Star Trek

[jdbii]

Yes! The Enterprise is based on warp theory... warping space to create a sort of bubble outside of space. Weird, but interesting. The Falcon uses ion propulsion which is actually in development, but isn't in the Smithsonian, I guess? Both are an unhealthy obsession of mine. and Galaxy Quest is a great flick.

Always the best scenes in both movies were during emergencies and they were having trouble going into warp speed or hyper-drive (you'd have to correct me for what light speed was called in Star Wars). Captain Kirk screaming to Scottie saying "we need more power" and Scottie screaming back with his thick Scottish accent "She's giving all she can give Captain," and they are moments from being swallowed up by a Black Hole. My favorite hyper-drive scene in Star War was when the Millennium Falcon goes into hyper-drive and R2D2 isn't strapped in and falls down the hole into the electrical compartment and R2D2 gives his classic electrical scream as he is rolling and falling. (You can alomst hear C3PO saying like an old lady, "Oh dear, R2D2 are you okay"). The thing I always thought was super-cool (and very counter-intuitive) with the Millennium Falcon was the fact that the cockpit was on one side, so Hans Solo was always flying blinds on the other side. Think of how boring she would have been had the cockpit been centered on the top.

 

[jdbii]

The Falcon uses ion propulsion which is actually in development,

Scifi becoming reality. Unbelievable.

 

[FishenFool]

The colors do mean the areas that you align to. In TOS (the original series) red is science, gold is command, and blue is medical.

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Also the red shirt guys on away missions that you knew were going to die. O

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[Golfdriver97]

Okay, so I'm a horrible nerd/geek whatever because until 2013 I'd never seen an episode of Star Trek or any of the movies. I watched the 2009 movie and it wasn't bad, so I started watching the show on Netflix.

What in the hell? I'm 15 episodes in because I keep hearing this is the best show ever made... but every episode so far is terrible! I hope this gets better and I find Spock to be an incredibly entertaining character, but so far I think I just don't get why this has almost 50% of the fan base of Star Wars. Is it because I grew up with Star Wars and not in the 60's that I don't get this?

Also, do the colors of uniforms mean anything?

Can anyone tell me if skipping ahead to a specific point will take me to the parts that are epic and whether or not they can run independently or if you need to watch them all in order?

The biggest thing that everyone who isn't familiar with all this is that Star Trek had a cult following after it was cancelled by NBC (I think). And it was all done during the infancy of our space program. Star Trek was airing when Sputnik made it's first return signal to Earth. It was also being written as it was being filmed. I sometimes watch it out of respect for the following it has. I like TNG much better.

In any event, the colors were Red:Engineering/Tactical, Greenish Gold: Command, Blue:Science/Medical And yes, it was Star Trek giving birth to the Red Shirt syndrome...lol

 

[Aquila]

I'm a huge X Files fan and TOS (just started season 3) has some similar issues, but really a similar feel to how they deal with impossibilities. The more I watch the more I'm enjoying it.

 

[msndrstood]

The biggest thing that everyone who isn't familiar with all this is that Star Trek had a cult following after it was cancelled by NBC (I think). And it was all done during the infancy of our space program. Star Trek was airing when Sputnik made it's first return signal to Earth. It was also being written as it was being filmed. I sometimes watch it out of respect for the following it has. I like TNG much better.

In any event, the colors were Red:Engineering/Tactical, Greenish Gold: Command, Blue:Science/Medical And yes, it was Star Trek giving birth to the Red Shirt syndrome...lol

Sputnik was 1957, Star Trek 1966.

Both were culture changing events, albeit in different ways.

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[decepticlone]

Yeah, I like how Galaxy Quest played on the whole red shirt phenomenon with Guy Fleegman, hahah. TNG was where things actually got interesting, like how the 60's didn't happen until the 70's. Watching them now, some are pretty silly, but for the time it was pretty amazing and well done. They finally branched out with new species and further colonization into the galaxy. Shatner and team were pretty much worn thin with the movies. Will Weaton, who also guests on Big Bang Theory, had a big role. His character at times was so goofy. He still makes fun of his character in the show, which is really funny.

You then have DS9, which was decent, then Voyager, which was awesome, pushing the genre with a female captain and finally Enterprise, which I never cared for. I think Scott Bakula has the acting dynamics of a rock.

