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Nunc Dimittis
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As a rule over my years on the Ship I have been more a denizen of Hell than an inhabitant of Heaven.
But I have to come clean. In the last few months I have gone over to the dark side and become a Trekker.
It started with Voyager and the Season 3 episode "Sacred Ground". I was hooked. Since then I've been in the process of acquiring all the series. (It's a bit tragic really: I've watched the 7 seasons of Voyager through about 4-5 times.) And today the Star Trek (2009) dvd arrived.
I am bubbling over with enthusiasm: I thoroughly enjoyed this relaunch/remake of the original Star Trek, and I CAN'T WAIT for its sequel to come out next year.
Any other shipmates who confess to be Trekkers or Trekkies?
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LeRoc
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Lieutenant LeRoc signing in. But shouldn't the thread title be 'Trekkers of the galaxy unite'? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
My favourites are TNG and DS9, but I also like TOS and VOY (I just shut my eyes whenever Neelix comes into the screen). I haven't been able to see much of ENT.
(Translation for non-Trekkies:
TOS: The Old Series
TNG: The Next Generation
DS9: Deep Space 9
VOY: Voyager
ENT: Enterprise)
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I started with the original series, and think that the lack of CGI makes for a better series, the writers have to work harder.
any other TOSsers out there?
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Nunc Dimittis
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
Lieutenant LeRoc signing in. But shouldn't the thread title be 'Trekkers of the galaxy unite'?
My bad. Of course! Could a friendly host please change the thread title?
[Friendly Host reporting in!
I have made it so.
jedijudy
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My favourites are TNG and DS9, but I also like TOS and VOY (I just shut my eyes whenever Neelix comes into the screen). I haven't been able to see much of ENT.
(Translation for non-Trekkies:
TOS: The Old Series
TNG: The Next Generation
DS9: Deep Space 9
VOY: Voyager
ENT: Enterprise)
TOS is The Original Series
I have a weakness for VOY - and I lost my dislike for Neelix after watching the whole series through from the beginning. Doing that made sense of his character, and shows how he develops and changes as the other characters do. (There was a time I simply wouldn't watch an episode in which he featured.) Currently building a model of the USS Voyager, complete with lighting.
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LeRoc
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Nunc Dimittis: TOS is The Original Series
I cover my pointy ears in shame ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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K'plah! (Klingon greeting, literally I believe, 'what do you want?)
Everything I ever needed to know, I learned from StarTrek. Further, I've based most of my life decisions with the simple rubric "what would Picard do?" If I'm in a more aggressive mood, I change that to Kirk, rip up my shirt, and fight with someone.
The most important thing in any scene of your life is not to be a red shirt.
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Lyda*Rose
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no prophet: quote:
If I'm in a more aggressive mood, I change that to Kirk, rip up my shirt, and fight with someone.
...and then, of course, bang a hose-head babe. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
Personally my heart belongs to Picard. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
But my actual favorite series was DS9. It was pretty complex and I really liked the whole Bajoran politics/religion/Prophets story line plus the voyage of self-discovery of Odo, the shape shifter.
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Lyda*Rose
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Now that's just evil.
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Now that's just evil.
You might also enjoy this one by Spock.
Legend of Bilbo Baggins by Spock ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Trudy Scrumptious
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Originally posted by no prophet:
Further, I've based most of my life decisions with the simple rubric "what would Picard do?"
As long as we're tossing around YouTube links,
you're not the only one who uses that as their moral compass.
I agree you won't go far wrong asking yourself WWCPD? Voyager and DS9 are actually my favourite series, though.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
But my actual favorite series was DS9. It was pretty complex and I really liked the whole Bajoran politics/religion/Prophets story line plus the voyage of self-discovery of Odo, the shape shifter.
Hear, hear. Although I've watched all series through to about Series 3 Voyager (Neelix did it for me I'm afraid ). I think the writing was a bit more consistent, and if something's going to last 7 series, that matters.
TOS is a bit of an enigma to me though. I was a kid when I saw the series in repeats and alot of it passed me by.
