Star Trek: All Generations Thread

[Granny Charmed]

Forgive me folks if there is a thread already.

Im a big Trekkie fan. Since a late teen watching the original series. I have attended conventions and dressed in uniform, even had the pleasure of some young kids thinking I was on the show at one point simply dressed in uniform leaving a convention.

I am holding out for the likes of blu ray sets of the show.

Anybody else a fan here?

Lets share our favorite series and movies and rank them in order. Hows that?

Look forward to hearing your responses everyone.

[Granny Charmed]

Trekkies in the jury

Was it a surefire way to slip out of jury duty? Or just another sign of the apocalypse? Two weeks ago, Barbara Adams, 31, a bindery supervisor from Little Rock, Ark., beamed herself into the national spotlight when she appeared as an alternate juror for the Whitewater trial wearing a Star Trek: The Next Generation uniform, replete with plastic phaser, tricorder, and communicator badge. Her endeavor was cut short, however, when a judge ruled she had violated a gag order by discussing her attire on American Journal and dismissed her from the case.

Throughout the process the juror displayed Vulcan-like stoicism. ”It’s been an ordeal, but I’ve had support from the Alliance and my family,” she says. A lifelong Trekker, Adams had been spotted around town in Trek regalia even before her jury selection. ”Anyone who understands what this uniform represents knows it was not intended to make a mockery of this trial,” she says. ”I’m on a mission to promote the Star Trek ideals. If someone is attracted to [those ideals] by all this publicity, then it was worth it.”

 Adams’ story made its way to Starfleet headquarters itself — i.e., Paramount’s production offices in L.A. ”She reinforces the depth of commitment that people have to the ideals of Star Trek,” says Jonathan Frakes, who’ll direct the next Trek feature, due this November. When asked whether he’d cast the world’s most famous Trekker in the film, Frakes demurred, although he did admit to posting Adams’ photo on his office wall. ”She could have timed this better,” suggests Frakes, ”closer to the release of the movie.”

 www.ew.com/article/1996/03/29/trekkies-jury

A funny story. Gosh I wish I thought of that at my jury duty service back 12 years ago. 

[Melinda Halliwell]

I don't mind Star Trek although am not a fan of it.

There is someone else here called Tim username 'rexandhannah1' who is a massive trekkie fan and Doctor Who one to who has another board with one of the members here 'BettyNewbie' where they talk about Star Trek there also.

[West]

Apr 22, 2016 1:46:32 GMT -5 Granny Charmed said:

Trekkies in the jury

Was it a surefire way to slip out of jury duty? Or just another sign of the apocalypse? Two weeks ago, Barbara Adams, 31, a bindery supervisor from Little Rock, Ark., beamed herself into the national spotlight when she appeared as an alternate juror for the Whitewater trial wearing a Star Trek: The Next Generation uniform, replete with plastic phaser, tricorder, and communicator badge. Her endeavor was cut short, however, when a judge ruled she had violated a gag order by discussing her attire on American Journal and dismissed her from the case.

Throughout the process the juror displayed Vulcan-like stoicism. ”It’s been an ordeal, but I’ve had support from the Alliance and my family,” she says. A lifelong Trekker, Adams had been spotted around town in Trek regalia even before her jury selection. ”Anyone who understands what this uniform represents knows it was not intended to make a mockery of this trial,” she says. ”I’m on a mission to promote the Star Trek ideals. If someone is attracted to [those ideals] by all this publicity, then it was worth it.”

 Adams’ story made its way to Starfleet headquarters itself — i.e., Paramount’s production offices in L.A. ”She reinforces the depth of commitment that people have to the ideals of Star Trek,” says Jonathan Frakes, who’ll direct the next Trek feature, due this November. When asked whether he’d cast the world’s most famous Trekker in the film, Frakes demurred, although he did admit to posting Adams’ photo on his office wall. ”She could have timed this better,” suggests Frakes, ”closer to the release of the movie.”

 www.ew.com/article/1996/03/29/trekkies-jury

A funny story. Gosh I wish I thought of that at my jury duty service back 12 years ago. 

I am not a Star Trek fan at all. But your story you shared was cool.

Thanks for sharing.

