Subcommander Tal

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry #StarTrek

@schumisnoopy Of course! I just think it’s funny in retrospect :)

@SubcommanderT they were doing whatever for the promo pictures

when you have a friend

@wonderlizard2k There was an episode kind of like that!

@SubcommanderT I can imagine Capt. Picard trying to reason with Skeletor. Without success he sends Worf to dispatch him lol

Not Trek-related, but sharing a few toys from my Gen X youth I acquired recently. My father passed away a few months ago, leaving me a very modest inheritance, part of which I am spending on a few childhood toys we couldn’t afford when I was a child…

@TrekTodd1701 Thank you

@SubcommanderT My Condolences 🙏

@MugatoAstronomy That’s a good way to put it

@SubcommanderT I did the same. I felt like I was trying to drop anchor into a my quickly vanishing history.

I always liked Soundwave, but what was the deal with him and Megatron, who not only transformed but could actually shrink to become a gun or a tape deck? I like how they just totally ignored this improbable ability in the old cartoon…

@starfleetboy @TXTrek Awww, so nice to see ☺️ I miss our TOS and TAS streams!

A friend promoted me to go back and watch our Star Trek the Next Generation Discussion for Tin Man from 8 years ago! What a fun talk! youtube.com/live/dWDERD0rq… can’t wait to see what new things @TXTrek have to say about it on Friday!🖖🏽✨

@NCC_1755 @STLVcon @startrektour Anovos. They work for us

@SubcommanderT @STLVcon @startrektour Which tunic brand are you guys wearing? Are those anovos? Or custom made? My anovos tunic never really fit right, so i don't wear it much anymore.

The big Star Trek convention in Las Vegas this summer (@STLVcon) has sold out, but my wife and I will be in Ticonderoga for a few days in June visiting the Star Trek Set Tour (@startrektour). Anyone else planning to go?

"The weird tale of an island with a million mouths" THE ISLE OF DOOM by James Francis Dwyer "One of the most gripping short stories you ever read." 4132 words, 23 minutes to read aloud from THE POPULAR MAGAZINE, April 15, 1910

@PulpLibrarian @inglorioustrek You can still hear some of that Boston accent :)

Satan's Satellites (1958). A young Leonard Nimoy is one of the Martian invaders trying to knock Earth from its orbit so Mars can take its place. If this looks like King of the Rocket Men then you're on to something. Satan's Satellites is an edited down movie version of the earlier Republic serial Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952). That 12 part serial reused the rocket suit from 1949's King of the Rocket Men. Zombies of the Stratosphere was meant to be the second outing for Republic hero Commando Cody, after Radar Men from the Moon (1952). For some reason Republic swapped out his character from this, instead putting him in 1953's Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, which was intended for TV rather than cinema but not broadcast on NBC until 1955 for contractual reasons following its cinema release. Commando Cody does sound like Commander Corry, from ABC's Space Patrol, and he was intended as a rival to both Space Patrol and DuMont's Captain Video and His Video Rangers, although both these shows came to an end in 1955, a year before the DuMont network itself folded. I know, it's complicated. Just enjoy the jet packs!

@SFFAudio Rather L Frank Baum-ian...

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

@wonderlizard2k @STLVcon @startrektour

@SubcommanderT @STLVcon @startrektour Very glad you switched from the red shirt! Bad mojo 😬

@STvSW @SothManigan Great clarification, thanks!

@SubcommanderT @SothManigan No need. Botany Bay bits weren't involved. The cargo carriers were Starfleet cargo pods of the same kind seen in TMP being hauled by workbee (apparently back-ported to TOS and used as emergency shelter after the orbital shock). Alas, this isn't obvious in the film.

@SubcommanderT Those look like cargo carriers…

@RadiationNat1 @schumisnoopy @NanaVisitor Agreed, a very thoughtful person who has made great contributions to Trek

@SubcommanderT @schumisnoopy @NanaVisitor Her interviews on Inglorious Treksperts are not to be missed. Carry on.

the more i watch ds9 the more i fall in love with kira

@jillsville7 @historyfilmfan Yeah, definitely not interested

@SubcommanderT @historyfilmfan P.S. Beware the remake of Amadeus on Starz. For some reason they decided distorting the nature of Salieri's obsession to add a sexual element, was something new and edgy, when that's the tiredest and laziest thing ever.

@jillsville7 @historyfilmfan And I think the original discussion was about Ridley Scott’s film Napoleon. I was bringing Amadeus up as an example of a work of historical fiction we can enjoy as a piece of art while still knowing much of it is inaccurate

@jillsville7 @historyfilmfan The original quote is below. I’m sure the idea of “emotional truth” has some coherence, but it’s a different category than factual historicity imo