Does the series feel dated?

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Does the series feel dated?
Topic Started: Aug 17 2008, 08:56 PM (711 Views)
Heather	Aug 17 2008, 08:56 PM Post #1
executive bitch Posts: 7,625 Group: Administrator Member #321 Joined: April 7, 2006 Favorite Star Trek series The Next Generation	To me maybe because I grew up watching TNG and didn't watch any TOS until after I saw all the other series, it is just hard for me to get into the show. I still haven't seen more than half of them because they are hard for me to watch. I enjoy the movies alot so it's not that I don't like the cast or the premise. Maybe I'm just stubborn. TOS fanatics, tell me what you think?



wissaboo	Aug 17 2008, 11:58 PM Post #2
Posts: 14,804 Group: Administrator Member #28 Joined: December 11, 2005 Favorite Star Trek series TOS	It is definitly a product of it's time. I grew up watching it so it's like watching an old friend.
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AdmiralGummy	Aug 18 2008, 05:53 PM Post #3
Unregistered	IMO, it depends on how you view it. To me, some of the episodes messages are still relevant today. Some aren't so much any more. But in terms of effects, yes, it is dated. But the remastered episodes breathe new life into it.
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Almighty	Aug 18 2008, 06:52 PM Post #4
officially old Posts: 7,365 Group: Administrator Member #260 Joined: February 10, 2006 Favorite Star Trek series DS9	Some of them have aged terribly but many are still very relevant I grew up with it so i love the show just as much as the others



Violet	Aug 19 2008, 11:59 AM Post #5
Purrrr Posts: 417 Group: Member Member #380 Joined: June 25, 2006 Favorite Star Trek series all of them! Each one for differed reasons!	The Visuals are dated..but the themes are timeless!! While I was a product of the TNG generation... I started watching TOS first.. so it may be Nostalgia or something..
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WilburWood	Aug 19 2008, 12:54 PM Post #6
Ensign Posts: 2 Group: Member Member #2,069 Joined: December 17, 2007	wissaboo Aug 17 2008, 11:58 PM It is definitly a product of it's time. I grew up watching it so it's like watching an old friend. Well put!
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Lothwen_Eriniel	Nov 5 2008, 10:21 AM Post #7
Stinker Posts: 4,909 Group: Member Member #12 Joined: December 10, 2005	Heather Aug 17 2008, 09:56 PM To me maybe because I grew up watching TNG and didn't watch any TOS until after I saw all the other series, it is just hard for me to get into the show. I still haven't seen more than half of them because they are hard for me to watch. I enjoy the movies alot so it's not that I don't like the cast or the premise. Maybe I'm just stubborn. TOS fanatics, tell me what you think? I definitely grew up watching TNG too, and when I first started watching TOS I had a bit of a hard time with them. I started watching them more while living with my dad a few years ago, and after going through them all again recently I find them much easier to watch then TNG. I think it just has to do with what you are used to. People tend to make fun of me for my love of acquired tastes though, so maybe it would be different for you if you tried to make it through them all.



CaptDennyCrane	Nov 5 2008, 11:41 AM Post #8
No need for explanation Posts: 9,071 Group: Member Member #2,070 Joined: December 17, 2007	Just that TOS is as dated as it appears is so much a part of its appeal now, to me having grown up with it. Something about it that just survives its age that it was a travesty to watch what they had done to it in the remastering attempts. IM glad that it stopped and that I have the discs of the original airings.
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vgrbabe	Nov 5 2008, 12:14 PM Post #9
Vice Admiral Posts: 9,068 Group: Member Member #2,071 Joined: December 17, 2007 Favorite Star Trek series VOYAGER	Personaly I think that the early seasons of TNG are more dated than just about anything on TOS. TOS screams low budget. TNG screams 80s
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CaptDennyCrane	Nov 5 2008, 12:46 PM Post #10
No need for explanation Posts: 9,071 Group: Member Member #2,070 Joined: December 17, 2007	vgrbabe Nov 5 2008, 02:14 PM Personaly I think that the early seasons of TNG are more dated than just about anything on TOS. TOS screams low budget. TNG screams 80s Well, TOS pretty much WAS "Wagon Train to the Stars" what can you expect from a 60's TV budget? amazing they managed what they did on it.
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