The original series has an endearing flair for the dramatic

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• Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is such a fucking accurate take. Endearing is definitely the best way to phrase it. Who doesn’t love a good ol’ giant green hand grabbing the ship like a fuckin frisbee?

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And it’s the god Apollo, of all things… Haha

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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean… who else would it be? Da Vinci as an immortal being? Hahaha…hah…ha…

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  • Rhaedas@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As campy as that was, even for the crew, I have to think what Spock might say: "Certainly odd, and yet it still has our ship captured." I still love that episode. As a kid the idea of gods being "just" alien visitors far beyond our understanding was genius, and as an adult understanding the much darker side of it that I didn't get as a kid (why Lt. Carolyn Palamas came back to the end scene looking all battered).

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah Stargate was a pretty good show.

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  • Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And telepathic planet devouring Chihuahuas in a lion costume

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• joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gene Roddenberry was a horny bastard.

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  • Haus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I'd go as far as to say "If Gene Roddenberry wasn't such a horny bastard, we'd all be talking about Logan's Run or something.

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    • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Completely agree. Imagine if he got his way when designing the Ferengi. Whenever they’re on screen, huge bulge takes up most of the screen.

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• aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Similar to how TOS movies have sentences for titles and TNG movies have mostly single words.

  …then the Kelvin movies forced the use of Trek as a verb.

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  • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What are you talking about? They didn’t make any TNG movies. I get how you could get mixed up, though, because it was a tragically wasted opportunity, just like how they only ever made three Indiana Jones movies and then stopped forever.

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    • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Interesting. I legit thought First Contact was excellent. I’ve gotten multiple people into Star Trek using that film as the gateway.

      There was a family of the most normal people you can imagine and I showed that film to my friend, their eldest son. The next thing I know they have a cat named Tuvok and are dressing up like away teams for Halloween. It was awesome.

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    • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And some movies are fine the way it is. Like how The Matrix just stands on its own and never had any sequels.

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    • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They did do that long episode with a bigger budget about the guys with bad facelifts. It was kinda like a movie.

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    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good thing they ended Back to the Future with a paradox, thus ensuring there could never be any sequels.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can’t ignore the TNG movies when they gave us scenes like Data hating a drink and asking for more.

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  • AlolanYoda@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait… So it’s Star: Trek Into Darkness and Star: Trek Beyond?? That makes so much sense

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To be fair, TNG has “the light within” which is a very dramatic title that doesn’t tell you much about the episode. If it followed the formula described here it would be like “flute” or “flash” or “in another life”

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  • Tavarin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Isn’t it called The Inner Light, which does somewhat describe Picard’s situation.

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah you’re right. Thats what I get for just going from my dumb memory.

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• teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Inner Light is about that time Picard caught COVID and got sucked into alternative treatment methods via alt-light holodeck programs.

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  • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like… stormlight?

    teehee

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hey, Disaster was a good episode.

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• julianh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meanwhile ds9 episodes are called “Tango” which has nothing to do with the episode, which is about two people beating the shit out each other for 5 years or something and is widely regarded as one of the best episodes in the show.

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