# Kids have started watching Star Trek TOS and like it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732 "2012-06-10T15:28:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/21 "2012-06-18T01:04:01Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I always thought the idea for this came from _Time Bandits_, a totally awesome movie. I watched it on video one night bombed out of my mind, and I was blown away (even though I’d already seen it in a cinema when it first came out)! “Going to be, going to be!” ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/22 "2012-06-18T11:14:44Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I bet 5000 quatloos on \*\* NieceCadfael\*\*. **NieceCadfael** has a masters’ in linguistics. You have to get up pretty early to catch her out on anything related. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/23 "2012-06-18T12:08:26Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I always thought the idea for this came from _Time Bandits_, a totally awesome movie. I watched it on video one night bombed out of my mind, and I was blown away (even though I’d already seen it in a cinema when it first came out)! Definitely some major similarities! (Kids and Time Travel, whodathunk?) Hard to tell if it was influence or coincidence, tho. According to Wiki, **Voyagers!** inspired the **Quantum Leap** idea. Voyagers was meant to be a mix of educational TV with fiction. Edutainment, I think someone called it. It’s only downfall was being in the same time slot as **60 Minutes**. It’s second season was scrapped for a short lived TV news magazine show to compete with 60M, which failed terribly. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/24 "2012-06-18T14:59:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I refuse to put Spock’s Brain on the list. When I’m in the right mood, it’s just good old plain, silly fun! 🙂 It includes the great line (spoken by McCoy) along the lines of regretting he hooked up Spock’s mouth/vocal cords. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/25 "2012-06-18T15:04:44Z")
Next stop:\* Kung Fu\* ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/26 "2012-06-18T15:08:19Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > It includes the great line (spoken by McCoy) along the lines of regretting he hooked up Spock’s mouth/vocal cords. The Modern Graphics include more buttons on McCoy’s Spock Remote. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/27 "2012-06-18T15:08:32Z")
“‘Brain’ and ‘brain’! **What is ‘brain’**?” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/28 "2012-06-18T15:09:36Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Next stop:\* Kung Fu\* “I am sorry. I … do not **wish** … to make trouble!” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/29 "2012-06-18T15:11:24Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > “Going to be, going to be!” **“It’s the Supreme Being, AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![boozilu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@boozilu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boozilu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/30 "2012-06-18T15:56:14Z")
Mr Boozilu often makes fun of “Spock’s Brain”, but one of our favorite catchphrases is “A child could do it!” in McCoy’s exaggerated drawl. My nomination for worst episode – “Squire of Gothos” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/31 "2012-06-18T16:24:42Z")
> [@boozilu](#): > > My nomination for worst episode – “Squire of Gothos” Not Q, Jr! ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/32 "2012-06-18T16:31:29Z")
Trelane is Q Jr. and I don’t care if it’s not canon. Peter David wrote it so it is true. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/33 "2012-06-18T16:38:53Z")
The only quibble I have with “Squire” is the mixed-up history Trelane cites. Otherwise, it was a good episode, and the guest space babe was a really hot blonde! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/34 "2012-06-18T17:18:42Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > the guest space babe was a really hot blonde! 🆒 Pardon? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/35 "2012-06-18T17:23:37Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Pardon? This chick, right here: > **[Venita Wolf](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Venita_Wolf)** > > Venita Wolf (1 September 1945–22 November 2014; age 69) was the actress who appeared as Teresa Ross in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "The Squire of Gothos". She filmed her scenes on Friday 28 October 1966, Monday 31 October... And here, too: > **[Venita Wolf, Playboy Magazine July 1967 Cover Photo - United States](https://www.famousfix.com/topic/playboy-magazine-united-states-july-1967)** > > 16 June 2025... Who is on the cover of Playboy Magazine \[United States\] (July 1967)? Venita Wolf, Playboy Cover Photo July 1967, Playboy Magazine Venita Wolf, Cover Picture, Playboy Magazine Pictorial, Venita Wolf, Playboy Front Cover July 1967 ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/36 "2012-06-18T17:25:22Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Pardon? > **[Venita Wolf](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Venita_Wolf)** > > Venita Wolf (1 September 1945–22 November 2014; age 69) was the actress who appeared as Teresa Ross in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "The Squire of Gothos". She filmed her scenes on Friday 28 October 1966, Monday 31 October... Curse these slow hands! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/37 "2012-06-18T17:40:21Z")
Thanks. I did not recall the character. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/38 "2012-06-18T17:44:18Z")
Here’s another picture of her from “The Monkees.” She was just scrumptious! 🙂 [http://monkees.coolcherrycream.com/images/season-2-characters/38-iwa99lbw-brenda.jpg](http://monkees.coolcherrycream.com/images/season-2-characters/38-iwa99lbw-brenda.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/39 "2012-06-19T02:58:27Z")
> [@oreally](#): > > > [@Kenm](#): > > > > TOS is being butchered by marketers with the same mindset as those who would colourize black-and-white classics, such as the Maltese Falcon, to make them “better.” > > > > The TOS episodes, filmed at 4:3, have been cropped to fit 16:9. Space the bastards! > > They also inserted “modern graphics” for shots of orbiting planets. It looks out of place and stupid. Leave classic the flip ALONE. You cannot improve them. I think the new effects look great, and not intrusive at all. They come off as what the original production team would have done if they could. Cropping for fake widescreen _would_ of course be butchery; where is that happening? ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732/40 "2012-06-19T04:21:54Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Cropping for fake widescreen _would_ of course be butchery; where is that happening? The [**Space**](http://www.spacecast.com/) cable channel in Canada, owned by Ma Bell/CTV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-started-watching-star-trek-tos-and-like-it/624732.md?page=3)