BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Azizi
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:13 AM

I think that someone needs to crown me the Queen of thread drift.

I will proudly wear that crown on my afro styled hair.


LOL!!

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:17 AM

Your reaffirmation of the often overlooked Truism that there is only one Human race deserves applause Azizi.
In this case I think it justifies thread drift.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 10:51 AM

You are definitely the queen of thread drift, Azizi. ;-D

And you are so right that there is only one Human race.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 08:34 PM

If/when we meet extraterrestrial intelligent creatures, that designation will become more important. Right now we're just kids in a segregated sandbox.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 03:07 PM

And until that time we have...

Taysiders in Space.


Scottish Star Treek.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 05:36 PM

Och, AYYYYYYE!!!! Space like ye've nae seen it before!

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 06:06 PM

And in Spanish... Vamos Tribbles.

Poor Esulu!

Nice ending though.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 07:23 PM

My Gawwwd. Aside from the Klingon, those were the worst attempts at imitating a Spanish or Mexican accent that I have ever heard in my life! Stupefyingly bad, in fact. You cannot speak conversational Spanish less convincingly than that. El Capitano needs to slim down!

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 07:44 PM

It was SUPPOSED to be bad Español. It was from MADTV.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 08:10 PM

Well, they certainly succeeded. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 08:58 PM

"You ken fine ye're gaggin' fer it, ay?"

"Ye've nae chance o' gettin' yer hole. Ye're an android! Ye've cack all knob!"



"Ah g'wan! Dinnae talk pish!"

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 10:11 PM

Har! Har! Not even Shatner can surpass that sort of material. It deserves its own thread, that link.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 10:23 PM

OOp! That should be "Ye've heehaw chance o' gettin' yer hole"

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Nov 12 - 09:49 PM

I'm always a little behind in life, so I'm just now watching the Star Trek Enterprise series. My stepson Josh is a purist, and he doesn't see much good in this series (or anything produced after Star Trek Voyager. But hey, I like this series, and I'm disappointed it ran for only four seasons.


Isn't it time for a new Star Trek series?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Nov 12 - 10:18 PM

Hey, I'm up for it!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 01:17 AM

More politically correct. Less violent.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: GUEST,Blandiver
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 04:08 AM

I watched Star Trek VI (The Undiscovered Country) the other night - and it was quite possibly the worst thing I'd ever seen. There was even a KITCHEN on board The Enterprise - and a real crappy kitchen set it was too - complete with a guy MASHING POTATOES in a large shiny receptacle, itself vaporised by phaser fire leaving mash (& masher) standing stiffly on the work-surface. I mean, do people still mash potatoes in this day & age? Let alone in Stardate 9521.6? Haven't these guys heard of Replicators? Or even Smash?

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 04:21 AM

Believe it or not, some people prefer the taste of freshly prepared food preferably from fresh ingredients. And do they still make Smash? Personally, I prefer the taste of real potatoes.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 04:39 AM

I mashed some last night....with a hand-masher. It's the only way!

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: GUEST,Blandiver
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 06:25 AM

Alomng with bread, we've banned spuds entirely from our kitchen, though might be tempted whilst out & about. There's good mash to be had at your local Havester (The Jubilee in Cleveleys for us) and I'm usually tempted by a few chips from The Chinese Buffet in Preston. Baked spuds are great from the barrows outside The Harris in Preston - sloppy beans 'n' coleslaw! Apart from anything else, domestic spud preparation is too time consuming and / or laborious for the rewards, though a few wee newies boiled on a spring afternoon in a Norfolk vicarage can be just the thing... but all a very long way from the Starship Enterprise, huh?

Here's a thing - maybe they replicate the potatoes (any variety you like - old or new) and then mash 'em... Or maybe Captain Kirk grows them in his holodeck allotment?

And do they still make Smash?

Just checked Google - looks like you can, though I haven't seen it advertised for a while (for all you UK nostalgia fiends THIS is still LOL funny). I used to work with a chap who made Smash up in his mug in the tea break on the shopfloor instead of a cuppa. He mixed it up with a cube of OXO and ate it with a tea spoon. Just the thing for a freezing November day...

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Don Firth
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 02:00 PM

Regarding retro stuff like mashing real potatoes, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, in an age when things like Kindles, Nooks, and such would be rife and far more sophisticated, had a substantial library of real books, which he preferred.

Don Firth

P. S. I can understand this. For example, I would love to get my hands on a Baroque guitar. This would be going "retro" by three to four-hundred years. Baroque guitars have some interesting characteristics that modern guitars don't have.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Nov 12 - 02:16 PM

Picard was hardly the first to appreciate real books.
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Spock gives Kirk a birthday present of an antique hardback copy of A Tale of Two Cities.
The same book (not necessarily physically the same) was also reference in a Deep Space 9 episode.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Nov 12 - 03:20 PM

I believe Harlan Ellison wrote a couple of the first episodes, but quit when he realized how the plots were going to go. After the 3rd or 4th big head with silver hair appearing in space, I agreed with Ellison.


ah...right.. "Ellison has repeatedly criticized how Star Trek creator and producer Gene Roddenberry (and others) rewrote his original script for the 1967 episode "The City on the Edge of Forever"."

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Nov 12 - 05:15 PM

Harlan Ellison was a helluva good writer, but his script for "The City on the Edge of Forever" included a subplot about drug dealing aboard the Enterprise. Roddenberry had several objections to this, including the idea that things like drug addiction would be a thing of the past in the Star Trek universe, especially among Star Fleet personnel. And the subplot had damned little to do with the general thrust of the episode.

Ellison stomped and screamed and spit and pissed and moaned, but Roddenberry wasn't having it, and I think for a couple of very good reasons.

I heard Ellison speak at a Norwescon some years back, then ran into him in the book shop afterwards and chatted with him for a few moments.

He was a cranky, surly little bugger and very full of himself.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Nov 12 - 10:31 PM

About Trek and religion, remember when the proto-vulcan thought Picard was "The Picard" - god - and couldn't figure out if they should start killing people to please Him? And Picard had that great diatribe about not letting them fall into the dark ages of religious belief... you don't get that one in reruns a lot.

Subject: RE: BS: Star Trek Captain before Kirk
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Nov 12 - 10:13 AM

you don't get that one in reruns a lot.
And in the first run on BBC we didn't get the episode "The High Ground" because there was discussion of successful rebellions, and they quoted the "Irish Unification" in 2024.

We got it in the re-runs though (by then it was available on video)