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aaronkrakoraJan 30, 2011
We know the story. Captain Christopher Pike becomes a quadra-plegic, from the butt-headed aliens with mind powers. The smart aliens end up giving back his physical body to be with that really hot chick on the planet. What was the name of that starship? Very quiet in here.
skull24Jan 30, 2011
Captain Robert April? A "first lieutenant" reddish complexion half Martian named Spock, U.S.S. Yorktown. That's a completely different show. Goes to show you no original idea goes with out some fine tuning. Roddenberry saw the flaws in his story and improve it greatly.
mbraynardJan 30, 2011
But how do we know it wouldn't have been better that way?
Closed AccountJan 30, 2011
you'd be saying the same if things were reversed
michdeJan 30, 2011
the original pilot episode was pretty cool imo
jtinzJan 30, 2011
"The time is 'Somewhere in the future'. It could be 1995 or maybe even 2995. In other words, close enough to our own time for our continuing characters to be fully identifyable as people like us, but far enough into the future for galaxy travel to be thoroughly established..."
Sigh
atomicfireballJan 30, 2011
In 1963, 1995 seemed pretty far away. It was the Space Race, just a few years after Sputnik. We were dreaming large at the time.
All he was saying was that it was set far enough in the future that they wouldn't have to explain technology, or be constrained to the technology of the day. Why is that sigh-worthy? It's not like Roddenberry knew or pretended to know what the state of technology in 1995 or 2011 or 2995 would be.
jtinzJan 30, 2011
It's sigh-worthy because we seem to have lost and given up this future. The internet and mobile phones are great, but I would exchange them for galaxy travel and flying cars in a blink.
atomicfireballJan 30, 2011
Okay, yeah… that's probably worth sighing about.
whatever01Jan 30, 2011
And I would exchange my raincoat and glasses for an invisibility cloak and X-Ray specs. Just because something seems cool, doesn't mean it's easy, or affordable.
The space race was amazing, but incredibly, incredibly expensive. Really, though, the theoretical basis for traveling to the moon existed, it was a matter or reducing it to practice. Goddard, Von Braun had sketched this stuff out in varying levels of detail long before Roddenberry produced his pitch. It was a question of government will, not physics. Perhaps that's where the echo of will over circumstance that you see in the original series comes from? As on rocket jock told me, never underestimate the power of a blank check.
Galaxy travel? Despite being a plot device required for most science fiction movies, faster than light travel by humans really doesn't have much of a rational basis yet. There's some hypothetical concepts that could, perhaps, be worked into a system, maybe, given arbitrarily large amounts of energy, but nothing, nothing like the way the V-2 rocket implied Apollo.
As for flying cars... meh. There's enough carnage out there on the streets right now. Adding a 3rd dimension, higher speed, higher energy requirements, higher kinetic energy in less trained hands than current airline pilots? Thanks, but no thanks. It seems like a nice idea, but I just don't see how it would work out well in practice.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
jtinzJan 30, 2011
Actually, current ultralights are quite close to flying cars. They've become afforable and surprisingly economic, they include a safety system and getting a license isn't too hard.
Nevertheless, the visions of the fifties and sixties seem a lot grander than what we have now. Our society has lost its vision and its will to work toward an Utopia.
geroncoJan 30, 2011
Epic
CulturalViewsJan 30, 2011
Star Trek always cultural
llanceJan 30, 2011
S.S. Yorktown? I'd have voted for S.S. Minnow.
WreckedEmJan 31, 2011
They considered it, but.........it lost.
psypher1Jan 31, 2011
Has there even been an appearance of the USS Yorktown in any Star Trek episode? If not, the next Star Trek TV series to eventually come up one day should showcase that ship!
jonahanJan 31, 2011
The USS Yorktown was used heavily in the TV series and in many novels. It even had a part in ST IV: The Voyage Home.
jonahanJan 31, 2011
Well, "heavily" is a bit much. But it was used.