GR vs. JJ

[Greg Cox]

Done. My TOS DVD’s are now in the trash.

Hey, let's not get carried away here!

 

[Dukhat]

A commentary on the dangers of cult leadership.

I thought it was a commentary on the dangers of being a hippie.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I though it was a comment on the dangers of walking barefoot.

 

[BillJ]

I though it was a comment on the dangers of walking barefoot.

I thought the moral was to wash your fruit before eating it.

 

[Mudd]

Oh yea, Stop patronizing bad Star Trek.

What about patronizing bad posters? Too much of that goes on, really.

 

[1001001]

Oh yea, Stop patronizing bad Star Trek.

Why? Because you say so?

What’s “bad Star Trek”? Is that something you get to decide for everyone?

Who appointed you the arbiter of what’s good and what’s not?

You don’t like it? Don’t watch it. But telling other people what do to and acting as if your opinion is objective fact is weak sauce indeed.

 

[The Wormhole]

Some of my favorite episodes are "The Omega Glory" and "The Royale".

Very fine episodes, the both of them.

 

[BillJ]

You don’t like it? Don’t watch it.

Or bitch about it in the appropriate forum. Like I do with Discovery!

 

[Mudd]

But telling other people what do to and acting as if your opinion is objective fact is weak sauce indeed.

I'm devastated.

 

[1001001]

I'm devastated.

 

[DonIago]

I suspect what we have here is a "Let He Who Is Without Sin"-loving closet case who's secretly ashamed of their feelings for the episode and is consequently overreacting by trying to feign hatred of all "bad" Trek.

Shh, shh, it's okay to like LHWIWS, if that's what you want to do. IDIC.

 

[Valenti]

Yeah, let's get back to classic Roddenberry-inspired morality tales like this one:

This is an anti-technology episode. They did one like this on Deep Space Nine.

 

[fireproof78]

This is an anti-technology episode. They did one like this on Deep Space Nine.

Yes, but Spock agreed with them.

 

[Mudd]

This is an anti-technology episode.

No it's not.

It's a preposterous piece of tripe written by middle-aged, self-satisfied TV writers taking potshots at a youth culture and movement they just didn't get.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

This is an anti-technology episode.

No. Sevrin was insane, remember?

 

[The Old Mixer]

No. Sevrin was insane, remember?

That's what the establishment wants you to believe, man.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Herberts, man.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Don't trust anyone over -270.

 

[Valenti]

No it's not.

It's a preposterous piece of tripe written by middle-aged, self-satisfied TV writers taking potshots at a youth culture and movement they just didn't get.

Herbert.

 

[Mojochi]

As noted elsewhere, this is not unique in movies or tv or books or comics. I'm old enough to have lived through at least eight different live-action versions of SUPERMAN, at least five different PLANET OF THE APES timelines, multiple versions of THE MUMMY and ZORRO and TARZAN, etc. So why fret over various different versions of STAR TREK?

It's not craziness and doesn't require elaborate theories involving alien intervention. It's just how popular fiction works. Heck, how many different versions of PETER PAN or NANCY DREW are there?

I can't even wrap my head around all the Sherlock Holmes incarnations now. Technically, there's 3 going on at the same time now, & I actually like Holmes almost as much as Star Trek

Edit: Wait, I forgot geriatric Holmes with Ian McKellen.... lol 4!