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Atrocities, you're right. CGI has come a long way since The Last Starfighter. I still enjoy watching the movie, though, even though you have to cringe when you look at the prehistoric graphics they used (and they were probably state of the art at the time). I'm glad Spielberg used CGI for Jurassic Park. George Lucas saw the missing ingredient he needed to make the prequel trilogy. I wouldn't mind working for ILM, but I have no graphics experience, and I haven't put together a pLastic model since I was probably 17.

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I was just lurking in another thread, and the topic reminded me of another good original Star Trek episode where Kirk ended up in a zoo somewhere. They put him in an exhibit with a rather fetching, scantily-clothed woman. Naturally, I can't remember the name of that episode either...

(I'm so proud of myself for resisting the temptation to post this in that thread)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm scratching my head. The only zoo episode that I can recall was The Cage, later renamed The Menagerie, and that involved Christopher Pike, played by Jeffery Hunter. I can't recall any other episode involving a zoo reference with Kirk, unless it was the episode where they needed Kirk's blood so the girl he was with could get something from his blood so that her world could do something with curtailing the population. Can't remember the name of that episode.

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You're right, GB. It was the Jeffrey Hunter Episode.

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Star Trek VI: Undiscover Country is out today... the new directors edition. I also hear that the next 4 movies will also get the same treatment as the TOS movies

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I just picked up my ST6 today. Can't wait to watch it and what all of those extras are. Need to pick up 2-4, though. I have the earlier Version of 2, but I still haven't bought the collector's edition. I hate it when the movie studios will release a movie, then a year or two later, the deluxe Version will come out, then maybe a year or two later, the special edition comes out, then in another year or two, the ultimate edition comes out. I got 2 Versions of Escape from New York, T2, and a couple of other movies that I bought awhile ago and then a new edition came out. IIRC, I have 3 Versions of Stargate. And being the video (or shouldn't that be dvd) phile that I am, I have to get that latest edition. But come on, when you release the dvd, you should add all of those goodies on there the first time. Don't make us buy another edition every other year or so!

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I agree with you 100% Greg. (Nice avatar btw http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )

Please post about ST 6. I would love to know if it is worth picking up the "special edition" or not.

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Will do, but let me warn you. Finding the time to watch a movie in my house is probably on the par with the odds of getting hit by lightning or winning the lottery. Unless you're talking about whatever movie my 3 year old wants to see. Which is usually an Ernest film or Kangaroo Jack, with the occassional Toy Story viewing thrown in to spice things up. And after his bedtime, I try to hit the computer so I can play SEIVG. I'll try to watch it soon, but no guarentees.

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yea its great.... The Director Cuts came out because they wanted to redo Star Trek 1 as it was to be not how the movie was.... So they then decided that the Special Directors edition should be made for all the movies... Generations is next...

I do think that this is one time that they did not attempt to do a cash grab.

The movies sell for 13.99 CDN Which is nothing... considering what you get on them.

And the effort that went in to remaking the movies for the dvd...


If your into Star Trek then you will enjoy the 6 movies in this series.


Also... the sound is really good...

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I offer you my most sincere sympothy GB. At least its not Scooby Doo cartoons or the Tella Tubbies. *insert violent shudder*

You know I knew I liked star trek at a very young age. I must have been 4 or 5 when I was introduced to TOS. I thought the ships were just the coolest things ever. And I can remember thinking at that young age, wow, they made a show like this waaaay back in the 60's! I knew the first time I saw it, it was something I would love for life. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Those Star ship models were so fricking cool. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I never had one of my own until after I was old enought to have a job, but the kid who introduced me to the show had a few I could play with.

My parents were not very supportive of my interest as a child. Of all of there children, I am the one who has enjoyed the most success, and I honestly beleive it is because of my interest in pushing buttons that stemed from watching Star Trek.

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i remember watching a clockwork orange at age 7...

I was watching Star Trek for a few years by then... As was every kid in my area... We used to play Federation vs Kligons And we had the kits and all... Then if other kids were playing cowboys and indians we would join forces and attack the evil era of history with pine cones and sticks.... all running and screaming the tos fight music. "dun-da-da-da-da-da-dun-dun-dun"

Good times...

