Any Trekkers Out There?

Medusa said:
While we're talking Trek, does anyone have a favorite doctor from the various series? I'm not familiar with the doctors on, Discovery, Strange New Worlds, or Piccard (if there is one). But of the remaining, older series, my favorite is, "The Doctor" from Voyager, followed closely by Dr. Phlox from Enterprise.
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The doctor on Strange New Worlds is really cool but I haven't identified him as a favorite. Perhaps "Bones" on the original series.
"I've been wanting to try, "Strange New Worlds" as I caught the first couple minutes of the first episode and it looks great. :)"
Go ahead and check it out. I'll be interested in reading what you think. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did and am looking forward to the second season.

@StarSong I never watched Picard (like Medusa..I couldn't get into it), but a couple of people I know really enjoyed it. I've never been a Scott Bakula fan so haven't watched the one he was in.
@Pepper I think Zachary Quinto made a good Spock. I had to get used to the Spock on Strange New Worlds played by Ethan Peck, who happens to be Gregory Peck's grandson.
 

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Hmmm ... I liked Gregory Peck. He'd've made a good Spock! Am also NOT a Scott Bakula fan, in the worst way! But am, of Zachary Quinto. Having said that, me favourite doctor would have to be "The Doctor" from me favourite Trek, Voyager. He had a very droll sense of yumour ... summink that I've bin accused of pretending to fake, de temps en temps. :)
 
OneEyedDiva said:
The doctor on Strange New Worlds is really cool but I haven't identified him as a favorite. Perhaps "Bones" on the original series.
"I've been wanting to try, "Strange New Worlds" as I caught the first couple minutes of the first episode and it looks great. :)"
Go ahead and check it out. I'll be interested in reading what you think. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did and am looking forward to the second season.

@StarSong I never watched Picard (like Medusa..I couldn't get into it), but a couple of people I know really enjoyed it. I've never been a Scott Bakula fan so haven't watched the one he was in.
@Pepper I think Zachary Quinto made a good Spock. I had to get used to the Spock on Strange New Worlds played by Ethan Peck, who happens to be Gregory Peck's grandson.
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I am planning on trying, "Strange New Worlds," very soon and it will be fun to compare notes. :)
 

i am a huge Trek fan, but then i'm a huge SciFi fan since adolescence: Read the classics and Harlan Ellison when he came along. All of Star Trek's incarnations--tho i must admit i didn't watch Enterprise till a couple of years ago.

In his OP @TeeJay said "Personally, I couldn't watch the series, "Enterprise" because it totally messed up the continuity of the whole franchise! For one thing, that particular Enterprise, or it's captain should never have existed in the first place." As i told people who complained about the JJ Abrams' movies messing with the timeline: It is Science Fiction--alternate timelines, dimensions etc come with the territory. To complain about such things is like complaining about the ending to original movie 'The Ghost and Mrs. Muir' (Mrs. Muir dies, and becomes a ghost welcomed to the spirit realm by the Captain.) When the title itself tells you what kind of story it is.
 
re: The Ghost & Mrs. Muir @feywon
Odd you should bring this up, as I've been wondering lately (although you know I'm very intellectually busy!) why, when she died, she didn't reunite with Mr. Muir.

I think there's a movie in that.
 
Daughter and i have been enjoying the latest ones on TV: Discovery, Picard and Strange New Worlds (which spun off Discovery and has a timeline shifting components). Part of the appeal of SNW is that it harks back to the original explore/discover of first series. But then despite the fact that the first Trek fare my DD was exposed to was Next Generation at starting at age 4, she is very culturally literate and well versed in SciFi concepts, tropes etc. We have fun talking about 'What Ifs'. My sons were same way, but they live far away so we can't share viewing like we did when they were at home.

