Favorite Star Trek episode

gregebowman · #1 January 28th, 2004, 03:48 PM

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.

tesco samoa · #2 January 28th, 2004, 10:01 PM

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...

Atrocities · #3 January 29th, 2004, 01:09 PM

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Originally posted by gregebowman:
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.

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.

Those Star ship models were so fricking cool.

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.

gregebowman · #4 January 30th, 2004, 02:56 AM

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.

tesco samoa · #5 January 29th, 2004, 06:39 PM

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

Captain Kwok · #6 January 29th, 2004, 07:04 PM

I sort of like Star Trek as a show, but I was really in it for the ships.

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

gregebowman · #7 January 29th, 2004, 08:45 PM

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.