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In Reply to: RE: Spock now a spook posted by LWR on February 27, 2015 at 09:29:55
You could see his deterioration in his last films. He died before, and was resurrected by Hollywood. The last film with Chris Pine as Kirk, saw his home planet sucked into a black hole. Nimoy, IMO, has had us withdrawing for a few years now.
Rest in power, Leonard.
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on this planet that did not watch Startrek. It never appealed to me, I did enjoy reading Sci-Fi though and devoured it from age 8 0r so onwards.
I got to thinking about why ST never caught on with me and have supposed that it left out the imagination part of reading Sci-Fi and as a kid, listening to all those classic radio shows where you had to imagine what was happening.
On the other hand, I have never gotten involved in sit com shows or nearly anything on TeeVee in the evening stuff. Mindless to the point of clueing you in when to laugh...
Any story by...say...Philip K. Dick... would be better than a life time of Startrek.
If you know what Roddenbury had in mind you might like the show better.
Gene's ORIGINAL sales pitch called Star Trek 'Wagon Train to the stars'.
And taken that way, it was very fine and broke some new ground.
Just comparing the 2 pilots (not one) will clue you in to this idea.
The FIRST pilot was very cerebral and involved mind control and invisible prison walls. NO Kirk, either. Majel Barret was #1, later demoted to head nurse while Spock got the #1 'job'. The Green Woman was pretty darn sexy, too. Maybe TOO sexy for the times!
The SECOND pilot was ALL action / adventure and had Keir Dullea and Sally Kellerman along with the crew as we know it.
The FIRST pilot called 'The Cage' was LATER editied in with NEW footage and shown, IIRC, as a 2-parter during the regular run of the show.
Too much is never enough
but I am not not easily seduced by all that you kindly and laboriously laid out there. First of all, I do not know, had no way to know and have no reason to care what Roddenbury had in mind. Why would, should I have?
I have no clue what wagon train has to do with this either.
To clear this up....
I do not give a crap for that type of TeeVee.
It is the kind of tripe that fascinates those who have no real imagination and need to get it from those who sell crap adverts to them.
Sorry....But Nimoy means nothing to me.
He neither created beauty (on the series) nor knowledge on that series.
He was a good photographer, indeed.
Sort of too bad you have such a narrow view of this.
The 'Wagon Train' deal meant that the show was to be both episodic and easy on the brain and somewhat predictable. You know…….Cowboys and Indians in SPACE.
I met Roddenbury at a Sci Fi convention. After his talk, he was answering questions. One guy asked WHY in the show you had Russians. You had Asians. You had Africans, South Americans and even ALIENS. Why than Don't you have any ARABS on your show? Roddenbury didn't bad an eye when he answered 'Because it's the FUTURE!'
Too much is never enough
Firefly would be my first choice every time. Especially since it has the delectable Jewel Staite in it....
Or it's offshoot, Serenity
Later Gator,
Dave
yes, LIS lost its way pretty quickly. But many teen / adolescents tuned in to watch Angela Cartwright 'age'.
The ONLY episode I can remember ANYTHING about was when 'Robbie the Robot' showed up. Robbie was the very special effect from 'Forbidden Planet', one of the BEST scifi movies of all time.
And the LIS motion picture? One of the WORST EVER. Worse even than Wild Wild West, if that's possible.
Too much is never enough
You are not the only one........................
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