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  • PNGwynne
    Master of Fowl Play
    • Jun 5, 2008
    • 19432

    Ten reasons I love Star Trek: TOS

    In no particular order:

    1. Gene Roddenberry's vision

    2. William Ware Theiss

    3. Dr. McCoy

    4. Spock's eyebrow

    6. Kirk-fu

    7. Eff you, Prime Directive

    8. "The Devil in the Dark"

    9. Gorn!

    10. Alexander Courage--he beat out Sherry Jackson and her jumpsuit because I don't want to seem a cad.
    WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.
  • TrekStar
    Trek or Treat
    • Jan 20, 2011
    • 8346

    #2
    My ten reasons would be, in no particular order:

    1. Script writing, mostly season’s 1-2

    2. The different cool alien races.

    3. I’m a doctor Jim not a.....

    4. He’s dead Jim.

    5. Red Shirt security guards killed, then coming back in later episodes.

    6. Hot girls in either federation uniform skirts or some odd sexy alien outfit.

    7. City on the Edge of Forever.

    8. The comical trash talking between Spock and McCoy.

    9. Spock hanging upside down from a tree and giggling.

    10. Mego Star Trek.

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    • powersthatbe
      Persistent Member
      • Sep 27, 2010
      • 1957

      #3
      1) Hope in the future
      2)Captain Kirk. A man's man.
      3)Great cast chemistry.
      4)Shatner's overacting.
      5)stories showcased the events and issues of the day.
      6)Diversity.
      7)cool alien races.
      8)Kirk can woo any woman. earth or intergalactic
      9)for a sci-fi show.it was intelligently written
      10)the human/Vulcan conflict of Spock.

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      • Werewolf
        Inhuman
        • Jul 14, 2003
        • 14606

        #4
        Creative Alien designs. No weird forehead of the week syndrome.
        Fantastic special effects for its time.
        Beautiful ship designs. Enterprise, Bird of Prey and Klingon D7.
        You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...

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        • sprytel
          Talkative Member
          • Jun 26, 2009
          • 6532

          #5
          Originally posted by TrekStar
          6. Hot girls in either federation uniform skirts or some odd sexy alien outfit.
          Not sure if this is really true or not... I heard this long before you can internet fact check these things, but I really want this to be true... Apparently, the "hot girls" were largely to distract the NBC censors. The more controversial the content of the episode, the shorter the miniskirts would be.

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          • Mikey
            Verbose Member
            • Aug 9, 2001
            • 47242

            #6
            I always thought it was weird how classic Trek sometimes showed slightly blurry glamor headshots of some of the pretty actresses (usually in their introduction shots)

            It's like something straight out of 1940's B&W movies

            I don't think other TV shows did that

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            • J.B.
              Guild Navigator
              • Jun 23, 2010
              • 2880

              #7
              Tri-dimensional chess



              "If I wanted to move the Rook, I would have. Now shut the hell up so I can concentrate."
              You are transparent; I see many things... I see plans within plans.

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              • Nostalgiabuff
                Muddling through
                • Oct 4, 2008
                • 11285

                #8
                the original series is just a fun outer space romp. what's not to love?

                Next Gen and the other shows were always so serious

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                • Makernaut
                  Persistent Member
                  • Jul 22, 2015
                  • 1544

                  #9
                  I could pick and choose and build a list from what everyone here has already said. For me, you all have covered it all pretty well, but I will make one addition....Susan Oliver. I was mesmerized by her as Vina and still think she is one of the most beautiful women to ever be on television.

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                  • sprytel
                    Talkative Member
                    • Jun 26, 2009
                    • 6532

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Makernaut
                    I could pick and choose and build a list from what everyone here has already said. For me, you all have covered it all pretty well, but I will make one addition....Susan Oliver. I was mesmerized by her as Vina and still think she is one of the most beautiful women to ever be on television.
                    Hubba hubba

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                    • Makernaut
                      Persistent Member
                      • Jul 22, 2015
                      • 1544

                      #11
                      ^ Ha!

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                      • Hector
                        el Hombre de Acero
                        • May 19, 2003
                        • 31852

                        #12
                        Kirk kissing Uhura. Historic.
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                        • SeattleEd
                          SynthoRes Transmigrator
                          • Oct 24, 2007
                          • 4350

                          #13
                          For me will always be this:
                          "Gene Roddenberry's vision"
                          I want to live in that world ever since I was a kid. Then "Cool alien races" like GORN!!! And Orion females!!!! WOW!!! I just don't like or admire the slave aspect to it.

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                          • Earth 2 Chris
                            Verbose Member
                            • Mar 7, 2004
                            • 32481

                            #14
                            1. The excitement of exploration. I could take a decent raygun water pistol and a tape recorder as tricorder and go off on my own Treks.

                            2. The Kirk roll.

                            3. The Vulcan nerve pinch

                            4. How Bones becomes more "Southern" as he gets older (both in "The Deadly Years", and in the actual films where he's older!).

                            5. Scotty drinking the alien under the table in "By Any Other Name".

                            6. "Mirror, Mirror", the alpha and omega of "evil counterpart" stories

                            7. The "gunfight" in "Specter of the Gun"

                            8. The fight music in "Amok Time"

                            9. Spock's fling with Zarabeth.

                            10. "Let's get the hell out of here."

                            Chris
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                            • Confessional
                              Maker & Whatnot
                              • Aug 8, 2012
                              • 3410

                              #15
                              I'm gonna add the theme music and title/credits sequences… as a kid those had a disturbing and mysterious impact on me, and I think served as a strong hook into the show for many.

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