Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

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.

ditto for hamish macbeth

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

-- chap, Monday, 24 March 2008

I really felt for him, lol. A++ episode.

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry Has Died

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0632213/

Aw man, fuck. One of my dork friends freshman year helped escort her around Panama City, FL in the early 90s for a fan event. Said she was a hilarious dirty old lady who told great stories.

When they finally create true voice synthesis for talking computers, I hope they use tapes of her.

RIP.

Oh no! RIP

supercool they got her voice in for the new one though

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES—Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry who nurtured the legacy of the seminal science fiction TV series after his death, has died. She was 76.

Roddenberry died of leukemia Thursday morning at her home in Bel-Air, said Sean Rossall, a family spokesman.

At Roddenberry's side were family friends and her son, Eugene Roddenberry Jr.

Roddenberry was involved in the "Star Trek" universe for more than four decades. She played the dark-haired Number One in the original pilot but metamorphosed into the blond, miniskirted Nurse Christine Chapel in the original 1966-69 show. She had smaller roles in all five of its television successors and many of the "Star Trek" movie incarnations, although she had little actual involvement in the productions.

She frequently was the voice of the ship's computer, and about two weeks ago she completed the same role for the upcoming J.J. Abrams movie "Star Trek," Rossall said.

Roddenberry also helped keep the franchise alive by inspiring fans and attended a major "Star Trek" convention each year, Rossall said.

"I think 'Star Trek' will always be her legacy," Rossall said.

"Star Trek" and its successors often focused on political and philosophical issues of the day. Roddenberry and her husband, who died in 1991, believed in creating "thoughtful entertainment" and were proud of the show and the passionate devotion of its fans, Rossall said.

"My mother truly acknowledged and appreciated the fact that 'Star Trek' fans played a vital role in keeping the Roddenberry dream alive for the past 42 years. It was her love for the fans, and their love in return, that kept her going for so long after my father passed away," her son said in a statement on the official Roddenberry Web site.

Born Majel Lee Hudec on Feb. 23, 1932, in Cleveland, Ohio, Roddenberry began taking acting classes as a child. She had some stage roles and then in the late 1950s and 1960s had bit parts in a few movies and small roles in TV series, including "Leave It to Beaver" and "Bonanza."

She met her husband in 1964 during a guest role for a Marine Corps drama he produced called "The Lieutenant." That same year, she was cast in the pilot for the "Star Trek" series as the no-nonsense second-in-command. The pilot did not appeal to NBC executives and a second pilot was made, although portions of the original later showed up in a two-part episode called "The Menagerie."

The couple married in Japan in 1969 after "Star Trek" was canceled. After her husband's death, Roddenberry continued her involvement with the "Star Trek" franchise.

She also was the executive producer for two other TV science fiction series, "Andromeda" and "Earth: Final Conflict."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090127/ap_on_en_tv/people_roddenberry

Gene Roddenberry, wife to spend eternity in space

LOS ANGELES – The creator of "Star Trek" and his wife will spend eternity together in space. Celestis Inc., a company that specializes in "memorial spaceflights," said Monday that it will ship the remains of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry into space next year.

The couple's cremated remains will be sealed into specially made capsules designed to withstand the rigors of space travel. A rocket-launched spacecraft will carry the capsules, along with digitized tributes from fans. The Roddenberrys' remains — and the spacecraft — will travel ever deeper into space and will not return to earth, company spokeswoman Susan Schonfeld said.

After Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, his wife commissioned Celestis to launch a part of his remains into space in 1997. She died Dec. 18, 2008.

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

still loling at this

Maybe Star Trek IV was a documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5e1vfaST2I

i am watching this weird round table discssion thing featurinf whoopie goldberg (host), shatner, nimoy, patrick stewart & johnathan frakes.

is that on the undiscovered country bounus disc? worth watching? have been mildly curious about this. seems like there's a good potential for lolz.

just watched this the other day:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296753/

pretty boring until shatner starts talking about how he couldn't possibly understand how anyone else on the cast could have a problem with him. then he speculates that it could be because the love these minor players get at conventions has blown up their egos! nimoy even backs him up on this!

crazy person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTr5SGuS7F8&feature=channel_page

Mind Meld is hilarious - I lol's at Nimoy's confessions about his "drinking problem"

I find Shatner rather charming for an egomaniac with a persecution complex.

egomaniacs usually are pretty charming!

oh, he's definitely charming. totally perfect for the kirk role.

really funny that the person "interviewing" him in the video I posted is his daughter.

and it's pretty obvious that a lot of this stuff is done with a wink to the audience but mind meld seemed to really hammer home the idea that shatner has a (being generous here...) pretty underdeveloped sense of empathy.

'I lol's at Nimoy's confessions about his "drinking problem"'
I thought his alcoholism was real! It's not some kind of Borat thing is it?

yeah, that part came off as pretty legit to me, actually.

is it weird that none of the major ST characters, old or TNG, are supposed to be married or have boyfriends or girlfriends?

They have each other.

Troi and Riker get married at the beginning of Star Trek Nemesis.

The Doctor and Picard get it on at one point, don't they?

Troi and Worf got hitched.

Troi and Worf had a relationship, but they only got married in an alternate timeline. Damn I sound like such a nerd...

Doctor from DS9 was married to Kira from DS9. His uncles include a Saudi King and Malcolm McDowell.
I outnerd you!

One of the officers on the new Enterprise at the beginning of "Generations" is Sulu's daughter.

Which implies a wife or girlfriend of some kind at some point.

Also, James Kirk - Carol Marcus.

The ensign who dies from radiation exposure in ST2 is Scotty's nephew.

Also, David is Kirk and Carol's son.

Kirk's brother (played by Shatner wearing a false moustache) is in one episode of TOS.

The Doctor and Picard get it on at one point, don't they?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/08/article-1160453-03CA5921000005DC-980_468x459.jpg

Also Worf has a son, Alex, by that Klingon ambassador who gets killed by Duras.

Torres and Paris have a baby in Voyager.

Sisko has a son, lost his wife during the space battle with BorgPicard.

Even Q has a son.

Seven of 9 was married to Chicago Republican whose sex scandal paved the way for Obama to take his vacated position and later, the White House.

Gene Roddenberry's boldest vision.

Oh and in ST:TMP Decker and Ilea were dating before the events of the movie, and at the end of the film they merge with the probe to become a non-corporeal being.

Spock has a hippie girlfriend on planet shrooms, but Kirk slaps him so he breaks it off.
Chekov has a hippie girlfriend in a crazy Christian cult, but she eats acid and dies.

Bones' old girlfriend turns out to be the salt vampire

And plays Erin Gray to Spock's Glenn Ford.

Scotty hooked up w/girls on several occasions on TOS including that one episode with the lights that take over people's bodies.

Nurse Chapel on TOS had an ex-fiance who they found building robots to take over the galaxy.