Star Trek trivia question I would not have known!

[ToddG]

I love the original series. Years & YEARS ago I bought almost every episode on VHS and still have them. I also have every season of TNG on DVD. Kirk and Picard are the best. All other spin off's do not interest me. It would be real funny If I said the other spinoff's were to bizarre.....
c-ya
ToddG

[Kaffeen]

Originally Posted by Jack Lord

I am usually not one for messing with a legacy and I love the old Trek, warts and all. But I must admit these remasterings look pretty good for the most part.

I'm so glad that George Lucas didn't get his hands in the remastering... Oh the humanity!

Been catching those remastered reruns on the weekends as well. The updates are tastefully understated and stay true to the spirit of the originals.

During all of the reruns of the 1970s, I managed to miss "Mirror Mirror", which I finally saw around 1989. Just a kick-ass story.

Hard to believe a thread on Trek (okay, and Teri Garr) could generate so much interest!

[intotubes]

Originally Posted by ToddG

I love the original series. Years & YEARS ago I bought almost every episode on VHS and still have them. I also have every season of TNG on DVD. Kirk and Picard are the best. All other spin off's do not interest me. It would be real funny If I said the other spinoff's were to bizarre.....
c-ya
ToddG

I hear ya Todd. I'm another hopeless geek that has the entire DVD set of TNG. The wife and I sit down and watch it fairly regularly. She is a converted fan now too.

[Adam]

Assignment Earth was always one of my favorites, I never knew they were thinking of making an entire series based upon it, I wish they had, it would have been good. And I had hoped they would explain about that cat that turned into a girl but they never did.

You now can watch all the Star Trek you want for free on cbs.com, I was happy to find it online, because as much as I like Star Trek (the originals), I could never bring myself to buy the full seasons on DVD because of the high price. With all the tv available on the internet for free (cbs also has the twilight zone, perry mason, hawaii-5-0, nbc has some as well, and something called hulu.com is also full of old tv shows: bewitched, rockford, hitchcock, buck rogers, lost in space,...) I wonder if the change to digital isn't just going to be the end of over-the-air tv. Already (except for 1 uhf channel I like, 56) all of the tv I watch is either from DVDs or over the internet. I'm still undecided as whether to even bother getting one of those converter boxes.

[Jack Lord]

Originally Posted by 70salesguy

Remembering that these episodes were shot in 68 or 69, it was probably pretty hard to look so far into "the future".

The computers certainly look cheesy now, almost 40 years later.

But some things they had right. In the episode I saw Saturday Night, Requiem for Methuselah, there was a large flat viewing screen, not very unlike the Plasma TV that I was watching it on!

Star Trek, like Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Art Deco, Worlds Fair 1964, Shea Stadium, Bauhaus, etc, was their vision of the future at that time. The result is that all these shows or art forms, now look like the past even though they were predicting stuff that has yet to come. Ironically, the future becomes the past before it happens. Its funny when you think the Trek looks "dated" yet it has not happened yet.

And yea, I noticed that widescreen tv for the first time myself. Add it to cell phones, stealth technology, desktop computers, cds and blackberries to things that Star Trek predicted or inspired in pop culture.

Now, what would be the best version of TOS to own for home viewing?

[Jack G]

Originally Posted by Jack Lord

Now, what would be the best version of TOS to own for home viewing?

If you have a player, season 1 is available on HD DVD. I believe its the only version of the remastered shows available. Absolutely fantastic looking.
Jack
EDIT: The first season is combo discs, so it will play on any player. The remastered second season is coming out soon on DVD.

[jetblack]

Originally Posted by 70salesguy

As a person who grew up watching the original Star Trek series...........

Those people are called 'geezers'. But that's ok, because you're in good company. I've probably seen all the episodes. I wish I could stumble across an episode that I haven't seen.

What was slick about the episode you mentioned is that it related the show to the audience of the 60's.

[ablethevoice]

Briefly on the subject of Terri Garr for a moment: Did anyone ever see that utterly bizarre film HEAD? With The Monkees? Terri has a small part in that one.

Anyway, I forgot to mention THIS. Pretty much anything you might want to know about Star Trek straight from the "horse's mouth" as it were (Paramount).

And if anyone here thinks they are ST geeks, you guys (gals?) have NOTHING on the folks who set up these websites!

Ex Astris Scientia

Daystrom Institute Technical Library

Memory Alpha (This one is actually a Wiki-powered ST site).

You know, there are probably more similar sites out there, but I haven't found them; for that matter, I haven't looked for them. As much a fan of the ST universe as I am, I'm not a Spock-eared, home-made-uniform-wearing, spend-all-my-money-on-anything-even-remotely-linked-to-Star Trek obsessive fan.

[Kaffeen]

Originally Posted by ablethevoice

Briefly on the subject of Terri Garr for a moment: Did anyone ever see that utterly bizarre film HEAD? With The Monkees? Terri has a small part in that one.

Anyway, I forgot to mention THIS. Pretty much anything you might want to know about Star Trek straight from the "horse's mouth" as it were (Paramount).

And if anyone here thinks they are ST geeks, you guys (gals?) have NOTHING on the folks who set up these websites!

Ex Astris Scientia

Daystrom Institute Technical Library

Memory Alpha (This one is actually a Wiki-powered ST site).

You know, there are probably more similar sites out there, but I haven't found them; for that matter, I haven't looked for them. As much a fan of the ST universe as I am, I'm not a Spock-eared, home-made-uniform-wearing, spend-all-my-money-on-anything-even-remotely-linked-to-Star Trek obsessive fan.

I swear I'm not trying to one-up ya, man. But check these guys out:

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/

These guys built replica TOS sets and costumes, wrote their own stories, shot them, and added spectacular special effects. On top of that, the stories are really, really great. In fact I think the episode "In Harm's Way" would fit at the top of the TOS heap, as it weaves in and out of three TOS episodes. Best of all, you can download them all for free; a copyright arrangement allows them to use all the original trademark stuff as long as they don't profit from it. Last I checked you could get the Windows media version, or an iso image to burn to a DVD to play on your TV.

Here's more from an article in Wired magazine: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/startrek.html

If you're a real Trek fan, give them a try. I think you may be pleasantly surpised.

[ducati_EL34]

Originally Posted by Kaffeen

I swear I'm not trying to one-up ya, man. But check these guys out:

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/

These guys built replica TOS sets and costumes, wrote their own stories, shot them, and added spectacular special effects. On top of that, the stories are really, really great. In fact I think the episode "In Harm's Way" would fit at the top of the TOS heap, as it weaves in and out of three TOS episodes. Best of all, you can download them all for free; a copyright arrangement allows them to use all the original trademark stuff as long as they don't profit from it. Last I checked you could get the Windows media version, or an iso image to burn to a DVD to play on your TV.

And most of these guys still live in their mom's basement, and have not been on a dat with a real woman in years...