Star Trek

[Metaliturtle]

Is this the one with Luke and Leia or Gandalf?

[Buster's Uncle]

Yes.

[Metaliturtle]

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[Buster's Uncle]

George Takei Opens Up About Feud With William Shatner
Good Morning America
By MICHAEL ROTHMAN  4 hours ago






"Star Trek" icon George Takei is opening up about his ongoing so-called feud with former co-star William Shatner.

"It’s all coming from Bill. Whenever he needs a little publicity for a project, he pumps up the so-called controversy between us," he told the New York Times Magazine, adding that there's no real tension.

When asked about Shatner, 84, calling Takei "psychotic" seven years ago, he responded, "Two months after my wedding, he went on YouTube and ranted and raved about our not sending him an invitation. We had. If he had an issue, he could have easily just phoned us before the wedding, simple as that. But he didn’t. And the reason he raised that fuss two months later is because he was premiering his new talk show, 'Raw Nerve.'"

The 78-year-old actor said any problems the two have date back to the days of "Star Trek."

"It’s difficult working with someone who is not a team player. The rest of the cast all understand what makes a scene work -- it’s everybody contributing to it. But Bill is a wonderful actor, and he knows it, and he likes to have the camera on him all the time," he said.

Takei did say he doesn't need to forgive Shatner and has already invited him to his new musical "Allegiance," which he wrote about his family's struggles during WWII in an internment camp. It will hit Broadway in November.

Shatner's representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.

https://gma.yahoo.com/george-takei-opens-feud-william-shatner-191939980--abc-news-celebrities.html

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"Also," an impishly smiling Takei added, "he spams up everywhere about how great he is until all conversations are about him.  It's like Ben Kenobi molested the Clown Posse and the baby was born half-vyeh in the 40s."

"The universe was just that revolted," he said.

[Unorthodox]

Guess as good a thread as any.  Been slowly working into Farscape on netflix.  Not bad background noise when I'm working something. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I love the Farscape.  Unpretentious space adventure w/ appealing characters.

[Metaliturtle]

Is this Star Trek?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrG4JnrN5GA

Gandalf is hilarious.

[Valka]

That's cute! Love how they got "Shut up, Wesley" in there.

You mean you're unfamiliar with Star Trek: The Next Generation?

[Metaliturtle]

That's cute! Love how they got "Shut up, Wesley" in there.

You mean you're unfamiliar with Star Trek: The Next Generation?

I'm aware of it but never was able to get into it, not into sci-fi as much as fantasy

[Valka]

Well, there are lots of varieties of Star Trek around, what with 6 TV series, TOS movies, TNG movies, many excellent fan films, and if you're really desperate, there's always the nuTrek crap.

[Metaliturtle]

Well, there are lots of varieties of Star Trek around, what with 6 TV series, TOS movies, TNG movies, many excellent fan films, and if you're really desperate, there's always the nuTrek crap.

Personal favorites?

[Buster's Uncle]

See sig smilie.

Accept no substitutes - literally.

[Valka]

My favorite is, of course, the Original Series (TOS). My second favorite is Voyager, followed by the Animated Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and I don't like Enterprise at all. So that's the TV shows.

Movies... well, in my opinion only the first 4 TOS movies were any good. And I did like the character of Lily Sloane in First Contact. The rest of the movies range from "not very good" to "what a waste of resources it was, making this garbage."

Fan films... There are a lot of them! I tend to follow only a couple of series, though, and both are based on TOS. Phase II/New Voyages has put out quite a lot of fan films, some guest-starring George Takei and Walter Koenig. Those are the better ones, in my estimation. Star Trek Continues hasn't done as many, but the quality of those they have done is top-notch. It looks and feels almost like real Star Trek. There are a couple of other fan film series I've seen, and they go strictly for humor: Stone Trek, which is Star Trek done in the style of the Flintstones, and The Red Shirt Diaries, which is told from the POV of a female red shirt who has, so far, managed to survive.

NuTrek (aka Abramstrek, Abramsverse, JJverse)... if you're into pointless retcons, actors who can't act, plots that make no sense, an Engineering room that looks like a brewery, gratuitous underwear scenes (really, if you don't want the guy to look when you're changing, don't stand there and pose for him when he does sneak a look), completely unprofessional officers (Captain, I know this is a serious mission and we could be killed, but just shut up while I whine at my boyfriend, kthxbai), and blatant ripoffs of what's been done before, in a far superior way with much better actors... well, nuTrek would be for you.

However, TV and movies and fan films are not all that's available. Add in hundreds of novels and fanfic stories that number in... probably the millions (including the terrific Valjiir series, stories and artwork by members of this very forum - see the Valjiir thread for more information ).

[Metaliturtle]

My favorite is, of course, the Original Series (TOS). My second favorite is Voyager, followed by the Animated Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and I don't like Enterprise at all. So that's the TV shows.

Movies... well, in my opinion only the first 4 TOS movies were any good. And I did like the character of Lily Sloane in First Contact. The rest of the movies range from "not very good" to "what a waste of resources it was, making this garbage."

Fan films... There are a lot of them! I tend to follow only a couple of series, though, and both are based on TOS. Phase II/New Voyages has put out quite a lot of fan films, some guest-starring George Takei and Walter Koenig. Those are the better ones, in my estimation. Star Trek Continues hasn't done as many, but the quality of those they have done is top-notch. It looks and feels almost like real Star Trek. There are a couple of other fan film series I've seen, and they go strictly for humor: Stone Trek, which is Star Trek done in the style of the Flintstones, and The Red Shirt Diaries, which is told from the POV of a female red shirt who has, so far, managed to survive.

NuTrek (aka Abramstrek, Abramsverse, JJverse)... if you're into pointless retcons, actors who can't act, plots that make no sense, an Engineering room that looks like a brewery, gratuitous underwear scenes (really, if you don't want the guy to look when you're changing, don't stand there and pose for him when he does sneak a look), completely unprofessional officers (Captain, I know this is a serious mission and we could be killed, but just shut up while I whine at my boyfriend, kthxbai), and blatant ripoffs of what's been done before, in a far superior way with much better actors... well, nuTrek would be for you.

However, TV and movies and fan films are not all that's available. Add in hundreds of novels and fanfic stories that number in... probably the millions (including the terrific Valjiir series, stories and artwork by members of this very forum - see the Valjiir thread for more information ).

See Buncle, this is what should be encouraged, I'm actually gonna watch star trek because of this post.

[Buster's Uncle]

Valka is pure gold.