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Plan your 24 hour 50th anniversary TREK fest
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Where No Man… 50
The Man Trap 50
Balance of Terror 50
Space Seed 50
Errand of Mercy 50
City On The Edge… 50
Amok Time 50
Trouble With Tribbles 50
Journey to Babel 50
Doomsday Machine 50
The Tholian Web 50
All Our Yesterdays 50
600 minutes of TOS episodes
TMP (DE) 132
TWOK 112
TSFS 105
TFF 106
TUC 113
568 minutes of TOS movies
Encounter at Farpoint 90
Emissary 90
Caretaker 90
270 minutes of TNG-era pilot episodes
That’s 1438 minutes out of 1440 available. Hey, you need to pee, right??
I took this from the perspective of trying to best represent “Star Trek” on its 50th Anniversary as if I were introducing the world to someone who wasn’t familiar with it.
I focused hard on TOS. Not only because it’s my favorite, but because it’s the TOS anniversary we are really celebrating here, and the spirit of the franchise is in those characters. I picked episodes and movies I felt were foundational and/or best at showing the characters and their relationships at their best. They aren’t necessarily “my favorites” as much as I believe they are representative of the characters.
Finally, with the remaining few hours, I thought that presenting the pilot episodes of the three “24th century” spin-off series would be fun, too…to show what direction and characters the original series had inspired.
The Man Trap 50
Balance of Terror 50
Space Seed 50
Errand of Mercy 50
City On The Edge… 50
Amok Time 50
Trouble With Tribbles 50
Journey to Babel 50
Doomsday Machine 50
The Tholian Web 50
All Our Yesterdays 50
600 minutes of TOS episodes
TMP (DE) 132
TWOK 112
TSFS 105
TFF 106
TUC 113
568 minutes of TOS movies
Encounter at Farpoint 90
Emissary 90
Caretaker 90
270 minutes of TNG-era pilot episodes
That’s 1438 minutes out of 1440 available. Hey, you need to pee, right??
I took this from the perspective of trying to best represent “Star Trek” on its 50th Anniversary as if I were introducing the world to someone who wasn’t familiar with it.
I focused hard on TOS. Not only because it’s my favorite, but because it’s the TOS anniversary we are really celebrating here, and the spirit of the franchise is in those characters. I picked episodes and movies I felt were foundational and/or best at showing the characters and their relationships at their best. They aren’t necessarily “my favorites” as much as I believe they are representative of the characters.
Finally, with the remaining few hours, I thought that presenting the pilot episodes of the three “24th century” spin-off series would be fun, too…to show what direction and characters the original series had inspired.
Whatever schedule I would come up with - and I like the selections of Vger23 above - I would have to center it all around 8:30 PM Eastern Time on September 8th, with a showing of "The Man Trap" in that hour. That is the exact moment, give or take a few leap-seconds, that STAR TREK first aired 50 years ago.
I'm starting mine out a bit differently. I thought it'd be fun to kick things off with a movie that influenced the early Trek a great deal, as well as the first onscreen pairing of William Shatner & Leonard NImoy. If I'm not allowed to include The Cage, then this will be next best thing.
12 am Forbidden Planet
2 am The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Project Strigas Affair
3 am Where No Man Has Gone Before
4 am The Menagerie, Pts. 1 & 2
5 am Space Seed
6 am The Devil in the Dark
7 am Errand of Mercy
8 am The City on the Edge of Forever
9 am Amok Time
10 am The Doomsday Machine
11 am Mirror, Mirror
12 pm The Trouble With Tribbles
1 pm Journey to Babel
2 pm Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
4 pm Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
6 pm TNG - The Measure of a Man
7 pm TNG - Yesterday's Enterprise
8 pm TNG - Sarek
9 pm TNG - The Best of Both Worlds, Pts. 1 & 2
11 pm DS9 - The Visitor
12 am DS9 - Trials and Tribble-ations
Right now this works out to 25 hours, but since all of the movies I selected are under 2 hours, I figure I have a little wiggle room. Believe me, it was tough just to narrow it down THIS much. I would have really loved to include ENT's In A Mirror, Darkly 2-parter too, but I figured that would be pushing it.
12 am Forbidden Planet
2 am The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Project Strigas Affair
3 am Where No Man Has Gone Before
4 am The Menagerie, Pts. 1 & 2
5 am Space Seed
6 am The Devil in the Dark
7 am Errand of Mercy
8 am The City on the Edge of Forever
9 am Amok Time
10 am The Doomsday Machine
11 am Mirror, Mirror
12 pm The Trouble With Tribbles
1 pm Journey to Babel
2 pm Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
4 pm Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
6 pm TNG - The Measure of a Man
7 pm TNG - Yesterday's Enterprise
8 pm TNG - Sarek
9 pm TNG - The Best of Both Worlds, Pts. 1 & 2
11 pm DS9 - The Visitor
12 am DS9 - Trials and Tribble-ations
Right now this works out to 25 hours, but since all of the movies I selected are under 2 hours, I figure I have a little wiggle room. Believe me, it was tough just to narrow it down THIS much. I would have really loved to include ENT's In A Mirror, Darkly 2-parter too, but I figured that would be pushing it.
@JonnyQuest037 How do you plan to fit two episodes into one hour with The Menagerie?
I never could get into Top Gear, though I do love Wheeler Dealers.
Ah, rats! I knew I was going to screw that up somewhere! Nice catch.
And no, I'm not changing it.
Hey, everyone should watch Pretty Maids All In A Row at least once. That movie is delightfully insane, and it has the weird subtext of, "Gosh, if only we let teachers freely sleep with their students, the world would be a better place, and Rock Hudson wouldn't have to kill all these people!" It's an interesting but odd insight into just how weird Gene Roddenberry's head could be.
And I decided to include Forbidden Planet and Strigas for what I consider a very good reason: It's good to remind yourself that Trek wasn't born in a vacuum and it didn't spring forth full-blown from the head of Zeus. It was a product of a particular time and place, and it was a confluence of the talents involved and no small amount of luck. Gene Roddenberry wasn't trying to create a phenomenon, he was trying to create a profitable TV show. Shatner and Nimoy weren't Kirk and Spock, they were working actors happy to have a regular gig. And I think that TOS is all the more amazing because of it.
Wheeler Dealers is fun, but after I saw Fast n' Loud, there was no going back, check it out. (if you already haven't)
Wheeler Dealers is fun, but after I saw Fast n' Loud, there was no going back, check it out. (if you already haven't)
Not sure if that's available here in the US. Though I'll keep an eye out.
Ah, okay! I obviously misunderstood you there, but having both "The Cage" and "The Menagerie" on my list would be a bit redundant anyway.
As I suggested, the evening is the most important. I'd do the first four in aired order starting at 8:30. Perhaps run either "The Cage" or "The Menagerie" just before.
8:30 PM The Man Trap
9:25 PM Charlie X
10:20 PM Where No Man Has Gone Before
11:15 PM The Naked Time
Earlier in the day, it could be a mix of movies and favored TOS episodes.
8:30 PM The Man Trap
9:25 PM Charlie X
10:20 PM Where No Man Has Gone Before
11:15 PM The Naked Time
Earlier in the day, it could be a mix of movies and favored TOS episodes.
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