The Science of Small Screen Sci Fi
November 11th 2010 20:17
The original I mean. With Capt Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Bones, Chekov and the crew. Their adventures each week were a window to the future for a five-year-old and spawned endless hours of imaginary battles with Klingons and other bizarre inhabitants of worlds far beyond our own - well in my mind at least!
The idea of being energised via the transporter room made perfect sense and inflicting the Vulcan death stare almost worked . . . once!
No, it was the pinacle of sci fi viewing for this impressionable young mind - and certainly way cooler than Billy Mumy's crowd on the Jupiter II or even the poor folk caught up in "The Time Tunnel".
Come to think of it even the short lived Land of the Giants or Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons, not to mention Commander Stryker and the oh so futuristic UFO - seemed a little implausible compared to integrity of battle those commissioned on starship Enterprise (complete with their Wigglesque crew necks) engaged in each week.
But times change and so did programming.
Before we knew it Kirk, Spock and Bones had fallen victim Battlestar Galactica, Quantum Leap and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century . . . oh dear!
There are times in my life though when a dose of something less than reality is needed - when a prescriptive of The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits or even Kolchak - The Night Stalker would be just the tonic.
OK, so maybe Mork and Mindy, Sliders or Blake's 7 is more your cup of Sci-Fi tea - but personally give me old school small screen any day.
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Comment by James Rickard
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I just realized something--I haven't liked anything for the past 30 years!!!! *LOL*
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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The Time Tunnel did make it out of the US! It made it onto our screens (in Sydney at least) in the early-mid 70s. Always seemed to screen either just after the wrestling on a Sunday afternoon or just before It's Academic/Jeopardy around 5pm.
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Comment by Sim1
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What an awesome series. And whilst I enjoy today's sci-fi nonsense, like Fringe, Flash Forward and LOST etc., nothing quite beats Star Trek, does it? Or, as it was called in the woods where I grew up: Raumschiff Enterprise.
P.S. Although I must admit, I loved Quantum Leap, too!