Star Trek Turns 50 Today

My wife and I have been working through the entire library of Star Trek since last summer. We've binged TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY and now just about finished with 3rd season of ENT. Perfect way to celebrate the 50th...even if it took the 49th and 50th to complete.
 
Bomber said:
My wife and I have been working through the entire library of Star Trek since last summer. We've binged TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY and now just about finished with 3rd season of ENT. Perfect way to celebrate the 50th...even if it took the 49th and 50th to complete.
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Don't forget the movies!
 
Bomber said:
My wife and I have been working through the entire library of Star Trek since last summer. We've binged TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY and now just about finished with 3rd season of ENT. Perfect way to celebrate the 50th...even if it took the 49th and 50th to complete.
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I don't know if the ST: ENT is the perfect way to end anything.
 
BBC America is doing a marathon, but I am not sure about the order of the episodes. Edit: It looks like they are playing in correct order from the first few I looked at, but it is missing the pilot (EP0). It starts 4:30PM PST (three hours from now).
 
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The appreciation I have of this show is limitless. Its unique combination of adventure, insight and hope is what makes it great. Star Trek, live long and prosper.
 
You know which series is the worst looking back at it? Voyager. That show had nothing. The only good character was the Doctor, and the later seasons had Eye-Candy of Nine. And that's it. The rest of the characters are somewhere between meh and outright scorn. They spend half the time about to cry but never quite crying, needlessly putting the ship in harm's way, and generally being bad at getting back home. I'd rather watch ten Wesley Crusher episodes than take the chance that any given Voyager episode would be better than it.
 
Damn, I was only six. I didn't realize I was so young back then. I thought it wasn't until I was like 10 or 11 when I first watched it. I wonder now if they were playing reruns already.

I remember I used to like Lost in Space better, I was young. But I just checked and Lost in Space ran for three seasons from 65 to 68. And sure enough, Star Trek ran for three season starting in 66. So it was probably around 67 and 68 when I started watching them both, I was seven or eight.

What was my Mom thinking letting me watch scantily clad women with green skin belly-dancing :joyful:
 
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lcpiper said:
Damn, I was only six. I didn't realize I was so young back then. I thought it wasn't until I was like 10 or 11 when I first watched it. I wonder now if they were playing reruns already.

I remember I used to like Lost in Space better, I was young. But I just checked and Lost in Space ran for three seasons from 65 to 68. And sure enough, Star Trek ran for three season starting in 66. So it was probably around 67 and 68 when I started watching them both, I was seven or eight.

What was my Mom thinking letting me watch scantily clad women with green skin belly-dancing :joyful:
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At least in my short years so far, TV hasn't changed much.

DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!!
 
EODetroit said:
You know which series is the worst looking back at it? Voyager. That show had nothing. The only good character was the Doctor, and the later seasons had Eye-Candy of Nine. And that's it. The rest of the characters are somewhere between meh and outright scorn. They spend half the time about to cry but never quite crying, needlessly putting the ship in harm's way, and generally being bad at getting back home. I'd rather watch ten Wesley Crusher episodes than take the chance that any given Voyager episode would be better than it.
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I kind of agree with the point. I think the characters on Voyager were weak, but it had some very good story lines especially when they were encountering the Borg. The Borg episodes in all of the Star Trek shows though were generally strong. My favorite one was in Enterprise which was overall very weak but the "Regeneration" Borg episode was freeking genius.
 
When DS9 originally aired, I did not watch every episode. Towards the end, I stopped watching entirely. I was younger and some of the episodes were more.... soap opera to me and I just didn't care for it or never gave it a chance. (Kind of like when Firefly originally aired (Fox TV stations, you are morons for airing episodes out-of-order), but I digress..)
A couple of years ago I watched all DS9 episodes on Netflix and wow.. that was an incredible show. At the last few episodes (hell, the last season), I did not want it to end even though I knew it was going to. They could have gone 1 or 2 more seasons and I'd have been happy.
 
