Dayton, how will they fix your Star Trek?

Production values are one of the easiest things to update.

A learning impaired child of three can tell you're an ignorant, insipid shadow of a person and would have no problem beating you in any type of battle of wits. An insult from you has all the merits of the mumblings that come from a drunken stupor of person with a pre-frontal lobotomy.

I noticed it was an attempt at an insult, but you only keep on proving that you can't defend or even articulate yourself in any discussion when one of you patently ignorant Dayton remarks are questioned of asked to be explained.

Ah yes. One of the "insults" I very rarely use. So rare that it obviously stands out.

Hmmm. Rare, eh? How about these then:-

http://wordforge.net/showpost.php?p=2498818&postcount=210

...where you were reminding people that they were mentally inferior to you....;or

http://wordforge.net/showpost.php?p=2498473&postcount=192

Where you basically called plenty of WForgers liars in not one, but two comments, and not for the first time.

Both of these were in this thread and just a few pages back. Hardly "rare".

Ah, this must be more evidence of everyone being a bit more stupid than you, eh? The veiled insult in the second link above returning, and being confirmed by you as an intended insult.

See Dayton, the mistake you make with your delusion that everyone is dumber than you is that you think people are too limited to work out what you are up to. In fact, it is the opposite, which the vast majority of this board more intelligent that you. It is therefore laughable when you insult people left right and centre and assume that if the insults are veiled or a little more subtle then us drooling retardos can't possibly grasp it just because you don't call them a cunt. On the contrary, it is seen for what it is and it's amusing to watch you sit there trying to play innocent when people know exactly what you are doing (which in turn further displays your un-Christian like use of deceitfulness - whether it ultimately works or not).

For the time period they were excellent. I've always gotten the impression they got the most out of all the resources they had. And the look of the show is one of the elements of its lasting charm.

Well, technically you could've made a considerably better looking Star Trek.

If you had a larger budget (and even Star Treks budget was CUT after each season IIRC, especially after the second season) you could've probably made it look closer to 2001: A Space Odyssey probably which was probably the late 1960s state of the art.

One thing I think they did very well with the Original Series was the use of "stock footage".

By combining stock footage with new background music, I think they really made some effects shots come alive.

I'm thinking of "The Ultimate Computer" and "The Deadly Years" in particular. IIRC, the ONLY brand new effects shot in either of those was when the Enterprise fired its torpedoes on the Wodin (the Wodin being the Space Seed model reused of course).

I really loved how "The Deadly Years" did a good job of reusing the various views of the Romulan ship from "Balance of Terror" to make it look like multiple Romulan ships were attacking the Enterprise.

Hmm, well I've never had that impression of Star Wars. I've always been able to find a special place in my heart for both things. I've even grown somewhat nostalgic about the prequel trilogy.

You know, Kirk was never one to run away from a fight, but he also never went out of his way to find one. He didn't want war.

Almost no one does.

I guess that makes you special

While skimming comments on Netflix about TOS, I came across one that mentioned that the Romulan cloaking device was a result of the only model was accidentally stepped on the day of filming. The Transporter was also the result of budget--it cost too much to have footage of a shuttlecraft landing on the planet every episode (In fact, I think "...Last Battlefield" is the only episode I can recall that ever used a shuttlecraft at all).

Think about how many episodes of future series revolved around these two elements.

I did not want to say "no one does" because I knew El Chup, Rick and others would instantly come in and start posting links to where I've advocated military action in the past.

Technically, I'm not for war either. If I thought U.S. foreign policy goals could be achieved without them I would not support uses of force.

You're kidding right?

Lots of episodes used shuttlecraft.

Journey To Babel
The Galileo Seven
The Doomsday Machine
The Immunity Syndrome
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Metamorphosis
The Menagerie pt. 1

US Foreign Policy, with SoS Dayton

Dayton-Hey, you! We're gonna set up military bases in your country!

Other Country-We don't want that here.

Dayton-I've got a really big army here

Other Country-Welcome to our land

_____________

Dayton-Hey. We need a bunch of your resources

Other Country-We're kind of running low, but can trade you for some...

Dayton-American interest in your stuff comes first! You'll give us all we demand! We've got a lot of nukes, you know...

Other Country-How may we help you?


...and so on.

Dayton do you play mmo's? Spaceturkey you play any?

You do realize I assume that if other nations complied with U.S. requests that there would be no need for military bases?

It would've been impossible to get close to 2001 on a television budget. That film was in production for three years, most of that time spent on the effects. Some of the miniature shots took days to complete because of the filming techniques Doug Trumbull used.

It wasn't until John Dykstra and ILM came along that 2001-like effects could be done more affordably, as the original BSG proves.

All said, the makers of original Trek did the best they could with the limited budgets they had.

True.

Of course, the original Battlestar: Galactica was what, only 9 years after ST:OS ended.

What is your opinion on catsuits?

Is there really no limit to your fanaticism?

In my Star Trek which will air after I have completed my fourth term as President, there is an episode where Captain Kirk, Science Office Spock and the Ships Chaplain (I intend to make him a major character) go back in time to the the year 2020 to see how I brought the United States of America back to its true values. The story will teach the the shame of unnecessary sexual acts and how the mission of the Federation became about bringing God to alien species.

I think that will be uplifting episode that will bring in the ratings.

Troll/10

They are best filled with lipstick lesbians who watch BSG and play on their Sony PS3s. Natch.

Dayton is fit for german and dutch army.

This thread proves once and for all that Dayton is irredeemably awful. Just fucking the worst person I've ever come across. He's worse than Enterpriser. He's worse than VisionCastle. He's worse than Mike Wong. Fuck him. He is incapable of being a human being.

Hyperbole?

yes, please.

I doubt it.Gul never met Pol Pot.....

See, I've met some cunts in my time, but what disturbs me about this one is that he is spouting all this shit you young children.

Cunt cease to be just cunt in my book when they start to fuck with other people's lives, especially children - and especially other people's children.

Tomorrow is Yesterday's Wife Beating?

Who Mourns for a Job Loss?

Requiem for Megalomania?

Run Amok Time?

The Christian Web?

Bad Seed?

The Arkansas Maneuver?

Jadzia dax burns in hell in rejoined. Ferengi are replaced with jews in dayton trek.