Comments on: Review: “Best Of” TOS and TNG DVDs

By: Krazy Joe

Krazy Joe — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:47:31 +0000

Galaxy Quest wasn’t really a parody. Satire, yes. Parody, no.

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:19:57 +0000

#83—-That’s a pretty solid analysis, except that “Journey To Babel” might be even better for delving into the Spock character, if relating this to the film were some sort of criteria, particularly since Sarek and Amanda (as well as Spock’s relationship to them) are introduced in that episode as well. We really sees what eats at Spock in JTB. It highlights the inner conflict.

By: Scott B. here.

Scott B. here. — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:19:42 +0000

Re: #87 – DJ – Surely there are more of us out there. I started off with a great deal of hope for the new movie. I thought the casting news was fantastic, and still think the best part of the movie was the performances. 95% of the rest of it was bitterly disappointing however. I’m particularly troubled by the conscious reboot of Kirk as the parody version of Kirk that has arisen over the years, rather than the soldier/scholar Horatio Hornblower type he really was in the original series.

Sure would be nice to have a forum to delve into all this therapeutically, without being labeled a hater.

Scott B. out.

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:34:37 +0000

#87—”But to me it was pure muscles and no brain. For me it felt like the death of cerebral Trek.”

I suppose I can empathize… I found the 24th century spinoff era to be the death of “fun Trek”.

It turned out to be just a long slumber instead.

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:32:26 +0000

#85—-I think that Tasha’s significance is actually well-conveyed within the episode itself (without knowledge of the episode which depicts her death), but you’re right. A 90 minute movie could only have endeared the audience that much more to her, making her sacrifice all the more impactful.

I’m not much of a TNG fan at all, but I still found this episode to be a fantastic story—certainly a highlight of the spinoff era for me.

By: DJ Neelix

DJ Neelix — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:28:52 +0000

@42 Michael Hall
@62 Scott B
@76 cagmar

Thanks for not making me feel so alone concerning my feelings towards the new, dumbed-down Trek.
I was looking forward to the new movie yet with a very open mind. I wanted to like it and thought it was going to be pretty good after all.

But to me it was pure muscles and no brain. For me it felt like the death of cerebral Trek.

I didn’t hate it either, I just felt very sad this is what has become of Star Trek.

If there was a special forum for us who doesn’t think the new movie “rocks”, then I would definitely sign on, haha.

By: ChristopherPike

ChristopherPike — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:18:26 +0000

I still can’t help feeling a “Star Trek: Beginnings” box set would’ve done great business.

TOS: The Cage, Where No Man & The Man Trap (Premiere) plus 1st Animated Series episode… can’t remember if that’s Tribbles or Beyond the Farthest Star, whichever.

ENT: Broken Bow, TNG: Encounter At Farpoint

DS9: Emissary, VOY: Caretaker

By: Holger

Holger — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:13:50 +0000

I think this Best-Of is a nice service for newcomers. Of course us fans could debate endlessly about the choice of top episodes. But anyway, newbies get a good picture of TOS and TNG from these sets I think.

70 Closettrekker: Yesterday’s Enterprise “probably could have been a better feature film than any of the ones from the TNG-era”

I agree 100%. The trouble would have been that the viewer has know who Tasha Yar was. But that backstory could have been worked into a movie somehow.
The cheapest way: just show a clip of Tasha’s death at the beginning of the movie, like in STIII.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:19:53 +0000

#39:

“I”m pretty sure that everyone knows that this is a different Kirk and Spock compared to the new movie. It was practically the whole plot!”

Except that the back cover blurb of the DVD set seems to be going out of its way to imply otherwise: “You’ve met Kirk and Spock as young men on the big screen, now join them on their later journeys …” I could see that being a bit confusing if you’re a noob.

By: RD

RD — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:04:29 +0000

THESE MAKE PERFECT SENSE VIS-A-VIS THE FILM:

**The City on the Edge of Forever – Perhaps the best of all the Trek films, particularly for the ladies, and deals with the ideas of time travel and alternate universes in a very real way for the average audience (what if Hitler won WWII, it doesn’t get any more basic than that).
**The Trouble with Tribbles – The most fun of all the episodes and features Scotty in a real and humorous way to which he was depicted in the film.
**Balance of Terror – Clearly a better choice over Doomsday because it introduces us to the Romulans, the protagonists of the new film. While Doomsday is a better space battle, it explores human elements that have nothing to do with the film (I mean Dekker is supposed to be on OUR side).
**Amok Time – Helps define Mr. Spock, arguably the most difficult character for new audiences to embrace, as well as a really good look at the complicated an warm relationship between McCoy, Kirk & Spock.