Does TT have a problem with Star Trek IV?

Film came 1st, book 2nd. I never knew it was made into a book.

This isn't what I expected, but very watchable.

Yup. Azimov was asked to write it. Not one of his best, for me, but then it wasn't from his own imagination. It tended to be one of those 'and then we did this and then we did that' sort of stories. Great idea, but I think I decided I was being taught at - about the human body - rather than exploring new ideas.

You've never seen it before? I must have spent my childhood in front of the tv. Wait a moment...I did!

Incidentally, the ideas for the story came partly from Jerome Bixby, who wrote some great SF back in the day.
I think I spent a lot of my childhood reading SF, mostly in secret, since my parents were suspicious of anything even approaching SF.

No music as yet...

The use of silence is very effective.

He has a problem with Star Trek, not just film 4.

OK. Film 4 is my favourite - nice goofy plot, and I can track the course of relations between Russia and the west by how funny a man with a thick Russian accent asking where the nuclear vessels are is.

My mum let us read what we liked. Trusted us, I suppose.

We were also allowed to read what we liked. I am very grateful to my mother for this - so many of my friends seem to have been forbidden this or that.

The dreaded lava lamps have been released!

Fifteen knots?? Surely knot! A knot works out at about half a metre a second! Hopefully they scaled down the speeds as well!

Same here. It always puzzled me that there was this forbidden zone for some of my friends.

I think it would have made me horribly anxious about whether a book was 'good' or not, and might have put me off reading altogether.

I think it would have made me horribly anxious about whether a book was 'good' or not, and might have put me off reading altogether.

I don't think ANYTHING would have put me off reading.

My Mum just didn't like me reading anything after I grew out of baby books. She said I was 'unconscious' when I was reading - yep! I had escaped from her into somewhere a lot more interesting....

This may be a first for us, OSP, but for once I TOTALLY AGREE with you!

I can't help feeling that part of the purpose of this is to give us an anatomy lesson . . .

I can't help feeling that part of the purpose of this is to give us an anatomy lesson . . .

I remember my mum encouraging me to exchange reading Twinkle (comic for very young girls) for something more difficult.

Now I see where you went wrong! My comic was always the Beano.

Shades of The Prisoner...dem bones dem bones dem dry bones...

What kind of a line is 'Here. let me have it'?

If we ever meet, I'll let you have it...

I'd just like to say that the military of the cmdf could never where their uniform in public, it being a top secret organisation and cmdf being writ large upon their breast.

Donald Pleasance has such a distinctive voice and delivery!