I am a fan of the original serial too. The first time I saw it was 40 years ago...

J.J. Abrams really improved the concept though.

MediaBobNY wrote:

Jeff,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Agreed.  The original series still airs on cable here (Me-TV).  And in case you couldn't figure out why he was singing that ditty in the car, link a video of him singing it back in the 1960's.  😂

 

                                                                                                      

Hi Bob,

I had NO idea why Leonard was singing that particular song, now I know and feel truly enlightened. Thank you! I was the perfect age for the original series, but would have been a bit too old to have enjoyed the Hobbit piece.

This bit of information only makes the commercial all the more clever! Well done Bob! 🤒

Jeff

chartz wrote:

I am a fan of the original serial too. The first time I saw it was 40 years ago...

J.J. Abrams really improved the concept though.

 

Hi Jacque,

Yes indeed Jeff Abrams did a masterful job in keeping the life and spirit of this series together….. while adding just a bit of spice to keep us interested and entertained.  

Yet I especially liked the work of Harve Bennett who produced II, III, and IV, the first being directed by Nicholas Meyer and the remainder by Leonard Nimoy. These eighties movies maintained the humor that was the trademark of the original series….. Kirk referring to the Enterprise in San Francisco, “Don’t forget where we parked.” I wonder how many retakes it took to say that line with a straight face?

Jeff

Perhaps there's a gag reel of the old Star Trek episodes somewhere... but I'm not holding my breath.

Piaf wrote:

Mikkel Petersen wrote:

Yup, we're quite something here;)

The worst part about it all, is since we have high taxes, people need to make more before tax, making our companies the least competitive for exporting. So often when you for instance look at the price of Danish timber, versus German timber. The German company might be 30% cheaper than the Danish, but the German company still make 25% more, due to a German uneducated worker costing only 2/3 of a Danish, plus usually having larger volume:/

We have almost no production left in Denmark, and more or less live solely of niche products such as, medical instruments, pharmaceuticals, stage lighting, measuring instruments, wind mills, software development. The rest of the workforce are pretty much making their money on cutting each others hair, so to speak.

In fact in Denmark there're roughly three times as many government employees as private sector employees, and at the same time we have one of the smallest defense budgets in the world, with very few career soldiers employed. In fact a single US Aircraft Carrier have more planes on board than the total number of aeroplanes in the Royal Danish Air Force and the Royal Danish Navy combined.

Room for thought...

 

The incredibly high Danish tax rate unquestionably affects exports; however look the world over and you will find that manufacturing has largely left the western world for China, Malaysia, Viet Nam, India, Bangladesh, etc. The high taxes only makes an unsustainable situation worse.

 

In regard to the sensible Danish military budget consider the US military budget which exceeds the next seven largest military budgets COMBINED! Got that? You add up the second largest military budget, the third, through the seventh and the US spends MORE!

 

Take the Abrams tank that the US spent a half billion dollars developing a new version that cost $436,000,000….. and for equipment that the Army doesn’t want or need.

 

Numbers and I are not friends; however the jest of what I said is correct. So folks, high taxes notwithstanding, I believe Denmark has got it right.

 

Jeff

 

Well. I didn't really try to say it necessarily was a bad thing our defense budget is small, just stating that isn't what we spend the majory of our tax money on. The biggest single post there is actually people on public pension and unemployed people, and I think that's just wrong. In Denmark we actually have more people, who are capable of working, not working, than we have people working in the private sector. Why? Well, because they can get away with it, tell the doctor a sad story, get him to write a statement, handle that to the social worker assigned you, and badabim, you don't have to work, but still get paid almost just as much as people who hold low income jobs, like working the local grocery store.
Actually in most of Copenhagen at least 40% of all sales personnel don't speak Danish, but Swedish, because they bother to take the trip over the bridge from Sweden, to work in Denmark, but Danes won't take these jobs.

Can you honestly say you think that is sensible? I sure don't think so. Not to say there's nothing great about the Danish system, but it definately has it's flaws, some greaer than others.

MediaBobNY wrote:

Jeff,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Agreed.  The original series still airs on cable here (Me-TV).  And in case you couldn't figure out why he was singing that ditty in the car, link a video of him singing it back in the 1960's.  😂

Makes a lot more sense now, though can't fathom why he would sing aout a Tolkien character to begin with:P

Mikkel Petersen wrote:

Piaf wrote:

Mikkel Petersen wrote:

Yup, we're quite something here;)

The worst part about it all, is since we have high taxes, people need to make more before tax, making our companies the least competitive for exporting. So often when you for instance look at the price of Danish timber, versus German timber. The German company might be 30% cheaper than the Danish, but the German company still make 25% more, due to a German uneducated worker costing only 2/3 of a Danish, plus usually having larger volume:/

We have almost no production left in Denmark, and more or less live solely of niche products such as, medical instruments, pharmaceuticals, stage lighting, measuring instruments, wind mills, software development. The rest of the workforce are pretty much making their money on cutting each others hair, so to speak.

In fact in Denmark there're roughly three times as many government employees as private sector employees, and at the same time we have one of the smallest defense budgets in the world, with very few career soldiers employed. In fact a single US Aircraft Carrier have more planes on board than the total number of aeroplanes in the Royal Danish Air Force and the Royal Danish Navy combined.

Room for thought...

 

The incredibly high Danish tax rate unquestionably affects exports; however look the world over and you will find that manufacturing has largely left the western world for China, Malaysia, Viet Nam, India, Bangladesh, etc. The high taxes only makes an unsustainable situation worse.

 

In regard to the sensible Danish military budget consider the US military budget which exceeds the next seven largest military budgets COMBINED! Got that? You add up the second largest military budget, the third, through the seventh and the US spends MORE!

 

Take the Abrams tank that the US spent a half billion dollars developing a new version that cost $436,000,000….. and for equipment that the Army doesn’t want or need.

 

Numbers and I are not friends; however the jest of what I said is correct. So folks, high taxes notwithstanding, I believe Denmark has got it right.

 

Jeff

 

Well. I didn't really try to say it necessarily was a bad thing our defense budget is small, just stating that isn't what we spend the majory of our tax money on. The biggest single post there is actually people on public pension and unemployed people, and I think that's just wrong. In Denmark we actually have more people, who are capable of working, not working, than we have people working in the private sector. Why? Well, because they can get away with it, tell the doctor a sad story, get him to write a statement, handle that to the social worker assigned you, and badabim, you don't have to work, but still get paid almost just as much as people who hold low income jobs, like working the local grocery store.
Actually in most of Copenhagen at least 40% of all sales personnel don't speak Danish, but Swedish, because they bother to take the trip over the bridge from Sweden, to work in Denmark, but Danes won't take these jobs.

Can you honestly say you think that is sensible? I sure don't think so. Not to say there's nothing great about the Danish system, but it definately has it's flaws, some greaer than others.

Hi Mikkel,

Well undeserving people collecting money doesn't sit well with me as it places an unnecessary burden on the rest of us.

I can tell you this by contrast that DOESN’T happen either in Canada or the United States. No sir, in spite of the talk that it does.

Jeff

Piaf wrote:

Hi Mikkel,

Well undeserving people collecting money doesn't sit well with me as it places an unnecessary burden on the rest of us.

I can tell you this by contrast that DOESN’T happen either in Canada or the United States. No sir, in spite of the talk that it does.

Jeff

Mikkel,

I was referring to the fact that the Canadian government is extra careful when giving out money. I have no doubt that there is some successful cheating going on, there always will be, but it is small.

Jeff