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You all remember that old sci-fi TV series back... Oh... When the hell did that thing run? I seem to remember it popping on about the same timeframe as that BUCK ROGERS series and bout the time that BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was on Earth. Something like 1979 to 1982. I don't think I caught any of the third season episodes. That whole subplot about Dr Lazarus being pregnant with the child of his closest friend Commander Taggart simply because he finally ate Peter Taggart's Rum Cake. Well... I just don't buy that bit about how the hair from Taggart's head being trapped in the rum sauce, then ingested into Lazarus' alien anatomy causing a half Earthling / half citizen of Tev 'Meck. Meanwhile I had a schoolboy crush on Gwen DeMarco something fierce. Her Tawny character almost took the place of Erin Grey, but when she missed out on the last half of the second season cause she got knocked up by that stupid actor playing Lt. Laredo... I hate that bastard. What was his name? Hang on... I'll check IMDB. Ok, it was Tommy Webber. He's the one that got caught in that affair with that foreign floozy, breaking the heart of my dear Tawny. Sigh. Though they were both back for the 3rd season, or so I was told. Does anyone have any of those third season episodes? I missed them all. But man... I can't wait to see this movie. I just hope it doesn't drag like that first STAR TREK movie. Can't believe it's making it to the big screen before Gil Gerard though. Is it true that Jason Nesmith was admitted to the Betty Ford clinic? Well, just to remind you who they are... I included some of my cards from a few years back. Remember "Today is the Tomorrow of Our Yesterdays"? Fucking rocked man.
Confused? Well, 10 to 1, that's going to be the angle that DREAMWORKS is going to want to pitch this flick at us with. Poking a bit of playful fun at the whole Television Sci-Fi series stuff... specifically at Star Trek I believe. Could very well be a fun flick. We'll have to hang on to see. Haven't really heard that much on this one. BTW... that whole opening. It's bullshit. I just decided to have a little fun with the concept of this being a real tv series from yesteryear. It'd be a fun website to create. Create your own episode log, write reviews of them all. Bad scans of the actors, guest spots on FACTS OF LIFE and THE MUPPET SHOW. The whole nine yards. I just hope the film has that sort of fun with it.
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Is that Siggers Weaver or do my eyes decieve? Any way i think it looks cool..
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This could be real good. Should Shame the Star Trek people into re thinking their franchise.
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I have to say that having Tim Allen in this role makes me feel less wary about this project. Alec BAldwin has all the comedic talent of a bagful of drowning kittens.
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I think you got your wish Harry... who setup the IMDB Galaxy Quest TV series info...? nice one....
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In my opinion, the basic problem with ST:TMP is simply that it it feels like they were trying to turn ST into 2001. The effects were brilliant, and must have been amazing on the big screen. But Trek is not 2001. 2001 was haunting, moving. Trek should be exiting, fast moving, Kirk fighting Klingons. ST:TMP simply does not have the right pace, for Trek. The film just drags. Witness the unbelievably long sequence as Kirk approaches the Enterprise. How long does that last for? Must be at least 5 minutes, and nothing happens. And Wise simply didn't have Kubrick's talent for making nothing interesting. I do have to admit, however, that the ending is pure Trek. A human man must have sex with an machine-alien woman in order to save the world. Kirk must have been so proud.
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a pre-empted rip-off of the Hitchhikers Guide film
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And about the approach to the Enterprise: it's about the music, mang! Back in '79, no one had seen the new Enterprise. The original was regarded as a diety in itself and to tamper with its form was close to sacrelige(at least for the creators and fans). They had to slowly wean(WEEN!!!) them off the old design and take a long, savoring swallow of the new. I love the pace of the first ST flick, but then again I also love Kubrick films... I actually hope they DON'T come out with a Hitch-hikers movie. The BBC series was the definitive visual presentation IMHO. That oversize illustrated edition with the shiny cover blew chunks!
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Doesn't that set design look something out of a Star Trek Original Series episode?
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Great TalkBack id! I'm just imagining a 1/8th size version of Darth Maul kicking Qui-Gon's butt! Heh heh heh... :)
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Hi chessiness factor, but at least the uniforms (unlike those Starfleet jobbies) show some cleavage.
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Ive been a Trek fan for 30 years but that doesnt mean I "Dont have a Life".Sure S.T is running out of ideas and they need to reinvent it or get better writers but Voyager is still one of the better written shows on TV today and it seems to be improving every season."Eternal" whos comments were a bit on the grumpy side should tone down his attitude a bit.Why the harsh critial negativity? Wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Lighten up!!!