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For me too, I think DS9 was mostly the best series - it had that darker edge of dealing with the Bajoran occupation and the Dominion, and the questions over who actually ran the place - Sisko or Odo. It got a bit odd when Gul Dukat (I think) began thinking he was a prophet or similar, but I may be mis-remembering...
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I never really saw DS9, it just seemed to pass me by. It's next Gen or Voyager for me.
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I can't claim to be a Trekker, but my husband is a fan going back to his impressionable teenage years watching TOS, so I've watched a lot of its various incarnations (and films) with him over the years.
I will say that "Darmok" is one of my favorite episodes of any TV show, ever.
Also that we went to see this last Christmas and it was awesome.
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Lyda*Rose
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Mamacita: quote:
I will say that "Darmok" is one of my favorite episodes of any TV show, ever.
Yes, yes, YES! Splendid, touching, and so well acted. It really examined a classic sf type subject: how do people from cultures with totally different references bridge the gaps? The answer was dramatically successful.
Another from TNG that got me here ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif) was "The Measure of a Man", where Starfleet tried to claim Data as property, without sentient rights. The hearing where they argued over the legality of the matter was pretty damned good for a treatment in a fifty minute long episode.
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Darmok is a great episode. Hmm, he wonders, could we have a Circus thread telling current event using Bible parallels, like the Tamarians? --"Jacob and Esau with Isaac, their arms hairy" is?**
But my favourite STNG episode is probly The Inner Light. Picard is on the bridge, struck by a probe's beam and lives an entire lifetime on a world destroyed centuries earlier. He is married, has children, is a grandfather.
While we're on youtube, youtube has Steam Trek, which is Star Trek done as a silent movie. I don't know where some people get all of their time! (But I like them.)
**Obama and Romeny waiting for their polling results. (okay that was a poor try, but is this worth doing?)
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jedijudy
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I think I was about fourteen when TOS started broadcasting. What a breath of fresh air! My first big crush was Mr. Spock!
The following series have each been different and well-made. (Another Darmok fan here!)
Oh, for those who are wondering, I am ambi-Star-ous.
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Lyda*Rose
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
I think I was about fourteen when TOS started broadcasting. What a breath of fresh air! My first big crush was Mr. Spock!
The following series have each been different and well-made. (Another Darmok fan here!)
Oh, for those who are wondering, I am ambi-Star-ous.
Man, I wish I'd had that tee-shirt for the past year. (Where is the covetous smilie when you need it?)
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Barefoot Friar
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ST:TNG man here. My favorite episodes were 525 "The Inner Light" and 610 and 611 "Chain of Command Part I and II".
I never could get into ST:VOY, and I didn't see very much of ST:DS9 -- although I liked what I saw.
I liked the movies best, even the bad ones. I enjoyed "The Undiscovered Country" and "Generations" probably the most. My younger brother and I went to see "Nemesis" in the theater on opening night (the only time I've ever done that) and enjoyed that, too.
As far as fan fiction, I've read a whole lot of it. I can quote parts of "I, Q".
I think of all the characters, the ones whom I liked best were Spock and Data. I liked Geordi LaForge because we watched Reading Rainbow a lot, and Captain Picard was a great character, too. But Spock and Data both were interesting to me in a way the others weren't.
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Barefoot Friar
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Wodder's location in his profile is a Star Trek movie quote... The end of The Search for Spock, I think. It's taken from Peter Pan, though.
[ 06. November 2012, 02:48: Message edited by: Barefoot Friar ]
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My favorite episode is Far Beyond The Stars which adds some complexity and reference to the series.
At this point, about all I want to see is a live Kingon Grand Opera ( I understand there's one being done in Holland) and perhaps a sit com set on Feregenar
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Another DS9 fan here. I also seem to be one of the few ENT fans - I like the whole building up of the "mythology". I could never really get emotionally involved in VOY for some reason. I enjoyed TOS as a kid, but as an adult it all seems a bit wooden, with the exception of a couple of the feature films.
TNG improved as it went on. Maybe as it left Roddenberry's influence behind it was freer to be a bit more grown-up. I hated any episode with Q in it. He really, REALLY irritated me.
