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Trek 50th Anniversary Specials

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[reads about programmes produced]

Not as special as I might've anticipated then.

I wonder if CBS will do something better themselves?

TOS has the lion's share. But with equal remaining coverage to the rest of the franchise. A piece plugging Beyond, for whatever that might still be worth. Then build anticipation for Discovery.

They've really not got long to do it and do it right though.

Probably easier to just programme William Shatner's Captains documentary some place.
 
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Vandervecken said:
I'm watching it now. I can't believe that's Walter Koenig. I know he's just shy of 80 but good grief, how he has aged from Babylon 5, never mind Trek!

mid-90s

http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sit...wide_image/public/babylon_5.jpg?itok=9f7zTcln


now

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2370456773/DSC_0013.JPG

Cripes I'm in my low 50s but look more like low to mid 40s. So did he. Ugh something to look forward to.
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It worked for Star Trek: Renegades which is set the year after Spock went into the black hole - Chekov looked singificantly older; at least he didn't have to wear a prosthetic like DeForest Kelley did in Encounter at Farpoint!!
 
ChristopherPike said:
[reads about programmes produced]

Not as special as I might've anticipated then.

I wonder if CBS will do something better themselves?

TOS has the lion's share. But with equal remaining coverage to the rest of the franchise. A piece plugging Beyond, for whatever that might still be worth. Then build anticipation for Discovery.

They've really not got long to do it and do it right though.

Probably easier to just programme William Shatner's Captains documentary some place.
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Yeah, the History special was pretty good and the Smithsonian one look interesting, but I was still hoping CBS would do something. BBC went all out for Dr. Who's 50th and I was disappointing CBS didn't do something similar for Trek. You'd think they could at least do a special airing of The Man Trap or something.
 
Decades will be running Trek-themed programming all day Thursday in commemoration of the 50th...looks to be largely the same stuff that H&I is showing tomorrow, but more chances to catch it as Decades runs the same block of programming every six hours on weekdays.
 
The UK will be getting a one hour radio documentary on BBC4 called The Undiscovered Future. According to StarTrek.com, it "
explores whether the extraordinary vision of creator Gene Roddenberry is coming to pass in reality."
(Wow that was weird, the quote was cut and pasted form the StarTrek.com article and at the end it added it's own little blurb telling everyone to go to the article on StarTrek.com to see more. It did it all by itself, I didn't add it and it wasn't in the original article.)

Syfy is going to be doing a Trek marathon on Thursday, from 8AM Thur. to 4:00AM Fri they will be showing Generations, First Contact, and The Voyage Home on a rotation.
Here's what they schedule says:
8:00A - Generations
10:30A - First Contact
1:00P - The Voyage Home
3:30P - Generations
6:00P - First Contact
8:30P - The Voyage Home
11:00P - Generations
1:30P - First Contact
 
Shatner was saying yesterday at fanexpo that he was trying to make a special for the 50th and CBS kept refusing so he ended up making his current doc about astrophysics instead. Interestingly, he said that is the same reason that history / discovery channel doc "How William Shatner Changed The World" got its title - CBS kept blocking all the other titles so they ended up using "William Shatner" because CBS didn't own that. Interesting to me at least, I hadn't heard that before.
 
Heroes and Icons is having Trek Day. Starting with an entire afternoon of interviews.

Star Trek Retrospectives
1PM Star Trek 25th Anniversary
3PM Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
5PM Leonard Nimoy: Star Trek Memories
6PM Star Trek: A Captain's Log
Starting at 7PM TAS will star showing (2 eps) followed by TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY ENT
 
Trekfan12 said:
Heroes and Icons is having Trek Day. Starting with an entire afternoon of interviews.

Star Trek Retrospectives
1PM Star Trek 25th Anniversary
3PM Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
5PM Leonard Nimoy: Star Trek Memories
6PM Star Trek: A Captain's Log
Starting at 7PM TAS will star showing (2 eps) followed by TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY ENT
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An appreciated reminder, but I've moved this into the existing thread for 50th anniversary specials.
 
The Fan Event on May 20th was better than any special they've done.

The recent 50th anniversary special was OK. nothing toi write home about.

The Smithsonian special seems worth a look.

The best thing about the anniversary was a good movie with tons of easter eggs in Beyond and anticipation of a new show..11 years after the last one.

RAMA
 
I was watching a little of the Beyond The Final Frontier and they were talking about Christies Auction. I've never seen this documentary before. Some of the things the items were going for was incredible.
 
tomalak301 said:
I was watching a little of the Beyond The Final Frontier and they were talking about Christies Auction. I've never seen this documentary before. Some of the things the items were going for was incredible.
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I thought that special was depressing as Hell. I've never re-watched it. It felt like the true end to current Trek..at the time. I was one of the few though that said it would make a comeback in both film and TV.

The best of those specials is still The 25th anniversary special from 1991.

RAMA
 
RAMA said:
I thought that special was depressing as Hell. I've never re-watched it. It felt like the true end to current Trek..at the time. I was one of the few though that said it would make a comeback in both film and TV.

The best of those specials is still The 25th anniversary special from 1991.

RAMA
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Gee, I'm sorry for brining back wounded memories. :confused:
 
tomalak301 said:
Gee, I'm sorry for brining back wounded memories. :confused:
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Well if you hadn't seen it before, and weren't immersed in the negativity of the time, then it probably wouldn't bother you so much, so I'm glad you enjoyed it. To me it felt like a fire sale.:)

RAMA
 
RAMA said:
Well if you hadn't seen it before, and weren't immersed in the negativity of the time, then it probably wouldn't bother you so much, so I'm glad you enjoyed it. To me it felt like a fire sale.:)

RAMA
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I was told it aired for the 40th anniversary. That unfortunately was around the time of TATV. I can see being immersed in negativity. Still watching it now being in a good mood that this is the week of the 50th, it was interesting. Also what Nimoy said at the end resonates more now than before, giving that hope and optimism.
 
A channel in Australia is running the first nine movies (I assume there is a rights issue with the rest) this week.

They have a little intro for each to place them in context, set on a mock bridge.
 
H&I has been playing a cute "Happy Birthday" spot with clips from the various shows today, but alas, it's not on their site. "That is not a Klingon song!"
 
Galileo7 said:
"It debuts Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 8:00pm ET/PT. ...Smithsonian Channel"
http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/s...-50th-anniversary-building-star-trek-special/
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For those in Australia, the documentary "Building Star Trek" will be on SBS this Sunday at 8.35 pm.

If it turns out to be boring, you can turn over to SBS 2 for the Mythbusters final season (not sure if it's a rerun). :)

SBS is showing Star Trek movies all this week, which they also did a few months ago in anticipation of Beyond.
It's very weird that they are only showing the first nine. In fact, the TV ad features Picard singing "A British Tar", presumably included for the lulz, not because they think it's good.
 
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