Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

That's why Enterprise seems to have much more odd and dangerous missions than any other Federation ship... They've hand-picked a ship full of maladjusted permanent bachelor(ette)s they can send to on deadly missions, knowing no one will miss them back home.

This would make Star Trek a far, far more interesting series.

Big Brother In Space

anyway, they're always talking about all the families onboard the enterprise, it's not like nobody who works on the ship is married!!

Chief Miles had wifey and a kid. Or did they just appear when he went to DS9?

anyway, they're always talking about all the families onboard the enterprise, it's not like nobody who works on the ship is married!!

this is more of a TNG thing, I don't think this is ever mentioned in the OS

It SO is mentioned in the original series.

Kirk talks about the CREW a lot, but families...? We never see any children

nah the chief married that asian chick on tng

> Troi and Worf had a relationship, but they only got married in an alternate timeline.

Worf marries J Dax in DS9. then she dies and he has a thing with Ezri Dax.

O'Brien is also married (keiko?) in DS9. (Xpost?)

this is more of a TNG thing, I don't think this is ever mentioned in the OS

― Valid point, imaginary rude person (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:40 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok then TNG!

Ha ha, this is one of the things that I always get a laugh out of with TNG. They're soooooo pleased with themselves that they cart their families around in their big expensive parenting lab, unlike the savage races that break up families for space travel.... BUT they're perfectly willing to put their families in the most RIDICULOUS danger imaginable every week. Implosion, warp core failure, time travel, saucer separation, various battles, etc.

O'Brien and Kieko have a baby while they're still on the Enterprise in TNG. Kieko gives birth during the episode where the ship gets hit by a quantum filament (or whatever the heck it is), and Worf is the midwife.

I love late-period Worf.

Ezri Dax was fiiiiiiiine.

Meantime:

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/buzz-log-r2-d2-star-trek.html

Oh my gosh guys Riker drawings. Kate Beaton's are cracking me up:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kts84l4t5a1qzfxk0o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1259692039&Signature=cxSZhqHXxvae911RzR0arJgokwY%3D

Edward Gorey's Star Trek

awesome

Ryan North is clearly not a great draftsman but his "Season One" Riker is spot on

http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kts5bidlxP1qzfxk0o1_400.jpg

Yes – that jaw. What a great drawing.

Uhura's the only lonely one iirc

But what about this classic moment:

http://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/nakedtime/sulu_uhrua.jpg

Swashbuckling Sulu: I'll protect you, fair maiden!
Uhuru: Sorry...neither!

Best line ever!

What if Star Trek was an ITC production in the mid-70s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhRGqT31WZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=414TmP12WAU

Turns out the story about Star Trek showing the first kiss between a black and white actor on American television isn't true after all... Nancy Sinatra had already kissed Sammy Davis Jr. on TV in 1967, a year before "Plato's Stepchildren" aired:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movin%27_With_Nancy

I don't think Sammy-Nancy was a "hot" kiss

http://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy/status/12536477742

LOL

Crazy Nimoy! Zoe Saldana didn't exist even on a cellular level back then.

1973 star trek convention:

http://www.youtube.com/user/beyondspock

One-upping that:

http://www.badassdigest.com/2011/05/08/from-the-pre-history-of-fandom-1971-star-trek-fan-film

And then of course:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20061024-71.html

i can't even believe this question was ever asked. anyone who doesn't like Star Trek, even in a secret way, can fuck off and die.

i remember having the trek/wars argument when i was in school and saying star wars. i was so fucking wrong. wrath of khan and search for spock alone > star wars.

absolutely.

star wars has become such a joyless industry to me

well so did ST there until the reboot.

Enterprise had its moments, i thought.

yeah but I could just ignore things like Enterprise (space Bush!) - the OST DVDs were not replaced/scarred with CGI additions, etc.

right. TNG is still my fave, but that's because i grew up with it.

Star Trek just seems like so much more of a flexible and accomodating sort of universe to explore and work with - Star Wars has become so claustrophobic/autistic, always treading over the same water, endlessly filling in and fiddling with details of a single, heavily revered story arc, the self-referentialism is suffocating.

true. i can't imagine star wars ever getting rebooted with Simon Pegg as Han Solo. Although I would prefer that to the prequel movies.

the OST DVDs were not replaced/scarred with CGI additions, etc

Actually, didn't they do exactly this? I remember Paramount came out with new CGI for the old episodes a couple years ago. Maybe the DVDs have both versions?

yeah, I've seen the eps with added CGI late night on tv a few times. from what I've seen, it was done fairly tastefully.

the blu-ray discs allow you to pick either version.

dig this shot:

http://www.marcwade.com/startrek/remastered/tos-050/planetscape/Ep50_planetscape.jpg

of course, the crummy effects are half the fun, so I opt for my old dvds if I have the option.

i can't even believe this question was ever asked. anyone who doesn't like Star Trek, even in a secret way, can fuck off and die.

― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:20 (2 hours ago)

^

my point was you can still get the actual aired versions of the OST episodes - they are readily available.

we didn't talk about the recent *amazing* film much on here. was there a seperate thread devoted to it?

aha Young Kirk n Spock + Lost = new Star Trek movie

God that movie was great.

it was good. in order to be great it would have needed a better villain.

it was better than it had any reason to be. as in, it was like the third or fourth best star trek movie and there are like,, 200 of them.