RE: [Utah-astronomy] Science film screening
No, I'm with Kim on this. I've got my official Boomer card and I think the original Star Trek is seen best as unintentional comedy. I don't think it was ever intended to carry the weight of seriousness that our generation seems to have put on it. The best of NextGen was considerably better in every way--story, writing, acting. Of course the worst of NextGen matches nicely with the original series. And "Voyager" was one of the worst things anybody ever wasted electricity on. Of course, I'm also the guy that thinks "2001" is a horrendously pretentious piece of claptrap....
Not to put words in his mouth, but surely Patrick, as a fellow Boomer, would far prefer the least perfect (I can't bring myself to say worst) episode of the original Star Trek to the best of NG!!! -- Joe
I also think it was by far the best episode of any of
the Star Trek series.
Kim
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And of course, there's the classic Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man"
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Take away that guy's Boomer card!
No, I'm with Kim on this. I've got my official Boomer card and I think the original Star Trek is seen best as unintentional comedy. I don't think it was ever intended to carry the weight of seriousness that our generation seems to have put on it. The best of NextGen was considerably better in every way--story, writing, acting. Of course the worst of NextGen matches nicely with the original series. And "Voyager" was one of the worst things anybody ever wasted electricity on.
Of course, I'm also the guy that thinks "2001" is a horrendously pretentious piece of claptrap....
Not to put words in his mouth, but surely Patrick, as a fellow Boomer, would far prefer the least perfect (I can't bring myself to say worst) episode of the original Star Trek to the best of NG!!! -- Joe
I also think it was by far the best episode of any of
the Star Trek series.
Kim
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+kimharch=cut.net@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+kimharch=cut.net@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Michael Carnes Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:02 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Science film screening
And of course, there's the classic Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man"
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I have to agree with Joe. The original series was by far the best of any of the others- and yes, I did watch it in prime-time. TNG never rang true at all for me. It felt more like a ST convention. Piccard to another ship's captain, on the viewscreen: "Pardon me, but would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?" --- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Take away that guy's Boomer card!
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Hey watch that! Voyager was my favorite Star Trek series! ;) Cyn Michael Carnes wrote:
And "Voyager" was one of the worst things anybody ever wasted electricity on.
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"We put a man on the moon, why can't we get those poor people off of Gilligan's Island?" -David Letterman Seriously, while I thought it an uninteresting series, my (at the time) very young daughter found a sort-of role-model in Capt. Janeway. If for no other reason than that, it was worth the electricity. And I always half expected Janeway to start exclaiming: "Meps! Meps!" (You have to be in your mid '40's to get that one...) --- Cynthia Blue <leviblue@utahdogs.com> wrote:
Hey watch that! Voyager was my favorite Star Trek series! ;) Cyn
Michael Carnes wrote:
And "Voyager" was one of the worst things anybody ever wasted electricity on.
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