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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 : ANIM8Rfsk
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 20:14:43

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

in article gwT%e.94$R4.31398@news20.bellglobal.com, Amun at
spamblocker@bell.net wrote on 10/2/05 9:07 AM:

> 
> <electrictroy@gmail.com> 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"

Captain, I thought you might find this interesting.
Spock?
Fascinating.
The Jupiter 8.
Conventional internal combustion engine.
You were right about the smog.
But the Jupiter 8?
Mars toothpaste.
Neptune bath salts.
Taken from the names of false gods.


> 
> 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
> 
> 

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