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Nunc Dimittis
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I think my favourite episode of TOS is Metamorphosis, in which Kirk and co are stranded on a planet where they meet the hero Zephram Cochrane, who's been there 150 years sustained by a creature of light (the Companion). Bones observes, on seeing the creature communicating with Cochrane by means of enveloping him in itself, "That looks like love to me." And the creature, through communication with Kirk, comes to realise the only way to express its (her) love for Cochrane is to become human, thus giving up her immortality.
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probably not surprising to those who know me, but I love the ST universe.
TNG girl, all the way. I think my thing for bald guys started with Picard. Holy hotness. I've always been pretty sure I'm a crossed Klingon and Betazoid who's just been displaced. it's really the only explanation.
I also enjoyed Voyager for the most part, though it was bumpy at points. I think that doctor was the best, though it's a tight race with McCoy. I'm also a big fan of B'Elanna, I could always relate to her inner conflicts. Warf was awesome, but just so... pure klingon. a little too stiff. He really came out of his shell on DS9 - but otherwise, that show didn't do much for me.
I've not seen more than an episode or 2 of "Enterprise" - for some reason it left me cold. quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
But my favourite STNG episode is probly The Inner Light. Picard is on the bridge, struck by a probe's beam and lives an entire lifetime on a world destroyed centuries earlier. He is married, has children, is a grandfather.
this is definitely my favorite episode of all the series and all the shows. I admit it, I cried.
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We recently (well, last year) bought TOS on DVD and watched the lot from start to finish (over several months, I hasten to add, not back to back). It holds up surprisingly well for something that was made nearly 50 years ago. Yes, the miniskirts are awful, Uhura gets almost nothing to do, the way the aliens always zap the nameless redshirt first (giving the rest of the landing party time to escape) is silly. And that episode where McCoy makes fun of Spock for being 'illogical' when what he actually did was take a calculated risk (which paid off, or he wouldn't be alive to tell the tale) is just ludicrous.
It's still my favourite. I like some episodes of TNG (except Troi is really, REALLY irritating), never got into Voyager, didn't like DS9.
And I too had a crush on Spock when I was a teenager, but Isaac Asimov is wrong. We girls don't like him (just) because he's clever. It's because he's unavailable, unlike James T. 'Girl in Every Episode' Kirk, who is, well, slightly icky.
I probably don't count as a real Trekkie though - I think Galaxyquest is funny ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Trudy Scrumptious
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Originally posted by Jane R:
I probably don't count as a real Trekkie though - I think Galaxyquest is funny
I've never known any Trekkie who didn't think Galaxy Quest was both hilarious and spot-on.
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I loved DS9 - watched end to end its particularly effective, as it has a 7 series story arc which was quite unusual at the time.
Ron Moores involvement in DS9 also makes me see it, in hindsight, as it a bit of a dry run for the 'big ideas' in the 'Battlestar Galactica' remake which I also adore.
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Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
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Originally posted by Jane R:
I probably don't count as a real Trekkie though - I think Galaxyquest is funny
I've never known any Trekkie who didn't think Galaxy Quest was both hilarious and spot-on.
Much as I cringe at the label, I qualify as a Trekkie. ISTM, only a fan of Trek could completely appreciate either GQ or Trekkies.
TOS is the best. TNG had its moments and I love some of the characters, but overall too plastic and sterile. DS9, at least for the first seasons, ranks nearly as high as TOS for me.
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LeRoc
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Lyda*Rose: Personally my heart belongs to Picard.
I have a different favourite...
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Panda: For me too, I think DS9 was mostly the best series - it had that darker edge of dealing with the Bajoran occupation and the Dominion, and the questions over who actually ran the place - Sisko or Odo.
Same here.
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Panda: It got a bit odd when Gul Dukat (I think) began thinking he was a prophet or similar, but I may be mis-remembering...
There was something with this guy, wasn't there?
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Mamacita: I will say that "Darmok" is one of my favorite episodes of any TV show, ever.
Strangely, I haven't seen that one, although I know its contents. What did you like about it? The philosophizing about language?
