Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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Baldur's Gait said:
The other day I finished the first season of TOS. And you know what, I really enjoyed it. Some of the episodes still stand strong thanks to great writing such as The Corbomite Maneuver, Balance of Terror, and (of course) The City on the Edge of Forever. The effects do show their age though, especially with Devil in the Dark where the creature looked more like a giant melted pizza.

It is kinda interesting though that a lot of discussion of Star Trek today tends to overlook TOS in favor of TNG and DS9, at least when it comes to the fandom. I'm a little curious as to why that is.
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Because kids are dumb and don't watch it.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
It is kinda interesting though that a lot of discussion of Star Trek today tends to overlook TOS in favor of TNG and DS9, at least when it comes to the fandom. I'm a little curious as to why that is.
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Simply put, it's old, dated and short. I imagine only hardcore ST fans would watch it nowadays (I watched it because it was the first and I always start from the beginning).

Personally I preferred TOS over TNG. TNG isn't bad and has some very good episodes, but I found it rather dull most of the time. TOS is campy and cheesy sometimes, but I'll take that over boredom. Also, TOS has the better movies imo.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
It is kinda interesting though that a lot of discussion of Star Trek today tends to overlook TOS in favor of TNG and DS9, at least when it comes to the fandom. I'm a little curious as to why that is.
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I think part of it is that TNG+DS9+VOY form more of a cohesive whole, while TOS is all over the place since it's basically Twilight Zone in Space, and then the TOS movies have their own unique look and feel from even the show. A lot of it just doesn't fit with what Trek eventually became (the timeskip can't account for everything) so even if people enjoyed TNG or DS9 I can see why they wouldn't feel like they had to watch TOS. Especially since it's been parodied so much that people think they know the show just from cultural osmosis. Personally I enjoyed it because it's so old that it feels fresh again in its outlook and how the characters behave.
 
Zaryiu said:
...when we will meet Picard in the new series he will have made several bad decisions since Nemesis and it gives me the impression we are getting another shitshow
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Well, at least it won't be Picard standing over his sleeping nephew, contemplating on whether he should kill him or not.
Poor Luke.
 
SkeletonBias420 said:
Cue plot where Picard has to slingshot around a sun to travel back in time and torch his brother's house to prevent his nephew from becoming the Borg King in the future.
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Have you ever noticed in TOS and even TNG, if you're a family member or an old friend of the captain, your chances of surviving are worse than a redshirt?
 
That's not true if the actress that plays your character used to have carnal relations with the creator of the series.

Edit oh you said Captain I'm dumb
 
The Gagh Whisperer said:
I just want people flying around in a cool spaceship doing star trek shit.

Is that so fucking hard?
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Impossible, it seems.

It's so depressing. Pretty much every big franchise has gone down the crapper.
The only exception seems to be Back to the Future, everything else has been remade and rebooted and rehashed and then sequels upon sequels of terrible movies and shows... it's so depressing.
 
millais said:
that dog in the poster looks suspiciously similar to a shitbull
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It is. Patrick Stewart apparently rescues them and the consensus is he insisted on a Pit Bull being included like when he insisted on Dune Buggy racing being in Nemesis.
 
XYZpdq said:
:story:
well at least it'll probably worth a laugh at if they're letting him call the shots like that
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Realistically, the only way he was going to agree to do this was if they let him do whatever he wanted. Who knows what else is going to be in it?
 
My prediction: Picard gets imbued with some sort of Q powers. He goes around the galaxy, with his dog, in episodic morality plays...

Its like quantum leap, but shittier...

Remember this is a man pushing 80(or may be 80, i dont know). He cant do much action wise, so its going to be more about decisions or moral choices...
 
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SkeletonBias420 said:
Realistically, the only way he was going to agree to do this was if they let him do whatever he wanted. Who knows what else is going to be in it?
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It's going to focus on his post-starfleet dune buggy racing career. In the pilot episode, he'll end up on a Borg cube, man a shuttle, fly around and start shooting up the place. At some point, he'll yell "Now this is dune buggy racing!"
 
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