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The guy who played the shuttle pilot in Skin of Evil had the easiest job. Just lay there unconscious for the entire episode!

Tasha's demise was pretty mind blowing at the time. Main cast members just didn't get killed onscreen like that in those days. Mind you, she set a world record for security guards surviving in Trek up to that point. I would imagine Denise Crosby still beats herself up a bit over deciding to leave the show to this day.

It may have not been the best of episodes, but the ripples from it defined Data in some ways, (that he kept that hologram of Tasha was touching) and made for some interesting storylines later on.

Where were you in '77?

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Too many things to list? (Exhaust coming out of where the Shuttlecraft bay doors are located was a common error in early artwork of the Enterprise.) IIRC, the Gold Key comics were often done by people who had never actually seen a single TOS episode. But, they were the only Trek comics we had before 1979.

This looks like the comic that came with a little microfilm/filmstrip viewer toy I got at Kmart, only in glorious black and white.

http://www.apieceoftheaction.net/2009/10/star-trek-potpourri-spotlight-1967-star.html

And no, I'm not that old! They were still making the thing well into 1975, or else it was new old stock.

I was pretty pissed the story was incomplete and ended on a cliffhanger no less! There were no additional strips to found at Kmart either.

It was around this same time I saw what looked like a Mego Mr. Sulu. (Or was it Chekov?) I asked my Mom to get it, but no dice. (I had most of the figures plus the bridge playset already.) Never saw it again. So, I do have some sympathy for all the people who claim to have seen Luke throw the grappling hook twice in 1977. ;)

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Tobar said:

 

With all that said, I highly recommend you check it out for yourself. So without further ado here's Star Trek Continues episode 1 Pilgrim of Eternity.

Thanks for the recommendation. THIS. IS. AWESOME!

The sets and lighting are AMAZING. Kirk and Scotty are fantastic. I'm not as crazy about Bones and Spock, but there's enough other greatness to make up for it.

Do you happen to know what their expected turnaround times are for each episode?

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

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I gotta say, I really enjoyed Star Trek Continues E01. The acting and lighting were decent, unlike New Voyages/Phase Two. The story was actually pretty great and engaging, which surprised me (another common fan production problem). They did some of the same stupid stuff that fan productions always do (using TOS actors, using Uhura's first name), but despite that it turned out okay.

And I rather liked Bones.

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Erikstormtrooper said:


Thanks for the recommendation. THIS. IS. AWESOME!

The sets and lighting are AMAZING. Kirk and Scotty are fantastic. I'm not as crazy about Bones and Spock, but there's enough other greatness to make up for it.

Do you happen to know what their expected turnaround times are for each episode?


My friends and I know of Vic Mignogna through his other work as a voice actor.  While he's talented, he's known to be a tad bit arrogant.  So, with that in mind, we watched it together and critiqued his. EVERY. move. It's pretty clearly a vanity project; look at how Kirk always gets the last word.  And, as much as I'd love to hate it on that alone, it's ... perfect.  We really enjoyed it, some of the acting aside.  The lighting, the music, even most of the cinematography - almost everything felt right, technically.    

I'd give it a B+.  The plot is compelling even with some of the Kirk fanwanking going on here.  And props to Michael Forest for bringing some gravity to an otherwise mediocre cast.  Needless to say, I'll be tuning in for the next episode.

 

More importantly, I started DS9.  Just finished season one, and I'm liking it.  I hear it gets... Miles... better, so I'm looking forward to the next few seasons.  It's a little slice of life to start out for sure.</span>

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Awesome, bkev.  As you know, I do love me some DS9, and it does indeed get O'Brien better as it goes along.  I'd say if TNG's first two seasons were terrible and then it get great, DS9 is similar, only its learning curve wasn't quite as extreme.  It's just something of a TNG-lite towards the beginning before developing its own identity.

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bkev said:

 

My friends and I know of Vic Mignogna through his other work as a voice actor.  While he's talented, he's known to be a tad bit arrogant.  So, with that in mind, we watched it together and critiqued his. EVERY. move. It's pretty clearly a vanity project; look at how Kirk always gets the last word.

 

Very good point, and sad to hear.

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timdiggerm said:


And I rather liked Bones.
Larry is a friend of Trek.fm, I know he was excited and nervous. It was kind of a last minute thing, he only had a couple week's prep.

