Things You Wish TOS Had Done

[The Old Mixer]

Brutal Strudel said:
Or the glowing ping pong balls that were the Fesarius.

True...but at least the Fesarius had the sense of scale going for it.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Indeed. I love how TOS gave us wonder through ingenuity and suggestion.

 

[The Old Mixer]

^Sometimes it worked, e.g. the Fesarius. Sometimes not so much, e.g. a sewing needle with a couple of protusions sticking out of it and the implied wonders of "ion propulsion".

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Besides the rear projection viewscreen, very little worked in that episode.

 

[Kegek]

I thought the Eymorg ship looked better than the Fesarius. It wasn't breathtaking, but I didn't look at it and think 'Christmas ornament' either, just 'spaceship.'

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Interesting. I can't agree but I see your point.

 

[Dorothy_Zbornak]

The Old Mixer said:
^They probably would have gone with an underwhelmingly-minimalist approach, a la the ion-drive ship that everyone was going gaga over in "Spock's Brain", the conveniently-invisible ship in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", or the spinning lights that passed as an Orion ship in "Journey to Babel".

But really why not? Any technology we envision today in 2007 as being representative of say 2107 will undoubtedly look ridiculous when 2107 comes around. The same way the 60s interpretation of what the 90s would be was way off.

Better to have just a spinning ball of light than some hokey ship that can be easily discounted in a couple years.

This is why the ship in Voyager's "Relativity" was stupid--it looked like something from the late-25th century, and hardly the 31st as it was supposed to be.

 

[Kegek]

Dorothy Zbornak said:
But really why not? Any technology we envision today in 2007 as being representative of say 2107 will undoubtedly look ridiculous when 2107 comes around. The same way the 60s interpretation of what the 90s would be was way off.

I don't think the point is how implausible it'll look.

The point was how cheap it'd look. Most times, TOS didn't have the budget for interesting guest starships. That's why one can count them on one hand.

This is why the ship in Voyager's "Relativity" was stupid--it looked like something from the late-25th century, and hardly the 31st as it was supposed to be.

You can tell the difference?

We don't have the slightest idea what 25th century spaceships are going to look like. Given that the ship's design is based on a non-scientific 'theory' about a non-existent form of propulsion, it's probable it won't look anything like that. The same goes for the 31st century.

 

[Alpha Romeo]

Esteban said:
I like this original post.

I wish they could have brought back, and made recurring, some of the characters we only saw once or twice.

More Riley, more Rand, more Sarek, more Kor ( I know, they tried), more Kellowitz, more Kelso (RIP), more Mudd, I guess, and so on.

And whatever hapened to Tristan Adams? Or Miri? Or Commodores Stone and Mendez?

My point is that another couple of years could have given us great fun in seeing some--by then--old faces.

Not to mention Gary Seven. I'd have loved to see that spin off...

 

[Bones1864]

Stayed on the air longer.