[Liberator]

"The City on the Edge of Forever"

This episode is considered by many to be the best episode of TOS.  Authored by Harlan Ellison and with superb acting by both Shatner and a very young and elegant Joan Collins it's hard to argue the point.

[delta_7890]

Originally posted by 01010
:: Grabs popcorn for the nerd fight ::

lol!  *joins*

[Stryke 9]

Originally posted by Dough with Fish
And the ship itself, talk about unoriginal design.

You're complaining about unoriginal ship design. In Star Trek. That's like whining about how a particular iceberg is terribly cold in the North Pole. Aside from a few souped-up cubes serving duty for basically all the minor alien races and the old Klingon warbird thingies, basically every ship has the exact same bloody design, and they're apparently meant to represent the physical limit in how uncreative one can get in making a vessel.


As to the series... gneh. It's a minor point for me, seeing as Mister Television got shotgunned several months back for offending mine eyes and intellect, but I still hold fast to the ideal that Star Trek should not have breasts. It's not meant to be some fanserving dribble or time-travel romp, it's supposed to be about the people they meet out there in space and have to blow up, and all their freaky-deaky beliefs and cultures and ****e. And the forehead ridges. Never forget the forehead ridges.

In short, nerd nerd nerd nerd Star Trek nerd nerd episode nerd nerd nerd Kirk nerd nerd phasors.

[Liberator]

Not all ST ships are dren.  Example the current crop of Vulcan ships on Enterprise.  They're pretty slick.  And to be honest, I never thought that Enterprise looked like an inverted Akira.  It looks like a saucer section with only a basic support structure for the warp nacelles and the impulse drive.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Liberator
Not all ST ships are dren.  Example the current crop of Vulcan ships on Enterprise.  They're pretty slick.  And to be honest, I never thought that Enterprise looked like an inverted Akira.  It looks like a saucer section with only a basic support structure for the warp nacelles and the impulse drive.

turn the Enterprise upside-down.. then compare it with the akira

[Kosh]

The reason why the original constitution doesn't look that advanced in TOS was because they had no special effects budget. So they had almost nothing to work with

You see fleeting glimpses here and there in the new seires, and at times in Voyager....

I felt that Voyager became a good show in the 4th season. The earlier seasons, I'll only watch them if nothing better is on and I don't feel like playing my computer games.

[neo_hermes]

you just wait someone out there is goin to Remake/Redo every Star Trek Series till the end of the humanity.

[Carl]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
Like I said, it's made to look cool and be asthetically pleasing to today's eye. You can't really make their tech look 'less advanced' unless you either put more knobs and levers on it than buttons (as seen by the Enterprise warp core) or replace all their computers with 60's Nasa equivilants...

And why not? The tech is already too messed up. Why in 150 years would we still be using manual input devices? It would all ber thought command. The computers and equipment would be so complex humans couldn't repair any of it by hand, as they often do on Star Trek. Humans wouldn't be piloting the starships, as computers would be much faster and more precise. Humans would only be there to supervise and to give general direction.

and btw, the TOS enterprise is very detailed. i have many images of the reproduction model Unobtainium, Ltd made. they should have had more close-ups in the series.

[SadisticSid]

Originally posted by Carl


And why not? The tech is already too messed up. Why in 150 years would we still be using manual input devices? It would all ber thought command. The computers and equipment would be so complex humans couldn't repair any of it by hand, as they often do on Star Trek. Humans wouldn't be piloting the starships, as computers would be much faster and more precise. Humans would only be there to supervise and to give general direction.

and btw, the TOS enterprise is very detailed. i have many images of the reproduction model Unobtainium, Ltd made. they should have had more close-ups in the series.

Thought command, hehe. Those predictions have a habit of going the same way of 'in 1999 computers will be a thousand times bigger and humans will live on the moon'.

[Carl]

we already have thought command.