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Esn. Chekov

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Wery happy to be here!

However... I won't be swapping w's and v's on all posts here (unless anyone wants me to lol...)


So, like:
-Trek (obviously) with TOS and TNG virtually tied as favorites (other 3 sort of all second-tier, but still Trek) maybe like TOS a bit more because the Crew reminds me of my friends... Chekov (obviously) and Data being my favorites, Spock, Bones, and Picard rounding out my Top 5 (Kirk just there at #6...)
-LITERATURE/PHILOSOPHY/THEATRE! Basically my whole life right there... I hope to be a great writer or director or philosopher (maybe all three) someday... hey, this is a Trek forum, I can shoot for the stars here, right?
-NEW YORK METS BASEBALL!!!!!!
-SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOOTBALL!!!!!
-ANAHEIM DUCKS HOCKEY!!!!
-Sherlock Holmes (NOT the new movie... haven't seen it, I'm a fan of the Conan Doyle stories and the Jeremy Brett TV show) and Dr. Gregory House (reminds me of me a bit if I were 25 years older and 10x more of an ass than I am already capable of being, should anyone screw with my friends or me...)
-Johnny Carson, David Letterman, and Craig Ferguson
-The Marx Brothers
-Opera... my favorite far and away being Puccini (though I also love Verdi and G&S... and Mozart, though not NEARLY as much as a friend of mine, if she COULD marry him...)
-As I said, literature... the Greek Mythos, the works of Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Homer in particular, the Arthurian Legend, SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS (I AM a theatre person... I'll go on the record and list Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night as the Top 10 Best, with an honorable mention to Titus Andronicus (considered by many his worst tragedy but I think it's VASTLY underrated, I'll take it over Julius Caesar on most levels, I think it's very thematic and Lavinia is rivaled only by Ophelia and a couple others for the title of "Most Tragic Heroinne in Shakespeae" so if you've never seen it, SEE IT, the Julie Taymor movie version is FANATASTIC, even if you hated "Across The Universe" WATCH THIS) and Henry IV Part 1, Part 2, and Henry V as I have heard they are amazing, but are one of the few I've never seen, read, or performed or directed, so can't rank them, but look foward to them someday), after
 
...after those works of Shakespeare's, I enjoy Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Henrik Ibsen, Edgar Allen Poe, William Blake, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Samuel Beckett
-PHILOSOPHY... Nietzsche and Mill (totally opposed, so a good clash there) are my favorites, Nietzsche by far my favorite, and David Hume rounds out my Top 3 and is my favorite Systematic Thinker (as Nietzsche is more of a literary thinker, not really a system man through and through... would give Spock headaches...) After them, Plato, Aristotle, John Locke and Thomas Hobbes are all also philosophers I like at least in part; I DON'T care for dogmatists like Kant, and so far haven't cared for Descartes too much...

So- hi? lol...
 
Hey.

How do you all do?

Also, how do I get an avatar/profile pic and set my sig below my posts, have a sig made but not showing up...?

(Is there a better place to post this, more appropriate...?)
 
You have potential, kid. If you love the theater then I hope you can bring an appreciation for TOS that's rare in modern viewers.

Far too few viewers (and, today, "creative" forces) have a clue about literature, philosophy or drama, knowledge of all of which will inform and enrich one's enjoyment of TOS immensely.
 
Welcome aboard. May you enjoy San Francisco 49ERS football while you can. ;)
 
A beaker full of death said:
You have potential, kid. If you love the theater then I hope you can bring an appreciation for TOS that's rare in modern viewers.
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There is more appreciation than you think. Problem is, posters like yourself make this forum an unpleasant place for anyone who isn't a TOS purist. The same thing goes on in other forums (DS9) but not as bad as it is here.

If you want to see more appreciation for the original series, stop trashing people who also appreciate TNG/DS9/VOY and even Enterprise. The appreciation is there; you're just scaring it all away.
 
Hi, Esn. Chekov! I'm a literature nerd, and I love Titus Andronicus, too (but King Lear is my favorite, followed by The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream). Taymor's film is incredible. I'll always have the image of poor, mutilated Lavinia emblazoned on my mind-- so beautiful, so tragic. Cordelia, Miranda, and Lavinia are my holy trinity of Shakespeare females.

To get back on topic, the friendship in TOS is what draws me in the most. You are lucky if you have friends like the Enterprise crew. :) What do you like most about Chekov?
 
Greetings, Pav! to one of my favorite forums on the internet, which is a Russian inwention.

I just checked, and I'm surprised to find there's no introduction thread stickied up with the FAQ.
 
Dennis said:
That's pretty much untrue, certainly less true of average Americans now than it was at the time TOS was made.
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yuh, ok. That's why the entertainment that was Star Trek, the series, has devolved into the mindless explosion-fest that is Star Trek, the current movie.

StarryEyed said:
...posters like yourself make this forum an unpleasant place for anyone who isn't a TOS purist...If you want to see more appreciation for the original series, stop trashing people who also appreciate TNG/DS9/VOY and even Enterprise. The appreciation is there; you're just scaring it all away.
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You are, presumably, confused. I have not trashed anyone, nor have I made this an "unpleasant place" (consider who has made the first personal comment in this thread). I am not a "TOS purist," whatever that might be (be assured I don't give two shits about "canon"). And frankly, if my words have scared anyone away, I'm delighted. Anyone who is scared of words sure as hell won't be able to handle actual ideas.
If you mean I do not apologize for having opinions, you're right. But there are plenty of posters here whom I disagree with with whom I happily engage in spirited, respectful discourse. But once I am attacked, oh yes, the gloves come off.
 
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