Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

my wife goes well beyond "casual fan" - owns all the DVDs of TOS + the cartoons, plus deluxe editions of several of the movies (first movie, Khan, Star Trek VI), has numerous books written by castmembers, etc.

> there was a captain named christopher pike? like the kids' horror author?

was the captain in the pilot episode, pre kirk. footage was later recycled in another episode and, i think, the character came back later.

that "Menagerie" episode always scared/haunted me, what with those veins you could see pulsating under the surface of the Talosians' heads.

btw, I am not a nerd. I am in nerd rehab.

i think TNG is safely in mainstream/non-nerd territory - wasn't it one of the top 10 rated shows for much of its run? that's way better than, say, buffy ever did. TOS prob isn't even that nerdy anymore, i know lots of regular ppl who have fond memories of the early 80s movies, at least (cf jerry and george getting weepy over "wrath of khan" in that seinfeld episode).

dud = "real" SF fans' snobbery abt star trek. espec since lots of original series episodes were written by terrific classic writers - theodore sturgeon, james blish, h****n ellison, etc etc.

I've never met any of these "real" SF fans

also are you worried about Harlan googling himself and showing up here to harangue you or what?

jsut caught 'inner light' episode of TNG. best episode ever?

It's between that and "Yesterday's Enterprise" - both are miles better than "Best of Both Worlds"

there was a captain named christopher pike? like the kids' horror author?

i think that the author christopher pike named himself after ST's captain christopher pike.

The Menagerie is like an animated tumor at the back of my brain, informing every move I make as an adult. Well, almost.
I was so in love with Kirk as a 13-yr-old. I never watched the lated incarnations of the show.

larer, No, later.
I r drunk

pike's going to be a major character in the upcoming movie, yeah?

Easy job for the scriptwriter then.

Pike: BLEEP. BLEEP BLEEP. BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEEEEEP.

somewhat incredibly there was a slash fiction question on University Challenge last night, specifically the *very easiest* question about it imaginable.

no, this will be pike pre-accident. pre the events of the menagerie even.

NO SHIT

isn't the film abt Kirk in his Starfleet Academy days?

i think i read that somewhere.

7307 Takei, people!

ethan is the best on the star trek threads. :D

esp abt TNG

SIMONTRIFE: its funny to imagine teh rest of culture continued on without them but on the enterprise they just wanted everything to be old and european bcz they were white supremicists
SIMONTRIFE: like, everybody else in the galaxy is listening to get low 2450
SIMONTRIFE: theyre like a bunch of renaissance faire nerds
SIMONTRIFE: its a show abt a bunch of nerds who fly around in a spaceship
SIMONTRIFE: a bunch of rich white yuppie nerds

i still think this is a good theory

"rainbow that grants all your wishes" "frere jacques elevator" still make me laff alla time

I was laughing about them today and that's why I revived this.

Ronan909: they were all into such shit stuff aswell
Ronan909: on the holodeck
Ronan909: "i've recreated a 1924 jazz club with no one in it"
Ronan909: "i feel this is the best use of being able to simulate any event ever"

SO FUCKING CLASSIC! hahahahahaha

Still gold.

I can never see TNG now without thinking of that convo.

And porno Interactive Fiction, obv.

Ronan909: REG BARCLAY
SIMONTRIFE: honestly, is he like ten??
Ronan909: AKA *******

pretty sure this said "NED RAGGETT"

this thread is why ethan should never ever be banned, lol

pretty sure this said "NED RAGGETT"

Beautiful.

false alarm, it was 'graham'

None of you are real geeks. Listen: I.. played.. Star Fleet Battles.

This means that I not only believe in an alternate timeline for the original series, but that I also played a tactical simulator based on that timeline using counters and hexagons...

Been there. Done that. I can also trump it because I had a copy of Federation Space, which was the short-lived strategic macro-level version of Star Fleet Battles. Imagine the Dr. Strangelove war room or the Imperial War Museum map room only with Federation vs. Romulan vs. Tholian vs. etc.

Sold it for quite a bit of $$$ on eBay.

Okay, so you played sStar Fleet Battles, but did you play the rules set that took it into 3-D. If not, I win.

Actually, I lose for admitting to that. Forever.

Yes I did. I also played this game... A lot!

At least it provided some answers as to what would happen if a bunch of X-Wing fighters and the Millennium Falcon went up against the Enterprise (the X-Wings usually won)

Chris, when we're of retirement age, I still have my copy of Federation Space!

I also long for the day when I have enough time to play a full game of Days of Decision+World in Flames!!!

SIMONTRIFE: they borrowed their shoulder pads from vivian banks

Ronan909: the irish guy is so funny too
Ronan909: colm meaney
Ronan909: chief o brien
Ronan909: one of my friends gets called chief cos he looks like him
Ronan909: have you ever seen "the snapper"
Ronan909: he plays an Irish dad in it
Ronan909: whose daughter gets pregnant at 16
Ronan909: its so fucking funny
Ronan909: he has slippers and dodgy cardigans etc
Ronan909: his wife goes but what about the neighbours
Ronan909: and he flings a cup of tea and goes
Ronan909: "AH FUCK THE NEIGHBOURS"

virgin 1 is showing TNG but despite it being a bank holiday i don't think i can take encounter at farpoint again

i scored both parts of this at a thrift store for a buck apiece on VHS, but they've really, really worn out their welcome.

Season 3 of TNG is when the show really starts getting good anyway.

I was thinking this was the thread where I made the joke about Troi lezzing up with Worf's forehead, but I guess not.

I like to watch TNG with my pissed mates when BBC2 show it on a Friday night at about half two in the morning. Essential post-spoonies viewing.

the bravo listings promise that at midnight

Picard is in love but won't admit it, so Q transforms him into Robin Hood and an old flame into Maid Marian, and sends them both to Sherwood Forest.

fuck this show

That's a good episode!

mind you the opposition is

The Cult of Hamish Macbeth

Hamish Macbeth was a different kind of policeman, a laid-back local bobby policing a small Scottish village, but the viewing figures regularly topped 10 million.

no it is not a good episode

All the Q episodes are great, obvs.

I've really enjoyed all the Q eps I've caught. The one where he became human was good.

You could tack "fuck this show" at the end of practically any Star Trek epsidoe summary and it would be wholly appropriate, regardless of how good the episode is.