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It may still be in some places. The theater in my neighborhood that had "Midnight Madness" showings of TRHPS, however, shut down and turned into a retail furniture store. I hadn't heard of any others in the region that took up that mantle.

I got the impression that the cleaning crews got tired of picking up several metric tons of crumbled toast every Friday night.
 
It may still be in some places. The theater in my neighborhood that had "Midnight Madness" showings of TRHPS, however, shut down and turned into a retail furniture store. I hadn't heard of any others in the region that took up that mantle.

I got the impression that the cleaning crews got tired of picking up several metric tons of crumbled toast every Friday night.

 
It may still be in some places. The theater in my neighborhood that had "Midnight Madness" showings of TRHPS, however, shut down and turned into a retail furniture store. I hadn't heard of any others in the region that took up that mantle.

I got the impression that the cleaning crews got tired of picking up several metric tons of crumbled toast every Friday night.
That’s certainly reasonable. Ah well. I was never a RHPS fan (other than the great soundtrack, of course), and I guess was too young to understand what’s basically a call to gender fluidity/freedom, so to me the movie kinda seemed at the time to boil down to “Dare to be stupid!”, which I certainly wouldn’t say or think today. But it was an institution. I guess all eras pass, of course.

(Though I’ll never forget, at my rite-of-passage showing, some guy repeatedly loudly, contemptuously sneering about how “There are some real virgins in the audience.” All fandoms, man…)
 
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To my recollection, back when I went to see it (mid-late 80's), several times during the course of about 3-4 years before I graduated high school in '88, there wasn't much focus placed on the gender-based political messaging that seems to have attached itself in subsequent years. It may have always been there, but nobody ever really focused on that - at least, not that they let on.

The "dare to be stupid" thing, however, was definitely 100% correct and in the forefront of everyone's mind! :lol:
 
It may still be in some places. The theater in my neighborhood that had "Midnight Madness" showings of TRHPS, however, shut down and turned into a retail furniture store. I hadn't heard of any others in the region that took up that mantle.

I got the impression that the cleaning crews got tired of picking up several metric tons of crumbled toast every Friday night.

When I tried to go see it in college, things got a little out of hand and the police were called to break it up before the halfway point of the movie, lol...

Related to recent episodes:

if SNW had been made like Berman-era Trek, 26 episodes and all, writing from page to camera, the writers would have realized the chemistry between Peck and Chong in Memento Mori. They would have not felt committed to a Chapel-Spock romance, which hadn't been in evidence up to that point, and focused on relationships that had more dramatic potential.

To be fair, all evidence seems to indicate that Christina Chong has great chemistry with everybody.
 
When I tried to go see it in college, things got a little out of hand and the police were called to break it up before the halfway point of the movie, lol...
Yeah, that happened to us a couple of times too. I think I once even heard once of the local cops muttering something like, "this fucking thing again" or something like that... :lol:
 
I've only gone to a midnight showing of RHPS once, but it was one of the most memorable movie-watching experiences of my life. Still remember folks throwing hot dogs at the screen and someone jumping up and down trying to dive into the cleft of Charles Gray's chin.
 
It may still be in some places. The theater in my neighborhood that had "Midnight Madness" showings of TRHPS, however, shut down and turned into a retail furniture store. I hadn't heard of any others in the region that took up that mantle.

I got the impression that the cleaning crews got tired of picking up several metric tons of crumbled toast every Friday night.
Yeah. The theatre where we saw it layed down some rules. Lightsticks, not candles (okay, reasonable). Nothing that might be edible to mice etc. could be thrown, so no rice. In fact, no confetti either.
 
Do people really want "Code of Honor" to be banned, taken off Paramount+, or taken out of the syndication rotation? I've been around TrekBBS for 22 years and I don't ever remember hearing anyone argue that.

It seems to amount to ‘a few individuals’, which I don’t doubt, but it’s a long way from the grander ‘people’ are calling for it to be banned.

That happens. People do stuff. It gets banned. There’s an episode of Madmen missing from Netflix with an explanation as to where and why it has gone when you look at the show (blackface in this case).

If Code of Honour was considered enough of a problem, it would have been delisted a long time ago.
 
No, not really. They all played older, with the exception of Siddig. They were far from their teenage years in their performances.

No one has ever said a new Star Trek show needs a teenage cast. That’s not even what you said originally.

You moved the goalposts a tad by changing ‘young’ to ‘teenage’.

The cast of any Star Trek show tends to feature actors ranging between 25-40. This is considered to be ‘young’ in Hollywood terms.
 
I want a Star Trek show were all the actors are over 50 except maybe one youngster in his or her early 30's.
When Michael Piller moved over to launch DS9 and Jeri Taylor was showrunning TNG, she made a deliberate attempt to have the extras throughout the ship represent a wider range of ages. If you watch the later seasons of TNG, you will see far more people who look like they are 50's and older, which I think was a good thing. Unfortunately, DS9, Voyager, etc. never seemed to follow suit.
 
No one has ever said a new Star Trek show needs a teenage cast. That’s not even what you said originally.

You moved the goalposts a tad by changing ‘young’ to ‘teenage’.

The cast of any Star Trek show tends to feature actors ranging between 25-40. This is considered to be ‘young’ in Hollywood terms.
You are overreading. I used teenage years as a way of measuring youth. The previous poster described Visitor as being young, even though at the time, agents advise actress like her into the 90s at least that they had until 40 to establish their reputations before they would be considered to be too old. Being closer to 20 was an asset.
 
When Michael Piller moved over to launch DS9 and Jeri Taylor was showrunning TNG, she made a deliberate attempt to have the extras throughout the ship represent a wider range of ages. If you watch the later seasons of TNG, you will see far more people who look like they are 50's and older, which I think was a good thing. Unfortunately, DS9, Voyager, etc. never seemed to follow suit.

Yep I recall that. She also I think had a hand in making the female characters better written. I don't think it's a accident that Troi starts wearing her uniform in season 6, sometimes. She was basically the showrunner at that time or head writer.
 
RHPS was revered in my family, but aside from the soundtrack I don't really have much use for it myself. And even the soundtrack is something I revisit only on sporadic occasion. It's fun, but in limited doses.
 
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