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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Original Star Trek
io9 ^ | August 4, 2011 | Charlie Jane Anders and Mandy Curtis

Posted on 08/07/2011 2:06:25 PM PDT by EveningStar

Space may be the final frontier, but Star Trek is a well-explored universe by now. Captain Kirk, the Enterprise, transporters, phasers, tricorders and Klingons are part of our common language. But there's still tons of insane stuff you've never heard about Trek.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: beamthistopicout; startrek; worstexcerptever
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To: Morgana

“Ohhhhh, my! A genuine Chartreuse Chanteuse!”

“Totally illogical, Mister Sulu. Chartreuses have more yellow in the color palette; and a chanteuse is a singer, not a dancer. She is more properly an olive hetaera.”


141 posted on 08/07/2011 11:36:21 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: MarkL

If I wrote a scifi story about Red Shirts without mentioning anything else at all from Trek, would they have a copyright case?

I doubt it.


142 posted on 08/07/2011 11:36:26 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: EveningStar

When I was in my 20s I had surgery and was laid up at home for a month. I got to see for the first time the whole Star Trek original series. I got a big crush on Nimoy as Spock too. I think it was a combo of his Jewish good looks, his smart character who needed help with love and emotion, and the way Nimoy played his love scenes. Even though he was professing not to understand the women’s emotions, he smoldered with personal sexuality as he seemed to fight his human side.


143 posted on 08/07/2011 11:48:04 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: EveningStar
I remember an interview in the 90s with a later Trek bigwig. May have been Brannon Braga. He said that big name actors would continually drop by the set and volunteer to undergo several hours of make up just to appear as an alien and become part of Trek history but union rules wouldn't let them. He never gave any names but stated they were stars who nobody would ever think liked Star Trek.
144 posted on 08/08/2011 12:21:36 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Those who trade land for peace will end up with neither one.)
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To: MarkL
Much as I like Kess, I must admit to a weakness for freckled females...

But if I had to pick just ONE trek character to share a long runabout ride with, it would have to be Neelix; that guy can COOK! (He is also full of interesting stories, and is surprisingly useful in tight situations, too.)

145 posted on 08/08/2011 12:24:29 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Ezri Dax! definitely my favorite. I When they said old Dax was gone, I knew immediately they would pick Nicole deBoer to be the new Dax.

(I was part of a DeBoer fanclub at the time heh)


146 posted on 08/08/2011 12:32:00 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: cripplecreek

Shran....without a doubt was the best Character in ‘enterprise’....well that is when Hoshi and T’Pol weren’t rubbing anti-viral cream into each others skin....


147 posted on 08/08/2011 4:22:57 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: MarkL

I got that one for my kid (15 yrs old). He’s a big ST fan like his mom. He wears it to his fencing matches because he says it makes his opponents think he just doesn’t care WHAT happens to him. That kid cracks me up.

Regards,


148 posted on 08/08/2011 4:43:33 AM PDT by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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To: Morgana
Nerd - The new black

Years ago I had a few boys at a cub scout camporee. They did very good at the "mental" competitions, but very poorly at the physical competitions. That night they were around the campfire in a bit of a funk. I told them - "Don't worry guys - in 20 years those kids will be working for you!"

149 posted on 08/08/2011 5:56:03 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: SunkenCiv
No, you're mistaken. Walter Koenig wasn't in season one. Chekov, just an Ensign, a newbie, was already stationed there but he got all the crappy assignments on the "night" shift, so you just never saw him.

There's a story that goes that Khan really, really had to go and Chekov was in the only nearby stall. He told Khan to wait and burst down the door, lifted Pavel high and said, "I will remember you!"

150 posted on 08/08/2011 8:15:22 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: dfwgator

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Redshirts





Scotty always came back all right, missing nary a wee finger.


151 posted on 08/08/2011 8:19:23 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: EveningStar
That famous interracial kiss was originally between Spock and Uhura Star Trek is well-known for featuring the first interracial kiss on television, between Captain Kirk and Lt. Uhura. But in the episode's actual script, that kiss would have transpired between Uhura and Spock, instead.

Well, that would broken even newer untrod ground -- As the characters they played were two different species, it would have been network television's first bestiality scene.

152 posted on 08/08/2011 8:28:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: freejohn

salacious talk about her and her kinky GOP ex hubby

Why would any man want to share her or watch her in action with another man beats me

She is so sexy


153 posted on 08/08/2011 8:38:45 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: freejohn

salacious talk about her and her kinky GOP ex hubby

Why would any man want to share her or watch her in action with another man beats me

She is so sexy


154 posted on 08/08/2011 8:39:45 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: TexasCajun

never take a babe to a swingers club.....she will be the center of attention like a naked cheerleader in the locker room with the team

The man who brought her will be appreciated but lonely and very cuckold


155 posted on 08/08/2011 9:19:07 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: freejohn; cripplecreek; goat granny; Squawk 8888; P.O.E.
Sadly, actress Jeri Ryan (aka "7 of 9") may be why we have Barack Obama as president today. Her ex-husband was running for the Senate seat that Obama won as a Republican but he was knocked out of the race when Chicago papers got their divorce papers unsealed and her claims that he took "her to sex clubs in New York and Paris, where he tried to coerce her into having sex with him in front of strangers" made during their custody battle scuttled Jack Ryan's campaign leaving Obama to run against Alan Keyes, who had no real chance of winning, thus putting Obama in the Senate. Had Jack Ryan stayed in the race and defeated Obama for the Senate seat, Obama's presidential aspirations would have been dead, at least for a while.
156 posted on 08/11/2011 9:23:49 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: freejohn; cripplecreek; goat granny; Squawk 8888; P.O.E.; max americana

Sorry for being late to the thread and I see Jeri Ryan’s role in Obama’s Senate win was already discussed but it wasn’t adultery that derailed Jack Ryan’s campaign but the disclosure that he took Jeri Ryan to strip clubs and wanted her to have sex with him in front of strangers. Does that make more sense than cheating on her? See the article in my previous reply, written at the time of the release, for details.


157 posted on 08/11/2011 9:29:20 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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