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Star Trek's 50th Anniversary Celebrated at Comic-Con (deadline.com)
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Leonard Nimoy's 59-year-old son released a trailer for his upcoming documentary, For The Love Of Spock. CBS released a video teaser for their upcoming Star Trek: Discovery series. And Schmaltz brewery released a "Trouble With Tribbles" beer.
It was all part of the festivities celebrating the 50th anniversary of CBS's original Star Trek series at this year's Comic-Con festival in San Diego, which culminated with an all-star panel of actors from previous Star Trek TV series. William Shatner, Michael Dorn, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, and Scott Bakula all reminisced on the phenomenon of the show's fan culture, with Dorn telling the audience that Apple's iPad was inspired by Star Trek technology. And Brent Spiner told the audience, "We're in a time now where identity is under attack... Politicians could learn from Star Trek."
It was all part of the festivities celebrating the 50th anniversary of CBS's original Star Trek series at this year's Comic-Con festival in San Diego, which culminated with an all-star panel of actors from previous Star Trek TV series. William Shatner, Michael Dorn, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, and Scott Bakula all reminisced on the phenomenon of the show's fan culture, with Dorn telling the audience that Apple's iPad was inspired by Star Trek technology. And Brent Spiner told the audience, "We're in a time now where identity is under attack... Politicians could learn from Star Trek."
"This video is not available. Sorry about that." If I'm right, and this is geofencing, WHY?!
Excuse for why is your room always messy?
As Kirk always said: "live long and prosper!". It sure did.
is why there was a transporter room to go to (besides the tech on duty)
Google for "Chief O'Brien At Work"
What exactly about "identity" is under attack, and how did Roddenbery's dream of a communist future with one militarized government and no form of money conduce to protecting "identity?
I'm a bit puzzled by that one too; perhaps he means the 50% of humanity anonymized by burkas throughout the Mideast and large sections of France.
What exactly about "identity" is under attack
Taleban, ISIS and other religious and ethnic groups are fighting the war against globalism to protect their identity as we speak. Our products, communications and thoughts are all part of the attack. Why? We didn't ask them if they wanted to expose themselves to those.
how did Roddenbery's dream of a communist future with one militarized government and no form of money conduce to protecting "identity?
Global, superior military force can always hit angry minorities into submission, and after few generations of peace nobody remembers there was any trouble or commotion. Then everybody can be themselves as long as they give the nurturing government the chance to save them from the misery of materialistic poverty.
Yes and that video must ONLY be viewed by Americans for some reason. Now that you've admitted to what is clearly a felony, prepare for extradition.
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Maybe it's just me (a trans female) or maybe I just hope it is this but perhaps he's talking about gender identity? With all the anti trans and anti LGBT stuff the right has been pushing especially with the bathroom bills crap.
While the copyright holders are shitting on the franchise? An anti-celebration seems like it makes more sense. I'd show up dressed as a Star Wars character.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
A franchise being milked dry by its IP holder, fans being sued for trying to create something, and mostly being sued for creating something that's better and closer to the core idea of the franchise than its IP holder creates...
What exactly is there to celebrate? Any "real" celebration would probably be snuffed instantly by the IP holders.
In the eternal words of Bones: "It's dead, Jim."
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This is Slashdot. We will have none of that. This is already obvious after just 12 comments.
The summary statement "Politicians could learn from Star Trek" presumes that sociopaths are capable of caring about others. That't not going to happen in the real world.
Outside of Afghanistan and areas controlled by ISIS or the Taliban, burkas aren't common in the Mideast or anywhere else.
ST is dead.Each series has gotten further and further away from the original core concepts, and New Trek is a pile of flashy, pretty turds. The political correctness got too excruciating back in the days of Voyager. I will not be watching the next series. The franchise needs to be left dead. But as long as there's money to be made, CBS will crank out more crap, and further dilute something that was once the greatest ever.
As if any politician anywhere in the real world gives a flying fuck about some stupid American TV show thats only claim to fame is that it deviated slightly from the usual right wing uber capitalist shitshow that regularly flows out from the US.
Wow, there's black and furriners in it and everything !!! And no one works 80 hours a week for $400 and has to depend on welfare ! Commies !!!!
Tech evangelists make horrible TV writers. Obviously 99% of the crews of Star Trek ships could've been automated away, but who wants to watch a TV series about machines? Bad flashlights set mood better. Watching people swap data crystals looks better and clearer and less boring than watching someone send a file over wifi. Etc.
