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Onkel Neal
08-11-06, 11:18 PM
Any other Star Trek fans out there? I'm talking the original Trek, not the spinoffs. :)
One thing about Star Trek I always admired and liked: They worked in an incredible amount of naval terms. Helm... set a course.... I wish I kept a list of all the cool nautical stuff they say in a show about spaceships.
Tonight while working, I watched "Naked Time". Kirk, that computer-killing, female alien loving bastard--you have to give it to him--he loves his ship. In all the episodes, if anyone messes with his ship, it's trouble with a capital T.
Torplexed
08-11-06, 11:55 PM
Naked Time----there is a classic episode. About 50 things going wrong at once.
I always loved that spooky little scene when Captain Kirk is alone in the Enterprise briefing room and glances up at the ceiling and says:
"I'll never lose you--never!"
Kinda summed up Shatner's career tho. :-?
http://zioxville.homestead.com/files/KirktoEnterprise.jpg
Skybird
08-12-06, 04:15 AM
<p>Any other Star Trek fans out there?</p>
Here...!
I liked the classics, but also admit that DS9 and TNG did very well, too. Only "Voyager" and the latest, "Enterprise", were no-gos for me, both of which I gave up soon.
Sea Demon
08-12-06, 04:44 AM
Star Trek: the original series, and TNG were the shows I thoroughly enjoyed. I thought DS9 was kind of intriguing in some ways. But Voyager and Enterprise were absolutely awful. I watched 1 1/2 seasons of Voyager. And I couldn't even make it past two episodes of Enterprise.
Skybird
08-12-06, 05:11 AM
What's your favourite movies? for me it is, without doubt, ST-VI, and ST-VIII. I also like ST IX a lot, because of the relative calm in it and one of the most beautiful and moving scenes I have ever seen in ST (when Picard is being explained that learning does not need a lifetime and the Kolibri in front of him slows down in flight and finallly freezes in the air), and ST-IV, because it's queer humour.
STI, ST-VII are the most awful of them all.
Uh, and this: Spock rules! :D
Aaah, the original series, I haven't watched many of them but I watched Balance of Terror the other day and oh what a classic!
I'll have to agree with Skybird, TNG and DS9 were good, VOY was pretty rubbish (as much as my fiance likes it), and ENT only got good in its last season.
As for the movies, my favourite TOS movies have to be STII (KHAAAAAN!!), STIV (for sheer craziness) and STVI (probably my favourite of the TOS movies).
So...who are your favourite TOS characters then? Mines gotta me Montgomery "If we keep this speed we'll blow up any minute now!" Scott, followed up perhaps by Sulu or Chekov :D
i like the revenge of Khaan..same reasons as oberon i think lol....
any movie that contrives to include the statement
"I spit at you from perditions edge" with a straight face
gets my vote...:smug:
KHAAAAAAN!!!!:yep:
Skybird
08-12-06, 05:36 AM
Characters? Spock. Worf. Jadzia (for optical reasons :) And in the movies: Picard. In ST-VIII and later, Stewart was allowed far greater acting freedom to develope the character. Results sometimes were quite impressive, imo. In that he is very different to Shatner, who always was sticked to representing a type. Which was good a choice for the character of Kirk. but beyond Kirk, Shatner is a damn bad actor, different to Stewert. No wonder that they do not like each other. It is said that their cooperation in ST-VII was "difficult".
Now, which is your favourite pair of characters? :lol: Spock - McCoy? Odo - Big Ear? Worf - Jadzia?
:lol:
kiwi_2005
08-12-06, 06:21 AM
Yep been a casual treky fan all my life, I use to watch startrek and Battlestar galattica when a kid. The latest startrek series is rubbish, althoguh i watch them, and remeber one where they went back into time or another dimension where the nazi's were in control of america - america and the nazis were alllies. But the guy who acted as the captain just didn't do it for me. And they added a vulcan female was she related to spock? Or did they just throw her in to keep the fans happy
Kinda summed up Shatner's career tho. :-?
