Star Trek

[creaturerevenge]

My Star Trek (TOS) autograph display out in the hallway with a "collector's plate" and an original TV Guide.




Rob

NICE!!! Really cool piece!

[Phantom Stranger]

I've enjoyed all the Treks, but the original is my all time favorite. Kirk is the man as far as i'm concerned.
Favorite episode: City On The Edge Of Forever
Favorite movie: The Wrath Of Khan

[nospillblood]

Original series for me. The follow-ups always struck me as "Star Trek: The Afterschool Special" -- all that politically correct nonsense about people's feelings - blechh.  Go fight some lizard-head aliens for cryin' out loud! I particularly dislike some of the actors/characters in the follow-up series -- Data, Q, Guinan, Janeway -- ugh.

Currently watching the old eps with the new FX in HD on Netflix streaming -- looking fantastic.  I do like the new movie reboot, too, so I'm not a total cranky ol' crab.

You and I are two very different people. Data and Janeway are like the best characters ever. I also like when they deviate from the rubber aliens to talk about the more cerebral aspects of the series (not that I don't like lizard-headed aliens). At least we can agree that the new movie was pretty cool.

Since everyone seems to be mostly fans of TOS, what was everyone's favorite TOS episode? I always have a soft spot for Arena, mostly because I love the Gorn in it, but I've also always really liked The Menagerie. It was a really well written and played out episode and made really cool use of the original pilot episode they had filmed with Captain Pike.

Those were good episodes. Some of my favorites are "Shore Leave" and "Gamesters of Triskellion.". I just watched "City on the Edge of Forever" and thought it was pretty radical as well.

[Paladin]

I read an old book about Star Trek during last week's storm thats been sitting on my shelf for a while and the series started coming back to me. I read a lot of books about old time TV and radio and consider myself a TV and radio historian of sorts. For me it's stress relief.

Kirk tried to act as a buffer between McCoy and Spock. Their love- hate relationship was entertaining at times.
I never got the impression that Kirk was a "tough guy" captain, though. He would almost always find himself and the crew in some kind of a pickle and in the end would wiggle out of it and save face.
But the show was solid and the writing was, for the most part, very good.
Martin Landau was really the first choice to play Spock but didn't want the role and then Leonard Nimoy was hired.
Roddenberry did get the brainstorm from viewing some of the older westerns and thought of it as "Wagon Train to the Stars". Trek was actually rejected by another network before NBC picked up the second pilot.

[The Batman]

"Star Trek the video game" is coming out late this month. I will get it for my XBOX 360
'Looks good so far:
Star Trek - the Game (2013)

'Love TOS and Star Trek Next Generation, but then I stopped watching it. I tried to get interested in other versions of Star Trek but just couldn't sit through more than a couple of episodes. I still have a communicator in my collection.

At one point I almost had all of the Next Generation on video tape, but eventually needed to make room. 'Have to get 'em on DVD one of these days.

[Moonshadow]

I love that Shatner did this:

STAR TREK: THE VIDEO GAME -- Shatner vs. Gorn Trailer

[The Batman]

I love that Shatner did this:

STAR TREK: THE VIDEO GAME -- Shatner vs. Gorn Trailer

THANKS for posting that!

[Mike Scott]

I recently bought the ST: TOS sets with the redone spfx. Usually I don't like things, like colorization, but I'm kinda liking these.

[Therin of Andor]

I didn't see a ST thread so I went ahead and made this. I figure we can discuss all shows, OS, TNG, DS9, Voyager...

I just realised I have not yet shared something really cool for this Aussie fan of "Star Trek" (since seeing "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in December 1979). I spent much of 1980 catching up with all the previous Trek I had missed, meeting new Trek friends (most of whom hated the movie I had loved so much) and I did my first cosplay in August 1980.


Therin of Andor as a redshirt by Ian McLean, on Flickr


My first ever Photoshop: me as Therin meeting me as Grol by Ian McLean, on Flickr

(That pic of Therin and Grol side-by-side was my first ever attempt at Photoshop in about 1997.)

So, eight loooooong months ago, I had to sign a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement). It was relaxed two weeks ago with the premiere of Season Two of "Star Trek: Picard".


10 Forward bar by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Production Designer, Dave Blass had tweeted pics from the sets, as did "Entertainment Tonight", meaning I can now discuss my secret. Look carefully at these pics of John deLancie (Q) and Patrick Stewart (Picard) and you will see... my cosplay and fanfic characters, Therin of Andor and Grol of Tellar (and even the insignia of the ship I used in fanfic, USS Hood). We are set decorations in Guinan's new 10 Forward Avenue bar.

All I can say is "Whoopi, I have become canon!"


Therin and Grol in "Star Trek: Picard", Season 2 by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Here, Therin is almost sitting on Q's shoulder!:


Q in the 10 Forward Avenue bar by Ian McLean, on Flickr

I started getting messages from friends who had invitations to the online After Party, which was being hosted live from the 10 Forward Avenue bar! The person explaining to the audience about the cosplay photos even pointed at my framed pic! It seems they have added another version of the Therin & Grol two-shot as a simulated Polaroid, just left of the framed pic. (The larger pic of them is still up the top in wider views.)


Therin in 10 Forward Avenue bar by Ian McLean, on Flickr

The bar set then toured around LA as a "pop up bar", where fans could book in for a visit.

And for a Season Three update:
https://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=22679.msg619165#msg619165

[Mike Scott]

Well done, Ian! How cool to be a prop on a ST show! 

[Doh!]

Wow! That's more than a little cool!!

[Mike Scott]

Actually, he's not a prop, he's set dressing. Unless somebody picks him up, then he's a prop.

[judd]

If you are into the original series I would recommend checking out Star Trek Continues.  It's free to watch on YouTube.  They produced a couple of short teasers before the episodes.  One can sample it before watching an entire episode.  It is professionally produced and had guest stars from the original series, TNG, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Doctor Who, the Incredible Hulk and Farscape.  It's like watching a lost episode of the first series.

[Hepcat]

Original series for me. The follow-ups always struck me as "Star Trek: The Afterschool Special" -- all that politically correct nonsense about people's feelings - blechh.  Go fight some lizard-head aliens for cryin' out loud! I particularly dislike some of the actors/characters in the follow-up series -- Data, Q, Guinan, Janeway -- ugh.

I agree!

Still I much prefer Captain Picard to Captain Kirk. It's the rest of the characters on The Next Generation series who were execrable.

[Hepcat]

What killed this series for me, as well, was the "Prime Directive" that was so rigidly enforced but was almost never enforced.

Absolutely! What was particularly irritating was this episode:

A Piece of the Action

The implication of course being that any government, even one run by crooks/mobsters, is better than none.

I did enjoyThe Undiscovered Country, and a few of the other films, because it did mirror the rift between east and west- Glasnost.

The Undiscovered Country movie delighted me upon its release for that same reason.