I mostly riff on Original Series Star Trek (and also run @misterleslietos) Occasionally live tweeting #AllStarTrek and #TOSSatNight (mute to avoid logorrhea...)
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Jun 13
Good podcast about the book Inspired Enterprise, which I read last year. So many Trek books have a Hollywood lens but this one gives us the the pocket protector perspective by focusing on Trek ties to NASA, the Rand Corporation, and the Smithsonian.
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THIS VOYAGE, Glen Swanson (no relation to Ron) joins the Treksperts to talk about his book, INSPIRED ENTERPRISE, and how AMT gave us the shuttlecraft. Available now wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Jun 11
Sending Walter Koening warm wishes for a full recovery!
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Subcommander Tal retweeted
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between the food cubes I had for breakfast and the romulan ale I had at lunch I’ve met my recommended daily allowance of food coloring
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I love that moment in Star Trek II when Sulu decides to cue up the VHS tape of Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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“Leonard, what this movie really needs is more long special effects sequences”
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I respect the remastered effects for classic Star Trek: they show restraint and technically it was done to upgrade them for HD. But they don't feel "of a piece" with the rest of the show to me and I like to honor the creative work of the people behind the originals...
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Star Trek, as timeless as it is, was very much a product of the 60's, and all the tangible problem-solving behind the original effects, even when they fall short, just fit with the lighting, the music, and the performances. And sometimes the remastered effects are just worse!
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Subcommander Tal retweeted
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it’s still standard procedure to use a slide rule to calculate stardates
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May 30
if you do the right thing it’s ok to feel good about yourself
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May 27
Spirit Week on board the Enterprise of course included Pajama Day
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May 26
As a dreamy adolescent I used to look at this Hildebrandt illustration and get the same feelings I got from the Rigel 7 matte painting: a sense of wonder and a desire to escape. My teen years are long past, but today as a 50-year-old with chronic pain I looked at it again...
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May 26
Takei used this photo in his autobiography with the caption “Despite our sometimes strained personal history, I found working with Bill as a director to be surprisingly pleasant.” Shatner did make sure the secondary cast had lots to do in STV (even if much of it was cringey).
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May 22
I almost had a heart attack recently when I thought I’d lost my little old Star Trek keychain… I noticed it was missing the other day and figured the memento I bought as a 14-year-old from Waldenbooks in 1989 had fallen off and was gone forever—but eventually it turned up!
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May 22
Walter Koenig’s Chekov was an eager young officer who often provided comic relief. But we see glimpses in Day of the Dove and Mirror, Mirror at how good he was at playing threatening characters. A good example is his gang leader role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Memo From Purgatory…
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May 22
(Sorry for the poor video quality btw). And that episode, Kane plays a young gang leader trying to decide what to do with a writer played by James Caan who’s infiltrated their gang. Koenig had the knack of being small but menacing, kind of like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
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May 19
It would’ve been interesting if Lt. Stiles from Balance of Terror had been a recurring character. He gets a little bit of a bad rap: yes, he’s bigoted towards Spock, but he’s not wrong about the Romulans, and he sees the error of his generalizations by the end of the episode.
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