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Most ridiculous thing about TOS
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Remember, (and I thought of this on the comment on Uhura wearing the Micro-mini when others did not) that the higher the skirt, the higher the rank. 
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I know Cogley is known for these theatrics, but you'd think maybe he could be a little less cheesy.
When I was a teenager in the 70s though it sounded cool.
I still think what he said was amazing and inspiring, especially every time someone is caught on a traffic camera.
So what is the most ridiculous thing about Star Trek? Hundreds of analog colorful lights next to dozens of analog colorful buttons? How does anyone read half of what is going on? It is like working in a Christmas light factory with Skittles spilled on the console.
Dr. Helen Noel wore a very short micro-mini in blue. I think it was shorter than Theiss wanted, almost certainly due to the Roddenberry influence that was described in Justman/Solow.
I did say 'usually'.
Seeing Stephen Fry in a mini skirt makes me feel physically ill! 
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Mini skirts were liberating or oppressive, depending on who you were. They showed confident sexuality that some men were threatened by. Older men mainly. On the other hand, this was probably the last era where fashion was seen as uniform and obligatory. There was pressure for all women/girls to wear mini-skirts. And the male world came up with them and that's where the pressure originated.
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On the third hand, they were great. It's tiresome hearing fans go on about how uniforms must be practical, businesslike, reserved... some people are just fans of propriety in general. Mere "practicality" seems like such a dull and low goal to shoot for. Maybe, just maybe, the cultures of some future eras will want more interesting or exciting visuals in their everyday lives, and workplaces. Grey coveralls would be VERY practical, but as long as function is unimpeded, why not something better? SF is supposed to be better than life, not subject to the restrictions of the real world. (While obeying laws of physics of course.)
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I love the idea of choice. The mini-dress ST uniforms are only justifiable if the trouser uniform was also available. I liked how middle-aged Pulaski on Next Gen wore a version of the normally skin-tight s2 uniform that looked similar, but made much more sense for a middle-aged woman.
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What good is that wonderful ST future, if the "military" is regimented and devoid of choice? How respectful of the individual would it really be? A general identifiable look is needed, so you know at a glance that someone's in Star Fleet, but variations would send out a strong message that even in the military, cookie-cutter, identical toy soldiers aren't what the Federation's about.
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On the third hand, they were great. It's tiresome hearing fans go on about how uniforms must be practical, businesslike, reserved... some people are just fans of propriety in general. Mere "practicality" seems like such a dull and low goal to shoot for. Maybe, just maybe, the cultures of some future eras will want more interesting or exciting visuals in their everyday lives, and workplaces. Grey coveralls would be VERY practical, but as long as function is unimpeded, why not something better? SF is supposed to be better than life, not subject to the restrictions of the real world. (While obeying laws of physics of course.)
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I love the idea of choice. The mini-dress ST uniforms are only justifiable if the trouser uniform was also available. I liked how middle-aged Pulaski on Next Gen wore a version of the normally skin-tight s2 uniform that looked similar, but made much more sense for a middle-aged woman.
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What good is that wonderful ST future, if the "military" is regimented and devoid of choice? How respectful of the individual would it really be? A general identifiable look is needed, so you know at a glance that someone's in Star Fleet, but variations would send out a strong message that even in the military, cookie-cutter, identical toy soldiers aren't what the Federation's about.
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The thing about the mini-skirts from an in-universe perspective is...if their meaning has changed so much for us in 50 years, why should we assume that they'll still mean the same thing in 250 more years? People of the 23rd century would have a completely different perspective on them that isn't going to match what we think of them today.
Dammit! Don't bring imagination into this - we're discussing Star Trek <--- and its serious reality...
I've always thought the most ridiculous thing is how Kirk is able to logic-bomb every "evil" computer he comes across. How is it that all these mega-advanced computer makers sucked so bad at writing error handling code that their computers would literally explode just from evaluating two contradictory statements?
Kirk (shouting in a VERY assertive judgie voice) : You are illogical! You are imperfect!
Computer (yelping) : You don't have to be so mean about it!
Computer (yelping) : You don't have to be so mean about it!
At least in the case of Nomad in "The Changeling," the lethality of the logic bomb is sort of plausible. Nomad was reprogrammed by the accident to sterilize imperfections and Kirk proved Nomad's own imperfection to itself. At that point, it was bound to destroy itself as something that was imperfect.
What is fascinating to me is that it seemed like he did it so much but it was 4 times.
Nomad, Landru, M-5, and Norman are the computers.
And further, of those, 2 of them are based on the brain of a living person, not usually how a computer is made. The fact that they were really more of a digitized brain than a true computer, they were both made to feel remorse. So it's not really a logic bomb, but an emotion bomb. More comparable to Rayna crashing, so maybe we should add her to the list of computer Kirk has killed.
I'd love to see Data having a conversation with Kirk and seeing how that would go.
CorporalCaptain already stated Nomad's particular problem, so that leaves Norman and his group mind androids. I really don' t know what say about that.
When Leela tried to do that to Robot Santa, his head exploded, but then his paradox-absorbing crumple zones allowed him to self repair.
Along with Rayna, whom you acknowledged, there was Ruk and Roger Korby. Still computers. Kirk is human malware.
That's easy: Data would talk Kirk to death.
Hey gang. I love tos and its my favorite of the trek series. Never got into tng the same. It took itself too seriously most of the time. Ds9 is my second favorite. Anyways...
One thing that does drive me crazy sometimes is at the end of like half episodes is everyone be on the bridge and then an exchange is taken place and then everyone on the bridge laughs at it and then the closing credits come on. I think this prob. Happened more when gene coon was involved. Anyhow, those endings drive me crazy. The episode be kick ass until the very end. And then the whole crew fake laughing and fading away is too annoying sometimes. Yuck.
One thing that does drive me crazy sometimes is at the end of like half episodes is everyone be on the bridge and then an exchange is taken place and then everyone on the bridge laughs at it and then the closing credits come on. I think this prob. Happened more when gene coon was involved. Anyhow, those endings drive me crazy. The episode be kick ass until the very end. And then the whole crew fake laughing and fading away is too annoying sometimes. Yuck.
^^^It's what Microsoft's 'Blue Screen of Death' became for AI software.
I was, and it did. It was the absolute, undeniable, best thing about being that age at that time. The stuff dreams are made of.
Catching up, just sayin'.
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