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I'm writitgn this to see ow may of us watched star Trek.I knwo I grww up on it...see below...
-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), February 19, 2005
OK, I grew up on the Oriigonal trek, and am proobenly the last generation to grow up when "Star Trek" Univerlaly emant Kirk, spock, and McCoy.Pre-The Next generation.
I loved it, and it took a whoel for TNG to warm up on me, but over time I appriciated it too, but never as muh as TOS ( as its not calls, The Origional Series.
So with all the odler folks aorudn here ( Over 30) I was wondeing hwo many lked th origional trek? and ow many lked the ofllowuos,a nd what did you think?
My faovuites seem in order of creaiton, as ot me it fades with each new incarnation.
In order my favourties are, best on top...
1:The Origioanl series. ( All time classic , very creative.)
2:The Next Generation ( A seqauel but wiht decent stories and acting, and likable charecters, and a few excellent episodes. My Favourite episode of any star Trek is in this one.)
3:Deep Space Nine. ( After they began to rip off Babylon 5 it became semi-watchable...)
4:Voyager ( Hated it after "Distant Origins" aired...)
5:enterprise.( Absolutley refuse to acept it as Cannon.)
I laos rmemeber TAS, or the animated Series. i place it wihthte Origional seire sinthis list, since ENT is billed as " Series five" even thogh its series 6. TAS was OK, but on its own I suppose les than TNG, but with several mmeorable episodes.
So, anyoen else?
-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), February 19, 2005.
Loved the original series. That too is my first pick. Still think of Kirk, Spock and McCoy when I think about Star Trek.I watched a little of "The Next Generation" and liked the stories and characters but not in the same way as the original. I think Spock, Kirk and McCoy were such strong characters that everything after was sort of disappointing. At least for me.
Never could get into any of the others that followed.
-- Jim (furst@flash.net), February 19, 2005.
They claim to have seen UFO's from time to time. My beief is that they are not from another planet but that they are demons from right here.
-- TC (Treadmill234@south.com), February 19, 2005.
who cliasmUFO's? Im talkign a telvision show...and Furst, i agree, the origional cast has a sornger preasence, but alas! most yougner folks necer see TOS, so they asusme TNG started it all...mores the pity...as they say...
-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), February 19, 2005.
Yes, I also watch Star Trek and many Sci Fi shows...The new Battlestar Galactica series is pretty good...
-- Kevin Walker ("navyscporetired@comcast.net"), February 19, 2005.
I'm too young to remember the original series. I grew up during "The Next Generation." I was never THRILLED with them, but they were fun to watch. Since then, I've developed a healthy taste for the orginal motion pictures (Search for Spock, etc..).Hey, cheers for Shatner's acting career these last couple years. Either you love 'em or hate 'em, but he adds so much to a movie.
-- Luke Juarez (hubertdorm@yahoo.com), February 19, 2005.
I grew up watching Star Trek TOS in the late 60's and early 70's. I liked the old series, but I also liked "The Next Generation", "Deep Space Nine", "Voyager" and "Enterprise". Also the animated series and the ten movies. I was lucky enough to meet Mark Leonard, Walter Koenig, Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis and Robin Curtis at a Star Trek convention a few years ago. Also Robert O'Reily at a StellarCon years later.
-- Garret Ford (Parallax281457689@Yahoo.com), February 19, 2005.
I was raised on Star Trek, Star Wars, and Isaac Asimov. I love sci-fi.
-- Anti-Bush (comrade_bleh@hotmail.com), February 21, 2005.
I love Sci fi too. Try this show AB, "Doctor Who". Their even makikgn enw apisodes.My only problem is Modenr sci fi has become abotu guns and effects an dno idas, so the stories on average suck, bt novels remain fairly good , but even they too becme too politiicesd.
One can aways read "Zanth" though...
-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), February 21, 2005.
Ok......I'll say something about Star Trek.On one episode, there was this new guy--Rodriguez--who got sent with a landing party to secure this planet. I thought, "groovy", finally a family member made it into the crew of the Star Ship Enterprise! Then, poof! He got turned into a cube of salt or something. So much for Rodriguez.
..............
-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), February 21, 2005.
"We come in peace" (set phasers for stun).The one thing I learned early on was...if you are dressed in red and you beam down to a planet before the Captain does...you are NOT coming back!
One thing that always baffled me was why the Enterprise didn't just beam nuclear warheads or armed Photon torpedos over to either the inside of enemy warships or nearby and then watch the fireworks.
