Subj : Re: TNG vs TOS - anybody still think Next Generation sucks? To : rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : Amun Date : Sun Oct 02 2005 13:07:33 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos wrote in message news:1128173640.621796.270710@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > > Meng wrote: > > ToolPackinMama wrote: > > > Mike wrote: > > >> I have a lot of fun watching TOS on DVD. > > > Me too! :) > > > > I'd have a lot more fun if they weren't such shit quality. > > . > > The problem is not the show, but the viewer who is judging the show by > the dated 1960s effects. You probably judge women the same way (by the > size of their breasts). > > Once you grow up, you'll realize it's the woman's *personality* that > matters. Likewise for tv shows, it's the *story* that matters..... and > TOS tells excellent stories. > > troy > That's an outright fallacy. Most of us never even noticed the women in TOS were all gorgeous and all wore costumes that left little to the imagination. Or that the line "brain and brain,...what is brain" would have been equally as memorable no matter who said it. Okay on a more serious note. In the 60's there were no real special effects available, and tv had to rely on actual writing to fill time rather than artificial visual eye candy. No one was looking for walls that moved during fight scenes, or rocks that looked like a kindergarten art project. Nor did anyone expect that years later we would still be hearing about dates of"eugenic (sp) wars" that passed while we are still driving the same cars we did in the 60's. BTW what ever happened to all those flying cars we were supposed to be driving by now ? Or that in one TOS episode was a reference to a Jupiter II car, (ignoring the obvious joke to lost in space) and now we drive "Saturns" Mind you that was one of the things that gave TOS it's own character over the years. The references were always more towards the ideals of the time, not actual real life events. AMUN AMUN .