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29 Days of Star Trek Meme: Day 14, Day 15
Feb. 20th, 2012 10:07 pmSo, hey, I made it almost two weeks before forgetting about this, which is more than I expected…
14 - What's your favourite Star Trek quote?
A fair number of my favourites I’ve already mentioned for ‘favourite dramatic moment’ or ‘favourite humorous moment’, so I’ll skip those. From what’s left…
Well, if we’re talking memorable quotes, Garak has more than his fair share them, but my favourite has always been his interpretation of the boy who cried wolf – "That you should never tell the same lie twice..."
For ‘most uninitentionally hilarious quote’, there’s Dr. Crusher in “Sub Rosa”: “There’s no such thing as a ghost; you’re some sort of anaphasic lifeform!”. Ah, of course! Glad to see there was a reasonable explanation there!
15 - How did you get into Star Trek?
Well, I’ve covered previously the first episodes and series I watched – but my first real exposure to Star Trek was… Micro Machines.
See, back in the early ‘90s, Micro Machines managed to get the licence to both Star Wars and Star Trek, and made a bunch of toy spaceships from each franchise. I found the designs fascinating when I first saw them, and managed to cajole my mum into buying me a set of each – for Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back pack with a snowspeeder, a TIE fighter and an AT-AT, and for Star Trek, the movies pack, with the Reliant, the Excelsior, and a Klingon Bird of Prey.
I ended up with most of the toys before I actually started watching either franchise; I’ve still got most of them, even if the TIE fighter’s solar panels and the Reliant’s warp engines are now stuck on with blue-tack…
Anyway, one of the things that fascinated me on seeing the toys was just how many different spaceships there were, and the back of the packaging listed them as all coming from different episodes and movies. Then there was Playmate’s line of Next Generation action figures, obviously created with the collector market in mind, that was obsessively complete, with separate action figures covering such key characters like ‘Riker disguised as a Malcorian’, ‘La Forge transformed into a Tarchennen III alien’ and ‘Data undercover as a Romulan’.
(I still regret that I never bought any of the K'ehleyr figures that every toy store seemed to have dozens of…)
The idea of this fictional world with so much stuff in it, so many different elements, was something I hadn’t encountered before – at least, not on that sort of scale.
14 - What's your favourite Star Trek quote?
A fair number of my favourites I’ve already mentioned for ‘favourite dramatic moment’ or ‘favourite humorous moment’, so I’ll skip those. From what’s left…
Well, if we’re talking memorable quotes, Garak has more than his fair share them, but my favourite has always been his interpretation of the boy who cried wolf – "That you should never tell the same lie twice..."
For ‘most uninitentionally hilarious quote’, there’s Dr. Crusher in “Sub Rosa”: “There’s no such thing as a ghost; you’re some sort of anaphasic lifeform!”. Ah, of course! Glad to see there was a reasonable explanation there!
15 - How did you get into Star Trek?
Well, I’ve covered previously the first episodes and series I watched – but my first real exposure to Star Trek was… Micro Machines.
See, back in the early ‘90s, Micro Machines managed to get the licence to both Star Wars and Star Trek, and made a bunch of toy spaceships from each franchise. I found the designs fascinating when I first saw them, and managed to cajole my mum into buying me a set of each – for Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back pack with a snowspeeder, a TIE fighter and an AT-AT, and for Star Trek, the movies pack, with the Reliant, the Excelsior, and a Klingon Bird of Prey.
I ended up with most of the toys before I actually started watching either franchise; I’ve still got most of them, even if the TIE fighter’s solar panels and the Reliant’s warp engines are now stuck on with blue-tack…
Anyway, one of the things that fascinated me on seeing the toys was just how many different spaceships there were, and the back of the packaging listed them as all coming from different episodes and movies. Then there was Playmate’s line of Next Generation action figures, obviously created with the collector market in mind, that was obsessively complete, with separate action figures covering such key characters like ‘Riker disguised as a Malcorian’, ‘La Forge transformed into a Tarchennen III alien’ and ‘Data undercover as a Romulan’.
(I still regret that I never bought any of the K'ehleyr figures that every toy store seemed to have dozens of…)
The idea of this fictional world with so much stuff in it, so many different elements, was something I hadn’t encountered before – at least, not on that sort of scale.