Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

Also, sorry if I’m late to the game, but what’s with Counselor Troi’s accent?

I don't think she changed her natural voice...

Also, why doesn't Worf's name start with a 'K'?

I just looked up the thing about Troi. She claims her speech was based on an Israeli friend, however her parents are Greek, which is what her character sounds like, and she grew up in London and actually has a Cockney accent.

it is a silent k

kworf

Not so much cockney as Tottenham, which is where Marina Sirtis grew up I think, sorry 'fink'.

watched some interviews. dang, i honestly didn't notice until now. though i guess her Troi voice does sound.. vaguely Gal Godot-ish

I always assumed she was trying to do some kind of variation of her parents' Greek accent, didn't know it was supposed to be Israeli.

Classic episode on right now, as some radiation, or somethin', turns Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and even Spock into doddery crotchety old geezers shuffling about forgetting what they just said.

https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/st-deadly25.jpg

Part of the aging process being McCoy's accent getting more and more Southern.

https://www.powells.com/post/guests/did-people-used-to-develop-southern-accents-as-they-got-older

Does that still work in the 23rd century though?

pretty sure mccoy's got more southern because after he retired he would have spent more time drinking mint juleps on the veranda

Ha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rNoR8jnPRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz1c1xdoUFc

I like how Patrick Stewart de-emphasizes it most of the time.

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personally i always thought the one where spock mind-melds with the horta was super culturally impactful

Devil in the Dark would be on my list, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSVb9bQeqM

https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-lower-decks-sets-release-date

I think at some point I'll order CBS for a month and binge all the ST content at once.

it takes a lot longer than a month to do them all

did they really need to name their sitcom after my favorite tng episode

And now the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3RkBKedKWw

I loled in a few places, I'll admit.

patrick stewart is 80 today

so there's a guy on youtube who made a trilogy of three hour long star trek videos, voiced entirely by himself, and they all feature holodeck scenes in his meticulous recreations of price is right sets pic.twitter.com/iFT4vxhsfI

— cuggy (@frknbns) July 12, 2020

Wow. I couldn’t locate the full length videos.

here's the first one, from the twitter thread
https://youtu.be/sGZDwzphAbQ

So the re-run of the Original Series has just finished, so many episodes I hadn't seen before, not many of them very good, the third season as a whole was pretty feeble.

https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/st-intruder21.jpg

... I suspect they're going to re-run the whole thing again from tomorrow.

They just loop them, they've already shown them all at least twice. Quite right too, beats all the shitty made for TV lol cgi monster movies that make up most of the rest of their daytime schedule

Every single day, immediately after Star Trek, there's a cheap crappy disaster movie made within the last decade, usually within the last 5 years, there's thousands of the fuckers!

South Park, my ass

https://www.americannamesociety.org/the-before-time-from-star-trek-to-real-life/

I rewatched "Cause and Effect" and it kind of bummed me out thinking that just after the episode ends they're going to tell Kelsey Grammer and his crew that they're 80 years in the future and everyone they've ever known is dead. Would have been interesting if they'd done anything to follow up on that.

Actually I guess given the extended lifetimes that's not true, but they've been presumed dead in their loved ones' minds for 75 years probably.

Anyone watch Lower Decks yet?

I never started watching ST:TNG until season 3 or 4 when it originally aired, but I've started rewatching from the beginning on Netflix. "Encounter at Farpoint" is decent, but the two after that are so terrible that I'm really glad I already know it gets significantly better. I know the rest of S1 is pretty rough going too.

Some of my favorite scenes are from the worst episodes:

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Season 1 is fascinatingly ropey and for the most part quite entertaining if you don't mind that sort of thing. "11001001" is a fun Riker/Picard hangout episode - it's actually quite rare to see them together, being informal! - and "Consipiracy" at the end of the season is a total classic, with one of the most WTF moments in the history of Trek (you'll know it when you see it).

I thought this most recent revive was going to be about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-hGLHOzvgs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jR7QsGNCU0

Of course Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek was based on the old-timey gangster one
https://news.avclub.com/of-course-quentin-tarantinos-star-trek-was-based-on-the-1844660190

FWIW I mildly enjoyed Lower Decks, unexpected gore and all.

CBS AA had been posting a bunch of Short Treks and the first episode of
Lower Decks on YouTube.

Latest episode of LD the best one so far.

Latest episode of LD the best one so far.

― Ruth Bae Ginsburg (Leee), Sunday, August 23, 2020 9:53 AM bookmarkflaglink

This again. The show seems to be hitting its stride; each episode has been better than the last and the sly references were great.

And to put in some more effort to selling the show: It's an antidote to the vogue of current Trek to pitch everything at the most galaxy-encompassing levels, where so much of what Captain X does is quadrant-defining. Granted, that's happened with every iteration of Trek (in my favorite series, the Captain is an actual messiah), but I think this is where the episodic nature of pre-2010s Trek helps out -- mythology/arc episodes were broken up with standalones (which may still center around galaxy-threatening conflicts). With Disco and Picard, though, nearly every episode sets phasers to EPICOMGWTF! and center around the same plot.

So a show about Starfleet nerds and underachievers is kind of perfect. It's frivolous and lighthearted, but it's not trashy; it's been investing Boimler and Mariner with some real character work, as much as you can get away with in a 20-something minute cartoon that drops references to double-fisted punches.

I'm glad to hear LD isn't trashy. That's the last thing I want from Trek.

It’s a little trashy; at least as far as the animation and voice acting conjures American Dad.

yeah that's what steered me off it... I may check it out yet