TOS Cliches - Do They Have a Better Name????

[VulcanMindBlown]

One of the reasons I liked The Original Series was the fact that the same things happened over and over again. It was very campy that way. Is their a better name for that other than cliches?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Tropes?

 

[scotpens]

One of the reasons I liked The Original Series was the fact that the same things happened over and over again. It was very campy that way. Is their a better name for that other than cliches?

I wouldn't call it "campy" just because some story elements and situations got reused in any number of episodes. Any TV show that has to crank out new episodes on a weekly basis will eventually succumb to what David Gerrold called "hardening of the arteries."

As for Star Trek clichés, I call them Trekkisms.

 

[Green Shirt]

Its called life. They wake up, go to work, eat, sleep and repeat the cycle the next day. They just do it in a more exotic setting than most of us.

 

[CrazyMatt]

Tre-ches?

 

[VulcanMindBlown]

TOS-isms????

Is there any general terms for those things (not just Star Trek: The Original Series?)

 

[Metryq]

Speculative Fiction Tropes (of the TV Tropes site) is the ultimate time waster that will leave you laughing as you follow cross-references from one trope to another. Say you start with Become a Real Boy (a trope I had always called the Pinocchio cliche), and you'll probably follow the link to Robo Speak and open tabs for several others.

While Bridge Bunnies is applicable to TOS, Latex Spacesuit is more of a post-TOS thing. Agony Beam reminded me of a comedian (Kevin Pollack?) spoofing Shatner's "pain" routine in Star Trek: elbows together, hands up, knees bent, head back—"Ahhh!"

It's all in there.

 

[EnsignHarper]

Speculative Fiction Tropes (of the TV Tropes site) is the ultimate time waster that will leave you laughing as you follow cross-references from one trope to another. Say you start with Become a Real Boy (a trope I had always called the Pinocchio cliche), and you'll probably follow the link to Robo Speak and open tabs for several others.

While Bridge Bunnies is applicable to TOS, Latex Spacesuit is more of a post-TOS thing. Agony Beam reminded me of a comedian (Kevin Pollack?) spoofing Shatner's "pain" routine in Star Trek: elbows together, hands up, knees bent, head back—"Ahhh!"

It's all in there.

TV Tropes can be one of THE most addicting sites on the planet..

 

[uniderth]

TOS-isms????

tee-oh-es-iz-uhms

Is quite a mouthful.

 

[Ssosmcin]

One of the reasons I liked The Original Series was the fact that the same things happened over and over again. It was very campy that way.

Campy? Definitely the wrong word. People go for the "c" word a little too quickly and too often when it comes to Trek. Simply because the styles have changed in 50 years.