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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've read the superb Marc Cushman books "These Are The Voyages..."which are all about the making of ST:TOS.

Gene Roddenberry definitely was not a fan of humor for his series. Gene Coon did like to incorporate some fun in to the scripts.

I was discussing this week with a friend of mine that the brand new sci-fi TV show "The Gifted" was very well done.

He said he would wait for my review & did not intend to watch/record the series.

His reason: Looked too serious with no humor.

Well, it is a dark,grim show & there weren't any laughs in its debut episode.Who knows what further episodes will bring?

I was dismayed at my friend's reaction. To simply skip a potentially good series because it wasn't going to have any laughs seemed trite to me.

So my question to all of you is this: Would you choose not to watch a new sci-fi TV show because you felt it was a series with little or no humor?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I just learned about The Gifted last night when I saw a promo for it while watching The Orville.

The promo stated that critics were calling it "the best Marvel series yet", so I set my DVR for it, and I'll probably download the earlier episodes soon to catch up.

In answer to your question, the only reason I would decline to watch a new series would be because the reviews (especially those by members here on All Sci-Fi) stated that it was a big disappointment. But I certainly wouldn't refuse to watch a series just because somebody said it didn't have enough humor to suit their personal tastes.

As I mentioned earlier, the promo I saw last night for The Gifted aired during The Orville. Ironically, that series suffers from too much humor — and not all of it is successful (putting it politely).
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



Spock and Kirk in Next Gen uniforms.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gene Roddenberry's Memorial Service tribute

This was the tribute video played at Gene Roddenberry's Memorial Service on November 1st, 1991. I've added Jerry Goldsmith's "Ilia's Theme" from the soundtrack to STAR TREK-THE MOTION PICTURE over the piece. .....Robert Meyer Burnett

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Star Trek Alternate Title Intro

This animation is an homage to one of the most groundbreaking sci-fi television shows ever to beam down to Earth. Our goal was to try and capture the essence of what we found most enjoyable from the series for building this faux opening to this classic show.
Narration: William Shatner
Audio: Star Trek (original series opening)
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy
Created by: Gene Roddenberry


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 7:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

______________ A Different Intro...

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Well, when you have a problem in the Star Trek universe, you want to bring your "A" team, right? Shocked
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"The Politics of Star Trek"

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This could have been declaimed by Captain James T. Kirk (played by William Shatner), of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise, who, as literature professor Paul Cantor observes in his essay “Shakespeare in the Original Klingon,” is “a Cold Warrior very much on the model of JFK.” In episodes like “The Omega Glory,” in which Kirk rapturously quotes the preamble to the Constitution, or “Friday’s Child,” where he struggles to outwit the Klingons (stand-ins for the Soviet menace) in negotiations over the resources of a planet modeled on Middle Eastern petroleum states, Kirk stands fixedly, even obstinately, for the principles of universal freedom and against collectivism, ignorance, and passivity. In “Errand of Mercy,” the episode that first introduces the show’s most infamous villains, he cannot comprehend why the placid Organians are willing to let themselves be enslaved by the Klingon Empire. Their pacifism disgusts him. Kirk loves peace, but he recognizes that peace without freedom is not truly peace.

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This clear-headedness had evaporated by December 1991, when the movie sequel Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country appeared, only months after Roddenberry’s death. The previous films had focused on questions of loyalty, friendship, and Spock’s need for feeling to leaven his logic, but this one, written in part by Nimoy, would be the first devoted expressly to political subjects. It comments on the waning of the Cold War by portraying the first steps toward peace with the Klingons. Yet the price of peace, it turns out, is not merely to forgive past crimes, but for the innocent peoples of the galaxy to take the guilt upon themselves.
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