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Post subject: Mr. Shatner watching "A Piece of the Action"
 Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 05:23 AM
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I read where Mr Shatner does not watch himself act, but recently caught one episode which was "A Piece of the Action".
Mr. Shatner, if you ever read this I hope you get more opportunity to watch more of the original shows. I am glad you can see how great the Original series was.
It is not hard to see why Star Trek has endured such a loyal fan base for so many years. Just great characters and a great Captain! And meaningful stories.
http://trekweb.com/stories.php?aid=4849 ... Browse=all
P.S. Careful though, if you watch too many episodes you may find yourself going to conventions as a fan  |
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Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 07:12 PM
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| My understanding is that most actors as a rule simply do not like to look at themselves on screen. |
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Posted: Jul 04, 2008 - 01:51 AM
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| morgram wrote: | | My understanding is that most actors as a rule simply do not like to look at themselves on screen. |
I know. I just hhope it brings back some fond memories |
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Posted: Jul 04, 2008 - 12:09 PM
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Welcome to the BBS cliffsss! 
A Piece of the Action is one of my favorites. I also like, "By any other name." There is a lot of social symbolism in that one. |
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Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 11:26 PM
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| SMB wrote: | Welcome to the BBS cliffsss!
A Piece of the Action is one of my favorites. I also like, "By any other name." There is a lot of social symbolism in that one. |
Thank you very much for the warm welcom SMB! 
Doomsday Machine and A Balance of Terror were other favorites. Very poignant for the times. But A piece of the Action and Shoreleave were two that were wonderful and humerous stories.
babel was the best one for the Spock/father relationship. |
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Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 11:43 PM
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| cliffsss wrote: | | SMB wrote: | Welcome to the BBS cliffsss!
A Piece of the Action is one of my favorites. I also like, "By any other name." There is a lot of social symbolism in that one. |
Thank you very much for the warm welcom SMB!
Doomsday Machine and A Balance of Terror were other favorites. Very poignant for the times. But A piece of the Action and Shoreleave were two that were wonderful and humerous stories.
babel was the best one for the Spock/father relationship. |
I agree. While my hubby was in Sicily for five weeks, I treated myself to a TOS nightly viewing. I watched all 79 episode plus movies. I also have the NG, DS9, and Voyager series. I am glad too, because most of what is on TV now-a-days is pure junk. What is really sad, is some of the actors coming up today are mediocre at best. Hollywood is in real danger of imploding on itself to the point that all that will be left are empty film lots, unemployed papparazi and foreclosed homes.
Of course, I could due without the papparazi. They are a real meanus. |
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Posted: Jul 12, 2008 - 09:47 PM
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| SMB wrote: | | cliffsss wrote: | | SMB wrote: | Welcome to the BBS cliffsss!
A Piece of the Action is one of my favorites. I also like, "By any other name." There is a lot of social symbolism in that one. |
Thank you very much for the warm welcom SMB!
Doomsday Machine and A Balance of Terror were other favorites. Very poignant for the times. But A piece of the Action and Shoreleave were two that were wonderful and humerous stories.
babel was the best one for the Spock/father relationship. |
I agree. While my hubby was in Sicily for five weeks, I treated myself to a TOS nightly viewing. I watched all 79 episode plus movies. I also have the NG, DS9, and Voyager series. I am glad too, because most of what is on TV now-a-days is pure junk. What is really sad, is some of the actors coming up today are mediocre at best. Hollywood is in real danger of imploding on itself to the point that all that will be left are empty film lots, unemployed papparazi and foreclosed homes.
Of course, I could due without the papparazi. They are a real meanus. |
I have to admit, after the Original Series and Next Generation I felt a little uncomfortable with the other series. DS9 and Voyager were good on their own but I thought were too much of a departure from the dignity of Gene Roddenberry's original vision. Where in the first two humankind had solved most of their ugly weaknesses, the other shows leaned very heavily on the frailties of mankind that we are suffering now. My guess if we still act like that in the future we would have long since blown ourselves up in the past with increasing technology. It is either change or extinction.
So watching them (DS9 and Voyager) did not give me the inspired hope for the future of humankind that TOS and NG did. |
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Posted: Jul 13, 2008 - 12:56 AM
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True. What DS9 points out is that we as humans have a long way to go to get to the point of Gene's dream. Voyager points out that no matter how far away we get from home, we still need some structure and order.