Azrak said:
When DS9 originally aired, I did not watch every episode. Towards the end, I stopped watching entirely. I was younger and some of the episodes were more.... soap opera to me and I just didn't care for it or never gave it a chance. (Kind of like when Firefly originally aired (Fox TV stations, you are morons for airing episodes out-of-order), but I digress..)
A couple of years ago I watched all DS9 episodes on Netflix and wow.. that was an incredible show. At the last few episodes (hell, the last season), I did not want it to end even though I knew it was going to. They could have gone 1 or 2 more seasons and I'd have been happy.
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Yeah ds9 got really good towards the last few seasons but I do think they ended it well enough. Voyager on the other hand had a very lousy ending. Hopefully the web based Star Trek show isn't complete garbage as I'm setting my expectations very low.
 
5150Joker said:
Yeah ds9 got really good towards the last few seasons but I do think they ended it well enough. Voyager on the other hand had a very lousy ending. Hopefully the web based Star Trek show isn't complete garbage as I'm setting my expectations very low.
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I feel the last VOY episode was amazing, but the whole "and then suddenly we are home and its over okay credits" ending was rough. That should have had at least 10minutes of celebrating
 
Ultima99 said:
Not bad, but nowhere near as good as the TNG finale "All Good Things" which is one of the best series finales ever.
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I loved that too. I guess the difference for me is that Q, the guy we all loved to hate, actually ended up doing a very good thing. Janeway simply beat the Borg queen. With help from the future. I've actually thought about this, yeah ST nerd alert, both Q and Janeway did the wrong things for the right reasons. I just like the fact that Janeway beat the Borg. I'd love to see Starfleet being the Q.
 
heatlesssun said:
I loved that too. I guess the difference for me is that Q, the guy we all loved to hate, actually ended up doing a very good thing. Janeway simply beat the Borg queen. With help from the future. I've actually thought about this, yeah ST nerd alert, both Q and Janeway did the wrong things for the right reasons. I just like the fact that Janeway beat the Borg. I'd love to see Starfleet being the Q.
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The battle with the retrofitted future Enterprise-D was great. It was awesome that they finally let the old girl really kick some ass.

The best scene though, by far, was the poker game at the end where Picard finally joins them. Excuse me I have something in my eye. :cry:
 
I am in the middle of a binge of DS9 right now, almost through season 3. I haven't seen it since it aired and it is as good as I remember it being.
 
heatlesssun said:
The way they concluded that series was very well done.
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Actually to me it felt very lacking.
The whole homecoming was concluded in a few second scene of the voyager flying over SF amidst fireworks To me the most important part of the conclusion would've been to see the characters re-integrate into society and starfleet and the reactions from others to their unexpected return
But what was missing in the series finale was included in the novels "Homecoming" and "The Farther Shore". I think those books are the real finale to the series.
 
M76 said:
Actually to me it felt very lacking.
The whole homecoming was concluded in a few second scene of the voyager flying over SF amidst fireworks To me the most important part of the conclusion would've been to see the characters re-integrate into society and starfleet and the reactions from others to their unexpected return
But what was missing in the series finale was included in the novels "Homecoming" and "The Farther Shore". I think those books are the real finale to the series.
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I read those to books and agree.
 
I watched TNG, DS9, and Voyager back in the day. I hadn't seen any of them since Voyager ended many years ago, but BBC America, which airs blocks of TNG almost every day, was added to our cable lineup this year so I've been binge-watching it all summer. Any time Star Trek comes up as a topic there are always negative remarks about Voyager, but I loved it. Just recently I noticed a channel called Heroes & Icons is supposed to be added to our lineup. I checked out their site to see what kind of stuff they air and found Voyager as well as all the other series. Woo!
 
I enjoyed the continuous story arc of DS9 more than any other ST. TNG was good for great single shows and TOS is classic but DS9 is mine and my wife's favorite. My personal favorite episode is "In the Pale Moonlight" and Mr. Garak is just awesome in it.
 
Just finished "For The Love Of Spock," Adam Nimoy's documentary about not only his father Leonard Nimoy but also about the character's origins and contributions to our culture (so to speak) and highly recommend it if you get the chance, definitely worth the time to watch it. An awful lot crammed into the run time of the movie and a lot of stuff that has never before been revealed in a public manner as well.

Also, if you're a serious fan then don't miss this (if you find it useful, of course):

Star Trek: The Next Generation style Bluetooth-powered Comm Badge
 
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Been watching the TOS on BBC America today. They really did a great job updating some of the special effects. Worth a watch.
 
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