10. Noisy doors.
You can’t walk three feet in a starship without some door whooshing or screeching at you. My office building has automatic sliding doors. They’re dead silent. If those doors went “wheet!” every time a person walked through them, about once a month some guy in accounting would snap and go on a shooting rampage. Sorry Scotty, the IEEE has revoked your membership until you learn to master WD-40
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#31 – Angel
Yes, yes, quite so – but the fact remains: Angel, you horny bastard!
#29 – Da Hoppa
In fact, no, never heard of it. But taking just a cursory look, it’s obviously worth checking out, which I intend to do, thx.
I’m generally sour on what’s been happening in SF for the last couple of decades, lotsa cookie-cutter cribbing from the masters and no shortage of formulaic pseudo-intellectual S&S derivatives; no thank you. I’m amply rewarded by exploring the obscure backcatalogs of the likes of Sturgeon, Silverberg, Vance, Aldiss, &c… The only true major, consistent talent I’ve found since the ’80s is Connie Willis, whom I happened upon by purest dumb luck.
I don’t deny that I’m certainly missing out on some nontrivial amount of quality contemporary SF, but OTOH, the Golden Age really is over. Literature and music both have not generally done well since the ’80s.
TOS is the best!
#23 – Dauragon88
“…then at the end of the episode you would find out that at least 400 crew members were shunted out into space.”
It occurred to me that even if the Enterprise had a cloaking device, you could still follow it around the Galaxy just by the trail of Federation-uniformed corpses left in it’s wake, like bread crumbs…
“Live Long and Prosper!”
Now that’s right out of the Bible!
Star trek is shit because it is… anyone who like it is gay
I find it immensely amusing you’re all sat at your PCs typing endless dross about Star Trek – statistically, 30% of you will have high-end autism – the rest?… Well, when you start to get sexually aroused over theoretical starship schematics, and still live with your parents, it’s time to assess your life, or lack thereof.
I was laughing and had respect for your opinion until you said “firefly” was a better series. you’re obviously on crack… Or does Summer Glau just give u a hard on?