but … if you watch movie, he replaces V for W, W for V and also pronounces V for V and W for W on occasion … PEREGRUZKA!

Thanks — I really needed that. My father-in-law just passed away and the funeral is Saturday. Have wanted to put the Trek movies on but don’t have the time. They made me laugh (in a good way). Your quotes bring back the scenes to my mind and crack me up!

Much appreciated. Gotta go.

kg

“He put kreeetures…in our bodeees….to kuntrol our minds!”

“He thought he kuntrolled us, but he deed not.”

“The keptin…he vas strong…”

Or if you prefer,

“…I vill have to stun you.”

“I’m wery sorry, but…..”

No, silly. Your favourite “Pavel Chekov” quote.

kg

“NEVER! Never never never never!!!! ”

You’re hilarious! :-)

- Bender: “Can people who hate Star Trek leave?”

- Koenig: “Good question.”

NEVER! Never never never never!!!! ;)

Peace. Live long and prosper.
The Vulcanista }:-|

“I think people see “cheesy” when they look back now at TOS, for example. ”

You’re right. What is cheesy are some of the “special effects” and some of the make-up compared to the state-of-the-art stuff we have today. (We’ve been spoiled, guys.) The fact that your son likes the later Trek shows that it was probably just the special effects of the day that threw him off.

You should show him some even older SciFi stuff. Then he’d see how “advanced” it was. Well, maybe.

It could have hurt your feelings because you think it’s great and his scorn of it sort of feels like criticism or because it is so special to you, you’d like him to share your love of it. It’s tough getting old, isn’t it? I remember my youth and how hip I thought I was. Now, in my fifties, I sometimes feel a little “square” as we used to say. Oh well. Time to grow up.

Have a great day.

kg

I think people see “cheesy” when they look back now at TOS, for example. You and I may not, because we (and I’m making an assumption) remember it as something fresh and relevant–and some of it still is. My kids think it is cheesy.
They like DS9, Voyager (to my irritation), and ENT. They are excited to see ST 0, but only because I have assured them that it will not look too much like the TV series. They laugh at some of the TOS sets, the phaser fire, the hairdos, etc. It is not that they are necessarily superficial, but like the rest of their generation, spoiled to today’s special effects and art capability.
Maybe that’s why I’m not so offended as some here when people call it “cheesy”. Perhaps I did not realize how “cheesy” it was until I watched a couple of my favorite TOS episodes with my 10 year old–”The Doomsday Machine”, and “Balance Of Terror”. I tried to explain that this was very “cutting edge” back then, but it did not matter. He laughed at the planet killer, the Romulan plasma weapon, the acting–you name it. He told me he liked Sisko, Janeway, Tuvok, Archer and Trip better than Captain Kirk, Spock (they love him in STIV, though), and Dr. McCoy. It actually hurt my feelings. Isn’t that ridiculous? They do like the original movies (2-4, 6) enough to want to see this one, though (I can’t get them to sit through TMP, and I tell them to pretend that there was no STV). I hope that this movie will connect them with the original cast, and possibly even help them to be more imaginative so as to enjoy the great stories in TOS with their old man.