Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

Guy in college way back when used to always quote Kang's line "You will die of suffocation in the icy cold of space."

Man that would be a shitty fortune cookie.

Yup.

I think he used to slightly misquote it, leaving out the "suffocation" part. Also, I thought he said he was quoting Khan and wondered if he had seen a different version of "Space Seed" from the one I saw.

khan says "it is very cold... in space."

as the punch line to the good ol Klingon Proverb about revenge.

OK, "Day of the Dove" is fine when the Klingons are onscreen, some of the other stuff with the Enterprise crew is like a rehash of "The Naked TIme" from the first season.

we have no devil, Kirk.

What's next, the roar of crowds?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGqkvQ__bY

btw Patrick Stewart, 73, married his "longtime gf," who is 35. Interstellar cradle snatcher.

yeahhhh it's creepy. but i also love the dude, so... torn

(obv he was looking for "the next generation")

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I've struggled through the first 2 series of DS9 and watched the first episode of S3 yesterday. Sisko turns up with a huge fuck-off warship with a cloaking device and decides to go into the wormhole to show the Dominion that they shouldn't regard the Federation as a threat wtf? Gunboat diplomacy at its finest.

It only gets better. Then in season four you get Weyoun.

We're on our second rewatch and have reached the final story arc which happens over 9 episodes. I sort of want to just watch it all in one fell swoop.

BTW, on netflix streaming, there are extended interviews from Shatner's the Captains. 30 minutes each with each one. No much extra footage than the original doc, but still good.

Yeah I was unsure about ds9 for a couple of seasons but that turned around big time.

love the sisko

By season 4 I love not only sisko but quark and dax too. Dax becomes all jaunty and rikeresque, it really works.

<3 Jadzia Dax 4eva

dax is awesome

Glad she gets better, cos she's boring the hell out of me atm, and the doctor's not faring much better tbh. However, far fewer bajoran west wing episodes than I remember from when I watched it first time around.

...I'm 5 minutes into S1E1 and OMG you're right about Sisko, its like english is his 2nd language and the intonations he's using are perfectly normal in his language but in english its the worst. Just the way he says "Acknowledged" in that first scene . . .

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I noticed the other day that Sisko's weird intonations seem to have either stopped bothering me or just stopped completely.

For me there is one specific scene, I think it's in the episode where dark riker steals their ship, where he delivers this line reading that's so insane it suddenly revealed his genius to me. IIRC:

"EVery STAR system has been scanned with PROton mic ro scopes and STILL no defiant."

xp ...or you learned to love The Sisko without realizing

^^^

It's the path the prophets have set out for you.

Had a big crush on Dax #2.

xp Oh yeh, have they just dropped the Sisko as Bajoran Jesus thing? That was set up and then there were like, 3 episodes or something? And nobody really gives a shit that Sisko is basically God or whatever, he's still just seen as a meddling overseer from the Federation come to keep Bajorans down.

Sisko as the Emissary is a huge ongoing plot point throughout the series.

Yeah, it is far from dropped.

DS9 is so good, i love it.

The episode where Dax falls in love and they're like, "let's go count each others spots." lols for days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmVc2iwSb0

just found out the obrien/bashir buddy thing is apparently influenced by colm meaney bringing siddig to irish bars weekly and heaping abuse on him by telling everyone he's english.

lol that's awesome!

A+

"I took your overt irritability toward me as a signal that you wished to pursue some physical relationship. " -female Cardassian scientist to O'brien, making me lol hard.

That is an excellent anecdote. I love the real life Miles/Julian buddy comedy.

Love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zh1VGqS7s

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SySZdvsFYt4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdC6hM9Pn7s

Ode to Spot is great. What the hell is Riker's problem that he can't stay awake for a one minute poetry recitation?

Love Worf and Spot. There's at least one callback in DS9 to Worf taking care of the cat.

riker's problem is that he was being abducted by aliens while he slept and so was not getting any rest.

That episode was such a 90s commentary on sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGxnCzIHGa8

*clap*

it's kind of insane how much vic fontaine there is in the last ds9 season. he's practically one of the crew! guess the writers were super into it or they had justify his set or something?

loved the ep where nog recedes into vic's holodeck fantasy world.

The Vic eps are by far my favorite holodeck/suite eps of any Star Trek series.

so I was playing Star Trek:TNG pinball with my daughter the other day and she was doing pretty well but in the middle of it she commented that she didn't recognize any of the characters, and who were all these people and why did it look different etc (she has only seen TOS). so I started to explain it to her but then I got self-conscious about how boring it sounded - I told her she could watch it but she probably wouldn't like it lol.

I just can't fully commit to these latter incarnations when it gets right down to it. they're just uglier and more boring and less fun than TOS. sorry.