favorite TOS cliches

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Pajamas being used as Starfleet uniforms.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

Plum said:
^^^
Oh yea, it was used just as you described. I guess it was the magical "martial arts" eastern mystic way of knocking out the bad guys in most media of the time! I think it was the Bond films of Sean Connery that made this a staple in pop culture.

Didn't Nimoy come up with the Vulcan nerve pinch becuase he didn't think Spock should be running around karate chopping people?

 

[Redfern]

AdmiralGarak said:

Plum said:
^^^
Oh yea, it was used just as you described. I guess it was the magical "martial arts" eastern mystic way of knocking out the bad guys in most media of the time! I think it was the Bond films of Sean Connery that made this a staple in pop culture.

Didn't Nimoy come up with the Vulcan nerve pinch becuase he didn't think Spock should be running around karate chopping people?

Actually, his suggestion of the nerve pinch was to replace the old cliche of butting someone over the head with a gun (aka "pistol whipping") to knock them out.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Woulfe]

The Sci-Fi Western !

Wait, that's Star Trek all over isn't it, nevermind

Cowboy Deplomancy, yup yup yup.

 

[Jimmy_C]

Kirk's over-the-head judo throw (tomoe nage for those who train) is listed in the U.S. Army's unarmed combatives handbook as the "Captain Kirk."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Red Ranger said:
-Food that looks like Play-Doh.

That always mystified me. What, they don't have real food in the 23rd century?

I mean, would it have killed them to find a freakin' CATERER already? I can remember maybe one or two scenes where they actually eat real food - in the Tribbles ep where a tribble gets into Kirk's food tray. "This is my chicken sandwich and coffee!" Plus the "chicken soup" scene in 'Tomorrow is Yesterday'.

And what's worse, when ENT did the scenes on the Defiant, they still ate that weird playdoh food...

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

RookieBatman said:
What about the one where McCoy tells Spock he's "the coldest person I've ever met" or something similar, and Spock says, "Why, thank you, Doctor." I think that was repeated a couple times

As well as Bones starting a (semi-racist) retort and Kirk cutting him off before it gets out of hand.

Basill said:First used in the Cage, and attributed to the vibrating metaloid leaves, it would eventually evolve into the regular-series transporter sound, which was very different in the first pilot

I love that sound, especially when combined with the eerie dead planets they land on

 

[shatastrophic]

Kirk always having time to give a log entry. Even when they are trapped on a planet with none of there equipment he is still able to make a supplemental log entry. Log entries are always current never after the fact. I understand giving one while on ship on your way to a mission in order to documents the days routine. But when you got romulans off the port bow or kids that have stolen you communicators, everything is about to go to hell unless you do something, but wait a sec i gotta make a log entry then we will tackle the issue. Oh yeah and the turbolifts, sometimes it would only take a matter of seconds to get anywhere on ship, but if the story needed a conversation piece to move things along and this converstaion took place on the turbolift, sometimes that ride would take forever. These might not be cliche, i just thought it was funny. I really don't care though it doesn't take any of the fun out of it for me.

 

[Woulfe]

Shat-ner Shat-ner-ize-ing like nobody else can Shat-ner-ize.

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* I love the smell of chewed scenery in the morning, it smells like, Shat-ner-ize-ing *