Any (original) Star Trek Fans?

by wasasister 28 Replies latest jw friends

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  wasasister

  Anyone remember the one where Kirk got mixed up in the transporter and spit into two people? One Kirk was mean and violent and nasty and tried to feel up Yoman Rand and swore a lot and attacked people for no good reason. The other Kirk was sweet and nice and he seemed better, but he was kind of a woosie and couldn't make a decision or do anything meaningful except talk about Denuvian Slime Bread toppings and he couldn't even get a bulge in the spandex for Yoman Rand, but at least he was polite.

  Gosh, I don't know what made me think of this episode.

  Night all,

  Good Wasa/Bad Wasa
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  Big Tex

  Yeah, I'm a big (sort of) Star Trek fan. What I remember was that dog that had the one horn who got split into two dogs. Oh yeah, and that weird looking bottle of Saurien (sp) brand the bad Kirk kept drinking from. I think the original series had a certain panache and style that the other series don't. Certainly the best written series was The Next Generation, but it lacked the impact the first series had.

  Interestingly enough, my kids are getting into Star Trek. They've been wanting to see one of the movies, in particular "First Contact" (the one with the Borg queen). I thought they were too young, but finally relented and told them I would fast forward through anything scary. Well they ate it up, thought the whole thing was terribly exicting and couldn't imagine what there was in the movie that was scary. Now these are kids that have grown up on Disney movies and outside of the remake of the Parent Trap and Godzilla 2000, haven't seen anything NOT rated G. So go figure.
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  heathen

  I am a big star trek fan .I agree that the old show was alot better than the next attemps that were made in the next generation or voyager.The pom far was my favorite episode where kirk and spock were trying to kill each other cause some crazy broad liked kirk and spock was in heat something like that .
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  onacruse

  Talk about a childhood memory! I still remember like it was yesterday that the original Star Trek series aired on a meeting night, I never got to see an entire original episode. I especially remember the one where the Enterprise was taken in tow by a vessel that was commanded by a very ominous looking creature, and after much effort, eventually caused the alien vessel to burn out it's engines. Turned out that the pilot was actually a midget, using the persona evoked by a puppet to intimidate the Enterprise crew.

  I now have the Sci-Fi channel, watch ST reruns like a long-lost part of my childhood.
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  RandomTask

  Yes, very much so.

  I just got done watching Star Trek II director's edition.
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  Big Tex

  Hey R.T.! What's different in the director's cut from the original movie version? Enquiring minds want to know . . . .
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  Farkel

  I'm sorry, wasa. My parents told me a little about the original Star Trek series, but it was WAAAAAAY before my time! They said it was "demonized."

  Farkel
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  onacruse

  Farkie, that explains a lot about why you have such a peculiar viewpoint of the universe....a Star Trek deprived man is like a fish without a bicycle.

  hehe
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  Farkel

  wasa,

  About eight years ago, I took a business trip to Washington DC and took an extra few days to visit the Smithsonian. In the National Air and Space Museum they had a special exhibit on the old Star Trek. It was a great highlight in my life and I will never forget it. They even had the original models of the Enterprise used in the filming of the episodes from both the original and Next Generation Series. I rented a tape recorder and tape of the exhibit which was narrated by Leonard Nimoy and over the course of the next few hours I learned so much about Gene Roddenberry and the show. I saw so many original props: some of the original "Tribbles" that caused so much trouble, the costumes of all the major players, communicators, phasers, and even what was left of the bridge from the original series.

  Anyway, it was the late 1960's and almost all of Roddenberry's episodes were morality plays about the social times of the day. While the rest of TV was generally offering the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres, Roddenberry was offering plays dealing with human nature and some of the problems of the times. The episode with Frank Gorshin and his enemy where one was black on the left side and white on the other and the other had the opposite coloration was about racism. The "Klingons" represented the Soviet Empire and the Federation was the US and its allies.

  The episode you are talking about is, I believe a modern version of Plato's "split-aparts." The ancient Greeks believed that the Gods made humans so perfect and so complete and so content that humans just weren't any fun to watch. So they "split" them apart into male and female. THEN the fun began.

  Farkel

  P.S. It's a good thing that Jeffrey Hunter never got the starring role as Captain Pike. Because if he did, we wouldn't have William Shatner breaking our eardrums, fine china and wood sheds with his wondrous song today!

  Edited by - Farkel on 27 August 2002 3:59:15
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  teejay

  I was a big fan of the original until the Next Generation came out. In comparison, the original's storylines are more in your face and the sets and acting more campy.

  Like Farkel said, Roddenberry told stories that reflected many of the situations happening back then dealing with civil rights, the cold war, etc. Kirk was a man of action and it never failed that within three minutes of the beginning of the show, he was leading a search team on the planet's surface with phasers on stun.

  Times are a bit more complex now. Moral stories aren't as black and white as they were in 1968. Answers to the problems people had back then have produced other/new problems. So, because of that, NG's stories were / are a lot more philosophical, deeper, since they benefit from the passage of time since Roddenberry addressed some of the issues the first time around.

  Picard, too, relfects that new problem solving technique. Rather than resort to force right off the bat like Kirk, he was more likely to think things thru... see all the angles, and use force as the very last alternative. IMO, he was a better captain.

  For their respective times, they were both great series. Way ahead of their time. When it first aired, the latest NG episode was always the topic of conversation the next day at work. Sometimes we'd even call each other right after the show went off. Must see tv.