Patriot Retort: This weekend, I started to binge-watch the original Star Trek series.
Sure, it’s campy and most of the acting is like a Sci-Fi soap opera.
But Star Trek was a fave of mine as a kid, so it has nostalgic significance to me.
Plus, I tend to talk at the screen like one of the robots from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
But after the mob-led free-for-all leading up to Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, I really needed a mindless escape.
And last night one of the episodes I watched was “Space Seed.” MORE HERE
49 years ago, we were on track. We were putting men on the Moon. Now, we have PhDs arguing that there are more than two sexes in the human species.
The progs fucked up our Star Trek future. Now, our future will probably be more like The Wicca Man.
@ MJA and Dianny – We were up in Ticonderoga this past weekend but could not make it:
https://www.startrektour.com/
Maybe in the Spring?
Roddenberry and fellow writers, as Futurists, were genius.
The Savage Curtain, with Abe Lincoln:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFu0Ejl2eVo
Last line:
“James, you’re fighting for the lives of your crew”
Campy? Maybe…maybe not.
I curse Obama for ending the shuttle program and giving NASA to the muslimes for a reach-around.
Kennedy put man on the moon.
Obama put men in womens restrooms
Kennedy put men on the moon.
Hillary put men in their graves.
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We still don’t have shoestrings that stay tied. How primitive we are.
Dianny — Is it true that you either love Startrek or you hate it? ‘Cause I can’t stand Startrek. I couldn’t stand that tweeting sound every time someone used their flip phone (or whatever that was they were communicating on). And I especially could not stand everyone fake rolling around or resisting G forces.
I was a Wild Wild West, Mission (Highly Improbable), and 12 O’Clock High fan. Oh, and Rat Patrol. Real men don’t wear unisex uniforms. LOL!
(Nonetheless, I’m very glad you had a fav show to watch during last week’s Kavanaugh ordeal.)
@JET JAGUAR: But we do have Velcro shoes which are a lot easier to put on and don’t come loose. Apparently Velcro shoes can’t get much traction because far too many people think they’re exclusively for old people.
I blame it all on Shatner’s ‘jazz hands.’
AbigailAdams –
Yes…nice list.
Tho, I’m into Gunsmoke now….manly men killing and fighting. Matt is a stud…and a young Miss Kitty is easy on the eyes.
With various channels…it’s on 9 hrs a day.
Sure would like to see some Rat Patrol.
Shatner looks like he is reliving- “There’s something on the wing, some thing!”
👁 STAR TREK ILLUMINATI SYMBOLS ALL OVER 👁
⭐ ORIGINAL STAR TREK SERIES ⭐
🔴 The symbol of Vulcan is a pyramid with a circle around it.
🔴 Spock’s hand gesture is an upside down pyramid.
🔴 Spock meets space hippies in the transporter room, shows them a triangle with both hands.
🔴 S01EP18 woman on planet wears triangle earrings.
🔴 Leader on a planet had the all seeing eye on his cloak, “Cat’s Paw” S02EP07.
⭐ STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION ⭐
🔴 Season 7 Episode 17 “Masks” also known as, “The Illuminati Episode” shows Occultic symbols: sun, moon, pyramids, all seeing eyes and a LOT of kooky Freemason lodge formalities.
🔴 The alien symbols flashing on a computer screen showed an Illuminati pyramid floating around. (same episode)
🔴 “Q” has a pyramid on his forehead on one of his military uniforms: SO1EP1
🔴 The Federation of Planets symbol is a pyramid with a bent bottom.
🔴 The Klingon symbol is a twisted pyramid.
🔴 The Romulan symbol is a falcon over a pyramid.
🔴 The Tholian Assembly is a pyramid.
🔴 Counselor Troi and Worf’s son, Alexander are playing with a black pyramid game. It also is in 10-Forward on the bar by Guinan.
🔴 Pyramid candle on table with children: S07EP16.
🔴 Sarek and wife pyramid jewelry: SO3EP23
🔴 “Unification” Spock holds pyramid shaped game dice: S05EP7-8.
🔴 Pyramid inside a city on a reactor: SO4EP06.
🔴 Pyramids on map behind Worf: S07EP18
🔴 SO4EP06 Pyramid Map of a city: SO4EP06
🔴 Romulan pyramid map on their starship behind Dianna Troi acting as a Romulan officer:SO6EP14
🔴 Pyramid Necklace: S01EP07
🔴 Egyptian all seeing eye. The Collector who steals Data: SO3EP22
🔴 Egyptian symbology in Dr. Soong’s lab: S04EP03
🔴 2271 Rank Insignia: Petty Officer symbol is a pyramid.
🔴 Star Trek Discovery has advertisement of Vulcan pyramid symbol with all seeing eye in it.
⭐ It’s called being observant, thanks. (Don’t even get me started on the old Battlestar Galactica!)
They need to show Combat more often, along with The Naked City one of my favorite cop dramas, Wanted Dead Or Alive with Steve McQueen, Wild Wild West, the original Hawaii Five-O with Jack Lord, the Inspiration channel is doing a good job running a lot of the earlier B&W episodes of Gunsmoke from the early to the mid 60’s (I like William Conrad better as Marshall Dillon on the radio, he’s more of a bad ass but the early James Arness was quite good too and who doesn’t like the evolving of Ken Curtis’s character Festus Haygen and Burt Reynolds character Quint Asper the half breed Commanche Indian), Maverick with James Garner, Rawhide with Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates etc. and all the rest of the good stuff. I wasn’t an initial fan of Star Trek because NBC had canceled The Man From Uncle to replace it with Star Trek. And The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan one of my all time favorite BBC programs which I will still watch anytime it airs on TV.
Also earlier episodes of PBS’s Mystery on Thursday nights from the late 70’s to early 80’s hosted by Gene Shalit and Vincent Price. And PBS’s American Playhouse from that era as well was quite good.
The first episode of PBS’s Mystery with the Harpy is very good, it’s what got me hooked on watching it. And Rumpole of the Bailey with Leo McKern and his wife “She who must be obeyed.”
Great column.
Mithrandir – For kicks & grins I’ll pick on one incorrect point –
Alexander was son of Worf and K’Ehleyr (she was half-human/half-klingon).
Hillary’s dead, Jim.