To boldly go where no man has gone before

[Jona Lendering]

Completely off-topic, but why not: forty years ago, 8 September 1966, the first episode of Start Trek was broadcasted.

[M.ilionario]

LOL :lol:
How do you remember those things?

[Kate Gilliver]

I knew that, Jona - it's highlighted on the Star Trek calendar in my study at home!!

[Jona Lendering]

LOL :lol:
How do you remember those things?

it's on the website of the BBC!

[tlclark]

Ok, in honor of the seminal event...

A poll!!

Best series:

Star Trek, Star Trek NG, Star Trek DS-9, Star Trek Voyager, Enterprise?

My vote: STNG

Best single episode:

"City on the Edge of Forever" or "Locutus"

Best Space Babe:

Like the Orion slave girls, but I gotta give it to Col. Kira, DS9

Best Villian:

Khan...no contest, but I love Gorn, Tribbles & Mudd too.

Best Movie:

Close Call, STII or First Contact

Best Cliche?

Easy...expendable red shirts, but styrofoam rocks come second, Holodeck accidents, close third.

Best line?

"He's dead Jim!"

Best Trivia?

Geoffries tubes: named after original set designer. Pipes marked GNDN for "Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing."

Best spoof:

SNL skit with William Shatner (Galaxy Quest a close second)

Best Captain:

Kirk.

Feel free to add your own choices and categories!!

[Magnus]

Best series:

Star Trek, Star Trek NG, Star Trek DS-9, Star Trek Voyager, Enterprise?

My vote: I dunno, the original while outdated, was pretty darn good. But Next Generation was excellent as well.

Best single episode:

The one where Kirk has to fight that Lizard dude on the planet and make improvised weapons out of whatever was available. Or, for next generation, anything with a Klingon Bird of Prey in it.

Best Space Babe:

Hands down...7 of 9 (Jerri Ryan) http://www.webtrekitalia.it/upload/Marianna/jeri.jpg
EDIT - Jasper found this one for me: http://mitglied.lycos.de/Star_Trek_Fan_ ... i_Ryan.jpg

Best Villian:
Khan has my vote as well.


Best Movie:

Star Trek II, Wrath of Kahn


Favorite Ship
USS Defiant or Bird of Prey

Best line?

General Chang - "We need breathing room!"

Kirk - "Earth, Hitler, 1938"

General Chang - "I beg your pardon?"

Best Trivia?

Inertial Dampers: Don't actually work, scientificaly. When asked about how they work, Gene Roddenberry simply answered "they work great!"

Best Captain:

Hmmm...Kirk or Wharf on the Defiant.

[Praefectusclassis]

EDIT - Jasper found this one for me

Gotta help him with everything... :roll:

[Theodosius the Great]

Favorite Series : the Original. (by far !)

Favorite Spinoff Series : DS9 (didn't care for the others)

Favorite Babe : including guest stars ? Lenore Karidian from "Conscience of the King"

Favorite Episode : Hard to say, it was such a great series. Maybe the "Doomsday Machine"

Favorite Character : Spock, Kirk, Scotty, McCoy (in that order)

Favorite Movie : Star Trek II thru IV (it's really one movie when you think about it. But, I like II the best, if you want to split hairs)

Favorite Uniforms : the Original. (I can't stand those unisex jumpsuits from the spinoffs :x )

Favorite Villains (enemy race) : Romulans (can anyone guess why ? )

Favorite Ship : Enterprise-A

Favorite Gadget : Cloaking Device

Favorite Quotes : "I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis" ~Mr. Spock, "Diplomats ?! The best diplomat I know is a fully charged, activated phaser bank !" ~Scotty

[Gaius Germanicus]

Best series:

Star Trek the original series


Best single episode:

"Bread and Circus" or the Star Trek TNG series end story where Picard exists in 3 time periods all trying to save humanity from extinction

Best Space Babe:

The babe from the Andromeda galaxy

Best Villain:

Khan , Kang , Kolath

Best Movie:

ST IV

Best Cliche?