Oh and the time factor...all that zipping about at warp speed and when the crew returns to Earth centuries haven't passed. Didn't Einstein predict that relativity of time would mean they travel into the future as compared to Earth time?
So literally, every time they return to Star-base, they should have been given a new starship decked out with even more advanced stuff.
-- Joe (joestong@yahoo.com), February 21, 2005.
"We come in peace" (set phasers for stun).Gotta love Kirks Gumption.
The one thing I learned early on was...if you are dressed in red and you beam down to a planet before the Captain does...you are NOT coming back!
That's why starfleet isues red Uniforms isnt it? To ake sure tey where clealry isible tot he enemy? And like Bulls its a well known fact that most aleins respond badly to the Colour red...
One thing that always baffled me was why the Enterprise didn't just beam nuclear warheads or armed Photon torpedos over to either the inside of enemy warships or nearby and then watch the fireworks.
Because the enemies had Sheilds too, and you cannot beam through sheilds. That and Im retty sure you can't beam over Photon Torbpedoes anwyay, sicne thye contian Anti_Matter which cannto be transported. Nuclear warheads cant be beamed either... they inerfee wihhe transporter. ( Heck Ion storms do...)
Oh and the time factor...all that zipping about at warp speed and when the crew returns to Earth centuries haven't passed. Didn't Einstein predict that relativity of time would mean they travel into the future as compared to Earth time?
Beleive it or not, thir are two perfeclty good explanatiosn fo rhtis.
1; Its just a TV show.
2: Trekkies though of his as wlel, and disregarded explanation 1, and have the new explanaiton.
See, Warp drive doesnt mean he ship is travelign faster-than-light, which si impossible, raher, it warps space aroudn he ship at faster- than-light, so techniclaly eerythign is moving around he ship, rather thn the ship moving.
Kind of like he Mountian comin to Mohammad.
(Thus all ime cmpresion only efects the people they are travelign to see...)
So literally, every time they return to Star-base, they should have been given a new starship decked out with even more advanced stuff.
See above, their tehcniclaly aging faster, but not by centiries because of wird tehcnobabble particles...
-- Captain Zarove, USS Nexion, NCC-33393-A (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), February 21, 2005.
oh and Rod, atleat ou saw your families future...He paid the ultimat eprice for us to travel to where no man has gone before and see women in miniskirts and poity ears...
-- Capt.Zarove (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), February 21, 2005.
The Original Star Trek were great, the rest were about as good as a honda cruiser is to a Harley. Nice try, but no dice.Frank
-- Someone (ChimingIn@twocents.cam), February 21, 2005.
the warp drive allowed the ship to move faster than the speed of light.therefore, the Enterprise could travel to planets covered in rocks made of light cardboard, with the right mixture of Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, good weather, and aliens that always managed to look all too human, all in the time it took a kettle to boil.
it was also, incidentally, light years ahead of its time in terms of its racial integration. remember Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhuru - oh, the tension.
the worst episode i think was the one about the Yings and the Yangs [got that right?] - soooo corny: though the one where Spock's brain was stolen was pretty terrible too.
.. but the original Star Trek will always be a classic - just as the Afro is a classic haircut, and flares a classic trouser-cut.
-- Ian (ib@vertifgo.com), February 21, 2005.
RodSorry about the fate of your namesake on Star Trek.
But really,--- anyone "new" or "previously unknown" who had the bad luck to be beamed down with Kirk, Spock, or McCoy was dead meat. It was a given.
I don't even think any of them ever got acting jobs after being disintegrated, melted, eaten or prematurely aged to death on an episode.
-- Jim (furst@flash.net), February 21, 2005.
Yup, Rodriguez should have worn a blue shirt instead. But, hey, remember Sandoval in that funky garden with the poisonous vegetation? But, of course, the one an only favorite Star Trek movie, in my opinion, was The Wrath of Kahn. I loved the scene where they're trapped in the Genesis garden and all looks lost. Kirk gets his communicator and calls for help followed by Spock's dramatic eyebrow gesture................
-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), February 21, 2005.
1: spokes Brian is considered bad, but I liked it...I think its hated becaue its called bad and other spikc upon it.2: Rodregez is a decentant of Rod's, we just made part of Trek History.
