Star Trek: Thread Space 9

[El Barto]

Does the Spock documentary spoil anything for someone who hasn't finished TOS yet?

I'm gonna have to go with yes on that. I haven't seen it, but it's inconceivable that it wouldn't.

[BlobVanDam]

I wouldn't say it spoils anything for TOS, since that doesn't rely on continuity that much, but there's an obvious spoiler for The Wrath of Khan. If you've somehow managed to avoid knowing anything about that movie, then maybe hold off. Otherwise, I don't think it's too spoiler-y. But maybe you'd appreciate it more having seen Nimoy's entire run in Star Trek first.

[Kotowboy]

Simon Pegg tweeted a pic of him and Doug Jung at their laptops with the caption " today..."

I'd love if they announced they're writing Star Trek 4.

The writing was definitely a lot better in Beyond.

[soupytwist]

In relation to The Big Bang Theory being pure arse gravy and Simon Pegg - Did anyone love Spaced?  That was a proper geek show.

[Kotowboy]

In relation to The Big Bang Theory being pure arse gravy and Simon Pegg - Did anyone love Spaced?  That was a proper geek show.

I Loved Spaced.

*actual* pop culture references and nerdy jokes. And NO laugh track.

[Progmetty]

I wouldn't say it spoils anything for TOS, since that doesn't rely on continuity that much, but there's an obvious spoiler for The Wrath of Khan. If you've somehow managed to avoid knowing anything about that movie, then maybe hold off. Otherwise, I don't think it's too spoiler-y. But maybe you'd appreciate it more having seen Nimoy's entire run in Star Trek first.

Yeah actually when I asked if it spoils anything for the TOS I mainly meant the movies with the TOS cast.

[Kotowboy]

I just finished " For The Love Of Spock ".

it was ok. 2 hours was a bit long. I hate any biopic type doc where they focus more on the negative aspects than the positive.

No idea why they do that.

[ReaperKK]

Getting back into watch TOS with "Catspaw"

[Progmetty]

ReaperKK are you planning to watch from this point to the end of TOS?

[ReaperKK]

Yea, I've already made my way through season one so I'm on the second season now. I had to take a break because of moving.

[Kotowboy]

- Bottom one = Enterprise E from First Contact - Nemesis.

- Middle one = Enterprise F - Canon design from Star Trek online MMO RPG. Not bad.

- Top One =  Enterprise G - Fan design from Deviant Art. Real nice actually.

Top one would be massive at that scale. Kirk's original Enterprise would reach from the front of the saucer to the start of the bridge module

[ReaperKK]

I love pics like that. I wonder if there is a pic only that has all the enterprises together to show scale.

[Kotowboy]

I love pics like that. I wonder if there is a pic only that has all the enterprises together to show scale.

I don't know how big NX-01 is but Kirk's 2 ships were about 350m long. Enterprise B and C were only a bit bigger I think and Picard's Enterprises were about 650-750m long.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise < - - - here is some info.

[BlobVanDam]

More casting news for Discovery. I have no strong opinion one way or the other on this.

https://www.startrek.com/article/qapla-discovery-introduces-the-klingons

[Kotowboy]

I read today that Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct Star Trek Nemesis.

If you don't know already - he wrote The Wrath Of Khan, The Voyage Home and The Undiscovered Country and also directed Khan & Country...

He said he would if he could do re-writes.

Paramount said no so he turned it down.

Yeah just say no to the guy who made arguably the THREE BEST Trek Movies ever.

[BlobVanDam]

And now Discovery has a lead. Interesting.

https://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/14/star-trek-discovery-walking-dead-sonequa-martin-green

[Adami]

Aside from Doug Jones and Anthony Rapp, I have no idea who these people are.

And even those two, I barely know them.

Though I can't see Anthony Rapp dedicating multiple seasons to a TV show. So maybe this is a one season crew?

[Progmetty]

What a peice of shit news to add to a peice of shit year I've had heh, I'm getting less and less excited about that new Star Trek show.
Sonequa Martin-Green is an awful awful actress, I'm an avid fan of The Walking Dead and I've been waiting for her character to die for 3 seasons now, every facial expression she does is annoying as shit, her voice, her gestures, aggravating. And she's the lead in Star Trek..
I recall Al Bundy sitting on his couch getting more shitty news, looking up to the heavens and going "Good one"

[BlobVanDam]

I don't like her character in TWD at all either, but I haven't seen her in anything else, so I'm willing to give her a fair chance. And with any luck, her casting in this is indicative of Sasha dying. I don't care what they say, as if they're going to admit if it means she's getting killed off.

[soupytwist]

Heh. 
April : Sasha dies in the finale of The Walking Dead season 7
May : Captain Zombie Sasha goes on a bloody rampage on her new enterprise.

"These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year bloody mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and eat their brains, to boldly go where no zombie (aside from Jason X) has gone before."

[Kotowboy]

SASHA / TASHA ?

