Watch all Star Trek Series but not TOS. Not Sure If I should
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Well, to be fair to TNG, Kirk and Company had their fair share of run-ins with Federation officials.
Your comments don't make you sound like a jerk.
Has the person who posed the question made up his/her mind yet? Is he/she still gathering data? What's the hold-up?
I don't mean to be flippant. It's not a life or death decision. It's not that complicated. I don't get the "might" either. It's as easy as clicking the "play" button -- or not. Nothing to buy, no need to do any searches, it's free and it's right here in Trek BBS. Sorry if I offended anyone.
By the way, "The Doomsday Machine" is a very entertaining episode.
I can't recall the episode, but it was a dire situation, with enemies all around and it seemed like someone was going to start shooting at any second. Picard looked at his bridge crew and said... "Conference". And everybody walked off to the briefing room.
I can't recall the episode, but it was a dire situation, with enemies all around and it seemed like someone was going to start shooting at any second. Picard looked at his bridge crew and said... "Conference". And everybody walked off to the briefing room.
"Q Who?" Season 2, the first apperance of the Borg.
I can't recall the episode, but it was a dire situation, with enemies all around and it seemed like someone was going to start shooting at any second. Picard looked at his bridge crew and said... "Conference". And everybody walked off to the briefing room.
"Q Who?" Season 2, the first apperance of the Borg.
Also, "Balance of Terror".
I agree with this.
IronMaiden,
Did you watch this episode that Maurice put up for you? If so, what is your opinion of it? If you didn't take the time to watch, why not? As pointed out, it is one of the better episodes out there and is the favourite of many people.
I can't recall the episode, but it was a dire situation, with enemies all around and it seemed like someone was going to start shooting at any second. Picard looked at his bridge crew and said... "Conference". And everybody walked off to the briefing room.
"Q Who?" Season 2, the first apperance of the Borg.
Also, "Balance of Terror".
BoT, I think they were in a long stern chase with nothing happening at the moment. Plenty of time to assess the situation. TNG, it was right at the crisis point.
Dude- TOS is the best series!! I seriously can't imagine having my life lived without seeing this show, which I am watching right now. The 60s era clothes, hairstyles, music, props, etc + all the actors- do yourself a huge favor, and cherish it.
OK, sorry for not replying in a long time, anyway I might watch that episode now, also I also found this http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/c...the-5-best-episodes-to-start-with-1377102387/
Those are all good. The rubber suit monster in Arena might be tough for you to take, but that was the standard back then.
As someone who grew up on 24th-century Trek -- and, in general, on more recent television -- I find it helpful to think of TOS almost as theater.
Star Trek in general is very theatrical, but TOS especially so. For instance, start with the dialogue. With the exception of Enterprise, none of the Star Trek series really tried to make their dialogue sound realistic to contemporary ears. One advantage of this is that it keeps the dialogue from becoming painfully dated; there's no "groovy" slang or anything other than correct, formal English, something that changes very slowly. However, it also gives the dialogue a theatrical, oratorical feel. (It helps that William Shatner, Patrick Stewart and Avery Brooks all did extensive Shakespere work before Trek.)
Thinking of it as theater also helps when you're watching a '60s show as someone who's become used to modern TV techniques. In a stage play, nobody really expects hyper-realism in special effects. Many things are suggested rather than shown, and the convention is that you simply suspend disbelief -- ignoring, for example, the proscenium, the visible lighting positions, the actors playing multiple unrelated roles, or any scene changes that may happen with the curtain open. Something like the Gorn or the Horta looks ridiculously fake when you view it through the same lens that you'd view modern TV, but you wouldn't think twice about it on stage.
TOS in particular has a very stylized feel -- everything from the bright colors of the bridge to the way characters are lit to the music cues, which are much more obvious than in any Trek that was made after Season 2 of TNG. Don't expect it to be realistic; think of the lighting and sound as storytelling conventions.
If you've ever seen a show like "West Side Story" or "Les Miserables," try thinking of it more like those. Musical theater in particularly is a very stylized genre. Nobody believes that gangs in New York in the '50s went around spontaneously breaking into elaborately choreographed dance routines, or that heroes and villains in 18th-century France went around singing to each other. But those are the conventions the genre uses to tell its stories, and both shows, when done right, are very powerful pieces of theater.
Star Trek in general is very theatrical, but TOS especially so. For instance, start with the dialogue. With the exception of Enterprise, none of the Star Trek series really tried to make their dialogue sound realistic to contemporary ears. One advantage of this is that it keeps the dialogue from becoming painfully dated; there's no "groovy" slang or anything other than correct, formal English, something that changes very slowly. However, it also gives the dialogue a theatrical, oratorical feel. (It helps that William Shatner, Patrick Stewart and Avery Brooks all did extensive Shakespere work before Trek.)
Thinking of it as theater also helps when you're watching a '60s show as someone who's become used to modern TV techniques. In a stage play, nobody really expects hyper-realism in special effects. Many things are suggested rather than shown, and the convention is that you simply suspend disbelief -- ignoring, for example, the proscenium, the visible lighting positions, the actors playing multiple unrelated roles, or any scene changes that may happen with the curtain open. Something like the Gorn or the Horta looks ridiculously fake when you view it through the same lens that you'd view modern TV, but you wouldn't think twice about it on stage.
TOS in particular has a very stylized feel -- everything from the bright colors of the bridge to the way characters are lit to the music cues, which are much more obvious than in any Trek that was made after Season 2 of TNG. Don't expect it to be realistic; think of the lighting and sound as storytelling conventions.
If you've ever seen a show like "West Side Story" or "Les Miserables," try thinking of it more like those. Musical theater in particularly is a very stylized genre. Nobody believes that gangs in New York in the '50s went around spontaneously breaking into elaborately choreographed dance routines, or that heroes and villains in 18th-century France went around singing to each other. But those are the conventions the genre uses to tell its stories, and both shows, when done right, are very powerful pieces of theater.
And please be sure to be juggling cats when you watch this episode to get the full benefit of the experience.
As Yogi once said, it's deja vu all over again.
Sorta sad, really. Spends hours thinking and talking about thinking about watching one episode - but still doesn't even when one is handed on a platter to him. Having us on, maybe...
Funny, I've never found the dialogue in Trek TOS (or most other TV dramas of the 1950s and '60s, for that matter) to be particularly "formal" or "theatrical." But then, I think the dialogue in a lot of modern TV is too colloquial and the actors sound like they have marbles in their mouths.
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