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" In today's saner TV environment it would disappear after three episodes." The same exact thing could be said for Seinfeld.
Good-bye
Han shot *only*
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
They say it was a boring job, but for sure he had to have some holographic internet porn to watch, like Geordi did. See what happens when you're locked up in a tiny vessel like that? This is another reason I doubt that long term space travel is practical. From the looks of things today, even the earth might not be big enough.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Every time I go to London, I see a couple of dozen burka clad people a day - consider the population of London and the fact that in one day I interact with a tiny proportion of that populace and still see burkas on a regular basis and it has to be fairly "common" in London...
It less silly than Lost In Space or ominus as the Outer Limits. Two years before 2001 Space Odyssey and three years before the Moon landing.
(The Salt Monster was like 5th filmed including two pilots)
(One of the 2001 actors was guester star of 2nd pilot)
The Enterprise was a military fascist society with a white guy on top. The WAR types would love a government like that. Ironically the Borg were a total democracy in that every Borg had one vote. Something to consider.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
After trying to get tickets for almost 10 years for my kids with Comic-Cons convoluted system, I gave up.
It was badly written, badly acted and badly thought.
Could be worse.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Rodenberry said in his book The Making of Star Trek that he eschewed shuttles and invented transporters to cut the cost of filming and avoid the extra time it would take to depict a shuttle in the show. Ditto for many of the other devices. Constrast this to the Iron Man movie why they glory in showing expensive FX gizmos.
1. Identify a respected institution. 2. kill it. 3. gut it. 4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
Cramming social justice down the throats of Trek fans against the wishes of George Takei is inexcusable. Boycotting the new movies because of it.
While I love ST and have seen all episodes of all the series and movies, I was quite disappointed on this last one. It showed nothing about any of the Values that ST proposes, or anything about how we should all try to get along and resolve our issues. Something that shows the positive side of humans. It was a bad movies with a bad story with many plot holes and very drab settings, A movie about Revenge? really? Why waste all this time and effort and money into making something like that? While I love Simon Pegg, why is he writing the script and why did no one stop this and make it into something good. Roddenberry would not have approved this. J.J. Abrams as produced should have stopped this. I am quite sure there is better Fan fiction out there than this and so, even I could have written something better. Yes they are off into where no one wants it to go.
It was supposed to be a joke, "first post", typical /. AC, off topic, etc.
"Only" is technically false however.
If you freeze frame at 50:54 of the 1977 version, you can clearly see a blaster shot from Gringo guy, which bounces off the wall to the right of Solo's shoulder and up.
Star Trek Discovery is the new TV show. But STD as an acronym has other meanings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=264s-sFqvTA
All I know at this point is; that new ship is fugly. Seriously, amazingly, massively fugly.
Lets change the name to Star Trek Intrepid.
Oh wait...
Most television has to be done on a budget. Maybe part of the motive to bring Star Trek back to TV is realizing how it can be done on a budget.... Star Trek might also be benefiting from the design work done on the ST movies.
Mod up about about 150
In the 80s/90s shows they are glorified flat, thin text terminals, basically portable versions of 1970s computers. What's worse is that people carry stacks of them, 1 for every report or case or whatever.
The Apple Message Pad (Newton) was state of the art in 1993 with 640K of memory and monochrome LCD screen, which basically portable versions of 1970s computers.
How retarded.
What's retarded is making a comparison out of context. Science fiction is a snapshot in time. Although Star Trek is set in the future, it has frequent references to the 20th century. I wonder if anyone today in the 21st century knows what the significance of 1939 in Germany?
At 50:54 in the Silver Screen Edition of Star Wars, Greedo is DEAD already by about 4 to 5 seconds.
WTF? Who are the marketing geniuses behind this? "Drink Star Trek Beer, just like the kind you DON'T see on the show."
The whole point of Star Trek is to determine how humanity can be the best it can be, and instead, the Federation of Beer (Canada, go figure), wants to sell beer to Star Trek fans. "Ha! Take that you know-it-all nit-picking trekkies! Have a beer and kill those brain cells. Star Wars Rulez, eh!
Because all the early comments that asked difficult questions about the articles and summary and Trek got modded -1, let me rephrase this now in the hopes that the downmodders are done with their tantrum. Spiner said that identity was under attack, but this is an ambiguous statement that could be taken to mean many things. What do you thinkSpinet meant?
I live in Washington DC and i see women wearing them a lot. Especially Northern Virginia.
