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post #701 of 742
9/11/09 at 11:36am
Awesome! Glad to see this return, you've made my Friday.
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post #702 of 742
9/11/09 at 11:43am
"Still alive, old friend!"
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post #703 of 742
9/11/09 at 12:15pm
Good stuff as always. Welcome back Star Trekkin'
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post #704 of 742
9/11/09 at 12:18pm
EXCELLENT way to kick off the weekend. And to echo Tati - yes, these must be really draining to write. But the results are fantastic.
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post #705 of 742
9/11/09 at 12:19pm
Devin,

I liked Russ as much as anyone , but I am glad to see you doing the news lately. I always feel you have interesting things to say or funny insights to add. I know that even if its a news item I do not care about as much, you might have an interesting point or fact contained in the article so I should read it anyway.

You may indeed have projects that are seeing delays as a result of youre tireless dedication to the news, but I'll just let you know I think that my Chud experience is all the better for it. (Not saying though that more editorials might be nice too)
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post #706 of 742
9/11/09 at 3:55pm
Looking forward to Devin's take on "The Alternative Factor". Now THAT'S a shit episode.
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post #707 of 742
9/11/09 at 4:20pm
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Originally Posted by Luscious Python View Post
Looking forward to Devin's take on "The Alternative Factor". Now THAT'S a shit episode.
Oh, god yes.

"But what of Lazarus?" was one of our catchphrases back in college.

The response?

"Fuck him!"
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post #708 of 742
9/11/09 at 5:16pm
Great stuff. I look forward to more of these.
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post #709 of 742
9/11/09 at 6:48pm
Funny, I just watched this episode.

The new HD effects in this one are kind of wonky. The Enterprise wobbles through the atmosphere for some bizarre reason. That would be okay if the rest of the episode stood up. But even as a kid, I could never figure out why that whole plan of beaming people into themselves was supposed to work.
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post #710 of 742
9/11/09 at 6:58pm
The Alternative Factor--That's one Star Trek episode where I have no idea what the point is even supposed to be. "You must always confront your evil twin to prevent the universe from exploding, even if it means you're doomed for eternity?"

I remember hearing about "Tomorrow is Yesterday" predicting the date of the moon launch and being seriously weirded out.
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post #711 of 742
9/11/09 at 7:08pm
In retrospect, yes, Tomorrow Is Yesterday is a pretty stupid episode. Starting with that title, which just makes me think of Sideways...

But I used to like this one as a kid. Maybe because it kind of reminded me of Star Trek IV, which I had loved so much.
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post #712 of 742
9/11/09 at 7:34pm
I was going to post almost exactly what Erix said.

So Instead I'll just say thank you to Devin for bringing Trekkin' back.
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post #713 of 742
9/11/09 at 9:20pm
Welcome back, Star Trekkin'! I think I only saw this episode once, as a kid, and remembered next to nothing about it. After reading Devin's critique, I can maybe see why.
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post #714 of 742
9/11/09 at 9:25pm
Thanks for bringing back Star Trekkin', Devin. This is one of the episodes I just saw during the past year, and it was delightful to re-live it through your eyes.
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post #715 of 742
9/11/09 at 11:35pm

Awesome!

Really happy to see this feature is back, and I look forward to ordering the eventual book version from Amazon!

I liked this episode as a kid because it was about UFOs. Tried to watch it on Netflix last week and realized what a bore of an episode it really is. Except for Kirk's "Flop Jujitsu" of course....
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post #716 of 742
9/12/09 at 12:26am
A new CHUD List and the return of Star Trekkin' in the same week > The Beatles. We love these, so thanks for making more.
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Except for Kirk's "Flop Jujitsu" of course....
Footage!
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post #717 of 742
9/14/09 at 10:27am
Devin, this series is your masterpiece.
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post #718 of 742
12/10/09 at 4:10am
Hmm... I suppose it's another hiatus Devin? Hopefully you'll have the time to finish up one day, I've enjoyed the reviews.
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post #719 of 742
12/10/09 at 9:33am
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Hmm... I suppose it's another hiatus Devin? Hopefully you'll have the time to finish up one day, I've enjoyed the reviews.
I'd love to see more, but I've sort of assumed the series is DOA.
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post #720 of 742
1/8/10 at 7:12am
Thread Starter 
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS DEAD

#20 Court Martial

http://chud.com/articles/articles/21...IAL/Page1.html
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post #721 of 742
1/8/10 at 7:14am
Hell yes! I figured with your new blog project this was toast. Glad to see I was wrong.
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post #722 of 742
1/8/10 at 7:15am
Thread Starter 
The new blog isn't anything. Some of those entries will be super short, I'm sure.
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post #723 of 742
1/8/10 at 7:35am
Well initially I figured you were just burnt out on Trek, then I just wasn't sure if we'd see this project again. Great stuff, and that is an awesome Bones quote. The chess/computer stuff is pretty funny. Perhaps after they reprogrammed the computer they sat down for a few relaxing games and Spock had the difficulty set too high for them.

I keep reading these hoping one will spark some memories(I watched these a LOT as a kid), but no luck. It'll be fun to go through the series again whenever I have the money to buy the discs.
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post #724 of 742
1/8/10 at 7:47am
Thread Starter 
I'm not burned out, it's just the each of these take between 4-6 hours to finish, from viewing to posting. They're a bear to get done. Glad you liked it.
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post #725 of 742
1/8/10 at 7:55am
Yeah I know how it is. I've been having similar time investment with a lot of my art lately.

