no tv/films in star trek

[judge dreddd]

How come in star trek people can read books but you never see them watching tv or films ?

Have these things gone out of fashion on the future ?

[Mikey]

Probably cos in Trek they're all chin stroking pinkos who think TV is bad for them.
The holodeck provides logical extension of it dontchathink?

[Mikey]

And the only thing on their TV is feckin repeats and rehashings of an out dated SF show.

[paulvonscott]

I've always thought it funny America bought into such a subversive society which could have prectically been a piece of soviet propoganda.

[Matt Timson]

?

[Slippery PD]

To quote:
"One nation under god has become one nation under the influence of one drug.  Television.  The Drug of the nation.  Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation."

I find it funny that TV shows never show TV, never discuss TV etc.  It seems like a large part of peoples lifes (well most people watch TV films, whatever and on TV this is not shown or discussed).  

HAve I mentioned that Idislike Star Trek strongly as well :)

Yer  Slips

[Oddboy]

The signal's crap when your several lightyears away from the broardcasting studios...

[Devons Daddy]

i wonder what the price would be for a subcription to an outpost such as deep space nine?

this may be the reason, prohbitive freight charges.

[judge dreddd]

dvd films...dont tell me deep space nine has no cinema...most popular thing on aircraft carriers is...the cinema

[Mangamax]

Its like - what do Eastenders folk watch on TV at 7.30 of a Thursday evening?
And why does no-one there own a washing machine?
And why does no-one travel out of the square to go to work?

[Matt Timson]

Well, I'm no big time Trekkie or anything- but I would imagine the holodeck offers a lot more in the way of entertainment than the telly.

Not only can you boo and hiss when Nick Cotton turns up to plague his poor old mother (again), but you can punch him in the mouth for his trouble as well...

[paulvonscott]

Guys, it's not real, like a comic, it's a TV show.

The fact that they don't watch TV is possibly one of Star Treks minor problems :)

It is basically a pretty shoddily thought out concept, which admittedly at times has produced some entertaining drama.

I've seen more alien things in my fridge than those plasticene freaks on star trek.

[Oddboy]

Presumably telly people DO watch telly, but it would be dull to show that bit of thier lives on the program.  If an East-enders episode spent 1/2 hour showing the Slaters silently watching Only Fools & Horses (apart from the occasional laughing), then you might as well just watch Only Fools & Horses in the first place.

Many telly shows & films have scenes when characters are watching the news on telly, occasionally you see them go to the cinema (they do in Stephen King's IT).

[judge dreddd]

star trek...uniforms...military...no religion...NAZIS

[Matt Timson]

You keep a mirror in your fridge, PVS?  What for?

hew hew hew!