Star Trek

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

Any Trekkies out here besides me?

[TheFugitive]

I was a big fan of the original series.   I am actually old enough to remember
watching the episode The Way to Eden in its original run on NBC (I was five
at the time and the babysitter let me stay up late).   Later when I was in grade school
it ran in the afternoons on 2 different channels (at a time when we could only get 7
total on rabbit ears).

I was a fan of TNG in the 80's too.  The series they have done since that time,
not so much.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

I like all the series of TV shows and movies up to Star Trek: Enterprise.

My favorite captains are Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway and Archer.

My favorite supporting characters are Data, Geordi, Crusher (both Wesley and Beverly), Yar, Worf, McCoy, Spock, Sulu, Scotty, Uhura, Q, Gul Dukat, Ro, Tuvok, Torres, Dax, and Phlox.

My favorite original series episode:

Bread & Circuses
Amok Time
Mirror Mirror

My Favorite TNG episodes:

Measure of a Man
Q Who?
Tapestry
Parallels
Datalore
Future Imperfect
All Good Things...
Second Chances

My favorite DS9 episodes:

Emissary
Defiant
Q-Less

[TheFugitive]

As all Trekkies know the internet is awash with stories about various
....umm.......wardrobe malfunctions involving Counselor Troi and those
skintight uniforms they had her wearing.

I always thought those were urban myths, until I bought my first HD television
and was beginning to doze off on the couch when she made her entrance and.....KRIKEY!
Wouldya look at THAT!!!!

I actually felt very bad for her because in real life Marina Sirtis is
reportedly a very nice woman.

I also would watch TNG and have this very strange sense of deja-vu every time
Doctor Crusher came on-screen.  Her face seemed very familiar for some reason.
I thought perhaps I had just seen her in some movie or another show and could not
quite place it.

Then I read her bio and learned that she actually taught drama at the University
of Pittsburgh in the early 1980's.  I am sure that I must have stood in line with her
at the library or a coffee shop or something.

It's strange how a face can stick in your head like that for years and years.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

Before British actor Patrick Stewart was cast as the French Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1986, he was a Shakespearean actor.

Patrick Stewart and his agent thought the show was going to flop after the first season in 1987.

[TheFugitive]

Before British actor Patrick Stewart was cast as the French Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1986, he was a Shakespearean actor.

Patrick Stewart and his agent thought the show was going to flop after the first season in 1987.

A lot of people thought that.  The first season was filled with a lot of dull, plodding episodes.
Mainly due to Gene Roddenberry's insistence that the series must be "non-violent".  It was
also at the time the most expensive syndicated series ever produced at over $1 million per
episode, so they were on a very short leash.

The very idea of a non-violent action/adventure series is an oxymoron.
Once Roddenberry died the producers went back to shoot-em-up scripts involving
the Borg, and ratings skyrocketed.