Shatner’s hammy style gets a lot of criticism, but in TWOK, note when he’s at his hammiest and when he’s not. The hammiest moment is easily “KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!” But what’s going on here? Kirk has a plan. He already knows that he’s not actually trapped down here, that the Enterprise is coming to the rescue. He has no real…

This so much. I think there’s a problem with our current society that we like to think of ourselves as already enlightened and already futuristic.

This is why I love Trek so hard. And thinking about it, some of the tech imagined by Trek writers now exists in part because they dreamt it up and inspired real engineers to invent them.

“Trying seriously to portray people who had left barbarism behind”

Another one I’d add to the list:

One of my absolute favorite things about #4, and one that stayed around long after Roddenberry’s iron grip had left the show, is characters believing each other. When someone finds a weird phenomenon on the ship and comes to the captain with it, they’re not sent to sick bay for hallucinating, the crew investigates…

An addendum to points #3 and #4: earnest hopefulness. That the characters on the show truly believe that they can make the universe better through cooperation and mutual understanding that really sets the franchise apart. Even the grimiest series in the franchise—DS9—had wistful optimism that many other scifi series…

This is so important. I feel like the pervasiveness of distopian future imaginings stains and infects our collective subconscious. If everyone expects a grim future as inevitable, greater allowances will be made for things that conform to those expectations and it becomes self-fulfilling. We desperately need something…

Not that I’m defending towing companies, but do you really expect any company that tows people for parking violations to have good yelp reviews?

That guy is Charlea Napier, and he was my Dad. I always loved watching this role on VHS and he would like to play thia song in his study that we built onto the side of our house. We lived way up in the mountains and I was always interested in NASA and Star Trek because we could see the entire milky way with no light…

Yes and no, while there is a "green tinted 60s state of mind" to the original show you should watch other 60s shows to see how far ahead Trek was. Compare Lost in Space to Trek and you'll see the differences.

I don't know. TOS had plenty of shades of grey. Just look at "A Private Little War" or "Conscience of the King" or "Obsession" or "The Enterprise Incident" or "Journey to Babel" . . . .

This:

Bob Breeno, everybody.

This is poetry.

Honestly, wearing those digital clock unis should be enough self-flagellation

I am a bucs fan. I am every drunk right know. So sad. All the pints. Even schiano wasn as bad as this lets all decide to make the bucs not as bad as this. Let's all the teams give them one player that isn't bad. Let's do that

Mostly I think it's interesting!

Go fuck yourself.

"As for myself, although I have no moral or other objections to physical love in any of its many Earthly, alien, and mixed forms, I have always found my best gratification in that creature woman."