MetaFilter posts tagged with startrek and TV

reeks too much of "space pirate" or similar bad science fiction

Sara C. — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:38:58 -0800

How do you solicit freelance scripts for a science fiction television series that breaks the mold? You create a comprehensive guide to writing an episode of Star Trek. Harvard's Houghton Library recently acquired the 31-page document, which has not (yet?) been completely digitized. But what has been released provides a glimpse into a world before the conventions of TV sci-fi that Trek cemented into place. No pockets. No space suits. No, we are not on LSD. In other "incomplete smidges of weird Star Trek ephemera" news, wikia is working with Roddenberry Entertainment to start releasing materials from the archives of Gene Roddenberry via their new Trek fan portal, Trek Initiative.

Mr. Worf, please wait until the first officer is finished.

kbanas — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:03:24 -0800

Check out the fantastic 10 minute gag reel that accompanies Season 2 release of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-Ray. (SLYT)

The crew of the Enterprise take on their greatest challenge yet -- an out-of-service holodeck

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:12:38 -0800

LARP Trek - webcomic from MetaFilter's own cortex

"Unbelievable. Do you recognize those uniforms?"

zarq — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:29:15 -0800

Artist Dusty Abell has created a massive poster featuring "at least one, sometimes more, character, entity, starship or structure from every episode of [Star Trek: The Original] series." Via io9, who ask: How many characters can you name? Stumped? Here's a key of all 123! Some close-ups. This is a follow-up to his "Television Sci-Fi and Superheroes of the '70's" and Saturday Morning Action Adventure TV posters. JPG Downloads: * Star Trek: The Original Series * Television Sci-Fi and Superheroes of the '70's * Saturday Morning Action Adventure TV Mr. Abell is a character designer for Warner Bros., and a former artist at Marvel, D.C. and Dark Horse Comics.

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.

Artw — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:24:54 -0800

Ronald D Moore talks about Star Trek: The Next Generation at 25

Lost: Wired's Guide to Pop Culture's Buried Treasure

reenum — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:58:23 -0800

Wired takes a look at some pop culture legends that elude fans and collectors.

“—to remind us of the values we've lost, and of those that we've allowed ourselves to relinquish.”

kipmanley — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:29:32 -0800

Abigail Nussbaum, senior reviews editor for Strange Horizons, has written a series of personal blog posts on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The tables of contents: Let's See What's Out There (TNG)

Introduction
To Boldly Stay - How The Next Generation changes its focus from exploration to politics;
"Optimism, Captain!" - On Star Trek's most contentious quality;
Keep Flying - The tragedy of Picard;
Odds & Ends - A few more thoughts on the characters and the actors who played them.

Back Through the Wormhole (DS9)

Introduction
The Two DS9s - Did Deep Space Nine only get good in its later seasons?
The Menagerie - Alien races on the show;
Looking for Ron Moore in All the Wrong Places - The obligatory Battlestar Galactica comparison;
What Does God Need With a Space Station? - Deep Space Nine's treatment of religion;
Ode to Kira - Just what it says;
The Justice Trick - Odo and his troubled relationships with Kira and morality;
Odds & Ends - A few more comments.

Make it so...

Artw — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:18:13 -0800

Following on from an epic Star Trek: The Original Series rewatch (previously) and their Star Trek movie marathon, tor.com are now watching each episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in turn. So far they have reached The Last Outpost, in which a terrifying new adversary was introduced as a replacement for Klingons as Star Trek universe bad guys: The Ferengi.

...stay tuned for "Amok Time".

Artw — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:57:58 -0800

Star Trek... the first 29 episodes. These are the findings of the website tor.com. Its several week mission: to watch every episode; to summarize, rate and analyze; to watch with fresh eyes what many geeks have watched before.

Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere!

shoesfullofdust — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:27:54 -0800

How Science Fiction Found Religion

Pilot School

Bookhouse — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:41:15 -0800

Pilot School. A nice collection of teevee show pilot scripts. Observe the embryonic state of many of the classics of the past few decades, including Buffy, The Wire, Hill Street Blues, Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos and The West Wing. For people who aren't students of the form, the most interesting part may be the small changes that happen between script to screen. For instance, Twin Peaks was originally named Northwest Passage, Tony Soprano was named Tommy, and The West Wing's C.J. Cregg was described as "compact."

All the Kirk you can eat

ardgedee — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:00:22 -0800

Free Star Trek. The only Star Trek that matters -- the ones with Kirk, Spock, Bones, and the rest. Is that not enough time-killing, brain-eating sludge for you? Here's two years' worth of Twilight Zone. And a year's worth of MacGyver. A year of Hawaii Five-O. And Melrose Place. Sure, whatever.

To Boldly Go Where No Batman Has Gone Before

LinusMines — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:37:52 -0800

Star Trek vs. Batman Christopher Allen brings two icons of Sixties television together in a three-part, 51-minute epic adventure. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 at Google Video. MPEG downloads and audio interviews at RASCO Motion Pictures site.

To Boldly Redo What Some Man Had Done Before

fandango_matt — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:34:38 -0800

In 2003, Paramount proposed redoing the special effects for the original "Star Trek" series and rereleasing the episodes as "Star Trek Enhanced". Two CGI firms redid the effects for the teaser, the opening credits and title, and the first two acts of The Doomsday Machine as a proof-of-concept with no changes to the acting or the story. Paramount ultimately decided not to pursue the project, but it's interesting to see how two different CGI firms handled the transporter, phasers, and starship effects.

A group of nearby spaceships are not all oriented exacly like each other, in an upwards position.

Orange Goblin — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:34:59 -0800

Things We Will Never See On Star Trek

Trekkers Rejoice!

darren — Tue, 20 Feb 2001 05:49:50 -0800

Trekkers Rejoice! Word is a new Star Trek television series is in development. Time to pull those rubber ears out of the dresser and head out on the SciFi convention circuit again.

Thank God.

Mark — Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:32:38 -0800

Thank God.