Steady as she goes: Star Trek

[Godalmighty83]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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.

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[Skybird]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

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!

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]

Originally Posted by Skybird

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]

[joea]

Originally Posted by Skybird

A deckplan? I have a complete BOOK about the TNG-Enterprise, it's deck layouts, technical systems and components, procedures and such!

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. Cool stuff actually. Also an unfinished model is in a box somewhere in my parent's basement.

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

[Oberon]

*cough*
I have the same book but of DS9 and the Defiant :p

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Kirk is back.

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.


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/h...nt/4790713.stm

Published: 2006/08/14 11:00:42 GMT

© BBC MMVI

[August]

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]

Originally Posted by August

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

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Originally Posted by August

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.

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.

[August]

Originally Posted by STEED

If anyone bothered to watch the final season of Enterprise you would had got the answer.

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.... I've seen them when Worf went back for his trial. Not a smooth head among them.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by August

Obviously they don't have seats on the Klingon High Council.... 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.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by STEED

You can not have second rate klingon's on the High Council it's unheard of.

That would be as bad as having a human on the Senate....oh...wait...

[FUBAR295]

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