Star Trek

[Unorthodox]

I'm a fairly decent star wars nerd and don't know where they pulled half those ships from...way too much EU garbage...

[Buster's Uncle]

Way too much videogame garbarge and way too much Babylon Five and Stargate junk.  If we're going to waste time on shows that went away and no longer matter, where's the Blake's 7 ship?  Where's the 'six-mile-long slave ship Gruzap' the Tenctonese of Alien Nation came on?  Where's the Worldship of Starlost?  Where's the United Planets Cruiser C57-D of Forbidden Planet?

Where's Dr. Zarkov's ship, for that matter?  These kids these days got no sense of history.

It's a "station" not a "ship"  ? 

Feh.  I'm asking what everyone who has a look asks.  It had engines, and obviously wasn't too fast in Newtonian space, but it moved and had an FTL drive.  It was built to move around and menace planets that didn't toe the imperial line.  It's a ship.

[Unorthodox]

Love how they just handwave HOW the thing moved, though, don't ya?  We just cut to the next shot where it's around another planet.  A lot of the early "technical" stuff hand waved it too. 

It would dwarf pretty much everything else there, IIUC, probably just too big to put on there. 

(Also of note ROTJ pretty much denounces most of the 'technical' drawings of how the death star works, but that's getting way too nerdy.)

[Geo]

It's a "station" not a "ship"  ?

It is not a moon, that's for sure. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Unreliable narrator - who happened to be proved right.

Love how they just handwave HOW the thing moved, though, don't ya?  We just cut to the next shot where it's around another planet.  A lot of the early "technical" stuff hand waved it too. 

It would dwarf pretty much everything else there, IIUC, probably just too big to put on there. 

(Also of note ROTJ pretty much denounces most of the 'technical' drawings of how the death star works, but that's getting way too nerdy.)

Everything about SW that isn't on the screen is way too nerdy.  Read up on Bobba Fett on Wookipedia sometime.  EU is the very definition of nerdz never ever leaving well enough alone.

[Vishniac]

Way too much... Stargate junk.

Wow!
You're bitter than I thought. I had to go and count them: only 12.
And there weren't even neither the human Prometheus class nor the lantean Destiny from Stargate Universe.

Comparing to the 56 Star Trek...

[Buster's Uncle]

Who's bitter?  You had to count.

[Vishniac]

Before grumbling I prefer to have my facts straight. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I watched Stargate.  I liked Stargate, albeit that I think it wasn't nearly as good as it could have been.  But it's not the sort of show that major lasting fandoms get founded on, and it's gone now.  Several of the shows I named are just as important and influential, and got left out entirely.  The Prometheus was the only ship that made a lot of appearances got shown extensively form the outside, and generally mattered, it not being a spaceship show, by the nature of the thing.   That is all.

[Buster's Uncle]

[Geo]

Why was the cpt runnin' nakid in that episode? 

[Buster's Uncle]

He'd just been in the gym.  It wasn't anything important to the plot or I'd remember more.

[Valka]

If I remember correctly, he was getting a physical from Dr. McCoy and hadn't finished getting dressed before running out into the corridor.

[Buster's Uncle]

That's probably it.  One of those "You're in fine shape, but need a vacation" scenes.

Mylochka says Star Trek is about workaholic Kirk's problems with his job.  There's definitely something to that.

[Buster's Uncle]

How 'Star Trek' Vision of Future Inspired Next Generation Actor LeVar Burton
SPACE.com
by Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer  15 hours ago



Levar Burton as Geordi La Forge in “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”


 
Playing Geordi La Forge on TV's "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was more than just a job to actor LeVar Burton.

Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek," which preceded "The Next Generation", gave Burton a glimpse into a hopeful future as a child growing up during the civil rights movement in the United States. Burton started off as a fan of the venerable TV show, he said last week at the third annual 100 Year Starship symposium, a conference looking at ways to inspire people around the world to get involved in sending humanity to the stars.

"I was a young, black kid growing up in Sacramento, California, hooked on sci-fi," Burton said. "'Star Trek' was one of the few representations of the future that included me. I was really attached to Gene's vision. … 'Star Trek' has always represented that hopeful aspect of this yearning that we have. When I was a kid, that was the present I wanted to live in."

Burton also thinks that science fiction today has a lot to learn from "Star Trek's" vision of the space-faring world of the future: "I wish there were more hope in the science fiction voice," Burton said.

Instead of competing for resources, the residents of the "Star Trek" universe learn how to get along and cooperate, without letting issues of class, gender or economics get in the way for the most part, Burton said.

Burton isn't the only "Star Trek" actor who started off as a fan inspired by the show. Whoopi Goldberg, who played bartender Guinan on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", also remembers watching the original "Star Trek" series when she was growing up in the 1960s.

"Well, when I was 9 years old, 'Star Trek' came on," Goldberg has said, as quoted by startrek.com. "I looked at it, and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, Mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television, and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be."

While 'Star Trek' influenced people around the world, the show's unique brand of science fiction has also greatly influenced some real science being conducted today.

"I was at a conference earlier this year in San Francisco," Burton said. "We are working on geosynchronous architecture in computers that will enable us to maximize the computing power and give us the opportunity to, in real time, do more and complicated computations that would be required for something like a holodeck." On "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the holodeck was a reality simulator that could replicate various environments.

Scientists working with NASA are also looking into warp drive technology, and recently a crowdfunding campaign to create the Scanadu Scout — a medical device like the tricorders used on the show — raised more than $1.5 million on Indiegogo.com.

The TV show is even beloved by scientists working for real-life space agencies. Earlier in September, NASA used a quote and theme music from "Star Trek" to add a little dramatic flare when officials from the agency announced that Voyager 1 became the first object built by humans to reach interstellar space.

http://news.yahoo.com/star-trek-vision-future-inspired-next-generation-actor-114052488.html

They left out Nichelle Nichols's Martin Luther King story.  She was the black lady in Whoopie's story, Dr. King was right, and they didn't even name or picture her in a story that was actually about how much Uhura mattered.  &^%$#@~! Kids these days - no sense of history...