The cartoon is far too often forgotten!
Posted on 05/13/2005 7:30:17 AM PDT by Valin
Man, I hate Star Trek and that commie Roddenberry.
BYE!
Star Wars is infinitely superior. At least no character of that series is living in some pseudo-communist happyland where everything has been made perfect forever, apart from some nasty aliens.
Regards, Ivan
Yeah, it sucks having a show that might inspire kids to yearn for space. Why, it might lead them to careers in science or engineering. We all know that our international leadership in football and baseball will keep America great.
Regards,
Harrison Bergeron
Glad to see you back!
Oh, Lord - not more engineers.
The cartoon is far too often forgotten!
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
Enterprise??
Best Star Trek Ever!
I will be looking for the next reincarnation, but this series was not the PC, socialist society of The Next Generation. It was a kick ass, go after the bad guy even if you had to bend your moral code to do it series. Last Season was a perfect season....this season is a close runner up.
The only kids Star Trek appeals to are the forty-year old single ones that live in their mom's basement and collect comic books.
Why, it might lead them to careers in science or engineering.
None of the Trekkies I grew up with are scientists or engineers. A few are IT guys.
We all know that our international leadership in football and baseball will keep America great.
It's an odd world where one believes that the only two alternatives in life are watching sci fi on TV or watching sports on TV.
In my world there are a few more alternatives.
Like cracking open a book which doesn't involve Klingons for starters.
Sorry Ivan,
I would agree that Star Trek at its worst is bad television (I won't comment on the sorry state of filmic media in general). But when it has been good, it has been much better sci-fi than Star Wars, which is not really sci-fi but fantasy, and it is just dreadful. Great wiz bang special effects to be sure, but awful.
Most important, Star Wars is shamelessly ripped off from the 'Dune' books, and other reasonably good stories in a vastly inferior genre.
I would say that the few engineers I do know have one thing in common: they're really into cars.
Aye Captain! She's gonna blow if ye push her any harder!
Sorry Ivan,
I would agree that Star Trek at its worst is bad television (I won't comment on the sorry state of filmic media in general). But when it has been good, it has been much better sci-fi than Star Wars, which is not really sci-fi but fantasy, and it is just dreadful. Great wiz bang special effects to be sure, but awful.
Most important, Star Wars is shamelessly ripped off from the 'Dune' books, and other reasonably good stories in a vastly inferior genre.
Push it - push it real hard.....
While I never was really a "Trekkie", nor even watch the shows on a regular basis, I've enjoyed Star Trek and Star Trek: TNG since I was probably 8 years old . . . only in my mid-20's now.
Some of us are science fiction geeks. My first love is model rocketry and RC planes with cars coming a close third. As we said in college "Fore yeeers ago i couldnt even spell Injuneir. Now I are one"
You have no honor!!!
My the flees of a 1000 tribbles come to rest on you!!!!
I'd say at this point, the shining moment of Enterprise was the Mirror Mirror two parter that was on a few weeks ago. Sad that of 4 seasons they could only come up with two good episodes.
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