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Star Trek: TOS

Posted on 9/9/26 at 10:13 am
Posted by Godfather1
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 10:13 am
The big granddaddy of them all debuted 60 years ago yesterday. Episode: The Man Trap.

Celebrating all week by watching all of my favorite episodes.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 10:15 am to
I probably go through two to three episodes a day with the TOS Pluto Channel playing in the background.
Posted by Godfather1
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 10:17 am to
I have the box sets on both DVD and iTunes.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 10:31 am to
Doctor Who is actually older but hail to TOS!
Posted by skrayper
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 11:06 am to
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Doctor Who is actually older but hail to TOS!


To be honest, the 60s was a good time for TV sci-fi.

Star Trek
Lost In Space
The Outer Limits
Doctor Who
Fantastic Voyage
Thunderbirds

Hell, even The Jetsons is from the 60s
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
Member since Aug 2017
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 11:24 am to
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I probably go through two to three episodes a day with the TOS Pluto Channel playing in the background.



I'm the same with TOS and the Twilight Zone
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 11:40 am to
quote:

To be honest, the 60s was a good time for TV sci-fi.

Star Trek
Lost In Space
The Outer Limits
Doctor Who
Fantastic Voyage
Thunderbirds

Hell, even The Jetsons is from the 60s


While technically not strictly Sci-Fi, I think I’d have to throw Twilight Zone onto that list as well.
Posted by skrayper
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 11:51 am to
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While technically not strictly Sci-Fi, I think I’d have to throw Twilight Zone onto that list as well.


I'd include it, though a lot of lists don't. At least some of the stories had sci-fi components.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 12:03 pm to
quote:

Fantastic Voyage
The cartoon?
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
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49980 posts
Posted on 9/9/26 at 12:38 pm to
1966 movie
Posted by PowerTool
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 12:40 pm to
Heroes & Icons channel seems to have dropped the other Star Trek shows and is marathoning TOS every night starting at 7.

Not sure if this is permanent.
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 1:33 pm to
Time Tunnel
Land of the Giants
Posted by skrayper
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 3:20 pm to
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The cartoon?


Well, I enjoyed it as a kid.

Posted by Master of Sinanju
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 3:27 pm to
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The Man Trap


A nice, eerie episode.
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
90108 posts
Posted on 9/9/26 at 3:29 pm to
quote:

A nice, eerie episode.


A salt vampire is straight diabolical.
Posted by Kafka
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Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 5:53 pm to
The early, clunky intro speech:

This is the adventure of the United Space Ship Enterprise. Assigned a five year galaxy patrol, the bold crew of the giant starship explores the excitement of strange new worlds, uncharted civilizations, and exotic people. These are its voyages and its adventures...

Writer Samuel Peeples would rework it into the pithy classic we know today:

Space: the final frontier*. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before!

*Subtly suggesting the mythology of the old West

Posted by sqerty
AP
Member since May 2022
8657 posts
Posted on 9/9/26 at 6:05 pm to
Could saw your different double features of an episode and a movie in the series in the theater yesterday. I wanted to see city on the edge of forever and voyage home but it was too late (10)
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 6:48 pm to
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
90108 posts
Posted on 9/9/26 at 7:19 pm to
quote:

*Subtly suggesting the mythology of the old West


Roddenberry always stated that his show was “Wagon Train to the stars”.
Posted by cgrand
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Member since Oct 2009
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Posted on 9/9/26 at 7:30 pm to
I’ve always thought that the way they re-used the unaired pilot to weave in and out of the 2 part “menagerie” episode and make a completely different story out of it was brilliant TV.

and I have a core memory of watching “city on the edge of forever” for the first time…sitting in silence as Kirk says, “let’s get the hell out of here.”
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