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00:00This is Star Trek Night on BBC Two. Highly Logical.
00:18Make it so.
00:24Now some more eulogies from the great and the good.
00:27The bad boy of contemporary art, Damien Hirst.
00:30And TV's Mr. Americana, Jonathan Ross.
00:33My earliest memories of Star Trek are sitting, expectantly waiting for it.
00:37There was this terrible sort of period of drought on television,
00:40immediately when children's TV ended up until about 7.30 or something,
00:43when good shows would start again and you had like Nationwide or all these kind of programs.
00:46And the news, of course, no one wanted to watch.
00:48And then you knew it was coming and you'd see the BBC1, the old fashioned Globe, spinning.
00:58sitting expectantly waiting for it there was this terrible sort of period of drought on television
01:02immediately when children's tv ended up until about 7 30 or something when good shows would
01:06start getting you had like nationwide or all these kind of programs and the news of course
01:10no one wanted to watch and then you knew it was coming and you'd see the bbc one the old-fashioned
01:14globe spinning and you'd hear the music that sort of high-pitched whale coming in and you thought
01:19star trek trying to relax trying to enjoy myself i remember seeing the opening shot of the spaceship
01:26every week and just thinking this is incredible you know they how do they do that it's i think
01:31one of the best design shows ever on tv because it was so it was sort of of its time and yet outside
01:36of its time i mean they didn't do the usual futuristic thing where everything has sort of velcro if you
01:40look at the space 1999 or ufo which are both kind of fun series there's something about that look at
01:45the future which was naff the minute they did it i mean star trek was completely original it was
01:51completely different to anything else that had been before chekov and and scotty and all those
01:57guys there was something about them you'll not be using the watt drive all the way on impulse
02:07that'll take a great deal of time you want to hurry mr scott no it was simple and yet it was just
02:14complex enough for you not to get bored it was exciting but it wasn't scary at any time it was it was
02:20dramatic without being really sort of challenging security spock here status of your landing party
02:26ready and standing by sir have the meet me in the transporter room after the captain has been down
02:30possibly one of the master strokes of star trek was the fact that they had an alien on board and he was
02:35an alien who didn't look too ridiculous but the fact that he was sort of humanoid and yet had the
02:40cool ears the slightly bluish tint to his skin and and of course the vulcan death grip
02:44i mean all those great ideas the mind meld the vulcan death grip i had almost a permanently sure
02:53sore shoulder from kids at school giving me the vulcan death grip we all went around all day
02:57giving each other the vulcan death grip until of course david caridan's tv series kung fu came on
03:01and then we all started going around lifting up dustbins and pretending that we were branding ourselves
03:04with the mark of tai chi or whatever it was
03:06and of course it was fun to look at i mean the colors were great i think it was probably one of
03:13the first color tv shows i can remember watching when we finally got a color tv the different color
03:18shirts the fantastic planet backdrops just seeing it explode on your screen
03:27would you mind being careful where you throw your rocks mr spike obviously highly unstable captain the
03:33shirts being a giveaway of course because fans of the show know that when they beam down to any
03:36planet if there were two or three people behind kirk or behind spock or behind dr bones they of course
03:42will be killed very very soon if you don't know the characters who get beamed down they'll be wearing
03:47a red shirt and they will die almost immediately and there'll be very little sadness from the other
03:51guys because they probably didn't know either part of the appeal was the fact that there's alien life out
03:58there which is basically almost all humanoid and uh we can you know chat to and occasionally fight and
04:05occasionally get on with but uh the idea of sex with aliens which didn't really occur to me until
04:10after star trek but at the time i knew that you could maybe have an alien girlfriend and the idea
04:14that you could have a girlfriend who had maybe yellow skin and purple hair or blue skin and green hair
04:19or was just blonde but wore fantastic go-go's dancers outfit i mean that was that's what i loved about
04:23the women in star trek they're all dressed like they just come from either a strip joint
04:26or a go-go dancing club
04:35the hair teased up big fake eyelashes aliens are obviously big on fake eyelashes and they'd all fall
04:41for kirk who are you captain there's one thing you can teach me i think i knew i loved you from the
04:52the moment i first saw you what's the matter andrea confused for many years i did affect the slightly
05:00boyish kirk quiff in the hope that i would finally meet someone from alpha centauri who'd fall for me
05:04but still hasn't happened no no no you mustn't stop me he's my lover and i have to kill him
05:20i always watched it i remember getting the tv and uh putting it on the sofa and turning it into a
05:36weird channel and then getting a sheet of wallpaper across the sofa and drawing all dials on it
05:40and putting tissue paper over the tv so it looks like some kind of radar screen and walking around like this
05:46live long and prosper i talked to a lot of people who really like the old star trek with kirk
05:51and but um and they can't stand the new one but i'm completely a next generation fan and i think
05:57that people don't like the idea of it because they're kind of old-fashioned which is quite funny
06:01for an idea of a program about the future but i like picard i like the way it says med when something
06:07goes wrong
06:09there
06:23chills up
06:27i mean the idea of having this bald french guy flying around the universe for the federation
06:31it's pretty weird definitely my favorite aliens are the borg it's the borg of spooky
06:39i think the borg are basically like the six million dollar man but on the outside
06:49arnold schwarzenegger meets goebbels i mean you know they've got the whole
06:54gear on half robots half human the mad eye coming out staring at you one eye patch and then they've got
07:01an arm like a gatling gun but a little bit more complicated that swivels
07:05oh yeah the borg have got a fantastic ship which is uh just a cube a massive cube and you know what i
07:14don't know i mean it's there's something really nasty about that it's i mean you know all that kind
07:17of fascist architecture i lived in berlin for a year and that fascist architecture they got over there is
07:22you know completely i mean like there's that's i can imagine the the borg playing wagner as they come
07:28room up over the side of a planet when they're like termites basically they just exist as a whole
07:38mass but they feed off other life forms they assimilate other life forms in order to further themselves
07:44at the expense of other life forms and other life forms are irrelevant because all that they're
07:48interested in is expanding and furthering the borg and that's their job in life so if you shoot them
07:55with a handgun they pretty quickly they work out that and can resist it so anything you throw at
07:59them they can understand and overwhelm it's no use they've already adapted to the new frequencies
08:09it's just that one bit that i like which is fantastic where where picard tries to reason with
08:14the borg and says um you'll never do this it won't work you can't take over humans you can't assimilate
08:20humans because you know we're into freedom and he says freedom is irrelevant and he says but we
08:26will resist you until you know we would rather die than be assimilated and the borg said death is
08:33irrelevant my culture is based on freedom and self-determination freedom is irrelevant self-determination
08:40is irrelevant you must comply we would rather die death is irrelevant i mean death is so relevant to
08:49everything that humans believe in so the fact to suddenly come up against a life form where it is
08:52irrelevant is you know you just can't reason with them it's a kind of a full stock for all that
08:58morality with picard everything the federation believe in comes into question when they're faced
09:04with the borg i'm captain john luc picard captain of the starship enterprise registry ncc 1701d you will lower your
09:14shields and prepare to transport yourself aboard our vessel if you do not cooperate we will destroy your ship
09:20they're kind of like the uh nouveau nazis of the universe life is irrelevant to them too i suppose i mean you've got to admire the borg
09:28heil borg your archaic cultures are authority driven to facilitate our introduction into your
09:35societies it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications you have been
09:40chosen to be that voice
10:01you
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