Have you ever given up on a Trek series? If so, what was the last straw for you?
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I'm reminded of a story in "The Making of George A. Romero's 'Day of the Dead'", where the producers of the movie saw a rough assembly of the picture and were surprised by the amount of swearing in it and they asked George if he could cut some of it out, and George response was, "If I cut out the swearing the movie would only be five minutes long."
So, the producers acquiesced and allowed the swearing to stay in.
So, the producers acquiesced and allowed the swearing to stay in.
I've still got my "FRELL ME DEAD" buttons.I remain crushed that "frell" (from Farscape) never caught on the way "frak" did.
I remain crushed that "frell" (from Farscape) never caught on the way "frak" did.
“Gorram” from Firefly was decent too.
Swearing in Trek is fine with me.
Imagine if we had gotten the Tarantino movie!?
I've still got my "FRELL ME DEAD" buttons.
"Merry frelling Christmas!"
May as well add that the term man-trap in slang means literally an extremely seductive woman. (The quotation on the Wiktionary page from Our American Cousin (1858) can be found on Project Gutenberg.) I've always suspected a double meaning in the episode's title.
"Frell" sounds way too soft to be fake profanity, IMO. "Frak" has the right cadence with that hard "K" sound you spit out in a moment of frustration.I remain crushed that "frell" (from Farscape) never caught on the way "frak" did.
The same way "slag" was a good fake slur on the Alien Nation series. It had the right sort of ugly sound for a slur.
I haven't seen Alien Nation, so I don't know the context in which they used it there, but the term "slag" isn't a fake slur. In Britain, it's synonymous with "slut."
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Weird. Transformers: Beast Wars used it.
I've seen enough of both approaches to know that I definitely prefer it when they do a Firefly and give Trek its own manner of speech that distances it just a bit from our normal present day life.
I mean, why go to all the effort to make the sets look like they're from another time and culture, and the costumes, and then put visual effects all over it, if the scripts aren't going to play along? It comes across like a desperate attempt to appeal to a younger audience and pull in the non-sci-fi fans, and only weakens the feeling of being in another place and time.
I mean, why go to all the effort to make the sets look like they're from another time and culture, and the costumes, and then put visual effects all over it, if the scripts aren't going to play along? It comes across like a desperate attempt to appeal to a younger audience and pull in the non-sci-fi fans, and only weakens the feeling of being in another place and time.
It's a great theme that perfectly conveyed the message of the series. It's my second-favourite opening, losing only to The Original Series opening.
It took 25 years for Star Trek to come up with a theme I like less than the Enterprise theme... but I can just skip the Starfleet Academy opening so it's fine.
I actually shut off the show when it started.
No, it doesn't.
It come across as writing with some awareness of how people speak.
Radical notion, and a higher bar than writing Treklish.
It took me a while to come around, but I eventually learned to love “Where My Heart Will Take Me.”
I gotta say that “Archer’s Theme” is also really fucking good. Enterprise having two banger themes is pretty impressive.
I think Enterprise was one of the first shows I actually stayed through the end credits just to hear Archer's theme.
The original song, along with the images, was great IMHO.
It was kind of jarring when they popped-up the theme song right when the show was getting dark.
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