Star Trek - the original and best

[Shrim]

One thing is for certain, I wouldn't apply for a job on Enterprise as a security guard. Those with the red jumpers on, they never ever beamed back up.

 

[Melonfish]

One thing is for certain, I wouldn't apply for a job on Enterprise as a security guard. Those with the red jumpers on, they never ever beamed back up.

I know exactly what you mean:

Ensign Ricky.

 

[numbnuts]

The show has past the test of time without one swear word and sex, that's why it is still great

 

[downfader]

The show has past the test of time without one swear word and sex, that's why it is still great

You would die if you watched the Sopranos! Seriously though, I do agree. Theres something charming about it.

The new one, Enterprise, I've found myself watching that too. Its OK, gets a bit silly in places in the same way as the original show. It seems a lot more grown up and intelligent, and the intro music is just hilarious soft rock warblings.

 

[Dayvo]

I loved TOS and must have watched the 79 episodes many times over.

Too many good episodes to be able to name a favourite.

And I'd definitely want one of those transporter systems if ever they made them.

Funnily enough, I could never get interested in any of the series that followed the first one.

 

[davefb]

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.

I never really liked TNG, liked 'TOS',,, and DSN more than voyager ... Not watched all of enterprise yet, really enjoyed the ones I saw, but some of the 'long running' sub plot was a bit ropey ( xindi and time stuff)...

as well as the black/white kiss ( good reading up on that in wiki, just amazing the attitudes of the tv company) and we think 'bloomin yanks'

but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Ground_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Over the last few months I've been working my way through the whole original 79 episodes, in the remastered versions, which are beautiful and a massive improvement on the originals: properly saturated sixties colour and basic CGI to replace all the dangly models, which does the job and is not intrusively offputting (whereas the models were).

One thing I noticed is that, whilst there are many excellent and thoughtful episodes, several written by some quality SF writers like Harlan Ellison and Robert Bloch, towards the end, especially in the third series, there were rather too many really stupid - "this planet is exactly like the USA if 'X' had happened, but light years away."

The stupidest one of all is one where they find a 'barbarian' tribe of white people oppressed by a more civilized group of "Asiatics'. It turns out, in an amzing example of parrallel evolution, that the vicious barbarians really have a secret religion worshipping the US constitution - which used to be theirs too - and with help from Kirk and co., will finally be able to understand and recover what is implied is their rightful place as the dominant culture. Ludicrous and not even the lightly amusing way that some of the more silly episodes are.

 

[PBancroft]

One thing I noticed is that, whilst there are many excellent and thoughtful episodes, several written by some quality SF writers like Harlan Ellison and Robert Bloch, towards the end, especially in the third series, there were rather too many really stupid - "this planet is exactly like the USA if 'X' had happened, but light years away."

Arguably a lot of blame can be laid squarely at NBC for trying to kill the show following the second series. After a letter writing campaign from fans to renew it, NBC put the show on very late in the evening and cut the budget. Roddenberry quit and so the show lost his creative input too.