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#752575
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All Things Star Trek
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I didn't too like the idea of a black Vulcan - but no, it has nothing to do with "terran racism", I had huge problems with the white Andorians from Enterprise (how were they called?). It's because it was different what we've seen before - I mean always humans were having different races, but Vulcans were always white (or yellow-white or what's the correct term for Spock's skin colour), Klingons were always black (even though in TOS era they were played by white guys with dark make up), Orions were always green, Bolians were always Blue, just like Andorians ...

If they originally in the 60's defined that there are different races on all (or most) planets I wouldn't have a problem with a black Vulcan (or white Andorian...). It just feels "weird". But Tim Russ is a fine actor, and he was a good Vulcan (even when he was a bit too emotional in some episodes). I hate when they change things (like the Remans who were always the same race as the Romulans and Vulcans but suddenly after Nemesis they're vampires :-(

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#751491
Topic
All Things Star Trek
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DuracellEnergizer said:

The more I read about Roddenberry, the less I like about him, both as a creator/showrunner and as a person.

 That's funny. The more I know about him, the more I respect him. Because he wasn't perfect, like so many fanboys try to believe. He was a flawed human being, he was an alcoholic who had sex with every actress he hired, and at the same time he was a loving family man. He would encourage his writers to go wild with his stories and at the same time he could be a real dick to them when they wanted to go too far. He had a wonderful relationship with the fans and the actors, but a horrible relationship with the studio executives. As a writer he wrote the best Star Trek stories. And at the same time the worst Trek stories.

I like him because he WASN'T perfect.

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#750973
Topic
All Things Star Trek
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bkev said:

pittrek said:



Tobar said:

Darn ever changing internet. There used to be a site that did a shot by shot break down of every single change in the Remastered episodes. Can't find it anymore.


 I hate self-promotion but maybe you'd like my youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/TrekkieChannel



startrek.com used to have detailed breakdown of all the changed scenes in the good old times before it started to suck


Don't they have a good list of those at Memory Alpha?

 Really? I can't find anything like that

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#750513
Topic
All Things Star Trek
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Tobar said:

Darn ever changing internet. There used to be a site that did a shot by shot break down of every single change in the Remastered episodes. Can't find it anymore.

 I hate self-promotion but maybe you'd like my youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/TrekkieChannel

startrek.com used to have detailed breakdown of all the changed scenes in the good old times before it started to suck

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#750494
Topic
All Things Star Trek
Time

Possessed said:

I still love Nemesis, and I don't care who knows it!  Yes it's different and not exactly formula star trek, but there's just something about the tense and almost creepy ambiance that appeals to me.  Plus I LOVE the starfields in this movie in particular.  The one in the last space battle with the green tints to it always drew amazed me, especially when I saw it in the theater.

 Stuart Baird, is that you?

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#746011
Topic
What is your personal Star Trek canon?
Time

TOS is great, except of 99% of the third season episodes.

TAS - a couple of great episodes, a couple of horrible episodes.

The Motion Picture - a very long episode pretending to be a Star Trek version of A Space Odyssey

The Wrath of Khan - excellent movie

The Search For Spock - only good segments are the comedy scenes on Earth and the destruction of the Enterprise, the rest is shit

The Voyage Home - brilliant movie

The Shatner One (I can't remember the name right now which clearly shows the impact it had on me ) - a few good scenes, a lot of really bad scenes horribly edited together

The Undiscovered Country - another brilliant movie

TNG - slow start (in these days it would be canceled during the middle of the first season), but it gets better and better, the last 3 seasons are just brilliant

DS9 - unfortunately I started to like the show only after they came up with the Dominion war, which is kind of sad

VOY - crap. I never liked it. I mean 7of9's boobs are nice to watch, but the rest? A bunch of shitty stories about uninteresting (and a lot of times annoying) characters

ST Generations - crap which makes absolutely no sense. I don't know why people claim the Shatner One is the worst Trek movie, this one is much worse.

ST First Contact - a great fun sci fi action flick

ST Insurrection - a very long episode. Not bad, but not exceptionally good either

ST Nemesis - horrible piece of shit which makes absolutely no sense at all

Enterprise - I liked the first season, a couple of second season episodes, and the third season. Season 4 was absolutely horrible, and I was shocked to find out how many people claim that it's the best one.

Star Trek : The Star Trek - horrible piece of shit which makes no sense at all. The only thing I liked was the main music theme

Star Trek Into Darkness - a much worse rip-off of Wrath Of Khan. But at least it's better than JJTrek, I could enjoy it as an action movie (but not as a Star Trek movie)