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50 years of Star Trek

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Remember how advanced it was, handheld communicators, sick bay monitors, and like. Today with cell phones, modern med equipment it seems so dated.
But I love it none the less.
 
number6 said:
Remember how advanced it was, handheld communicators, sick bay monitors, and like. Today with cell phones, modern med equipment it seems so dated.
But I love it none the less.
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I saw a show some time ago about some of the technology that was inspired by ST. Things like flip phones, flat screen TVs, for example.
 
I remember wanting to skip the end of a high school football game so-as to get home to watch the latest episode!
 
Boink said:
I remember wanting to skip the end of a high school football game so-as to get home to watch the latest episode!
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When watching the old episodes now on Netflix I realize how hokey their "special effects" were. Most of the "aliens" just looked like humans with face paint and weird hair (or remember Gorn - the guy in the big rubber lizard suit?) When they are on some other planet, and you watch on an HD TV, you can tell they are just on a sound stage with a colored background that is supposed to be the alien sky and the rocks all around are painted chunks of styrofoam.

I also chuckle at the fact that, despite the Enterprise often being buffeted around during combat, etc., none of the personnel were ever strapped in - they all sat in what looked like cheap fiberglass kitchen chairs that were not even attached to the floor.

Nevertheless, it was a fun show and still is.
 
Riverside, IA, future birthplace of James T. Kirk.
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https://trekfest.com
 
Probably true of nearly all sci-fis (though "2001" was way ahead of it's time with effects). The Star Trek ones seemed OK back then, but are hokey now.
 
Boink said:
Probably true of nearly all sci-fis (though "2001" was way ahead of it's time with effects). The Star Trek ones seemed OK back then, but are hokey now.
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They probably seemed ok due to the very low resolution TVs we were watching back then.
 
Boink said:
Probably true of nearly all sci-fis (though "2001" was way ahead of it's time with effects). The Star Trek ones seemed OK back then, but are hokey now.
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You think those special effects were hokey, check these out (the front of the rocket ship looks like a flying pig and the sword fight was definitely pre-light saber):

 
I used to think those bucket-heads were scary!
I love the way that show devolves to a good old-fashioned sword-fights. :highly_amused:
 
As hokey as some of the old effects were, I still prefer them to the gratuitous and completely overdone CGI effects we see in a lot of modern Sci-Fi

If you really want to see hokey effects, watch the old episodes of Ultraman.
 
HealeyRick said:
You think those special effects were hokey, check these out (the front of the rocket ship looks like a flying pig and the sword fight was definitely pre-light saber):

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I wonder if that first guy who walks through the door is where they got the idea for 3CPO in Star Wars?
 
HealeyRick said:
You think those special effects were hokey, check these out (the front of the rocket ship looks like a flying pig and the sword fight was definitely pre-light saber):
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Well, that was high tech compared to the first SF film in 1902:

 
I am not sure if any of you remember a Canadian series called The Starlost, it was a great premise, but very hokey FX.
Although it did star Kier Dullea of 2001 fame.
 
And now we take you to 1956:

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Forbidden Planet!


Note the parallels with Shakespeare's The Tempest?

https://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=17255

When I first saw Forbidden Planet, I thought the Id monster was the scariest thing I've ever seen.
 
number6 said:
I am not sure if any of you remember a Canadian series called The Starlost, it was a great premise, but very hokey FX.
Although it did star Kier Dullea of 2001 fame.
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Speaking of 2001, it has long been denied as anything more than coincidence, but if you take the letters HAL and shift each letter right one letter, you get IBM.
 
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