But i'm also a fan of the optimism of Roddenberry's vision for the future. (Tho my own idealism is tempered with pragmatism). i wrote a sociology paper on how the franchise both reflects and inspires attitude shifts in our world. My kids and i enjoyed Babylon 5, and yes @TeeJay we've seen Galaxy Quest and loved it. The ability to laugh at fun poked at favorite fiction is as healthy as the ability to laugh at one's own foibles.
 
Pepper said:
re: The Ghost & Mrs. Muir @feywon
Odd you should bring this up, as I've been wondering lately (although you know I'm very intellectually busy!) why, when she died, she didn't reunite with Mr. Muir.

I think there's a movie in that.
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Oh wow...now i have to find the original movie on somewhere/when so i can watch it again and see if there's some line i've forgotten that might give us a clue. Also have to share your idea with my DD--she might have some ideas about that.

One possibility is to keep in mind the era of the original, while i don't remember details like things she said about Mr. Muir enough to form an opinion, in general it was still a time when fewer marriages were pure 'love' matches, But even if she had felt love for Mr. Muir, it is possible that relationship she built with the Captain in time came to mean more? (Pure speculation--having known people who were 'married off' by families--some worked out--some didn't.)
 
Pepper said:
This is the only one I don't like. Don't care for Scott Bakula. Wasn't he in the original, playing a hippie when the Enterprise time traveled to San Francisco in the '60's? The 3rd year, the last & worst.
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Bakula was born in October of 1954, he would have 15. It is possible the part was so small as to not be credited on IMDb but that source shows his earliest acting role as being in an episode of a Series called 'On Our Own' in 1978.

It is interesting how sometimes our 'feelings' about actors can influence how we feel about a movie or series--tho few are 'one man' shows. Since a young age i've often had kinder feelings towards the sidekicks and auxiliary characters in shows than the 'star' or the 'heart throb' if they weren't one and the same. My tastes in people/characters just aren't that mainstream. My DD much the same, so often we may watch a series for the ensemble actors and the story lines (crucial---stories that entertain or make us think--if they do both---BONUS!) not for the lead--but rarely don't watch because of antipathy, animosity for any of the actors.
 
Much like you and your daughter, my son and I enjoy discussing, well many things, but Star Trek (and Joss Whedon shows) is one of them.

Today we were talking about the Star Trek franchise and the multiple changes in timelines.

I, during the conversation, realized that Spock's timeline was changed, or rather he was given a second timeline, in the first, new, Star Trek movie and that opened the door for his character retroactively having a sister in the, Discovery series.

My son was talking about the many timeline issues in this franchise and I find myself less frustrated about it now.

It was really only the Spock thing that bugged me and I think that is more about my love of Spock than it is about story continuity.

We ended up playing Star Trek Voyager trivia for a few hours, which was a great fun. :) -- It had to be Voyager because, of the four series our boxed set includes, the original, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and Next Generation, he is much more familiar with Deep Space Nine and Next Generation then I am and while I am very familiar with the original, he has never seen it. (GASP LOL) So Voyager was our meeting ground.

I have tried a few episodes of, Strange New Worlds and am not enjoying the acting or the story lines so far. (Sometimes they take a season or so to find themselves.)

I am curious though to see how the connection between Captain Pike and Spock develops as Strange New Worlds is already touching on aspects of their relationship from the original series.

Now that I am no longer hindered by timeline frustration, I think I will give Discovery another try.
 
I don't mind Spock having a not discussed before sister @Medusa. Why not? He-Man had a twin sister Shera that he never knew about who was kidnapped from Eternia as an infant and I believe a spell was put on the family so they would not remember her. My young son & I discussed this a lot about 35+ years ago 🤗
 
Pepper said:
I don't mind Spock having a not discussed before sister @Medusa. Why not? He-Man had a twin sister Shera that he never knew about who was kidnapped from Eternia as an infant and I believe a spell was put on the family so they would not remember her. My young son & I discussed this a lot about 35+ years ago 🤗
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Yeah, I was saying above, after discussion with my son today it occurred to me that the movie made way for an alternate Spock timeline.
 

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