Marty Chinn
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The General Star Trek Thread of Earl Grey Tea, Baseball, and KHHHAAAANNNN
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The Librarian
Banned
You guys see Google's homepage today? 
Edit: Goddammit.
Edit: Goddammit.
It also makes the Tuvix situation on Voyager even more fucked up.
The Librarian
Banned
"Star Trek into Darkness" is so cheesy.
Yes! That was pretty neat.
Though sad to say, I wasn't sure why it was there at first. Had no idea yesterday was the anniversary.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Been a while since I've seen it, but I think we're supposed to attribute the unusual effect of the field around the planet as partly to blame. A recent Titan novel did pick up on this, though, and had some people trying to recreate the effect.
SniperHunter
Banned
You guys see Google's homepage today?
Edit: Goddammit.
damn that is so awesome!! Google <3
Escape Goat
Member
anyone been keeping up with SFDebris.com reviews? His review of Voyager's "The 37s" was pretty good. His disdain for Voyager is hilarious (not that it isn't valid).
The Librarian
Banned
Always. His review of "The Void," which I remembered to be one of Voyager's better episodes, was entertaining. Can't wait for his review of "Ties of Blood and Water."
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Finished Season 6 of DS9 and a few episodes into Season 7.
I'm sad
I'm sad
SniperHunter
Banned
Finished Season 6 of DS9 and a few episodes into Season 7.
I'm sad
why?
Instigator
Banned
Finished Season 6 of DS9 and a few episodes into Season 7.
I'm sad
Yeah, poor prophets. They only way they got to experience a linear existence was by dying. All of them.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
The Whole prophets nonsense of DS9 was horrible what a bad concept.
GameplayWhore
Member
I like it because it implies fewer lens flare effects.
Some people think it's too overtly manipulative, but I like it.
Battersea Power Station
Member
Just watched TNG episode Conundrum, where everyone loses his memory.
The most ridiculous thing was that at the beginning of the episode, Troi beat Data in space chess.
Come on, dude. Come on.
The most ridiculous thing was that at the beginning of the episode, Troi beat Data in space chess.
Come on, dude. Come on.
Battersea Power Station
Member
TNG "Conundrum" spoiler:
For sure. I really thought the writers needed someone to kill so they just brought some dude on the bridge.
why?
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
almost done with season 5 of voyager.
its almost comical how many shuttles they tend to lose or blow up within a short span. then they build the delta flyer, so hopefully they dont fucking have to have shuttles blow up since its actually a named shuttle... then they go and blow one up 2 episodes later.
fucking lol.
i generally enjoy it anyway if i ignore the stupidity of the lack of continuity. they just had writers that didn't care.
i think some of the best/memorable episodes have been the little one-off episodes like the EMH backup episode and the bio-mimitic voyager episode. Year of Hell was pretty cool, too, and the 2 parter with Kurtwood Smith.
there's a lot of bad episodes, though. The boxing one with Chakotay was terrible.
7 of 9 always seems to just have her "scene" at the end of each episode where she tells everyone they're a fucking idiot and then goes away since they couldnt figure out how else to put her in the episode but had to have her appear on screen with a minimum of lines because it was in her contract. could definitely do without some of that dialogue, since it accomplishes nothing.
it was a very backdrop element of the whole story and didn't really get the focus it deserved. i personally liked the angle because it "came back" 5 years later as an important plot point which you didnt fully understand unless you watched it from the beginning.
its almost comical how many shuttles they tend to lose or blow up within a short span. then they build the delta flyer, so hopefully they dont fucking have to have shuttles blow up since its actually a named shuttle... then they go and blow one up 2 episodes later.
fucking lol.
i generally enjoy it anyway if i ignore the stupidity of the lack of continuity. they just had writers that didn't care.
i think some of the best/memorable episodes have been the little one-off episodes like the EMH backup episode and the bio-mimitic voyager episode. Year of Hell was pretty cool, too, and the 2 parter with Kurtwood Smith.
there's a lot of bad episodes, though. The boxing one with Chakotay was terrible.
7 of 9 always seems to just have her "scene" at the end of each episode where she tells everyone they're a fucking idiot and then goes away since they couldnt figure out how else to put her in the episode but had to have her appear on screen with a minimum of lines because it was in her contract. could definitely do without some of that dialogue, since it accomplishes nothing.
it was a very backdrop element of the whole story and didn't really get the focus it deserved. i personally liked the angle because it "came back" 5 years later as an important plot point which you didnt fully understand unless you watched it from the beginning.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
After some Bad Things happened in the latest Voyager book, I was amused by this quote: "We can't keep going through ships out here like we used to go through shuttles."
It was the early 90s. People still thought humans would always be able to beat computers at chess for some reason. It's like people thinking computers could never drive a car better than a human now.