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It's the fault of Rick Berman and Brannon Braga that Voyager doesn't take any risks. I mean, when Braga was asked about Voyager's next season, he said something like "Why tamper with it? The show is fine. It will just be more of the same fun, high-concept stuff we do every year. Expect nothing new." Get my point? Now Paramount, where are those Goddamned Special Edition DVDs of the Trek films??!!! If you did this 10 years ago for the LDs, maybe we would have more comments and interviews with Gene and De Kelley, now they are no longer with us!
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It reminds me of "Skin of Evil" or something else from TNG first season.
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It looks like they found it in a closet and glued some tentacles to the top of it. When does this movie come out?
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It looks like there's something there that wasn't before. Oh, and my vote for what made ST:TMB stink on ice is a tie between the bald chick and the costume designer that gave us an eyeful of McCoy's man package. We get to gaze upon it when he's first beamed up. Blech.
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In case anyone hasn't been paying close attention Alec Baldwin is the new William Shatner. By graduating to "villanous" roles in such trash masterpieces as THE EDGE and MERCURY RISING Baldwin has finally been able to unleash his long planned Shatner School techniques. Don't beleive me?, just check out his performances in the two aformentioned flics, he IS Shatner right down to the body movements and strange dramatic pauses. This all started in Glenn Gary Glenn Ross with his boundry shattering (for Alec at least) "steak knife" monoluge. His "speech" to Bruce Willis in Mercury rising interrupted by a brutal kick to the chest is one for the mix-tape archives and should be shown when they postumously honor Baldwin with a montage at the Academy Awards 2037. Too bad Harold Ramis didn't get to execute his Shatner/Baldwin master plan by casting Baldwin as Shatner in Galaxy Quest. The studio executivs found out just in time that by casting Shatner as Baldwin... I mean Baldwin as Shatner a rupture would be created in the space time continuum destroying "reality" as we know it -- merging Shatner and Baldwin into one diety-like mega symbiote that would rule the world till the end of time. And also... " please, don't handle the wine".
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I love HHGTTG, but a lot of people (including Douglas Adams, in an offhanded way) seem to think that any and all SF comedies are ripoffs of that book. This looks like one thing and one thing only: a parody of Trek. And a dead-on one at that. (Check out the titles for the episodes, the cheap sets and alien makeup, not to mention the insane plot arcs/behind-the-scenes shenanigans described by Harry...although maybe His Geekiness just made all that up, I can't tell.) This could be truly hilarious--and I'm always glad to see more SF movies set out there, in the great beyond of space, rather than some totalitarian dystopia here on Earth (yawn). The plot for this thing, as I understand it, is: Aliens pick up old episodes of Trek-like show and assume them to be nonfiction, so they kidnap the cast of aging has-beens to help them in their intergalactic war. I just wish Ramis was still attached, I'd rather they'd let Allen go and kept a talented director. Though Allen as Shatner is pretty inspired. I wonder if he'll say, "To Infinity, and Beyond..."?
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They nailed that 'Star Trek' set with the foreground rocks and fake sky background. I'll go!
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I'll make this short and sweet. Tim Allen is not funny. Alec Baldwin is damn funny. Star Trek: the Motion Picture is the one and only film during which I fell asleep in the theater.
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. . .that first papgraph of yours really had me going! I was thinking, "Galaxy Quest?? Where do I remember that from. . ? Was that on after Galactica?" Then I saw the pictures and thought, "hey, wait a minute. . ."
Damn is I a idjit! Still sounds like a cool idea for a flick, though--between the Trekkies, us B5ers and the few remaining Galactica holdouts Allah knows there's pleanty to poke fun at. And yeah, I'm a B5 fan, and I like DS9, too, so bring it on!! I can take it!
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Just to repeat the above poster and say that I too was totally suckered by Harry's little spiel. I read it several times, racking my brain trying to remember this friggin' show, until I scrolled down past the pictures and discovered I'd been hornswaggled. You, Harry Knowles, are the master manipulator. Anyhow, this movie looks like it will be cool. How is it that nobody's been plugging this thing till now?
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The plot for this film looks to be directly lifted from the short-lived miniseries "The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space": Aliens with no concept of fiction watch earth television programs with a literal eye. Trouble occurs in their home system, and their immediate thought is to recruit the hero(es) of the earth-based TV program to deal with the problem. Pretty much sums up both projects ... except where "Captain Zoom" is a (very well-done) parody of 'Flash Gordon', "Galaxy Quest" pokes fun at 'Star Trek'.
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