[sol]

Apr 22, 2016 0:53:07 GMT -5 Granny Charmed said:

Forgive me folks if there is a thread already.

Im a big Trekkie fan. Since a late teen watching the original series. I have attended conventions and dressed in uniform, even had the pleasure of some young kids thinking I was on the show at one point simply dressed in uniform leaving a convention.

I am holding out for the likes of blu ray sets of the show.

Anybody else a fan here?

Lets share our favorite series and movies and rank them in order. Hows that?

Look forward to hearing your responses everyone.

My mom's dream was getting married on Enterprise deck!

I grew up with Star Trek, I know the first directive better than my Constitution and I remeber, when I was a little girl, a wonderfu trip with my parents to the Paramount  Studios,  I sat on the captain's chair


Last year, on vacation in Los Angeles, I visited the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park and I saw the Kirk’s Rock, I got excited 

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I visited the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park and I saw the Kirk’s Rock, I got excited

Ah, yes, the place where James T. Kirk fought the Gorn and won.  I would love to go there myself.

[Chrisaholic]

I never watched the original series from 1960ies, yet the following Spin-Offs with The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager.

The Next Generation was interesting for me since I knew Jonathan Frakes from "North & South" as Stanley Hazard. The other two following had some interesting plots and characters, so to speak.

Anyway, I also watched the new movies with a complete new cast and I'm looking forward to the third movie this year!!

[Melinda Halliwell]

For me with Voyager I probably liked Seven and Kes best because they were both complex characters.

[Granny Charmed]

Apr 22, 2016 9:25:46 GMT -5 sol said:

Apr 22, 2016 0:53:07 GMT -5 Granny Charmed said:

Forgive me folks if there is a thread already.

Im a big Trekkie fan. Since a late teen watching the original series. I have attended conventions and dressed in uniform, even had the pleasure of some young kids thinking I was on the show at one point simply dressed in uniform leaving a convention.

I am holding out for the likes of blu ray sets of the show.

Anybody else a fan here?

Lets share our favorite series and movies and rank them in order. Hows that?

Look forward to hearing your responses everyone.

My mom's dream was getting married on Enterprise deck!

I grew up with Star Trek, I know the first directive better than my Constitution and I remeber, when I was a little girl, a wonderfu trip with my parents to the Paramount  Studios,  I sat on the captain's chair


Last year, on vacation in Los Angeles, I visited the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park and I saw the Kirk’s Rock, I got excited 

What a beautiful story sol. ☺


I think you know why the original series will forever be my number 1. I love Voyager second. The Motion Picture (1979) was a dream come true to see a film made at the time.

Anybody here know much about our new series set to begin in 2017.

[Esmeralda]

Apr 22, 2016 0:53:07 GMT -5 Granny Charmed said:

Forgive me folks if there is a thread already.

Im a big Trekkie fan. Since a late teen watching the original series. I have attended conventions and dressed in uniform, even had the pleasure of some young kids thinking I was on the show at one point simply dressed in uniform leaving a convention.

I am holding out for the likes of blu ray sets of the show.

Anybody else a fan here?

Lets share our favorite series and movies and rank them in order. Hows that?

Look forward to hearing your responses everyone.

I'm also a big Star Trek fan, although I was always a Trekker, never a Trekkie, and always just the original series. I could never get into the other versions, although I loved the movie that featured the Next Generation and the death of Kirk. Of the movies themselves, the only one I really liked was "The Voyage Home". Most of the others were too dark or too esoteric for me.

Bones was always my favorite character with Scotty, Sulu and Chekov right behind him; Spock my least-favorite. Yes, even in Star Trek, my opinion was usually different than the more-popular one. I loved Kirk when he didn't have stars in his eyes...that got much too boring, although I love the way that was portrayed in the reboot - Kirk is easily my favorite in the reboot, even if he should have been named George Samuel rather than James Tiberius, since Sam was George's first son.

Speaking of the J.J. Abrams' movies, I thoroughly enjoyed the first one while was thoroughly bored with the second one, just like I was bored with the second Star Trek movie, the one with Khan.

I do wish Charmed could do something like that - pushing it all the way back to when Shax attacked Prue and Piper, and leave Paige, Wyatt, Chris and Billie out of the story...