I think Shatner is pretty good in Boston Legal. Its some of his best work IMHO. That show cracks me up all the time.:)
My favourite episode to do more so with Kirk was The Enemy Within, a transporter accident separates Kirk in two a good one and the evil one, that evil Kirk really looked like a twisted mad man great stuff. My other favourite episode are The Menagerie parts 1 & 2 clever how they revamped the failed pilot episode, Balance of Terror and the classic The Galileo Seven where Spock's logic was hit and miss. And Tomorrow Is Yesterday, Court Martial, The Return of the Archons, Space Seed which was followed by Star Trek 2 as a follow up nice touch. A Taste of Armageddon, The Devil in the Dark, Errand of Mercy, The Alternative Factor which as I recall was the only episode that showed the Enterprise firing it's phasers from the stern view and to wrap up season one The City on the Edge of Forever,Operation Annihilate.
As I move on to season two who can forget that classic story Mirror Mirror Where the Federation is the Empire and a very ruthless one at that. The Doomsday Machine another good one and who can leave out the Halloween episode Cat's Paw. Another great Kirk episode was Obsession where Kirk comes face to face with the vampire cloud, Wolf in the Fold sees Sotty on trail for murder. The tongue in cheek gangster episode A Piece of the Action who can forget Kirk driving the car scene, The Immunity Syndrome and A private Little War, Patton's of Force which was a well I shall say no more on that one. The Ultimate Computer another good one seeing Kirk once again beats the computer.
And finally the not so good season three, The Enterprise Incident and Spectre of the Gun along with The Day of the Dove were good episodes the rest were weak or daft. Fred Freiberger who was bought in on season three as far as I am concerned killed Star Trek and latter on he killed Gery Andersons Space 1999.
Onkel Neal
08-12-06, 11:35 AM
Was The Doomsday Machine the one woth the planet killer. Yes, just watched that one this morning, great scoring. Loved the way Spock backed Kirk's actions re: the Commodore.
Someday I think people will view Roddenberry as the Jules Verne of our time.
fredbass
08-12-06, 11:53 AM
I love the original Star Trek. It's the only one I really cared for. After the series was over I enjoyed a few of the movies they did together like the one about the whales. Good Stuff.
I've been watching some of the original Star Trek episodes on the G4 network. If you don't know about it, some of the episodes are done in an interractive way by featuring Trek trivia and stats, called "Star Trek 2.0".
Winston
08-12-06, 12:00 PM
Yep, got all three seasons of Star trek on DVD. I’ll need to get them out of the box again and watch ‘em soon. On a different note is interesting to see the different lengths between the original star trek episodes (50 minuets) and modern shows (45 or even 40 minuets) You sure get better value for money back then.
I have to say of the films I enjoyed star trek II, III, IV most. They were almost like a trilogy in there way. Star trek III seems to get a panning from a lot of people but it has two of the best scenes in any star trek film in my opinion. The stealing of the Enterprise and its eventual destruction were very spectacular and it was quite sad in a way to see the old girl go.
Of the later incarnations of trek I enjoyed Deep Space 9 and The Next Generation, though the first few seasons of TNG were not so hot. Data says: “Sir, Romulan warbird de-cloaking of the starboard bow” Captain Jean-Luc Picard replies: “Hmm, better have a conference in the ready room”
On the subject ‘Enterprise’, that was really bad. I always new a prequel would be a bad idea and even then they really did not take the series in the right direction. Not being a diehard fan that knows all about the history of the Federation or anything I thought it would have been interesting to explore the early years of Human inter-stellar space travel leading up to the eventual foundation of the Federation. Something like looking at long story arcs dealing with budding relationships between Humans and other races. Maybe even a first Klingon war/skirmishes and hostility with the Romulan Empire. Instead they came up with some drivel about a temporal cold war? Eh? All righty then. Ever since Rick Berman & Brannon Braga started buggring about with trek it has all gone down hill. That Braga fellow never really wrote an episode of anything that I enjoyed. He seemed to love his techno babble too. Like “re-connect the rear port transducer to the starboard phase discriminator and bypass the central dylitham coupler”. Nuts! What was it Harrison Ford said to Gorge that one time? “You can type this &%$£ but you can say it.”
