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Post by the Scribe on Feb 14, 2016 20:52:51 GMT -5
Any fans of the old Star Trek television series might like this. They are trying to stay true to the series and finish the last two years of the 5 year mission but CBS cancelled it in its third season. Check out the homepage. The whole set was recreated using original plans at a Georgia location. Viewing each episode is free. They are well done and they even used music from the original series to fit the new episodes. This is the brainchild and passion of the man who is playing Captain Kirk. startrekcontinues.com/episodes.html The first hour of the following radio interview is with Vic Mignogna (pronounced manana) who plays Captain Kirk and singlehandedly put this whole thing together.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 19, 2016 13:06:42 GMT -5
fond memories:
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Post by erik on Apr 19, 2016 14:47:43 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz:
Actually, Star Trek originally ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969, doing no better than #35 in the Nielsen ratings. Of course, after it went into syndication and became such a huge cult hit, then the movies started happening....
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 25, 2016 14:15:35 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz: Actually, Star Trek originally ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969, doing no better than #35 in the Nielsen ratings. Of course, after it went into syndication and became such a huge cult hit, then the movies started happening.... I always associate Star Trek with Desilu and Desilu with CBS. Star Trek and Desilu both have an interesting history: www.startrekpropauthority.com/2009/01/star-trek-soundstage-at-desilu.htmlMonday, January 19, 2009 The Star Trek Soundstage at Desilu The original Star Trek series was filmed primarily on the Desilu Studios soundstages 9 and 10, located within a large complex of buildings at the north east corner of Gower Ave and Melrose Ave in Los Angeles, California; adjacent to the Paramount Pictures lot. These stages were later renamed 31 and 32 after Desilu merged with Paramount around December, 1967 following its sale to Gulf &Western, the parent company of Paramount. Stage 9, which housed the permanent sets for the Original Series (consisting of the Bridge, Engineering, Sickbay, the Transporter Room and a long curving Corridor of the Enterprise) has a remarkable history of service to the Star Trek franchise. In 1978 it was assigned to the production of Star Trek: Phase II, which witnessed the construction of new sets and screen tests before the project was transitioned from a television series to “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”. Stage 9 was then used for the filming of the Star Trek II, III, and IV feature films; which were released roughly every 2 years during the ‘80s; and was then dedicated to Star Trek: TNG from 1987 to 1994, Star Trek: Voyager from 1994 to 2001 and Enterprise from 2001 to 2005. That is approximately 27 years of continuous usage ending in 2005 and over 30 years of Star Trek service in a 40 year span.
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 8, 2016 15:29:17 GMT -5
STAR TREK TURNS 50 YEARS OLD TODAY!!! variety.com/2016/tv/news/star-trek-anniversary-favorite-episodes-50-years-1201853965/
‘Star Trek’ 50th Anniversary: Cast, Creators, Fans Choose Favorite Episodes
When “Star Trek” premiered 50 years ago today, its reception was colder than the weather outside the Klingon penal colony on Rura Penthe.
“And away we go to another planet for the sci-fi buffs to lick the plate clean,” Variety‘s Sept. 8, 1966 review of the premiere episode, “The Man Trap,” declared. “But there had better be a hefty cargo of them or the Nielsen samplers may come up short.” Predicting doom, it continued, “The opener won’t open up many new frequencies after this sampler.” So not exactly boffo.
The review was typical of the initial response to Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction drama. After a troubled development that saw the initial pilot scrapped and a new one with mostly new characters — the only holdover being Leonard Nimoy’s Spock — created from scratch, “Star Trek” hung on for a short while, renewed for a second, then a third season before being cancelled.
The run was just long enough to create a library that would catch fire years later in syndication, finding a popularity it never achieved in its first window. A TV show that had at best been a moderate success for NBC would spawn four live-action spinoff series — soon to be five with the addition of CBS All Access’ “Star Trek: Discovery” — 13 movies, one animated series, comic books, postage stamps, documentaries, tell-all books, conventions and untold units of prosthetic ears sold. When Nimoy died last year, the White House issued a lengthy statement from President Obama in which he wrote, “I loved Spock.”
The “Star Trek” universe extends far beyond the 79 episodes that aired on NBC from 1966 to 1969. But that series’ impact is still being felt today. For its 50th anniversary, Variety asked several of the stars, writers and fans of “Star Trek” and its offshoots to name their favorite episodes of the original series:
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Post by erik on Sept 8, 2016 18:44:29 GMT -5
You really can't blame Variety for the review they gave Star Trek in its first week on the air, because neither they nor anyone else in the entertainment industry was really all that forward-thinking in the late 1960s. Still, it is indeed a fairly humiliating review.
But then, pretty much from the start, science fiction, fantasy, and horror have rarely done well when it comes to TV series or shows. In my opinion, the only program of this genre that is comparable in terms of cult appeal was The Twilight Zone; and that wasn't a show with recurring characters like Star Trek was. But both shows were not big ratings hits while on network TV (The Twilight Zone originally ran on CBS from 1959 to 1964), gaining a great deal of their followings once they starting running in syndication.
And I also think that, like The Twilight Zone and its creator Red Serling, Star Trek benefitted from its creator Gene Roddenberry's vision and his willingness to have outside writers contribute scripts, among them the great Richard Matheson ("The Enemy Within", which was the fifth episode of the series' first year on the air, airing October 6, 1966).
Like a lot of visionary TV shows and movies from that active time in history, however, they seem visionary really in retrospect, and not necessarily at the time they were brand-new.
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