'And The Children Shall Lead' has got to be the worst.
Annoying kids. And attorney Melvin Belli wearing a shower curtain.
Posted on 09/08/2016 1:09:11 PM PDT by Borges
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-enduring-lessons-of-star-trek
No it isn't, and most especially when the culture itself is pathetic.
I don't blame someone from walling themselves off from the rot. Television has made us a nation of f***ing idiots.
All you can see nowadays is left-wing/Liberal fantasy stories pretending to look like real life.
You have deliberately chosen the path of stupid. And you’re too damn dumb to know you’re supposed to HIDE your ignorance.
No, it is those people who think made up fantasy worlds are relevant in the larger scheme of things that are stupid. Television is an idiot box, and the world would be a better place if every television system everywhere was smashed to bits.
She really didn’t have a choice; the networks had cancelled all of the Desilu series that had been on the air in 1965, and without selling programs to the network, the studio wouldn’t survive. They pitched the show to NBC and they bought it. She sold Desilu a couple of years later for $17 million—a nice payday in the late 60s—but Lucy never saw any profits from Star Trek’s resurrection.
One more note: the “franchise” also owes a debt to a woman named Bjo Trimble organized the letter-writing campaign that persuaded NBC to bring back the show for a third season. Without those episodes, the program would have never entered syndication, won more fans, and spurred the feature films that re-launched Star Trek in the 70s.
They are deliberate propaganda. It's not so much that you see them or not, it's that other, stupider and more gullible people will see them, and accept their premises as valid.
There were only three networks so a few million viewers is enough to have started the conventions. (you tube has 8mm film from the first convention) Check out star trek continues which has new “original series” well done fan films. (spoiler — one of them has Lou Farigno (yes that one) and its a different shade of green)
I love how politically incorrect the old ones are with Jim hitting on every alien he can.
Gene Koons was the instrument of the quality episodes and when he passed Rodenburry was too stoned to get it right.
“but Lucy never saw any profits from Star Trek’s resurrection.”
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Could never stand watching her shows, but she picked a winner on TOS.
“Bjo Trimble”
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Was she one who also started the ST fanzine?
I may very well have forgotten "Angel One" because I just read a synopsis and it doesn't ring any bells.
It sounds like a sucky premise and a sucky result.
'And The Children Shall Lead' has got to be the worst.
Annoying kids. And attorney Melvin Belli wearing a shower curtain.
If Forbidden Planet had been picked-up as a series, it would have changed comedy history forever.
Leslie Nielsen would have remained a dramatic actor.
No Airplane. No Naked Gun series.
Whoa! You may be a little too emotionally invested. After all, we’re just talking about grownups who never stopped playing make believe. Most of us get over that phase by our teens.
first season episode where it was anti-male (men wimps and women controlled, think planet of the metrosexual wimps with extra wimpy)
“I love how politically incorrect the old ones are with Jim hitting on every alien he can.”
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How about that knock down drag-out brawl with “Finnagin” (sp) on the fantasies-comes-true planet? That was a good un.
The tall black kid on Angel One was Phil Morris.
Best known for his Johnny Cochran impersonation on Seinfeld.
His dad was Greg Morris, who played Barney Collier on Mission:Impossible, which was filmed down the hall.
Lenard Nimoy “Shirly you jest!”
DeForest Kelly “Don’t call me Shirly!”
The being in Outcast was androgynous-not homosexual-her race had evolved somehow after having male and female genders into being like an amoebae, earthworm or like some species of fish are-no gender at all-but she realized she did have a gender-she was a broad and wanted to be one and have a man-she didn’t want another woman. I was disappointed that she didn’t ask for asylum-doc Crusher could have regressed her back to a female, and she could have hooked up with Ryker...
The Pegasus episode pissed me off because they should have just stuck to the treaty but kept their mouths shut and not told anyone anything-just destroy the device,and have that stupid admiral courts martialed for engaging in an illegal act that could have gotten people killed-again...
You must have a little bit of interest. You clicked on the thread after all. When I have no interest in things I don’t click on threads about them.
It’s the world you live in. Love it or hate it Trek is a MASSIVE part of our culture. Red shirts and beaming are commonly accepted phrases everybody knows. Not to mention the fact that the guy that invented cellphones was inspired by Trek communicators. 1 hour of your life to at least have a concept about this thing that has literally no hyperbole changed the very world you live in isn’t a big investment. And bragging that you couldn’t be bothered to make that 1 hour investment at any point in the last 50 years is pathetic.
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