Ten Forward Lounge - Miscellaneous General Chat & Welcome Thread
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i had no idea they showed star trek on the tube
Secondry School for me for TNG. - A little too young for the first airing on TOS, but did catch the reruns later that decade
Whenever I think of TOS, I recall a friend of mine (Melissa Beem) that could name each episode before the opening theme.
Howdy. New here and new to Trek in a sense too. I've always known about it but I never really 'got' into it until the last year and a half. Now I'm insatiable about it and binging what I can. I also don't have others to really talk with about it so here I am. Oh, and I'm 26 if that means anything.
Welcome! Which show was your "gateway drug?"
I'm going to hazard a guess that it's the reboot movies, and Zachary Quinto's Spock that brought him here.
The first of the shows I actually saw was an episode of TNG through the recommendation of someone online I chatted with. Before that I was getting introduced to Trek through various other sources in the forms of references over the years before taking the time to actually watch it. I saw the movies around but I was into other things when the time the 2009 one was out. I had kind of grown up on a lot of older media through things like youtube (endless supply of free films people used to upload back then) and even older Doctor Who/Star Wars (original trilogy) that the entire lens-flare filled new stuff from what I saw didn't interest me all that much when the sequels came around, but that could also me just burying my head into other things of sci-fi.
I'm also around that age & the gateway for me was TOS -- I saw the first reboot movie when it came out but I was fairly young and it didn't make an impression on me. I went on a couple dates with a girl in high school who was obsessed with Star Trek and she convinced me to watch the original series, and I fell in love with it. My husband came in through TNG, which his mom watched while it was airing (when she was in college) and showed him when he was a kid.
Did you ever look up the Doctor Who/Star Trek comic someone wrote? I believe it's called "Assimilation²" Matt Smith and Picard taking on the Cybermen and the Borg simultaneously. Quite fun!
Pretty interesting way of getting to it. No one around me ever had much interest in it, even my own current partner.
I very much have! It's a nice type of ride around canon even with the addition of an obligatory 4th Doctor scene. Though I will say that the art truly lets it down for me considering it just diminished some of the tension and action set pieces with the muddling of colors and shapes and screencapped faces.
Welcome to the board, @Vulcanoid !
A long weekend. And I want to watch something. Putting on The Wrath of Khan.
I like listening to Spock and Saavik speaking Klingon.
When did the T' naming convention start for female Vulcans?
When did the T' naming convention start for female Vulcans?
From the beginning, with "Amok Time". I seem to recall some mention in one of the novels as to why Saavik's name doesn't start with "T'" but it's been ages since I read them and could be misremembering.
What really annoys me is Dr. Selar's name in TNG. "Selar" is a male Vulcan character in the fanfiction series linked in my sig. When I heard the name "Selar" in the TV show I was not expecting a female character.
What really annoys me is Dr. Selar's name in TNG. "Selar" is a male Vulcan character in the fanfiction series linked in my sig. When I heard the name "Selar" in the TV show I was not expecting a female character.
Right. Same thing with Saavik. Was dear old Vulcan dad expecting a son when she was born?
The fact that there are so many exceptions at this point makes me think the T-for-girls/S-for-boys thing is a tradition but not a hard and fast rule -- not too different from having a female character named Michael 
Could also possibly be a regional thing or something, maybe more common around ShiKahr but less so elsewhere?
I still prefer the “half-Romulan” backstory that the movie cut but the novels ran with, so Vulcan naming customs wouldn’t necessarily apply.
But I do tend to agree with @Lady Mondegreen … since then, we’ve seen Valeris and Koss and Maj’el and so many others, that the theory that there was an actual convention or rule was probably just due to a limited sample size.
And really, there’s no reason to assume that a species that came up with the concept of IDIC would tend to such rigid similarity. It makes sense that Vulcan names would be as diverse as human names are.
Just finished Into Darkness again. Such a good movie!
Only the Enterprise size keeps changing..... How big was that reactor room? Yet he gets in via this tiny little door........
