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Say something positive about: Star Trek: The Original Series

mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited July 2014 in Ten Forward
So this should be an easy one for a lot of folks.

I'll begin like always:

I, Mudd.

'Nuff said. :D
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pwlaughingtrendy wrote:
I remain empathetic to the concerns of my community, but do me a favor and lay off the god damn name calling and petty remarks. It will get you nowhere.
I must admit, respect points to Trendy for laying down the law like that.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    "Charlie, there are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you can't have. It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are." - Kirk

    Folks these days need to hear that...
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  • gholendhorgholendhor Member Posts: 447 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    The best fight music I have ever heard
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    SCOTTY: Well, Captain, er... the Klingons called you a... a tin-plated overbearing, swaggering dictator with delusions of godhood.

    KIRK: Is that all?

    SCOTTY: No, sir. They also compared you with a Denebian slime devil.

    KIRK: I see.

    SCOTTY: And then they said that you were a--

    KIRK: I get the picture, Scotty.

    SCOTTY: Yes, sir.

    KIRK: And after they said all this, that's when you hit the Klingons.

    SCOTTY: No, sir.

    KIRK: ...No?

    SCOTTY: No, sir, I didn't. You told us to avoid trouble.

    KIRK: Oh, yes.

    SCOTTY: And I didn't see that it was worth fighting about. After all, we're big enough to take a few insults. Aren't we?

    KIRK: What was it they said that started the fight?

    SCOTTY: (outraged) They called the Enterprise a garbage scow! Sir.

    KIRK: I see. And... that's when you hit the Klingon?

    SCOTTY: Yes, sir!

    KIRK: You hit the Klingons because they insulted the Enterprise, not because they...

    SCOTTY: Well, sir, this was a matter of pride!

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  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Yeah, that one's a classic. I'm also fond of the part where Scotty explains he beamed the tribbles to the Klingon ship, though I can't remember it off-hand.
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  • hfmuddhfmudd Member Posts: 881 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    "There can be no peace. Don't you see? We've admitted it to ourselves! We're a killer species, it's instinctive. It's the same with you! Your General Order 24."

    "All right. It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands. But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we're not going to kill - today!"
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  • breadandcircusesbreadandcircuses Member Posts: 2,355 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    "What do you call those?"
    "I call them ears."
    "Are you trying to be funny?"
    "Never."
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  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    The Original Cast made the show. The cheesy effects, the hit-or-miss writing, the absurdity of it all just didn't matter. The actors sold it. And it just worked.
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited July 2014
    The Romulan, Tholian, and Gorn episodes.
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
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  • domadamsukdomadamsuk Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Balance of Terror
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    George Takei. Shirtless. Holding a sword.

    Yum.

    I'm heterosexual and I found that attractive. :cool:

    EDIT: Also, both Romulan episodes, and "Day of the Dove". "Arena" was excellent, too.
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    doomsday machine
    T6 Miranda Hero Ship FTW.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    hfmudd wrote: »
    "There can be no peace. Don't you see? We've admitted it to ourselves! We're a killer species, it's instinctive. It's the same with you! Your General Order 24."

    "All right. It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands. But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we're not going to kill - today!"
    I loved "A Taste of Armageddon". :D
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  • annemarie30annemarie30 Member Posts: 2,698 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    What's not to love about gangsters one week and gladiators the next??
    We Want Vic Fontaine
  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    sander233 wrote: »
    The Original Cast made the show. The cheesy effects, the hit-or-miss writing, the absurdity of it all just didn't matter. The actors sold it. And it just worked.

    Well, the actors did a pretty good job (no argument there), but I'd say the scripts they were working with did some of the work too. :P
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  • hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,768 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Constitution-class.......ic
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  • hippiejonhippiejon Member Posts: 1,581 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Capt. Kirk: [narrating]
    Captain's log, no stardate. For us, time does not exist. McCoy, back somewhere in the past, has effected a change in the course of time. All Earth history has been changed. There is no Starship Enterprise. We have only one chance. We have asked the Guardian to show us Earth's history again: Spock and I will go back into time ourselves and attempt to set right whatever it was that McCoy changed.


    City on the Edge of Forever
    To my mind, still the best episode of Trek ever.
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    hippiejon wrote: »
    Capt. Kirk: [narrating]
    Captain's log, no stardate. For us, time does not exist. McCoy, back somewhere in the past, has effected a change in the course of time. All Earth history has been changed. There is no Starship Enterprise. We have only one chance. We have asked the Guardian to show us Earth's history again: Spock and I will go back into time ourselves and attempt to set right whatever it was that McCoy changed.


