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Re: How I Came to Prefer Star Trek over Star Wars

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Daniel65 wrote on 22/06/2020 3:16 PM:
> Deck of 51 wrote on 21/06/2020 11:15 PM:
> 
> <Snip>
> 
>> So yeah, that's the story of how a 36 year old man came to realize he 
>> was wrong after well over 20 years of assuming Star Wars was better 
>> than Star Trek. We're going to watch the six movies next. We were so 
>> entertained by TOS, I actually went out of my way to order the Star 
>> Date Collection on Blu-Ray to watch those, as I felt the obligation to 
>> purchase something in exchange for the hours of entertainment.
> 
> As a ten'ish year old kid, I had watched Star Trek in its original T.V. 
> run .... and one HAD to love it, it was sooooo "out-there" ... mankind 
> going to other planets, other Stars! WOW!! (Remembering this was 
> probably in the NASA Gemini series timeframe, certainly Pre-Apollo moon 
> landings)
> 
> As with your opinion of the Star Wars Trilogies, the Star Trek movies 
> are a bit "up and down" in storyline. Star Trek:The Motion Picture was 
> welcomed by a lot of "Trekkies", even though the storyline was, sort of, 
> a re-hash of the storyline of one of the T.V. series episodes.
> 
> Prior to its release, I heard a rumour that the opening of the film 
> would feature a Holographic U.S.S. Enterprise flying from the back of 
> the Theatres down onto the screen! WOW!! That would have been 
> spectacular ... but, unfortunately, it was not to be!! Technologies let 
> us down.
> 
> Of the series of six TOS films, it is generally considered that the even 
> numbered Films are the better films.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek
> 
> Looking forward to reading what you think of the Monies!

s/Monies/Movies ;-(
-- 
Daniel

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How I Came to Prefer Star Trek over Star Wars Deck of 51 <deckof51@invalid.com> - 2020-06-21 10:45 -0230
  Re: How I Came to Prefer Star Trek over Star Wars Daniel65 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2020-06-22 15:16 +1000
    Re: How I Came to Prefer Star Trek over Star Wars Daniel65 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2020-06-23 22:54 +1000
  Re: How I Came to Prefer Star Trek over Star Wars monero909 <monero909@o2.pl> - 2020-12-02 22:30 +0100
    Re: How I Came to Prefer Star Trek over Star Wars Deck of 51 <Deckof51@invalid.com> - 2020-12-02 20:16 -0330
      Re: How I Came to Prefer Star Trek over Star Wars monero909 <monero909@o2.pl> - 2020-12-03 18:43 +0100
        Re: How I Came to Prefer Star Trek over Star Wars Deck of 51 <Deckof51@invalid.com> - 2020-12-03 23:49 -0330
          Re: How I Came to Prefer Star Trek over Star Wars Daniel65 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2020-12-04 17:17 +1100

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