With this thrown in...
Posted on 09/07/2015 4:19:27 PM PDT by EveningStar
"To boldly go where no man has gone before..." So the opening narration claims, and since it debuted in 1965 [sic], Star Trek became the epitome of optimistic futurism. What began as a cult show--and a failed one at that--became a cultural touchstone, and quite likely the most influential television show in history, as well as a long running series of films. Even Americans who have never seen an episode or film know of the pensive Mr. Spock, the transporter, the alien Klingons and the famous warp speed. As the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the beloved franchise approaches though, Star Trek has become less of a pop culture driving force, and more of a bumper sticker on a sputtering, self-renewing money machine. How did something so influential become something so cheap? What happened to Star Trek, and can it ever regain its emeritus status again?
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Yes, the acting made the first series.
The difference between Star Trek and TNG is when the SHTF Captain Kirk would say charge. Captain Picard would say lets have a conference.
that’s the real issue. JJ Abrams is not a Marxist, he just wants to entertain. All the old series were about Marxism.
Something they addressed quite a bit in TNG — with the technology in that age, particularly the replicators and holodecks, with the cheap energy to power all of them, economics as you and I would understand it are not really valid any longer. Potentially, that might be closer to accurate than not.
They did get one thing right about Lincoln. He looks tall and weedy, but he was actually immensely strong. Not everybody knows that.
Right up there with “Spock’s Brain”
Exactly. Original series good. TNG Preachy politically correct communism...
You know it if you read “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.”
But seriously, practically everyone who lived to adulthood pre-vaccines was impossibly strong by our standards. My grandmother could dismember someone twice her size.
I used the call it “The Next Imitation”
Make it so. Patooey.
My favorite episodes were generally the ones with Klingons, Romulans and Harcourt Mudd.
There really were some excellent ones and most of the ones with a bit of humor were also good. I also liked the recurring theme of very simple people under the control of some computer etc.
Bingo.
Star Trek was good; Babylon 5 was great; Battlestar Galactica was outstanding.
It’s all in the writing.
Maybe in another generation someone with some creativity will be able to revive it with some vision
The initial set of movies with the original cast was dreadful. A bunch of old men in pajamas boring the hell out us.
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How much did those Dylithium Crystal Miners get paid?
Dangerous Job, especially of you break into an Egg Chamber. Probably really hard to get Life Insurance.
If you are not a regular cast member, whatever you do, stay the Hell out of the transporter! You DO NOT want to beam down with the rest of the landing party!
It took me a while to get back into ST after
watching the Spocks Brain episode.
Kinda like the last year of Wild Wild West.
Ran out of good ideas I thought at the time
I first saw Star Trek on my black and white TV from my hospital bed in Ward 31A Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital, late ‘67. Loved it!
All we had to watch all day was soap operas, incredibly lame game shows, and cartoons. So when the evening rolled around, Star Trek was far and away more entertaining than anything else.
We did have one tyrant nurse - a Navy Lieutenant Commander - who demanded that all of us (there were 30 of us on that ward) had to have all TVs off and everyone asleep at 2000 (8:00). Star Trek came on at 2000, so I would keep a careful watch out for her while I watched the show. One evening she showed up fast and I turned the sound and picture down and pretended to sleep.
She shook my shoulder and said “Lance Corporal - what’s that light on in the back of your TV?”. (Remember tube TVs?)
I thought for a second and said “pilot light, ma’am”.
She bought it for a second until all the rest of the guys started laughing and then she took the TV away for the evening. Drat.
Pretty interesting. I liked the Star Trek reboot with Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, and the rest. Guess I just have no taste.
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