Edit: On the topic of William Shatner, he seems to have mellowed out these days and takes him self less seriously. He’s also quite funny, check him out congratulating Gorge Lucas for a lifetime achievement award of some sort…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55YD8QhQ3o
What bugs me about the fans of the off shoots from Star Trek they bang on about how much the special effects are so much better :doh: of course they are the original series was done back in the sixty's wake up you dozy lot. Another thing that makes me laugh these fans spend more time throwing the book at each other. :lol:
Get a grip it's a TV show sit back and enjoy, Star Trek may look dated, by heck I would regard it alot better than the rubbish on TV today.
I'm a great trekkies . It's not more than 5 minutes ago when I red some romurs about Star Trek XI
Markus
TteFAboB
08-12-06, 03:40 PM
My cable TV has a channel running the 3 series on saturday, Next Generation followed by Deep Space 9 and then Voyager. It's the best thing to watch on TV in the day. :up:
tycho102
08-12-06, 03:41 PM
On a scale of 1 to 100:
Star Trek II rates a 95. That movie had absolutely outstanding casting, they worked it around "Moby Dick" (and a little bit of "Tale of Two Cities), which ended up being an outstanding book to choose for the plot structure. The music soundtrack was phenomenal, as well. I actually listen to it when I'm jogging.
Star Trek VI rates a 90. The plot has some issues, mainly with the bloody moon blowing up and the shock-wave managing to travel faster than light, but its premise with the Russkie's/Klingons was a good choice.
ST1 rates an 80. It was good for it's time.
ST3 rates a 75. It has it's moments.
ST4 rates a 60. It has a few odds and ends that are nifty.
ST5 rates a....Christ.....I don't know. I need bleach for my brain, or something.
The series was really good for it's time, and there are episodes that I still like. Some of them have too much morality to them for me to agree with, but I can enjoy them in a late-1960's context. I'm not enough of a Trekkie to remember the names of individual episodes, but there's probably 15 that stand out amongst the rest, and another 30 that I like.
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The new generation movies have a few good parts (I believe I've watched all of them). I liked the series better than the movies. It was nice that Data got his emotion chip, and Geordi got his optical biomodifications. The chick that did the Borg Queen was sexcellent, and later in Voyager.
Speaking of Voyager, those some good parts, too. As many or more than NextGen. At some point, they just ran out of morality to discuss, and that was part of the problem with the Enterprise series (I watched the first 13, and a few up to #22).
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On a related, but seperate topic, I generally consider America's liberals to follow the "Star Trek Religion". It's the religion where you have 1 hour of tough moral choices, and then everyone heads to the replicator to get a granola bar and some Earl Grey tea and listen to Data play the violin.
My cable TV has a channel running the 3 series on saturday, Next Generation followed by Deep Space 9 and then Voyager. It's the best thing to watch on TV in the day. :up:
On one of our cable-channel they are showing the TNG. One episode every day except saturday and sunday.
Markus
Onkel Neal
08-12-06, 08:18 PM
I have to say of the films I enjoyed star trek II, III, IV most. They were almost like a trilogy in there way. Star trek III seems to get a panning from a lot of people but it has two of the best scenes in any star trek film in my opinion. The stealing of the Enterprise and its eventual destruction were very spectacular and it was quite sad in a way to see the old girl go.
Agreed :yep:
Edit: On the topic of William Shatner, he seems to have mellowed out these days and takes him self less seriously. He’s also quite funny, check him out congratulating Gorge Lucas for a lifetime achievement award of some sort…
Cool clip, check out this one, something called Star Trek Blitz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whXohEOL-S4&mode=related&search (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whXohEOL-S4&mode=related&search)=
And this is a cool one by Shatner
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt596dfzYq8&mode=related&search)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt596dfzYq8&mode=related&search (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt596dfzYq8&mode=related&search)=
Shatner played the role of Kirk brilliantly. Few movie stars can bring something like that off.
