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Buzz Bloom said:Not close 4th choice: Enterprise. Favorite character: Kirk.
Kirk?
Buzz Bloom said:Not close 4th choice: Enterprise. Favorite character: Kirk.
Archer. I just don't understand why it's not T'Pol.pixel said:Kirk?
Vanadium 50 said:No love for the animated series?
Buzz Bloom said:Since this thread is about favorites, and I voted for movies, my favorite movies are:
1. (By far my first choice) Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home
2. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
3. Star Trek: First Contact
Yep. And it contains my most favorite quote [McCOY]:Buzz Bloom said:Since this thread is about favorites, and I voted for movies, my favorite movies are:
1. (By far my first choice) Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home
2. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
3. Star Trek: First Contact
fresh_42 said:Yep. And it contains my most favorite quote [McCOY]:
The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.
This is so true. I always had been inclined to claim my country is the worst, but then I discovered, all others aren't much better. O.k. I haven't checked all, but some major ones, so the hypothesis appears to be justified.
jim hardy said:British writer C N Parkinson wrote at length on Bureaucracy in the 1950's. His "The Law of Delay" is a classic and management curricula are beginning to recognize his contributions to the science. I highly recommend that book to anyone working for an outfit of significant size . From my position at the bottom of the organization it gave me great ability to make light of the all too often self defeating machinations of middle management.
I sent a copy to our CEO .
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345225651/?tag=pfamazon01-20
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. C. Northcote Parkinson
www.brainyquote.com/authors/c_northcote_parkinson
Glad you did. I made many "trekkian" connections with Parkinson's thoughts.jim hardy said:Hmm. Yes, i digressed...
Surely there was a Star Trek on this thought ...
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My favorite measure to distinguish the two:OmCheeto said:pps. I also had about a thousand other thoughts. Most of which involved me thinking about how "adolescent" of a species we still are.
Fallible.fresh_42 said:...what we are.
enorbet said:I may have already answered the base question but just in case I didn't and since I feel very strongly about this although I started out with Original Star Trek (yeah... I'm old :) ) and enjoyed it's depth of layers that circumvented commercial compromises to a degree, hands down the fullest and most satisfying Star Trek series came from Gene Rodenberry when he finally became a "rock star" who could dictate terms and fully realize his vision and that was without a doubt The Next Generation. IMHO none of the others even comes close.
enorbet said:My assertion regarding Gene's vision reaching fruition on TNG has to do with his view of Political and Social norms of the future where cheap energy and advanced technology has essentially eliminated poverty, lack of opportunity especially in education, and thos xenophobia still exists in Gene's vision of the future racism and sexism among Homo Sapiens has all but disappeared and while some people are still "shoot first and ask questions later" there is a quantum leap in the baseline desire for collaboration and negotiation. To me those are the hallmarks of what Star Trek was all about, it's most important and valuable contribution instead of the far more common "Cowboys and Indians in space".
I've read somewhere that they wanted to cut the scene, but Shatner tricked them by delaying the scene to the very last moment which left them with no time to cut it. Don't know whether it is true, but it fits to the spirit. And what's most important, it influenced us as children and we saw that equality isn't just a word. Even the constant mocking of Nimoy by Kelley can be seen as an insurance against negative discrimination.rootone said:Although I voted for TNG, the original series does have the honour, so I believe, of there being the first ever TV scene which portrayed interacial romance.
I think Kirk was getting a bit frisky with Uhuru or something like that,
rootone said:first everTV scene which portrayed interacial romance.
I have more objections against news magazines and pop science shows. If I watch a sci-fi show then I will expect to be entertained, not taught. I'm amused by the Heisenberg compensators in the transporter set-up, because the HUP could indeed become a problem. I do not expect a scientific explanation for something which cannot be explained. That's the point where I developed animosities towards news and pop science shows: they do pretend as if it were explanations what they say, and they rarely can deliver, neither of them.Aufbauwerk 2045 said:I see I voted on this a while ago. I used to care. The problem now is I can't watch Star Trek any more. In fact I can't stand to watch any science fiction any more. Has anyone else lost their interest in the genre because they have become such a science brain that they can't enjoy fantasy any more?