So me, a long-time Star Trek TNG fan, finally gets around to watch the Original series.

[howard112211]

And I must say, I used to be a big Deanna Troy fan, but now I think Lt. Uhura beats all women who ever appeared on Star Trek. And not only that, I think she is still hot today :loveya:

[Archae]

1. You first saw TOS now?

Were you ever deprived! :-)

I've been a Trek fan since 1966, the beginning.
I was a little kid and the Trek monsters like the Gorn scared the patooties out of me! :scared:

[howard112211]

2. Well, since I was born only in 1981 it was sort of before my time.

Very interesting to watch. A real eye opener. One can totally tell that it is a 60s show. It has "hippie-culture" written all over it.

[Archae]

3. Especially the episode "The Way To Eden"

With the space hippies.

Charles Napier was hilarious as "Adam."

[Parche]

4. GORN!!!!

[Archae]

6. Yeah, nowadays the Gorn just looks silly.

That Gorn in the "Enterprise" Terran Empire episode was far better.

But to this day, I will not watch "The Lights Of Zetar," that episode gave me nightmares! :scared:

[Parche]

7. outer limits

this one gave me nightmares!!

[Archae]

8. Me too!

That "cloud" creature that moved in jerks. :scared:

At the 5:00 mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b5OfJG5puE&feature=related

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[InvisibleTouch]

5. I met Nichelle Nichols at a convention years ago.

She was great, wonderful with us fans, interactive and enthusiastic about the whole Star Trek universe. I'm thinking it would be cool if she had a part in one of the new Trek movies. I'd be *really* curious what she thinks of the whole Spock/Uhura thing. :)

[Tikki]

9. This is who I fell head-over-heels in love with in TOS..

and then he was gone...too young.


'Whom Gods Destroy'...Garth of Izar.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ihnat



Trekkers...The Tikkis

[baldguy]

12. And Marta was also Batgirl!

Yvonne Craig

[Habibi]

10. Well, slap me upside the generational divide.

You saw TNG before TOS. I'm gobsmacked.

Heh. I like generational divides. They teach me sump'n.

Still, ya just can't get better than Spock.

[baldguy]

11. .

:wow:

[MrScorpio]

13. You, my friend, have been deprived

By 1981, I must have seen every single show 10 times over

[edbermac]

14. I was a diehard TOS fan, didn't watch TNG until season 4.

Saw a bit of the 1st season and thought it was a cheap ripoff. A few years later I had the flu and was laying on the couch channel surfing and the TNG episode Clues came on. Watched it and thought it wasn't bad. Watched next week, then the next and got hooked. TNG is my fave Trek, even though season one is a mixed bag.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Sounds Like My Story

The cable system i had didn't carry the channel that ran TNG. So, i missed most of the first season. Then during the 2nd season, i noticed the stories were less remakes of STC and more original scripts, but have a visceral negative reaction to the Pulaski character. (Ok, i have a Gates McFadden thing.)

But, there were some good stories that year. Then, when season 3 started the whole vibe seemed to improve. It was like that had hit their stride. Stories even better, acting more confident, SpecFX better, better interior shots, etc.

Then, at the end of the third season Picard gets kidnapped by the Borg and the three dreaded words, "To Be Continued" came up on the screen.

They had me absolutely hooked at that moment, and to this day.
GAC

[elocs]

15. Greetings! Long time no see. I can remember watching the original when in junior high school

when it was on during prime time. It was really great back then although we have become spoiled by the great special effects of today and there's all the caricaturing of William Shatner. At least he is still out there working in prime time tv after all these years.

[NewJeffCT]

16. Live Long & Prosper

Uhura was hot, but I think I'm partial to T'Pring from the original series.

[MilesColtrane]

26. I call her, T'Schwing!

[hunter]

17. I had a huge crush on Lt. Uhura as a kid.

I was totally obsessed with electronics. In the episode "Who Mourns for Adonais" Spock tells Uhura she is the person most qualified to muck about with the circuitry of the bridge.

Of course, Mr. Spock, there was never any doubt in my mind.

Beam me up, Uhura! :loveya:

[petronius]

18. I have never used the ignore list, but anyone who calls themselves

"a big Deanna Troi fan" is making a pretty solid bid to be the first... :P

[WilliamPitt]

19. Troi's mom was worse.

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Ugh.

[petronius]

21. That's a bit of an understatement...

:)

[sarge43]

31. Yup. Everyone bitches about Wesley. He was a joy compared to Mother Dearest Troi.

She was a badly dressed sexist cliche.

[Inchworm]

20. 112211, your fate is near

would you prefer happy?

:P

[krispos42]

22. I was watching TOS repeats on... let's see, I think it was WWOR channel 9 in NY

But it might have been WTIC channel 61 in CT in the late '80s. Every Saturday night the channel (WWOR was an independent, WTIC was and is a Fox affiliate) would show a mini-marathon sponsored by "Cap's Comic Cavalcade" that consisted of 2 TOS and 1 TNG episodes.

WPIX Channel 11 in NY (independent at the time) was also really good with playing TNG new and repeat episodes and TOS reruns.


I pretty sure I've seen about every TNG episode at least once, and some of them I've seen often enough that, when flicking rapidly through the channels, I can pass over an episode and know not only the episode, but the specific conversation they're having.

[Archae]

23. Has anyone else seen the upgraded TOS episodes?

The stories they leave intact, but they juiced up the effects.

Seeing the Constellation as a wreck instead of a kid's model someone took a lighter to is great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQ3mm0Tm08

[Bryan]

24. The remastered episodes are great

The film sections are so clean, you can see the joins on Shatner's rug and Nimoy's ears, and the new FX are handsome and just cheesy enough (The Gorn captain now has eyelids!).

[MilesColtrane]

25. IMO the juiced TOS episodes were done well.

Props to Mike Okuda for not violating the Prime Directive.

[NewJeffCT]

28. So, no changes

like the Klingons punch first instead of Scotty in the "Trouble with the Tribbles" episode?

[WolverineDG]

29. they had it coming!

calling the Enterprise a "garbage scow" & all.

dg

[NewJeffCT]

30. That was a good scene

he didn't attack when the Klingons insulted Kirk, but when they insulted the Enterprise...

However, I was making a reference to George Lucas' horribly revised Star Wars where Greedo shot first instead of Han Solo.

[Archae]

32. I got it right away.

BTW, that Klingon who provoked Scotty, the actor who played him, Michael Pataki, died last April.

He was terrific in that scene.