Yet another example of a contest only open to the USA. This totally flies up the a$$ of the universality of what Star Trek is suppose to represent.

May the producers of Scene-it all get their next French kiss from a diseased tribble.

Thanks P. Technobabble for the reply and the kindness.

Example question (not one I’d actually ask):
Spock is of mixed parentage. Of what extraction are his parents?
1 – Vulcan father, Human mother
2 – Human father, Vulcan mother
3 – Vulcan father, Romulan mother
4 – Romulan father, Human mother

So, 1 is correct, 2 is wrong but closer to correct than 3 & 4, 3 is wrong but closer to correct than 4, and 4 is the furthest from the correct answer. In the actual Scene It game, you’d expect they’d jumble the answers up, so that the correct one is actually presented third and the least correct one is first and so on, but when you’re submitting the question and answers, you don’t have to worry about that.

United Earth, my arse. Grrrr!

Nitpicky, I know, but that was a Newsweek cover, not Time. Time actually featured both Kirk and Picard on the cover during Generations.

No doubt the feature film Star Trek IV was popular and earned a respectable box office, with merely four films earning more. However, Star Trek TMP sold more tickets. Also, Star Trek IV had very little merchandise and while it did not hurt Star Trek, it did not do what you claim. It had about as much cultural influence as Crocodile Dundee which made more money, and Star Trek IV did not make Trekkies of the generic culture. Feature films usually have less or atleast fleeting cultural influence compared to television shows which are free.

TNG was actually a much more pervasive influence culturally during the 1990s (and I consider the Kirk era my favorite). TNG’s demographics were very good with most groups, often beating shows like 60 Minutes in some markets. The average number of viewers in 1990 to 1994 was about 10 million per week. I invite you to think rewind to the 1990s when Star Trek TNG merchandise was everywhere and TNG stars were on every show from talk shows to QVC. Star Trek IV never had that kind of cultural influence. Thank you for the reply.

“There never really has been a time when Star Trek was popular with the generic population except a brief time in the 1990s during the TNG era. Otherwise, it has always been a niche fan experience.”

John: Rewind a bit to 1986, when Nimoy as Spock was on the cover of TIME with the headline “The Enduring Power of Star Trek.” The first four movies brought Trek mainstream. Star Trek IV was the height of Trek’s popularity, whereas TNG brought it to the primetime male demographic prized at the time by TV broadcasters.