list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Star Trek [TV Series] on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Star_Trek_TV_Series/90708/default.aspx Title: Star Trek [TV Series]
Year: 1966
Plot: Although it undoubtedly goes without saying at this late date, the original Star Trek is the most popular and influential science fiction series ever seen on American network televsion--and as far as many people are concerned, it remains absolutely the best TV series of any kind. The weekly, hour-long Star Trek was conceived as "Wagon Train in outer space" by its creator, Gene Roddenberry, who had long labored in the TV-western mills before his pet project made its NBC debut on September 8, 1966. Describing space as "the final frontier" in the opening narration, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise, informed the viewer that his vessel's five-year mission was to "seek out new life forms and new civilizations", and "to boldly go where no man has gone before." The series was set in the 23rd century, a time in which most of the various intergalactic civilizations (with the notable exception of the warlike Klingons!) had forged a lasting peace and formed the United Federation of Planets, for whom the Enterprise was the flagship. While the heroic, self-sacrificing Kirk was the leading character and primary plot motivator, the series' most famous character was the Enterprise's pointy-eared first officer/science officer Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy). Born on the planet Vulcan and the product of a Vulcanian father and human mother, Mr. Spock was cool, unflappable, unemotional, meticulously logical--and to thousands upon thousands of female Star Trek enthusiasts, irresistable. Other members of the multiethnic crew included Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), the ship's short-tempered chief medical officer ("Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mind-reader!"); chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan); Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), the African American communications officer; Lt. Sulu (George Takei), the Asian helmsman; nurse Christine Chapel (played by {Majel Barrett, later Mrs. Gene Roddenberry); and, beginning in the second season, Russian-born ensign Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig). Another principal character, Yeoman Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney), appeared sporadically during the first two seasons. Unlike so many other sci-fi/fantasy programs, Star Trek favored strong characterizations and solid story values over gadgetry and monsters: indeed, it was originally touted as "TV's first adult science fiction series." As such, the program attracted the best writers of the genre, among them Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, David Gerrold and Harlan Ellison, and the series' prolific story consultant, D.C. Fontana). Even so, there were still plenty of special photographic effects, which may seem a bit primitve when seen today but were sufficiently
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]]>Tue, 12 May 2009 02:37:21 GMTStar Trek [TV Series]1966Although it undoubtedly goes without saying at this late date, the original <a href=/films/287836/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Star Trek</a> is the most popular and influential science fiction series ever seen on American network televsion--and as far as many people are concerned, it remains absolutely the best TV series of any kind. The weekly, hour-long <a href=/films/287836/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Star Trek</a> was conceived as "<a href=/films/77939/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Wagon Train</a> in outer space" by its creator, <a href="/players/P___108615/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Gene Roddenberry</a>, who had long labored in the TV-western mills before his pet project made its NBC debut on September 8, 1966. Describing space as "the final frontier" in the opening narration, Captain James T. Kirk (<a href="/players/P___111030/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>William Shatner</a>), commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise, informed the viewer that his vessel's five-year mission was to "seek out new life forms and new civilizations", and "to boldly go where no man has gone before." The series was set in the 23rd century, a time in which most of the various intergalactic civilizations (with the notable exception of the warlike Klingons!) had forged a lasting peace and formed the United Federation of Planets, for whom the Enterprise was the flagship. While the heroic, self-sacrificing Kirk was the leading character and primary plot motivator, the series' most famous character was the Enterprise's pointy-eared first officer/science officer Mr. Spock (<a href="/players/P___104553/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Leonard Nimoy</a>). Born on the planet Vulcan and the product of a Vulcanian father and human mother, Mr. Spock was cool, unflappable, unemotional, meticulously logical--and to thousands upon thousands of female <a href=/films/287836/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Star Trek</a> enthusiasts, irresistable. Other members of the multiethnic crew included Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (<a href="/players/P____37451/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>DeForest Kelley</a>), the ship's short-tempered chief medical officer ("Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mind-reader!"); chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (<a href="/players/P____19684/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>James