Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

Is that worth reading? Funny or just silly?

I lold

lol @ the fake episode titles

Okay, you've convinced me.

I still can't believe that Paramount has not done a "new next generation" type show basically picking up the Next Generation/DS 9/Voyager story 15-20 years later. They could use some of the cast from those three shows and basically go from there. It seems with the love of streaming shows a huge cast version of Star Trek would be big on line.

from the official Roddenberry Facebook page:

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15230750_10154054216128144_5758750103261605148_n.jpg?oh=e836282e504821239b70442132feb5bc&oe=58B4DA60

Put that on our tree last night

One would hope there is an IDIC hanging right next to it.

lol

that thing also has audio of the "ship ... out of danger?" etc. exchange

that's amazing

What? Audio too!?

Now I'm imagining Scotty telling Mary "He's dead, already"

https://twitter.com/JoshuaBizabcock/status/805222770686603264

Astounded.

Spockin' around the Christmas tree.

Just watched Voyager's "Body and Soul" where Jeri Ryan gets to do her best Robert Picardo impression -- quite recommended.

my wife's marathon voyager rewatch reached this episode over the weekend and jeri ryan is genuinely amazing as the doctor. reminded me a bit of anna torv's equally spot-on leonard nimoy impersonation in an episode of fringe

also, watching harry kim get humiliated over and over again is really, really painful. he's such a hapless dork - and he's still an ensign after like seven years' service!

i have a borg cube christmas tree ornament. it's never seen a tree though.

being on voyager was a sure-fire way to kill your career prospects

if they took the full seventy years to get back, there could be an episode where nearly everyone is dead, and everyone is given senior rank on their return or made a captain, except for ensign kim

there would probably be some third-generation crew members outranking harry by that point

mh, in answer to your earlier question re: horny-tuvok episodes, i can now confirm that there's at least one!

tuvok starts getting the raging spacehorn and paris helps him out by teaching him to use the holodeck as a masturbatory aid - tuvok creates a holographic double of his wife he can hump without guilt, everyone lives happily ever after (apart from harry kim).

pretty sure there is another one earlier in the series but the details escape me tbh

I'm going to have to scroll up, as I definitely didn't mean to imply the existence of such an episode was in question

i apologise if i misunderstood!

my favourite detail from that episode was tuvok's revelation that vulcan's get hornier as they get older, which means spock-prime in the first jj abrams trek movie must have been a total fuck-machine

oh I was trying to remember if there was more than one horny Tuvok episode

I was thinking of the whole "Tuvok's ill and we're stuck far away and he has to mind meld with a Vulcan to get well" bit, maybe. Or there is another horny Tuvok episode.

wiki to the rescue:

In the Voyager episode "Blood Fever" Vulcan Ensign Vorik experiences pon farr and attempts to mate with B'Elanna Torres. Due to a partial empathic bond, Torres experiences pon farr as well. Vorik attempts to control the pon farr through meditation, drugs and a holodeck mate, while Torres, trapped on an away mission, nearly mates with Tom Paris. The pon farr is eventually resolved when Torres and Vorik battle together in the ritual fight kunat kal-if-fee on the planet.

In Voyager, Tuvok experienced pon farr while the vessel was trapped far away from any other Vulcans, and so was unable to mate with his wife. Initially he claimed that he had Tarkalean flu to the crew to spare the embarrassment of discussing his actual condition. He attempted to control the pon farr through meditation and drugs, but he was not ultimately successful until he met with his wife in a holodeck program.

glad we got to the bottom of this horny-vulcan conundrum eventually

meditation, drugs and a holodeck mate

life goals af tbh

idk resembles my lifestyle a little too much already

waitaminute

Initially he claimed that he had Tarkalean flu to the crew to spare the embarrassment of discussing his actual condition

isn't embarrassment an emotion? wouldn't the logical thing for tuvok to do just be for him to be straight-up and 'guys i gotta fuck real bad can someone help out?'

he was sparing his crewmates' embarrassment, not his own

vulcans are exceedingly polite, it's true

https://twitter.com/NYPD106Pct/status/806870692318892032

Death Wish reboot with Worf.

Quark travels back in time to NYC in 1976 and attempts to sell weapons to Robert De Niro's character from 'Taxi Driver'.

At least he finally listened to his cousin Gaila.

turns out DS9 is really good! i'm about halfway through season 1 and it's a very cool cast of characters with what seems like lots of possibilities for stories.

last night i watched "Progress", where Kira is tasked with removing someone from their land who would rather die than leave, and she is wrestling with this cos the same thing happened to her, and now she is on the other side of that power balance, and is torn. it was really good and felt very much like classic ST.

Did you see this?
Deep Space Nine: a thread for (re)watching this awesome series

I'm most of the way through season 3 at this point, and it's getting better and better. I love the character of Garak!

much love <3

If you like it halfway through season one, you're going to LOVE it once it hits its stride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM-KpMeDqK4

Lol awesome

That's hilarious.

oh god it took me way too long to realize what was going on

It's the Machine That Goes "Ping!" of the sci-fi world.

Haha, I love the last clip.

And I hope that machine gets residuals.

Did we talk about "Who Watches the Watchers" somewhere? I love how unabashedly it insults religion, and how anything that could go wrong does in the campest way possible. Also one of the proto-Vulcans gets possessed by Bob.

can't quite remember how the one dude went from worshiping picard to shooting him two minutes later

i voted for that one

I should've voted for it too!

can't quite remember how the one dude went from worshiping picard to shooting him two minutes later

Since the Picard was supposed to be all-powerful, an arrow wouldn't be able to wound him.

rewatched the motion picture last night and noticed how it has the best-looking enterprise interior but the worst uniforms

the scene in who watches the watchers where picard helps the alien villager along to a rational understanding of their equality -- "i do not fear you any longer" -- is as trek as you can get, i rly find it beautiful w the starfield slowly passing in the background.

as scripted it's the Federation Spreading Enlightenment but imo stewart puts over well that he is having a bewildering+transformative experience too. i'm not sure there are any better single scenes about contact even in darmok.