Design a Marathon

Post by **Jedi Master Spock** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:46 pm

OK... so let's say (hypothetically) that you have a full day-long celebration involving you, a few friends, (perhaps several different kinds of gourmet beers and mixed drinks,)* and you've decided the onscreen entertainment will be Trek and/or Wars themed. You have no more than 24 hours of screentime, including breaks; don't assume that everybody will be paying attention to the TV all the time, but assume it's mostly just food, drink, socialization, and in some cases sleep that your home theater is competing with. Assume that you only have Trek and Wars related entertainment material on hand and only a screen, DVD, and VHS player to work with hardware wise.

What's your playlist?

*If you're under the legal age to consume alcohol in your area of residence, please don't take this as a suggestion to engage in illegal behavior. Thank you.

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:03 pm

OK, I'm just going for a ball-park figure on hours (allowing 2 hours for movies and 1 hour for televised episodes), so here we go...

Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi

Star Trek
"Balance of Terror"
"Arena"
"Space Seed"
"The Devil in the Dark"
"Mirror, Mirror"
"I, Mudd"
"Bread and Circuses"

The Wrath of Khan
The Voyage Home
The Undiscovered Country

Star Trek: The Next Generation
"A Matter of Honor"
"The Measure of a Man"
"The Defector"
"The Best of Both Worlds, Part I"
"The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"

Praeothmin · Post by **Praeothmin** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:48 am

I would intermix the projections of SW and ST toghether so no one would get bored.

SW:
The entire OT
Clone Wars

ST movies:
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
First Contact

TOS:
The City on the Edge of Forever
Balance of Terror
Space Seed
Arena

TNG:
"The Measure of a Man"
"The Defector"
"The Best of Both Worlds, Part I"
"The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"
(Yeah, I know, I copied Ted C, but what do you want, those were great suggestions... :) )

DS9:
Trials And Tribulations
Season 5's final episode (I'm not too good with names)
Season 6's first episode
Serie's finale

Since each episodes last only for 45 minutes each, even at 2 hours per movie, I'm still under in my alloted time...

Post by **Mike DiCenso** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:16 pm

I'd try to get in a more represenative sampling from all 5 of the current ST series, which means paring down the movies some, and not going overboard on any one particular ST series over the others.

For the movie selection:

Star Wars:
Star Wars: ANH
The Empire Strikes Back

Star Trek:
Wrath of Kahn
First Contact

For the ST TV series:

Star Trek (TOS)

"The City on the Edge of Forever"
"Balance of Terror" or alternatively "The Doomsday Machine"

The Next Generation

"Best of Both Worlds, parts I & II"
"Yesterday's Enterprise" (alt. "Inner Light"")

Deep Space Nine

"The Visitor" (alt. "Duet)
"In the Pale Moon Light"
"Trials and Tribbl-ations"

Voyager

"Scorpion, parts I & II"
"Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy"

Enterprise

"Similitude" (alt. "Shuttlepod One", "Dear Doctor", or "Twilight")
"In a Mirror, Darkly parts I & II"

There's enough time left over here to include the two franchises' animated series episodes as well.
-Mike