TrekBBS Quote of the Day
Obviously, folks have differing opinions on the Trek movies. There's a certain segment who think everything went downhill after the change in direction from The Motion Picture to The Wrath of Khan; and those who support the former film sometimes come across as forgetting that TV and film is primarily commercial entertainment, not some sort of noble effort to be intellectual or thought-provoking. Fortunately, there's always someone to burst their balloon...
siskokid888: Meyer and Bennett took serious science fiction and turned it into a cartoon. They did more to kill serious Trek and turn it into pop culture junk then anyone.
David cgc: Good to know all those sixties-era photos with "I Grok Spock!" t-shirts in them were an elaborate hoax. I always suspected that actual Star Trek viewers consisted solely of people like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke sitting in opulently furnished lounges, debating the existential metaphors inherent in the idea of a broken machine accidentally working as a perfectly functional personality-altering cloning device while smoking fine cigars.
They were probably also wearing monocles.
siskokid888: Meyer and Bennett took serious science fiction and turned it into a cartoon. They did more to kill serious Trek and turn it into pop culture junk then anyone.
David cgc: Good to know all those sixties-era photos with "I Grok Spock!" t-shirts in them were an elaborate hoax. I always suspected that actual Star Trek viewers consisted solely of people like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke sitting in opulently furnished lounges, debating the existential metaphors inherent in the idea of a broken machine accidentally working as a perfectly functional personality-altering cloning device while smoking fine cigars.
They were probably also wearing monocles.