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The Star Treks
- Thread starter mellowinman
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problems that diminish once 7 of 9 is introduced
Got this Captian Jean-Luc Picard Garden Gnome for Christmas.
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- Picard – Engage!
- Riker – Set beard to stunning
- Data – My neural pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns
- Worf - ghIqtal (To the death!)
- Borg – We are the Borg, resistance is futile.
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- Wesley Crusher - Tractor beams are my speciality skipper
- La Forge - Just a nice guy at heart
- Q - Humanity's fate has been sealed. You will be destroyed.
- Troi - I never met a chocolate I didn't like!
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- Kirk - To boldly go where no man has gone before
- Kirk & Gorn - I shall be merciful and quick - Gorn
- Redshirt - Join Starfleet they said. It'd be fun they said
- Spock - Live long and prosper
Since it's a garden gnome, shouldn't that be "To boldly go where gnome-man has gone before"?
Got the TNG full series thanks to a friend mid-last year - finally finished watching it the other day. Series was way better than I even remember (hadn't seen most eps in 10+ years). But then I started watching TOS Season 3 which I picked up recently to finish off the series - shock! Shatner was WAAAAAAYYYYY overacting in the first couple eps I watched. Has anyone else experienced similar?
Of course I'll still keep it...Star Trek was one of the few things my (deceased) mother and I could agree on in life. I still enjoy TOS overall.
Deep Space Nine - should I give it a second chance? I remember thinking "meh" when I saw the first season as a kid. Haven't watched any of it since...
Of course I'll still keep it...Star Trek was one of the few things my (deceased) mother and I could agree on in life. I still enjoy TOS overall.
Deep Space Nine - should I give it a second chance? I remember thinking "meh" when I saw the first season as a kid. Haven't watched any of it since...
The first season was uneven--but the second gets better--and once Sisko grows a beard & then later shaves his head--the show is even better.
DS9 ? Yes! It really picks up from season 2. Especially after Siskin shaves his head
I remember when DS9 started. Who are these people? Everyone is so angry. Where's Captain Picard to make everything okay? It's a great show. Some real stinkeroos in the first season but it pretty much gets progressively better and better from season to season.
I'm a straight up OG Start Trek guy (I refuse to call it TOS, the same way I refuse to call Star Wars, "A New Hope"). Star Trek for me is all about Sunday afternoon crap TV between football seasons. Then, I started watching them again on BBC and Netflix, and was absolutely shocked at how much they cut out of the original run time to add commercials. Sometimes like even ten minutes.
Anywho, when you get down to it, there were only, like, six episodes of Star Trek that they just kept recycling:
1) Omnipotent Super Space Being. Sometimes they want to judge humanity, most times they just want to understand it. Either way, the crew gets caught in compromising situations, often derived from their own psyches.
2) Planet that resembles Earth from some time period in the past, maybe there's a distinct change. It might even be Earth in the past. Like when Kirk wanted to bang Joan Collins, but Spock pushed her in front of a turnup truck so's not to break the future.
3) Human Adversary. Kahn, Harry Mudd, Gary Mitchel.
4) Alien Adversary. Romulan, Klingon, Gorn, Tribble.
5) Human-like alien race that has one major distinction that is the antithesis of our own understanding. Like the right half of the Riddler's face is black, but on the other guy it's the left half.
6) Fight to the Death. Doesn't matter how you get there -- be it an omnipotent super space being, a human adversary, an alien adversary, or you're just on a deathmatch Earth run by beings that for the most part resemble humans -- if there's a fight to death, it's part of this category.
That's pretty much OG Star Trek. If I missed one, I'm sorry, go ahead and amend the list.
Anywho, when you get down to it, there were only, like, six episodes of Star Trek that they just kept recycling:
1) Omnipotent Super Space Being. Sometimes they want to judge humanity, most times they just want to understand it. Either way, the crew gets caught in compromising situations, often derived from their own psyches.
2) Planet that resembles Earth from some time period in the past, maybe there's a distinct change. It might even be Earth in the past. Like when Kirk wanted to bang Joan Collins, but Spock pushed her in front of a turnup truck so's not to break the future.
3) Human Adversary. Kahn, Harry Mudd, Gary Mitchel.
4) Alien Adversary. Romulan, Klingon, Gorn, Tribble.
5) Human-like alien race that has one major distinction that is the antithesis of our own understanding. Like the right half of the Riddler's face is black, but on the other guy it's the left half.
6) Fight to the Death. Doesn't matter how you get there -- be it an omnipotent super space being, a human adversary, an alien adversary, or you're just on a deathmatch Earth run by beings that for the most part resemble humans -- if there's a fight to death, it's part of this category.
That's pretty much OG Star Trek. If I missed one, I'm sorry, go ahead and amend the list.
I realize what the truth was: It's just funnier when Spock pushes her in front of a turnup truck.
Harlen Ellison and "City on the Edge of Whatever"... It's the greatest Science Fiction story ever told! Kirk wants to bang a hot chick, and Spock is opposed because of logic. No one else could have ever thought of anything like that, ever.
Best. Episode. Ever.
