DIVIDED Frank Gorshin in the episode “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.”
DIVIDED Frank Gorshin in the episode “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.”
Uh, he really, really needs some Visine or sumptin’
I’m just sayin’
Star Trek anti-racist?
I disagree. It has a blatant pro-Human bias.
Good lord. It is a movie, a really good movie.
These leftist are an unhappy bunch. Sorry as a baby boomer I will not apologize......
Lokai was obviously less a character than Bele, why just look at them!
Maybe they should have started with the classic "Killer Clowns From Outer Space".........
“...,” the supremely influential science-fiction television series...”
You are kidding me.
It’s entertainment. It’s really bad entertainment most of the time.
Here’s the deal about space travel . . .
Investing in space travel is valid if:
1. You believe that life exists elsewhere in the universe.
2. We have the technology to mine and untilize resources from planets and asteroids.
3. Cost to benefits is direct and promises immediate pay-back.
It is not valid if:
1. Evidence of extraterrestrial life is less than conclusive. When UFO-ology graduates from the level of ghost hunts and parapsychology, we’ll talk.
2. We ain’t nowhere near able to extract resources from ANWR, let alone the moon, Mars or some other planet.
3. We’re bankrupt.
Discussion over.
While I know that everyone these reporters know probably views Obama with optimism, the guy scares the bejeebies out of me and makes me think more of post-holocaust science fiction from the Cold War than Star Trek’s optimism, which actually has more in common with the “science is good” optimism of the 1950s than the hippies of the 1960s. Remember, when Star Trek did hippies in the 1960s, while it admired their optimism, their leader wound up dead from utopian foolishness after engaging in ends justify means fanaticism and in every episode where children wound up in charge (e.g., Charlie X, Miri, And the Children Shall Lead), the results were horrific and the children needed adults to control and lead them. Gene Roddenberry may have been a liberal in his day but he served in WW2 and the liberalism of the mid-1960s was far to the right of the Baby Boomer liberalism today.
Several lines of thought.
The first is, that all science fiction is a reflection of the times in which it was written. However, at the time Star Trek was made, there were some interesting contradictions about the direction it would take.
To start with, Star Trek had to compete with different visions of space and science fiction on TV, that predated and ran consecutively with it, such as Lost In Space (the space version of the Swiss Family Robinson), My Favorite Martian, The Invaders, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
For its part, Star Trek was supposed to be the space version of the western Wagon Train, but that idea didn’t last long. And fortunately, they moved away from “the monster of the week” with some pretty substantial science fiction writing. This was essential on the heels of The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits, which took science fiction writing into the stratosphere. Many of the actors used, however, were well known in other western dramas of the time.
And a year or so into production, Desilu Studios was sold by Lucille Ball to Paramount Television, which substantially changed the program’s direction and vision.
The strange idea of adult oriented science fiction was a hard sell, as it was still seen as a children’s and adolescent’s genre. And the ham-fisted efforts to incorporate blunt social themes was just as uncomfortable then as it appears today.
However, it captivated an audience segment that has never been duplicated. It became the single greatest impulse into the study of engineering ever devised, and most engineers working today trace their inspiration from that show and its influence on them.
Another reason to avoid this cult!
What’s with the toupees, pointed ears, the pasted on foreheads in this series? Is there some deep meaning behind it all?
PING
Having said that I walked out of this movie after 30 minutes.
I did not like the storyline much, I did not like the way characters were portrayed and was just plain bored by all of it.
Not sure what I was expecting but that wasn't it and I paid to see it at an IMAX theater.
Well I guess I am one of few or one that walked out on this picture. I saw the Wolverine picture last weekend and really liked it and it got a lot less good reviews than the Star Trek picture, go figure.
Anyway anyone else out there who found the new Trek picture lacking in any way?????????