Re: Abrams Talks About Trek XI Movie

"Wiseguy" ..
> "Wickeddoll®":
>
>> "bc_gisele" ...
>>> "Steven L.":
>>>
>>>> Let's say ST III derived from Star Wars which derived from TOS.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, you could also argue that the Star Wars bar scene
>>> ripped off
>>>> the scene with the Tellarites and Andorians in "Voyage to
>>> Babel,"
>>>> which we could consider the first intergalactic *su**** bar*
>>> scene.
>>>> :-)
>>>
>>> But weren't bar fight scenes or bar scenes period a staple in
>>> Westerns way before TOS?
>>>
>>> Gisele
>>>
>> Well, of course, but that's not the point.  The point is that TOS was
>> the first to show aliens vs. humans in a bar setting.
>>
>> Natalie
>>
>>
>
> As a trivia note, the fight scene in Tribbles was based on a scene from 
> the
> movie "The Great Race" (1965) starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon where
> one character (I forget who) walks through a fight without getting hit.
> David Gerrold even contacted the writer of the movie to ask if it was OK

> to
> parody the scene.

Ah, the things you learn online.

:-)

Natalie
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