quote:I keep meaning to watch TAS just for the fun of it. I didn't even know it existed till a couple of years ago - I guess it must be pretty bad since I've never even heard a whisper of it on TV, and the local affiliates can't stop re-running their favorite 5 episodes of the other series.
How "bad" it is depends on your point of view. If you accept it for its original intention (a kid's cartoon show), then it was fine. If you accept it for what hard-core Trekkies (and Paramount) are trying to tote it as (a canon continuation of the original series' last two years of the five-year mission), then it falls flat.
Now that being said, I would have definitely liked to have seen the Kzinti in Enterprise season Five. Despite the crudity of TAS, there has been a wealth of non-canon speculation about them, and having them actually show up in the series (like the Gorn and Tholians), would give them a legitimacy in the ST universe that they never truly had.
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Ship looks like something Ming The Merciless would captain. Not real great.
My loathing for Kzinti, Catian and anything derived from domestic animals is on record.
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Seconded...though it depends on how well it's realised.
Mind you I just the other day claimed my support for the idea that Berengarians are large flying reptiles, possibly of the fire breathing variety so I don't know how I can justify one and not the other.
As for TAS in general, while there are ELEMENTS of it that are ok. Specifically SOME of the designs (weird shuttles not included) and most of the episode "Yesteryear" (sans the framing story) is perfectly acceptable. But giant clones, doors you hum at to open and backwards universes are out.
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Well, you know...kids show. Also, I think if you're going to make all your aliens look exactly like humans with a bit of makeup, and this one looks like a reptile, and that one looks like a bug, and so on...well you can't really complain if they make them look like domestic animals. It's really more fantasy monsters than scifi aliens.
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quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: Don't forget that one episode where the Enterprise creates an inflatable balloon version of itself.
It's no more ridiculous than an alien culture stealing someone's brain...after that the Enterprise is entitled to go have a nervous breakdown and find comfort in a balloon.
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There's just so much wrong here, more than I can ever list in this one post. Sure, TOS could be just as bad, but at least there wasn't any bad Scooby-Doo animation.
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I want to see this on Adult Swim. Now.
or was that the reason Paramount put it on DVD in the 1st place?
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Y'know, I was thinking the same thing. I mean if they could do for Peewee's Playhouse.
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no way would PeeWee (er?) would allow this. Too many chances to remind everyone about his masterbation habits... what i meant about Parahump is that since they are selling the TOS-A series on DVD's, they probably would not allow a parody series of Star Trek in such a fashion. (does anyone know the story on G4's parody clips with old school ST toy figures? Spock's Casa!
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Umm...What I meant was that if Adult Swim aired PeeWee's Playhouse, then it could also air TOS-A. Masturbation aside, TAS already does a good job of making fun of Trek.
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