• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    When I played Civ 4 , I haven’t watched any TOS. He fucking KILLED it with those lines. Even the funny ones.

    I did know him as spock, but had’t seen any eps of TOS. I only saw one, the tribbles one, and a few tos films (Khan, Whales, Generations) this past year

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      18 hours ago

      Definitely give all of TOS a watch if you are able.

      Theres really no other way to explain it than as a seminal and groundbreaking series, that laid the foundation for… so many things that came after it, were inspired by it.

      … like cellphones, for example.

      Its … not high octane. Its pretty rough around some modern cultural edges, most notably sex/gender roles. Its… of hilariously low production value compared to so much of more modern media. A lot of it is goofy as fuck, even within its own world.

      … but its still incredible. It still did things that nobody else had ever done before, and … some of those things still hold up as radical, even today.

      The uh, hah, a lot of the TOS films are … kinda still to this day have lets say ‘mixed’ reception at best.

      Its a show about a crew, who goes on missions, on basically a 5 year tour of duty. It really only works properly with the kind of regular, consistent exposure you get from a TV series, to slowly really show you the characters, as if you’re stuck aboard with 'em, getting annoyed or amused by their various quirks and characteristics.

      … at its best, its a show about a possible way of life, a way of being, of cooperating with strange people and peoples toward mutually beneficial outcomes.

      I gotta stop myself from rambling.

      Is it the best show you’re ever gonna have watched? … Eh, maybe, probably not.

      But… I feel like you actually can’t understand US cultural history properly if you haven’t seen it.

      … we used to actually have a vision of a better future. Hope.

      In… times such as we now live… that should never be forgotten.

      (The tribbles episode is pretty cute and fun though, eh?)