Inspirational Speeches of Star Trek

[Mince]

I really enjoyed this fan-made video of Star Trek speeches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNu1cdISsvY

[Diane CBPFC]

My contribution to this thread is my hand in Leonard Nimoy's bronze casting - the only place you can do this on earth is in a small town called Vulcan in southern Alberta. 

[Roger Kettle]

I finally got round to watching this and I'm a bit baffled. I honestly don't know if this is a genuine tribute or a piss-take.

[Mince]

I can understand where you're coming from. I once watched a game of football, where twenty-two adult men voluntarily entered a rectangular field and spent ninety minutes running around in small groups after a ball, occasionally kicking it away from themselves and then chasing it again, unable to pick it up, despite their having hands, with others paying money to watch the whole thing. I was sure at one point that they were doing all this to confuse me.

Have you actually watched much Star Trek?

[Roger Kettle]

Not a lot, no, but I found it mildly amusing. It was clearly written and performed with tongue-in-cheek and I found that quite entertaining. I never really got into any TV science fiction. I was too young to watch Quatermass back in the Fifties but adults at the time regarded it as scary. I read and enjoyed quite a lot of science fiction books when I was younger with 1984 and The War of the Worlds still among my favourites.

[Mince]

I can to an extent understand the tongue-in-cheek: the original Star Trek could be camp, with low-budget sets, theatrical acting, and over-the-top costumes; the story-telling was light-hearted so that non-sci-fi fans could enjoy the ride; and sometimes futuristic concepts became absurd and comical.

The later Star Trek could be similar, but also grittier, with lines like: "What you call genocide, I call a day's work."

[Roger Kettle]

A great line. Weirdly, in my head, I can hear it in Schwarzenegger's voice!

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I've always regarded Star Trek as science fantasy rather than science fiction.

Similarly, the difference between the football match you "watched", Mincey, and the ones that actually occurred.

[Mince]

I've always regarded Star Trek as science fantasy rather than science fiction.

The original Star Trek was more science fiction than the later next generation episodes, which had omnipotent beings, psychic powers and reality manipulation. At least the original, even if it could not give a technological answer, presumed there was one. Star Wars is more science fantasy with the force.

Similarly, the difference between the football match you "watched", Mincey, and the ones that actually occurred.

I've always regarded football as pissing about on a field rather than sport.