Anybody a "Star Trek" fan? I mean the original series with Kirk and Spock?

Question

What is you favorite episode? Your favorite character? Am I the only one that loves this '60's TV show?

Answer 1

Of course I love it, and I Mudd had to be my favorite episode (Stella: "Harcorth Fenton Mudd, where have you been? Have you been drinking again?" Harry: "Shutup Stella!" Harry: "Ah yes, Stella was my inspriation to move out deeper into space."). The confuse a robot performance had to be the best part. The movies weren't quite as good as the series, except for the second and last ones.

Star Trek was a groundbreaker. It was the first time that a TV series intelligently handled science fiction. When I was in High School I got all the books and I read and reread them a lot. Later when the cartoon series was produced I was glad to see a come back, but I was kind of disappointed in the plots. They changed the design of the ship slightly (a huge hatch in Engineering that used to be the Warp Reactor, with the Dilitham Crystal Chamber, or an alien defense system on the bridge that blocked the star light window and was only used once, and then there was the "anti-time" universe…please!).

I devoured everything Star Trek. I had the first Star Trek Manual almost memorized. Did you know that its author Franz Joseph bought the rights from Gene Rodenberry for $1.00? When Gene wanted to do “Star Trek the Movie” Joseph refused to sell the rights back to Gene, so he had to completely redesign the ship. I also had the plans to the Enterprise NC1701. I examined those plans in detail, and was disappointed that they weren't detailed enough. It inspired me to start designing my own starship. I even noticed that a piece of “art” in the local museum was actually a print from those deck plans. I haven’t told anyone till now because I do consider it to be high art. I read the making of Star Trek, and the behind the scenes book written by David Gerald (who also wrote “The Trouble with Tribbles” and the cartoon episode ‘More Trouble with Tribbles).

I became a master of the game Star Fleet Battles. When the game was first released I was given a copy so I could be a Gamemaster at a Wargame Convention held at my college. That’s were we learned more about the Andromedaians, the Lyrans, and the Kizinti (they first entered the Star Trek Universe in a cartoon episode written by Larry Niven).

Later when the series STNG came out I was a big fan, but again the movies seemed to let me down a little. I got the new STNG blueprints and the New Technical Manual. I followed the Deep Space 9 episodes, and was enthralled by the war with the Dominion. However, the Voyager series started to let me down. The Ocompouns had only a seven-year life span, but were as well educated as humans. Or how about having people sleep walk from cryogenic suspension, what were they walking Popsicles? In the first episode they gave the measurement of the strength of the antimatter containment field, something that was weaker than an aluminum can of cola, yet was supposed to hold a reaction stronger than a nuclear explosion! I was sorry to see the show die, but it had to before it made things worse.

Have you seen the exhibit at a Las Vegas Hotel? They have models, actual props, uniforms, a whole lot of stuff that is Star Trek. It ends in a gimbals mounted adventure ride, and then dumps you out into a hallway and into Quark’s Bar.

I am just so sad that the series franchise has finally died the big death. Even the novels just don’t seem the same. I followed them for a while, but they just weren’t the same as the series. People say the Star Wars series was so great, but it never really matched Star Trek, not even the first series.

Of all the Star Trek incarnations though I have to admit that STNG was the best. But, it is remarkable how after 30 years the science in Star Trek (even the first one) still holds up. And look at all the stuff it has inspired. The cell phone is just a communicator (including the flip up cover). The DARPA has evenly looked into, and published a paper on how feasible Transporter Technology is. Oh course the first of the most advanced space ships ever designed had to be called Enterprise.

Answer 2

I am a huge Star Trek fan!! I think I actually like the original series better than any of the spin-offs because it's so damn cheesy but so damn good. My favorite episode is the one where they land on this planet ruled by that guy who's got it set up like ancient Greece or Rome and makes Spock have emotions and kiss O'Hura--seeing Spock laugh for the first and only time was hilarious, even though I knew he might die from emotional overload... My favorite character, now, that's a toughie. Every one of them has something very appealing in their makeup--Kirk with his giant dramatic pauses, Spock with his deadpan eyebrow-raising logical self, Bones McCoy with his alcoholic tirades... I also love the episode, which I just saw for the first time like a month or two ago, where Dr. McCoy accidentally injects himself with waaaaay too much of this drug and it makes him go crazy (He runs around screaming "Murderers!! Killers!! You're all murderers!!!") and he jumps through this time window into the early 20th century, and Kirk and Spock have to jump through to find him, and they're trying to act all slick about stealing some clothes off a clothes line and of course get totally busted... it's got Joan Collins in it, and they end up having to let her die so history will stay the same as it was before McCoy jumped through. No, as you can see you are not the only one who loves that show. So stand tall and proud! And live long and prosper, lol.

Answer 3

You are not alone in your appreciation of "Star Trek". My favorite episodes are "Amok Time" and "journey to Babel". "Amok Time" is the episode with Spock going through Ponn Farr and Kirk and Spock fighting to the "death". "Journey to Babel" is the episode with the Enterprise taking the group of delegates to the planet Babel to vote on the admission of Coridan to the Federation. It is also the episode where we meet Spock's parents, Sarek and Amanda. AS you can probably tell my favorite character is Spock. I love his cool intelligence. He can think under pressure and save the day.

I belong STARFLEET, International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. We have over three thousand members in over four hundred chapters.

Answer 4

Since this is really a yes or no question then I will answer simply that way...

YES!!!

as far as the details I don't know that name or episode number of my favorite epsiode..but it is one where the officers go down to a planet dressed in the proper attire of that place and time.... oh wait there are tons of episodes like that...LOL My favorite character is Captain Kirk.... No you are not the only one who loves this 60's tv show... that part of the question is quite dumb...sorry... no other way to describe it...

Answer 5

I am a huge fan of the original Star Trek. As far as I am concerned, it is the best, by far, of any of the versions, that came after it.
The Trouble With Tribbles, would have to be my favorite episode, because of the humor.
Scotty, is my favorite character, because he was an engineer, and so am I.

Answer 6

well since I like the original series too I will say my favorite episode is when kirk,lt. ahora, scoyy and the doctor end up in a parrell universe and meet spocks and the rest of the crew's evil doubles and when there evil double end up on there ship. I dont remember what the episode was called though.

Answer 7

Trust me you're not alone. I love Star Trek, I've always liked Captain Kirk. I'm not sure which is my favorite episode.

Answer 8

Gosh, I grew up with that show! Gene Rodenberry was such a pioneer! My favorite was called 'Shore Leave'. They landed on a planet where all they had to do was imagine something, and it appeared. I think the one with Joan Collins was called 'City on the Edge of Tomorrow'. Trouble With Tribbles' was good, and 'Space Seed' with Ricardo Montalban--the prequel to one of the movies (I think the 2ND). I adored William Shatner then, and I still do! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Answer 9

Yes I like it also. Favorite is when they go back in time to 1930's Chicago. Yeoman Rand is my favorite character, right after Spock.

Answer 10

Yes...The Trouble With Tribbles