General Star Trek thread

Star Trek is full of "touching" beams. Tuvix involved a spliced flower.

Handily, some Mormons called to the door earlier so I used some judo and Vulcan Nerve Pinch, and you're right, we had a riot!

I think if you watch no. 5 in the right frame of mind you'll be okay.

It's obvs the worst of the original cast movies but there is a lot of decent stuff in it and some good ideas. I'd suggest reading Shatner's Trek Movie Memories if you get a chance, it really gives you an idea what he was going for

Kelly's age might have had something to do with it, he was ten years older tan Shatner and Nimoy. If I member right Shatner and Nimoy organised a disproportionate fee for Kelly in STVI because it was probably going to be his last acting job.

66 in the 80's though was so different than today.

Shatner and sci-fi writing are odd when they’re put together.

After ST:V and being rejected, Shatner proceeded to write books for his Blade Runner clone «Tek Wars» which kind of smacked of him writing a veichle for himself. Sure enough, whenever there was a live-action version of his series, he’d somehow manage to end up on screen.

I think he was trying the same when he wrote a spinoff to ST: Generations called “The Return”, where Kirk is brought back from the dead by Romulans using Borg tech (or some such fan fiction). My guess is he was trying to give the Trek writers a way to un-dead him into the TNG-era…but I guess they weren’t interested :P

Shatner did a good few Trek novels. Pretty much exclusively featuring Kirk.
And I guess fair play, it’s an honorable way to earn some cash and add to Trek…but in my head it always smacked of him trying to convince the Trek heads to give him another go, and that this was is main motivation to write, as opposed to the creation aspect. I could easily be wrong, it’s just the impression I get.

By the way, Prodigy S2 is on Netflix now. Just watched episode 1 of season 2. Make sure you use the double thumb up rating to send a message we want more of this.

It also had a video game in the 90's made on the same Build-Engine that was used on Duke Nukem 3D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner%27s_TekWar

Apparently was an alright FPS game, but it was loaded up with video briefings from Shatner after each mission where he complains about how violent you've been. Seems he couldn't even resist that the temptation to also appear in the game.

Also, it's not just "TekWar - The Game" it's William Shatner's TekWar, signed by him, and with his picture on the box art.

Bloody hell Shatner, we get it already. You made a thing…

I'm pretty sure I've seen TekWar but have no memory of it. I think it used to be on late nights on SkyOne in the 90s

EDIT: I just looked up the cast, Von Flores was in the TV series and I rember seeing him and thinking "oh it's Sandoval" (from Earth: Final Conflict)

1st: It's a kids show, be prepared for that

2nd: About 3 or 4 episodes. Finds its feet far faster than Lower Decks did, for sure

I was looking up some more probably terrible 90s sci fi on justwatch and Earth: Final Conflict has "Gene Roddenberry's" tacked on to the front.

Shater played a sort of CEO / Spymaster talking-head in the series. Kind of an all-knowing anti-villian. He had permanent billing on the TekWar TV show and appeared in every episode, but he wasn't the lead.

Probably taking advantage of Canadian tax breaks!

After one of the cast changes I think msin actor was supposed to have Irish connections... Liam Kincaid.

I remember one episode set in Ireland also. With stereotypical bar brawl.

The premise was intereresting alright but hampered by budget limits, fill 22 episodes and need for random shootouts.

It would be interesting to see a limited series that focuses on the core idea.