Star Trek - the original and best

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Have been watching the original series of Star Trek on CBS Action (satelite) recently. How great is that program? You don't realise how much stuff they predicted... handheld comminicators (mobile phones), hand held lasers (ok they're laser pointers rather than phasers, but maybe oneday), hand held computers...

Add to that Spock is my hero.

This episode was on today. If I *did* ringtones that would be mine:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AphxyjrH4SE

 

[Red Light]

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Martin Cooper, the inventor of the first mobile phone, the Motorola Dyna-Tac, got the idea from the Star Trek communicators.

The Altair 8800 which started the microcomputer revolution, was named after the planet Altair VI in the Star Trek episode Amok Time

Rob Haitani, the designer of the Palm Pilot says Star Trek was his inspiration

Sir George Radda's pioneering work in medical NMR scanners that led on to MRI scanners was inspired by Bones McCoy's handheld medical scanner

And of course the first Space Shuttle was named Enterprise.

It also inspired many people to follow a career in space and astronautics and broke boundaries with TV's first inter-racial kiss between Kirk and Uhuru in 1968.

 

[downfader]

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Martin Cooper, the inventor of the first mobile phone, the Motorola Dyna-Tac, got the idea from the Star Trek communicators.

The Altair 8800 which started the microcomputer revolution, was named after the planet Altair VI in the Star Trek episode Amok Time

Rob Haitani, the designer of the Palm Pilot says Star Trek was his inspiration

Sir George Radda's pioneering work in medical NMR scanners that led on to MRI scanners was inspired by Bones McCoy's handheld medical scanner

And of course the first Space Shuttle was named Enterprise.

It also inspired many people to follow a career in space and astronautics and broke boundaries with TV's first inter-racial kiss between Kirk and Uhuru in 1968.

Infact on handheld medical scanners I wonder if the ultrasound would count, too..?

 

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Infact on handheld medical scanners I wonder if the ultrasound would count, too..?

I'm not aware of any link to ultrasound scanners whereas all the above are things that have confirmed links to and were triggered by Star Trek

 

[postman]

Brilliant series and films everyone of them .I watched on cable last week the film where they rescued Spock .The crew seemed like you knew them .Thats the best way i could describe it .Like they were your friends .

 

[Melonfish]

not quite, in fact the name enterprise is the one thing the show stole from the navy. there allready was a USS Enterprise and they've always been flag ships for a time.

i must agree however that TOS is quite fantastic! as a kid i watched them with my dad and loved them. i followed TNG, DS9 and Voyager as i grew up but allways returned to TOS because it simply can't be beat.
if you cut me in half it would read "Trekker"

 

[PBancroft]

Brilliant series and films everyone of them .I watched on cable last week the film where they rescued Spock .The crew seemed like you knew them .Thats the best way i could describe it .Like they were your friends .

I mostly agree, but not always brilliant. I give you: The Final Frontier

Yes, it should have been great, but it missed the mark by a mile. I won't go beyond mentioning The Motion Picture and, of course, Spock's Brain.

 

[Red Light]

not quite, in fact the name enterprise is the one thing the show stole from the navy. there allready was a USS Enterprise and they've always been flag ships for a time.

A bit of both actually. It was originally going to be called Constitution but there was a write in campaign by Trekkies to President Ford to have it called Enterprise. Ford, who had served in WWII on USS Monterey alongside USS Enterprise said he was partial to the name and overrode NASA.

 

[Davidc]

Great series. Red Light has only touched on the ideas opied and inspiration given by it.

 

[Deb13b]

I loved it, still do. I will also admit to following William shatner, Leonard nimoy and George takei on twitter, just because they're AWESOME !

 

[Yellow Fang]

I used to like the sounds: the whoosh of the elevator doors, the bleeps of the communicators, the sound of the sirens, the phasers, the transporters. They were all great.

I also liked the way the minor characters evolved. In the New Generation they went for a big bang approach with the characters and some of them worked and some didn't.

Another thing I liked with the original series were the meetings between Kirk, Spock, Scotty and various other senior officers. They were short and business like, with the minimum of technobabble. The problem was explained in as direct a way as possible. Kirk didn't pretend to totally understand all the technical stuff, but enough to decide on a course of action.

The only thing I slightly disapprove of was Leonard Nimoy's aggrandisement of his character. Spock was more of a superhero than an alien. In the pilot episode, Spock was the alien and another female character was the super-intelligent one with Aspergers. Then Spock took on both character traits. Then Nimoy came up with the Vulvan nerve grip so that he didn't have to bash someone over the head. Then it turned out he had telepathic mind meld abilities too. Bones was supposed to be a character of equal importance to Spock and Kirk, but how could he compete with that?

 

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I mostly agree, but not always brilliant. I give you: The Final Frontier

Reminds me of that terrible old joke of how many ears does Spock have?

Three; the left ear, the right ear and space, the final front ear.

 

[Fnaar]

Love the orig ST ... never really watched any since, or took much of an interest in subsequent series... interesting to know how it's inspired poeple... I've got a friend who has some of the uniforms from the TV series :-)

PS Davy Crockett's was the Wild Front Ear

 

[Red Light]

Love the orig ST ... never really watched any since, or took much of an interest in subsequent series... interesting to know how it's inspired poeple... I've got a friend who has some of the uniforms from the TV series :-)

I enjoyed ST, STNG and STV but never got on with DSN.

 

[beanzontoast]

I grew up with ST and still have a fondness for it.

STTNG was good but went a bit off-beam (pun intended) for me. They always seemed able to come up with a tech solution to any problem that came along. I lost count of the number of times something was reconfigured to do something else, or otherwise adjusted, modified, attenuated, recalibrated etc etc.

ST Enterprise got back to basics a bit more. It was refreshing to watch a series where some things were impossible and a lot of things had limits.