UK fans might recognise this epic trailer from the CIC Video releases of the early 90’s. It’s still fantastic after all these years, although could do with some updating. How the Trek universe has expanded since then. Enjoy.
Ah yes, I remember this, I think it was at the start of every TNG Season 7 tape. Unlike most trailers I always tended to watch it, even though I’d seen it dozens of times. I always enjoyed how they cheekily edited lines together from different shows to make it seem like they were talking to each other. That shot of Kirk’s communicator grille being flipped too far back always bugged me though.
This is exactly the type of thing I would've eaten right up back in 1993. But it's really corny and overlong, looking at it now.
It’s silly but so much fun. I usually always skipped past trailers on video and dvd but I always watched this one as it was so well out together. I’d love to see an updated trailer along these lines.
I remember the one in the first post. Every season 3 and 4 VHS I had back in the 90s started with that trailer. I guess I might not be the only one who could speak every line from memory in that trailer. Definately a nostalgy trip.
I think the best thing about that trailer is that it is about series that Star Trek is for me, TOS and TNG. DS9 is mentioned but it was a fresh thing back then and doesn't get much attention. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people who like DS9, I just enjoy a trailer with only TOS and TNG taking the main role. Finding this trailer in youtube after many years since VHS went away was a nice moment.
Wow that brouht back memories. It says "spanning 4 decades", 1960's to 1990's. "You lied?" "I exaggerated."
It is, but differences in decades meant a lot more back then. So I let it slide. There were huge stylistic/cultural differences between the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. Since 2000, the decade-to-decade differences haven't been as drastic as before, except in technology.
That’s true actually, decades no longer feel distinct since the 90’s, everything feels like a homogenised blah. It’s not a lie because it did span at 4 decades at the time. Not all of the years in those decades, but it didn’t say that. It was a trailer anyway, it would have been weird if they’d given a Spock or Data-esque “Star Trek has been running for twenty six years, nine months and eleven days”
I think some of that is time. At the end of the '90s, I felt like there was no distinctive feel for the decade, not like the '80s (encapsulated in 1998's The Wedding Singer) or the '70s (see That '70s Show, which also premiered in 1998). It took a few years for '90s nostalgia culture to click in (I first noticed it with a Saved By the Bell parody that honed in on it in the mid 2000s), and you get movies like Captain Marvel that explore it a bit more subtly. Of course, I felt the same about the 2000s after it "ended", although it's beginning to take root and I imagine will be explored more soon enough. The 2010s I have no idea how to define apart from the modern-day, except for the most obvious. Of course, everyone knows exactly how future media, for hundreds of years, will define the early 2020s. We live in one of those distinctive times.