40 years ago this year...

[CPMcGraw]

Here's a reminder that should make everyone cringe with aches and pains, realizing it really has been this long...:o

It was 40 years ago this year that we began hearing the famous phrase "...To boldly go where no man has gone before!":eek:

Yes, the first season of Star Trek began showing in 1966, and lasted three seasons before being cancelled by NBC. Fortunately, syndication and several related series have punctuated the networks' silence from time to time...:rolleyes:

One wonders what the next series might bring, if the powers-that-be will ever get their act together and actually produce one...:confused: :mad:

[A Fish Named Wallyum]

Here's a reminder that should make everyone cringe with aches and pains, realizing it really has been this long...:o

It was 40 years ago this year that we began hearing the famous phrase "...To boldly go where no man has gone before!":eek:


Wow. It doesn't seem like a day over eternity.

[jflis]

YOU are one *sick* puppy!

man i'm old... I remember sitting mezmerized every week watching the intrepid Capt. Kirk do his thing...

man...

[Tau Zero]

One wonders what the next series might bring, if the powers-that-be will ever get their act together and actually produce one...:confused: :mad:It would help if they'd bother putting said imaginary show... ON MORE CHANNELS THAN JUST "UPN!!!" I mean, for those of us who *don't* have UPN available where we live, I wouldn't mind waiting a week or two after an episode airs for the "first" time, if I could watch on a channel that I actually get... instead of not getting it at all.

Maybe that was the problem... the Powers That Be (Austin and Nigel? :eek: ;) ) *didn't* get it. :mad:


Cheers,

--Jay

[CPMcGraw]

YOU are one *sick* puppy!

man i'm old... I remember sitting mezmerized every week watching the intrepid Capt. Kirk do his thing...

man...

Actually, he was the enterprising Capt. Kirk; the Intrepid's captain was...someone else...:D

[CPMcGraw]

It would help if they'd bother putting said imaginary show... ON MORE CHANNELS THAN JUST "UPN!!!"

They tried that, with Deep Space Nine. We received it on the ABC affiliate out of Pensacola...typically after midnight...and even then they would pre-empt it for any one of a thousand unannounced reasons at the last minute, or push it back to an even less-godly hour of the post-midnight morning, or not bother to show it at all...

At least the UPN station kept it on a reasonable schedule, at a reasonable hour.

Seems to me the SciFi channel would be a better choice for any new first-run Star Trek series...

Speaking of which...

Is anyone here (really) following the new Battlestar Galactica series? Or does it seem to have bogged down at about the same point in the story line as did the first series? Remember the "starchild", where Starbuck was left behind on some planet with a Cylon he had to rebuild just for "company"?

[A Fish Named Wallyum]

Speaking of which...

Is anyone here (really) following the new Battlestar Galactica series? Or does it seem to have bogged down at about the same point in the story line as did the first series? Remember the "starchild", where Starbuck was left behind on some planet with a Cylon he had to rebuild just for "company"?

I tried, but I started drifting away last year, missing an episode here and there. I never even bothered this year. I like this cast and the storyline a LOT better this time, but I must not have the sci-fi gene.

[Tau Zero]

I tried, but I started drifting away last year, missing an episode here and there. I never even bothered this year. I like this cast and the storyline a LOT better this time, but I must not have the sci-fi gene.With *two* Stargate shows, I do my best to keep up with the (ahem) recently revised original.

As far as the new Battlestar Galactica, it seems like there are some fairly compelling storylines (although you have to completely disassociate from the late 70's original), BUT... Since I operate a TV camera 5 days a week, I couldn't bear to watch an entire episode because the camera kept zooming unexpectedly *several times an episode.*

In other words, the new BSG's camera work made me... *jumpy.* (Colin Mochrie voice) "Augh! --Augh!" :eek:


Cheers,

--Jay

[A Fish Named Wallyum]

That's because you aren't "hip" and "happening". :rolleyes:

[Tau Zero]

That's because you aren't "hip" and "happening". :rolleyes:Or "edgy," either. :rolleyes: ;) :D

Although I *did* watch "The Village" today for an adult Sunday School class next week on "Film and Theology." :D ...Five years *after* the movie was released!

So, no, I'm apparently not "with it." :confused:

Come to think of it, that was true even way back in the 70's. So the *least* I can do is continue to "deliver." :rolleyes:


Cheers,

--Jay

[A Fish Named Wallyum]

Or "edgy," either. :rolleyes: ;) :D

Although I *did* watch "The Village" today for an adult Sunday School class next week on "Film and Theology." :D ...Five years *after* the movie was released!

So, no, I'm apparently not "with it." :confused:

Come to think of it, that was true even way back in the 70's. So the *least* I can do is continue to "deliver." :rolleyes:


Cheers,

--Jay

After one of my friends had his two kids, he went out and bought a big full-size Buick instead of the obligatory mini-van. I asked why he hadn't gone the van route and he said "Mini vans aren't cool."
"Neither are we," was my answer. (Although I could also have asked what was cool about a big Buick.)
(Heavy sigh.) This guy was one that had to have a Camaro in college, so it shouldn't have surprised me.
The Camaro had whitewalls. :D

[jflis]

I am a long time trek fan and am also (now) a die-hard Star Gate fan (both series) and simply *love* Battle Star. The main problem with BSG is that you really have to watch each and every episode to keep up with the many threads going on. Great acting, writing and filming as far as I am concerned (though I thought that the last episode with the president was a bit of a cop-out...)

[Nuke Rocketeer]

I used to be a Star Trek fan, but after Babylon 5 I almost completely lost interest in its sterile vision of the future. DS9 tried to change this a little, but it could not completely divorce itself from the Trek dogma. I had never realized how socialist in outlook all the trek series were until I watched a few episodes of B5 and noticed how much more realistic it was in its depiction of human nature. BSG is also a great series and I am a die-hard fan.

[Eagle3]

I still enjoy Star Trek, but not nearly as much. Nuke nailed it. It's much too sterile. BG is OK, but I can only take so much of that annoying zoom in and zoom out really fast effect before I get a headache. The SciFi series I really love is Firefly/Serenity. Of course it gets whacked after just one season. :rolleyes: