May the Force Live Long and Prosper!!!
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Ran out of steam as everyone got old. That is the story of life, nothing wrong with that. Would anyone like “I Love Lucy” without Lucy?
In a word, CGI
The guy may have mixed up some dates but the original pilot was actually filmed in late, 1964 and completed early, 1965. The public did not see it until 1966 as you say
I always liked Star Trek.
Now I watch it Saturday evenings on “METV”. A lot of good episodes but I also realize there are some pretty weak ones too.
A couple of nights ago they had one which was so boring that I started watching something else before it was over. It was one in which they had Abraham Lincoln.
Advertisers just weren’t ready for it.
All the loyal viewers in the world can’t keep a show on if the advertisers can’t figure out what to sell them.
Now there’s more Star Trek merchandise than you can fill a black hole with and the story lines are carefully crafted for young women.
It sucks because Star Trek became nothing more than a pan galactic cargo transport for leftist ideology.
Star Trek, Socialism in Space.
I wonder who the Paymaster on the Enterprise is?
Plus, since the modern Star Trek franchise is being used as a summer tentpole by the studio, the executives are going to insist on lots of CGI and explosions.
Star Trek was good; Babylon 5 was great; Battlestar Galactica was outstanding.
It’s all in the writing.
The initial set of movies with the original cast was dreadful. A bunch of old men in pajamas boring the hell out us.
If you are not a regular cast member, whatever you do, stay the Hell out of the transporter! You DO NOT want to beam down with the rest of the landing party!
I first saw Star Trek on my black and white TV from my hospital bed in Ward 31A Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital, late ‘67. Loved it!
All we had to watch all day was soap operas, incredibly lame game shows, and cartoons. So when the evening rolled around, Star Trek was far and away more entertaining than anything else.
We did have one tyrant nurse - a Navy Lieutenant Commander - who demanded that all of us (there were 30 of us on that ward) had to have all TVs off and everyone asleep at 2000 (8:00). Star Trek came on at 2000, so I would keep a careful watch out for her while I watched the show. One evening she showed up fast and I turned the sound and picture down and pretended to sleep.
She shook my shoulder and said “Lance Corporal - what’s that light on in the back of your TV?”. (Remember tube TVs?)
I thought for a second and said “pilot light, ma’am”.
She bought it for a second until all the rest of the guys started laughing and then she took the TV away for the evening. Drat.
It didn't make any sense, but it was needed for dramatic necessity. They couldn't very well have the leading star (William Shatner) sit in the captain's chair while flunkies did all the dirty work on the planet they were investigating.
I loved "Fringe," especially Olivia and Dr. Walter Bishop.
‘Star Trek: TOS’ started out as a “Space Opera” extension of the 1960s Cold War. Wuth the Federation representing the US and the Klingons as the USSR. Very simple and forthright for its day.
Led by the youngest Captain in Star Fleet. Who would ignore the Prime Directive and go to war at the drop of a hat!
In the interim between it and ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’. Mr. Roddenberry died and his wife, Majel Barrett. Nurse Chapel took over and gave the sequel a definite Leftist bent.
With a diplomat, instead of a Captain. And a Czarist “Zampolit”, Political Officer and “Counselor” in Diana Troi.
After that. And later series, it just got too jumbled and confused. And ‘Babylon 5’ sparked my interest. With a better cast, plot lines and far superior tales, skulldugggery and Special Effects.
Haven’t seen any of the newer films of the ‘Star Trek’ franchise, either!
This cr@p!
A bridge of a warship set up like the set for a local access coffee conclave show.
I enjoyed the first reboot movie in 2009. It had its issues, but it certainly moved much better than the first Star Trek Movie. That was interminable. I didn’t see the second one at the theater because the actor who played Chekhov mentioned that the plot was basically “George Bush is an idiot”. And he laughed about that in the interview. I finally watched it on HBO and 2 issues that I saw. First, it was so bad that I never really got the “Bush is an idiot” theme, so it failed on that point. And it was an awful, awful, awful rendition of the Khan story. Wrath of Khan was my favorite of all the Star Trek movies and this one was sad in comparison. I finished hoping they would just stop and never do another one.