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For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:58 pm
by TexasGal
Ok, I admit it...I grew up watching Star Trek. I loved it. No, I didn't go to the conventions, but I would have
If you haven't seen the ad William Shatner made to promote the Star Trek video game, it's a hoot. Captain Kirk fights the Gorn again:
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-tal ... 55239.html
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:09 pm
by boxermoose
I'm a Gorn again Trekkie...and I did think that before clicking the link.......
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:46 pm
by C-dub
I probably won't buy the game, but that was cool.
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:05 pm
by SATX-Scrub
That. Was. Awesome.
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 10:11 am
by n5wd
Too funny!
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 2:52 pm
by J.R.@A&M
The original Gorn TV episode is notable for Kirk's construction of a blackpowder shotgun/cannon from scratch. Even those meddling Metrons didn't seem to mind assault weapons.
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 3:32 pm
by BigGuy
You've got to love Shatner's good natured attitude at all of the "Kirk ribbing." I'm a bigger fan now than I was when he was still playing captain Kirk.
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 4:02 pm
by TexasGal
He was not too happy with the waste of our tax dollars by the IRS to make a ridiculous Star Trek parody:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... rody-video
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 10:27 pm
by jimlongley
During a trip back from the Mediterranean in 1968, one of the guys who was in charge of such things, traded all of our movies for Star Trek reels (the studios used to put TV shows on film for distribution to the troops) and then we dawdled on the way back, refueling and resupplying regularly, but our resident trekkie would not swap the trek flicks for anything else.
In good weather we watched movies on the hangar deck or amidships, in less than good weather, in the mess decks (two seatings per evening) and we saw "Trouble with Tribbles" so many times that we all knew all of the lines, so we would just leave the sound off and recite the lines, sometimes with some pretty obscene ad libs.
And then I met my first wife, and she wondered why I got up and left the room when her little kids were watching Star Trek on TV.
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 9:11 am
by jmra
He's just ticked that he wasn't in it.
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 11:15 am
by bigbang
Did anyone else notice the communications person was holding a cell phone to her right ear?
Even though she had had a bluetooth headset in her left ear. LOL
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 3:33 pm
by rocketsteve
Loved the video, but I won't be buying the game...
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:06 am
by jmra
bigbang wrote:Did anyone else notice the communications person was holding a cell phone to her right ear?
Even though she had had a bluetooth headset in her left ear. LOL
Did anyone else think the Captain sounded like Mike Tyson?
Re: For the Trekkies among us
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:28 pm
by Running Arrow Bill
I've been a Treekie fan since the series first came out. Watch every episode for past 20+ years until they started doing re-runs in recent years. Great social and cultural messages. Also, was a break-thru series which aimed to de-sensitize prejudices, inter-racial, and inter-species compatibilities and all. Lots of positive messages, beit many were subliminal. Also, had a lot of "futuristic" things and devices that are common-place now...e.g., "Communicators" = Cell Phones now. Not to mention portable body scanners for medical problems...now our PET, MRI, CT scans, etc. Will be interesting in the decades to come! Another item: Voice ordering of food items through a replicator... we now have voice activated many things, especially for the handicapped.