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GaryB 
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 Posted: August 22 2009 at 09:29 |
I have to agree with npjnpj about some of the cheesy acting (and aliens that look like they're from a low-budget 1950s type B movie) but the original series was in the early sixties when TV special effects were still low level. We didn't know any better at the time and accepted it as it was.
I recall reading that Battlestar Galactica didn't last too long because the special effects were too expensive for a television series.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: August 22 2009 at 10:36 |
 GaryB wrote:
I have to agree with npjnpj about some of the cheesy acting (and aliens that look like they're from a low-budget 1950s type B movie) but the original series was in the early sixties when TV special effects were still low level. We didn't know any better at the time and accepted it as it was.
I recall reading that Battlestar Galactica didn't last too long because the special effects were too expensive for a television series. |
Excuse me excuse me. At the risk of showing my age, the original Star Trek ran in the late '60's. No denying it often had that '50's B movie air about it though. I was on board for the original Battlestar series at it's beginning, but it was turned into a kiddie thing. The new BG is pretty well done.
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akin
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Posted: August 22 2009 at 10:44 |
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Oh, no, once I read in an old MAD magazine that there was a fan that had his retinas burnt after following a 97-hour debate Kirk vs Picard on internet. I hope it doesn´t repeat here.
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: August 22 2009 at 10:47 |
akin wrote:
Oh, no, once I read in an old MAD magazine that there was a fan that had his retinas burnt after following a 97-hour debate Kirk vs Picard on internet. I hope it doesn´t repeat here. |
i am typing this with my eyes shut just in case. 
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GaryB
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Posted: August 22 2009 at 20:16 |
From what I've read, in 1960 Roddenberry started pitching a science fiction series for TV. The pilot was 1965 and the original series started in 1966.
In making my decision, just to be fair, I tried not to throw Kirk and Picard up against each other without their crews. So I thought about Kirk and Crew versus Picard and Crew. Then I considered that the captain is the supreme being on board ship. So, it really does break down to Kirk vs Picard.
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Badabing666
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Posted: August 25 2009 at 16:23 |
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Voting currently 2:1 for TNG! Guess I never saw enough of JLP and his crew to appreciate them, but having grown up with James T, Mr Spock, Bones and Scotty I feel honour bound to give Star Trek my vote.
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JD
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Posted: September 13 2009 at 15:28 |
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First Contact rules !!! Picard so hates those b*****d Borgs. More than Kirk ever hated Khan. But the best single Trek movie moment will always be Kirk yelling KHAAAAN !!!
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crimhead
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Posted: September 17 2009 at 14:08 |
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Jean Luc Ponty gets my vote.
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Negoba
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Posted: September 17 2009 at 14:19 |
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: September 17 2009 at 14:27 |
Talking about the movies or series, my vote is for Capt. Jean Luc Picard.
Patrick Stewart is a serious actor that makes anything easy to believe, Shatner is a good enterteiner but not in the same level.
I also remember his fantastic peformance in Excalibur as Guiniveer's father.
Iván
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Negoba
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Posted: September 17 2009 at 14:31 |
JD wrote:
First Contact rules !!! Picard so hates those b*****d Borgs. More than Kirk ever hated Khan. But the best single Trek movie moment will always be Kirk yelling KHAAAAN !!! |
Any enemy of Khan is an enemy of mine.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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