That list is surprisingly not bad! My only issue is that FC is too high; I think FC is a decent movie, just not great Trek. It's still exponentially better than the other TNG movies which are all absolute garbage.
That list is surprisingly not bad! My only issue is that FC is too high; I think FC is a decent movie, just not great Trek. It's still exponentially better than the other TNG movies which are all absolute garbage.
How isn't it Trek? It's a story about friendship, how revenge is self-destructive, and how we can be better people than we think we are. There are gunfights, redshirts, ship beauty porn and space battles. Doesn't get much more Trek.
How isn't it Trek? It's a story about friendship, how revenge is self-destructive, and how we can be better people than we think we are. There are gunfights, redshirts, ship beauty porn and space battles. Doesn't get much more Trek.
Maybe saying it's not great Trek is not really what I meant; I think it'd be more accurate to say that I'm annoyed at how out of character the TNG cast is in this film (specially Picard, considering the way he handled his Borg past in the series).
I'm also not a fan of the Borg Queen. I much prefer the hive-mind-with-no-central-figure version of the Borg.
Just saw this on TV and got a little excited, they're starting a magazine model collection for Starships in the TV show. I've always wanted a nice Star Trek model collection but they have a habit of being expensive for proper ones or hard to find, that is unless you want to make the model kits yourself but I am a terrible painter from when I tried so never got very far.
But these look pretty neat, I think I will have to get them.
Just saw this on TV and got a little excited, they're starting a magazine model collection for Starships in the TV show. I've always wanted a nice Star Trek model collection but they have a habit of being expensive for proper ones or hard to find, that is unless you want to make the model kits yourself but I am a terrible painter from when I tried so never got very far.
But these look pretty neat, I think I will have to get them.
I'm slowly but surely making my way through DS9 season 1, and I finally hit my first good, memorable episode. It was a long wait.
s01e19, "Duet"
A Cardassian sick with Kalla Nohra, contracted at a Bajoran labor camp, is passing through DS9 and is detained at Kira's request.
I got teary at the end, at Martiza's last conversation with Kira. I had to look up the actor, Harris Yulin on IMDb. Dude has had a LOT of work over the years, and I'm surprised he's not more high-profile.
They've only shown the first 30 off, there are also models like
DS9
which aren't in the list but the model itself has been shown off in pictures, I imagine space stations like that will be part of the special issues they will occasionally do. Theres two images from facebook. here and here, with a number of models, I don't know if any in there are ones that haven't been announced as coming yet though.
I'm slowly but surely making my way through DS9 season 1, and I finally hit my first good, memorable episode. It was a long wait.
s01e19, "Duet"
A Cardassian sick with Kalla Nohra, contracted at a Bajoran labor camp, is passing through DS9 and is detained at Kira's request.
I got teary at the end, at Martiza's last conversation with Kira. I had to look up the actor, Harris Yulin on IMDb. Dude has had a LOT of work over the years, and I'm surprised he's not more high-profile.
Just saw this on TV and got a little excited, they're starting a magazine model collection for Starships in the TV show. I've always wanted a nice Star Trek model collection but they have a habit of being expensive for proper ones or hard to find, that is unless you want to make the model kits yourself but I am a terrible painter from when I tried so never got very far.
But these look pretty neat, I think I will have to get them.
This is from the survey on their site on "special issues", and I know we've seen a DS9 model already, so the others seem possible, would love me a Vengeance.
In case anyone didn't see it, they've got TOS movie lithographs over at StarTrek.com. 12" x 24", $25 or a discount if you get them all. I got myself the STVI one--strikes me as the right balance between the "retro" look and a cinematic poster, less tacky than the episode-specific ones they've been doing. Should be here in a couple of days, I'll report on the quality if anyone's interested. Kind of sucks buying something based on GIFs.
Was that the one where Picard basically told a young and insecure Bajoran that if she wanted Starfleet to ever place trust in her she had to go on this suicide mission? That was so out of character for him. It bugged the crap out of me.
In case anyone didn't see it, they've got TOS movie lithographs over at StarTrek.com. 12" x 24", $25 or a discount if you get them all. I got myself the STVI one--strikes me as the right balance between the "retro" look and a cinematic poster, less tacky than the episode-specific ones they've been doing. Should be here in a couple of days, I'll report on the quality if anyone's interested. Kind of sucks buying something based on GIFs.
Was that the one where Picard basically told a young and insecure Bajoran that if she wanted Starfleet to ever place trust in her she had to go on this suicide mission? That was so out of character for him. It bugged the crap out of me.
I didn't see it that way. He was tough on her at first because he wanted to know if she was serious, but all the while he knew she could carry out the mission. Then he offered the mission to her as an opportunity to go above and beyond. What bothers me is that the mission itself didn't make much use of her skills - she was sharkbait, basically.
In case anyone didn't see it, they've got TOS movie lithographs over at StarTrek.com. 12" x 24", $25 or a discount if you get them all. I got myself the STVI one--strikes me as the right balance between the "retro" look and a cinematic poster, less tacky than the episode-specific ones they've been doing. Should be here in a couple of days, I'll report on the quality if anyone's interested. Kind of sucks buying something based on GIFs.
Think it would have been stronger without the Spock face, I like the simplicity of VI and V more, so that's what I went with (interesting that he chose the camping scene.)
Frame has arrived (they actually sell frames this size, who knew) and I should have the prints by this weekend.
Just watched Little Green Men from s4 of DS9, holy shit it was awesome. Quark is the best character of the show, he can carry an entire episode by himself without the rest of crew and make it the best episode of s4 so far.
