Favorite "type" of Classic Trek

[jwyblejr]

Anything with the Klingons makes my day. Even Trouble With Tribbles.

[apes3978]

BTW, TRIVIA ...... did you know that guy (the 500 year old guy) in real life is Tyne Daly's father ?

BTW, more trivia: Not only was he the "500 year old guy" in that episode, he also played Honorius in Planet of the Apes...

[The Bat]

I too...like to see Alien's! My Favorite Episode's are:

Arena
Space Seed
Balance of Terror
Amok Time(Vulcan's are Alien's)
The Enemy Within
Let that be Your Last Battlefield
Day of the Dove
Journey to Babel(Andorian & Sarek!)
The Gamester's of Triskelion
The Enterprise Incident
What Little Girl's are Made Of
Pattern's of Force(I know...no Alien's)
City on the Edge of Forever

And too many more to list!

[Earth 2 Chris]

When I was a kid I didn't like the episodes where they never left the ship. I liked it much when they beamed down to an alien world. Now, I tend to like the ship-centric ones better. They seem to hold up better than many of the alien world epsidodes. "Balance of Terror" and "The Corbomite Manuever" are good examples of this.

One of my favorites that doesn't get a lot of love (and is from the third season) is "Spectre of the Gun". The half sets, and dead serious Earps and Holiday make for an eerie story. Likw Kirk and crew are trapped in some western Hell. It works really well.

And a guilty pleasure is "The Paradise Syndrome". The location shooting makes this one work. If it had been on a sound stage it would have had no weight to it at all. I totally bought that Kirk would have been just as happy to remain Kirok with Miramanee.

Either her or Edith Keeler should have been with Kirk in the "ribbon"/Nexus in Generations. Missed opportunity there.

Chris

[Mikey]

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Either her or Edith Keeler should have been with Kirk in the "ribbon"/Nexus in Generations. Missed opportunity there.

Chris

I don't think it would have ever happened...... even if the writer thought of it.

Berman clearly HATED the classic series, and if something like that ever was wrote in, Berman would have taken it out.

[palitoy]

Did Berman ever actually come out and say that? I mean that's the feeling I got from the bulk of his product but I was always curious if he ever made that known.

I can't see the good in trying to ignore the thing that inspired the whole following in the first place.

[Mikey]

I'm not sure if he went on record as saying it out loud.......

But the old rumours were, he told Gene from the very start he wasn't a fan of the show--- and Gene said "that's ok"--- Gene thinking, he'd be around forever.

I'm pretty sure Berman didn't start on Trek because he wanted too--- but was assigned there.

After Gene died, a man that wasn't a fan of the show was now in command of the entire franchise.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Developing Enterprise as a show set in Trek's past, with no ties to that past, is a pretty good indicator of what he thought of Classic Trek.

If only they had just done the Sulu series at some point...

Chris

[palitoy]

Developing Enterprise as a show set in Trek's past, with no ties to that past, is a pretty good indicator of what he thought of Classic Trek.

That's what I think did Trek in. Voyager wasn't really packing them in except for existing fans and even they seemed tired of the premise.

Then they launch a series that has similiar issues and undermines continuity, turning off a lot of fans. It just didn't seem to be a wise move.

If only they had just done the Sulu series at some point...

If what is said about Berman is correct, it's understandable why they didn't go this route.

To me it seems like it would have been a big hit, you could have filled in the area between TOS and TNG. Lots of stories could have been mined from this. I mean Tuvok was a part of his crew, man, it had potential.

[txteach]

Worst episode ever-Spocks Brain. EEEWWWW

[palitoy]

Worst episode ever-Spocks Brain. EEEWWWW

yeah but so entertaining in a "Plan 9" kind of way, i cannot look away.

[Mikey]

Spock's Brain was more of a communication breakdown or a possible sabotage of the show.....

In short. it was written as a comedy by the two Gene's ..... Coon under his alias Lee Cronin.

New producer Freiberger deamed the script not appropriate for a Star Trek episode.

Instead of just using another story, Spock's Brain was re-written as "serious".

I almost believe this was an attempt by Gene to sabotage the show--- considering it's the first episode of season-3 ....... fresh off the heels of Roddenberry going from producer to ex. producer--- which, in other words means he basically did nothing.

[thunderbolt]

Don't know all the titles, but I liked the Gangster one, the Nazi one, the one with Spock's dad and the Andorian spy. Anything with Romulans and Klingons. Ohh, and the big space log that eats ships.

[Steeler80]

I love Devil in the Dark
Amok Time
Journey to Babel
Charlie X
Doomsday Machine
Miri (?)

Is there a pattern in all of that?

[The Bat]

ARENA Baby! I loves Me some Gorn!!! Rubber Suit and all...He's one of My FAVORITE Alien's!