Doohan</a>); Lt. Uhura (<a href="/players/P____52569/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Nichelle Nichols</a>), the African American communications officer; Lt. Sulu (<a href="/players/P____69644/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>George Takei</a>), the Asian helmsman; nurse Christine Chapel (played by {Majel Barrett, later Mrs. <a href="/players/P___108615/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Gene Roddenberry</a>); and, beginning in the second season, Russian-born ensign Pavel Chekov (<a href="/players/P____38937/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Walter Koenig</a>). Another principal character, Yeoman Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney), appeared sporadically during the first two seasons. Unlike so many other sci-fi/fantasy programs, <a href=/films/287836/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Star Trek</a> favored strong characterizations and solid story values over gadgetry and monsters: indeed, it was originally touted as "TV's first adult science fiction series." As such, the program attracted the best writers of the genre, among them <a href="/players/P___101691/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Richard Matheson</a>, Theodore Sturgeon, <a href="/players/P____82135/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Robert Bloch</a>, David Gerrold and <a href="/players/P____21700/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Harlan Ellison</a>, and the series' prolific story consultant, D.C. Fontana). Even so, there were still plenty of special photographic effects, which may seem a bit primitve when seen today but were sufficiently16Tag Target (>10)7153http://www.spout.com/images/no_image.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Star_Trek_TV_Series/90708/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/11/24/37583.aspxPost By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 11/24/2008 1:02:08 PM
Body: The latest film-centric trend on YouTube is apparently making fun of the new Star Trek trailer. And it goes way beyond the Smallville and 90210 recuts I showcased last week. TrekMovie.com is collecting all the parodies, which also include a reverse recut featuring scenes from Smallville, another recut acknowleding the parallels to the Star Wars prequels, a weak clip using music from Top Gun and a hilarious recut employing the opening theme and credits style from The A-Team. Unfortunately, there’s still no Muppet Babies version, but I’m going to keep on checking back with my fingers crossed. The best video included, though, is not quite a recut in the same class as the others. This one instead composites young Kirk footage into a scene from the original Star Trek TV show. It would be great even if William Shatner hadn’t already been publicly complaining about the film, but it’s even better knowing that Shatner likely had this exact reaction today. If he’s a good sport, he’ll even film a recreation of this clever YouTube clip. [via Topless Robot] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:02:08 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com11/24/2008 1:02:08 PM The latest film-centric trend on YouTube is apparently making fun of the new Star Trek trailer. And it goes way beyond the Smallville and 90210 recuts I showcased last week. TrekMovie.com is collecting all the parodies, which also include a reverse recut featuring scenes from Smallville, another recut acknowleding the parallels to the Star Wars prequels, a weak clip using music from Top Gun and a hilarious recut employing the opening theme and credits style from The A-Team. Unfortunately, there’s still no Muppet Babies version, but I’m going to keep on checking back with my fingers crossed. The best video included, though, is not quite a recut in the same class as the others. This one instead composites young Kirk footage into a scene from the original Star Trek TV show. It would be great even if William Shatner hadn’t already been publicly complaining about the film, but it’s even better knowing that Shatner likely had this exact reaction today. If he’s a good sport, he’ll even film a recreation of this clever YouTube clip. [via Topless Robot] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_August_25_Monster_Madness/625/34378/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: The_American_Dream
Post To: Weekly Theme
Post Date: 8/25/2008 8:29:31 PM
Body: Before I try to get in on this one, I am going to apologize for my mostly monster free up bringing. At least in the classic sense. Sure, I know the classic Harryhausen monsters; "Jason and the Argonauts" naturally, and "Journey to the Center of the Earth" even features James Mason and company running from an iguana. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is a classic. But these cannot measure up to a movie of "The Giant Gila Monster" caliber. However, science-fiction is something that has always been in my life, and science-fiction offers some of movies greatest monsters. Although it falls into mainstream, the alien in "Alien" is easily one of the greatest monsters of all time. But this is not really my sci-fi passion, that is reserved for Star Trek. I have been a Treker since birth. Every lizard-thing that captain Kirk took on could be on par with the most giant of gila monsters. But wait, there's more; "Star Trek: First Contact", specifically, the Borg. The Borg scared me silly when I was younger but now, they really are a favorite monster of mine as I have followed them in all the Star Trek I watch. If I wished to digress the infinity of my nerdyness I could go on and on with Star Trek monsters but wont.
