Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

France Nuyen. Further discussion on two of my threads.

TIL Meg Wyllie was both a TOS Talosian and a Vanishing Point highway patrol dispatcher

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"silence! the chatter of inferior weaklings wearies me!"

me^^^ posting on ilx

actually this ep is kind of exhausting

watched The Motion Picture. istr the name being an attempt to put it above all the films around the same time that were just 'the Movie'. and it had ideas of 2001 about it, those long slow shots of the ship. but i think it underused the original crew. they even got yeoman rand back and nurse, now doctor, chapel. but all i saw Rand do was kill people in a transporter accident.

surprised that it was as early as '79, i thought they'd left a bigger gap.

In the interest of completeness, I note the presence of German-American actress Barbara Bouchet, who later moved to Italy and appeared in many B-films there, in the episode “By Any Other Name.”

this is the one with all the people outside looking in, which just spooked the fvck out of me when i was like 10

*much* slower than i remember plotwise

I guess every era has its own unintentional freakishness, but I don't know if we can ever get the limited budget spare stage dressing surrealism back again.

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Like the closest equivalent from SNW is... Toronto?
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the mise-en-scene for the empath is just gorgeous:

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Opps

Ha! That would make for an awesome quadtych or whatever the 4 panel version of a triptych is though.

speaking of four, why is the the entire star trek universe divided into "quadrants" and is this a helpful geographical construct? i say no

Because it is similar to quatloo?

The Milky Way Galaxy is a round, flat, barred-spiral galaxy. It totally makes sense to divide it up into four quadrants

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i don't think i really ever grasped they were just tootling around a single galaxy is my only excuse here (and in fact one region of that galaxy)

I think to get to the other galaxies one has to first pass through a gigantic ion storm that circles the perimeter of ours iirc.

yes also in my defence i am often only half-paying attention

if you get to the edge of the Milky Way you fall off

Right, like those Terry Pratchett books.

not me, i'm built different -- i turn into a god

What does god need with a starship?

Something to play with given to him by his parents iircz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A65N3Efnn0

Attempting to leave the galaxy results in ESP anomalies and eye discolouration, iirc

IIRC, there's also mass hallucinations and an ability to bring thought into reality but I think you have to get to the edge of the universe for that not just leaving the galaxy

which quadrant is that in

In the Russian quadrant, over near the Riesenrad.

I never knew the old galaxy before the ion storms.

The Federation can't wait to gentrify M33

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(heads up: Wesley Crusher content in that clip)

did anyone ever share this wonderful video here? i hope not because i want to be there when you all watch it for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZlRt05RY9Y

cw: w.c.

So I can actually speak to this from experience. Not to get all Star Trek: Erowid here, but somehow I synchronized up so that I was peaking hard right when the saucer section of the Enterprise-D crashes into Veridian III in Star Trek Generations. A terrific sfx shot for 1994, but not enough to keep me from standing up and shouting at the screen: "So does everyone have to destroy the Enterprise now?"

Too bad STG was sucky enough to not be worthy of the awesome set and setting of opening night at the Vista Theatre in Silver Lake. That saucer crash though... Also, I could never dissasociate in the 24th Century. I'm too fascinated by the beauty of TNG's UI graphics standards and their utter failure at communicating information quickly.

s3 e18: scotty is v smitten

Never a good thing.

Don't think I've ever seen that episode, an episode that was co-written by... Shari Lewis!

brb re-interpreting the alien being in the only way possible

nor am i wrong to do this lol (if u accept one of two possible ways)

Scotty is always smitten if there’s a female alien around

Too bad STG was sucky enough to not be worthy of the awesome set and setting of opening night at the Vista Theatre in Silver Lake. That saucer crash though... Also, I could never dissasociate in the 24th Century. I'm too fascinated by the beauty of TNG's UI graphics standards and their utter failure at communicating information quickly.

I like how one of Terry Matalas’ (implicit?) goals of Picard S3 was to counter-act everything that had happened to the Enterpriae D and her crew from the first movie onward

absolutely fkn gorgeous magenta sky in the opening planetscape scene* of requiem for methusaleh s3 e19

*actual landscape is the same old same old lol, brown polystyrene rocks and scrub

ha

"the 70 billion people of earth — where are they hiding?"

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is that the only time spock is ever musical? i like that his companon in the jam is playing a bicycle wheel

"eat all the fruit and throw away the rind!"

he plays his lute thingy in charlie x

mark s, you might not have made it in Plato's Stepchildren to Spock singing "Bitter Dregs", but it is something else.