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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 : Amun
Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 11:31:18

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


"ANIM8Rfsk" <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote in message
news:BF6733A2.552D7%ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net...
> 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.
>

oh oh, was it Jupiter 8.
Could it be after 39 years the mind is going.

Now you got me wondering and I have to rewatch that episode tonight,.....at
least if I can remember to do it.


AMUN

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