Star Trek Thread

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Gojira

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SigP226 said:
Rodenberry was often opposed to such things.

Equality for women, and the thought of an interracial kiss may have been frowned upon in the 60's. However, those things are not against the teachings of the Bible. The current things that we are seeing in Star Trek, especially in the new series.... are!

TNG, and Enterprise pushed the envelopes when they introduced species with no gender. DS9 showed a lesbian kiss. That's where TREK started go off the rails.

Discovery seems to be more of a show about pushing agenda than anything else, it's a very IN YOUR FACE push.
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Yeah, disappointing. The production values, VFX, the way they portray the Klingons... all really well done. A shame they have to pollute it by introducing unnatural perversions.
 
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what makes DS9 good is the characters. Garak, Dukat, the founders, The dominion. the story line. it was darker then TNG or TOS ever was.
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That is true. Those 3 or so seasons of the Dominion war were great. Had some of the best writing, methinks. In the Pale Moonlight was such a good episode. The ambushing of the Cardassians and Romulans was freaky. But, in a good way. The way the Romulan officer announces the number of Dominion ships, "...150!..." pretty much told you how this was going to go.

I'd love a confrontation between the Borg and the Dominion. Though, I have to think it wouldn't last long.
 
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I was always intrigued how Data would shuffle a deck of cards with one hand.
 
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Ugh. I don't even want to talk about Star trek right now.

Star trek discovery was bad enough. But between that, Star trek Picard and Star trek below decks... they have just pulled down their pants and taken a big dump all over what I used to love.
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I haven't watched Star Trek Discovery, so I can not generate an opinion, but it is a shame that CBS has locked Picard and Discovery behind their All Access subscription program. Wish they could put it on Netflix and regular old television. Also, Star Trek TNG, TOS and Voyager are the best IMO
 
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I had an AMT model of the D-7 class Klingon battlecruiser when I was a kid. I thought of looking those up and repurchasing them, but this time with an adult's attention to detail and care.

Oh... saw the original TOS Klingon warship on sale at a ST convention about 15 years ago. Was going for about $35,000. If only...

When Jesus returns and restores everything, I'm going to ask for a Klingon battlecruiser to tour the Heavens with, and a planet to explore with a Toho ecosystem.
 
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Gojira said:
I love all Star Trek except for "Enterprise". That had its moments, but the design of the ship, and other elements that ruined the ST timeline, all because Rick Berman claimed artistic license, took me out of that series.
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Season 3 of Enterprise is quite good. They stick very close to the arc story of finding the Xindi home world and saving earth. There were only one or two eps that were their own independent story and weak. That arc starts and concludes in that season.

All the other seasons merely had a good ep here and there.

The real shame with Enterprise is they missed the great opportunity of having the exciting wonderment of starting off into deep space and discovering things and alien species for the first time (besides the Volcans, according to ST cannon). But they didn't do that.

They made it so earthlings already knew many alien species and things. The first ep has the ship doctor an alien species (not Volcan)! There were practically no first-meetings eps, and when there were, they didn't play out like the momentous meetings they should always be. Very sad.

Technically it was set 90 years after Cochrane's first warp flight, rather than say, one to ten years. Again, that's a real shame; could have been something new.
 
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Sculpt said:
Season 3 of Enterprise is quite good. They stick very close to the arc story of finding the Xindi home world and saving earth. There were only one or two eps that were their own independent story and weak. That arc starts and concludes in that season.

All the other seasons merely had a good ep here and there.

The real shame with Enterprise is they missed the great opportunity of having the exciting wonderment of starting off into deep space and discovering things and alien species for the first time (besides the Volcans, according to ST cannon). But they didn't do that.

They made it so earthlings already knew many alien species and things. The first ep has the ship doctor an alien species (not Volcan)! There were practically no first-meetings eps, and when there were, they didn't play out like the momentous meetings they should always be. Very sad.

Technically it was set 90 years after Cochrane's first warp flight, rather than say, one to ten years. Again, that's a real shame; could have been something new.
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I would generally agree with that. I would have wanted to see this design for the ship, for starters:

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So, the big question!

What are the Top 5 Star Trek Original Recipe Eps? (and your honorable mentions)

1. Space Seed
2. The Corbomite Maneuver
3. Balance Of Terror
4. The Doomsday Machine
5. The Immunity Syndrome

Honorable Mentions:
The Enterprise Incident
The Ultimate Computer
Wink of an Eye
Court Martial

I tend to go for the deeper sci-fi and exciting action thrillers. .
 
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* Balance of Terror
* Doomsday Machine
* The Enterprise Incident
* Mirror Mirror
* Errand of Mercy
* The Ultimate Computer
* City on the Edge of Forever (perhaps the best performance by William Shatner I've ever seen)
 
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If you like to Star Trek novels there's one called ship of the line. It's James Kirk's first trip into space at 17 and he goes all John McClain on these pirates
 
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You know, I've only read two. Not a huge novel guy in general. That being said, some of these novels would be great episodes or even movies.
 
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