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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."
Han shot first.
Ipad and any other tablet is light years ahead of the shit they dreamed up by ST writers. 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. How retarded.
Also notice how the replicator at the time couldn't save your drink or food preferences? Jean Luc always having to state his full tea order every fucking time? There's already an espresso startup operated primarily by machine that will remember your prefs at any location around the world when you order via app.
Remember those away mission flashlights? Just damed horrible, flashlight tech there didn't advance in 300 years. We're already way ahead in 25.
What I never understood about transporters is why there was a transporter room to go to (besides the tech on duty) with site to site transport? WTF?
Star Trek always made rather obvious solutions to existing problems (transport - the get me a to b problem in a century riddled with transport innovations, phaser = advanced gun, communicator = small version of existing and just emerging portable phones, yes even in the 60s) and then wants credit for lazy ideas never fully thought through.
For instance, despite the internet existing since the 70s, TNG still had people swapping music thru data crystals. I guess wifi or its successors isn't a thing. Or IP is really locked down then.
TV writers make really horrible tech evangelists.
"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?
"Identity is under attack." That's utterly meaningless. "Identity" as a sociological concept didn't even exist before the twentieth century; before that, it was a mathematic and philosophic notion of "sameness." Today, this novel concept of "identity" resounds in the political echo chambers and rouses the rabble, and it flourishes like never before in its short history. 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?" Or did Spiner just say something meaningless and vague to sound deep but engage nobody in actual thought?
As Kirk always said: "live long and prosper!". It sure did.
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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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.
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 !!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?)
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.
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!
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.
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How about "Universe Trek Intrepid" (sticking with the acronyms with other meanings)
> Rodenberry said in his book The Making of Star Trek ...
Stephen Whitfield's book, I think you mean.