Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

The Federation can't wait to gentrify M33

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK1Locwd8Ps

(heads up: Wesley Crusher content in that clip)

did anyone ever share this wonderful video here? i hope not because i want to be there when you all watch it for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZlRt05RY9Y

cw: w.c.

So I can actually speak to this from experience. Not to get all Star Trek: Erowid here, but somehow I synchronized up so that I was peaking hard right when the saucer section of the Enterprise-D crashes into Veridian III in Star Trek Generations. A terrific sfx shot for 1994, but not enough to keep me from standing up and shouting at the screen: "So does everyone have to destroy the Enterprise now?"

Too bad STG was sucky enough to not be worthy of the awesome set and setting of opening night at the Vista Theatre in Silver Lake. That saucer crash though... Also, I could never dissasociate in the 24th Century. I'm too fascinated by the beauty of TNG's UI graphics standards and their utter failure at communicating information quickly.

s3 e18: scotty is v smitten

Never a good thing.

Don't think I've ever seen that episode, an episode that was co-written by... Shari Lewis!

brb re-interpreting the alien being in the only way possible

nor am i wrong to do this lol (if u accept one of two possible ways)

Scotty is always smitten if there’s a female alien around

Too bad STG was sucky enough to not be worthy of the awesome set and setting of opening night at the Vista Theatre in Silver Lake. That saucer crash though... Also, I could never dissasociate in the 24th Century. I'm too fascinated by the beauty of TNG's UI graphics standards and their utter failure at communicating information quickly.

I like how one of Terry Matalas’ (implicit?) goals of Picard S3 was to counter-act everything that had happened to the Enterpriae D and her crew from the first movie onward

absolutely fkn gorgeous magenta sky in the opening planetscape scene* of requiem for methusaleh s3 e19

*actual landscape is the same old same old lol, brown polystyrene rocks and scrub

ha

"the 70 billion people of earth — where are they hiding?"

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjMwMzI2ODc2MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDM1MTA1MDE@._V1_.jpg

is that the only time spock is ever musical? i like that his companon in the jam is playing a bicycle wheel

"eat all the fruit and throw away the rind!"

he plays his lute thingy in charlie x

mark s, you might not have made it in Plato's Stepchildren to Spock singing "Bitter Dregs", but it is something else.

Ha, I almost forgot the title of that, thanks for the reminder!

seem to recall that the title is sung at the bottom of his range, or very close to it.

i did remember that i just didn't consider it "musical" 😜

"art is the population's chief occupation"

that's a big yikes from me

art is the population's chief occupation: millinery dept

https://www.yourprops.com/movieprops/default/yp_5183779916ae48.43215162/Star-Trek-The-Original-Series--The-Cloud-Minders-Cloud-Guard-Hat-3.jpg

"complete separation of toil and leisure has given ardana this perfectly valid social system!"

the one where lincoln gets speared in the back by genghis khan bcz a being made of molten rock wants to know if good is better than evil feels like a story we've been served more than once tbh

Yes. It’s kind of a bottom of the drawer go-to.

Giant Lincoln Memorial in space is kind of fun though.

help me, Spock!

Love that episode. I guess I'm just down with full ST cheese.

help me, Spock!

s3 e23: all our yesterdays (i have seen this one several times down the years)

i like how cryptically unhelpful the librarian is and also the very terrible accents kirk encounters in musketeer-world

s3 e24: turnabout intruder

the fact that the transporter room has no set-up for ppl lying down seems strangely optimistic given, well, things that happen all the time

shatner's performance in this as a somewhat deranged woman who was in love with kirk in space college is very funny, tho not entirely in a good way

tonally the mode can be summarised as "silence! the chatter of inferior weaklings wearies me!"

as a leader i am an insane barely competent childish despot bcz i of how much i hate my womanhood

lol that this other guy is somehow in love with her

and that's it: nbc cancelled it after 79 eps, all of which i have now watched

Live long and prosper

🖖

Third season is patchy to say the least.

Roddenberry and some other key players went missing iirc.

DS9 next.

(ds9 season 1 has just finished on Freeview. far too many ferengi episodes)

https://imgur.io/gallery/mACDrFe

Star Trek thread or cursed images thread? hard to decide

Why Captain, you're beautiful...

I forgot how ridiculous Seven of Nine's catsuits were on Voyager.

Apparently, they were so hard to breathe in that she passed out several times.

Jeri Ryan clarified that the catsuits weren't difficult to work in, but the Borg costume that cut off blood flow at her neck.

Thats the first time Ive heard that correction, I too thought it was the corset in her outfit!

I had watched "the Cage" recently, to get the full Pike backstory, then I watched the Menagerie 1&2 not realising its just basically the pilot, rekajiggered with a framing device round it. Never realised!

“It was so tight originally that I passed out four times,” Ryan told USA Today in 1997. “They would bring nurses to the set with oxygen, and I wouldn’t say anything. But after the fourth time passing out, I spoke up.”

https://www.thegeektwins.com/2014/11/5-horrifying-facts-about-seven-of-nines.html