Onkel Neal
08-12-06, 08:21 PM
What bugs me about the fans of the off shoots from Star Trek they bang on about how much the special effects are so much better :doh: of course they are the original series was done back in the sixty's wake up you dozy lot. Another thing that makes me laugh these fans spend more time throwing the book at each other. :lol:
Get a grip it's a TV show sit back and enjoy, Star Trek may look dated, by heck I would regard it alot better than the rubbish on TV today.
Yeah, I never got into the Next Generation. Seemed to derivative from the original. Data bugged me, he was like a cross between the tin man and a watered-down Spock, and what's with the kid and the Klingon on the bridge? :) Once I retire I'll give it a second look. The special effects are superb, too bad Kirk and co. didn't have that available to them in the 60's.
Rockstar
08-12-06, 09:57 PM
one of my favs was when they were chasing that gaint space cornucopia looking thing that ate planets.
I liked the original Star Trek better than any of the "next generations". My favorite movie with the original cast was The Wrath of Kahn.
http://www.movieactors.com/freeseframes-1026/StarTrekWrathKahn47.jpeg
"Kirk, He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him. I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flame before I give him up!"
http://www.70disco.com/images/tribble3.jpg:cool:
bigboywooly
08-13-06, 01:47 AM
Ahh good old Shatner
Currently on British tv hawking All Bran cereal :rotfl:
Godalmighty83
08-13-06, 04:07 AM
if they did a dvd release of the original series but cleaned up and utilizing modern effects i would be very interested.
goldorak
08-13-06, 04:55 AM
if they did a dvd release of the original series but cleaned up and utilizing modern effects i would be very interested.
No, it would take away all the 60's cheesiness and charm.
How about doing the same thing to The Prisoner, or UFO, or Space 1999 (first season only), or all the shows in supermarionation ? :roll:
Those series are great because they trascend the 60's era.
goldorak
08-13-06, 04:58 AM
I liked the original Star Trek better than any of the "next generations". My favorite movie with the original cast was The Wrath of Kahn.
http://www.movieactors.com/freeseframes-1026/StarTrekWrathKahn47.jpeg
"Kirk, He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him. I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flame before I give him up!"
Yep :yep: my two most favorite ST films are Star Trek : The Motion Picture and Wrath of Khan.
Those were the times :rock:, from there the whole franchise just went downhill (except for DS9). :nope:
Skybird
08-13-06, 05:15 AM
DS9 had an excellent episode where they digitally copied material from Trouble with Tribbles and DS9 into the same pictures. The DS9 crew did a timejump back into that episode and then effectivel yplayed within the frame of that episode, wearing those old dresses and somewhat interacting with the old Shatner crew.
Trials and Tribbleations....great episode! :D
http://malnurturedsnay.net/wordpress/wp-content/trialstribbleations568.jpg
(Seeing Kirk and Spock in the corridor)
Jadzia: I had no idea.
Sisko: What?
Jadzia: He's so much more handsome in person. Those eyes.
Sisko: Kirk had quite the reputation as a ladies man.
Jadzia: Not him - Spock!
definitely the original series has the edge every time...
if anything the newer series and spin offs are just too stright laced and "cool"... they have the occasional moment of stress or humour but apart from that the characters are all more like data than data is...
good old Shatner....collapsing on his knees in despair shouting "SPOCK!!!...SPOCK!!!" or rolling his eyes with sweat pouring from his forehead....slamming his desk with his fists and screaming at people...close ups of the characters faces showing extreme emotion or distress brings the whole thing to life and makes more relevant to-day than it ever was...
emotion in modern media is so stage managed that it has become actually a bit creepy....certainly completely artificail..give me scotty chasing kirk down a hall way shouting "I canny change the laws of physics captain"
and kirk falling on his knees screaming to the heavens " NO!!!!!!!!" everytime....the rocks on every planet are all made of polysterene..but the characters are full blown Shakespearean human beings..
another reason for like-ing the Revenge of Khan movie..the language...(as mentioned!!) is stunning...such pleasure in the simple exercise of the human tongue can't beat it!!
as August showed!!