Oh wait, was that a symptom of the memory manipulation? I don't remember.
I mean, kind of, in the sense that they didn't appear onscreen that often. They were mentioned every other episode though, and with a heavy focus on the "will of the prophets" and their relationship to Sisko on most Bajor-focused episodes...
Battersea Power Station
Member
Nah, it was before anything happens. It was supposed to be a lesson about "intuition," which made it even a little more insulting, considering Data has been able to account for, react to, and immitate human intuition in the past, including in life or death situations. Also, a few seasons before, he used an "off the books" approach to draw Kolrami (undoubtedly vastly superior at strategy games than Troi) in a game of Strategema (undoubtedly vastly more complex than chess). It was definitely a weird bit of writing, but there are bound to be a few odd ends here and there over the show's run.
Picard is awesome, lol, he just keeps getting better as the series goes on, and there are so many episodes of TNG I missed when watching re-runs of it which is great due to the lack of Star Trek to watch these days.
I wish I could be his executive officer in charge of radishes, lol.
I wish I could be his executive officer in charge of radishes, lol.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
those were more used as "excuses" and "explanations" rather than real plot points though. it came back often enough, but i dont think there needed to be more of it, since that was the ever-looming question.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Now you enter either the best or worst season of Enterprise. lol
(I think S4 fanwank of the worst order, but Coto wasn't given much to work with after the S3 finale lol).
After like 10 years of Trek being run by people who don't like Trek it needed the fanwank.
Henchmen21
Banned
Say what you will about Generations but is has hands down the best poster art of all the movies.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Ugh, fanwank once in a while is fine - like the TOS crossover episode on DS9. Constant fanwank is just grating. It was a fan-fiction season and totally unbearable at times.
I liked them better when they were art and didn't look like a photoshop rush job...
It was a prequel series. They had to get into some of that stuff eventually.
People got mad when they didn't do that stuff, and a separate group of people got mad when they did do that stuff.
::shrug::
I liked season 4 a lot. It wasn't perfect by any means, but they were trying something new, and it was higher quality than a lot of the series previously, so... no real complaints.
The best part of Enterprise is still the last third or so of Season 3, once the Xindi arc really got down to business.
People got mad when they didn't do that stuff, and a separate group of people got mad when they did do that stuff.
::shrug::
I liked season 4 a lot. It wasn't perfect by any means, but they were trying something new, and it was higher quality than a lot of the series previously, so... no real complaints.
The best part of Enterprise is still the last third or so of Season 3, once the Xindi arc really got down to business.
Absolutely right. Enterprise Series 4 carried on the successful episode arc structure, while tying the show in to the greater Trek universe.
Also, the worst episode in Series 4 of ENT is still lightyears better than the best episode of any series of Voyager...
Mama Robotnik
Member
"These are the voyages..." is NOT better than "Living Witness".
And I usually hate Voyager. But Living Witness is a strong and ambitious story. Uncharacteristically magnificent for Voyager, in fact.
Finished reading the new Voyager novel, The Eternal Tide. Glad that while the Typhoon Pact series seems to be all over the place in terms of quality, the Voyager reboot is relatively solid in it's entertainment value, even if it's completely ludicrous sometimes.
I laughed at this too
I laughed at this too
firehawk12
Subete no aware
IIRC, it was like the JMS thing with Sleeping in the Light - they did it or planned it for season 3 but it got picked up so they saved it for S4.
And really, I didn't think TATV was any worse than the fanwank stuff (ugh, stupid Klingon forehead arc) in S4.
From MA:
This episode was reported to have been written as a possible finale for the show's third season should the series not have been renewed. According to Enterprise producer Mike Sussman, however, while the idea for this episode was conceived during that year, the episode was not written until season 4.
Either way, even if it had been fully written, it wasn't filmed until S4, so it's not the same. Sleeping in the Light was FILMEd in season 4 and aired in season 5. Plus, Sleeping in the Light is touching and an amazing finale, These Are The Voyages is trash ;p
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Well, I'm not comparing the quality of the episodes. lol
And really, I've written off all of Enterprise in my mind.
And really, I've written off all of Enterprise in my mind.
Yeah. Especially how he was on the bridge I think in the teaser but no real focus on him so it was very natural and unnoticable.
Until you see his pips and you're like wtf red shirt with a speaking role? Also LOL @ "executive officer" what the hell is that?
Henchmen21
Banned
Except
he's not on the bridge till after the memory beam wipes their memories. The only people on the bridge are the senior staff (sans Troi, Data, and Crusher) and Ro.
It's another word for "first officer" or "second in command". It's a real thing. http://tinyurl.com/8jxnn3d
They didn't start fully making up shit until
Worf went to DS9. Strategic Operations Officer? Okay, dudes, lol