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Old-Timers Thread (kids not allowed!)

Brutal Strudel said:
The Abramsprise is what happens when the sexy librarian hooks up with a biker gang and gets a tramp stamp and platinum highlights in her raven hair--sure, she gives you a rise in the Levis but you may not feel good about it.)
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God, that's funny! I've been skimming through this thread, and that made me pause and really laugh.

To be honest, I don't quite fit the criteria exactly, as I started watching TOS in the early 70s when it was in first-time re-runs, being broadcast in UHF from some station in Erie that most likely doesn't even exist anymore. The reception was terrible, like the first broadcasts from the moon, which merely added to the mystique.

I've been in love with the show ever since. I think I discovered the James Blish series of adaptions shortly after that.

And yes, the Old Girl is still one of the best looking spaceships of all time. I really wish we could've gotten a full-blown version of the original in the reboot, but as the Stones once sang, 'You can't always get what you want.'
 
Sherman!! Set the Wayback Machine to....ahh heck..

I am a first run TOS fan..was 5 years and about a month old in '66 when The Man Trap came on.(my mother was a huge fan of the Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits..she even sat me in front of the TV at 2 & 3 years old when Outer Limits was on prime time..but I digress). I watched the entire show and it scared the hell outta me. I felt that the Salt Monster was gonna come right out of the TV and...you get the picture, any way I was hooked and my parents let me watch every episode from the Man Trap through Turnabout Intruder. About 1 or 2 years after NBC stopped running the show, KTVU began to run it at 6 PM weeknights and I watched them over and over bought the models, and even photographed them with my friends with homemade starfield backgrounds. As a Freshman in High School I discovered organized fandom and joined Sacramento S.T.A.R. I went to several fan-run conventions in Sacramento between 1975 and 1978 and promptly discovered girls then I joined the USAF. I saw all the TOS cast movies first run and started to watch TNG in 1988 (after I returned from a posting in the UK) and even though it was Star Trek, it wasn't the same, (though I do enjoy it).

Heck, even though I like the lawn, it really isn't mine, but I do like to look at it..and I'm willing to share even with you punks, as long as you keep the dogs off of it..


thanks for re-charging a few brain cells for a bit.
 
I grew up on Star Trek (at that time, the only series) and I still love looking back on the old episodes. I really miss the colorful lighting - the greens, blues, fuchias and purples. The special effects actually hold up pretty well. Compare them to some of the FX from the British SF shows of the same era. (Then you can start a thread on how American TV is obsessed with FX and appearance over storyline, and the British series' took the opposite approach. Really, it would likely be an interesting discussion.)
 
Just a baby here ('67) but TOS is the quintessential Trek for me. I do love all the spinoffs but TOS is the core from which all Trek Goodness springs.
 
thanks! (I'm not stalking you . . . I've been warned about such things! ;))
 
This is my first post here. I've been a trek fan since 68, bought the AMT model back then and over the years always wanted to get my hands on a more accurate version thereof. Well I did just that about 3 years ago. Here is a photograph of it, 'Planetary Defense' that is what I call the scene I have created here. For the fellow who suggested that the ship looks like a toy, well I beg to differ. Posed like this, in a realistic space environment the ship looks more than just believable it looks like the real McCoy –chuckle.

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Artman said:
This is my first post here. I've been a trek fan since 68, bought the AMT model back then and over the years always wanted to get my hands on a more accurate version thereof. Well I did just that about 3 years ago. Here is a photograph of it, 'Planetary Defense' that is what I call the scene I have created here. For the fellow who suggested that the ship looks like a toy, well I beg to differ. Posed like this, in a realistic space environment the ship looks more than just believable it looks like the real McCoy –chuckle.

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That's an AMT kit? WOW! That looks damned good. Did you actually have it lighted or is that photoshopped in afterwards?
 
Warped9 said:
Artman said:
This is my first post here. I've been a trek fan since 68, bought the AMT model back then and over the years always wanted to get my hands on a more accurate version thereof. Well I did just that about 3 years ago. Here is a photograph of it, 'Planetary Defense' that is what I call the scene I have created here. For the fellow who suggested that the ship looks like a toy, well I beg to differ. Posed like this, in a realistic space environment the ship looks more than just believable it looks like the real McCoy –chuckle.

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That's an AMT kit? WOW! That looks damned good. Did you actually have it lighted or is that photoshopped in afterwards?
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That wasn't taken from a shuttle?
 
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That's an AMT kit? WOW! That looks damned good. Did you actually have it lighted or is that photoshopped in afterwards?[/QUOTE]

Sorry, no this model is a Master Replica . . . it is about 3 feet long and yes indeed it lights up. The only Photoshop I did was adding light into the impulse engine ports. Oh, and I had to add the phaser fire as well.

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I was six when Star Trek premired in fall 1966. I know I watched "The Man Trap" because to this day I remember the eerieness of the circles on the dead peoples' faces. I also distinctly remember it was in black and white, we still just had a b and w TV. But otherwise I don't recall much of the first two seasons and here's why.

I was kid number six out of eight children. When it came to watching TV in the evening the pecking order was the older kids had first dibs on what to watch. Unfortunately none of my elder siblings liked Star Trek much so I was out of luck most of the time. It was SOOOOO unfair just because I was the sixth kid born.

So when the 3rd season came along I was eight. The time slot of 10 pm Friday night for the 3rd season was supposed to be a death sentence but it worked out very well for me. First, during the school year the only time I could stay up past 10 pm was Friday and Saturday nights. Any other night, I would've been out of luch. My parents would not have accepted this 'Star Track' nonsense as a valid reason to stay up late.

Secondly, unlike me, my elder siblings actually had social lives and Friday nights was a normal time for them to be out with their friends. That left me free to choose what to watch on TV (My little sister: Hey! That's SOOOO unfair just because I'm the seventh kid born!).

So I remember watching the 3rd season very well. Another thing is we had gotten our first color TV that summer of '68 so I sure remember "Spock's Brain" being in glorious living color. One problem though is despite the title of the ep, they wouldn't actually SHOW Spock's brain. Being an eight year old boy, I wanted to SEE the brain in glorious living color. I felt cheated; I'd have to wait until the next broadcast of "Earth vs. The Flying Saucers" to get my brain fix in tired old black and white.

Oh well. Anyway, those are some of my memories of those years. One other little thing is at the time of "Spock's Brain" I remember the Beatles' "Hey Jude" being played a lot on the radio.

Robert
 
I agree: nice!

And for those who are not-so-old-timers: who cares as long as you share an appreciation for the place where it all began (TOS). I didn't start watching until the seventies, either...
 
Orcus said:
And for those who are not-so-old-timers: who cares as long as you share an appreciation for the place where it all began (TOS). I didn't start watching until the seventies, either...
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Many Millenium Geners would consider peeps that could view TV shows in the 70's as old-timers!:guffaw:
 
Chrisisall said:
Orcus said:
And for those who are not-so-old-timers: who cares as long as you share an appreciation for the place where it all began (TOS). I didn't start watching until the seventies, either...
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Many Millenium Geners would consider peeps that could view TV shows in the 70's as old-timers!:guffaw:
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:techman: Of course, that's after they get over the shock of learning that there was TV in the seventies - and in colour! :lol:
 
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