    City on the Edge of Forever
    To my mind, still the best episode of Trek ever.
    Won two Hugos - one for Best Dramatic Presentation for the episode as shown, one for Best Screenplay for Harlan Ellison's original script (which was, as one might have expected, utterly marvelous, but did not fit within the mold of Star Trek as such).

    It also had:

    "My God, Jim! Do you know what you've done?!?"
    "He knows, Doctor. He knows."
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  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Unless it's already been said: TOS started 'it' all.
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  • majorone1majorone1 Member Posts: 37 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    As a kis I watched TOS first run on TV, my friends and I had half the playground playing Star Trek at recess. Youtune has "Star Trek Continues" now, a fan based professional production deticated to finishing the last 2 years of episodes from the orginal 5 year mission of the orginal series. If anyone hasn't seen it, it well worth a look. The attention to detail from the orginal series will blow your mind. :-) The actor who plays Kirk is spot on Kirk, and he is one of the driving forces behind the new show. Hard not to like the orginal series, after all, without it, we have nothing else that followed would we.
  • yreodredyreodred Member Posts: 3,527 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Spock was soo cool. :cool:
    "...'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured...the first thought forbidden...the first freedom denied--chains us all irrevocably.' ... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. I fear that today--" - (TNG) Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie

    A tale of two Picards
    https://youtu.be/d-f3bscZa0E?t=105
    (also applies to Star Trek in general)
  • grandnaguszek1grandnaguszek1 Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Sexy androids.
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  • hippiejonhippiejon Member Posts: 1,581 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    jonsills wrote: »
    Won two Hugos - one for Best Dramatic Presentation for the episode as shown, one for Best Screenplay for Harlan Ellison's original script (which was, as one might have expected, utterly marvelous, but did not fit within the mold of Star Trek as such).

    It also had:

    "My God, Jim! Do you know what you've done?!?"
    "He knows, Doctor. He knows."


    Yeah, those lines really struck me the first time I watched this episode old enough to understand it.

    I loved the final line to.

    "Let's get the hell out of here."


    City on the Edge of Forever honestly is just plain incredible Sci-Fi/Time Travel storytelling.
  • majorone1majorone1 Member Posts: 37 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    hippiejon wrote: »
    Yeah, those lines really struck me the first time I watched this episode old enough to understand it.

    I loved the final line to.

    "Let's get the hell out of here."


    City on the Edge of Forever honestly is just plain incredible Sci-Fi/Time Travel storytelling.

    Yes, to actually say 'hel'l was something on TV back in the 1960's. :-) Great episode!
  • kestrelliuskestrellius Member Posts: 462 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Easily the best Trek show save DS9, and possibly even better than that. (I still consider DS9 the best despite the fact that many of the characters were awful, and other problems that plagued it, simply because of the series-long arc and the serious nature of the show.) The characters were simply spectacular, Kirk may have been the best captain of all five (again, competing for top spot with Sisko), a unique "feel", good horror, and just generally done excellently all around.
  • hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,768 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    that ship had ample nacelles if you'll pardon the engineering parlance
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  • hfmuddhfmudd Member Posts: 881 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    jonsills wrote: »
    Won two Hugos - one for Best Dramatic Presentation for the episode as shown, one for Best Screenplay for Harlan Ellison's original script (which was, as one might have expected, utterly marvelous, but did not fit within the mold of Star Trek as such).

    It also had:

    "My God, Jim! Do you know what you've done?!?"
    "He knows, Doctor. He knows."


    Edith: "That toolbox was locked with a combination lock and you opened it like a real pro. Why did you do it?"
    Spock: "I needed the fine tools for my radio work. They'd have been returned in the morning."
    Edith: "I'm sorry, I can't..."
    Kirk: "If Mister Spock says that he needs the tools and that they'll be returned tomorrow morning, you can bet your reputation on that, Miss Keeler."
    Edith: "On one condition. Walk me home? I still have a few questions I'd like to ask about you two. Oh, and don't give me that 'questions about little old us?' look. You know as well as I do how out of place you two are around here."
    Spock: "Interesting. Where would you estimate we belong, Miss Keeler?"
    Edith: "You? At his side, as if you've always been there and always will. And you? You belong in another place. I don't know where or how. I'll figure it out eventually."
    Spock: "I'll finish with the furnace."
    Edith: "Captain. Even when he doesn't say it, he does."


    Edith: "Why does Spock call you Captain? Were you in the war together?"
    Kirk: "We served together."
    Edith: "And you don't want to talk about it? Why? Did you do something wrong? Are you afraid of something? Whatever it is, let me help."
    Kirk: "'Let me help.' A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over 'I love you'."
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,602 Community Moderator
    edited July 2014
    Tribbles.
    /thread
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