If were ever a CHUD book published, this, and a big book o' CHUD lists would kill.
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post #726 of 742
1/8/10 at 10:01am
Mixed Baby Clint Howard is good stuff.

I always thought Shatner's fight double looked like Charles Napier.

Have you poked around the blu-rays to find Random Navigator's Super 8 home movies? Pretty cool stuff.
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post #727 of 742
1/8/10 at 10:03am
This made my Friday. Absolute favorite recurring feature on CHUD. Would love to see more, but even spaced out a bit, they're worth the wait.
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post #728 of 742
1/8/10 at 10:43am
Nice, glad to see it back.
here's to Jose, the unsung hero of Star Trek.
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post #729 of 742
1/8/10 at 12:28pm
I'm always super excited when one of these pops up. Great work.
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post #730 of 742
1/8/10 at 12:32pm
Great work! Now I'm off to pick a fight with my ATM.
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post #731 of 742
1/8/10 at 1:41pm
Awesome. Loved the bit about the bad placement of the jettison button.

Keep up the good work.
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post #732 of 742
1/8/10 at 2:12pm
Yeah, the Jettison Pod stuff was gold. That sounds hysterical and is probably enough to make me want to watch the episode. I think might be one of the few episodes of the original series I haven't seen.
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post #733 of 742
1/8/10 at 4:03pm
This feature popping up again is the equivalent of Laugharn coming back a year later and completing a "I will assign you..." thread. Nobody could have expected it to happen. The Kirk/lawyer entendres had me rolling.
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post #734 of 742
1/8/10 at 4:07pm
I have to say, there are many articles and features on CHUD that I enjoy. But this has to be my favorite. Devin, thanks for bringing these back. I think these are by far the funniest things you have written.
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post #735 of 742
1/8/10 at 4:10pm
These are so great. Great as the tv ones are, I can't wait until we hit the movies, those are going to be fucking epic.
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post #736 of 742
1/8/10 at 4:13pm
Glad to see this project return. Now let's wait for another couple of months for the next entry.

I kid.

Always an insightful read. Keep it up.
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post #737 of 742
1/8/10 at 4:16pm
This made my day ! Glad to see its return. One of the best and most fun features CHUD has had in a long time. I hope there is more in the future (and the not too far future). Great work as always Devin.
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post #738 of 742
1/8/10 at 4:17pm
So happy it's back... I bought the 1st series boxset on the back of these and at the time, I have to say, I really didn't like Star Trek at all.

Devin, your passion for the show, even when you are ripping the piss out of it, is very, very infectious.
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post #739 of 742
1/8/10 at 5:41pm
Great to see this feature come back in style!

On the Star Trek Computer: The only frame of reference for the writers of this show would have been a mainframe computer, so it does kinda make sense they portray computers the way they do. Of course, just a few years later Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote The Mote in God's Eye, which features hand held computers tied into a Cloud Computing grid which can search for video based on key word searches, so there you go
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post #740 of 742
7/3/10 at 2:46am
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Kirk has a moment to make a decision. He makes a bad one - he puts the plane in the ship's tractor beam. This would seem to make it tough to ever outrun the plane, as they are now towing it, but this is Kirk's decision. And his decision becomes obviously worse in a moment as it becomes clear that the plane is too fragile to handle the tractor beam, and it starts breaking up. Kirk is forced to beam the pilot, Captain John 'Drab' Christopher, aboard the ship.
There's a pioneering spirit to so much of even the middling TOS; even though it tended to address them in a red-blooded, two-fisted way, Star Trek was playing with some heavy stuff for tv of the time, usually just as successful as (and sometimes more successful than) the more often celebrated Twilight Zone. You talk about the fact that Kirk has to decide, on his own, what to do, and his decision might or might not UNRAVEL FUCKING TIME ITSELF. It's pretty valid to poke fun at the execution, especially since whenever they introduce each new "plot twist that could fuck up all reality s we know it", they punctuate it with a "wah wah waaaaaah" trombone into commercial. And good lord, it does drag and drag and disregard science. But it must have been cool to be 12 years old and have these questions beamed at you in between Green Acres and McHale's Navy.

Jacob Singer, was it cool to have these questions beamed at you in between Green Acres and McHale's Navy?

When the astronaut beams on board, Kirk is lit with his romantic lighting package, a slight glow, an exotic shadow on the lavender wall behind him, and only his eyes in the light, the rest of his made-up, oily face falling into shadow.
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post #741 of 742
1/3/11 at 11:54pm
Devin just posted a new entry and a list of previous ones here at CHUD over at Badass Digest. I wondered what the take of fellows Chewers was about this. Should we discuss them any further in this forum?

My take at the moment is that it's his Baby (Clint Howard) and he can do what he wants with it. But I re-watched all the classic Trek's a few years ago so likely won't join in much. If anyone wants any dialogue with the bearded one, they'll have to post comments on the other site. My impression was that his account here is defunct.
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post #742 of 742
1/4/11 at 12:00am
Personally i don't think there's a problem with discussing Star Trekking here.

It's Nick's place though. His call.
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