Don't recall that line from Star Trek. It sounds more like something from an old Clint Eastwood western.
"Get 3 coffins ready..."
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"My mistake... Make that 4 coffins."
Posted on 09/02/2015 5:26:11 AM PDT by DFG
Leonard Nimoy’s death in February brought to a close his unusual career continually playing a single role for half a century. Between 1966, when the television show Star Trek premiered, and 2013, when the movie Star Trek Into Darkness hit the screens, Nimoy portrayed the franchise’s beloved first officer, Mr. Spock, in two TV series and eight films.
As he acknowledged, the key to Star Trek’s longevity and cultural penetration was its seriousness of purpose, originally inspired by creator Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction vision. Modeled on Gulliver’s Travels, the series was meant as an opportunity for social commentary, and it succeeded ingeniously, with episodes scripted by some of the era’s finest science fiction writers. Yet the development of Star Trek’s moral and political tone over 50 years also traces the strange decline of American liberalism since the Kennedy era.
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It was obvious to me that they were a Satanist-like group. Devil and witch films were pretty popular in the 60s. And that is precisely how they dressed in the films, robes with hoods.
Don't recall that line from Star Trek. It sounds more like something from an old Clint Eastwood western.
"Get 3 coffins ready..."
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"My mistake... Make that 4 coffins."
It was definitely one of Roddenberry’s themes. It is why “Genesis II” and the follow up movie “Planet Earth” didn’t become TV shows.
Yes, I realize Roddenberry was involved in Star Trek till his death.
And it was not until he died that the writers were able to break free of his non-violence edict and save TNG.
I was always disappointed that the back-door pilot on Star Trek featuring Robert Lansing and Teri Garr did not get picked-up as a series. Looked like it would have been a fun show.
DS9 was the best because it was the closest to the Human condition, while TNG just ignored human nature at every turn.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you mean the TOS. I liked many aspects of TNG, but it was too often too liberal. There were many episodes I thought were very good, too.
I actually skipped right over “TNG” in your first post.
Garak should have had his own show.
It was proof that competition improves quality, in DS9’s case, Babylon 5.
I'm thinking that has to be an urban legend. Automatic-opening doors were invented in the Fifties, and the first one was installed in 1960 - source. All the supermarkets in my hometown had them when I was a young kid (early 70s).
That's a bit of an oversimplification. Return of the Archons had more of a "cult" vibe than a Christian one. Don't forget, vestiges of a Christian wedding ceremony are seen at the opening of Balance of Terror (in the ship's chapel) and Bread and Circuses closes with the realization that Christianity was spreading among the neo-Roman population.
As for Roddenberry, well, his personal behavior made it clear that he was uncomfortable sticking to the straight and narrow.
As a non-theist neither Kirk nor anyone else in the stories has a standard by which to judge anything whatsoever as right or wrong. All non-theistic "standards" are in the end purely arbitrary.
That the old Roddenberry humanism turned into the current new age paganism is no coincidence.
To a old liberal (pre-1960) the liberals of today would be considered commie anarchists.
The "old liberals" went right along with all the changes in liberalism as they happened. Does anyone recall Hubert Humphrey objecting to abortion? Doesn't Jimmy Carter support "gay marriage?"
If FDR were still with us, he'd be wheeling his 133 year old carcass at the head of a pro-bestiality parade.
When they ditched the whole “peace and understanding” thing and started battling the Borg, I thought TNG got very good.
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