Star Trek Fans

[arcon]

[ 10-19-2001: Message edited by: arcon ]

[Dame d'escrime]

I enjoy tham all. This will proably date me (of course it will) but I spent my adolscence with Capt. Kirk on the original version.

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You CAN teach old dogs new tricks.

[Gav]

Star Trek is fun to watch, you can kind of turn your brain off and be entertained.

I enjoy all the series providing they don't try to be morality plays (I really hate those episodes).

[Shadow Fencer]

Like Dame, I grew up with Mr. Spock, Captain Kirt and Dr. McCoy!!! Loved those sayings by Dr. McCoy..."Jim, I'm a doctor, not a ...(insert descriptor here)

Favorite episode: The Trouble with Tribbles. Yes, I am dating myself!!!!

But, I love John Lu Picard.... my heart goes pitter patter!!!!!!!!

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I live to fence and fence to live!!

[Fencing Angel]

"he's dead jim..."

[Dame d'escrime]

Repitais.. Mais oui! Jean Luc est tres joli!


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You CAN teach old dogs new tricks.

[neevel]

TNG got started my freshman year in college, and it became a weekly ritual (Sundays at 10:30-- the conclusion to the weekend) all the way through. Whenever I see some of the first season episodes, I'm kinda surprised that anyone even bothered to stick with it through that year (remember the Pakleds, who seemed to be modeled after college Buildings and Grounds workers?). It did get better by the second and third seasons. They still should've spaced Wesley and used him for target practice.

I pretty much lost interest in ST after Babylon 5 ramped up. The Trek writers seemed to have run out of ways to recycle various old plot formulae, and couldn't come up with anything new that wasn't lame or ridiculous or (in the case of DS9's big war) already done better by B5. Too many mysterious anomalies of the week, solved by at the last minute realizing that they could just remodulate the phase-buffers and invert the tetrion flow, giving the ship a miraculous new capability that gets promptly forgotten by the next week's episode. And then there was the Voyager episode where Janeway and Paris get transformed into six-foot-long mudskippers by a prototype transwarp drive and have babies (the writer must've misread a scrawled directive from Paramount executives and thought that they wanted "more newt sex scenes" ). True, Voyager's preferable to 85% of what's also on TV, but that's like saying a new Kia is preferable to a '75 Pacer.

I find that TOS still holds up the best, followed by TNG after the first season.

What I really want to know is: does DeForest Kelly's gravestone say "I'm dead, Jim!"?

-Dave

[Fencing Angel]

Dave-

Really good question.. its funney to thing about, but somehow i don't really think that the family would aggree to it...
very intresting mental picture though...

[FencerInUS]

That would be awsome if that was on his head stone. Or "I'm a corpse not an actor!" HA HA HA HA!!!! He He He!! he.... I'm gonna get shot.

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[Fencing Angel]

by who?? i think that every one here aggrees that it would totaly leave us in stiches...

[Gav]

Yeah Neevel you're right there. ALthough Voyager is fairly pants it did pick up on the Borg and species blah epidsodes. Bab' 5 was brill up till the last series and then they dropped the ball. It was like they were trying to cram 4-5 series into 1. Shame really considering the excellent buildup. I wonder why the end was so rushed?

[neevel]

Gav--

Actually, what rushing there was occurred in season 4. It didn't look as though they were going to get a season 5, so a number of subplots that would've made up non-arc episodes were held back and not done, in order that the most important elements of the arc (conclusion of the Shadow war and the EA civil war) could get finished in that season. As originally planned, season 4 was supposed to end at Sheridan's capture on Earth, with the civil war continuing on into season 5.

When the 5th season got picked up late in the game by TNT, what was left to do were those subplots (like Byron and the teep refugees) that presumably would originally have been interwoven among the arc episodes, and then the denoument involving the formation of the Alliance and the Drakh takeover of the Centauri, which had to be filled out to make an entire season's worth of episodes. That's why the final season seemed to jump around alot and didn't have the clear sense of progression that the previous seasons did.

-Dave

[Stryder]

Gav-

I've been to Edinburough, but I never heard anyone say "pants" or "brill".

Can you clue in the Yanks?

Speaking of Edinburough, what is that tall pointy black thing?

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[SteveMcDonough]

Brill = Brilliant.
Pants = Not Brilliant.

Oops. Sorry. That was to Gav.

I'll butt out now.

Steve.

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[Gav]

The pointy black thing is The Scott Monument as in Sir Walter Scott of Ivanhoe fame. You can climb it, and if you're a kid they'll give you a prize for braving it.

Not many people say "brill" unless they're part of some comedy sketch - I was using it mainly as a shorthand. Pants is a great expletive used by a number of my pals but isn't my favourite!

I reserve that for the word bollocks! I don't know how offensive it is to americans so I'll apologise up front. It's a great multi-use word. Things can be good as in, "That's the dogs ...", things can be bad :- "That's ..." or "You're ...". It can be descriptive :- "The weather in Scotland is..." It's also a satisfying altenative for damn or darn (do people actually say that?).

[This message has been edited by Gav (edited 06-27-2001).]

[Zelda]

Gav, that bullocks comment is SOOOOOOO true! I have 2 good Scots friends and a friend in Edinburgh studing and the all use bullocks.

[Stryder]

Any kid that can climb that thing deserves a medal!
My wife uses Bollocks all the time. She says it's OK, but then, she's an Aussie.

Ever seen Notting Hill? That movie was brill. Except the one guy. He was pants.


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[Stryder]

You know what sucks about Star Trek? Those little things inside your cells that give you the Force! What's up with that? Yeah you thought you were cool. You thought you were the chosen one or something, and that's why you have these special powers, but no. You are just infected by tiny meglomaniacal amoebas that control the fate of the world.
Oh, wait that's Star Wars.
My point still stands! That was as stupid as Highlander 2. I know I swore I would never mention that movie again, and that i would pretend for ever that it had never happened but I can remain silent no longer!
I want the guy who made it and the guy who let that guy make it both strung up by their "quickening" for ruining a cult classic with a sequel that couldn't get a "B" rating in the third world!
Don't we have people who stop things like this from happening? Where's the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy when we need it?



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[Dame d'escrime]

Stryder, relaches mon ami. C'est une cinema.


[This message has been edited by Dame d'escrime (edited 07-03-2001).]

[DarkTransient]

No other captain comes close to Patrick Steward.
Baldy's the best.


Make it so.