He did have a hot japanese wife to look forward to banging every night, at least later in TNG (I forget how they met, but that was like the *ONLY* successful relationship in the entire televised Trek universe... and didn't they eventually kill off Keiko in DS9?)
It was supposed to be a joke, "first post", typical /. AC, off topic, etc.
Wasted opportunity, sadly. If you *really* wanted to go for the "funny troll" approach, you should have made your heading "I love Star Trek, but... (Han shot first)". :-)
If I was a woman I'd wear one out there just for the privacy/sun protection/pollution protection.
Also so I could totally be rockin some sexy undies and all that was protecting me from being exposed was that burka :)
I would daresay it was 'geeks' in the sense that geeks are pedantic lib-arts weirdos akin to nerds.
Quite franky none of hacker, nerd, or geek apply to their respective 90s and before groups anyhow, since all you small-minded plebs coopted the terms when it suddenly became cool to be geek-chic, or part of the nerd-herd, as the result of the economic success of the dot com world (which I will also note contained a lot more sociopaths, plagiarists and criminals than actual nerds anyway.)
That's America and globalism for ruining all facets of my identity due to dilution. But eh, that is the march of time for you.
That is how I got tickets/membership my first year, and how me and my dad went the following year.
Mind you I haven't been back since. The appeal of that much commercialized tripe left me in the mid '00s and had previously left me after the one and only Star Trek convention I went to, where everything was overpriced for a couple of 11-12 year old kids.
I'm pretty certain nobody is arguing whether Greedo was killed or not. All you basically confirmed was that either you are watching a different edition of the film, or that the timing and frames are off. In your silver edition, did Greedo fire or not?
Greedo never fired because he was trying to take Han alive since Jabba would pay him more. Unfortunately for him, Han had no ethical restraint in just killing him.
Han shot only.
Different coward here; not sure which "1977" version you're watching, but Greedo doesn't shoot at all.
Star Trek PADDs were much more resilient and could be used with proper sized styluses, unlike the inaccurate capacitive crap we have now.
What if Picard drank other types of teas? Every time he said "tea", he would just get Earl Grey and would have to redo the whole thing.
We are? Torches haven't evolved much at all in real life, why should they for the show? A light is a light.
They didn't start doing site to site transports until TNG. My best guess is that site to site has a limited range and can't transport as quickly. No matter what, it is a technology that we don't have and probably will never have.
Phasers are far more advanced than anything we have. So are communicators since they don't need mobile phone towers, satellites or anything else to work over vast distances (ie. across a whole planet or across a solar system). BTW, they didn't claim credit, Motorola was the first company with a flip phone and they took the idea from Star Trek.
Data crystals can hold more than the entirety of our modern internet. You also have to worry about people spying when you do anything wireless.
Holy crap! They took a 70's design and rendered it with early 90's cgi technology! WTF. Sure it is a very early teaser model, but it should still look better than a rather old PC-game!
And what the hell were they thinking about the title. Star trek series always use abbreviations, ST:D sounds very bad!
Apparently there are no less than 4-5 different editions:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first
Not to mention the bullshit CBS is pulling around the Axanar fan movie.
I choose not to see the train wreck re boot of the franchise after surviving JJ's first Star Trek tryout.
->Capcha: garbages
Ahh yes anecdotal evidence. Now tell me the one about the guy with a hook for a hand.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
you've obviously not been to Leicester or Bradford...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Every time I go to London, I see a couple of dozen burka clad people a day - consider the population of London and the fact that in one day I interact with a tiny proportion of that populace and still see burkas on a regular basis and it has to be fairly "common" in London...
Two different standards there: you see burkas yet interact with some people. How many people do you see vs how many burkas do you see? Not how many people do you interact with versus how many burkas do you see.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
How about "Universe Trek Intrepid" (sticking with the acronyms with other meanings)
Obviously 99% of the crews of Star Trek ships could've been automated away, but who wants to watch a TV series about machines?
It's not that obvious, if you take the Trek universe as a given. There's a bunch of times when the people kept working when the machines didn't, so they clearly were not redundant.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Its not different standards at all - the comment was made that outside of some very specific middle eastern regions, burkas are uncommon, and yet when I go to London burkas are common enough across the entire city for people not to be staring, pointing or treating them as uncommon.
Therefore the prior assertion is total bollocks - burkas may not be the *norm* in London, but they are certainly not "uncommon".
Han shot *solo*
> Rodenberry said in his book The Making of Star Trek ...
Stephen Whitfield's book, I think you mean.