What Changes Would You Have For "A Taste of Armageddon"?
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Less is more.
Really.
Really.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
-Show the graphics of a simulated enemy attack with screen shots of MISSILE COMMAND.
-Graphic shots of people disintegrating themselves
-Reveal that the cause of the war is that one planet prefers Coke, and the other Pepsi. Thus giving the "Taste" in the title a delicious new twist.
-Have Spock use his heat vision in this episode.
-Graphic shots of people disintegrating themselves
-Reveal that the cause of the war is that one planet prefers Coke, and the other Pepsi. Thus giving the "Taste" in the title a delicious new twist.
-Have Spock use his heat vision in this episode.
What?! No suggestion about including a Bird-of-Prey, "...'cause they're so kewl"? Mean Joe, you're slipping!
Oh, and on a totally different subject, where did you acquire your avatar? That has got to be just about the cutest kitten I've seen! I'd love to get a larger resolution of that image. It looks like the lil' thing is giggling from being tickled.
Sincerely,
Bill
From a distance. But in a few close-up shots its painfully a backlit prop with a ray of light shining across the back.
I'd accept (as much as someone can when they won't get to see these episodes for a few months or even years!) a CGI copy of the sets but nothing new fangled, I liked the look.
The God Thing said:
Plum said:
I can't believe TGT hasn't ripped a few heads off by now.
TGT is going to have his hands full juggling an unanticipated spike in both academic and professional obligations over the next few months, so his active presence at TrekBBS.com will effectively drop to zero into the foreseeable future.
*waits for the deafening applause to subside*
That being said, the tidal waves of acute nausea generated by the devastating triple-whammy of ST:TMP-TDE, TOS-R and now J.J. Abrams' - J.J. ABRAMS for Perun's sake! - ST:XI have truly worn my interest in Star Trek down to the nub over these past six years. Life is far too short to waste time developing stomach ulcers because the Hollywood screwflies responsible for these perversions cannot help but execute their parasitic biological imperatives. One may as well go down to the beach and contemplate a crab that has been exposed to the Sacculina carcini organism, but I have absolutely no interest in doing either. Fuck 'em all.
TGT
Tis' the way of things, entropy. As I'm sure you know.
Your vision of Trek might not be mine, but it's far to unique to dismiss. Cheers, hope to read you in the future.
Change the radar screens and replace with one or more of the following:
1. Missle Command
2. Old School Defender
3. Old School Space Invaders
4. Pong
1. Missle Command
2. Old School Defender
3. Old School Space Invaders
4. Pong
Plum said:
Your vision of Trek might not be mine, but it's far to unique to dismiss. Cheers, hope to read you in the future.
Agreed. People like TGT is what makes this forum worth reading. Also TGT himself.
Anyway, could CGI wizardry replace the nonsense idea of sonic weapons... in space? And if memory serves, isn't the 'star cluster' named in this episode actually another galaxy? I love this episode, but parts of it aren't exactly TOS's science on a good day, let's say.
I watched the original untainted up last night and was struck by a few (non graphic) silly moments.
Such as, they have captured Maya to prevent her from killing herself and locked her in their hideout room. As everyone leaves, Spock tells yoeman Tamara (
) to watch Maya, and "prevent her from immolating herself. Do whatever it takes. This is a killing situation, am I clear?"
So, do whatever it takes to keep her from killing herself, including killing her.
Such as, they have captured Maya to prevent her from killing herself and locked her in their hideout room. As everyone leaves, Spock tells yoeman Tamara (
) to watch Maya, and "prevent her from immolating herself. Do whatever it takes. This is a killing situation, am I clear?"So, do whatever it takes to keep her from killing herself, including killing her.
Forbin said:
So, do whatever it takes to keep her from killing herself, including killing her.
Hey, I always said it was an allegory for the public's perception of Vietnam, we had to destroy her to prevent her from falling into enemy hands and all that :thumbsup:
EDIT: Maybe they can CGI a can of petrol and a lighter in the background
Agreed all around. Leave the computers alone. They are re-used largely from The Menagerie when Spock reprograms the starbase computers (and fights the technician) and it is good to get another look at them.
They looked futuristic as hell to me as a kid back in the 1970's.
I think you might be inferring a comparison where none was meant to exist, but a nice theory though. Hadn't thought of the possibility before. Roddenberry WAS the kind of guy who'd do something like that.
See, I didn't know he said that. Thanks. :thumbsup:
I wouldn't have been surprised, as I said above. Gene was that kind of guy...slipping messages under the censors.
I wouldn't have been surprised, as I said above. Gene was that kind of guy...slipping messages under the censors.
I have to confess, I don't think any of the more recent TREK shows would have done an episode like this. And if they had, it would have been more hamfisted and cheesy in terms of its plot and characters.
DS9 might've pulled it off, but the other show, nah, they would've muffed it up badly.
Why should alien computers look as we expect them to be at a given time?