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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #90 on: August 24, 2013, 12:19:00 PM
it definitely has potential, I noticed they're saying Online series... is this just going to be BSG Blood & Chrome? cause that was painful to wait for each 12min segment to finally end up with a pretty cool 2h show.
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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #91 on: August 24, 2013, 12:25:43 PM
I think it looks cool.  I'd like to see Grant Imahara on Star Trek- chances are he's been involved in many episodes before, but behind the camera working with effects and animatronics.  It'll be neat to see him in front of a camera in a non- reality type role.

Also, I'm amazed to see Walter Koenig back in a Starfleet uniform.  He hated the original series and was never taken seriously at the time.  The producers threw him in last minute as a teen heart throb type to try and mimic another very popular show at the time called The Monkees.

That's one of the reasons he put forward such a powerful performance as Al Bester in B5- he wanted to erase the fact that no one took him seriously as an actor, and TBH, I think he was brilliant as Bester.  He was as creepy as they came!

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #92 on: August 24, 2013, 12:53:37 PM
Agree about his performance on B5, very sinister.  >:D

I have to admit though, I kinda thought he was in make-up for the interview.  It took me a few seconds to realise that he is just getting old. :-[
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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #93 on: August 24, 2013, 01:05:58 PM
Yeah well, the 60's were 50 years ago!  I guess the original series crew is proof that you do still age in space!  :P

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #94 on: August 24, 2013, 04:08:51 PM
Yeah well, the 60's were 50 years ago!  I guess the original series crew is proof that you do still age in space!  :P

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #95 on: August 24, 2013, 07:54:31 PM
He was very credible as Bester :)

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #96 on: August 25, 2013, 02:35:41 AM
Wondering about the "not knowing who is right or wrong" story line.

I know that's it's been played out in story lines of the franchise before, but we always had a foundational moral compass in the core cast. Be it on Voyager, DS9, or one of the Enterprises, we could always look to the Command crew for guidance.

But now it seems like the main plot may be somewhat mercenarial in order for the Federation to survive.

I don't know about that...
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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #97 on: August 25, 2013, 02:45:36 AM

Also, I'm amazed to see Walter Koenig back in a Starfleet uniform.  He hated the original series and was never taken seriously at the time. 

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But that was part of the mastery of the production. Here we were, in the very heart of the Cold War, a time when anyone with a Russian accent was suspect, and Roddenberry was able to form the pseudo-Russian character into a teen heart throb.

A small bit of détente at a time when Soviets were always the enemy on television.
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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #98 on: August 25, 2013, 04:33:47 AM
He was very credible as Bester :)

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To me Koenig will always be Alfred Bester. Chekov is just some minor role he had in his early days  :D


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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #99 on: August 25, 2013, 05:09:56 AM
Yes well the Russians were still the bad guys in the original series, only they were Space Russians called Klingons.

Of course the funniest part was when Koenig hit the streets of San Francisco for Star Trek 4 looking for "nuclear wessels."  All of those people you see giving him dirty looks weren't actors- he did that with a hidden camera!

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #100 on: August 25, 2013, 07:47:27 AM
Just watched Into Darkness. You know what? I don't know what everyone keeps complaining about, I for one LOVED it.


....for Star Trek 4....

 :twak: Any good Trekkie knows it's Star Trek IV, not 4.  :pok:
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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #101 on: August 25, 2013, 09:28:55 PM
Any good Trekkie knows that is a derogatory term and that the proper and accepted term is Trekker



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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #102 on: August 25, 2013, 09:35:39 PM
Any good Trekkie knows that is a derogatory term and that the proper and accepted term is Trekker



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Interesting choice for the 40k post. :P

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #103 on: August 25, 2013, 10:57:41 PM
Wow. I knew I was getting closer, I didn't think I was there yet!

40,000 posts and 5,000 members in the same week!

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #104 on: August 25, 2013, 11:04:21 PM
Wow. I knew I was getting closer, I didn't think I was there yet!

40,000 posts and 5,000 members in the same week!

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Reply #105 on: August 25, 2013, 11:12:57 PM
It's your 40,000th post and you decide to make it something so blatantly wrong?  :twak:

Trekker is like people who say Bimmer. It's Trekkie and Beamer  :duel:


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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #106 on: August 26, 2013, 12:06:28 AM
It's your 40,000th post and you decide to make it something so blatantly wrong?  :twak:

Trekker is like people who say Bimmer. It's Trekkie and Beamer  :duel:

Do you really want to go there?  A Beemer is a BMW car. A Bimmer is a BMW motorcycle. 

Come on, put some effort into this stuff.  You'll never make the Big Leagues like Mila and I by lobbing in easy ones all the time!

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #107 on: August 26, 2013, 12:32:39 AM
I know the difference, I've always just hated the way Bimmer sounds. It just sounds...wrong. Same with Trekker.


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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #108 on: August 26, 2013, 12:51:59 AM
Whether you like it or not, those are the terms the people involved with BMW bikes and Star Trek use, and I'd consider them the experts in their fields, so I think we have to give it to them.   :P

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #109 on: August 26, 2013, 01:49:40 AM
Nope.
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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #110 on: August 26, 2013, 10:08:27 AM
Isn't that a bit more Dallas than Star Trek?
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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #111 on: August 26, 2013, 10:43:47 AM
Worth a look. I've watched a couple of episodes.

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Reply #112 on: August 26, 2013, 12:51:25 PM
I saw the first ep. Not too bad a job overall.


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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #114 on: August 29, 2013, 12:08:16 PM
I'm surprised no ones done this yet...

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #115 on: August 29, 2013, 02:41:22 PM
I thought about posting that a few days ago but I was away from the computer when I thought of it.... and then I promptly forgot all about it.  :D

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #116 on: August 29, 2013, 06:06:09 PM
I remember that one. :D  Sadly, once upon a time I probably knew all the words to it. :facepalm:
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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #117 on: September 08, 2013, 12:23:12 AM
Wife and I finally watched into dorkness the other day and enjoyed it regardless of the flaws...

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #118 on: September 08, 2013, 12:47:56 AM
Yeah, there were flaws, but I enjoyed it greatly as well.  I can't see Leonard Nimoy mixing it up physically as much as the Zachary Quinto Spock does.

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Re: The Star Trek thread
Reply #119 on: September 08, 2013, 12:59:18 AM
For the most part it's well cast

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