Just a television show...

[plynch]

I Love Lucy
Star Trek TOS

Why "I Love Lucy"? No challenge, just curiosity.

 

[jtkirk]

I Love Lucy
Star Trek TOS

Why "I Love Lucy"? No challenge, just curiosity.

IMO it's the best comedic television series ever produced. It's comedy is timeless, characters are like family, Lucille Ball is a comedic genius. Like TOS, every new generation discovers ILL & falls in love with it.

 

[Ssosmcin]

IMO, Star Trek was always at its worst when it pretended to be more than just a television show. Remember that UPN special gala event where the casts of all the series gathered together for a big pat on the back in the style of an Academy Award show? It was that special where the cast of Frasier did a skit with Kate Mulgrew. What an embarrassment. For me that was the moment when Trek jumped the shark. To act like Star Trek is the second coming is to really turn it into, as Shatner said on SNL, a colossal waste of time.

Yes, Trek is just a TV show. A really good TV show, but a TV show nontheless.

This reminds me of my initial reaction when I first saw the teaser trailer for Star Trek 6, with Christopher Plummer narrating the clips projected on the Enterprise, calling the crew "our guides, our protectors, and our friends" who "inspired us with their courage." Made my eyes roll. I'm as much of a geeky Trekkie as the next guy, but even I was like "Jeebus, they're actors in a fricking TV show."

Agreed, it's one of the most famous and influential TV shows in
history, but that line does get crossed - more often by Paramount than us.