Star Trek: Discovery

[Orang Utan]

I'm amazed it got to season 3, but thank god it did!

Were there only 3 seasons? it seemed to last for the whole of the 90s

 

[cybershot]

Were there only 3 seasons? it seemed to last for the whole of the 90s

7 seasons, the first two were terrible. It only picked up when Roddenberry was less hands on! Go figure.

It didn't get picked up by the BBC until 1991 or something like that, but which time the states were on season 4, the only way to watch here before then was to rent the VHS tapes.

There should have been an 8th season, but they decided to go with making films instead.

 

[Orang Utan]

7 seasons, the first two were terrible. It only picked up when Roddenberry was less hands on! Go figure.

There should have been an 8th season, but they decided to go with making films instead.

Just checked and it was made between 1987 and 1994. Must have been repeated a lot here in the 90s then as it always seemed to be on on Monday nights in my skunk/student years

 

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Just checked and it was made between 1987 and 1994. Must have been repeated a lot here in the 90s then as it always seemed to be on on Monday nights in my skunk/student years

Argh, you posted before I edited my post to include that vital info, so I'll post it again:

It didn't get picked up by the BBC until 1991 or something like that, but which time the states were on season 4, the only way to watch here before then was to rent the VHS tapes.

When Sky picked it up, they went crazy with daily episodes.

 

[editor]

I think I've got episode 6 coming up. It's got to be better than the deeply average stuff I've sat through now.

 

[scifisam]

Just checked and it was made between 1987 and 1994. Must have been repeated a lot here in the 90s then as it always seemed to be on on Monday nights in my skunk/student years

Yeah, it was shown four years behind the UK so was on through most of the nineties.

 

[cybershot]

I think I've got episode 6 coming up. It's got to be better than the deeply average stuff I've sat through now.

I think I felt like you at this point, episode 6 in my book is not great either, however episode 7 is brilliant, and has nothing to do with the actual plot of the whole series... Go figure. It's a proper episode of Star Trek!

The last two episodes are good too, and leaves a nice cliffhanger for January.

Looking back I can see how the series is probably not good for the binge watcher. I'd probably have given up myself if I was binging, yet watching it weekly made those bad episodes enough of a distant memory to watch it again the following week and be mildly excited about it, just because it was Star Trek!

 

[T & P]

It seems a small miracle TNG managed to pull it off. I would imagine hardline Trekkies would have been apprehensive about a sequel to TOS, and I suspect the first episodes would not have allayed their fears. But it certainly got better and batter as the seasons progressed, and imvho had better stories overall and was more gripping than TOS. Also, Picard.

 

[editor]

OK, so episode 7 was actually like a proper Star Trek episode - the sort of thing that Kirk would have been involved in. Much more fun.

 

[DotCommunist]

7 seasons, the first two were terrible. It only picked up when Roddenberry was less hands on! Go figure.

It didn't get picked up by the BBC until 1991 or something like that, but which time the states were on season 4, the only way to watch here before then was to rent the VHS tapes.

There should have been an 8th season, but they decided to go with making films instead.

*warm feelings*

 

[Orang Utan]

Heh, I remember going to a fancy dress party in those days and I was totally lazy about it, so purchased a Mars Bar on the way, placing it, still wrapped, on my forehead, when asked who i'd come as

 

[DotCommunist]

OK, so episode 7 was actually like a proper Star Trek episode - the sort of thing that Kirk would have been involved in. Much more fun.

see, you were flagging at the same point I was. Its 'star trek chance' and nostalgia credits were running low, but the time loop one does the job. This klingon stuff needs putting to bed tho. Such a wank idea to have them wearing masks. Or what might as well be masks for all the face movement you get

 

[agricola]

7 seasons, the first two were terrible. It only picked up when Roddenberry was less hands on! Go figure.

It didn't get picked up by the BBC until 1991 or something like that, but which time the states were on season 4, the only way to watch here before then was to rent the VHS tapes.

There should have been an 8th season, but they decided to go with making films instead.

Apologies if you've seen this already, but if not here is a very good documentary called "Chaos on the Bridge" (on Netflix) specifically about the goings-on during the first two seasons of TNG. A flavour of it:



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[TheHoodedClaw]

OK, so episode 7 was actually like a proper Star Trek episode - the sort of thing that Kirk would have been involved in. Much more fun.

Definitely worth pushing through to the mid-season finale I reckon

 

[krtek a houby]

4 eps in and I like it. Great leads and looks impressive.

 

[krtek a houby]

I did not expect this

Star Trek: Quentin Tarantino has pitched idea for new film

 

[fishfinger]

I did not expect this

Star Trek: Quentin Tarantino has pitched idea for new film

I'm a doctor, not a motherfuckin' bricklayer!

 

[krtek a houby]

 

[Omaplata]

I did not expect this

Star Trek: Quentin Tarantino has pitched idea for new film

QT has talked about this before, if memory serves correct he talked about remaking classic episodes as films. I would have loved some kirk/spock/bones bickering QT style.

 

[Orang Utan]

A couple of years ago, he said on the Nerdist podcast that he'd like to make longer versions of either: The City on the Edge of Forever - Wikipedia or Yesterday's Enterprise - Wikipedia

 

[DotCommunist]

he hasn't made a good film since Jackie Brown but all the same I'd love to see him have a go

 

[T & P]

I did not expect this

Star Trek: Quentin Tarantino has pitched idea for new film

KLINGON, MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?

 

[editor]

Still way too much BATTLE! WAR! EXPLODING SPACESHIPS! and far too few Picard-type intellectual ruminations.

 

[krtek a houby]

Still way too much BATTLE! WAR! EXPLODING SPACESHIPS! and far too few Picard-type intellectual ruminations.

Ruminations are so 90s. Battle! War! etc are very much the zeitgeist.

 

[T & P]

Still way too much BATTLE! WAR! EXPLODING SPACESHIPS! and far too few Picard-type intellectual ruminations.

I don’t think Lorca is the philosophical type tbh

 

[gosub]

Ruminations are so 90s. Battle! War! etc are very much the zeitgeist.

Have a rather than a like. (not disagreeing)

 

[Santino]

Remember when a hostile ship would be threatening the Enterprise and Picard would instantly arrange a meeting in Conference Room 2?

 

[agricola]

Remember when a hostile ship would be threatening the Enterprise and Picard would instantly arrange a meeting in Conference Room 2?

the one in "Ensign Ro" is the best one of those

 

[krtek a houby]

Just finished it - looking fwd to the next 6 eps. I liked the cliffhanger, I'm thinking

Spoiler

stuck in the Delta Quadrandt

or

Spoiler

the mirror universe as hinted at in the thread

 

[Omaplata]

Remember when a hostile ship would be threatening the Enterprise and Picard would instantly arrange a meeting in Conference Room 2?

I remember the glory days! When Den of Geek did a 'revisiting' series on ST:TNG each episode had a 'Time until Meeting' and a brief description of said meeting. Good old days etc.

Revisiting Star Trek TNG: Datalore