You know you're a TOS fan if...

[Discofan]

If you like it when robots have a plastic chest plate that opens up to show wiring that would have shamed my grandma.

 

[Kor]

What was the first mention of Romulan ale? I'm sure it's Wrath of Khan because the crew very rarely met the Romulans in the original series to get to know their drinking habits back then! Plus I get the feeling that the Romulan ambassador in TUC proves that relations between both the Federation and their Empire must have been quite good, excellent in fact to have let him in on their plans to defeat the Klingons in any conflict!
JB

The first mention of Romulan Ale was TWOK, when McCoy brought some to Kirk. There was also the unnamed blue beverage in "The Enterprise Incident," which was darker than the stuff in TWOK amd TUC. In my headcannnnon I like to think that these are related drinks.

Kor

 

[Discofan]

If you're impressed by the fight (between Kirk and the Gorn) in Arena...

 

[Maurice]

...you're participating in this thread.

 

[Discofan]

You think that Uhura's dance in STV was erotic...

 

[johnnybear]

If you're impressed by the fight (between Kirk and the Gorn) in Arena...

I sure was and still am!
JB

 

[Henoch]

 

[Spock's Barber]

When you have multiple posts in the Trek BBS thread ‘You know you’re a TOS fan if...’

 

[Discofan]

if you've worn plastic pointy ears in public without shame.

 

[Redfern]

if you've worn plastic pointy ears in public without shame.

Nah, too encompassing a theme. One could be a Tolkien fan or a DnD LARP participant. Shoot, it could be someone with a Santa workshop elf fetish!

 

[Discofan]

Nah, too encompassing a theme. One could be a Tolkien fan or a DnD LARP participant. Shoot, it could be someone with a Santa workshop elf fetish!

You're right. I should have said "plastic Vulcanian ears".

 

[johnnybear]

But of which style? Sarek pure blood or Spock half breed? The Sarek ones were a little blunter and rounded where as Spock's were sharper than a bat's fangs!!!
JB

 

[Discofan]

But of which style? Sarek pure blood or Spock half breed? The Sarek ones were a little blunter and rounded where as Spock's were sharper than a bat's fangs!!!
JB

Which is odd, one would think it'd be the other way around.

 

[BK613]

The first mention of Romulan Ale was TWOK, when McCoy brought some to Kirk. There was also the unnamed blue beverage in "The Enterprise Incident," which was darker than the stuff in TWOK amd TUC. In my headcannnnon I like to think that these are related drinks.

Kor

The stuff in TEI is the real Romilan ale; the stuff we see in TWOK and TUC is the diluted version that ale-runners sell to unsuspecting humans to increase their profits.

 

[Discofan]

...you believe that stardates are a practical way of telling the date and time.

 

[johnnybear]

Where as a real fan knows that it was just Gene Roddenberry having a laugh with us?
JB

 

[Henoch]

The stuff in TEI is the real Romilan ale; the stuff we see in TWOK and TUC is the diluted version that ale-runners sell to unsuspecting humans to increase their profits.

It's like a dark beer versus a lite beer: I assume, like the craft beer industry in our world, the Romulans have thousands of breweries making many Romulan ales with different levels of "IBU" and "AVB". The next time I'm on Romulus, I'm doing the craft Romulan Ale brewery tours.

 

[Discofan]

You can tell which episode a picture of a corridor with only supernumeraries in it is from.

 

[johnnybear]

Or that you can tell which episode of Star Trek it is from any photograph of William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy at a quick glance!
JB

 

[Discofan]

Or that you can tell which episode of Star Trek it is from any photograph of William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy at a quick glance!
JB

Yes, that's even more impressive.