A Need For TOS

[johnnybear]

As much as I like Space 1999 as well as the original Star Trek, I've always felt that it ripped off a lot of Trek stories and characters and sort of mixed them up in certain ways!
I mean Death's other Dominion is a sort of rehash of What are little girls made of? Guardian of Piri is This side of paradise and Brian The Brain is The Changeling, Another time, Another Place reads like Mirror,Mirror while Earthbound has elements of Space Seed about it and Dragon's Domain has qualities of The Doomsday Machine! New Adam, New Eve comes straight from Who Mourns From Adonais and Bringers of Wonder has elements of The Menagerie even down to both it's two parts!
Yet I see a lot of 1999 in later Treks and not done as well!
JB

 

[Phaser Two]

I definitely do (have a need). About a week ago, after reading some really nice thoughts about Balance of Terror on this board, I realized it had been years since I had seen that one for whatever reason (my tastes are a little strange in that S2 is my favorite followed by S3, then just barely followed by S1). I watched it and couldn't believe how good it was. What an episode!! Now I need another one I haven't seen in a while - I'm thinking Conscience of the King.

 

[johnnybear]

Ah, the heady days when all we had were TOS and TAS, the movies, the novels (some good, some bad and some wonderfully amazing), FJ and the original Spaceflight Chronology. The days of "USS Enterprise, NCC1701, no bloody A, B,C,D" (or E, or NX-01!!).
And now we get shown a million changes made in re-boot's, that overrule things that had been a part of Trek-dom for twenty or thirty years. And told that the newer version is "canon" so anyone who clings to the original must be heretics.
Okay, rant over, move along people, there's nothing more to see................!

You don't have to accept what came after TOS, TAS or the movies my friend! I accept it and like some of it but it pales before Kirk's crew but I don't acknowledge Enterprise one little bit!
JB

 

[C57D]

You don't have to accept what came after TOS, TAS or the movies my friend! I accept it and like some of it but it pales before Kirk's crew but I don't acknowledge Enterprise one little bit!
JB

Totally ! And that is most certainly the ST world that I live in. I gave TNG and ENT a try, but never really got into them.
I am also a STRPG Gamesmaster, running the 1980's iteration by FASA, which is totally grounded in the TOS era (I tried but it just doesnt fit any post TOS meme). And so I enjoy writing and playing in this wonderful universe also. It too suffered under the "TNG purge" and most of it is now also rather heretical. But it lives on - just like TOS that inspired it !!

 

[Gary7]

I definitely do (have a need). About a week ago, after reading some really nice thoughts about Balance of Terror on this board, I realized it had been years since I had seen that one for whatever reason (my tastes are a little strange in that S2 is my favorite followed by S3, then just barely followed by S1). I watched it and couldn't believe how good it was. What an episode!! Now I need another one I haven't seen in a while - I'm thinking Conscience of the King.

I couldn't stand "Conscience of the King" back when I was a kid and in my younger adult days. But seeing it now... it's fantastic drama. That whole thing of redemption for the evil doer. Very poignant, even today. Blind fanaticism. Lenore reminds me of Ivanka. Her father can do no wrong. He must be exalted, never derided or made accountable for his shady past.

 

[Herbert]

We all enjoy Star Trek and, in particular, The Original Series but does anybody else other than me sometimes have a need to watch it? Obviously, I enjoy watching it anyway but some times these days I find myself having some sort of visceral need to get away from modern television programs, from the aesthetics and often depressing stories and plug into the more vibrant and optimistic Original Series.

I am truly dismayed by the sheer level of violence on TV these days and the need for producers to keep churning out more because they can. Some of these shows are truly ugly and not at all what I like for entertainment.
Sometimes, I need to go back and watch TOS or Hogan's Heroes, or MASH, etc

 

[Spock's Barber]

I am truly dismayed by the sheer level of violence on TV these days and the need for producers to keep churning out more because they can. Some of these shows are truly ugly and not at all what I like for entertainment.

Agreed. I just watched one of the Summer release theater movies and was dismayed by the amount of graphic violence it it.

 

[Kor]

TV shows rated TV-14 seem to have more graphic blood and gore than movies rated PG-13. It's very odd.

Kor

 

[UnknownSample]

Science fiction should be for people who think and imagine outside the constraints of the world they were born into. Instead, now people consume science fiction films and TV which are made to suit the current pop culture and its sensibilities. Watching and appreciating Trek made in the 1960s should not be any stretch for real SF minded viewers. The different aesthetic should be very interesting... people shouldn't want it to match what's in fashion now.
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By the way, I never considered TOS to be about good vs evil or guys in white hats, or Westerns in space. For me, it was my antidote to the prevalence of all that on TV then. People can read all sorts of things into ST, which may be a sign of how well it's made. As strange a thing as Trek was to try to sell to the public, originally, it really does have something for everyone.

 

[publiusr]

Agreed. I just watched one of the Summer release theater movies and was dismayed by the amount of graphic violence it it.

"Hero" characters have a higher body count these days than Jason or Freddie. I don't like that.

 

[Qonundrum]

I'm loving a lot of DS9 where many episodes do end on positive notes, like 'The House of Quark', but TOS is still quite unique. The need to watch TOS is maybe monthly or so, but I pop in a disc and enjoy the awesomeness and creativity of the 1960s, not all of which required LSD...

 

[Spock's Barber]

I'm loving a lot of DS9 where many episodes do end on positive notes, like 'The House of Quark', but TOS is still quite unique. The need to watch TOS is maybe monthly or so, but I pop in a disc and enjoy the awesomeness and creativity of the 1960s, not all of which required LSD...

....or as Kirk calls it in ST:TVH, "LDS".