45 Years Ago!

kiwi_2005 · 09-08-11, 06:43 AM

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Jimbuna · 09-08-11, 07:00 AM

Some Enterprise Captains are far more interesting than Mr Kirk

Oberon · 09-08-11, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Some Enterprise Captains are far more interesting than Mr Kirk

[Nerd] She isn't an Enterprise captain, she is the captain of the USS Voyager

Rachel Garrett on the other hand:

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Jimbuna · 09-08-11, 09:50 AM

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[Nerd] She isn't an Enterprise captain, she is the captain of the USS Voyager

Rachel Garrett on the other hand:

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Star Trek just the same isn't it?

BTW....I doubt I ever missed an episode of DS9 a fantastic show that didn't get as much recognition as it deserved.

Growler · 09-08-11, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Star Trek just the same isn't it?

BTW....I doubt I ever missed an episode of DS9 a fantastic show that didn't get as much recognition as it deserved.

Never got a chance to get into DS9, though I'm given to understand that I'm missing something pretty good.

Watching Voyager again with the missus, thanks to Netflix. Going to have to see if DS9 is available there.

danasan · 09-08-11, 10:04 AM

As a kid, I did almost everything to watch Star Trek.

Nowadays, while watching some of old episodes, I ask myself: "What did they smoke while they were making those episodes?"

razark · 09-08-11, 10:39 AM

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Nowadays, while watching some of old episodes, I ask myself: "What did they smoke while they were making those episodes?"

I've been going through the box set of the first season lately. I've had a few moments just like that. I've also had a few moments of "Wow! I can't believe I never noticed that before!"

Amazing how much of the show inspired the future. Also fun to see how much more advanced the world is now than it was in the 1960's future.

vienna · 09-08-11, 01:20 PM

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BTW....I doubt I ever missed an episode of DS9 a fantastic show that didn't get as much recognition as it deserved.

Agreed. I was never a fan of the original series (found it hard to get around my dislike of Shatner). Liked Next Gen and Voyager much more. I really, really liked Deep Space 9. The whole premise of a station somewhere out on the fringe of the Federation, like some Old West fort far out on the frontiers, facing who knows what was extremely appealing. The fact the station was manned and commanded by personnel who really didn't want to be there but were there because of some twist of fate or another really added to the tension and darkness of the series. The never knowing who was really friend or foe, the having to deal with complex moral decisions of life and death, duty and conscience, marality and necessity gave DS9 a grit the other series never really approached. There was an episode were the captain had to decide wether to allow another character to use overly harsh torture methods to extract extremely vital information during interrogation of a prisoner that resonates in today's ethical arguments over prisoner treatment. All in all, perhaps a better series than the others and their rather self-righteous morality plays...

BTW, regarding Shatner: when I was younger and before I moved to Los Angeles, my family used to go to L.A. for summer vacation. I would wander off on my own and one day I found myself in Hollywood at the old Desilu Studios (now part of the Paramount Studio complex). Star trek was fillmed at Desilu at the time and fans would leave scrawled grafitti messages on the exterior walls, Most were the usual fan writings. "I Grok Spock", "Star Trek Forever", "Live Long and Prosper", etc. Some were personal messages of admiration for specific actors/characters. Oddly, there were none for Shatner or Kirk, that is except for one message written in large, block letters that read "Dump Shatner!!"; to this day, when I think of that scrawl, I wonder if Shatner ever had to walk past it on his way in or out of the studio and I wonder which member of the cast may have written it...

mako88sb · 09-08-11, 11:03 AM

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Never got a chance to get into DS9, though I'm given to understand that I'm missing something pretty good.

Watching Voyager again with the missus, thanks to Netflix. Going to have to see if DS9 is available there.

I found it took a couple of seasons for DS9 to really click with me, but after that, wow! What a great series. The Jem'Hadar episodes are some of my favorite Trek shows ever. The only problem I had with the series is the Ferengi focused shows. I just find them irritating and hard to watch those episodes. The main guy Quark, however, eventually did grow on me.

According to IMDB, DS9 will be available on Netflix in October.

Growler · 09-08-11, 12:49 PM

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I found it took a couple of seasons for DS9 to really click with me, but after that, wow! What a great series. The Jem'Hadar episodes are some of my favorite Trek shows ever. The only problem I had with the series is the Ferengi focused shows. I just find them irritating and hard to watch those episodes. The main guy Quark, however, eventually did grow on me.

According to IMDB, DS9 will be available on Netflix in October.

Thanks for the heads-up! Between catching up on DS9 once it's available, Torchwood, Sherlock Holmes (the version with Martin Freeman) and the remainder of Voyager, what limited TV time I use has been spoken for until about 2020.

09-08-11, 08:42 PM

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BTW....I doubt I ever missed an episode of DS9 a fantastic show that didn't get as much recognition as it deserved.

DS9 was the only Series that I hadn't seen a lot of, it never aired, fortunately for me I found a way to watch it so I've been going through the episodes from the beginning and it is a pretty awesome series.

Sailor Steve · 09-08-11, 09:26 PM

Interesting points about Shatner's ego, and the reasons he didn't guest star on any of the other series. I don't doubt that the stories are true.

On the other hand, I have a game-designer friend who worked with Paramount back in the early '70s on the very first Star Trek game project. He met the cast and even got to talk to them a few times, and his take was that William Shatner was the only one he would ever care to go drinking with. He thought Shatner was the only one of the group who didn't take himself over-seriously, or was remotely interesting to talk to.

geetrue · 09-08-11, 11:27 PM

Star Trek came out 45 years ago and my first look at Star Trek was on my first patrol 43 years ago on the Ethan Allen SSBN 608 blue.

We always had the latest series for Star Trek movies every patrol along with Mission Impossible and Clint Eastwood movies we were able to pass the 90 days with a movie every night.

I hear they have screens in their bunks now ... no telling what they are watching now lol

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danasan Elite Spam Hunter Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Flensburg / Germany Posts: 1,141 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	As a kid, I did almost everything to watch Star Trek. Nowadays, while watching some of old episodes, I ask myself: "What did they smoke while they were making those episodes?" __________________ "I invite you to go inside this submergible hole in the water where you can nicely hide from destroyers."

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Interesting points about Shatner's ego, and the reasons he didn't guest star on any of the other series. I don't doubt that the stories are true. On the other hand, I have a game-designer friend who worked with Paramount back in the early '70s on the very first Star Trek game project. He met the cast and even got to talk to them a few times, and his take was that William Shatner was the only one he would ever care to go drinking with. He thought Shatner was the only one of the group who didn't take himself over-seriously, or was remotely interesting to talk to. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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geetrue Cold War Boomer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Walla Walla Posts: 2,837 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Star Trek came out 45 years ago and my first look at Star Trek was on my first patrol 43 years ago on the Ethan Allen SSBN 608 blue. We always had the latest series for Star Trek movies every patrol along with Mission Impossible and Clint Eastwood movies we were able to pass the 90 days with a movie every night. I hear they have screens in their bunks now ... no telling what they are watching now lol __________________