Posted on 09/08/2016 1:09:11 PM PDT by Borges
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-enduring-lessons-of-star-trek
When Spock tells Bela Oxmyx “I’d advise yiz ta do what he sez” it always cracks me up!
That episode where the space hippies go off looking for the Planet Eden is a good one too. The first Trek I ever remember watching. On a B&W TV, original NBC run. I was probably only about 4 or 5.
I remember two episodes that I absolutely detested.
1. Ryker falls in love with a homosexual alien. ("The Outcast")
2. Ryker deliberately disobeys a superior officer's orders,
and then informs enemy military regarding Top Secret advanced technology which had been developed by the Federation.
Ryker should have been court-martialed and shot for what he did in the episode called "The Pegasus."
“When I first saw ST, we still had a black and white TV. It was a real revelation a few years later when I first saw it on color TV.”
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Until we got a color TV I watched the Wizard Of Oz for many years never knowing most of it was in color.
Being grossly ignorant of major sections of the culture you live in isn’t something to be proud of. It’s pathetic. You have deliberately chosen the path of stupid. And you’re too damn dumb to know you’re supposed to HIDE your ignorance. Even my freaking Grandmother, well over 30 when it started, saw at least a couple of episodes before she died. She was curious what all the fuss was about. She didn’t like it, but at least she bothered to investigate her world.
Picard paid way too much attention to that stupid prime directive at first, too-not as much after Rodenberry checked out-but I liked Kirk better because he usually ignored it and apologized later if he had too...
Agree. I saw a great deal of stuff in Star Trek that Forbidden planet did first.
Forbidden planet was an awesome movie, and they should have made some sequels. It was a better "Star Trek" than was the real Star Trek.
Yes, I understand Amazon Prime is awesome.
I purchased all the seasons of Stargate SG1 because I fell in love with the main characters. It is an awesome series!
The technology of Star Trek has always been dated. We had advanced computer controlled weapons systems in the 1940s and 1950s.
Even the latest Start Trek movie releases demonstrate technology that is behind existing state of the art in weapon systems.
In many parts of the galaxy there is a child sired by James T. Kirk!
I skip those eps myself, not just because of the content but mostly that they’re both boring.
Except for the fact that it feeds money into a left wing political machine.
Pretty much all entertainment companies nowadays are left wing money sources for Democrats.
Susan even had the blood in the Mayberry jail boiling
you forgot “angel one” an episode so bad the cast thought it killed the series and the sound effects people even skipped sounds because “why bother.”
I had a techie at a company I worked for with that exact poster over his work station, except he had put a cutout of his own face over Ensign Ricky’s head, and his own name instead of Ricky. Cracked me up every time I saw it.
“The technology of Star Trek has always been dated.”
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Some was ahead of it’s time, e.g. diagnostic beds in sick Bay.
I only watched the first Star Trek “reboot” movie - that was more than enough. If they can’t do it right they should let the franchise rest in peace.
I was in my teens when it was on-
I always wondered how Kirk explained to his superior officers that the federation had to drop by ever so often to collect their cut from the mob there-and what they were supposed to do if someone refused to pay...
“Susan even had the blood in the Mayberry jail boiling”
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Not surprisng:
http://www.imayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/startrek
I've been a Trek fan since I started watching reruns in the mid-70's after school. During its original run I was not interested in a sci-fi show. Roddenberry's leftist slant was always there, but the show (IMO) tends to rise above it most of the time. Rod Serling was also a bleeding heart lefty, but there are more good Twilight Zone episodes than there are preachy lefty ones. I find it to be the same way with Star Trek.
It is really remarkable that a show that went 3 seasons and out could come back bigger than it ever was and spawn a slew of movies and TV series. I still remember all the Trek fans in my college days whining that the show was ahead of its time, and that the networks should "give it a second chance". I never thought anything would happen, but damned if it didn't.
“Being grossly ignorant of major sections of the culture you live in isn’t something to be proud of. It’s pathetic”
I have no interest in the show and am not the least bit curious about it. I didn’t see Star Wars either and am a frequent movie goer.
For you to think that someone who has no interest one aspect of pop culture is to be considered “pathetic” is rather odd.
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