"Kirk, He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him. I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flame before I give him up!"
or
i'm gonna kill the b*st*rd
i know which works better for me!! don't care if no-body talks like Khan anymore...maybe they should...life would be so much more colourfull!!
if they did a dvd release of the original series but cleaned up and utilizing modern effects i would be very interested.
No, it would take away all the 60's cheesiness and charm.
How about doing the same thing to The Prisoner, or UFO, or Space 1999 (first season only), or all the shows in supermarionation ? :roll:
Those series are great because they trascend the 60's era.
Space 1999 (year one) has been digitally restored from new high definition transfers from the 35m print. 100 times better than the old VHS 16m print the picture is great and lots of goodies thrown in as well.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000B0QJC2/202-0386442-5723822?v=glance&n=283926&s=dvd&v=glance
Back on Topic I rate the Star Trek films like this.
Star Trek 1.... 6 out of 10
Star Trek 2.... 8 out of 10
Star Trek 3.... 7 out of 10
Star Trek 4.... 7 out of 10
Star Trek 5.... 4 out of 10
Star Trek 6.... 8 out of 10
The Noob
08-13-06, 12:40 PM
I love the Original Series. Only the Original Series and Movies. That new stuff is to Wierd for me. :D
Godalmighty83
08-13-06, 02:30 PM
the next gen was mostly ok, a few cracking episodes a few really naff ones (wesley crusher must die). ds9 i never really watched, saw the station kill a load of my favourite ships (klingon birds of prey) and i felt like the scriptwriters had turned a powerful ship into cannon fodder. i never forgave them for that.
voyager and enterprise were jst a bit naff.
i stopped watching enterprise after the captain said 'we have a saying on earth' for the 50th time in the space of 2 episodes.
Voyager and a game called Star Trek: Armada II are the only reason I ever liked star trek so Im partial to there time... plus the Intrepid class is such a beautifull ship compared to the 1701 :p
I´ve seen some of the originals and I liked them. As for the newer ones, I´m more of a Babylon 5 guy. ;)
Sailor Steve
08-13-06, 05:24 PM
...I´m more of a Babylon 5 guy. ;)
I agree, except I don't consider B5 to be a series; rather a 180-hour-long movie.
But my first love is Firefly.
goldorak
08-13-06, 05:28 PM
I´ve seen some of the originals and I liked them. As for the newer ones, I´m more of a Babylon 5 guy. ;)
Great series and my favorite science fiction series to date.
G'Kar and Londo are some of the most endeering characters ever to grace the small screen.
For those wishing a confrontation between Babylon 5 and ST I recomned this Finnish fan made film : Star Wreck in The Pirkinning.
Absolutely top notch production quality, and great sense of humour.
You can download it freely and legally here : http://www.starwreck.com/
tycho102
08-13-06, 08:46 PM
As far as games go, the 25th Aniversary and "Judgement Rites" were pretty decent. If anyone hasn't played them, you 'ought to give a look at them. They might be difficult to get running with full sound -- I haven't tried running them lately, even though I have the disk images saved back onto DVDR.
They are both "original series" games, and like I was saying, have some good parts to them.
...I´m more of a Babylon 5 guy. ;) I agree, except I don't consider B5 to be a series; rather a 180-hour-long movie.
That´s why I liked it.:D Too bad it ended. B5 is still my #1 series. :up:
DS9 had an excellent episode where they digitally copied material from Trouble with Tribbles and DS9 into the same pictures. The DS9 crew did a timejump back into that episode and then effectivel yplayed within the frame of that episode, wearing those old dresses and somewhat interacting with the old Shatner crew.
