Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x01 - "The Next Generation"

[Nerys Myk]

Sure, change everything else, future sets, future tech, future clothes, future society, future travel, but you gotta keep the language contemporary
And what is not understandable in previous Trek?

Did he say the language wasn't understandable? The language in all Trek shows is contemporary.

And for some reason ink wells are back in style for 23rd Century schoolrooms.

 

[Tuskin38]

Maybe it’s just me, but I thought some of language in DS9 felt more 90s.

 

[Grizzlor]

Strong in some ways but full of way too many "come on, really?" moments. Seven commandeering her own ship while the overbearing captain sleeps? Come on. Crusher has a son.....come....on.

 

[Lord Garth]

Data: "I did not win... I busted him up!"
Laughter ensues.

That was the end of "Peak Performance". I was laughing too. Anyone who says they weren't is lying. But "I busted him up!" is '80s as Hell.

 

[cooleddie74]

Some TNG episodes felt like they were one moment away from having a character say "Excellent, Dude" or "Righteous." And those would have been tubular, like Matt Jefferies.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Strong in some ways but full of way too many "come on, really?" moments. Seven commandeering her own ship while the overbearing captain sleeps? Come on. Crusher has a son.....come....on.

True, when Spock commandeers a ship he makes sure the captain is off the ship.

HANSEN: Out of orbit, Mister Spock. Seems strange with no navigator on duty.
SPOCK: The Enterprise knows where she's going, Mister Hansen.
UHURA: Someone's trying to hail us, sir.
SPOCK: Maintain radio silence, Lieutenant. This is First Officer Spock. Per Starfleet orders this date, I have been placed in temporary command of the Enterprise. While our destination is secret, our mission is relatively simple. Starbase Command has assigned Captain Kirk medical rest leave until our return. His instructions are that you will obey my orders as you would his. First Officer out.
MCCOY: What's going on around here? Who said Jim needed a medical rest leave? And this call about me being needed aboard the ship. I've checked everywhere.
SPOCK: And no one from the ship made such a call.
MCCOY: That's right.
SPOCK: Doctor, I regret they elected to keep certain things from you. Will you come with me, please

Or at least resting...

[Kirk's quarters]

(Kirk is resting in the dark when he has an idea.)
KIRK: Bridge. Navigation.
CHEKOV [on monitor]: Navigation. Chekov here.
KIRK: Mister Chekov, how late will we arrive for the ceremonies if we increase speed to maximum and divert to Vulcan just long enough to drop off Mister Spock?
CHEKOV [on monitor]: I don't understand, Captain.
KIRK: How far behind schedule will diverting to Vulcan put us?
CHEKOV [on monitor]: We're on course for Vulcan, Captain, as Mister Spock ordered.
KIRK: Thank you, Mister Chekov. Kirk, out.

Wait? Crusher is not allowed to have kids? Has anyone told Wesley?

 

[Noname Given]

Some TNG episodes felt like they were one moment away from having a character say "Excellent, Dude" or "Righteous." And those would have been tubular, like Matt Jefferies.

Star Trek has always been a mirror of the times in which a given entry is produced. I mean look at ST:TMP. Everyone looks like they just stepped out of a discotheque, and the majority of male characters were walking around with open shirt tops. It screamed late 1970s.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I think my favorite Easter egg was

IN THE 25TH CENTURY....

 

[cooleddie74]

As it should. '90s Trek gave us computer and home electronics advertisements featuring the VOY cast holding the latest in camcorders, CD players and software for computers. It's always entertaining to recognize elements of a respective era in American history trapped in Trek like an ancient insect in amber.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Star Trek has always been a mirror of the times in which a given entry is produced. I mean look at ST:TMP. Everyone looks like they just stepped out of a discotheque, and the majority of male characters were walking around with open shirt tops. It screamed late 1970s.

Not seeing it.

 

[fireproof78]

Star Trek has always been a mirror of the times in which a given entry is produced. I mean look at ST:TMP. Everyone looks like they just stepped out of a discotheque, and the majority of male characters were walking around with open shirt tops. It screamed late 1970s.

I guess many Trek fans don't remember the 70s

 

[Nerys Myk]

I guess many Trek fans don't remember the 70s

It was the darktime. We only had a cartoon and reruns. And books. Lots of books.

 

[DaveyNY]

It was the darktime. We only had a cartoon and reruns. And books. Lots of books.

... and Conventions.

 

[Nerys Myk]

... and Conventions.

Paid Gene's rent and that of a few actors.

 

[cooleddie74]

Ah, yes. The era of TRUE Star Trek.

After TMP and the decline of bell bottoms the franchise died in the hearts of the Realfans.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It was the darktime. We only had a cartoon and reruns. And books. Lots of books.

But we had no idea how many reruns there were, and we had no idea if we had actually seen them all, so we had to keep watching just in case we discover some gem that had slipped past us because we got invited to a key party or a fondue party.

Key Fondue parties left scars.

 

[cooleddie74]

The reruns were longer. 46 minutes and an odd number of seconds. The later rerun cycles just kept adding commercials.

 

[DaveyNY]

Paid Gene's rent and that of a few actors.

Back then (late 70's to early 80's), not so much Gene.
He preferred to visit college campuses and do small group gatherings where he was the only guest.
I saw him twice at local colleges in the Albany area.

By the mid-80's he was starting to do Con's out on the West Coast.

In the Capital District area, we had a yearly local Trek Con that started in '81 and by 1985 we had managed to get everybody in the main cast to visit us except Roddenberry & Shatner.
(it was around then that the Professional Trek Conventions began and it was pretty near impossible to book the stars after that for local Con's.)

I had to go to a Con in NYC back then to get Shatners autograph.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The reruns were longer. 46 minutes and an odd number of seconds. The later rerun cycles just kept adding commercials.

Which is why it was like an orgasm when the uncut videos arrived on the scene, and we became aware what had been stolen from a generation of fans.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Which is why it was like an orgasm when the uncut videos arrived on the scene, and we became aware what had been stolen from a generation of fans.

I used to read the Blish adaptations. My memories of the TOS episodes used to be a blend of those books and what aired.