Boldly going: Star Trek and spaceflight

The Space Review ^ | 11/28/05 | Dwanye Day

[KevinDavis]

I prefer the opeing mologue in Firefly....

[KevinDavis]

[Danae]

It's out there.... trust no one

[SamAdams76]

I wish it wasn't so simple and I wish we didn't think it was so difficult.

[DManA]

Ironically, everywhere they went, there were people already there.

to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

[atomicpossum]

Dwayne A. Day used to be a Trekkie. He got better.

And Trek got worse.

[Arkinsaw]

Love the original Star Trek, was happy with the Next Generation. Then they got greedy, greedy, greedy, and carried the politically correct theme way beyond decency and spoiled it for me forever.

[HitmanLV]

the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before.

Hey! That's my line!!! The girls love it! ;-)

[Oztrich Boy]

I prefer the opeing mologue in Firefly....

Aguably the ST one is "more famous", bu my reaction to it was always more "whatever" than "wow"

Here's how it is: Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with new technologies, some not so much. Central Planets, them was formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of the Serenity. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too, his genius sister from some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is. - Firefly

It was The dawn of the Third Age of Mankind: ten years after the Earth/Minbari war. The Babylon Project was a dream given form; it's goal, to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully.
It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped up in two million five hundred thousand tonnes of spinning metal, all alone in the night.
It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258, the name of the place is Babylon 5.

These mention people. The ST one could be about a robot probe going to dangerous places while NerfMan sits safely at home.

And:
He was brought across in 1228. Preyed on humans for their blood. Now, he wants to be mortal again, to repay society for his sins,to emerge from his world of darkness, from his endless Forever Knight.

[Itzlzha]

I prefer them more like the following...

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Hey, I got bumped from the SpacePing list, KD. Please beam me in once again. I read them all and comment on a few.

[RebelBanker]

I like Firefly's theme song:

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found serenity
But you can't take the sky from me

[Bulwark]

Then they got greedy, greedy, greedy, and carried the politically correct theme way beyond decency and spoiled it for me forever.

I hear that argument a lot, but I just don't see it.

What I do see is a show that got progressively less imaginative during and after TNG and couldn't come up with any original plotlines. The constant recycling of stories and the time travel mishmashes just became too much to watch. Esp during Enterprise. If only someone would show the new Doctor Who over here, everything would be perfect.

[Reaganesque]

Coolest Captain Ever.

[Sybeck1]

Love me some sexy Vulcans!

[Sybeck1]

Anybody watch Starship Exeter? http://www.starshipexeter.com/

[HitmanLV]

I surrender!

[Sybeck1]

http://www.starshipexeter.com/

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Love me some sexy Vulcans!

Pfft....

Sure, they look good in spandex, but do you remember how a Vulcan does it? Spock hooked up with the Romulan commander in the episode where Kirk and Spock steal the cloaking device. Rubbing finger-tips ain't exactly my idea of fun.

And then there's Pon far. Every seven years? To rub finger-tips? I mean, why bother?

[Forest Keeper]

Surprisingly, whereas many of the original shows fans considered it to be groundbreaking and espousing liberal values—it featured a multiracial cast and the first interracial kiss...

A seminal moment in television history.