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Lyda*Rose: Another from TNG that got me here was "The Measure of a Man", where Starfleet tried to claim Data as property, without sentient rights. The hearing where they argued over the legality of the matter was pretty damned good for a treatment in a fifty minute long episode.
To be honest, that theme has been pounded on a gazillion times in SF books already, but I like how it is treated here. Picard in human (and robot!) rights lawyer
mode is always fun to watch.
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prophet: But my favourite STNG episode is probly The Inner Light. Picard is on the bridge, struck by a probe's beam and lives an entire lifetime on a world destroyed centuries earlier. He is married, has children, is a grandfather.
Yes, that was very moving to me. What would it be like to live a lifetime in just a couple of hours?
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Ask a mayfly lol ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Like many others I grew up with TOS. Having seen many episodes at home, I well remember seeing the programme at a friend's house for the first time and discovering, to my great surprise, that the crew had a range of different coloured shirts!
I also really liked TNG and loved DS9, but I never got into VOY or ENT.
TOS - to boldly go where no man has gone before.
TNG - to boldly go where everyone has been before.
DS9 - to boldly stay exactly where we are.
VOY - to boldly get back to where we used to be.
ENT - to boldly get to where we started out from.
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As a teen in the 90's, I devoured The Next Generation.
Learnt much of my ethics from it (pre - Christianity)
<tangent - how Christian is Star Trek ethically?>
Still enjoy the movies as they come out on big screen.
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LeRoc
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Meerkat: Ask a mayfly lol
![[Smile]](smile.gif) But not on the day that we switch to DST, because he'll live even shorter!
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The TNG ep I keep thinking of is the one with 'the game' which they all get hooked on.
There's a very funny YouTube clip somewhere which suggests it's Angry Birds ... oh, so true.
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Originally posted by Barefoot Friar:
I liked the movies best, even the bad ones. I enjoyed "The Undiscovered Country" and "Generations" probably the most. My younger brother and I went to see "Nemesis" in the theater on opening night (the only time I've ever done that) and enjoyed that, too.
I think I went to all the opening nights of all the movies. Well, except 'ST: The Movie'. Otherwise known as 'Where Nomad Has Gone Before'. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Leaving 'The Wrath of Khan', I was bawling my eyes out because Spock was dead. My ex was gleeful. "He's dead, Spock is dead and I'm glad."
Spock is alive again, and my ex is gone.
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Mamacita
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Mamacita: I will say that "Darmok" is one of my favorite episodes of any TV show, ever.
Strangely, I haven't seen that one, although I know its contents. What did you like about it? The philosophizing about language?
Oh, let me count the ways. Certainly for its take on the uses and limits of language (being a bit of a language geek myself). Just the sheer idea of a culture that communicates through metaphor and without verbs. I loved how, while Troi and Data were trawling through the Federation's database trying to crack the code, Picard was down there on the ground with nothing but his experience and intuition -- and figured it out. I loved the humanity and sense of honor in both Captains. How the Tamarian captain gave Picard a burning branch to start his own fire (while up above, Worf and Riker were arguing about how aggressively to respond). How, after the battle with the beast, Picard relates part of the Gilgamesh saga to the dying Tamarian captain who wants Picard to tell him a story. All the layers of myth and metaphor used in the episode. (How that all flows together, you'll need to see the episode.) And most of all, the Tamarian captain's self-sacrifice in order to bring reconciliation between their two worlds. Now *that's* a metaphor!
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On tor.com they're reviewing every episode of TNG at the moment, and they're just up to the fun one where Troi ends up taking over a Romulan ship. It's been very interesting looking at each episode in turn and remembering (or not) what I thought of them at the time.
I grew up with TOS, and while my sister was dealing with difficult situations by giving a "Paddington stare", I was trying to act like a Vulcan. When I was about seven I spent a lot of time practicing two things - how to do a Vulcan salute, and how to say Ilya Kuriakin! (The neck pinch never worked on my sister, though.)
