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Mogwa said:
Although I've been a hard core sci-fi fan since grade school, I've never found much appeal in any of the Star Trek franchises. Rodenberry liked to preach too much, and the later series seemed totally bland and had some of the worst production designs I've ever seen.
(So what's with the Klingons, anyway? In the original series they appeared human, but beginning with the first movie their heads turned into turtle shells or something. Same with the Romulans. Somehow they morphed into Neanderthals with jutting brow ridges instead of the Vulcan genetic stock or whatever they were supposed to have been. Was any reasonable explanation ever given for those drastic changes?)
You want good sci-fi on television, watch Firefly reruns. The scripts sometimes overcooked the wild west scenario, but the acting was good and the overall look was believable.
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An embarassing spot of genetic tampering apparently.

I love all Star Trek, especially the movies. My least favorite series in the franchise was DS9 however. Looking forward to the new movie just to see how they are going to get the Enterprise off the ground ::)
 
I grew up with TOS in re-runs. Here's my all-time favorite video with the original crew:


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Mogwa said:
Although I've been a hard core sci-fi fan since grade school, I've never found much appeal in any of the Star Trek franchises. Rodenberry liked to preach too much, and the later series seemed totally bland and had some of the worst production designs I've ever seen.
(So what's with the Klingons, anyway? In the original series they appeared human, but beginning with the first movie their heads turned into turtle shells or something. Same with the Romulans. Somehow they morphed into Neanderthals with jutting brow ridges instead of the Vulcan genetic stock or whatever they were supposed to have been. Was any reasonable explanation ever given for those drastic changes?)
You want good sci-fi on television, watch Firefly reruns. The scripts sometimes overcooked the wild west scenario, but the acting was good and the overall look was believable.
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that bit with the Klingons was explained in a later series. I think it was Worf who stated that was a dark period in Klingon history, during a brief reference to the difference in appearance in the episode where DS9 went back in time to the tribble episode of the original series.
The gist of it is, the Klingons wanted to find out more about the humans, so they surgically altered some of their warriors to "blend" in with the Federation. Later generations did their best to not remember that "dark period" of shame in the Klingon history, as it used subterfuge, rather than ordinary brute force to infiltrate the enemy.

That is what I remember of the explanation, for what it's worth, and somebody out there may have more accurate info.

As for whether or not I like the original series, TNG, Voyager or DS9 best, I like them all. And I was particularly hopeful for the Star Trek Enterprise with Scott Bakula, but unfortunately, that got cancelled. It had a lot of promise, had they put a few more connections to the original series, it may have kept more of their audience, but however...

No matter the opinions of its detractors, Star Trek did have a lot to say about societal conditions and stupidities. It had validity to the society of the time.

Battlestar Galactica has validity to the society of this decade, and I am sure in 30 years or so people will be talking about how cheesy it was, etc.

The fact that we are all talking about Star Trek 32 years after its debut says something. That just about everybody on the planet with tv access recognizes Star Trek also says something for it. No snarky inserts as to exactly WHAT that is that it says, are allowed ;)
 
Frootloop said:
I love all Star Trek, especially the movies. My least favorite series in the franchise was DS9 however. Looking forward to the new movie just to see how they are going to get the Enterprise off the ground ::)
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Actually DS9 is one of the stronger series once you get up to the Dominion War part. The Klingon bumps/no bumps thing was explained in Enterprise (now THERE'S the black sheep of the franchise) as being a genetic deeley. Really ham-fisted retro-continuity (or "Enterprise" for short!).

I could never get into Firefly and god knows I gave it plenty of tries. I dunno if it was the way over-done cowboy BS or the recycled costumes from Starship Troopers but it just left me bored to tears...
 
Crow said:
I grew up with TOS in re-runs. Here's my all-time favorite video with the original crew:<object width="425" height="344"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gUA35XQxxw8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></object>
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Thanks, Crow, for posting that video. It was great.
 
Yep, I also loved In Search Of! :)

And hey, who remember's Nimoy's Love Poetry books and also his singing 'Bilbo Baggins'? I thought he wasn't too bad at either, myself!

Aaron LeClair said:
I liked In Search Of, with Spock narrating. Nowadays, we'd pick someone like Mork or Screech to do it I bet.
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oh come on guys, who can forget.....

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