Stupid Guest Tricks

avengador1 wrote:Kirk fights him on the Asteroid of Unlikely Mineral Deposits, defeating him by inventing gunpowder and blasting him with a diamond the size of William Shatner's ego.

I just watched a Mythbusters from a couple years ago where they tested that. And to be fair, when you look at some of the things Shatner has done and continues to do at 81 years old, he kinda has the right to a bit of ego. I would like to be as active as him at 81.

Just out of curiosity, how many here have been around long enough to remember seeing Trek when it was originally broadcast?

I do, just a little -- I was barely 5 years old when it went off the air, but my older brothers watched it. I distinctly remember seeing a scene from the planet's surface in "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky." It wasn't until a few years later that I really watched it, in reruns, and became a fan.

BRWombat wrote:Just out of curiosity, how many here have been around long enough to remember seeing Trek when it was originally broadcast?

I was one of those, though not much older than you.

BRWombat wrote:I was barely 5 years old when it went off the air, but my older brothers watched it.

I was nine when it left. I saw some of the first run, because my mom liked it, but dad didn't so we didn't see many eps then. Seen all the episodes multiple times since, though. Mom was not a big enough fan to pay for all the books or any of that but she would always watch it with me. And she came to the cons just long enough to see all the Trek parodies any of us were in.

Anyone else get all the Blish books, Whitfield's The Making of Star Trek, Gerrold's World of Star Trek and the Tribbles one, and pretty much everything they released up until the Pocket books came out? At which point I got behind, because most of the early Trek fiction was purely dreadful and I wasn't motivated to buy one every-however-often-they-started-coming-out. Marshak and Culbreth's Bantam books were train-wreck bad, but I don't think I ever even finished Katheleen Sky's.

I liked the fanfiction better, but I'm pretty sure that's because I knew some good editors who I bummed zines from -- not as high a percentage of dreadful floating around back then (because you had to pay to publish/otherwise make a lot more effort than dumping it on the Internet), but there was definitely as lot of dreadful.

I've since read the Pocket books up through the forties or thereabouts. Someone said they were better than the Bantam; I'd say they started out about the same but got up to generally competent fairly rapidly. Not a lot I want to reread, though. Love Jean Lorrah's and, as an old Here Come the Brides fan with a weakness for crossovers, adored Hambly's Ishamel.

I remember the First Runs on Star Trek, The Flintstones, and Batman :)
Used to Go-Go dance to the Batman Theme: NanananananananaNA!BATMAN! :p:

DisneyMom wrote: Used to Go-Go dance to the Batman Theme: NanananananananaNA!BATMAN! :p:

Holy hot pants Batman!!

Yeah, I remember the early Batman--used to try to keep track of the villains until I gave up--Star Trek, and a couple others. Shatner looks terrific for 81. My older sister Susan was really into Star Trek--I got her one of those books--think it was the Making of Star Trek one--but I read it more than she did. I was 10 when Star Trek came on in '66.

I remember many 60s shows when they were first runs. Man! Now I'm feeling old again.