I'm another fan of Darmok - and I also love the alternate universe DS9 episodes which are pretty much Blake's Seven done with a bigger budget! Kira is Servalan, of course, and Sisko is Blake, with O'Brien as Vila.
I used to write ST fan fiction, too.
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
I will say that "Darmok" is one of my favorite episodes of any TV show, ever.
"Darmok" was the first episode of TNG I saw. It stopped me in my tracks and made me go "wow". Serious, thoughtful writing, nicely filmed and beautifully acted. Unfortunately, I've never seen another TNG episode that quite lives up to it, although some recurring themes such as Data's humanity are always worth watching.
I'm more a Voyager man myself. I think the crew are the most consistently watchable ensemble out of all of them. There are plenty of episodes that are excellent and endlessly rewatchable - Think Tank and Counterpoint being among my favourites.
And I want to be Capt. Janeway when I grow up.
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I grew up with TOS and James T. Kirk was my hero. That hasn't changed . I also like TNG and VOY. I didn't watch a lot of DS9 (couldn't bear the Ferengi, mainly) and thought ENT started off well but fizzled out - I had stopped watching it long before the end. I love Galaxy Quest too and watch it whenever I need cheering up.
My fave TOS episodes include Devil in the Dark, The Enemy Within, Mirror, Mirror, and City on the Edge of Forever. For TNG I would include Yesterday's Enterprise, The Offspring, Darmok, and 11001001. Most of my TNG faves are in the first three series. I didn't like it so much after that, although there are some notable exceptions such as Darmok.
I miss that world I used to inhabit of Star Trek conventions every couple of years - I haven't been to one for almost 20 years now.
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Originally posted by Gill H:
The TNG ep I keep thinking of is the one with 'the game' which they all get hooked on.
Oh yes, that's one of my favourite episodes due to its 'sinister' overtones. There are not many TNG episodes like it.
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
I think I went to all the opening nights of all the movies. Well, except 'ST: The Movie'. Otherwise known as 'Where Nomad Has Gone Before'.
Sadly I did go to the London premiere of ST-TMP, and watched it surrounded by fellow Trekkers. After all that build-up, I think many of us felt a huge sense of anti-climax.
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I was a big TOS fan (I even participated in the letter-writing campaign that saved it from cancellation after the second season). TNG left me cold, though I may get it from NetFlix and try again one of these days; I discovered DS9 about halfway through, and after initially dismissing it as soap opera became an addict--it's probably the best of the shows, mostly because it broke out of the "Wagon Train to the Stars" box and was able to use the SF frame to deal with a full range of characters and situations. I loved VOY too, and Janeway is my favorite captain. I knew ENT was going to be a loser as soon as I heard that sappy theme song.
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Leaving 'The Wrath of Khan', I was bawling my eyes out because Spock was dead.
So was I, but I wish they hadn't made 'The Search For Spock'. They give him a great death scene, where he nobly lays down his life for the good of the rest of the crew... could have done without the bagpipes at the funeral, but let it pass... and THEN in the very next film he picks it up again, after a lot of handwaving and several other deaths of people who are unimportant enough to stay dead. And the Vulcans are revealed as ordinary American-style materialists after all, when Spock's father says 'bugger logic, I want my son alive again'. Yes, it's a great moment and I thought it was very moving - but the Vulcans are supposed to be aliens with a completely different value system, FFS!
As I said earlier, I love Spock. But I think the scriptwriters should have stuck to their guns and left him dead, even if that meant doing without him in all the rest of the films...
(your ex sounds like a real jerk, btw - you're well rid of him)
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Originally posted by Jane R:
As I said earlier, I love Spock. But I think the scriptwriters should have stuck to their guns and left him dead, even if that meant doing without him in all the rest of the films...
I agree, yet I saw those films after. As well as all three of the Star Wars prequels whose names shall never be mentioned.
They care not we say no with our mouths as long as we say yes with our wallets. So shame on us.
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Originally posted by Jane R:
As I said earlier, I love Spock. But I think the scriptwriters should have stuck to their guns and left him dead, even if that meant doing without him in all the rest of the films...
And miss lines like quote:
They are not the hell your whales
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