3: what about that guy who beamed down to that palnet run by hose fuedal Lords... he saw a Klingon and sai "Look, a Klingon" and pulled a Phaser ad was stabbed with a Knife hrugh the chest, less than 60 Seconds afer beamdown. Shortest red-Short away misison ever...Wish I recalled he episode.
-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), February 21, 2005.
Rod,Agree completely, Wrath of Khan was by far the best of the Star Trek movies. And as far as Ricardo Monteban, I only hope I'm that buff when I turn 70. He played a great Khan.
Frank
-- Someone (ChimingIn@twocents.cam), February 21, 2005.
If you care to look up something that may not be fiction, look up the Phladelphia experiment. A world war 2 experiment that had a ship docked ooutside of Philly, which ended up o Long Island twenty five years into the future. A "beam me up Scotty thing".
-- TC (Treadmill234@south.com), February 22, 2005.
I've been readong up on that, actaly...The experement was suppsoe o turn a ship invisioble, and fialed. Howeve they think it may have opened a pre-existant ormhole.
-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), February 22, 2005.
Zarove; If you are interested. There is a program Thursday night into friday morning called coast to coast am. it is on ABC radio.In the east it is one am to 5 am. I attach a 6 hour video tape to my radio and can listen the next day.
Anyway it is going to be about the Philadelphia experiment.
If you go to google and type in Coast to coast AM. You can find out more about it.
-- TC (Treadmill234@south.com), February 22, 2005.
FrankI agree, Ricardo looked great, but alas, he admitted to wearing a rubber prosthetic chest to enhance the image.
I have to get one of those, my workouts just aren't doing the trick.
-- Jim (furst@flash.net), February 22, 2005.
I may just tune inot "Art Bell" that night, Ive alays been facinated with "The Philidephia Project".
-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNOC.OM), February 22, 2005.
Sorry , I couldn't resist thisone :)I like the Cpt. Kirk & Cpt. Picard versions , both are equal to me !!
But the humour of Mr Spock , no-one has ever done better !!
Also Lorne Greene's , Battlestar Galactica ,
Martin Landau & Space 1999 , and also V , I just love them !!!!
And The Twilight Zone , but actually , it's more mysterious "horror" with sometimes , just a slide of sci-fi-elements !!
Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi TV Shows
I grew up with all of them !!
Salute & Cheers from a NON BELIEVER:
-- Laurent LUG (.@...), February 23, 2005.
My parents are trekkies Im a trekkie, my husband is one and now my 4 year old son is. He like enterprise, which doesn't have my approval, but it has been cancled anyway, only a couple of episodes left. Im upsest with stargate sg1 and stargate atlantis
-- kat (riesoracle@hotmail.com), February 23, 2005.
Kat , why ??Salute & Cheers from a NON BELIEVER:
-- Laurent LUG (.@...), February 23, 2005.
Zarove;Did you get to hear that show on the Philadelphia experiment? I could not believe what I was hearing. The Phladelphia experiment was only part of the wildest story that I have ever heard.
-- TC (Treadmill234@south.com), February 25, 2005.
Regretabely I fell asleep, so no, hwoever, I have heard it before.is their any way I cna download older roadcasts?
-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), February 25, 2005.
I don't know if you can download it. I think that you might. Go to coast to coast AM and check it out. It was wild.
-- TC (Treadmill234@south.com), February 25, 2005.
Coast to Coast has kept me awake for many a night. George Nooray (SP?) seems like a nice fellow, but you just can't beat Art Bell.
-- Jim (furst@flash.net), February 26, 2005.
Of course Art Bell was the original and the original can't be topped.I found only about one out of five shows to be interesting. Most about Flying saucers from space and life on Mars, I find too far fetched.
When they have a Creationist, or something applying to this world, I listen. That is by delayed action tape. If I think it is going to be good I leave the tape recorder running.Listen at my own leisure.
-- TC (Treadmill234@south.com), February 26, 2005.
Agreed TC I'm not big on the UFO's either, or when people call in to tell their "wierd" stories.Its hit or miss. But a good subject will keep me up till its time to get up.
-- Jim (furst@flash.net), February 26, 2005.
I have never heard a story more wierd than the Philadelphia experiment.This man is either crazy or is the best liar that I have ever heard.
-- TC (Treadmill234@south.com), February 27, 2005.
Jim,That's a bummer about old Ricardo. I thought if I worked at it, I could keep fit. LOL, OTOH, since it isn't going to do me any good, I might as well start scarfing down the "Ho Ho's".
Frank
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