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Jane R
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How does that work? Do you have to chose which actor would be the best fit as a captain?
This is the Nitpickers' Guide for TOS. The quiz I referred to is multiple-choice; you are a recruit taking the entrance exam for Starfleet Academy. You pick one answer out of four alternatives for each question and then work out at the end whether you got mostly as, bs, cs or ds. This determines which captain you will be: Janeaway, Kirk, Picard or... Quark. Yes, I know Quark's not a captain but they have to do SOMETHING with all the people who fail the exam!
(I was Quark. His solutions to the questions were the most entertaining)
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LeRoc
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Jane R: This is the Nitpickers' Guide for TOS.
Ah, I get it know. (Now I'm a bit afraid to take the quiz. Does it has an option that tells you you're best suited as a deck scrubber? ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
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jedijudy
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Oooh! Sargon just joined the Ship!
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Jane R
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Now I'm a bit afraid to take the quiz. Does it has an option that tells you you're best suited as a deck scrubber?
That would be Quark... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) Join ussss...
I was actually quite relieved to discover that I wasn't a bald or balding Homo sapiens male, though I wouldn't have minded being Captain Janeway with a different hairdo.
I don't think this quiz is available online (I could be wrong, of course); you might have to buy the book to get it.
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LeRoc
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Jane R: That would be Quark... Join ussss...
In that case, I'd definitely get one of the Dabo Girls to give me an oo-mox
BTW, I love the Quark character. Very well done, and by a good actor. After ST initially struggled with the Ferengi idea (especially in the first seasons of TNG) they really pulled it off here.
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Eigon
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Channing Tatum was mentioned up the thread. I know who he is! That is to say, I know one atypical role that he played, which was the lead in The Eagle, a film version of Rosemary Sutcliff's children's novel The Eagle of the Ninth. He actually played Marcus Flavius Aquila, the wounded Roman centurion who goes north to recover the lost Eagle of his father's legion, quite well.
I have no idea what else he has appeared in, but am aware that it includes a fandom of teenage girls.
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ken
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Originally posted by Eigon:
... Rosemary Sutcliff's children's novel The Eagle of the Ninth.
Crap film. Glorious trilogy of books. Re-read them this year. Lovely ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Eigon
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I think Channing Tatum did quite well with the role he was given, and Donald Sutherland was marvellous as his uncle - but the film left out about half of the plot of the book, and got the ending wrong.
Meanwhile, back in the United Federation of Planets....
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rolyn
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I have come out as a Trekie after more then 40 years of denial .
Just started watching the original series again and found that peculiar 1st episode which scared the living daylights out of me aged 10.
The end scene being Dr. McCoy having to phaser a salt-sucking creature ,(which appeared to him as his former lover), as it was about to kill Captain Kirk.
Gene Rodenberry had a formula there which was used in many of his stories . I can see now why this low-budget space adventure found it's cult following.
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Amika
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Originally posted by rolyn:
I have come out as a Trekie after more then 40 years of denial .
Just started watching the original series again and found that peculiar 1st episode which scared the living daylights out of me aged 10.
The end scene being Dr. McCoy having to phaser a salt-sucking creature ,(which appeared to him as his former lover), as it was about to kill Captain Kirk.
I remember being terrified by 'The Mantrap', too. I used to call the salt vampire 'the spaghetti bolognese monster'. Don't know why as we didn't eat spaghetti bolognese in our house!
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rolyn
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Thanks for letting me know the episode title Amika , I deleted it without taking note . Only a couple of Star Treks bothered me and that was one .
A bit embarrassing for a boy having to tell his mum that something screened at 5.30 pm scared him.
Watched another one this evening called "Charlie X" which was pretty naff by comparison . You know it just seems to be all the sounds of the Starship , the characters, and just the whole set-up really. Still has the power to enthrall.....
Saddo's anonymous or what ?
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Nunc Dimittis
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Originally posted by rolyn:
Thanks for letting me know the episode title Amika , I deleted it without taking note . Only a couple of Star Treks bothered me and that was one .
A bit embarrassing for a boy having to tell his mum that something screened at 5.30 pm scared him.
Watched another one this evening called "Charlie X" which was pretty naff by comparison . You know it just seems to be all the sounds of the Starship , the characters, and just the whole set-up really. Still has the power to enthrall.....
Saddo's anonymous or what ?
Oh yes, and no shame!
I finished TOS again today, and have started The Animated Series. So very 1970s...
The other guilty little secret is that I discovered that the combination of Star Trek novels and an Android tablet is an exceptionally good one... ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Eigon
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I've just seen the trailer for the new film, Into Darkness (can't get used to the new actors in the roles yet - apart from Zachary Quinto as Spock, who is scarily like Leonard Nimoy). Benedict Cumberbatch is swearing undying vengeance against the Earth and seems to be about to blow San Francisco up.
Which is all very exciting and all that, but what happened to "seek out new life and new civilisations"?
What happened to the optimism?
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Adeodatus
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Originally posted by Eigon:
What happened to the optimism?
I think all of the Star Trek incarnations up to the latest reboot were among the most optimistic sci-fi of their times. In my favourite, Voyager, it almost went too far - everybody was so fundamentally good, even down to the pyschopath who came good in the end. Other brands of sci-fi may peddle their dystopias, but Star Trek always seemed to believe that humanity would forge a path of moral progress.
Perhaps in the latest version, everybody's just too pretty to be good.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Eigon:
What happened to the optimism?
It was bit boring? Seriously, TOS had a rougher feel. TNG was very sanitary and plastic. The others as well, though to a lesser degree. Is why I liked DS9 better than the rest, a little more of the wild frontier feel than any if the 2nd Gen series.
You know the good guys will win in the overall balance, but it is nice to imagine the struggle.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by Nunc Dimittis:
The other guilty little secret is that I discovered that the combination of Star Trek novels and an Android tablet is an exceptionally good one...
If only my Nook would have been around forty (forty?!!!) years ago when I started buying and reading those novels. Shouldn't those originals be worth something now?
What I want to know is, is Spock going to die? Again? ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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rolyn
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Originally posted by Nunc Dimittis:
Oh yes, and no shame!
Agreed
I finished TOS again today, and have started The Animated Series. So very 1970s..
I'm on one episode of TOS per evening .
Really enjoying them now I've got past the other one which gave me the ebee-geebies . ----( Where Kirk, Yeoman Janice , Doc, Spock etc. beamed downed to a 30s Earth-like planet and contracted a disease that had killed all the grown-ups, or 'grups' as that spooky bunch of kids called them ....)
Watching them again as a 50-something I notice the subtleties that previously went over my head . Like the on-going, unspoken fancy-thing between Kirk and Yeoman Janice.
I've also decided that Leonard Nimoy's early performances were so out-standing it may well have been one reason for the show's success .
I guess, having been fitted out with those comical ears, he had to try extra hard to make his character convincing .
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Eigon
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Mentioning Miri reminds me - in the Original Series, the crew were quite appalling at dealing with kids!
Look at poor Charlie X, or those awful kids who had an invisible "angel" watching over them, and the Enterprise crew didn't have a clue how to cope.
TNG wasn't much better - Worf was a pretty awful father, too (though I did like the one where Deanna Troi's mother takes Alexander off and has a naked mud bath with him!)
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