Neemoy
So Happy Birthday, Spock.
I was a fan of the original Star Trek series back in the 70’s syndication. I think I had a crush on just about everyone in the cast. I never got into the following series, though.
So Happy Birthday, Spock.
I was a fan of the original Star Trek series back in the 70’s syndication. I think I had a crush on just about everyone in the cast. I never got into the following series, though.
The Borg said, “Resistance is futile.”
…so I told it to surrender.
Wait…did I read that you missed out on Star Trek: Voyager with Captain Kathryn Janeway? Seriously??? She’s my fave. Major Jean-Luc Picard crush, too.
I’ll say what I always say. Gene Roddenberry once said something along the lines of “Star Trek could run twenty years!” Well, by my count, of all the series added together, it ran five or six years longer than that. (Hope the reboot worked for the younger crowd. I lost interest in following it after “First Contact,” though I did pick up Blu Ray discs of the Original Series.)
Happy Birthday, Mr. Nimoy. Happes to be mine, too.
Star Trek Thoughts. I have a first edition James Blish paperback – the first Star Trek book ever published – with Leonard Nimoy’s autograph from the summer after the first season. Later added George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Jimmy Doohan at a festival in the 80’s.
Boy, Brig, most of these other comments have time stamps from the wee hours of the morning – looks like everybody’s definitely drooling for the next installment of Squid Row – this 3 days a week thing has us tied up in knots! Ain’t it great to be loved?
Got that book but no autographs. Pretty interesting story—all the more so as I was really into printed SF when I got it.
If you do another “Star Trek”-themed strip, consider including this character from a “Star Trek: Voyager” episode:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Little_woman
Empress,
I loved Captain Janeway! And the young lady named Kes, whose species only lived to be nine years old…..Can’t remember the name of the species…great female characters on that ship.
To say nothing of getting my hair cut like Jean Luc Picard…!
Apparently I’m the resident Whovian
The two coolest things about by parents in the 60s were Batman and Star Trek. (And Dad got a bonus +1 because he always bought ice cream sundae fixings and let us kids stay up late whenever ABC broadcast a James Bond movie.)
Sure, I loved my parents. They were great. But they were COOL because they loved Star Trek and Batman as much as we did. The night Star Trek was going to be on – Thursdays, as I recall – the whole evening revolved around getting chores and homework done in time to watch the new episode together.
As for Batman – which aired on Monday, IIRC – they loved it for a different reason that missed me completely. I thought it was serious superhero action. They saw it for the tongue-in-cheek camp that it really was. (Hey, I was six when it came out.)
We followed all the Star Trek series and movies. We’re serious enough to remember the names of all the TOS (The Original Series) episodes. And we can expound on many of the movies and use the Star Trek Measure (Odd movies: Good. Even movies: Bad) to other things in life. But we don’t put on the uniforms or wear the ears.
I DID meet John de Lancie at a con last month and thought that was pretty cool, though.
No Mary, but you may be the only exclusive Whovian.
I still remember vividly a con I went to in the 80’s in San Whoa-say. Dr. Who and Star Trek (with a tip of the hat to other Whovians here). I met and shook hands with John Pertwee (Doctor number 3) when I turned around and found him standing right next to me! I also spent about an hour sitting and visiting with Angelique Pettijohn – Captain Kirk’s lovely Drill Thrall . We decided we should adopt each other. I was horrifed a few years ago when I learned that only a few years after that, the poor dear died of cancer. And finally, in the same weekend, I was treated to a preview seminar hosted by Majel Barrett who had still photos and props from the soon-to-be-released first season of Star Trek the Next Generation. Heady stuff!
Holy Mudder of Peanut Butter! I guess you all are Star Trakkers.
Joe… I knew YOU would be a Trakkie.
EofO… I, um… well… It’s not like I never SAW any of the episodes (Judy and Nelson are fans)… I just never got into them.
Robert N… Well, JOYOUS Birthday to YOU, too! May it shine!
Rich… another collectible! You are full of ’em! And I am blessed by my readers and their readership-ness. Thanks, all!
James V… Judy had to school me on that. I am glad I have a living “cheat sheet” live in.
Judy… thanks for getting me up to “light speed”… or warp drive or um… yah.
Mary…. wear it with pride… or something like that.
Pete… I was a HUGE Batkid… I didn’t understand or get the camp either. But I don’t think my parents were as cool as yours. But they did supply me with lots of Star Wars Figures… so they warn’t that bad. Still… you were most fortunate.
Beetles.. I’m gonna let you guys Whovian it out.
Linnurd Neemoy frum Starr Trakk? Maybe he can have Pop’n Tarts and Jyoonyur Mentz with Jessekka Rawbit!
Tee hee…Brig makes everything funnier.
Sorry, never been a Trek (Trak?) fan here. Although I suppose I’ve absorbed enough by osmosis to not be lost when confronted with it.
Raising a hand as the second Whovian, thanks. The Trek was well named for me…… long, dull, and no end in sight. At least with the Doctor you could always count on scratching your head and asking ‘Who the heck THINKS of this stuff?!’
Judy, did you know that Captain Janeway was originally supposed to be played by Genevieve Bujold? She backed out and the part went to Kate Mulgrew instead.
Dada… I am glad you are along for the fun ride, Squid style!
uwg… I am the same way with the Dr. WHO … sorry Whovians… I really know nuthin’ except that Barty Crouch Jr. was involved.
Jen… You are obviously in the KNOW… here.
Rich… Judy says she is glad of the “backing out.”
Well as I’m a Tom Baker Whovian I guess I’ve ‘dated’ myself.
Grew up on the ST: TOS Reruns, gulp dinner tan then turn on the local cable station that ran ’em all (Out of order, though)
Cut my teeth on “Marine Boy” and “Speed Racer”, Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, and UFO (All time FAVE!)
Wasted much time in College on “Star Blazers”
Nice thing about DVD’s is that I’ve managed to track down and add most of my “Old Friends” to my Library. Bad thing is that there are more of them than I’ll ever be able to watch before I die of my Multiple Myeloma.
Speaking of Diseases, Leonard Nimoy has COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) from smoking in his younger days and is spend much time in a wheelchair. They never show you THAT part in those “cute Baby Elephant” commercials, do they?
Back to Trek, between Me and Mom, we got ALL the novels from the Blish adaptations, through last week’s releases. It’s getting rather confusing in the “Trek-verse,” continuity-wise so the re-boot is a VERY LOGICAL way of allowing new people “in” without having to watch upteen hundred hours of old TV Shows and reading several Hundred books of varying competency.
Apparently some of the Fans DO need to work for a living!