Some great lines from the episode:
"In stores? If they buy poison, they'll buy anything."
"The 3 of us... And millions of primitive hu-mons, I like those odds"
Just watched Little Green Men from s4 of DS9, holy shit it was awesome. Quark is the best character of the show, he can carry an entire episode by himself without the rest of crew and make it the best episode of s4 so far.
Some great lines from the episode:
"In stores? If they buy poison, they'll buy anything."
"The 3 of us... And millions of primitive hu-mons, I like those odds"
That's the best DS9 episode right there. I liked the universal translator bit, I wonder if it was actually the first episode where we saw how it actually works...
It's not Dorn's project (that failed and was going to be an indie movie). This is Tim Russ' project, based on the "success" (???) of his last Star Trek fan film. They've gone to crowdfunding for the movie/episode twice (once on Kickstarter, and most recently on IndieGoGo).
I honestly have no idea which is considered the "best" Star Trek fan film project any more (the various TOS ones look pretty good now, but that's because 60s sets are so easy to recreate), but Tim Russ' projects have the most actor alums.
The Search For Spock at #5!? For me, that was the worst of all the movies followed by Nemesis. At least First Contact is in the #2 spot, although I would have put that as my #1.
Finally finished S1 today. Took forever with the extra long season and ~50 minute episodes.
I'll have more to say later, but my drive-by comment is that McCoy is one of my least favorite doctors (so far). Maybe better than Crusher, but worse than almost everyone else.
I know people were ranking them lately and I can't remember what you all said, but that's my opinion.
Young William Shatner as Kirk is great though and it really makes you appreciate how well casted he was in the JJ reboot.
Just wanted to pop in and say that I've caught a Star Trek bug recently. I haven't watched but probably 3-4 episodes before this, and right now I'm going through TNG. Picking and choosing episodes at the moment, but so far I've really enjoyed Yesterday's Enterprise and the first Borg episode ( I have a fetish for roboticized humans).
Are there quite a few borg episodes? What about the other shows? I demand more Borg.
Just wanted to pop in and say that I've caught a Star Trek bug recently. I haven't watched but probably 3-4 episodes before this, and right now I'm going through TNG. Picking and choosing episodes at the moment, but so far I've really enjoyed Yesterday's Enterprise and the first Borg episode ( I have a fetish for roboticized humans).
Are there quite a few borg episodes? What about the other shows? I demand more Borg.
Just wanted to pop in and say that I've caught a Star Trek bug recently. I haven't watched but probably 3-4 episodes before this, and right now I'm going through TNG. Picking and choosing episodes at the moment, but so far I've really enjoyed Yesterday's Enterprise and the first Borg episode ( I have a fetish for roboticized humans).
Are there quite a few borg episodes? What about the other shows? I demand more Borg.
Deep Space Nine is taking Space Opera to a whole new meaning, but I've grown to appreciate it not to mention it reminds me a lot of the 90's. I used to think Voyager was better but after watching most of them, I've concluded it is, while still good in regards to some episodes, one of the weaker spin offs.
BTW, just finished watching Enterprise episode "Silent Enemy". Seen it before but forgot what happened. That's something they could always revisit being we don't know what the heck they were up to.
Just wanted to pop in and say that I've caught a Star Trek bug recently. I haven't watched but probably 3-4 episodes before this, and right now I'm going through TNG. Picking and choosing episodes at the moment, but so far I've really enjoyed Yesterday's Enterprise and the first Borg episode ( I have a fetish for roboticized humans).
Are there quite a few borg episodes? What about the other shows? I demand more Borg.
DS9 doesn't have Borg, and has more religious and political stuff instead. Voyager probably has most Borg stuff in all, but the big Borg episodes do not get even near the same quality as TNG Borg episodes. Enterprise did have one Borg episode, but it wasn't all that great either. Watch Babylon 5 before DS9. It does everything better, and DS9 is based on Babylon 5 plans that the show writer tried to sell Paramount first.
Well, DS9 does have the Borg. But after The Sisko scowled at them in the first 2 minutes of the pilot, they decided never to return to test him. In fact, they planned their attack on Earth in First Contact so The Sisko would be off on another mission, and out of contact.
Well, DS9 does have the Borg. But after The Sisko scowled at them in the first 2 minutes of the pilot, they decided never to return to test him. In fact, they planned their attack on Earth in First Contact so The Sisko would be off on another mission, and out of contact.
Oh yeah, forgot the pilot. It's still funny how in Fist Contact Worf was the only DS9 cast member who was with Defiant. They were only trying to protect Earth, so it's not like they needed the best officers on board or anything.
BTW, just finished watching Enterprise episode "Silent Enemy". Seen it before but forgot what happened. That's something they could always revisit being we don't know what the heck they were up to.
Got my first three starships magazine models in the post, the Galaxy and Klingon Bird of Prey are quite nice, the Enterprise TMP however is however less so. Still, 3 out of 70 down, 67 to go not counting specials, lol.
Can't wait to get my Sovereign class, easily my favourite ship, shame it is all the way out there at number 21.
Oh yeah, forgot the pilot. It's still funny how in Fist Contact Worf was the only DS9 cast member who was with Defiant. They were only trying to protect Earth, so it's not like they needed the best officers on board or anything.
I always thought it made more sense. Why they would pile all their exec officers and leave the space station completely unmanned was beyond me... At least Voyager never shoved everyone into the Flyer.
The Search For Spock at #5!? For me, that was the worst of all the movies followed by Nemesis. At least First Contact is in the #2 spot, although I would have put that as my #1.