P.S. Fyron here is an other way you can bug me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I sort of like Star Trek as a show, but I was really in it for the ships. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ January 29, 2004, 17:09: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

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I liked it because at the time, it was the ultimate in sci-fi shows. Lost in space became a campy rip-off, The Time Tunnel was mostly a drama about 2 guys drifting through time (my favorite of the Irwin Allen shows, though, but not much in the way of gadgets or space ships), and Land of the Giants wasn't too much different than a sci-fi Version of Gilligan's Island without the comedy. It wouldn't be until the mid-70's before new sci-fi shows came out, with The Six Million Dollar Man and Logan's Run (which for some reason I never really got to see). But I think that the first two seasons of TOS rule, and can only wander that if Roddenberry had been in charge, what the 3rd season might have turned out to be. There might have been a spinoff show starring Harry Mudd, but with the TOS's cancellation, those plans fell through. Also, there were plans for a second TOS series, but I think the success of Star Wars got to the heads of the suits at Paramount, and they thought a movie would be more profitable. Thus, we got ST: The Motion Picture.

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anyplace where i could buy any of these old shows? VHS? DVD?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't know about Canada, but most video stores here in the states should carry them. As far as the TOS series, they're available as a collection of 2 episode dvds, for a total of 40 volumes. I don't know if they're available in VHS. As far as the rest of the shows, they're available in dvd sets, which is why I don't have any of them right now. Can't afford the $100+ price tag. But they are available at Wal-Mart, so I might eventually put some on lay-a-way.

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thanks.

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well those old tos dvd's with the 2 shows will be coming out as season 1 , 2 and 3.... which i cannot wait for....

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I will encourage my son to get to like sci-fi. It's the wife who doesn't particularly care for it. My parents weren't against it, thank God. They never tried to interfere with my interests. What really got me hooked on sci-fi was when I read War of the Worlds in the 4th grade. I've been hooked ever since. Speaking of Star Trek, even though my memory has become vague over the years, I do remember seeing most of the "Assignment Earth" episode when it first aired. I was probably 4 or 5 at the time. It wasn't until the 70's when the show was syndicated that I became hooked. Now to get my son to like such things. Besides the other movies I mentioned earlier, he also likes The Hulk, and will insist on watching that from time to time. I'd rather watch that (even though it wasn't the greatest superhero movie ever made) than Ernest Scared Stupid or Slamdunk Ernest.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I offer you my most sincere sympothy GB. At least its not Scooby Doo cartoons or the Tella Tubbies. *insert violent shudder*

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Well, my son did go through the Tele Tubbies and Barney stage. I do know what you mean. I never have liked Barney, and I was in ignorant bliss about Tele Tubbies until my son started watching them. Curse that daycare! Fortunately, he's over that stage, but now he's into The Wiggles, which is almost as bad. As far as Scooby Doo, my son will watch it, but it's not too important to him as much as the Wiggles are. Another show we watch, if we get home in time, is the Lila & Stitch cartoon. I can take this show over anything else he watches. I kind of like Stitch. But after Stitch comes Recess, which I don't really care for, but it keeps him happy, which keeps me happy. It's just when we want him to go to bed that he gives us trouble.

[ January 30, 2004, 15:33: Message edited by: gregebowman ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">7 is a bit young to be watching Clockwork Orange. You know, now that I think about it, that might explain a lot about you Tesco. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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Yeah, extremely twisted from a young age. Didn't even have a chance to be normal before being twisted by that movie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif j/k

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I've only seen it once, and that was sometime in my twenties. Didn't do anything for me, so I haven't seen it since. The only two Kubrik films I desire to own are 2001 and Full Metal Jacket.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not Dr Strangelove?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not Dr Strangelove? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">OOPS!! Forgot about that one. Maybe because I do own it. I'm waiting for the widescreen Version of Full Metal Jacket to come out, and my understanding is that the master tape was destroyed and there won't be a w/s Version coming out. So I might be waiting in vain. And I'm waiting to get the $60 to get the box dvd set of 2001.

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Paths of Glory is fantastic as well...

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Is that the Kirk Douglas movie set during WWI? Again, didn't care for it.