]]>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:29:31 GMTThe_American_DreamWeekly Theme8/25/2008 8:29:31 PMBefore I try to get in on this one, I am going to apologize for my mostly monster free up bringing. At least in the classic sense. Sure, I know the classic Harryhausen monsters; "Jason and the Argonauts" naturally, and "Journey to the Center of the Earth" even features James Mason and company running from an iguana. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is a classic. But these cannot measure up to a movie of "The Giant Gila Monster" caliber. However, science-fiction is something that has always been in my life, and science-fiction offers some of movies greatest monsters. Although it falls into mainstream, the alien in "Alien" is easily one of the greatest monsters of all time. But this is not really my sci-fi passion, that is reserved for Star Trek. I have been a Treker since birth. Every lizard-thing that captain Kirk took on could be on par with the most giant of gila monsters. But wait, there's more; "Star Trek: First Contact", specifically, the Borg. The Borg scared me silly when I was younger but now, they really are a favorite monster of mine as I have followed them in all the Star Trek I watch. If I wished to digress the infinity of my nerdyness I could go on and on with Star Trek monsters but wont. http://www.spout.com/groups/sci_fi/Re_Best_Star_Trek_TV_series/4/27755/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: Risselada
Post To: sci-fi
Post Date: 4/24/2008 12:55:12 PM
Body: I've been slowly, slowly making my way through the Star Trek series and movies. So far I have finished the original series and the animated series. And have watched movies 1 - 4. I have memories of watching TNG, DS9, and Voyager in reruns and such, when I actually used to have televions. I don't think I've ever seen an episode of Enterprise. I just noticed that Enterprise actually has two entries in spout: http://www.spout.com/films/202413/default.aspx http://www.spout.com/films/201482/default.aspx3 Someone should probably fix that. Anyways, The Original Series is just plain fun. Really dated and kind of corny. There are only a few different scenarios that are repeated from episode to episode, and they always try to force some romance into every single episode even when it doesn't fit. (Maybe all of this actually happens in subsequent series and my memory fails me, but I'll soon find out) But the interactions between Spock and Bones is probably the quintessence of Star Trek, and I doubt it will ever be duplicated. The Animated Series isn't too bad either. They could actually do more with this than they could on the original show becuase you can draw anything you want where as the original show obviously had a very limited budget and computer graphics were a long way off. The reason the animated series suffers is that each episode is only half of the running time of the original series, so everything must be accelerated. This means cutting out lots of slow moments of character development and dialogue that really brings flavor to an episode normally. Now coincidentally this week I just watched the pilot episode of The Next Generation. WOW THIS SUCKED! I heard the first season or two fo The Next Generation is pretty bad though and it gets better. This must be true because I remember it being much better when I saw it in reruns. I must have been watching some of the latter episodes if the rest of the first season is as sucky as the pilot. Besides that I remember loving boy Voyager and Deep Space Nine. And I think Deep Space Nine was always my favorite in my mind. Why do you think Deep Space Nine is the worst??? I love the fact that it takes place on a much larger space station so it feels more like a big community. A lot more can happen it seems.
]]>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:55:12 GMTRisseladasci-fi4/24/2008 12:55:12 PMI've been slowly, slowly making my way through the Star Trek series and movies. So far I have finished the original series and the animated series. And have watched movies 1 - 4. I have memories of watching TNG, DS9, and Voyager in reruns and such, when I actually used to have televions. I don't think I've ever seen an episode of Enterprise. I just noticed that Enterprise actually has two entries in spout: http://www.spout.com/films/202413/default.aspx http://www.spout.com/films/201482/default.aspx3 Someone should probably fix that. Anyways, The Original Series is just plain fun. Really dated and kind of corny. There are only a few different scenarios that are repeated from episode to episode, and they always try to force some romance into every single episode even when it doesn't fit. (Maybe all of this actually happens in subsequent series and my memory fails me, but I'll soon find out) But the interactions between Spock and Bones is probably the quintessence of Star Trek, and I doubt it will ever be duplicated. The Animated Series isn't too bad either. They could actually do more with this than they could on the original show becuase you can draw anything you want where as the original show obviously had a very limited budget and computer graphics were a long way off. The reason the animated series suffers is that each episode is only half of the running time of the original series, so everything must be accelerated. This means cutting out lots of slow moments of character development and dialogue that really brings flavor to an episode normally. Now coincidentally this week I just watched the pilot episode of The Next Generation. WOW THIS SUCKED! I heard the first season or two fo The Next Generation is pretty bad though and it gets better. This must be true because I remember it being much better when I saw it in reruns. I must have been watching some of the latter episodes if the rest of the first season is as sucky as the pilot. Besides that I remember loving boy Voyager and Deep Space Nine. And I think Deep Space Nine was always my favorite in my mind. Why do you think Deep Space Nine is the worst??? I love the fact that it takes place on a much larger space station so it feels more like a big community. A lot more can happen it seems. http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_Science_Fiction/190/12001/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: Risselada
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Post Date: 6/24/2007 11:09:31 PM
Body: [quote user="pippin06"]I just don't know if one can count Spaceballs or Hitchhiker's as true scifi. I love both movies, but there is no concentration on science in either film. Spaceballs is a Star Wars send up, and its most scientific element is the vaccuum cleaner/maid thing that sucks the air from Vespa's home planet.[/quote]Yeah when you think about it a lot of stuff really isn't "sci-fi" I mean I was questioning some of those other movies for not having any real science in it. Well Spaceballs certainly doesn't but we recognize it as Sci-Fi because it's obviously a parody of movies that are Sci-Fi like Star Wars. And then you think about it. When is any science that we are familiar with ever used to explain any of the technology in Star Wars? If they make up totally new kinds of physical properties for things that have no relevence to our world is it still Sci-Fi? I guess so, but in that case Star Wars certainly seems more fantasy where Star Trek is a bit closer to sci-fi.
