TOS
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Agreed. You have a favorite?
My favorite character is Captain Kirk! Had and still have a crush on him!
Loyalkat
As well you should.
Just turned 50 this year, so like TOS, I am also celebrating my golden anniversary. Been a original Trek fan since I was a kid growing up in the 70s, and would watch it on WPIX late in the late afternoons, after school and before dinner. Bought the Star Trek Concordance, Compendium, Technical Manual, Medical Manual, The Making of Star Trek, the Giant Poster Books, Best of Trek, and on and on. Had the Mego figures, the Enterprise bridge playset, the Mego tricorder. Built all the AMT models, some more than once. Was blown away when TMP came out in 1979, and saw all the subsequent original cast movies in the theatre. Went to conventions in NYC yearly from 1982 through 1986, but lost interest in Classic Trek around the late 80s. Hated NextGen when it first premiered, grew to tolerate it as it got better, but figured out that there are not that many episodes that I would sit down and rewatch in reruns. Could not stand DS9 or Voyager. Tried watching Enterprise, watched it sporadically, but turned it off and refused to ever watch it again after the season ender where they went back in time to a Nazi controlled USA. LOVED the remastered TOS episodes released ~10 years ago; they probably are what got me watching TOS again at the age of 40. Ten years after that, TOS is the only (TV) Trek I take the time to watch (DVR it off MeTV, to watch at my convenience). Being older, I don't go in for the typical plastic Chinesium merchandise, but have a few prop replicas and a nicely built 1/350 scale Enterprise that give away my being a Trekkie to guests in my home. I have every intention of seeing the newly restored Enterprise when it goes back on display at the NASM in July, and plan to ultimately display my own model in front of a print of (the horizontal portion of) "The Space Mural" signed by Robert McCall, which I bought from his daughter. Have plans to get a nicely built refit Enterprise also, and am having a scratch-built 11" inch long Galileo built as well. So I'm definitely spending more on my Trek hobby than ever before! Oh, those Abrams movies, yeah, I saw them. To quote Forrest Gump, "that's all I have to say about that".
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Some episodes of TOS could be quite scary I've always thought! The makeup was very good and the stories were excellent! Can't really say the same for the later Treks I'm afraid!
JB
JB
TOS will always be special. I think it's one of the most flat-out entertaining shows ever made.
The cast plays their parts with such energy and gusto. They get me engaged in every episode. Theyre really, really into it. The music is bombastic. The colorful but simplistic sets are great (I'd give anything to go back in time and visit the Soundstages). The alien costuming was brilliant. Bill Theiss was brilliant. Memorable guest actor performances everywhere. Needless to say, the stories are all good TV and many written by sci-fi writers of the day-- and it shows.
I enjoy the arc of the show of its style from.the more rigid , stiffer, serious First Season, to the confident, funnier groove of the Second Season, to its hippy-tinged, a little out-there, heading toward cancellation Third Season. I wonder how a Fourth Season would have gone down.....
My love for TOS is eternal. Having said that, I do think it has turned a corner for me in the last few years and is starting to finally look like an "old" show. It's becoming really dated now in ways, that time just does to all things eventually.
(TNG/DS9/VOY were all excellent productions in their own right with a lot of things going for them, and I wouldn't slam them just to put TOS on its pedistal. It's like Star Wars- no matter how many great movies Disney makes going forward, the 1977 movie will always be iconic and in its own class. Just like TOS).
The cast plays their parts with such energy and gusto. They get me engaged in every episode. Theyre really, really into it. The music is bombastic. The colorful but simplistic sets are great (I'd give anything to go back in time and visit the Soundstages). The alien costuming was brilliant. Bill Theiss was brilliant. Memorable guest actor performances everywhere. Needless to say, the stories are all good TV and many written by sci-fi writers of the day-- and it shows.
I enjoy the arc of the show of its style from.the more rigid , stiffer, serious First Season, to the confident, funnier groove of the Second Season, to its hippy-tinged, a little out-there, heading toward cancellation Third Season. I wonder how a Fourth Season would have gone down.....
My love for TOS is eternal. Having said that, I do think it has turned a corner for me in the last few years and is starting to finally look like an "old" show. It's becoming really dated now in ways, that time just does to all things eventually.
(TNG/DS9/VOY were all excellent productions in their own right with a lot of things going for them, and I wouldn't slam them just to put TOS on its pedistal. It's like Star Wars- no matter how many great movies Disney makes going forward, the 1977 movie will always be iconic and in its own class. Just like TOS).
Next time I accidentally revive an old thread, Maurice, I'll be sure to stick in some extra carriage returns.
For the record, my stream of consciousness post wasn't really that long, just seems that way due to the the narrow space.
For the record, my stream of consciousness post wasn't really that long, just seems that way due to the the narrow space.
Next time I accidentally revive an old thread, Maurice, I'll be sure to stick in some extra carriage returns.
Might want to buy an extra vowel for your user name.
What happened was, I misspelled it when I created my account on Hobbytalk.com.
Then decided to do the same for this site for sake of consistency.
Then decided to do the same for this site for sake of consistency.
I am 50 as well and I also watched Star Trek on WPIX every night through the 70's.
Kirk is my favorite character as well. Perhaps against type as I'm a physics major and a software engineer, but I've always loved his brashness and derring-do. (And his "special" fight moves ).
(For the record, my next favorite series after TOS is DS9. Which I wouldn't have guessed when DS9 started.)
).(For the record, my next favorite series after TOS is DS9. Which I wouldn't have guessed when DS9 started.)
I like your "avatar", quantum! Used that myself once many years back.
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