As a social scientist, it is the undaunting task of coming up with ways to resolve social issues that can often lead to the violence that we see in the world. It isn't easy to watch a show that reminds us of our immaturity as a race of beings.
I think that it is the hope of all that we grow up and learn to get along with each other before someone uses all of this techno-stuff to destroy us all. Right now, we are like children playing with a book of matches or a gun closet. |
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Posted: Jul 14, 2008 - 10:34 PM
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| SMB wrote: | True. What DS9 points out is that we as humans have a long way to go to get to the point of Gene's dream. Voyager points out that no matter how far away we get from home, we still need some structure and order.
As a social scientist, it is the undaunting task of coming up with ways to resolve social issues that can often lead to the violence that we see in the world. It isn't easy to watch a show that reminds us of our immaturity as a race of beings.
I think that it is the hope of all that we grow up and learn to get along with each other before someone uses all of this techno-stuff to destroy us all. Right now, we are like children playing with a book of matches or a gun closet. |
Very well said. That is what I liked about Gene Roddenberry. He had an positive outlook on the future instead of the usual doom and gloom science fiction.
But it is hard to stay positive reading the papers these days. But maybe the survival instinct will be stronger than the violence instinct.
Wonder if something happens if future humans will find artifacts on the moon that we left and ponder how they got there! Aliens or a past long since lost civililzation |
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Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 01:36 AM
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It would be a very interesting social experiment to plant a colony of people on the moon or another habitable planet and leave them there for several generations. Of course, they would have supplies to get them started. To somehow see how they develop the basic social institutions of a society and if they would make some of the same mistakes we made on this planet would be priceless.
I wonder if they would accept us as fellow humans or reject us as enemies of their newly formed world.
I know that some experimentation on social development has been tried already in various ways, but this would be a huge experment that would last for years. |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 01:55 AM
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| SMB wrote: | It would be a very interesting social experiment to plant a colony of people on the moon or another habitable planet and leave them there for several generations. Of course, they would have supplies to get them started. To somehow see how they develop the basic social institutions of a society and if they would make some of the same mistakes we made on this planet would be priceless.
I wonder if they would accept us as fellow humans or reject us as enemies of their newly formed world.
I know that some experimentation on social development has been tried already in various ways, but this would be a huge experment that would last for years. |
Wow! That sounds like a future episode of STARGATE
Wasn't there a group living in a environmental dome?
My guess to your scenario would be that they would be different. Depending on one another for survival would outweigh the competive and separate group dynamics we see on Earth now |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 03:12 AM
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| cliffsss wrote: | | SMB wrote: | It would be a very interesting social experiment to plant a colony of people on the moon or another habitable planet and leave them there for several generations. Of course, they would have supplies to get them started. To somehow see how they develop the basic social institutions of a society and if they would make some of the same mistakes we made on this planet would be priceless.
I wonder if they would accept us as fellow humans or reject us as enemies of their newly formed world.
I know that some experimentation on social development has been tried already in various ways, but this would be a huge experment that would last for years. |
Wow! That sounds like a future episode of STARGATE
Wasn't there a group living in a environmental dome?
My guess to your scenario would be that they would be different. Depending on one another for survival would outweigh the competive and separate group dynamics we see on Earth now |
I believe there was an group living experiment done involving an environmental dome. It didn't go so great as I recall due to that great and wonderful, yet totally unstable and unpredictable element.... the Hu element (human). |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 04:04 AM
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The HU element seems to only obey Chaos Theory
I am a very flexible person myself. I am not sure why too many people prefer finding insignificant things to create antipathy about.
Adapting to different circumstances as needed is easier
I prefer being happy and laughing myself. Life is challenging enough on its own. Why add unnecessary negative behavior and stressful situations to an already complicated existence? |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 04:45 AM
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| cliffsss wrote: | The HU element seems to only obey Chaos Theory
I am a very flexible person myself. I am not sure why too many people prefer finding insignificant things to create antipathy about.
Adapting to different circumstances as needed is easier
I prefer being happy and laughing myself. Life is challenging enough on its own. Why add unnecessary negative behavior and stressful situations to an already complicated existence? |
Life is truely an adventure alright. |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 05:09 PM
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| morgram wrote: | | My understanding is that most actors as a rule simply do not like to look at themselves on screen. |
I can understand that. I hate to hear myself sing. I can pick out every single flaw. And having a type-A personality I stress out over the teeny tiny mistakes that no one but an andriod or a professional musician could pick up. |
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