Transporter malfunction during a critical time

Best line?

Fascinating

Best Trivia?

Shatner holding up the editing of ST V because he thought his A** looked too big ...

Best spoof:

SNL Belushi skit , William Shatner skit , Quark TV Series and Galaxy Quest Movie

Best Captain:

Kirk.

[Kate Gilliver]

Best 'space babe'? hock:

Best actor in Enterprise: Porthos
And best spoof has to be Galaxy Quest because of Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver.

[tlclark]

Would you prefer best 'space hunk?'

Shatner would win again of course, but Ricardo Montalban was also pretty hot. :wink:

Man some good categories I hadn't considered!

Best ship: I'm really partial to the Enterprise-D and the defiant, but the E is cool too.

Favorite plot saving device: Original series, it's the transporter, it sent people into parallel universe split them into their good and bad haves, got them to the other side of the planet. In the new one it had to be holodeck.

Best Aliens: I love the Ferengi and the rules of acquisition, but it's gotta be the Borg - totally a villian for the ages.

Side note: Did you ever notice the HUGE shift in philosophy between the original series and the spin offs? The first was as postivist as possible, fully affirmed in our capabilities and future. Optimistic, brash, with huge faith in its vast social and political institutions. It was the very epitome of progressively social liberalism. The new series questioned the authority and morality of the federation and its motives, it looked less like a benevolent social project and more like conniving elites. The whole Maquis story line made the federation seem feckless, manipulative, like the bad guys!

Also, the biggest villians in the old star trek are essentially barbarian klingons, the opposite of the structured order of the federation. In the new series the villians are borg, the ultimate collective control freaks! Also there are lots of paens in the new series to the triumph of the individual over the community.

There was Worf, Odo, Quark, seven of Nine, Data, the doctor, dozens of characters who just didn't fit in, whose whole existence proved that the individual should not be subject to some higher social order for arbitrary reasons. Compared to the first series all the others are downright libertarian!

There's a dissertation in there somewhere!

[Magnus]

I think you're right Travis, but with most pop culture and it's art/media, aren't they reflective of the times?

Not that I follow pop culture that much, but perhaps in the late 60's our optimism in general as a western culture was a bit more optimistic as you say, and not so cynical as writers perhaps were in the 90's?

[Theodosius the Great]

Not that I follow pop culture that much, but perhaps in the late 60's our optimism in general as a western culture was a bit more optimistic as you say, and not so cynical as writers perhaps were in the 90's?

Yeah, no kidding. That's partly why I like the original series over the others. I attribute the positive, optimistic attitude to its success. Most sci-fi movies and TV series nowadays belong to the noir genre, which is why they all bomb, imo.

The original series is so refreshing to watch also because it isn't festooned with modern political correctness. Of course it was PC for its time but the PC of the mid-1960s pales against "postmodern" PC. Each spin-off got progressively more PC than its predecessor until they became utterly unwatchable for me. Notice there's no humor in the spin-offs ? Ever wonder why that is ?


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[Tarbicus]

Favourite Ship: Reliant or Vulcan shuttle or Klingon K'Tinga.

Best Movie: First Contact

Best Series: Enterprise (against the Zindi)

Best Line: "According to Starfleet medical records, Borg implants are supposed to irritate the skin. Would you like an analgesic cream?"

Favourite Character: Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz of the A-Team. And yes, it's only because he was Mad Murdoch in the A-Team)

Favourite Villains: Klingons

[Alexandr K]

Hands down...7 of 9 (Jerri Ryan) http://www.webtrekitalia.it/upload/Marianna/jeri.jpg
EDIT - Jasper found this one for me: http://mitglied.lycos.de/Star_Trek_Fan_ ... i_Ryan.jpg

hock: Is it that difficult to find pics? Better? :wink:

Greetings
Alexandr