Don't forget about gods.
Time ballers don't want to make a power move when they are totally outgunned.
They only get away with making changes that are approved by those that can object and wind it back.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Don't forget about gods.
Time ballers don't want to make a power move when they are totally outgunned.
They only get away with making changes that are approved by those that can object and wind it back.
If you're a God-Like-Entity, you should have your own freaking entrance theme music and special intro.
At that point, you're as big of a Rock Star / Pro Wrestling Star and deserve your own special entrance video package + pyro or special effects
We all love Kelley, but I don't think he ever acted anyone off the screen.
Shatner is far better than he is ever given credit for. Possibly a silly statement about an Emmy award winning actor? Better as KIRK than he is ever given credit for. To be fair, he's also just about fearless so he has some performances that come off as over the top or silly. But something that never gets said about Shatner's Kirk is his ability to underplay.
Also, you see all of these characters (including Spock) being "grown into". Shatner was James Whatever Kirk right out of the box in frame one.
But Nimoy... Nimoy's TOS Spock is a recipe that has never been replicated, not even by Nimoy. I think his most interesting performance outside of TOS was The Motion Picture, followed by "Serene Spock" in The Wrath of Khan. After that he started picking up a paycheck. OK, that's very derogatory. He wasn't as nuanced about his role.
I was on a panel with Walter Koenig (sorry, can't help myself) where he said (paraphrase) "Anyone could have played any of our roles on that show except for Leonard Nimoy playing Spock." I think that's stunningly true. Koenig takes self-depreciation to a mania but this is insight.
Now I'm trying to think of what my favorite McCoy moment is. Surely this is one, but that's the easy answer. His monologue to Spock in TSFS is also great.
Nimoy had kind of lost what Spock was about, I think. It was kind of an outgrowth of The Voyage Home. It was more Data than Spock. I'm not saying Data had anything to do with his performance but it became more robotic than logical. It had an "innocence" (or ignorance?) about it. Which was never Spock.
I can't say with any authority, but there are parts of Shat's performance in TFF, particularly the comedic bits with Nimoy and Kelley, that feel very improvised. Maybe someone can point me to an example of Shatner doing improv that is great, but these moments are not great. But when he's being serious, and dare I say "on script" he's as good in TFF as anywhere else.
Are you talking about title fonts or in world fonts? Examples? Deep Space Nine?
Funny that the TNG font went the same way as the Enterprise D bridge: Never heard from again.
I have a promo pin from 1987 of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the TOS font. It was pretty cool, actually.
ENT seems to use it own but when you think about it that font was TOS Movie and TNG Era Starfleet hull insignia font.
Since I've been re-watching TOS, I've been blown away by how freaking GOOD Shatner and Nimoy are, consistently. And yes, Shatner has a lot more nuance to his performances than I remembered. I'm watching in production order and just saw The Conscience of the King, where Shatner is just amazing, playing cunning and trauma and insight and heartbreak and so much more and doing them beautifully, and Galileo Seven, where Nimoy really pulled Who Spock Is together from everything that had happened up to that point. His complete befuddlement at how he's done everything "perfectly" but the situation is still screwed up is just a joy to watch.
Title fonts.
TOS Font on the Kelvin Films, Discovery, or Strange New Worlds? Okay. Looks good to me.
TOS Font on Picard, Lower Decks, or Prodigy? No. That looks weird.
Comic Sans titles in neon, pulsating green or GTFO.
Does this qualify as a controversial opinion? 
Well, did he?Does this qualify as a controversial opinion?
Serling stated that the thought Star Trek could be wildly inconsistent when it came to telling science fiction stories and veered between scintillating science fiction concepts and pure circus but you could tell that he respected and liked the series.
I'm a big fan of those actors and characters in their original TV context.
Over the decades I've tired and lost interest in their movie incarnations.
I think there is an actual Serling quote that you just gave a reasonable paraphrase of.
I always forget that Edlund designed the TOS typeface. And it blows my mind every time I relearn it!
Ever since I read Ellison's draft for City on the Edge of Forever, I've thought someone should use the Jewels of Sound on screen. Sound as a drug is an interesting concept. A payment to the Ellison estate is probably necessary.
I believe the executor of the Ellison estate is none other than J Michael Straczynski...
That is correct. He confirmed it.
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