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What Are Your Thoughts on the State of Star Trek

  • It's Great! The New Shows Add to a Rich Tapestry!

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • The new shows are awful, dumbed-downed, JJ-ized caricatures of Star Trek

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • The new stuff needs some tweaking, but retains the spirit of Trek

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • Anything after the end of Deep Space 9 should be removed from canon

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Star Trek has sucked since the original cast retired

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • The franchise needs a reset and start over from the end of Voyager

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • The JJ Movies were good, but the new shows suck

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • The new shows are great, but the new movies suck

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Spot, Chester and Garak need their own show

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • We need a show where Scotty, Damar and Chief O'Brian, travel the galaxy visiting bars and pubs

    Votes: 4 33.3%
  • Total voters
    12
Tonedef75 said:
Rest In Peace Blind Al! Deadpool will never be the same without you
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Ummmm.. you got the wrong actress for that role.. That was not Nichelle Nichols in Deadpool.
According to IMDB Leslie Uggams played the roommate 'Blind Al' in Deadpool...
 
None of the choices match my answer to the question. How I feel. Voyager and Discovery both pretty much suck with only limited moments of entertainment value. Picard was pretty goof overall, but, not exceptional. New Worlds has been excellent. If you are looking for a Star Trek chow to watch, stick with Strange New Worlds and The Orville, a non Trek show that feels exactly like one of the best Trek shows.
 
Scholar said:
None of the choices match my answer to the question. How I feel. Voyager and Discovery both pretty much suck with only limited moments of entertainment value. Picard was pretty goof overall, but, not exceptional. New Worlds has been excellent. If you are looking for a Star Trek chow to watch, stick with Strange New Worlds and The Orville, a non Trek show that feels exactly like one of the best Trek shows.
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I plan to binge Strange New Worlds now that season 1 is complete. The first two episodes were fantastic, and felt both fresh and refreshing.
 
MadThinker88 said:
Ummmm.. you got the wrong actress for that role.. That was not Nichelle Nichols in Deadpool.
According to IMDB Leslie Uggams played the roommate 'Blind Al' in Deadpool...
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Holy crap, I really thought it was Michele Nichol’s that played Blind Al all these years.
 
Tonedef75 said:
Holy crap, I really thought it was Michele Nichol’s that played Blind Al all these years.
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Nichelle, not Michele.

My favorite story on about her was how she was ready to quit Star Trek and Dr. King talked her out of it.

Lt. Uhura was supposed to take command at one point in the third season but the script was rewritten because it was believed a woman couldn't take over at that time. She was furious and rightly so.

Leslie Uggams had her own show on the same network but, like Star Trek, CBS gave her a bad time slot (vs Bonanza).
 
KI4MVP said:
I put this in the TV Shows thread when it should have been here.

My daughter (home from college) wanted to watch the original Star Trek series this summer. I grew up on that show. I was 3 when it came out, then watched it a few other times, but it's been decades since I watched it. Some of the episodes I remember quite well, but I'm surprised at how many of them I either don't remember at all or only remember a small amount. So I'm having a lot of fun watching it again. I don't think I ever watched the "The Cage" before, only the clips they used for The Menagerie, which were two of the episodes I rememeber well.

She wanted to watch them so we can watch the movies. Only 3 seasons, 79 episodes. Not sure what to do when we get to Generations movie because Star Trek TNG has 178 episodes. Probably save that for next summer.

Those are the only two series I watched completely. I never watched DS9 because I didn't think it would be as good since it wasn't a spaceship and somehow then never watched the other series because I hadn't watched that.
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update on this, we leave on vacation in a week. We managed 2 seasons of TOS and then watched the first movie. I decided to skip season 3 so we could get the movies in.

Just about every episode I tell her "this must be the last Star Trek ever because they're going to" (one ore more of these)

- kill Kirk
- kill Spock
- steal the enterprise
- destroy the enterprise

Wait until she sees what happens in the 2nd movie.
 
KI4MVP said:
update on this, we leave on vacation in a week. We managed 2 seasons of TOS and then watched the first movie. I decided to skip season 3 so we could get the movies in.

Just about every episode I tell her "this must be the last Star Trek ever because they're going to" (one ore more of these)

- kill Kirk
- kill Spock
- steal the enterprise
- destroy the enterprise

Wait until she sees what happens in the 2nd movie.
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Yeah, probably a good choice. The third season of TOS had some good episodes but is mostly bad.

They knew they were going to be cancelled and had their budget slashed.

The polyester uniforms also lack the charm of the velour.
 
Sebastian said:
Yeah, probably a good choice. The third season of TOS had some good episodes but is mostly bad.

They knew they were going to be cancelled and had their budget slashed.

The polyester uniforms also lack the charm of the velour.
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It was more a time thing. We only have 2 more weeks together, one of them on vacation, before she goes back to school.

We watched movies 2, 3 and 4 tonight.
 
KI4MVP said:
It was more a time thing. We only have 2 more weeks together, one of them on vacation, before she goes back to school.

We watched movies 2, 3 and 4 tonight.
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The Genesis Trilogy.

How did she like them?
 
Sebastian said:
The Genesis Trilogy.

How did she like them?
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She liked them. We only planned to watch 1 but she kept wanting to watch the next one. It was 3am when we were done. Voyage home is my favorite. I’ve been waiting all summer to tell her about transparent aluminum.
 
My son & daughter in law started watching TOS but they were offended by the very high hemlines.
 
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