Posted on 06/22/2010 3:20:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Isn’t Vulcan also the home of the legendary Sutter family?
Finally, the rubber meets the road...
“Fascinating.” /V
Logical choice.
I think what truly appealed to so many about the original Star Trek was a combination of things not often mentioned. Things that made it special as a TV show.
To start with, it wasn’t just science fiction, though several major sci-fi authors contributed episodes. It was science fiction with the style of futurism. Style and design were having a renaissance at the time, and these fashions showed an artistry that is sadly lacking today.
If you look at those episodes, especially the women’s clothing and hair styles, the gizmos, even the art and sculpture, the backdrops, all of it were things people wanted to see and places where they wanted to go.
While what most people notice is the sledgehammer liberal morality plays, which while at the time were novel ideas to Hollywood, if not the rest of America, even today they serve as a retrospective of how they saw America at the time.
Importantly, what they presented were also stage plays. Stage acting played with the intensity of Shakespeare—even referencing it at times. This is very different to television acting as it is today, even down to the makeup.
Only then, finally, comes the science fiction. In its own right, it created a generation of engineers who saw space travel as “just around the corner”, instead of some magical and improbable fantasy, as it has regressed to, today.
They're from Viking, Alberta.
One other thing, themes from classical mythology make their way in. One very intelligent friend of mine likened Spock and McCoy as the horses of reason and emotion, that have to be balanced by the judgment of Kirk.
Hah! I’ve heard of this place. They’ve been trying for *years* to get Nimoy to visit. Kudos that they finally got him there! What a hoot.
I thought they blew up Vulcan for a cheap plotline?
I’m tired of his half-breed interference, ya hear me?
An excellant summary. As corny in effects and story by todays standards, this is the litmus test.
Our dreams in that era were to reach the stars. We, as a nation, were one with that ideal.
Political ideaoligy nowadays has pushed that aside. We no longer shoot for the stars.
The morality of the times were also prevelent. A lost cause presently.
Obscenity is the norm and moral character is forgotten.
Kirk Spock and McCoy representented the BEST of that time. We need them now more than ever.
I figured it was time for him to apologize for that song about Bilbo Baggins.
I like Star Trek.
Say Joe, do you really have four identities here? Not that it really matters, but it must be fun to talk to yourself at times. Ha ha!! The battle of the 1000-word wielders.
I like turtles.
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