Wasn't that the episode where they asked Worf about the difference between the Klingon look back then and now?
Worfs reply (something like): "We don't like to talk about that period in the Empire" :rotfl:
Sailor Steve
08-14-06, 11:09 AM
Dowly][/B]
...I´m more of a Babylon 5 guy. ;)
I agree, except I don't consider B5 to be a series; rather a 180-hour-long movie.
That´s why I liked it.:D Too bad it ended. B5 is still my #1 series. :up:
Well, there was the sequel, Crusade.
Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dowly
...I´m more of a Babylon 5 guy. ;)
I agree, except I don't consider B5 to be a series; rather a 180-hour-long movie.
That´s why I liked it.:D Too bad it ended. B5 is still my #1 series. :up:
Well, there was the sequel, Crusade.
Which sucked. :rotfl:
Sailor Steve
08-14-06, 11:16 AM
:p :p :p
SUBMAN1
08-14-06, 11:25 AM
Any other Star Trek fans out there? I'm talking the original Trek, not the spinoffs. :)
One thing about Star Trek I always admired and liked: They worked in an incredible amount of naval terms. Helm... set a course.... I wish I kept a list of all the cool nautical stuff they say in a show about spaceships.
Tonight while working, I watched "Naked Time". Kirk, that computer-killing, female alien loving bastard--you have to give it to him--he loves his ship. In all the episodes, if anyone messes with his ship, it's trouble with a capital T.
Not big a Trekkie fan, but the original used more theoretical systems than the new one did. I didn't watch many of the original episodes, but I did watch all the movies and enjoyed every one of them. I do have the complete deck plans for a Klingon Battle Cruiser and the USS Enterprise - given to me when I was younger. Hung on to them since they may be worth something at some point in time.
-S
Godalmighty83
08-14-06, 01:02 PM
...I´m more of a Babylon 5 guy. ;) I agree, except I don't consider B5 to be a series; rather a 180-hour-long movie.
But my first love is Firefly.
agreed with the firefly thing, i love the series and the movie. got the series dvd set, my only wish was cast comentries for every episode. same with the movie. the commentry by nathon fillion and joss whedon to the pilot episodes is especialy good and funny.
http://www.in-my-opinion.org//files/borg_pony.jpg
Skybird
08-14-06, 05:27 PM
Any other Star Trek fans out there? I'm talking the original Trek, not the spinoffs. :)
One thing about Star Trek I always admired and liked: They worked in an incredible amount of naval terms. Helm... set a course.... I wish I kept a list of all the cool nautical stuff they say in a show about spaceships.
Tonight while working, I watched "Naked Time". Kirk, that computer-killing, female alien loving bastard--you have to give it to him--he loves his ship. In all the episodes, if anyone messes with his ship, it's trouble with a capital T.
Not big a Trekkie fan, but the original used more theoretical systems than the new one did. I didn't watch many of the original episodes, but I did watch all the movies and enjoyed every one of them. I do have the complete deck plans for a Klingon Battle Cruiser and the USS Enterprise - given to me when I was younger. Hung on to them since they may be worth something at some point in time.
-S
A deckplan? I have a complete BOOK about the TNG-Enterprise, it's deck layouts, technical systems and components, procedures and such! :lol:
On the other hand, i also have a 1200 pages encyclopedia on the fictional history of the Dune-universe. And Frodo's travel blog is somewhere hidden on the shelves, too. Diary, I mean :)
Takeda Shingen
08-14-06, 05:49 PM
And Frodo's travel blog is somewhere hidden on the shelves, too.
Day 58
We made 12 miles today. No baths for a month, so everyone is starting to smell. Siegfried, err, Aragorn keeps staring wistfully at the distance and singing in elvish, which, needless to say, is getting pretty annoying. Between him and Wotan's, err, Gandalf's, frequent and needless dissertations on Alberich, err, Sauron and the nature of evil, we are never in want of headaches.
