Posted on 07/14/2017 7:24:09 PM PDT by EveningStar
I have been watching the original series on the Heros and Icons channel, and never realized just how many bad/preposterous episodes there were. Spock’s Brain is high on the list, but there are many others that were just downright awful, like they had a deadline, but all their writers were out sick with the flu.
That episode gave its name to one of the biggest Trek conventions.
I was watching a DVD of an episode of “Smallville”. It was a good one too. After the show they had it again but with the actresses and Jeannot Szwarc who was the director. They commented on the scenes, how they did things and just how the actresses felt about it.
The episode was “Spell” about the girls as witches. Anyway one of them commented on how there were a few unbelievable things on the show. Szwarc then said there was actually all kinds of problems with reality or something like that.
The same thing is true of “Star Trek”, and every other science fiction type show I have ever seen.
I never took this or Lost In Space too seriously. Even as a kid. Half of the fun comes from the absurd and silly stuff. However, LIS, in large part, was meant to be funny. ST, not so much.
They could at least bring back Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
They had some pretty good sex robots in the 23rd Century. The ships should be rife with them.
I think the very first episode of “Lost in Space” was actually intended to be serious. For some reason they changed it to a bit of camp.
I liked it but also wonder how it would have been if done more seriously.
Of course the movie was done seriously but was typically totally PC. There were some hot girls in it tho.
“But Discovery intends to push this diversity even further. Not only does it have a black female lead character, but in Captain Georgiou, it has a female captain of Asian descent, with Michelle Yeoh even using her native Malaysian accent. What’s more, one of the crew members we’ll get to know, Anthony Rapp’s science officer Stamets, is openly gay, the first Trek regular to be conceived as such.”
*sigh* I really am sick of this shit, I really really am. And I don’t just mean Star Trek, its everything now, tv, movies, comics, hell video games. Everywhere you look now it’s just non stop pandering where the people behind these media are trying to out-politically correct each other.
I mean the first openly gay trek character thing? I saw that coming a mile off once this new show was even announced, how could I not have? There’s more gay characters in media now than there are in real life. I recall a fellow freeper making a good point once that trying to ram tolerence & acceptance & other patronising crap down our throats is just going to succeed in Turning what started off as mere disgust into sheer resentment.
I mean I never thought this would happen but I’m actually getting close to the point where I’m just done with tv altogether and not necessarily for the right reasons.
Is that the gay nightclub owner in “Good Morning Vietnam” who wanted nude pictures of Walter Brennan?
Only 57? :P
Star Trek is dead. PC finally killed it.
Yep the need to be politically correct is driving some of what we are seeing, such as the homosexual character.
Has political correctness in TV and movies, done anything to improve the programming? Do we have better scripts, more compelling stories, better comedy, better drama, better anything, due to being politically correct, and pushing homosexuality and global warming and other liberal causes into the entertainment media?????
Not interested.
I’ll await the follow-on, where the entire ship is gay with a mission of going where men have most certainly gone before.
The ship, named the In-him-prize will have warped drive.
They originally intended the entire series to be serious Sci-Fi. But about midway through the 1st season (the black/white episodes), the actor who played the nefarious "Dr Smith" (Johnathan Harris) decided he wanted to "liven" up his character and, all on his own initiative, began doing silly stuff. The producer, Irwin Allen, liked what he saw and asked Harris to do more of it. They were also in serious competition with Batman at the time, thus the wild comic-book-type colors and zany plots.
I have no idea. But that guy with George “Sulu” Takei is his husband.
It will have GLBT+ characters. It will contradict cannon. It will be as soundly thrashed in the ratings as the “new” Muppet show was. There will be much whining that it failed because YOU ARE EVIL HOMOPHOBIC ANTI-DIVERSITY BIGOT SEXIST TROGLODYTES! And NOBODY is going to pay for it after they see it.
Yah, well...I’ll just watch Orville on free TV. It will probably JUST try to entertain me, the way shows made in the 1960s did, not preach at me and re-educate me, the way modern shows do. I miss the days when Gayity was your damn business, and we looked the other way.
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