Serious Trek session

jonno8339 · October 24, 2010, 03:16:01 AM

So my wife and kids are away for a few days, gone to Scotland to see friends......leaving me with a nice red wine and a few trek box sets. At the moment just watching tos season 1. Where do I go now......Opening up to you guys to guide my faultering steps....

Feathers · October 24, 2010, 04:47:30 AM

Ah but you haven't said what you have available or what you have and haven't seen before (though it's probably all in the intro thread and I've forgotten).

jonno8339 · October 24, 2010, 05:54:36 AM

Yeah Feathers, noobie mistake there, guess excitment got the better of me there. Got all tos boxsets plus movies. Point an episode/movie out thats your favourite. Just watched bread and circuses for podcast...where too now?

Feathers · October 24, 2010, 06:34:44 AM

I jump straight to second and sixth movies in that predictable manner of most non TOS experts. Outside of that then there are scenes I remember but can't always place them into episodes. For TOS advice, Bryan would be useful about now.

jonno8339 · October 24, 2010, 08:16:44 AM

Right that sorted my evening out then, thanks feathers

Bryancd · October 24, 2010, 09:12:27 AM

Did you watch all of Season 1 TOS, Jonno? If so, Season 2 is very solid with "Mirror, Mirror" "The Doomesday Machine" "Journey To Babel" "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "amok Time" Those are the highlights, IMO.

jonno8339 · October 24, 2010, 11:17:47 AM

Well just finishing watching Wrath of Khan. Will post a topic about the things which I noticed. Why is Romulan ale Illigel? But will watch some tos too and post my thoughts

Bryancd · October 24, 2010, 11:29:23 AM

Quote from: jonno8339 on October 24, 2010, 11:17:47 AM
Well just finishing watching Wrath of Khan. Will post a topic about the things which I noticed. Why is Romulan ale Illigel? But will watch some tos too and post my thoughts

I was sort of took that to mean Romulan Ale was either very potent or was due to some kind of trade barrier, like not being able to buy Cuban cigars in the US.

Feathers · October 24, 2010, 11:46:04 AM

Certainly from Worf's comment in Nemesis it's potency seems to put it into that category but I took it to mean a trade embargo of some sort. Given that there probably was no contact with the Romulans for a long time, however, I'm not sure why that would have been necessary.

jonno8339 · October 24, 2010, 12:21:38 PM

Thought it might be something to do with trade. So heres a question for you. Considering there is no currency on earth by this point of the 23rd century how is trade possible?

Feathers · October 24, 2010, 12:35:18 PM

My understanding was that the Federation still maintained a currency balance for trading with external societies, they just didn't use anything internally. Given that currency is still basically a glorified bartering mechanism, however, I'm not even sure that that would be strictly necessary.

jonno8339 · October 24, 2010, 02:47:06 PM

Ah the good old gold pressed latinum

M-5 · October 24, 2010, 06:00:41 PM

When you're watching Second Two, check out The Immunity Sydrome. It's another good one from the second season.

Bryancd · October 24, 2010, 06:02:38 PM

...and "The Deadly Years"....

jonno8339 · October 25, 2010, 09:50:57 AM

What a great episode tos 'the deadly years'. Makes you wonder how I will be when I get old. Will I age but still remain mentally sharpe. Or will I loose my mental abilities as I age. I felt sorry for Kirk when his command was taken off him as he didnt think he was getting old. Thanks guys for recommending it