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Erikstormtrooper said:

Do you happen to know what their expected turnaround times are for each episode?

From what I've heard I think they're trying to do two a year.

bkev said:

My friends and I know of Vic Mignogna through his other work as a voice actor.  While he's talented, he's known to be a tad bit arrogant. 

You know I've heard some of that floating around but so far I've seen no evidence of that in my encounters with the man in person.

 

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Just purchased the book Vendetta, sort of a sequel to The Best of Both Worlds, with elements from the TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine."  Cost me one buck.  I'm excited to get into it, and I just finished watching TBOBW in preparation!

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darth_ender said:

I want to get this book some time.

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Phase-II-Series/dp/0671568396/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366348291&sr=8-1&keywords=star+trek+phase+ii

I have that book, it's excellent!   They provide scrips and outlines for the planed episodes. Another excellent book that is a great companion to that one is...

 

 

Still haven't gotten the book I linked to, but the book you included here is now the property of darth_ender.  Price: $0.75 at a Friends of the Library bookstore :)

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Erikstormtrooper said:

That was a good book.

I will be done with Vendetta by midnight tonight.  It really is fantastic!  I expected more Borg, but the direction it took is more what Star Trek is about, with human(oid) drama and moral dilemmas.  I really have enjoyed it thus far, and expect to be satisfied with the conclusion.

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Been watching the Francis The Talking Mule movies from the '50's lately, and was tickled pink to spot a very young Leonard Nimoy in a bit part. Along with a young David Janssen and James Best. That's right, The Fugitive, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane and Spock all in the same movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfv82vqG8Bk

The only other 50's film I've seen Nimoy in is the Republic serial Zombies of the Stratosphere.

Outside The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, have you ever spotted a future Trek actor in other tv shows and movies?

On a related note, I was watching one of the later seasons of Mission: Impossible a while back, when Nimoy was a regular. There's an episode where he's in an apartment, and a Saurian Brandy bottle is on a table. Nimoy even glances at it! That had to be some sort of inside joke.

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Continuing this discussion from the Armchair Movie Critic Thread:

SilverWook said:

The transporter has always been a story problem in that it can be a magical problem solver in one episode or movie, that is forgotten about when a similar dilemma comes up. One reason it frequently gets damaged, or external phenomena renders it useless.

TAS and TNG opened a can of worms in using molecular patterns to reconstitute a character or restore them to health. (The person doesn't remember anything that happened after they last beamed out.) Which leads to the thorny question why you can't beam up someone who just died in your landing party and restore them to life, as the "alive" pattern is still in the buffer?

This discussion is all true, the transporter is a bit of a problematic piece of technology.  One question I have in all Star Treks is why even have a transporter room?  It's clearly not needed, either to dematerialize or rematerialize the person in transit.  And there are times where it broke the rules, such as the TNG episode with Scotty and the Dyson sphere and how our heroes beam through the shields.
Another strange rule in Star Trek is the cloaking device.  I could buy the excuse that it takes too much energy to fire a powerful plasma weapon while cloaked in the earliest days of its development, and thus it had to de-cloak to fire.  However, over the course of 100 years, I'm sure they could have improved on the technology.  I mean, photon torpedoes, for one thing, are self-propelled, and even if they need something to launch them, it seems to me that other things would consume far more energy than the launching equipment, such as the ship's engines.  And considering the substantial tactical advantage that ability would provide (not to mention the Federation's idiotic signing of a treaty that prevented them from actually using the technology), you'd think that research would be heavily invested in that area.  How, in all those years, were there only two ships capable of firing while cloaked?
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I don't like TNG Klingons. They're have no dignity, no intelligence, and no sense of proper hygiene. It's difficult to believe they're supposed to be the same creatures that show up in TOS or even the films.

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Ah, but were there not comments about the smell after the dinner scene in TUC?

Kor, Koloth and Kang (all first encountered in TOS) also appeared on DS9.

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Kodos the Executioner? That's the only Kodos I know, and not a Klingon...

JEDIT:Simpsons joke, eh?

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SilverWook said:


Kor, Koloth and Kang (all first encountered in TOS) also appeared on DS9.


Only as modern Klingons, though, complete with long, tangled hair and bad teeth (and the obligatory rubber foreheads, of course).

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Until recently I thought Who Watches the Watchers? was the worst TNG episode ever made. When I watched The Chase today, however, I realized that wasn't so.