I think if they're 15 or 16 it should be fine. A bit younger than that, it's borderline. 11-12, no. But that's me.
I think if they're 15 or 16 it should be fine. A bit younger than that, it's borderline. 11-12, no. But that's me.
I appreciate the advice. I should wait until the series is complete before buying DVDs anyway.
Here are some of the original series that I or the kids have chosen not to watch, for various reasons. I'm not trying to be a prude, but there are just some things I hope not to have to explain just yet. And some of these are just plain bad, if not inappropriate.
Maybe I'll do a greatest hits list the next time I have too much time to think about Star Trek.
"Mudd's Women"
Spoiler:
"The Enemy Within"
Spoiler:
"Return Of The Archons"
Spoiler:
"I, Mudd"
Spoiler:
"Requiem For Methuselah"
Spoiler:
Our kids vetoed two episodes themselves:
"Patterns Of Force"
Spoiler:
"The Gamesters of Triskelion"
Spoiler:
Episodes I would skip if watching myself, but will probably end up watching this time around:
"Metamorphosis"
Spoiler:
"The Empath"
Spoiler:
"And The Children Shall Lead"
Spoiler:
"Turnabout Intruder"
No spoiler for this one, in case anyone wants to check out the short videos below. This was the final episode of the original series, although apparently the cast didn't know that at the time. It's somewhat cringe-worthy from what I remember, but now I think it's essential viewing if only because the excellent web series Star Trek Continues picked up exactly where that episode ended and added a final scene that wasn't in the original.
Yeah- looking back on the history of tv/movies/etc, its a little weird to see just how much writers leaned on "bothering" and attempted bothering as plot points and inciting incidents.
In other news, I saw this the other day and thought that the nerds in this thread might laugh:
The Door Noises Made Us Deaf: An Oral History of Star Trek
-Formerly Stabulator
To your first point, yes, that's true. I just don't want to watch that kind of stuff with my son and daughter until they're older and can better understand it...or maybe not even then. I don't know.
The best (or perhaps worst) example I know of is this 1952 radio episode of Gunsmoke called "The Cabin". People might think that 1950s radio was pretty tame, but there were some very hard episodes of Gunsmoke that dealt with awful things. Sometimes they just came right out and said what it was, but sometimes they'd sort of dance around the subject and let the listener figure things out.
https://archive.org/details/podcast_..._1000125237826
I haven't heard this in quite some time, but as I recall...
Spoiler:
Now that's a tough story.
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It took me more than a quick glance minutes to realize that page is just silliness!
While scrolling down the page, that was the first thing I read that made me say, [Moe Howard voice]Waitaminute, you![/Moe Howard voice]Originally Posted by Matt Jefferies
The real story is in this book, I think, in which someone - maybe Jefferies or Roddenberry - says they were often asked by people who installed real sliding doors how they got the doors on the Enterprise to whisk open and shut so quickly. The answer was they had stage hands on the other side of the wall yanking the doors open.
Wow. I've had this book for forty years. Thanks, Mom and Dad. Somewhere I have a Star Trek beach towel also.
I tend to prefer to be involved in my kid’s 1st contact with something new... watching something new together can be a great conversation starter. I’d rather my daughter talk about it with me and my wife rather than she experiences it alone or with her friends...
Of course, we all have different tolerance levels, maybe you should preview this show before watching with your kids...
Btw, your parents give you presents on Valentine’s Day?!?!? What lovely parents you have?!?!?
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Well, yes, I guess they did back in 1980. The book mentions the first ST movie on the cover, so maybe it was strategically placed near the some store's checkout aisle because the movie was new then. My mother would have known I'd enjoy it. Cover price: $2.50.
It was a fun time to be a kid and a science fiction fan. There were Star Trek reruns on TV and Space: 1999 on PBS and Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers In The 25th Century and even The Incredible Hulk on network TV, plus Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back and Star Trek: The Motion Picture all within a couple of years. And I had a friend my age next door who was into all this stuff plus comic books also. We'd borrow each other's books and talk about this stuff all the time.
The first season of Star Trek: Discovery is going to air on CBS broadcast television in the USA starting this Thursday evening, September 24.
https://www.startrek.com/news/star-t...-to-air-on-cbs
I wonder if it ends up having poor ratings, will they cancel season 2?
*rimshot*
Obviously they're promoting the new third season on their subscription channel, but I saw something that said there's also a lack of new shows due to Covid-19.
As for me, I can't wait to see the ship and uniforms and stuff that were ten years before the original series.
Velour! Zippers! Jackets for the landing party!
Old-style phaser pistols (watch out for overloads) and hand-wired communicators that look like Scotty himself soldered them together down in Engineering!
Groovy V-neck sweaters and turtlenecks!
A console TV in the captain's cabin!
And, most impressively, paper printouts on the bridge to get those urgent news dispatches from Starfleet Command!
Yeah. This is going to be great.
Last edited by George; September 22nd, 2020 at 01:35 PM.