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Favorite things about TOS and TAS
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Doctor Leonard McCoy.
The universe and setting. I get this fun feeling of this future built in the past, like when you see the Back to the Future II future or Terran Trade Authority, something that can't come to pass anymore but can be more aspirational. I was a massive fan of the Early Voyages comics so I loved seeing people take that universe and try to add in stuff that tried to be era appropriate.
Kirk's phaser rifle. Yeoman Colt got to use one in the comics.
The Gorn suit is awesome. I like that they took chances with things like that or the Talosians. In a Mirror Darkly should have gone all in on it or not at all.
Romulan Bird of Prey. Very cool design. Love seeing it added to the remastered The Enterprise Incident.
The universe and setting. I get this fun feeling of this future built in the past, like when you see the Back to the Future II future or Terran Trade Authority, something that can't come to pass anymore but can be more aspirational. I was a massive fan of the Early Voyages comics so I loved seeing people take that universe and try to add in stuff that tried to be era appropriate.
Kirk's phaser rifle. Yeoman Colt got to use one in the comics.
The Gorn suit is awesome. I like that they took chances with things like that or the Talosians. In a Mirror Darkly should have gone all in on it or not at all.
Romulan Bird of Prey. Very cool design. Love seeing it added to the remastered The Enterprise Incident.
Favorite thing about tos? It's uniqueness, especially the way it looked, there was no other show like it at the time and argueably, never one like it again. I would never say tos was the best Tv series ever made, but it was certainly unique, something greater as a whole than the component people who created the show.
It was a product of its time, where resources for putting together a science fiction film show that had to look futuristic were quite limited, compared to today. But sometimes these limitations can make people use their imaginations to come up with solutions and I think the people that put the show together were very imaginative.
Great cast, emphatically including the minor players, Nichols, Takei and Doohan. I consider Koenig and Barrett to be a little weaker but still pretty good.
The scriptwriters, they just came up with some good stories and good, sometimes great dialog.
Matt Jeffies' work on the show, most especially the tos Enterprise. One thing about tng's Enterprise D was that from certain angles, it didn't look all that interesting. I remember early in season one there was a shot of the E-D from an angle that just didn't make it look very interesting. Apparently, I wasn't the only one who thought this because I noticed they never, or very rarely sshowed the ship from that angle again for the rest of the show's run.
The tos Enterprise looks very good and interesting from any and all angles.
Theiss's costuming could be so interesting. And on and on with the resst of the people working on the show.
It could be hit or miss with some clunker episodes but even those can have good aspects to them and to me, still watchable.
All these people including the ones I didn't mention coming together to put out the episodes. And in a hurry to boot, managing to produce what I consider about the most unique show ever made.
Robert
It was a product of its time, where resources for putting together a science fiction film show that had to look futuristic were quite limited, compared to today. But sometimes these limitations can make people use their imaginations to come up with solutions and I think the people that put the show together were very imaginative.
Great cast, emphatically including the minor players, Nichols, Takei and Doohan. I consider Koenig and Barrett to be a little weaker but still pretty good.
The scriptwriters, they just came up with some good stories and good, sometimes great dialog.
Matt Jeffies' work on the show, most especially the tos Enterprise. One thing about tng's Enterprise D was that from certain angles, it didn't look all that interesting. I remember early in season one there was a shot of the E-D from an angle that just didn't make it look very interesting. Apparently, I wasn't the only one who thought this because I noticed they never, or very rarely sshowed the ship from that angle again for the rest of the show's run.
The tos Enterprise looks very good and interesting from any and all angles.
Theiss's costuming could be so interesting. And on and on with the resst of the people working on the show.
It could be hit or miss with some clunker episodes but even those can have good aspects to them and to me, still watchable.
All these people including the ones I didn't mention coming together to put out the episodes. And in a hurry to boot, managing to produce what I consider about the most unique show ever made.
Robert
As a child the Gorn was my favourite thing about Trek and even today it still holds a magical place in my heart! I still think it has some scare factor and as an adult I see the folds in the legs and the arms but I won't let it detract from my enjoyment! Last year I actually got to speak with Bobby Clarke who played the Gorn on FB (along with Gary Coombs I know) but I plain forgot to ask him about his role as the little boy in Invasion of The Bodysnatchers!!! 
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I don't see this. There were times when they said galaxy when I thought it was pretty clear that they were referring their part of it. As in "the civilized galaxy" or "the human area."
The only reason they changed this theory was for the spin off series! Even in the films they could travel to the centre of the galaxy in no time at all! Although not everywhere had been explored as we saw in Corbomite (bench marking the new regions) Arena, Return To Tomorrow etc. Cheron being in the southern most part of the galaxy comments and their ability to reach there prove that! Although in Lost in Space and even Space 1999 when they mentioned galaxies they probably meany solar systems but I don't see Trek getting that wrong to be honest! I'd say that they had mapped 65% of their galaxy here but the writers had to change that for TNG, DS9 and VOY in the eighties and nineties! 
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The bridge. I mean, come on. The coolest set ever.
The Big 3.
The characters.
The fact they weren't all perfect heroes, but were heroic.
The transporter.
Kirk
Spock
McCoy
Scotty
The ship corridors
The automatic opening doors
The colours
The camera anges
The characters.
The fact they weren't all perfect heroes, but were heroic.
The transporter.
Kirk
Spock
McCoy
Scotty
The ship corridors
The automatic opening doors
The colours
The camera anges
