You know what REALLY SUCKS about TOS???

[scotpens]

And...the...computers...talk...like...this...

Yes, I thought the monotone "robotic" computer voice was a bit dated even back in 1966. After all, Forbidden Planet's Robby spoke in normally inflected English ten years earlier. (I mean in real time, of course.)

Computers in future will be designed to intentionally speak that way after the public boycott of government & private sector automated answering & notification machines of 2060. Led by a protest group known as the "Tin-Canners," who were disgusted with pre-recorded, human-sounding time-wasters, the movement sought to at least make machines immediately recognizable when one had to deal with them.

Ye's, I've heard of that group -- I believe they were affiliated with the Order of Flesh and Blood.

Damn right-wing reactionaries, always trying to stop progress!

 

[Chrisisall]

Damn right-wing reactionaries,

Left-wing, I think... maybe Centerist. No matter. A spirited rose by any other name...

 

[Warped9]

That there were only seventy-nine episodes.

Unless you count the animated series.

Can't count TAS because the thread is about TOS. But TAS is awesome! I watch it frequently.

Counting TAS makes 102 episodes. "The Cage" plus 79 production episodes plus 22 TAS episodes.

 

[I-Am-Zim]

Re: You know what REALLY SUCKS about TOS???

Not a damn thing!!!!!

 

[ClayHefner]

What sucks a bit is the idea that there can somehow only be one file on a data disk, so Spock and others at times have to carry around about one dozen (unlabeled) floppy disks.

Combined with the idea that when speaking to the computer, the future humans don't like a good interface for some reason.

I'm not critizising, considering this was done in the 60's. But they got so much stuff right, this sorta sticks out.

 

[maryh]

That it wasn't appreciated at the time it was being made. Only 3 seasons and they had to fight for those. Perhaps though, that is why it was so good. From adversity comes Greatness.

 

[plynch]

I'd say nothing. Certainly there's stuff I would change. But then other people wouldn't like my changes.

 

[JarodRussell]

TOS is flawless perfection. All hail the divine entity that is TOS. Thou shalt not dare to pass crticism on that which is TOS.

 

[scotpens]

What sucks a bit is the idea that there can somehow only be one file on a data disk, so Spock and others at times have to carry around about one dozen (unlabeled) floppy disks.

No one had heard of floppy disks in 1966. The first "floppies," introduced by IBM in the early '70s, were 8 inches across and held 100K!

Those flat, square thingies in Trek TOS were called "tapes," so I assume they were supposed to be magnetic tape cassettes -- state-of-the-art data storage technology for the 1960s.

Combined with the idea that when speaking to the computer, the future humans don't like a good interface for some reason.

The crew of the Enterprise talked to the computer. The computer talked back. Why was that not a "good interface"? Or are you talking about some kind of oral sex?

 

[Chrisisall]

Those flat, square thingies in Trek TOS were called "tapes," so I assume they were supposed to be magnetic tape cassettes --

"Tapes" in the 23rd Century consist of solid Transferable And Partial-mnemonic Escalade Storage units.

 

[Gepard]

Re: You know what REALLY SUCKS about TOS???

Not a damn thing!!!!!

 

[Chrisisall]

Re: You know what REALLY SUCKS about TOS???

Not a damn thing!!!!!

Better than most shows today.

 

[Nero's Shadow]

That there were only seventy-nine episodes.

Yeah. That sucks HUGE.

I have to say i wish it would have been more successful in the sixty,s MORE EPISODES and more great story,s and more one liners from bones ?

 

[Nero's Shadow]

Re: You know what REALLY SUCKS about TOS???

Not a damn thing!!!!!

Better than most shows today.

Oh god i agree with the above as well TOS was perfection !!!!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

NOTHING SUCKS ABOUT TOS EXCEPT 'THE OMEGA GLORY' AND IT ONLY SUCKED AT THE END.

 

[BillJ]

NOTHING SUCKS ABOUT TOS EXCEPT 'THE OMEGA GLORY' AND IT ONLY SUCKED AT THE END.

Loved The Omega Glory, one of my favorites.

 

[RandyS]

Too much Kirk and not enough of the others. I would have loved an episode or two centering on Sulu, Chekov and Uhura.

This didn't happen. That sucked.

 

[Chrisisall]

NOTHING SUCKS ABOUT TOS EXCEPT 'THE OMEGA GLORY' AND IT ONLY SUCKED AT THE END.

Why do you hate our Constitution, Tea?

 

[Chrisisall]

NOTHING SUCKS ABOUT TOS EXCEPT 'THE OMEGA GLORY' AND IT ONLY SUCKED AT THE END.

Loved The Omega Glory, one of my favorites.

Me too, it's one of my Top 5!!!

E-Plebnista!!!!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Re: You know what REALLY SUCKS about TOS???

Not a damn thing!!!!!

Pam Ferdin was cute. Had a crush on her as a kid.