@twophrasebark: Gene pitched Star Trek to the networks as a kind of "Wagon Train To The Stars." Westerns were the most popular shows back then. #startrek
Women's role in Star Trek 2009. No woman has an authoritative rank, they wear short skirts and stay behind doing nothing while the men go up against the evil forces guns blazing saving the galaxy without their help.
The roles for women in Star Trek have taken a nose dive for which I highly doubt these writers even care about. After all, they want to honor canon, right? And canon did state that women can't become Captains of a Starship. Did you see any female Starship Captain in the 2009 movie?
This is it folks. The ONLY Star Trek franchise out right now and it's only sole female character is limited to just sitting around answering calls. That's where you want to keep it? #startrek
Speaking of "irritating", one thing that always irritated me in the original ST is Kirk beating Spock at chess. Gimme a break... Spock could and would beat Kirk with both his eyes closed. #startrek
@Roklimber: I think the point of that was that Kirk made risky, illogical moves that Spock wasn't prepared for. The larger point being that irrational emotional choices are sometimes better than logic. #startrek
@Ghost_in_the_Machine: Yes, I know that that's what it was supposed to mean, but anyone who knows how to play chess knows that risky illogical moves lead to a very quick defeat. It was a bad analogy from the start. #startrek
@Roklimber: The average viewer would recognize a chess board, even a 3D one, and understand it's a game that relies on brains and skill with very little luck involved. Maybe it wasn't the best analogy, but it was probably the easiest to make. #startrek
@Ghost_in_the_Machine: I think a much better analogy would have been a game that involved chance as well as skill, such as poker. In fact, TNG used that to drive the same point home with Data, and that was pretty effective, in my view.
Imagine Kirk playing poker with Spock, who couldn't/wouldn't lie and therefore couldn't/wouldn't bluff. On the other hand, his face would be inscrutable. That would have been a lot more realistic and a lot more fun to watch, I think. #startrek
@Roklimber: In The Corbomite Maneuver Kirk specifically contrasts poker with chess to Spock (that's the one where Kirk bluffs the captain of the huge alien ship who is himself bluffing). They weren't subtle in the original series so chess was just the analogy for logic (several references to checkmate in tough situations for example). TNG did make good use of poker as analogy though. #startrek
Given that the season three box set also includes season three, it's good that there's some incentive for fans to buy this thing.
If season 3 of TOS is what you're going to call "incentive."
The delay doesn't seem like that much of a surprise, though, since the writers just kept saying they have nothing written. Whatever, guys, just please don't make me have to hear the word yeoman. Also: 3D chess? Please? #startrek
@shoroko: No, my point was that if the DVD set also includes season three, they really ought to throw in some reason for buying the thing. :) #startrek
@shoroko: I think the delay is so they can continue to float more internet trial balloons about it. Sometimes, it seems they are interested in making something neutral that won't be attacked than in making something original and creative. #startrek
@Dr Emilio Lizardo: That wouldn't really surprise me. But I still have the impression that all they're really working from right now is 'Spock has more Inner Conflict and Kirk flirts with more chicks.' #startrek
@Dr Emilio Lizardo: @shoroko: No, my point was that if the DVD set also includes season three, they really ought to throw in some reason for buying the thing. :) #startrek
So the ST XII is going to have a lot of the same crew members and happen after the last movie and now the young crew is going to have to work out their place in the universe? Kinda like a coming of age story? No Kahn this time? How about a Yoda like character to teach Kirk the ways of the Federation.
If they strand Kirk on a swamp planet I am going to walk out of the theater and demand my money back. #startrek
@reddingofish: Yeah, go gripe to a guy with no authority whatsoever to give your money back, the guy who didn't make the movie or book it...
Yeah, that'll show'em.
The title of this article blew my mind- TOS footage I've never seen?!?- but None of those clips seem different from the full-length "WNMHGB", except the opening credits and maybe a little extra corridor footage (with Gary Mitchell being creepy).
Still, it's always nice to see the real Delta-Vega. Such a great matte painting, and so much cooler than that planet in the new movie. #startrek
Star Trek the Reboot 2: In which the Enterprise goes back in time to prevent the first Star Trek movie (which was actually Star Trek 11) from occurring because the writers couldn't think of something that didn't involve time travel and wanted to make a believable plot for the audience- Thus laying the groundwork for Star Trek III (or 12 depending on your particular multiverse) in which the Enterprise travels to the future to prevent Eric Bana and Spock from traveling into the past and rebooting their future.
All this will be tied in with a viral marketing campaign to sell Tang. #startrek
@GreyHammer: Fine by me. Let them work out a better plot and script. I don't think these things should be cranked out every two years, see: Transformers 2.
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The roles for women in Star Trek have taken a nose dive for which I highly doubt these writers even care about. After all, they want to honor canon, right? And canon did state that women can't become Captains of a Starship. Did you see any female Starship Captain in the 2009 movie?
This is it folks. The ONLY Star Trek franchise out right now and it's only sole female character is limited to just sitting around answering calls. That's where you want to keep it? #startrek
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Only when they don't give Uhura anything to do. #startrek
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Imagine Kirk playing poker with Spock, who couldn't/wouldn't lie and therefore couldn't/wouldn't bluff. On the other hand, his face would be inscrutable. That would have been a lot more realistic and a lot more fun to watch, I think. #startrek
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If season 3 of TOS is what you're going to call "incentive."
The delay doesn't seem like that much of a surprise, though, since the writers just kept saying they have nothing written. Whatever, guys, just please don't make me have to hear the word yeoman. Also: 3D chess? Please? #startrek
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Sorry to make fun, I was just very amused by that sentence. #startrek
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If they strand Kirk on a swamp planet I am going to walk out of the theater and demand my money back. #startrek
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Yeah, that'll show'em.
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Still, it's always nice to see the real Delta-Vega. Such a great matte painting, and so much cooler than that planet in the new movie. #startrek
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All this will be tied in with a viral marketing campaign to sell Tang. #startrek
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