firehawk12
Subete no aware
It was someone on a Star Trek forum that did it shortly after the episode aired. I don't think he ever made it public though.
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The General Star Trek Thread of Earl Grey Tea, Baseball, and KHHHAAAANNNN
- Thread starter The Librarian
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Are those Borg talking? I sure hope not, because the Borg don't need to talk to each other.
Great suggestions, I'd forgotten about these two! I'd also managed to brainfart and forget about all the wonderful Q eps. Good times ahead.
(Am I the only one that dug the Voyager Q episodes? I mean, sure, they'd been reduced in power by the outcome, same as the Borg, but some moments were amazing, like the trial Janeway was forced to adjudicate between the Q's)
You should, like, read the word bubbles.
Gary Whitta
Member
Did you even bother to read it?
Nice idea but I liked my Borg origin story better
I am intrigued. Linkage please
Gary Whitta
Member
Written many years ago, there's a lot wrong with it. But here:I am intrigued. Linkage please
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1534129/Voyager Origin of the Species.pdf
DrForester
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Gary Whitta
Member
It's been so long ago I don't even remember. I really just wrote it for practice. It was shortly before the show's final season I think.
Gary Whitta
Member
Oh man you are in for a treat. The first two seasons are (mostly) garbage compared to what comes after.
What do you expect from a universe ruled by Evil Hoshi and her fam?
SpoonyBard
Banned
Gah, the first Vic Fontaine episode is awful.
I think season 4 may have been the best season of DS9. Seaso 5 felt a bit uneven, and S6 is only slightly better. Episodes like Resurrection, Far Beyond the Stars and His Way would have been better placed outside the Dominion War story arc, or left out altogether.
The Magnificent Ferengi was a fantastic episode, funny how I never realized that se second Vorta was played by Iggy Pop before looking it up. He looked and sounded familar, and the sarcasm the character portrayed was brilliant.
Statistical Probabilities was also pretty good, other than I liked Bashir more before the writers made him a genetically engineered genius. Now they seem pretty unsure what to do with the character. Inquisition was an another interesting Bashir episode, but Section 31 as descripted in this episode is quite unbelievable. I mean, how can organization like that stay secret for so long, when in that episode Sloan wasn't exactly subtle about its existence. And there are several telepathic alien races in Federation, how the hell could they remain secret from them...
I think season 4 may have been the best season of DS9. Seaso 5 felt a bit uneven, and S6 is only slightly better. Episodes like Resurrection, Far Beyond the Stars and His Way would have been better placed outside the Dominion War story arc, or left out altogether.
The Magnificent Ferengi was a fantastic episode, funny how I never realized that se second Vorta was played by Iggy Pop before looking it up. He looked and sounded familar, and the sarcasm the character portrayed was brilliant.
Statistical Probabilities was also pretty good, other than I liked Bashir more before the writers made him a genetically engineered genius. Now they seem pretty unsure what to do with the character. Inquisition was an another interesting Bashir episode, but Section 31 as descripted in this episode is quite unbelievable. I mean, how can organization like that stay secret for so long, when in that episode Sloan wasn't exactly subtle about its existence. And there are several telepathic alien races in Federation, how the hell could they remain secret from them...
I don't mind fontaine, he's not great but people overreact to him - the only episodes he has a REALLY heavy focus in are his way and it's only a paper moon, which are both good episodes. (I guess the heist one near the end too but that's the writers jerking themselves off into a script, based on my intense analysis of the DS9 companion).
Gary Whitta
Member
+1 Vic Fontaine Hate Club. Is there a newsletter?
I hope you at least appreciate the music Gary.
Can't wait for my TNG replacement discs to arrive. I tried watching the affected discs, but the sound issues were way too much of a nuisance to bother trekking through.
Also...dat upscaling of Riker...was terribad. At least it was only for a few frames.
Coppertracks
Member
Crusher: "If there's nothing wrong with me... there must be something wrong with the universe!"
Computer: "That information is not available"
Crusher: "I wasn't talking to you"
She's so good in that episode. I never understood the lack of love for Crusher/McFadden. (Although from what I've read she wasn't that liked by some of the higher ups, which is probably why she was rarely the focus and was the only member of TNG not to appear in another Trek series in some capacity)
Gary Whitta
Member
I don't remember the exact line but I love that part in Remember Me when Crusher asks the Enterprise computer to define the universe and the Enterprise tells her it's a spheroid region only slightly larger than the ship itself. Also Picard trying to rationalize why they are the only two crew members on the ship.
Gonna watch that ep now.
From memory alpha
Also I read several times that Maurice Hurley was sexually harassing her, and only when he was gone did McFadden come back.
From memory alpha
Also I read several times that Maurice Hurley was sexually harassing her, and only when he was gone did McFadden come back.
:/ That sucks. Supposedly a similar sort of thing happened with the actress who played Janice Rand in TOS and that's why she disappeared off that show. Probably wasn't a firing offence back then though. :/
Gary Whitta
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Oh, forgot perhaps my other favorite single-serving episode. Starship Mine. Just a brilliant piece of action, Picard at his ass-kicking best.
