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51 years ago Star Trek: The Original Series premiered on television, setting in motion a franchise that would affect and inspire many people around the world, including myself. While I have both things I like and would prefer to have done differently about the franchise, I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the inspiration it's given me and the effect it's had on me over the years. Star Trek began my love of scifi, being the first series I was exposed to, and was my gateway to other things.
For 35 years I've followed this franchise and will keep doing so as long as they keep making it.
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Seven of Eleven? LOL
I remember sitting down with my father to watch the TOS when it was the ONLY Star Trek. First run episodes, when Jim Kirk was a woman's man, and Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a Network Executive and I can't keep this show alive anymore! Yet, Gene Roddenberry did, for one last season, and then it was gone. No one ever expected it to come back, Leonard Nimoy had gone from Mission: IMPOSSIBLE to a Vulcan Alien with excruciating logic, and was pigeonholed there for the rest of his career, no one knew Sulu was gay nor that Janice Rand was an off screen druggie.
I can't keep up with where it's gone, I haven't watched any of the new movies, and not even all of TNG movies. Who remembers Brent Spiner on Night Court? Who remembers Night Court? Who ever thought Roddenberry's wife would have more characters than anyone else in the series!
Engage!
I remember sitting down with my father to watch the TOS when it was the ONLY Star Trek. First run episodes, when Jim Kirk was a woman's man, and Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a Network Executive and I can't keep this show alive anymore! Yet, Gene Roddenberry did, for one last season, and then it was gone. No one ever expected it to come back, Leonard Nimoy had gone from Mission: IMPOSSIBLE to a Vulcan Alien with excruciating logic, and was pigeonholed there for the rest of his career, no one knew Sulu was gay nor that Janice Rand was an off screen druggie.
I can't keep up with where it's gone, I haven't watched any of the new movies, and not even all of TNG movies. Who remembers Brent Spiner on Night Court? Who remembers Night Court? Who ever thought Roddenberry's wife would have more characters than anyone else in the series!
Engage!
Perfesser, you are correct. Leonard Nimoy played Paris, or The Great Paris, for 49 episodes between 1969 and 1971. I guess when you're as old as I am, you tend to forget, confuse and do all sorts of weird things to your memory.
From IMDB:
PARIS, or THE GREAT PARIS, was an accomplished illusionist and quick-change artist. In fact when the Secretary attended one of his performances in 1969, he realized at once that Paris had a makeup technique vastly superior even to that of the great Rollin Hand--and could speak rings around Hand in whatever voice he cared to imitate.
So that when Rollin Hand quit his position with the Impossible Missions Force sometime in 1969, The Secretary had a no-brainer: to recruit Paris to take over Hand's role as the team's master of disguise. In fact, Paris has played everything from a Japanese kabuki actor to a mobster making him just as valuable as Rollin was.
Two years after he joined the IMF, he resigned abruptly from it. No one has heard from him since. In fact, he and Dana Lambert left The Force in the same year. This suggests the two, quite simply, eloped. Oddly enough, Lisa Casey would join the team and perform both their functions.
From IMDB:
PARIS, or THE GREAT PARIS, was an accomplished illusionist and quick-change artist. In fact when the Secretary attended one of his performances in 1969, he realized at once that Paris had a makeup technique vastly superior even to that of the great Rollin Hand--and could speak rings around Hand in whatever voice he cared to imitate.
So that when Rollin Hand quit his position with the Impossible Missions Force sometime in 1969, The Secretary had a no-brainer: to recruit Paris to take over Hand's role as the team's master of disguise. In fact, Paris has played everything from a Japanese kabuki actor to a mobster making him just as valuable as Rollin was.
Two years after he joined the IMF, he resigned abruptly from it. No one has heard from him since. In fact, he and Dana Lambert left The Force in the same year. This suggests the two, quite simply, eloped. Oddly enough, Lisa Casey would join the team and perform both their functions.
Star Trek, for all its warts, was the first serious sci-fi series that appeared on television. The characters were consistent (even if the tech wasn't) and the way it matter-of-factly put female and non-white characters on the bridge, DARING anyone to claim it couldn't be done, in the midst of the 60's race riots was amazing. Nichelle Nichols tells the story of MLK Jr himself asking her to stick with it, as the Jackie Robinson of television blacks.
Yep. Not a bad little show. Even if its second incarnation had a Lawful Neutral cheese-eating surrender monkey as the captain...
Yep. Not a bad little show. Even if its second incarnation had a Lawful Neutral cheese-eating surrender monkey as the captain...
Star Trek has meant a lot to me over the years. Before I found furry, it was my primary interest. I have so much stuff in my collection, toys, action figures, everything. It's always been a good show and a good franchise, though in some ways I wish it'd evolved a bit faster... It's only after 50 years we finally get a serialized star trek? Honestly I expected way more of it earlier when the 00's started.
Still, jazzed for Discovery and looking forward to boldly go!
Still, jazzed for Discovery and looking forward to boldly go!
Well, Roddenberry actually started production in 1965 for the September, '66 season (they knew the needed a long leeway). The original 1964 pilot The Cage, became parts of the only two-part episode, The Menagerie, midway through Season 1, but the studio had removed and recycled (or just trashed) the scenery and props. For the actual production run, they had to start over from scratch.
That's the truth. They made it up as they went along, and the set design, properties, makeup and techniques they developed became a legacy passed down, as much as Willis H. O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen did in their own times. For instance, Trek fans familiar with the Jefferies tube know it's named for series art director Matt Jefferies.
Okay, this is a HARD one for all your die hard Star Trek fans, but I'll give you a couple of hints.
The following song, "I Remember You", is a Johnny Mercer tune from 1941 for the movie 'The Fleet's In.' This version is by Diana Krall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-6Md1OJTQw
This song was used as 'incidental music' in what Star Trek movie, and it was in a movie, not a television show, and what was the scene. The version in the movie was NOT a vocal song, but 'background music.' The song title and the original music are kind of ironic to the scene in the movie, and may have even been used for those reasons and a VERY subtle joke.
Only die hard Star Trek fans will get this one.
The following song, "I Remember You", is a Johnny Mercer tune from 1941 for the movie 'The Fleet's In.' This version is by Diana Krall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-6Md1OJTQw
This song was used as 'incidental music' in what Star Trek movie, and it was in a movie, not a television show, and what was the scene. The version in the movie was NOT a vocal song, but 'background music.' The song title and the original music are kind of ironic to the scene in the movie, and may have even been used for those reasons and a VERY subtle joke.
Only die hard Star Trek fans will get this one.
You ARE good. Indeed, that is exactly when it was going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3c9wtbQTZ4
it's difficult to hear n the background, but it's there. This video cuts it a bit short
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3c9wtbQTZ4
it's difficult to hear n the background, but it's there. This video cuts it a bit short
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