I'm going to start with the films, then the original series followed by TNG. And stop at that point. Hope to be done with a major chunk by the time the new film is out. First up will have to be my favourite of the lot, The Wrath of Khan, followed by the first and the third films. This thread is for me to regularly post my thoughts, but feel free to join in and share your opinions.

My fav Star Trek is the late 60's original series with Kirk and Spock, which you could watch as an exciting Sunday morning show to wake up to, and didn't have stupid soap opera arcs and Dune-lite political angles where you need to know the trade equation with the Romulans and the Ferengi to be with the plot. I liked ST till they got in too much of this world-building bullshit that appeals mainly to slavering masses of mouth-breathing geeks.

Srikanth Panaman wrote:
I'm going to start with the films, then the original series followed by TNG. And stop at that point. Hope to be done with a major chunk by the time the new film is out. First up will have to be my favourite of the lot, The Wrath of Khan, followed by the first and the third films. This thread is for me to regularly post my thoughts, but feel free to join in and share your opinions.

Khan died a few weeks ago.

www.imdb.com/name/nm0001544/

He looks exactly like one of my uncles from chennai.

Khan Noonien Singh is a villain in the fictional Star Trek universe. The character first appeared in the original Star Trek series episode "Space Seed", and then in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. In both cases he was played by Ricardo Montalbán, aged 46 in the original series and 61 in the film. He is generally referred to simply as Khan.

In "Space Seed", Khan was one of a group of genetically engineered "supermen", a tyrant who was defeated in the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s. These supermen had been bred to be free of either mental or physical defects. Khan had been both the most successful and the most benign of the group, ruling western Asia until he was deposed.

ravenus wrote:
My fav Star Trek is the late 60's original series with Kirk and Spock, which you could watch as an exciting Sunday morning show to wake up to, and didn't have stupid soap opera arcs and Dune-lite political angles where you need to know the trade equation with the Romulans and the Ferengi to be with the plot. I liked ST till they got in too much of this world-building bullshit that appeals mainly to slavering masses of mouth-breathing geeks.

The original star trek was the real deal.

the first episode I ever saw was this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_No_Man_Has_Gone_Before

It changed my life forever.

I plan to start with the films and the original series too. But first up I need to finish watching all the Bond films. Going anti-clockwise, I'm at The Living Daylights and intend to finish at Dr No. Up nest is A View to Kill.

I grew up watching both the original (daily) and TNG (weekly). The original was matchless, but TNG was pretty good too.

In related news, Zapp Brannigan is hands down my favourite character from Futurama - Groening, Cohen and Billy West really did their homework.

Even though I haven't seen everything from The Next Generation, I have fond memories of it. Should go back in time soon enough to watch it all over again!

I caught on way too late to Star Trek. The earliest memory I have is one of my Gulf cousins showing me some poster for the original tv series and it looked awesome, and he confirmed that it was indeed the bomb, except for the fact that 'the captain kissed too many girls'.

Next thing I can remember is following TNG and liking the hell out of it. I find Suresh's grumpiness about the twisted plot curious because the only thing I can remember about the factions is Klingons = Confrontational Bastards, Romulans = Sneaky Bastards and Borg = Scary Bastards. I don't remember having too much trouble following the plot, or maybe the finer details went over my head, I don't know. Incidentally, I saw Denise Crosby play a part in Dexter not too long ago. Dang, she looks old - I doubt she'd even be able to seduce Data anymore. My wiener shrivelled a little bit; well, a little bit more than usual, anyway.

I watched a couple of episodes of the original AFTER having watched TNG and just couldn't get into it - Kirk was having some battle with some heavy slow-moving monster on the surface of some planet by chucking thermocol rocks at him and I was like "Whut?". For things like this, where I've missed the 'WOW' factor by something like half a century, I suppose you have to go from the beginning to appreciate it and can't judge it based on a random episode, so maybe someday I'll give it a go.

Never got around to watching Voyager - all I heard about it was "Janeway! Woman power!" and a whole lot of fuss about Jeri Ryan. Wonder if I'll be posting again in 10 years complaining about my wiener shrivelling some more.

I saw the pilot episode of Deep Space Nine, and it involved about half an hour of dream-like sequences where characters explained basic semantics to aliens (who were in human form, so they saved on fx/makeup as well). Hell no!

DS9 and Voyager were both turd, from whatever I saw.

characters explained basic semantics to aliens (who were in human form, so they saved on fx/makeup as well)

Emmanuelle - The Deep Space English Teacher?

Rahul Chacko wrote:
I watched a couple of episodes of the original AFTER having watched TNG and just couldn't get into it - Kirk was having some battle with some heavy slow-moving monster on the surface of some planet by chucking thermocol rocks at him and I was like "Whut?"
You have to remember we were around 5-6 years old when this stuff was being shown on DD. But I say Kirk is still the manliest of the lot.

You know what? I was too young to remember it from DD. Space Station Sigma was on by the time I was old enough. For real Star Trek, I had to wait till Star Plus happened. I'd seen a couple of movies on VHS before the series, so I was super excited when they started showing the old ones on weekdays and TNG on weekends.

I was such a sucker for this space stuff growing up I even watched every episode of Lost in Space.

Yeah, same here. I remember Disney cartoons playing on Sunday mornings, and though I remember scenes from Sigma, I didn't follow the thing. Probably because at that time I was battling with Hindi in school and had no inclination to listen to it on holidays. If I'd watched the original series then, I'd probably be singing a different tune now.

Hmph, I need to get some sci-fi - I don't think I can handle BSG's rinse-and-repeat soapy theatrics anymore. Maybe I'll try Babylon 5 and see if it's any good.

I didn't mean to demean Lost in Space. It kept me hooked every evening, but face it, it's no Dr. Who.

Rahul Chacko wrote:

Hmph, I need to get some sci-fi - I don't think I can handle BSG's rinse-and-repeat soapy theatrics anymore. Maybe I'll try Babylon 5 and see if it's any good.

Any idea about Stargate Atlantis? It seems to be pretty popular among the few TV nerds I know.

Yeah, DD unleashed Space Station Zigma on us to save us the ignominy of becoming Star Trek nerds. God knows we were already on the slippery slope to Trekkiemania, fashioning communicators out of matchboxes with rubber bands and playing 'Star Trek' every evening (I was generally assigned the role of Spock, went 'mad' and got to beat everyone up).

DD in its infinite wisdom realised this didn't bode well for us, pulled the plug and by way of substitution, got the fattest men it could find at the time and fit them into the tightest possible costumes, had a villain called Zakhakoo whose crude head prosthetics were far more repulsive than any actual act of destruction he engineered, a shitty little robot that went around wheezing "Chetawni Chetawni Aage Khatra Hai" and a 'brain bank' that looked a channel of a sewer exclusively devoted to vomit. It was always hilarious watching the obese captain sit next to it in this bargain basement 'Thinker' pose. Anyway, Space Station Zigma drove home the fact that all of this space fantasy was really silly and tawdry and that anybody who liked it was a bit of a fool. It was a shockingly subtle technique.

Since I was exiled from cable when they began to re-run the original Star Trek, I finally managed to catch an episode of TNG and was TOTALLY disappointed. I couldn't believe they'd replaced Kirk who was quite the badass with some bald old fart. He single handedly lowered the tenor of the show, making it seem like it was set in a home for the aged and destitute. I couldn't bear to watch even a single complete episode.