]]>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:09:31 GMTRisseladaTop 56/24/2007 11:09:31 PM[quote user="pippin06"]I just don&#39;t know if one can count Spaceballs or Hitchhiker&#39;s as true scifi. I love both movies, but there is no concentration on science in either film. Spaceballs is a Star Wars send up, and its most scientific element is the vaccuum cleaner/maid thing that sucks the air from Vespa&#39;s home planet.[/quote]Yeah when you think about it a lot of stuff really isn&#39;t "sci-fi" I mean I was questioning some of those other movies for not having any real science in it. Well Spaceballs certainly doesn&#39;t but we recognize it as Sci-Fi because it&#39;s obviously a parody of movies that are Sci-Fi like Star Wars. And then you think about it. When is any science that we are familiar with ever used to explain any of the technology in Star Wars? If they make up totally new kinds of physical properties for things that have no relevence to our world is it still Sci-Fi? I guess so, but in that case Star Wars certainly seems more fantasy where Star Trek is a bit closer to sci-fi. http://www.spout.com/groups/FRESH/Star_Trek/75/3623/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: Risselada
Post To: FRESH
Post Date: 11/9/2006 2:20:32 PM
Body: A little over a two years ago I started watching Star Trek: The Original Series from Netflix. It took me two years to finish the whole series, three seasons. I just watched the original movie. I'd never seen any of the first generation of movies before. I'd heard that there was a phenomena where the odd number Star Trek movies were bad and the even numbered ones were good. Anyone agree with this strange effect? Or is it a bunch of B.S.? I was not very interested by the first film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Everything seemed to take so long. They were lingering on all of the effects so long as if to say, "look how amazing and great these effects are!" The movie is way longer than a standard film, but the idea could have fit in an hour episode. The characters seemed lifeless in a way too. Whoever wrote the dialogue seemed to be going to something a little too epic. Frankly, I just want to see more bickering between Spock and McCoy. Well, I'm excited to see Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. I hear it's much more engaging, better characters maybe? I figure at this rate, I'll have seen all of the movies and TV shows in 20 years.
]]>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:20:32 GMTRisseladaFRESH11/9/2006 2:20:32 PMA little over a two years ago I started watching Star Trek: The Original Series from Netflix. It took me two years to finish the whole series, three seasons. I just watched the original movie. I'd never seen any of the first generation of movies before. I'd heard that there was a phenomena where the odd number Star Trek movies were bad and the even numbered ones were good. Anyone agree with this strange effect? Or is it a bunch of B.S.? I was not very interested by the first film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Everything seemed to take so long. They were lingering on all of the effects so long as if to say, "look how amazing and great these effects are!" The movie is way longer than a standard film, but the idea could have fit in an hour episode. The characters seemed lifeless in a way too. Whoever wrote the dialogue seemed to be going to something a little too epic. Frankly, I just want to see more bickering between Spock and McCoy. Well, I'm excited to see Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. I hear it's much more engaging, better characters maybe? I figure at this rate, I'll have seen all of the movies and TV shows in 20 years. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Fascinating/MemberTagFilms.aspxFascinating
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