Coppertracks
Member
Just read the memory alpha page on him. If the sexual harassment thing is true, would not be surprised if when she turned him down that was when he tried to get rid of her. Glad they got rid of him come Season 2.
Pretty sure it's true but knowing how Hollywood things go, people tend to sweep it under the rug and cite other 'differences'.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Boothby
Apparently there was a plan to have Boothby be The Traveler incognito, idk how I feel about that idea.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Boothby
Apparently there was a plan to have Boothby be The Traveler incognito, idk how I feel about that idea.
benjipwns
Banned
Probably got posted earlier but Ex Astris Scientia is posting tons of stuff about the TNG Remasters by episode for props, effects, sets, etc.:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/observations.htm
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/observations.htm
Did you even bother to read it?
Nice idea but I liked my Borg origin story better
I did read it. It seems stupid. Apparently he's a liberated Borg that tries to form a new hive mind.
Did they ever say on a Star Trek TV show that the Tholians even have a hive mind?
benjipwns
Banned
Sorry about that, were in my cache so were showing up.
They're a splinter group of Hugh's splinter group.
I have no idea where the hive mind thing comes from, but it's on startrek.com's entry. (I checked my copy of the Star Trek Encyclopedia for the first time in like a decade and it says nothing about this. Before Memory-Alpha that and the Chronology were so awesome, now they're like pulling out the ol' World Book.)
The comic is from September 1995 so it predates even "Tholian silk" being mentioned.
I assume it's from this book: http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Worlds_of_the_Federation
The comics are particularly hit or miss or their canon depending on when written/by who/etc. For example, the Tholians in that arc all have two legs, something Enterprise contradicts. And there's gobs of character stuff that's proven wrong by later episodes. I think there's like two separate accounts of Picard getting stabbed, which both get contradicted by later episodes and then completely overwritten by Tapestry. (Still some solid stories, along with some horrific ones. The short-lived, ending on a bunch of cliff-hangers Marvel run is pretty good.)
For reference, I'm reading from this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B5KYR2/?tag=neogaf0e-20 (though I downloaded a cbz version of it eventually since it's easier to use than the included pdf version)
Anyway, I posted it because he's Enab.
Choppasmith
Member
Wait, so it didn't before?
Anyway, I know I haven't poked my head much, but I do have the S1 Bluray, I'm waiting for my replacement discs, and then I'm going to rip them and add then to my XBMC rig. Since I'll have "direct" access to the video, let me know if anyone has any requests for shots,gif material,etc.
benjipwns
Banned
I tried to find a clip of it and came across this simply amazing two part piece of art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WTJqmjAvG8#t=2m48s
And yeah, it's frozen.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Those comparison shots are so good. So much clearer, crisper in the remastered version.
Also watched The Visitor (DS9 S4) last night. It's gud, you guyz win.
Also watched The Visitor (DS9 S4) last night. It's gud, you guyz win.
The Librarian
Banned
Damn right it is.
Davey Cakes
Member
Okay, now I'm dying to see these remasters in motion.
I kind of hate when they try to overconnect things like that. Hell, reading that list of things they added to this minor character in Voyager makes him look silly.
And creepy:
benjipwns
Banned
Is that as creepy as some dope from Species 8472 who researched and then PLAYED that role for their simulation?!?
To tie to the comments above, in the Academy comics he's nothing but that. The guy is like the sitcom janitor who knows everything or whatever. He saves one cadet by alerting campus police, can somehow provide evidence to turn up a secret plot, everyone goes to him for advice, etc.
They even weave him into the Homefront/Paradise Lost plot.
To tie to the comments above, in the Academy comics he's nothing but that. The guy is like the sitcom janitor who knows everything or whatever. He saves one cadet by alerting campus police, can somehow provide evidence to turn up a secret plot, everyone goes to him for advice, etc.
They even weave him into the Homefront/Paradise Lost plot.
SpoonyBard
Banned
Why am I watching Ocean's 11 parody in the middle of the last season of DS9. Wasn't there a war going on just now?
benjipwns
Banned
But there's a holodeck character to save!
Henchmen21
Banned
What happened to Tasha's head behind Troi in that on shot? In the original it's there but in the remastered it's not.
As to the other topic, don't even get me started on how much 99% of the tie-in fiction is crap. It's like "You know that bit character that had all of one line in one scene in one episode...yeah well later on they became the bestest, most loved, fightingest, savoir of all time EVARSSSS!!!!!!"
As to the other topic, don't even get me started on how much 99% of the tie-in fiction is crap. It's like "You know that bit character that had all of one line in one scene in one episode...yeah well later on they became the bestest, most loved, fightingest, savoir of all time EVARSSSS!!!!!!"
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
It was improved.
SpoonyBard
Banned
It's not the exact same frame, I think she's moving in that scene...
In the remastered shot it looks like a hand above Troi's shoulder. They're just slightly different frames.
Henchmen21
Banned
Ah ok. I just figured they were the exact same frames.
Hey now. Tasha could have been a better character if she had stayed on. Everyone else got better character development in the later seasons I don't see why she wouldn't also.
Hey now. Tasha could have been a better character if she had stayed on. Everyone else got better character development in the later seasons I don't see why she wouldn't also.