Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

Toy collecting is one of the most baffling parts of fandom to me... Like, if you're taking it seriously, you never even take the toy out of its box, right? So the toy actually has no point or purpose to you beyond its "collector value"...

My childhood would have sucked if I'd had to compete with "collectors" for my toys. It really creeps me out, and sucks all the fun out of play.

mischevious omniscient being

Collectibles are a derivatives market.

q struck me as more omnipotent than omniscient. he didn't know lots of things!

Or better yet, an illustration of commodity fetishism.

My childhood would have sucked if I'd had to compete with "collectors" for my toys. It really creeps me out, and sucks all the fun out of play.

― there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Tuesday, April 8, 2014 10:58 AM (7 hours ago)

^^^ thank fuck people my age got to play with Star Wars figures before all this 'collector' shit

There's always plenty of toy lines from everyone, don't worry, they'll never miss an opportunity to downsell or upsell

This one was also in that discount bin, but didn't seem worth the three bucks American.

http://www.figurerealm.com/Galleries/startreknextgenerationplaymates/PicardRetired-TNGSeries4-Front.jpg

I thought about getting Paul Winfield's figure, since how often did Paul Winfield ever get an action figure?

http://www.figurerealm.com/Galleries/startreknextgenerationplaymates/Dathon-TNGSeries2-Front.jpg

YOU FULE, SENILE PICARD IS WORTH ALL THE LATINUM.

Isn't there a figure for Tyrell? Shame they've made the Dathon figure look like a surprised Dara O'briain and/or Steve Balmer
http://academicanonymous.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dara-o-briain-007.jpg

xp at least twice!

http://www.cooltoyreview.com/DiamondSelect/StarTrek/Terrell/header.jpg

Sounder action figures were surprisingly unpopular.

oh man that all good things picard; i want that. i'd take it out of the box tho. probably.

also i love that paul winfield ep, with picard telling the story of gilgamesh over the fire.

YOU FULE, SENILE PICARD IS WORTH ALL THE LATINUM.

Xpost best goddam tng episode

http://time.com/54684/star-trek-kate-mulgrew-the-principle-film/

Everyone knows Q is the center of the Universe.

bee-keeping Picard is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FKvQDZ3IWw

Watched the TOS episode about the future war fought using computers, always a favourite and reminds me of some of the great voyager standalone stories

"Counsellor Troi = WHY? She even sits on the bridge next to the Captain!! the message is in the 25th Century a bloody social worker is one of the most important jobs on a space ship."

Funniest thing ever. 12 years ago or something but never forget etc.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWq56gcbOi8

ok this is apropos of nothing but Mr Veg just told me the coolest stories

- in 1975 Leonard Nimoy did a signing in a model home, part of a promotion for a brand new housing development right up the road from Mr Veg's childhood home in Antioch CA. He was 10 years old and he went and he got an 8 x 10 glossy signed by Nimoy, 'Live Long & Prosper' etc. Mr Veg remembers thinking it was weird how Nimoy had big sideburns and longer hair than his tv counterpart

- in 1982 Scotty was doing a signing at an appliance repair store near where Mr Veg now lived, in a big suburban sprawl just outside of Sac. The appliance repair store had branched into selling videos so apparently that was somehow something to do with how Scotty came to be there. idk. Mr Veg was about 17 by then, and he got Scotty to sign the program he had of Star Trek: The Movie. Mr Veg asked him if he wanted to keep making more movies. Scotty said no, he wanted to go back to doing episodes. He didn't see how they could string the movies together without them getting dumb. <3

lol @ those low-rent gigs

lol but mostly sad

scotty otm, there is and has always been something aberrant about star trek in movie form, idgaf how fun wrath of khan was.

20 years since "All Good Things..." was first broadcast:

https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/star-trek-the-next-generation-series-finale-all-good-things-20-years-later-ronald-d-moore-brannon-braga-223132059.html

One thing I do like about TOS is that they weren't afraid to get weird, whether it's involving Greek Gods or Clint Howard as a dubbed alien god child or just lots and lots of Abe Lincoln. Something feels very 60's New Wave of Science Fiction short-stories with it, which makes sense as that's the pool they drew writers from.

I was thinking today about Star Trek III. They're pretty cavalier about transferring Spock's katra into the resurrected Spock. That's essentially a new person, right? Doesn't he have some claim to self-realization? They say that he's "Spock's body", which I guess means that he doesn't have a katra of his own, but he's still an intelligent being. Even if he cooperates in the ceremony, is he really in a position to consent? He's barely a day old. He doesn't even have language yet.

Was not ready to Frakes with white in his beard. T_T

Oh wait is that RDM?

I am always ready to Frakes, he seems cool.

*trombone solo*

xxxpost re going weird, same with the music. The stuff Fried, Courage, and Fielding did for TOS episodes was profoundly weird in a way that Star Trek music would never ever be allowed to approach again.

also along those lines, in this thread or one of the other ones someone compares tos episode titles w tng ones and it's p damning imo. THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION and DEVIL IN THE DARK and THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS and FOR THE WORLD IS HOLLOW AND I HAVE TOUCHED THE SKY vs a show whose best titles are puns on the letter q.

(damning not in itself, i mean, but as synecdoche.)

i liked the title 'silicon avatar' because first you think, oh the silicon avatar is that crystalline entity thing but, no, it's really DATA CHANNELING HER DEAD SON.

http://www.pixeltrek.com/play

almost as boring as the actual show

am I supposed to be doing something besides aimlessly walking around?

idk you could catch the second half of the russia - south korea game maybe?

(but no, I think that's it)

i've never played star trek: online, but this is probably better than star trek:online.

I wonder what those people are looking at on those computers

http://imgur.com/a/0IkGI

lol

I will never be able to look upon o'brien again without shedding a tear for his ennui.

Don't worry. After he transfers to DS9 he gets to do all sorts of fun things.

Let's not forget he married Keiko.