I like the extremely varied stories, the insights they offer, some of the acting, the goodlookers.
Things I love about Star Trek
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Another thing I just thought of - maybe somebody's already mentioned this, but if so, I'm going to say it again: I love the alien species. We all make fun of the forehead of the week and how almost all of them look as though they were being played by human beings, if you can imagine anything so crass, but...
Culture-wise, there really are some very interesting ones out there. My favorites have always been the Romulans and the Vulcans - and what an interesting back story they turned out to have, yes? - but coming in a very close second are the Cardassians, a true creative achievement, IMO. And while the Borg were overused, well, in their prime they were amazingly creepy. If I start to list all the species I really like, I won't have time to get much sleep tonight (the Bajorans, the Andorans, the Sheliak, the Founders, the Jem'Hadar, and on and on) but there are a lot of them. So let's raise a glass of Romulan ale or kanar or blood wine or the alien beverage of your choice to: the aliens!
Culture-wise, there really are some very interesting ones out there. My favorites have always been the Romulans and the Vulcans - and what an interesting back story they turned out to have, yes? - but coming in a very close second are the Cardassians, a true creative achievement, IMO. And while the Borg were overused, well, in their prime they were amazingly creepy. If I start to list all the species I really like, I won't have time to get much sleep tonight (the Bajorans, the Andorans, the Sheliak, the Founders, the Jem'Hadar, and on and on) but there are a lot of them. So let's raise a glass of Romulan ale or kanar or blood wine or the alien beverage of your choice to: the aliens!
The music has it's moments too. I'm listening to a combined soundtrack from all the ST movies and it's bloody great, god bless you Mr Courage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dui26w7abgg&feature=related
And I hoist my Kanar to those wonderful aliens of ours (even the Klingons), here's to you, you fine bunch of sentient beings!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dui26w7abgg&feature=related
And I hoist my Kanar to those wonderful aliens of ours (even the Klingons), here's to you, you fine bunch of sentient beings!
Sentience as a concept is something I learned from Star Trek and only Star Trek. Hmmmm, which gives me an idea...
Another great thing about Star Trek is...not just the plots, but the writing - specifically the fact that they didn't really dumb down the language as many shows do. Presumably they had to dumb down the science (otherwise I for one wouldn't have gotten very far - I got a B in physics but I have no idea how! - and besides, they were making some of this stuff up), but the language they used, the vocabulary, is much more sophisticated than the average TV show. I'm not talking about the techie stuff - I mean words such as you can fine in your average unabridged dictionary but that entered my vocabulary primarily through Trek.
And now you're going to want some examples, aren't you? Yeah, I thought so - I know you guys. Well, besides sentience, which is not a word you run across every day, how about anomaly? symbiont? omnipotent?
I'm not saying Trek invented these words - I mean, there they are in my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary - and some of them I would probably have heard elsewhere, sooner or later (although it would probably have taken a good long while for sentience to percolate into my consciousness). But I love words - words, they are my life - and so this is one of the things that I love about Trek.
Another great thing about Star Trek is...not just the plots, but the writing - specifically the fact that they didn't really dumb down the language as many shows do. Presumably they had to dumb down the science (otherwise I for one wouldn't have gotten very far - I got a B in physics but I have no idea how! - and besides, they were making some of this stuff up), but the language they used, the vocabulary, is much more sophisticated than the average TV show. I'm not talking about the techie stuff - I mean words such as you can fine in your average unabridged dictionary but that entered my vocabulary primarily through Trek.
And now you're going to want some examples, aren't you? Yeah, I thought so - I know you guys. Well, besides sentience, which is not a word you run across every day, how about anomaly? symbiont? omnipotent?
I'm not saying Trek invented these words - I mean, there they are in my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary - and some of them I would probably have heard elsewhere, sooner or later (although it would probably have taken a good long while for sentience to percolate into my consciousness). But I love words - words, they are my life - and so this is one of the things that I love about Trek.
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I watched him, too.
Not 'Barney' though. Blech!
Is that the purple singing dinosaur thing?
Oops my bad, here try some techobabble; [ahem]
self sealing stembolt, fluxcapacitor, rerouting something or other, Warp core breach.
Interestingly I first wrote that as 'psychobabble', revealing eh?
Yeah, but that bastard killed Kirk's son.
(and partly laid the foundation for the Klingon Brain bug)
Technically, the guy Kirk vaporized when they first encountered the Klingon landing party was the one who did it, but who's counting? Besides, Kruge got his.
And I think whatever damage Kruge did to the TOS Klingon, Klaa and Chang fixed.
Ooh, there's another thing I love: Klingons who quote Shakespeare and claim it as their own.
Technically, the guy Kirk vaporized when they first encountered the Klingon landing party was the one who did it, but who's counting? Besides, Kruge got his.
And I think whatever damage Kruge did to the TOS Klingon, Klaa and Chang fixed.
Ooh, there's another thing I love: Klingons who quote Shakespeare and claim it as their own.
Well, it does sound better in the original.
Chang joins Gul Dukat in my personal top ten Trek villains list
(I can't remember who Klaa is
).
Yeah, Marc Alaimo is really in the same level as Christopher Plummer, just not as recognized outside Trekdom. Andrew Robinson is a bit more dramatically recognized than Alaimo, IMO.
Another thing I like about Trek: high quality actors.
Klaa was the bighair Klingon from TFF that, IMO, just liked blowing stuff up and wanted more than anything to kill Kirk and destroy the Enterprise. Seemed pretty TOS to me.
Another thing I like about Trek: high quality actors.
Klaa was the bighair Klingon from TFF that, IMO, just liked blowing stuff up and wanted more than anything to kill Kirk and destroy the Enterprise. Seemed pretty TOS to me.
Yeah, Marc Alaimo is really in the same level as Christopher Plummer, just not as recognized outside Trekdom. Andrew Robinson is a bit more dramatically recognized than Alaimo, IMO.
Another thing I like about Trek: high quality actors.
Klaa was the bighair Klingon from TFF that, IMO, just liked blowing stuff up and wanted more than anything to kill Kirk and destroy the Enterprise. Seemed pretty TOS to me.
Ah, yes the bloke who blew up Voyager (the space probe not the starship
) and gunned down 'God'. He ended up as a translator for the Kirk/McCoy trial on Qo'nos as I recall.
Theoretically. It was the same guy, but not necessarily the same character.
In my mind it was. And there was Colonel Worf granddaddy of microbrain.
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