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Posted on 09/08/2016 1:09:11 PM PDT by Borges
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-enduring-lessons-of-star-trek
Freezer = FReeper. How did that happen?
Kind of hard to do, even with special effects getting better and better. Inside, you just know it's not real. When I was a kid, my dad took me to sit in a couple TV audiences. One was Captain Satellite, a local kids weekend show of a guy with a rocket ship. I felt betrayed watching the camera guy follow a little toy rocket ship on a guide wire, and other mock-up miniatures made to look big by the camera shots. The show was never the same for me after that. Yes, keep escapism alive! When I was a teen, my best friend often took me into his home. His two younger brothers were raving about a TV show called "Star Trek", on live at the time in the 1960s. They had models of the spaceships and posters. They were a black family, not what you would imagine to be fans but they were really into it. It took me a few years before I watched it as reruns.
I’m just the opposite - I can’t sit through a movie today if it has anything more than just a bare minimum of CGI effects. To me it looks unnatural. I’d rather watch some guy in a rubber Godzilla suit stomp thru a cardboard building Tokyo than endure an FXed up version.
I have a bit of a film background so I really enjoy the make-do FX of the past - I don’t mean Ed Wood type fx (although I love his so-bad-it’s-goodness).
I remember on one shoot I was working on we needed a strobe effect, but a strobe-light wasn’t in the (very low) budget, so I cut up cardboard into a circle, made a slit in the circle, then attached a toycar motor to make it go round. Put it in front of the lens or put a light behind it and -tada - a nifty pseudo-strobe that worked just fine.
We had a local space guy show or two, also - but in our neck of the woods in the late 50s-mid 60s the big kids show host was an old Scandinavian fellow who lived in a tree house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISEIQLOSkos
Nichelle Nichols mentioned that a lot of black folks tuned in because of her. Black folks weren’t real common as main characters at the time.
William Marshall was in an episode too, in a very unpatronizing role.
Wow, that actress even kind of LOOKS like Hillary.
“William Marshall was in an episode too, in a very unpatronizing role.”
Ah yes, “The Ultimate Computer”. Good ep.he was excellent in the role of Dr.Daystrom.
“Captain Dunsel”, heh.
“Yet, it’s still here.”
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Not any “Star Trek” I remember. They’re chrning out loads of CGI crap with “barely legal” Beverly Hills 90210-ish characters. Unwatchable and totally silly.
They have absolutely no clue what made TOS a classic.
It’s a TELEVISION SHOW,for heaven’s sake,just like MASH and I Love Lucy.
A TELEVISION SHOW.
Get a life !
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-PJ
“Remember this TV commercial for a Star Trek video game?”
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Don’t watch much telly and don’t play games, so I missed it. But it’s pretty funny!
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I do not think we have a disagreement so much as we have an inability to establish communications regarding what I consider to be an extremely important concept.
If I had gotten the concept across, and had you pointed out some sort of relevant error in it, then we might have had a disagreement.
But at times like this I can only invoke Wolfgang Pauli's admonition that your point about this being a disagreement is "not even wrong."
Indeed it was a TV show. One of the most influential TV shows in the history of the industry.
Get a life yourself. Why is it so important for you to make sure people know you’ve never watched Star Trek? Most folks, normal folks, when they aren’t interested in a topic just move right past it. What makes you think anybody gives a damn that you aren’t interested in this one. After all, you are just another close minded person, millions just like you all over.
THAT was reallly good.
My best friends wife who is a HUGE Shatner fanatic finally got to touch him and get a pic a few weeks ago.
I will have to send her that vid.
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Thank God for Hulu Plus and you tube.
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