the original star trek
 

is the greatest television series of all time, perhaps maybe cosmos

lily, yr a trekkie?


i had no idea.

none of the spin offs ever came close to measuring up, that's for sure.

next gen > original star trek > star trek movies > all later star treks.

I wholeheartedly agree. We should get together sometime and watch a load of episodes. I'll bring the Foster's and tortilla chips. :D

never been a big fan, but the next generation had some hilarious characters, like that guy with a big peanut for a head.

I've watched a lot of OS and probably all of TNG and TNG is much better. Certainly not as groundbreaking but from a dramatic standpoint

Sorry Phoenix, only movies 2, 4 and the latest one were any good. God, the first one was a snooze fest.

TNG sucks. Everyone on it was SO wooden, I couldn't help but think of Ronseal's wood varnish.

It reminds me too much of my dad. I remember being a kid and he would watch it all of the time. I thought it was boring at the age of 5 I wanted to watch cartoons. So it leaves a negative connotation in my mind. In retrospect it was a good show.

Was he a good dad?

Yes I love my Daddy.

Did you ever tell him you wanted to watch cartoons rather than Captain James T. Kirk and the gang when you were five? :D

Yeah, but he would hear none of it, unless Looney toons were on.

Looney toons took precedence over Star Trek in your house? Wow. :)

so your dad had taste, too.

My dad watched Upstairs, Downstairs, despite me wanting to watch Touche Turtle and Dum Dum, which was always on at the same time on the other channel. :(

I love in this order

DS9/TNG/Original

i dig all the movies, even the bad ones.

I've always enjoyed TNG more for a number of reasons, the main one being that TNG is more of an ensemble show than OS, which is basically the Kirk and Spock show. TNG makes alot more sense too, as silly as it is sometimes.

Fucking love that Accellerated Time episode though.

you rate DS9 over tng & the original?


i have a sort of soft spot for voyager.

I tended to watch star trek more out of habit than anything. I've never seen a single episode of TNG and have only seen the film that featured the whales.

Dr Who was better, although even that went to pot a bit once Tom Baker was replaced.

the last three seasons of DS9 were the best tv sci fi i ever saw

they all pale beside quatermass

The Star Trek film last year exceeded the fuck out oy my relatively low expectations.

HAHA!

I've been watching Quatermass and the Pit. It's awesome.

ha ha ha-- i like the person you're becoming

madame !@#$%! by the way is a huge fan-- and has a crush on spock (not nimoy-- spock)

not sure if you've watched ALL episodes, which are on netflix, some playable online. some are amazing and some are kinda repetitive (similar themes/situations) and some are fucking outright ridonculous, but all in all it's great shit.

If it's the Hammer version you've been watching (the version that pic is taken from), I flippin' love that movie. The BBC version is good, but Hammer's is just something else. Quatermass and the Pit and The Devil Rides Out, my two favourite Hammer films.

Agreed, but Tennant was a decent comeback I thought. He's the only one since Baker who seemed to own the role. Pertwee and Troughton were both great too in their day though.

i <3 spock. he's so logical.
not really, i'm pretty much just massively obsessed with the original. next gen/deep space nine/voyager are kinda retarded but i can dig it if i'm high enough.



pon farr lol.

It's been the '55 BBC serial I've been watching. I'll probably catch the Hammer version afterwards. My favorite Hammer picture without thinking about it too much is probably something silly like Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas.

spock taught me humas are pathetic and weak

I thought Firefly was a better show than all of them and I haven't seen more
than a dozen or so shows.

So long as no one says the "E" word, then it's all good.

...you know what the "E" word is, so don't say it.

i never watched the one with the guy from quantum leap because the music was so awful i would switch it off every time

haha i watched that episode on vhs last night. shit was hilarious. & dr. boner saved the day with some clever tricks.

i hope everyone else calls chekov mr. jackoff.

demonrail, dr who is rad.




god we are nerds.

Not sure which one, but "Five Million Years to Earth" was the US renaming of one of those mid 60s Quatermass flicks. Fantastic movie and it scared the bejesus outta me as a kid and is still extremely spooky...

Those grasshopper Martians and the ancient memories brought forth from that lady's subconscious mind shown on that old cathod ray tube !! The wind down in the underground and all....CHILLING and not cheesy at all, very believable.

Oh btw, I'm an old Trekkie from the inaugural show...I watched it from the beginning all the way to the boxset DVD's I have now of that Original Series.

A couple of the shows, "City on the Edge of Forever" (the Guardian) and the one where they went back to the ice ages thru the other 'time portal" of Mr. Atoss ?? They both reminded me of that chilling effect I got from the Quatermass movie. The windy sounds !!!

Oh...here's Mr. ATOZ,





and the Guardian from City on the Edge of Forever,





and a great link to The Original Series,

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/TOS

I used to like The Next Generation as a kid but I have mostly concluded that Star Trek, in all its incarnations, is rubbish. There are a few TNG's episodes on the prime directive and DS9's episodes on the Maquis are sometimes interesting but that's mostly it for me.

Yeah, that's Quatermass and the Pit. Interestingly, given what you say about how scary it is, and how it's generally thought of as a sf film, it was recently voted the best British horror film of all time, just pipping The Devil Rides Out and The Wicker Man to the top spot.

I think people's favourite Doctor tends to be the one they grew up with - which in my case would be Tom Baker. I've got videos of Hartnell, Troughton and Pertwee but Baker will always be 'my' Doctor, so to speak - although saying that, I doubt whether people a little younger than me will ever consider Peter Davison as 'their' Doctor. In that sense though, I agree about Tennant. He's managed to create a Doctor that will I'm sure become the definitive version for today's teenagers.

I didn't know that ! Well....now I don't feel so bad when I screamed like a little girl first time I saw that flick ! :o Nah...just joshing, but it is still chilling and I feel vindicated with that honor bestowed on it. Great gif capture btw...that grasshopper Martian thingy at the end above the crane.

Another British flick that frightened me was "The Devil's Bride" (USA title...was that "The Devil Rides Out" ?)....geezus, just as I was writing this I looked it up on another window and sure enough IT IS !! That old Christopher Lee movie !! YIPES...I must be clairvoyant tonight !!!

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/8932...s-Out/trailers

That movie is based on a banned BBC fly-on-the-wall documentary! Shit like that happens all the time in the home counties of England!