Yeah TOS was scanned from the film and remastered in 1080p and many of the effects were upgraded including all the space stuff and ship became CGI. however still keeping the look of the model.
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Yeah I watched it in the 80’s and 90’s on BBC2 but you question if you have rose tinted view of the past and will it still hold up. And yes it does, better than early TNG in some respects.I always get a wry smile when someone professes surprise at how good TOS is - how d'you think it spawned a whole franchise if it wasn't good?
Stick with it, just to see how much worse it can get
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Yeah. It was originally to have been a series. They later decided on a one off movie instead. I'm interested in seeing it.
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New Star Trek series - 2017
Yeah. It was originally to have been a series. They later decided on a one off movie instead. I'm interested in seeing it.
thanks i couldnt remember which thread was used to discuss and i did search around but couldnt find it.
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Contrary to what appears to be the majority opinion I liked season 1 of Picard very much its very much a love letter to TNG if you you don't have memories are not invested in it or its characters you're likely to find it doesn't engage your interest much. 2 was an attempt to be less philosophical and cerebral and inject more pace and action but lacks any real substance. 3 is somewhere between the two and probably the best of it. But they're all worth watching certainly better than the utter carp thats your average terrestrial TV which really needs to be put out of its misery and especially the licence fee its an anachronism a left over from the days when the BBC broadcast from ally pally and there was only one broadcaster available and almost no-one had a TV which made it esentially a subscription service.
DS9 was good, very good once you get to season 3 onwards until then its dull. B5 blew my mind but again took a while to take off its astonishing how many people just don't get it though.
Heh you're probably watching the remastered TOS which is as good a job of remastering as I've ever seen. And yes it spawned an entire franchise for a reason its still my favourite Trek, just. Discovery was just... yeah. What the heck am I watching? Don't think I made it past a few initial episodes.
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As a TOS fan here are the ones that I'd absolutely watch, in this order:
Season One
"The Cage" un-aired pilot, since it sets up SNW.
"Where No Man Has Gone Before", the actual TOS pilot.
"The Corbomite Maneuver", since it was produced next and introduces the rest of the main characters except Chekov
"The Man Trap"
"Balance of Terror"
"The Conscience of the King"
"The Galileo Seven"
"Court Martial"
"The Menagerie" two-parter, uses "The Cage" footage but you need the other episodes first
"Shore Leave"
"The Squire of Gothos"
"Arena"
"A Taste of Armageddon"
"Space Seed", sets up the second film and every plot point to do with Augments in all of Trek
"The Devil in the Dark"
"Errand of Mercy"
"The City on the Edge of Forever"
Season Two
"Metamorphosis", introduces Zefram Cochrane the inventor of warp drive
"Friday's Child"
"Amok Time" for a spot of Vulcan world-building and the best/cheesiest/best and cheesiest fight scene in all of Trek
"The Doomsday Machine"
"Mirror Mirror"
"The Trouble with Tribbles"
"Journey to Babel"
"Obsession"
"The Immunity Syndrome"
"A Piece of the Action"
"The Ultimate Computer"
"Assignment: Earth"
Season Three
"Spectre of the Gun"
"The Enterprise Incident"
[You could watch "Spock's Brain" here simply for the camp value]
"The Tholian Web"
"For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
"Whom Gods Destroy"
"The Lights of Zetar"
"All Our Yesterdays"
The standouts, for me:
"The Cage", "Where No Man...", "The Corbomite Maneuver" for world-building
"Balance Of Terror", because it's sub warfare IN SPAAAAAAAACCEEEE.
"The Galileo Seven" and "Court Martial" are great character pieces.
"Space Seed" sets up the second film.
"City on the Edge of Forever" is beautiful.
"Amok Time" for more world building.
"The Doomsday Machine" for sheer awesomeness.
"The Trouble With Tribbles" is great fun.
"Journey to Babel" for Spock backstory, lots of aliens, a murder mystery and a space battle.
"The Enterprise Incident" is essentially a sci-fi heist.
And yes. Watch "Spock's Brain". It's terrible. I mean, genuinely terrible. So terrible that it cruises back around to being fun
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Any news on next Strange New Worlds series?
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Just read one of the better critiques of nuTrek out there and had to share it. From mortalcrawad66 on the reddits:
There it is. The definitive take.
Way back in season 1 I was calling Discovery a generic grimdark sci-fi series with superficial elements of Star Trek sprinkled through it. And that never really changed, because the people making the show never once took that universe seriously. To them it was just a vehicle for The Adventures Of Michael Burnham. That they occasionally screwed up and introduced something worthwhile to Star Trek (like Anson Mount's Pike, and...uh...no, give me a minute...) doesn't change that. Even Picard, which I generally liked, jettisoned a lot of the good things about Star Trek in the quest to not simply do a continuation of TNG. And it's not as if SNW, as good as it is, is beyond reproach with their attitude towards maintaining continuity with TOS in particular.
Even early on (when Lower Decks for me was a very hard watch while they figured out where to pitch the humour and how to make someone like Mariner even vaguely likeable) it became clear that the people making it cared about the Trek universe and about making a show that fit into that universe. If only we were getting more of that kind of Trek instead of a God damned Section 31 movie
There it is. The definitive take.
Way back in season 1 I was calling Discovery a generic grimdark sci-fi series with superficial elements of Star Trek sprinkled through it. And that never really changed, because the people making the show never once took that universe seriously. To them it was just a vehicle for The Adventures Of Michael Burnham. That they occasionally screwed up and introduced something worthwhile to Star Trek (like Anson Mount's Pike, and...uh...no, give me a minute...) doesn't change that. Even Picard, which I generally liked, jettisoned a lot of the good things about Star Trek in the quest to not simply do a continuation of TNG. And it's not as if SNW, as good as it is, is beyond reproach with their attitude towards maintaining continuity with TOS in particular.
Even early on (when Lower Decks for me was a very hard watch while they figured out where to pitch the humour and how to make someone like Mariner even vaguely likeable) it became clear that the people making it cared about the Trek universe and about making a show that fit into that universe. If only we were getting more of that kind of Trek instead of a God damned Section 31 movie
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Captain Styles won't be down for breakfast - James B. Sikking passes away at 90.
In command of the USS Excelsior when she was introduced in the third film.
In command of the USS Excelsior when she was introduced in the third film.
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“Bridge this is the Captain. How can you have a yellow alert in space dock…?”
One of my favourite film sequences of all time - I have the music on my phone as a regular listen.
What is that? Some AI rendered footage?
Just a pity no Bones, Scotty or Uhura, looked pretty good for the most part.
Face replacement on some actors, they're credited at the end.
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