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August 24th, 2007, 05:04 PM
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A million geeks weep.
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August 24th, 2007, 06:19 PM
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HORROR SHOCK
 no SF Convention NO Mobile phone !!! yes you read right noooo Mobile phone 1968 a Bell labs Tech saw Star Trek Communicator and start to work on a "call handoff" feature. Quote:
only racial and Gender segregation in TV shows of 1960s no the first multiracial kiss in TV no Nichelle Nichols als Lieutenant Uhura Quote:
more on Cultural impact of Star Trek
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August 24th, 2007, 06:26 PM
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Without Star Trek,
the German serries Raumpatroille Orion might have made it onto the US tv screens and become a huge success. Why fight Klingons, if you have frogs to overkill. sequals in color would have followed, the ARD might have even bought a tv staion in the US, countless possibilities...
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August 24th, 2007, 06:37 PM
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No Star Trek? okay.
No Next Gen? okay. No Deep Space nine? NOOOOO!!!!! No Voyager? Sad, but not the end of the world. No Enterprize? NOOOOO!!!!!
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Nuclear cars? What's the worst that could happen? 50 years, now on 2010-2060. Join the fun! We allways need more writters!
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August 24th, 2007, 07:04 PM
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 Major Cliff Allister McLane is better as J. t. Kirk  The Orion landet  here the Commado poste of the Orion  on Space Base in year 3000.  the Robots More on Raumpatrouille Orion
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August 24th, 2007, 07:53 PM
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No Star Trek
but, but, but...
If there was no Star Trek, there would be no TNG. No TNG means no Picard, and no Picard means no Picard song! NOOOOOO! On the other hand, it also means probably no Leonard Nimoy song about Bilbo Baggins, and also probably no William Shatner spoken word 'interpretations' of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and others. So there are some negative aspects, but some positives too...  More seriously, what else was there to fill the gap left by Star Trek? Was it a product of its time, and so something similar would have been popular anyway (see oberdada and Michael Van's comments)? Or would the lack of Star Trek and spinoffs have meant a more general lack of imagination, as Michael Van posits: the idea of mobile phones coming along later or not at all (some would say no big loss); less pop culture support for racial integration; possibly less support in the US for the space programme? Certainly something to consider here...
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August 25th, 2007, 09:04 AM
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EDIT: What my rather snarky comment was meant to suggest was that most of these things would happen regardless of whether ST was made. Personal comms and racial/gender integration, for instance. And SF would definitely still be thriving, though whether it would be worse or better off, I couldn't say. Last edited by Mysterius; August 25th, 2007 at 09:19 AM..
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August 25th, 2007, 09:23 AM
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IMO Star Trek's had a strong impact on our modern culture, at least on its Western part. The first space shuttle was named "Enterprise", many people knows and uses 'beam me up, Scotty' to describe sth technologically advanced. Everything what broadens our imagination is good, however 30-40 years old people going to scifi meetings in Star Fleet uniforms have gone too far, I think. I personally like TNG, because it taught me basics of German language.
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August 25th, 2007, 09:41 AM
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Unless you mean that you watched a German-dubbed version, and used the English subtitles. That's probably it.
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August 25th, 2007, 10:02 AM
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August 26th, 2007, 02:10 AM
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August 26th, 2007, 03:14 AM
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Some Big Effects....
-Just consider the following effects of no Star Trek series:
-No election of Barack O'bama; During the 2004 election Barack Obama (D-IL) was opposed by Jack Ryan (R-IL). Ryan suffered a major political blow after he cheated on his wife (a.k.a. "Seven of Nine") in an attempt to get her into a "swinger's club" with other Illinois Republicans. Thus leading to the November 2004 election of Barack Obama. -Whitewater Scandal deepens; Barbara Adams, a juror in the Whitewater Scandal in 1996, was dismissed after she came to court dressed in a Starfleet uniform. A conviction of Hillary Clinton in the trial would have certainly damaged the White House in the ATL.... -The U.S. adaptation of The Office fails; Robert Nygard, director of the documentaries Trekkies and Trekkies 2 was brought upon the series in 2005, due to his work with the fan-based documentaries.. -No Las Vegas Hilton after 2004, killing the Las Vegas Strip; In 2002, the decision to build the "Star Trek" experience was made out of the need to upgrade services at the hotel, and to help pay for the Barry Manilow show. Without the funds created by the "Star Trek" show, the hotel would have had to go "into the red" financially. -Space tourism stalled; British Billionaire Richard Branson began investing in the space tourism starting in 1984, leading to the eventual creatual creation of Virgin Galactic in 2004, and the construction of the V.S.S. Enterprise and V.S.S. Voyager....
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