardly seen any of it....maybe in the new year, once The Expanse is over.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 2 December 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link