Favorite Star Trek episode

[tesco samoa]

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]

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]

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.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
anyplace where i could buy any of these old shows? VHS? DVD?

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.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

thanks.

[tesco samoa]

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....

[gregebowman]

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.

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
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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 ]

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
i remember watching a clockwork orange at age 7...

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.