Amph [NERRRD] Observations, rhetorical questions, comments & 55 Years of Star Trek (General Thread)

Oh man the feels! Best part of the movie was when Kelvan Spock was looking at the old gang! My heros are going to the big spacedock in the sky!

 

Happy Birthday to...

 

Scott Bakula was great as Archer but, honestly, Scott Bakula is great as anything so even if writing Archer was a bit .... shaky (ala how Janeway would swap character traits any given episode) Bakula could pull it off. And Mulgrew could too, mind you. Basically, anyone who has played a Captain on Star Trek (any series, any timeline) has done a pretty great job.

 

There's cast there spanning from TOS all the way to ENT, and to the latest movie with Grunberg being included. Damn, that's impressive.

 

Haha it looks like Shatner is looking at Takei with loathing.

 

That wouldn't be surprising, They've never particularly liked each other according to what I've heard.

 

That is possible too, here's a rather f-bomb laced Shatner answering a question about Takei. Really funny if a bit mean but I think Shatner was playing it up / was exasperated by the whole thing.

 

So it's true. They all really hate each other .

 

So far as I know, De got along with everyone.

 

So much Star Trek in two volume Encyclopedic Form!

 

Lest we forget...

 

Granted, I am not as big Star Trek fan as many of you, but I thought I would recognise more than five people, plus the big guy out of Heroes and TFA (no idea what he has to do with Star Trek.

I only recognise Kirk, Sulu, Chekov, Ensign Kim and Quark from ST.

 

Turn in your nerd card.

 

And James Kirk's stepdad.

 

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Thank you both.

What nerd card? I lost that while still in school from being convinced Vader wasn't Luke's Dad.

But apparently everyone deserves a second chance, and I could have gotten it back last year, then blew it at the last moment from not recognising Michael Dorn in Ted 2 until I saw his name in the credits!

 

He's best buds with JJ Abrams, thus his appearances in most of his productions, including TFA.

 

Ah right! So he will likely be somewhere in Westworld for instance, will he? I think Abrams is involved with that.

 

Massive Trek nerd here. On a lark, I picked up the first issue of "Star Trek: Boldy Go" which is basically IDW's renumbered comic series, this one now picking up after "Star Trek Beyond." And I loved it. In part because the USS Endeavour is Kirk's temporary command, and way back in the late 90's to early 2000's I was part of a Play-By-E-Mail Trek Sim on a ship of the same name. That aside, however, the art and story is just as solid as IDW's other Trek and franchise series. Also, a threat shows up that is new to Kirk and Crew but well-established in the canon already.

Anyway, if you like comics and Trek, IDW's stuff is definitely worth it!

 

This "threat"...it's not the Borg is it?

 

I may have to pick up the new version of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, especially with the deep discount via Amazon Prime. My old one - the one-volume softback - is getting kind of ratty, and plus had that weird 'additional material' section for the newer seasons that defeated the entire purpose of having an encyclopedia.

It's weird to think that whatever Star Wars equivalent (when/if it ever comes out) is going to be backtracking from the last one...