Down on "the planet".
This is a nagging little phrase seemingly uttered often enough that I've noticed it. It would seem to me that people on-board a spacecraft that travels the galaxy and spends time at one of the many known worlds, would refer to those individual planets by proper name. This...
I just noticed another thread here about Apple minimizing end credits for purchased movies. Ugh!
I don't have AppleTV, but I am frustrated about credits for movies and shows getting reduced, and sometimes cut off. I was watching an Amazon showing of THE QUIET PLACE DAY ONE and as soon as the...
I've dipped enough with these films. I love them all, but really, VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-ray, enough! Theatrical editions, special editions, TV versions, Directors' editions, again, enough!
I've got more copies of ST:TMP than I'll ever need or want. V'ger evolves, Spock dies, Spock lives, the...
In addition to STAR TREK, another favorite series is M*A*S*H, and one of my favorite episodes of THAT series is called "Movie Tonight". In that episode, the gang at M*A*S*H 4077 are watching MY DARLING CLEMENTINE and the film and projector keep breaking so they entertain themselves with songs...
Since the series wasn't set in any specific town, it's possible then that the NBC affiliate there delayed the broadcast due to a baseball game or something on a Friday night. That was a common enough occurrence back then, but yeah, it proves that this is all just entertainment and not real life..
Anyone find the font used in the "SHERIFF" sign interesting?
The first few letters, S and H are from a more plain block lettering family. The rest of the word more belongs to the font used for the STAR TREK titles. The "R" and the "F's" are clearly from that STAR TREK font with the up-swept...
As I recall, when "Assignment Earth" was about to air, I'd already known that it was a pilot for a spin-off series. I don't remember where that information came from, probably TV Guide, as that was my main source of information. So, I knew, going in that Robert Lansing was the lead in this new...
I think I've posted this before but this is an old VHS tape of mine. It had the end credits of STAR TREK ("All Our Yesterdays"), a bunch of commercials, and the start of an animated STAR TREK ("The Infinite Vulcan"). You can get an idea of how bad those prints were!
I get those opening trailers too, and am a little more tolerant. It seems to me to be very little different from plopping in a Blu-ray, sitting through screens while the disc boots up, waiting for the menu to load, and then sitting through FBI and/or Interpol screens before the program starts...
I remember being amazed that the series took off in syndication. After the three years of low ratings, almost-cancellations, being buried on Friday nights, it was amazing to see the show flourish when it went to that 7PM syndication hour. In our city, Philadelphia, the show started its...
I've detailed that I started watching STAR TREK from the very beginning on NBC, though I missed most of the first season due to my still-love for BEWITCHED. And by "City On The Edge Of Forever" I became forever hooked to STAR TREK.
I spent that summer of 1967 watching as many first season...
John ("Johnny") Williams wrote two amazing themes for the old KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (known as CRISIS in syndication). There were two versions of the theme, one for each of the two seasons that the show ran. This was one of the earliest hour-long filmed shows in color.
WARNING: This theme and...
I don't own the Blu-rays, but have occasionally watched the streaming versions of episodes of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE in some sort of high-def on Paramount+. They generally look really good, but I continue to be disappointed in the faux stereo sound, and actually prefer to watch and listen to my old...
I file most "number" titles as if they were spelled out, so 2001 gets files in the "T's" as "Two Thousand One", 1941 goes in the "N's" as "Nineteen Forty One."
I'll alphabetize foreign articles just as they are, not that I have all that many.
Criterion titles are just titles and go where they...
This picture is of Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore dancing in their living room. Can anyone identify the episode that it's from? I'm drawing a blank. This image is a scan of the old DVD set lenticular image, which is why it's blurry/doubled. I've found stills from the episode online, but they...
Good idea. There could be shipbound episodes on all sorts of different craft, starships, freighters, space stations, science vessels, survey ships, first contact personnel, etc. And each episode would be a totally new cast, not unlike a TWILIGHT ZONE or an OUTER LIMITS. The catch there would be...
When the original series had been cancelled, we were in that 70s desert with very little new material, and any talk of new episodes always came with the prohibitive costs associated with trying to corral the original cast, I used to think that they should have just done a series with a different...
As a diversion from the current-day STAR TREK stuff, let's step into the Wayback Machine and go back to the time of big, clunky computers, and how STAR TREK even was on the mind of those programmers back then.
Does anyone remember ASCII art? That's where actual printed ASCII characters were put...
This ^ is what it's really all about. The whole STAR TERK mythos is all fiction - made up - concocted. When your mother told you the story of Red Riding Hood, she might have embellished it differently from when your father told the story.
The fact that modern-day storytellers want to embellish...