DrForester
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Gowron was way too goofy. Eyes always looking like they're about to pop out of his head.
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Star Trek: The Great Netflix Watch
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TheExecutive
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I am watching through TOS and am on about episode 60. I still find it hilarious that a red shirted no name security dude always dies. I mean its a death sentence! Hilarious.
DrForester
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TheExecutive said:
And now you get one of the great in-jokes of the 2009 star trek movie when Kirk, Sulu, and Ensign Olson skydive to the platform.
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DrForester said:
Hey now don't hate on Gowron. The guy lasted from early on in TNG all the way until the end of DS9! Always love episodes that feature him.
Also, am I the only person that really likes Lower Decks? Great episode that makes you look at the senior staff through the eyes of young ensigns. Made me appreciate them even more.
Lower Decks was a really solid episode that doesnt get alot of love but it was enjoyable.Rex Banner said:
Hey now don't hate on Gowron. The guy lasted from early on in TNG all the way until the end of DS9! Always love episodes that feature him.
Also, am I the only person that really likes Lower Decks? Great episode that makes you look at the senior staff through the eyes of young ensigns. Made me appreciate them even more.
The Big Rig
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Watching Clues right now. Patrick Stewart doing his best 40's mobster accent was marvelous.
DrForester
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dalin80 said:
umm, Sisko?
C4Lukins said:
I recently watched all of TNG in order when it played on KTLA. I hadn't seen a lot of the early episodes since they first aired.
The first season is interesting. A lot of it is awful, but if you know the rest of the series a lot of it is strangely entertaining. Like Picard being an asshole and also them trying to play up his hatred of kids. It's really obvious they latched onto that as one of the 5 or so bullet points that originally defined him.
I also found myself enjoying some episodes that I remembered as terrible, like the one with the water-borne lust disease that was basically a remake of a TOS episode. The interaction between Crusher and Picard in that episode is hilarious.
DrForester
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gdt5016 said:
If you like Sci Fi, then go for it (same with TOS), just don't expect long story arcs. they're all pretty much self contained with a few arcs that might take place over just a few episodes across several seasons.
The Librarian
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That episode made every woman on board the Enterprise horny.Margalis said:
Margalis said:
It's been so long now but I remember a TNG episode where the crew became old, they eventually figured ut how to use the transporter to "beam" them back with their proper young DNA
...effectively this would end aging as it is known as every one could save their ideal age and just keep beaming back to it.
So unrealistic
/goes to ride his flying bike home
Escape Goat
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dalin80 said:
The fact you say Sisko didn't grow as a character tells me you weren't paying attention.
Sisko evolved in the very first episode. He hadn't let go of his wife, he blamed picard for every bad thing that had happened to him. At the end he lets go of his past and starts looking at his future. He accepts Picard as his superior officer and not as the man who killed his wife. In one episode he already evolved his character.
The Librarian
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Tapestry is one of the best Star Trek episodes.magichans said:
DrForester
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magichans said:
Hide and Q and True Q were the only ones I didn't care for. Q-Pid was silly enough to be good.
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I hate to further contribute to the derailing of this thread from its original mission, but I just wanted to profess my love for an underrated TNG episode not on the watching list: The Most Toys. Great evil performance by Saul Rubinek (a character actor that, if you don't know by name, you probably know by the face). And it adds a texture of ambiguity to Data's character that is awesome and truly chilling.
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gdt5016 said:
Watch a few eps and find out, but you will probably want to wait for DS9
Escape Goat
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Zzoram said:
They designed a new warp core which prevented the damage from occurring.
An episode of the first season of TNG that I am especially fond of right now, is the one where Picard gets possessed by an entity near some sort of space cloud. They become this combined consciousness, and Picard teleports himself into the space cloud so that they can travel the universe together as some super bipolar being. But it does not take, and they are separated, but Picards energy remains stuck out there in space so the Enterprise has to get close to the cloud so that he can make his way back. And then Picards energy gets sucked into the electrical system of the Enterprise, and the crew is able to reconstruct him in the teleporter. Not to mention that he hailed the Enterprise to his seperation through some sort of ASCII display of the letter P on one of their sophisticated Lite Brite systems. That was some amazing stuff going on there.
Anyway I am 16 episodes in, and having a lot of fun with it. I only recall 4 episodes so far from the past so a lot of it is new, and I never really watched the series in order so watching it evolve is interesting. There seems to be a lot of intentional humor which is not something I remember from the series at all. A ton of unintentional as well, but I like both types.
Anyway I am 16 episodes in, and having a lot of fun with it. I only recall 4 episodes so far from the past so a lot of it is new, and I never really watched the series in order so watching it evolve is interesting. There seems to be a lot of intentional humor which is not something I remember from the series at all. A ton of unintentional as well, but I like both types.
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Zzoram said:
I thought they said it in Voyager (which explains why Voyager had the weird nacelle pylons that went up and down).
DrForester
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For anyone with the TV Channel Epix, they are premiering William Shatner's "The Captains" documentary tonight, where Shatner sits down to interview Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, and Chris Pine (with insights from other Trek actors from all series).
Trekmovie.com has a nice review up. Saying while disjointed it's a good watch for Trekkies.
http://trekmovie.com/2011/07/22/review-william-shatners-the-captains/
Trekmovie.com has a nice review up. Saying while disjointed it's a good watch for Trekkies.
http://trekmovie.com/2011/07/22/review-william-shatners-the-captains/
Escape Goat
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I hope we get an apology from Mulgrew and Bakula.
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A wizard engineer did it.Teh Hamburglar said:
gdt5016 said:
TNG is certainly not serialized, but you will find that most of the episodes on this greatest hits watch list involve some character's story arc, which really brings out the best in the series' writers.
For example, "Q-Who?", "Best of Both Worlds 1&2", "I, Borg" and "Descent 1&2" all tell the Borg story from beginning to end. There are similar arcs for Data & Lore, Worf, Q, Ensign Ro, etc.
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BattleMonkey
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Forcing myself to finish Voyager, oh god the torture
BattleMonkey
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dalin80 said:
Too late, but at least I'm way past that.
I watched The Captains last night. It's not exactly what this thread is about, but I definitely recommend seeing it.
I'm nearing the end of Season 5 myself (I watched Think Tank last night). It's not bad, but the range of characters makes some episodes much worse. Janeway, Seven, Tuvok, and the Doctor are all great, but goddamn the rest of them are painful at times. The episodes themselves are a mix, usually at least decent.
BattleMonkey said:
I'm nearing the end of Season 5 myself (I watched Think Tank last night). It's not bad, but the range of characters makes some episodes much worse. Janeway, Seven, Tuvok, and the Doctor are all great, but goddamn the rest of them are painful at times. The episodes themselves are a mix, usually at least decent.
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An-Det said:
Can't stand Janeway, the other characters you listed are somewhat interesting, but Janeway is an awful captain whose character changes randomly in her morals and convictions. And yea fuck the rest of the cast.
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