[soupytwist]

SASHA / TASHA ?

If Sasha gets killed by Negan then they'll both have died to an bullying egotistical shallow puddle of shit.

[BlobVanDam]

They'll both have died worthless deaths in the worst season of their respective shows.

[Progmetty]

I don't like her character in TWD at all either, but I haven't seen her in anything else, so I'm willing to give her a fair chance.

I'd be less embarrassed if I had group sex with 5 gorillas in a busy zoo than if I admitted to having seen an entire season of a shit show called Once Upon A Time, in which she had a minor role for a few episodes before getting killed off a few weeks after having been announced to play Sasha on TWD. She was just as awful in that show too and that's really difficult to do since that show has at least three gruesomely bad actors, like parody bad.
So yeah, the only way I'll like her as the lead of the new Star Trek show is if she played an alien with a lot of make up to hide her facial expressions and possibly voice modular, hopefully I'm wrong cause I really wanna like that show.

Yea, I've already made my way through season one so I'm on the second season now. I had to take a break because of moving.

The reason I was asking cause I was thinking maybe I'd wait for you to catch up with me, I'm in mid season 3, and then we'll watch and talk about episode as we watch them but then I'm in the middle of a messy move and cannot guarantee regularity on my part.
But anyway whatever episode you watch we can discuss cause season 2 is still fresh in my head 
If you're into podcasts, there's this pretty great one called Mission Log that has reviews every episode. They're two guys that talk a little trivia, poke some fun, a little backstory of the production of every episode, discuss the meanings and how the episode aged,etc. They're currently somewhere in season 5 of TNG so they've already gone through TOS and their archives are here. I've made a ritual out of listening in bed to the podcast of whatever episode I watched earlier that night. These two guys have been commissioned to do this by Roddenberry's son btw.

[BlobVanDam]

I don't like her character in TWD at all either, but I haven't seen her in anything else, so I'm willing to give her a fair chance.

I'd be less embarrassed if I had group sex with 5 gorillas in a busy zoo than if I admitted to having seen an entire season of a shit show called Once Upon A Time, in which she had a minor role for a few episodes before getting killed off a few weeks after having been announced to play Sasha on TWD. She was just as awful in that show too and that's really difficult to do since that show has at least three gruesomely bad actors, like parody bad.
So yeah, the only way I'll like her as the lead of the new Star Trek show is if she played an alien with a lot of make up to hide her facial expressions and possibly voice modular, hopefully I'm wrong cause I really wanna like that show.

Oh shit, I forgot about her being in Once Upon a Time. I was still watching at that point for some reason, and I hated her even more in that.
She won't be playing an alien. The role was meant for a black actress, and I don't think the intent was to cover that up, as they're trying to have a diverse crew, including a gay character. This is set pre-TOS, so I expect the crew of the Discovery to be mostly human, with other ships covering the more alien (ie. the Klingon ship).

[Kotowboy]

Obviously I have 0% problem with a black female lead.

Or a gay character.

I just hope that the new series doesn't go overboard with pandering and include a transexual character just to make sure they don't get angry letters.

[Progmetty]

For the world is Hollow and I have touched the sky.
Well if this isn't the funniest instance of Kirk violating the prime directive, I don't know what is. Not only did he violate it; at one point an admiral actually contacts him on the Enterprise about it.

ADMIRAL [on viewscreen]: Captain Kirk, I sympathise with your wish to stay, but I hope you recognise the necessity that you continue your mission at once.
KIRK: That is a problem, sir.
ADMIRAL [on viewscreen]: Perhaps haven't made myself clear. Let me restate it. You have been relieved of all responsibility for the asteroid ship Yonada. Starfleet Command will take care of the situation. (end of conversation)
SPOCK: I believe it's time to move on.
KIRK: Yes. Those are the orders.

Very next scene, Kirk beams out to Yonada , zero fucks given.
And they don't even address the orders again on the episode heh

[Kotowboy]

Finally completed my Star Trek Movie collection

[PowerSlave]

Finally completed my Star Trek Movie collection

Not sure if anyone noticed, but they got Tim and Allen's names backwards...

[Kotowboy]

Movie artwork / posters ALWAYS do that.

They almost never have the right name above the right person

[Orbert]

Yeah, it's pretty stupid, really.  The order of the names is defined by contracts, so Tim must be first, Sigourney second, and Alan third.  But the picture they decided to use on the cover has them in the opposite order.  How hard would it be to come up with a picture that "matches" the order of the names?  They could just flip that one and it would work fine.

[BlobVanDam]

Finally completed my Star Trek Movie collection

Well Star Trek fans did vote it a better Trek movie than Into Darkness.

[Orbert]

Because it is.

[hefdaddy42]

Because it is.

[Kotowboy]

So it is 2017.

Star Trek The Next Generation's 30th anniversary year !!

It's odd that it follows Star Trek's 50th the very next year.