#original trek

[thebibliosphere]

Nichelle Nichols, trailblazing 'Star Trek' actress, dies at 89

Actress and singer Nichelle Nichols, best known for her groundbreaking portrayal of Lt. Nyota Uhura in "Star Trek: The Original Series," has

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[spockandlode]

Larry Nemecek with Trekkie heroes Betty Joanne “Bjo” and John Trimble, who rain the mail-oriented “Save Star Trek” campaign in the late 1960s, enabling a third season of TOS. They also helped with the campaign to have the first of NASA's space shuttles named Enterprise

[emrinalex]

Is it just my imagination, or does this gentleman look like "Son of Mr. Spock???" Or are Vulcans now modeling high fashion? Because that would be amazing!

[rumpaldi-stardust]

:: watches “Trekkies” ::

Me; :: Lip wibbles ::

::Sees James Doohan interview::

Me: ::: gross sobbing ::  

[metagater]

Star Trek or Babylon Five has better stories?

     Star Trek or Babylon Five has better stories?  I just read comments by a Babylon 5 fan that Star Trek stories were too "black and white".      What do you think?  Were Deep Space Nine's stories simplistically "black and white"?  Was the original Trek series episode City On The Edge Of Forever simplistically black and white?  Or the one in which the Klingons were supplying primitive peoples on some planet with weapons technology equivalent to 18th or 19th century Earth, thereby fundamentally altering the balance of that world's culture and society?  Was the conflict among the Alpha Quadrant powers and the Dominion a "black and white" story or a much more complicated saga?

[midgardian-hero]

I'm going to watch Star Trek (2009) with my sister and we were wondering which episodes of the original series we should watch before we begin.  We're very familiar with TNG, but we don't know much about TOS (aside from the basics).  If there are many inside jokes/references in the movies, we'd like to be in on them.

[rembrandtswife]

What Mark Gatiss was watching when he was eight, or something

I've been re-watching series two of Sherlock with a friend who hadn't seen it yet. We've seen the Woman and the Hounds together, but not yet the Fall.

After seeing "A Scandal in Belgravia" for perhaps the second or third time, I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to think. Is Irene Adler the first person to whom Sherlock has had a sexual response? Is he aroused by her, attracted to her, in love with her? I really don't know. We see Sherlock almost-naked in public, in a childlike and indeed childish way: By going to Buckingham Palace, of all places, not wearing any pants, Sherlock is flouting Mycroft's authority over him--and if Mycroft *is* the British Government, to Sherlock, then the whole of the British Government, even the Royal Family, is just an extension of Mycroft. The Sherlock who shows up at Buckingham Palace in a sheet probably ran stark naked through Mycroft's tea parties with Important People when he was a child--a British version of Calvin sans Hobbes.

Then Irene shows up stark naked and it's definitely not a childish defiance of authority. It is, however, a defiance of Sherlock, of his ability to read people by the little details of their appearance. Irene's clean, sleek, perfectly coiffed nakedness gives nothing away, except her sexual charisma. John is not embarrassed, I think, but he is annoyed, because he thinks her nudity is inappropriate; she's flouting his and Sherlock's authority, in a way, not taking them seriously. And then she gets to wear Sherlock's coat and demonstrate how she's a female double of Sherlock (and if Sherlock is interested in Irene, well, John is still more interested in a male Sherlock than a female one!)

"Hounds", on rewatch, came across as the unholy love child of Original Trek's "The Naked Time" and most of the Monster of the Week episodes of The X-Files. John and Sherlock are roaming the woods at night with flashlights and I kept yelling, "Mulder...! Scully...!" at the screen. Sherlock is channeling Spock growling, "I am in control of my emotions! I am in control of my emotions!" and then John actually *calls* him "Spock", and Sherlock delivers the line which Spock quotes in Undiscovered Country about the impossible and the improbable and attributes to one of his ancestors... it's so fucking meta my head is spinning.

My buddy and I agreed that a Sherlock/XF crossover would be awesome: Scully and John would totally bond like bros over the pain of dealing with tall, big-nosed, full-lipped partners, and probably go off to the shooting range and then have a beer while Sherlock and Mulder have coat-swirling competitions. Could somebody please write this for me? Even just John and Dana--and she would let him call her Dana, I think--shooting at targets and being crack shots and then talking about medicine and forensics and crazy shit and tall crazy partners....