TheUncannyJim 0 Posted March 10, 2008 Pretty good read...I laughed out loud a few times. http://www.wizarduniverse.com/030708tenabs...rekmoments.html Definitely worth checking out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kor37 9 Posted March 10, 2008 I can't get this link to work...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trekz 7 Posted March 11, 2008 I could only get the first five but they were pretty on target and funny. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wishfire 2 Posted March 12, 2008 Well, since some people are having difficulty with the link... WARPED FACTORSLaugh at our Prime Directive: The 10 Most Absurd Moments of Classic Star Trek...and why they rock! pad By Andy Serwin & Mike Cotton Posted 3/7/2008 pad pad Set your phasers to fun. We’re suffering so badly from Pon Farr over J.J. Abrams’ upcoming “Star Trek” feature film (warping into theaters Dec. 25) that we’ve been TiVoing all the episodes of Gene Roddenberry’s classic sci-fi television series and watching them religiously. And if we’ve learned anything, it’s that “Trek” is one of the craziest, most outrageous, mind-blowing shows ever to air on TV. From dead presidents floating in outer space to Kirk & Co. dressing like Nazis, the show constantly amazed, entertained and even enlightened. If Abrams’ big-screen re-imagining comes within one parsec of these favorite moments, we’ll be transformed into hardcore Trekkers for life. 1. SPACE LINCOLN! (“The Savage Curtain”) Captain Kirk’s first response to unknown anomalies is usually a full spread of photon torpedoes. But when President Abraham Lincoln pops up on the Enterprise’s view screen (floating in space in his desk chair no less!), James T. starts a hardcore bromance on the former commander-in-chief, taking him into battle against a horde of evil space criminals (including Genghis Khan)—for which Honest Abe gets a spear in the back for his trouble. 2. YOU’RE VULCAN CRAZY, SPOCK (“The Menagerie I & II”) Vulcans can’t lie, but apparently there’s no rules against BS-ing you, kidnapping an invalid Starfleet commander and hijacking a starship. That’s just what Spock does to Kirk when he steals the Enterprise to deliver his former commander, Captain Christopher Pike, to the alien Talosians for some permanent shore leave, where the paraplegic former Starfleet captain can live out his days reliving his greatest adventures “Fantasy Island” style. 3. GOATEES EQUAL EVIL (“Mirror, Mirror”) Everyone knows the saga of Kirk and crew in that evil Mirror Universe where the Federation was a bloodthirsty galactic empire. But more impressive in this episode is Spock’s response to the evil variants on his Enterprise—he throws them in the brig just moments after they beam aboard, proving that “good Spock” is at least 50 percent smarter than an evil alternate universe one with a goatee. 4. NAZIS—I HATE THESE GUYS (“Patterns of Force”) Going to “what if” locales—such as the 1920s gangsters planet or all-Native American world—was no big deal for the Enterprise gang, but seeing Kirk, McCoy and Spock dressed as S.S. soldiers on a planet where Nazis conquered and united the world was the most surreal thing ever seen on ’60s TV while not on LSD. 5. COWBOYS AND ALIENS (“Specter of the Gun”) Kirk survived his fair share of space shootouts, but in this cosmic precursor to “Tombstone,” he, McCoy, Spock and Scotty have to slap leather with the Earp clan and Doc Holliday outside the O.K. Corral after ignoring the warnings of a xenophobic alien race. Our only problem with this episode? Chekov doesn’t stay dead. 6. McCOY BUSTED FOR TTUI: TIME TRAVEL UNDER THE INFLUENCE (“City on the Edge of Forever”) Bones, as many medical professionals are wont to do, shoots up out of his own medicine chest, freaks out, beams down to an alien planet then travels through time and screws up the future so bad that Starfleet never existed. To save McCoy and the 23rd century, Kirk must nail Joan Collins, while Spock has to push her in front of a truck. 7. REALITY ISLAND (“Space Seed”) Genetic superman Khan, proving that genetic supermen are always d--ks, easily beds Starfleet ensigns and takes over the Enterprise. So when Kirk finally routs the mutiny, you’d think he’d beam this jerk into the sun. Nope—he strands him on Ceti-Alpha 5 instead, a move that bites him in the *butt* years later when Khan sprouts chesticles and a death oath against Kirk in “Star Trek II.” 8. SPOCK: SEX MACHINE (“Amok Time”) Imagine you only got turned on once every seven years; think your pants could contain that wood? Spock’s couldn’t either, and he goes so batsh-- crazy when he’s hit with the Vulcan Pon Farr mating urge that he tries to kill Kirk with a giant spear just to get some space tail. Do Vulcans know about symbolism? 9. COSMIC CRABS (“The Trouble With Tribbles”) Like an adopted shelter dog that once belonged to Michael Vick, when Kirk and crew let these cute yet fruitful space rats called Tribbles onto the Enterprise, all hell breaks loose. Born pregnant, Tribbles reproduce at an alarming rate and eat the ship’s supplies, then add to that headache with Klingon trouble on a remote space station. Scotty comes up with a brilliant solution to both problems that’s the galactic equivalent of stranding them on the side of the highway: He beams the li’l critters on board the Klingon ship! Take that, PETA! 10. R&R IS MURDER (“Wolf in the Fold”) Sailors like Scotty give the Navy a bad name. After the chief engineer goes on a three-day binge, his shore leave takes a sudden turn for the worse when he wakes up face down in an alley with a dead hooker nearby. (Don’t you hate it when that happens?) After a couple more broads turn up dead, Scotty faces the space electric chair, until it turns out the real killer is actually Jack the Ripper…who was an alien entity that traveled through space a century before mankind. (No, seriously.) Faced with an incorporeal killer jumping from body to body, Kirk has a couple choices—does he beam it out into space or beam it out into space and then shoot it with photon torpedoes? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gummy 0 Posted March 12, 2008 I got all ten. And they were great!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trekz 7 Posted March 12, 2008 Thanks WishfireOmega! After seeing the whole list, it is pretty funny. My favorite titles: Goatees Equal Evil = Mirror, Mirror, Reality Island = Space Speed, Spock: Sex Machine = Amok Time, & R&R is Murder = Wolf in the Fold. Scotty has always had trouble on Shore Leave, as in The Trouble with Tribbles! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kor37 9 Posted March 12, 2008 Great list. Very funny! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