I have this thing in my foot; I think it's a splinter. Today, I woke up to find it was twice the size it was yesterday. I showed it to Gandalf, and he had Legolas chew up some kind of plant and spit on it. What the hell is that? I just wanted some Ibuprofin. Now my foot is fat and sticky.
Aragorn grew in stature today....again. Every time he talks about Notung, err, Narsil, Gandalf pulls me aside to tell me that Aragorn is growing in stature, whatever that means. He looks the same to me. Maybe he has some sort of tumor. That might explain things.
They keep trying to teach us to fight every time we sit down, which is very often. Man, I'm three feet tall. I wield an elaborate steak knife. What the hell good am I in a brawl? If we didn't sit down so much, this thing might be over. I hate this fellowship.
Skybird
08-14-06, 06:25 PM
:lol:
A deckplan? I have a complete BOOK about the TNG-Enterprise, it's deck layouts, technical systems and components, procedures and such! :lol:
On the other hand, i also have a 1200 pages encyclopedia on the fictional history of the Dune-universe. And Frodo's travel blog is somewhere hidden on the shelves, too. Diary, I mean :)
You the nerd Sky...join the club I have probably that same book on TNG Enterprise. :88) Cool stuff actually. Also an unfinished model is in a box somewhere in my parent's basement. :oops:
I myself actually really liked the original and TNG, and have seen every episode. DS9 never really got into it, liked a few of the characters, Voyager barely watched it. Enterprise? Nothing for me. Still, to my nerd mind, they are all "canonical" the history and characters etc. are all "real" and part of the Start Trek universe, even if I don't like it. Sort of like "The Phantom Menace" and Jar Jar are part of the canonical Star Wars universe, I just ignore it like I ignore most contemporary politics. :p
*cough*
I have the same book but of DS9 and the Defiant :p
Kirk is back. :D
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/printer_friendly/news_logo.gif
Shatner revives Kirk role in game
William Shatner has reprised his role as Captain James T Kirk for a computer game version of Star Trek.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41430000/jpg/_41430489_shatner_getty203b.jpg
He said he could not imagine anyone else as the character and "got a little territorial" when the part came up.
Players will battle Klingon warriors and Borg aliens while steering more than 60 starships, which are adapted from all five series of the TV show.
Shatner has said his grandson plans to teach him how to take part, as he does not usually play computer games.
"If it's a good game, keeping true to the characters the best they can, and having an interesting story that branches, I think a game can bring a freshness to a franchise like Star Trek," Shatner told the Reuters news agency.
It's been around a long time, it's a staple of American life and I think we need something new and different in Star Trek
William Shatner
"The interest in Star Trek has waned in the last couple years.
"It's been around a long time, it's a staple of American life and I think we need something new and different in Star Trek," he said.
The first Star Trek television show, which was created by Gene Roddenberry and starred Shatner, was broadcast in 1966.
The most recent series in the Star Trek franchise, Enterprise, ended last year, and the next film is not due until 2008.
Shatner has won Emmy awards for playing eccentric lawyer Denny Crane in two series, Boston Legal and The Practice. His voice has also been used in a computer game before, in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy in 1997.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/4790713.stm
Published: 2006/08/14 11:00:42 GMT
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I found this on some website:
On the original Star Trek, the Klingons basically looked just like humans but with slightly different skin color and big fu manchu mustaches. But with the first Star Trek movie, the Klingons had gotten a major makeover to make them look more alien. In all new Trek, the Klingons have huge ridged foreheads. No explanation of the change was necessary really... until this episode. Sending the crew, including Klingon crewman Worf, back to this old episode where they would meet up with the old style Klingons meant they would have to acknowledge the change. Stunned at how these Klingons looked, the crew ask Worf for an explanation and his response to their questions is a classic (go watch the episode - I'm not blowing the best part of the show!) as is this whole epsisode. Very funny.
What did he say exactly?
Winston
08-15-06, 05:48 PM
What did he say exactly?
Quoting from memory only...
