Will TOS maintain its legendary status as Trek fandom gets younger?
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It’s not as black and white as that and ‘TOS fanboys’ probably isn’t very helpful in terms of language.
I like TOS, above any of the rest of Trek, but I can enjoy pretty much any Star Trek to some degree and recognise TOS has deep flaws.
Like I said, you wandered into some bad conversations. Hopefully you will settle in and figure out who your ‘people’ are.
Welcome to the BBS by the way.
I think it’s too bad that a lot of folks don’t like new and a lot of folks don’t like old.
There is some brilliant stuff in TOS which is timeless. Things recontextualize themselves. In the digital age of life I see Wink of an Eye with whole new meanings.
And as to things like graphics, if you don’t have enough imagination to be filled with wonder because there isn’t high grade CGI then you probably are missing most of the meaning of the stories anyway.
So I hope people will watch it. Still a lot of lessons from it we haven’t learned.
There is some brilliant stuff in TOS which is timeless. Things recontextualize themselves. In the digital age of life I see Wink of an Eye with whole new meanings.
And as to things like graphics, if you don’t have enough imagination to be filled with wonder because there isn’t high grade CGI then you probably are missing most of the meaning of the stories anyway.
So I hope people will watch it. Still a lot of lessons from it we haven’t learned.
Thanks, but my post was actively calling out black and white thinking
Case in point: THE WIZARD OF OZ
Haven't kept up with this thread. But TOS will always be "the first". TNG will always be "the one the most people watched when it was on". So, basically, during our lifetimes, TOS and TNG will always be the top two Star Trek series.
Increasingly, more people see Star Trek as a string of shows. TOS will still be the first. TNG will still be the one with the most spin-offs or the one with the most shows set in its timeframe: DS9, VOY, PIC, LD, PRO, and the list will grow. The three series with the highest episode counts (TNG, DS9, and VOY) belong to the TNG Era. So if someone wants to watch all of Star Trek, this is what they're going to see the most of. Which is a double-edged sword in and of itself.
The newer the fan, the more likely they'll be to be accepting of all of it, because they want to accept all of it, since they're excited to see more. Unlike someone who's been a fan a lot longer, is more likely to be jaded, and has a much more hardened sense of what they do and don't want. So TOS -- and TNG! -- will have to increasingly co-exist in an environment where said fans don't have an issue with the newer stuff.
That's why I like watching YouTube Reactions to Star Trek. I like seeing reactions from fresh eyes, as opposed to people like us who've been at this for decades.
Increasingly, more people see Star Trek as a string of shows. TOS will still be the first. TNG will still be the one with the most spin-offs or the one with the most shows set in its timeframe: DS9, VOY, PIC, LD, PRO, and the list will grow. The three series with the highest episode counts (TNG, DS9, and VOY) belong to the TNG Era. So if someone wants to watch all of Star Trek, this is what they're going to see the most of. Which is a double-edged sword in and of itself.
The newer the fan, the more likely they'll be to be accepting of all of it, because they want to accept all of it, since they're excited to see more. Unlike someone who's been a fan a lot longer, is more likely to be jaded, and has a much more hardened sense of what they do and don't want. So TOS -- and TNG! -- will have to increasingly co-exist in an environment where said fans don't have an issue with the newer stuff.
That's why I like watching YouTube Reactions to Star Trek. I like seeing reactions from fresh eyes, as opposed to people like us who've been at this for decades.
In a way it's a paradox
Only if there is a reboot?
Only if there is a reboot?
2009 already was a semi reboot
But that reboot came at a very heavy cost; the destructions of Romulus, Remus and Vulcan. This JJ reboot also resulted in the further perversion of the continuation of 24th/25th century Trek.
Perversion, eh? How?
Idk about perversion but you're suggesting a reboot without the supernova?
This corruption of the space time continuum could be prevented via a temporal incursion, preventing the destruction of Romulus and Remus and the resulting dystopian repercussions on the late 24th century. Also, how can we have a reboot TOS timeline where Vulcan is destroyed? They would not be able to do Amok Time properly otherwise.
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No, I did not mean perversion by that definition, I meant like this:I guess I'm a massive pervert.
Kinks rule
What are you on about?
Romulus, Remus and Vulcan are not real places you know?
As much as I dislike Jar Jar abrams as a hack, he didn't really destroy those fictional planets you know?
I said what I said.
Silliest thing I’ve read all day. The planets don’t exists so there is no ‘heavy coat’ involved and I don’t know what the fuck that the latter half of your ‘statement’ is supposed to mean.
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