Yer talking about The Original Series (TOS) mostly, yep they did that a lot back then due to the budget... yer siblings are probably tuning into Star Trek Remastered, which is a remastering of the Original Series...

The latter Series and movies didn't do this that much, though there was the occasional ep (and movie) where the crew ends up back in time...

Check out www.trekmovie.com for more info.

For those who haven't seen or heard of it...

http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000478.html

A sneak peek at the new Star Wars animated series...WICKED!!!

For all Trekkies we'll have to celebrate on September 8 (the Original Series debuted in 1966.) I guess there was a similar grandiose celebration for the show's 40th anniversary last year.

Indeed, there's Star Trek: Remastered currently underway and Star Trek: XI is coming out next year, December 25th 2008.

Strange new tactic to solve bad acting on Star Trek revealed:

Not a strange new tactic, just a bit overdone, it appears to be a scene from Nemesis, the 10th film starring the Next Gen. crew.

Apparently the scene involves the bridge opening up from some explosion/crash or whatnot creating decompression... a little over the top, plus it takes a good several seconds before the emergency forcefields are put into action... (You'd expect such a vital system to kick in right away, unless power is THAT low, or offline or whatever...)

All in all, regardless of credibility of the scene, it was all in the insistence of director Stuart Baird, apparently similar decompression scenes (from aircraft I suppose) we're part of some of his previous films...

Nemesis is the only one I ain't seen, any good?

Well it's pretty average...

Came out in 2002, had a pretty average director (Stuart Baird knew nothing, if very little about ST)

Had a reasonable budget (around $50 mil to 70 mil) but a ridiculous ($30 mil was spent by Paramount on near to non existent advertising and such)

Plus it came at a time when the Next Gen was deteriorating somewhat.

Oh and above all, most of the good characterization scenes were cut out, in favor for most of the needless action...

All in all, an above average film, though it could have been much better.

true of most film that last statement.

I must watch it sometime when I get a chance.

cheers for the quick review Dave

ST: The Motion Picture (Director's cut) was alright
ST: II Wrath of Khan (Director's cut) was good to great
ST: III The Search for Spock was alright
ST: IV The Voyage Home was good
ST: V The Final Frontier was abysmal
ST: VI The Undiscovered Country was good
ST: Generations was alright
ST: First Contact was great
ST: Insurrection was above alright
ST: Nemesis was above alright

only one great, where is Gene when ya need him... well actually we know where... d'oh

Hey, at least they didn't lose HIS remains, they launched it and sent it to space as planned, then they launch Doohan's (Scotty's) remains some 16 or so years later... and they lose track of the vile for like a month or so... not to mention the delays in launching his and some odd 200 or so dead peep's remains...

damn postal service

Again, I say...

You can't deny that this thread is being taken over by Trekkers!