"It's not something we discuss with outsiders"
Edit: Just looked it up on IMDB, it's...
"We do not discuss it with outsiders."
I was close :p
I found this on some website:
On the original Star Trek, the Klingon's basically looked just like humans but with slightly different skin color and big fu manchu mustaches. But with the first Star Trek movie, the Klingons had gotten a major makeover to make them look more alien. In all new Trek, the Klingons have huge ridged foreheads. No explanation of the change was necessary really... until this episode. Sending the crew, including Klingon crewman Worf, back to this old episode where they would meet up with the old style Klingons meant they would have to acknowledge the change. Stunned at how these Klingons looked, the crew ask Worf for an explanation and his response to their questions is a classic (go watch the episode - I'm not blowing the best part of the show!) as is this whole epsisode. Very funny.
What did he say exactly?
If anyone bothered to watch the final season of Enterprise you would had got the answer. :yep:
I am going to keep this short, the Klingon's got hold of of Augments D.N.A (this is another story) as we know the Augments took control of earth and Khan was the strongest king ect,ect. Anyway the Klingon's messed around with the D.N.A to make them selfs strong, which it did, but they died some hours latter one of the side affects was they lost there head ridges and so on. Upshot a percentage of Klingon's after being cured have lost their head ridges for all time.
If anyone bothered to watch the final season of Enterprise you would had got the answer. :yep:
I am going to keep this short, the Klingon's got hold of of Augments D.N.A (this is another story) as we know the Augments took control of earth and Khan was the strongest king ect,ect. Anyway the Klingon's messed around with the D.N.A to make them selfs strong, which it did, but they died some hours latter one of the side affects was they lost there head ridges and so on. Upshot a percentage of Klingon's after being cured have lost their head ridges for all time.
Obviously they don't have seats on the Klingon High Council.... :D I've seen them when Worf went back for his trial. Not a smooth head among them.
Obviously they don't have seats on the Klingon High Council.... :D I've seen them when Worf went back for his trial. Not a smooth head among them.
You can not have second rate klingon's on the High Council it's unheard of. :damn:
Obviously they don't have seats on the Klingon High Council.... :D I've seen them when Worf went back for his trial. Not a smooth head among them.
You can not have second rate klingon's on the High Council it's unheard of. :damn:
That would be as bad as having a human on the Senate....oh...wait...:oops: :damn:
FUBAR295
08-16-06, 05:17 PM
No one mentioned, unless I missed while perusing this thread, what should be to most of you, a favorite episode, "The Balance Of terror". ASW taken into space.
It's my favorite from the original series, even over those tribles.
Good Hunting,
FUBAR
I just can not select one episode. :damn:
At a minimum it would be 3 no wait 5 hang on 7. :damn: I can not do this. :dead:
Hey, I mentioned Balance of Terror a few pages back! :up:
Mark Leonard as the Romulan commander was spectacular, he outshone the main cast! Great episode definately :up:
FUBAR295
08-16-06, 07:18 PM
Hey, I mentioned Balance of Terror a few pages back! :up:
Mark Leonard as the Romulan commander was spectacular, he outshone the main cast! Great episode definately :up:
Oberon,
Sorry, I missed the mention. :oops:
Any how, as I said, it is my favorite.
Good Hunting,
FUBAR
Hey, I mentioned Balance of Terror a few pages back! :up:
Mark Leonard as the Romulan commander was spectacular, he outshone the main cast! Great episode definately :up:
There is an error in that episode did anyone spot it. :yep:
PS. I know. ;)
Sailor Steve
08-17-06, 11:31 AM
I don't know what error you mean, but then I haven't seen an episode of Star Trek in at least 20 years.
Back when I saw Balance of Terror when it first aired, I said "I know that story...let me see...The Enemy Below!
No one has got the answer to the episode Balance of Terror.:huh:
OK the answer, the Enterprise looked like it was firing photon torpedo's and the order was fire phasers.
Granted this was a early episode.
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