 

[jdbii]

Blue:Science/Medical

Thank you @Golfdriver97! Even as people were explaining the colors for this thread I couldn't figure out why Spock and Bones (McCoy) both had blue shirts. I thought Spock was the XO and therefore command but I guess he was a science officer now that I think about it. (But he was the XO too I think). Anyway, you learn something knew everyday.

 

[decepticlone]

Thank you @Golfdriver97! Even as people were explaining the colors for this thread I couldn't figure out why Spock and Bones (McCoy) both had blue shirts. I thought Spock was the XO and therefore command but I guess he was a science officer now that I think about it. (But he was the XO too I think). Anyway, you learn something knew everyday.

Think of the colors more as division, not rank.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Thank you @Golfdriver97! Even as people were explaining the colors for this thread I couldn't figure out why Spock and Bones (McCoy) both had blue shirts. I thought Spock was the XO and therefore command but I guess he was a science officer now that I think about it. (But he was the XO too I think). Anyway, you learn something knew everyday.

Spock was XO, Roddenberry didn't have a lot of details of command structure set up.

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[Aquila]

Okay I'm done with TOS and all of the associated movies with it, including the two new reboots. I saw one episode of "Enterprise".. that show sucks horribly and someone needs to be fired. I just started TNG and here's my dilemma: I'm bored out of my mind and I think it gets awesome, but I don't know how long that takes. Should I skip to the movies made in that era or is there like a "starting in season 3, it's amazing" or anything like that? I'm impatient for something epic and so far it's campy. Also, I miss Spock.

 

[jdbii]

Okay I'm done with TOS and all of the associated movies with it, including the two new reboots. I saw one episode of "Enterprise".. that show sucks horribly and someone needs to be fired. I just started TNG and here's my dilemma: I'm bored out of my mind and I think it gets awesome, but I don't know how long that takes. Should I skip to the movies made in that era or is there like a "starting in season 3, it's amazing" or anything like that? I'm impatient for something epic and so far it's campy. Also, I miss Spock.

I feel the same way. Grew up watching TOS re-runs and loved them, but any of the subsequent series, spin offs, and movies were boring for me. I never really gave any of them a chance because my tolerance wa about 20 minutes before the android, the blind guy with special glasses, or the Klingon Starship Officer drove me crazy. I think the one with the female captain was pretty good, but I never watched it.

 

[Aquila]

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[decepticlone]

Okay I'm done with TOS and all of the associated movies with it, including the two new reboots. I saw one episode of "Enterprise".. that show sucks horribly and someone needs to be fired. I just started TNG and here's my dilemma: I'm bored out of my mind and I think it gets awesome, but I don't know how long that takes. Should I skip to the movies made in that era or is there like a "starting in season 3, it's amazing" or anything like that? I'm impatient for something epic and so far it's campy. Also, I miss Spock.

The Best of Both Worlds 2 parter where Picard becomes part of the Borg was a big crowd pleaser. Season 3 finale, I think? Most of the other Borg episodes were good. I loved all the episodes with Q. Sure, it was a cheesy series sometimes, but Data striving more more humanity was a cool concept. I enjoyed the episodes with Will Wheaton, too... well, some of them. I thought the overall character development for the series was very well done. I'd have to go back to a TNG site to remember the better episodes. As far as movies go for the TNG timeline, Generations was pretty good. In it Kirk dies, effectively handing the reins to Picard for the ST universe. I really liked First Contact, too.

I absolutely loved Voyager. I guess I cut my teeth on ST watching it. I was a die hard Star Wars-only fan until this series and it was the first ST timeline I watched weekly from beginning to end of series. I would hazard saying that if you are not enjoying Star Trek after you watch the important TNG episodes like the Borg and Q episodes, you might just not be a fan. Some people can't get into it. Personally, it's a big nostalgia part of my life. However, the new reboot movies are simply fantastic, especially Into Darkness which is probably the single best Star Trek film to date and IMHO is the pinnacle of all Star Trek tales. Some may say the reboots move away from Roddenberry's vision of working through issues to a peaceful solution instead of fighting, but change is good and not all problems can be solved by peaceful hippy love-ins.