Star Trek: Phasers Are Science

MrMonroe

BusterK wrote:

I thought at the end it got really weird with the whole prophesies and such

I didn't mind it in Battlestar Galactica because it was introduced in the beginning
And then didn't end up affecting anything at the end

But in DS9 it was introduced way late and the whole ending seemed to hinge on it

didn't they introduce the Bajoran religious prophecy business in, like, the pilot?

Curly_Brace

mcp wrote:

Also, my fiance gave Jonathan Frakes "The Full Riker".

He was pleased.

What, pray tell, is "The Full Riker"?

Also, I recently finished up with TNG thanks to Netflix. Working on the TOS now. After that, TAS then DS9, then Voyager (ugh, might skip a lot of episodes... then again I Jeri Ryan). Finally, actually going to watch Enterprise. Only ever saw the pilot.

TrippyJing

YOUR PAGH IS STRONG

mcp

Curly_Brace wrote:

mcp wrote:

Also, my fiance gave Jonathan Frakes "The Full Riker".

He was pleased.

What, pray tell, is "The Full Riker"?

Also, I recently finished up with TNG thanks to Netflix. Working on the TOS now. After that, TAS then DS9, then Voyager (ugh, might skip a lot of episodes... then again I Jeri Ryan). Finally, actually going to watch Enterprise. Only ever saw the pilot.

The Full Riker:

http://twitpic.com/52ura

Dichotomy

Olivaw wrote:

mcp wrote:

Met Nana Visitor and Rene Auberjonois on Sunday. They were really nice!

Rene is a really soft spoken guy.

Nana looks pretty smokin' for a lady in her 50's.

Rene is still kickin'? That's awesome

I saw some behind the scenes pictures of him directing DS9 episodes and he looked kinda old even back then and I was afraid he might have died

you may remember him as the voice of Mr. House in the popular recent video game Fallout: New Vegas

Kuribo's Shoe

I liked the Mirror Universe opening Enterprise had

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2fzMQFT0vs

Syphyre

Oh hey we're talking about Star Trek in here.

My wife and I got the 7 season DVD set of TNG recently. We're going through it. We're on season 2. Season 1 is awesome. As in awesome cheesy. Terribly hilariously bad.

Season 2 is better.

RMS Oceanic

I'd say Series 2 has higher highs (Measure of a Man, Q Who) and lower lows (Shades of Grey, The Outrageous Okana) than Series 1.

Balefuego

Shades of Grey is just a dumb clip show because they ran out of money

Something like Code of Honor or Justice or Angel One, those are flat out some of the worst hours of tv trek has ever done, even including enterprise and voyager, et al.

Also, The Child is clearly the worst episode of season 2

Kuribo's Shoe

Troi episodes are always terrible

unless they involve her mom

RMS Oceanic

I'd say the best worst episode in all of Trek is Spock's Brain.

chiasaur11

RMS Oceanic wrote:

I'd say the best worst episode in all of Trek is Spock's Brain.

Everyone says that.

Balefuego

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

Troi episodes are always terrible

unless they involve her mom

You had me until unless

Balefuego

Although I did like the episode where Troi takes the command test


I think it was a b plot though

Syphyre

The Outrageous Okana is good bad. Angel One is just bad bad.

Balefuego wrote:

Although I did like the episode where Troi takes the command test

Agreed.

RMS Oceanic

Balefuego wrote:

Although I did like the episode where Troi takes the command test


I think it was a b plot though

Yeah, that was a Data episode, "Thine Old Self".

A good Troi (both mother and daughter) episode is "Dark Page".

mcp

Cost of Living is a good Lwaxana Troi episode.

Where she shows up to her wedding at the end naked and horrifies Campio.

Alexander Rozhenko is the most annoying character ever.

and then he shows up on DS9 and cements the fact that he's an annoying pussy.

edit: and Worf in the mud bath on the holodeck is pretty priceless.

Kuribo's Shoe

Balefuego wrote:

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

Troi episodes are always terrible

unless they involve her mom

You had me until unless

I love troi's mom

well, her later appearances and her ds9 stuff

early on she was just an old ho-bag

Fandyien

MrMonroe wrote:

BusterK wrote:

I thought at the end it got really weird with the whole prophesies and such

I didn't mind it in Battlestar Galactica because it was introduced in the beginning
And then didn't end up affecting anything at the end

But in DS9 it was introduced way late and the whole ending seemed to hinge on it

didn't they introduce the Bajoran religious prophecy business in, like, the pilot?

yeah

sisko's identity as the prophet was established early in season one and was a major thing throughout the whole series

i dunno whatchu talkin' monroe

Fandyien

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

Balefuego wrote:

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

Troi episodes are always terrible

unless they involve her mom

You had me until unless

I love troi's mom

well, her later appearances and her ds9 stuff

early on she was just an old ho-bag

the episode where she gets caught in a turbolift with odo is pretty good

Balefuego

Fandyien wrote:

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

Balefuego wrote:

Kuribo's Shoe wrote:

Troi episodes are always terrible

unless they involve her mom

You had me until unless

I love troi's mom

well, her later appearances and her ds9 stuff

early on she was just an old ho-bag

the episode where she gets caught in a turbolift with odo is pretty good

The B5 episode where Londo and G'kar get trapped in a lift together is way way better.

Olivaw

I should watch Babylon 5 someday

I just feel like I will be going "this isn't Star Trek mumble grumble" the whole time

TrippyJing

what no

sisko is the emissary

whatchu talkin bout

Balefuego

Olivaw wrote:

I should watch Babylon 5 someday

I just feel like I will be going "this isn't Star Trek mumble grumble" the whole time

it isnt and dosen't try to be

watch it

Shorty

I maintain that the first season of Voyager was pretty good

and it could have been a fucking awesome series but they scewed up by making it too clean

that ship should have patched all the fuck up and barely holding together by the end of the first season

but at the beginning of every episode

PRISTINE

Balefuego

but then Ronald Moore made that show anyway


and we saw how BSG turned out

WeedLordVegeta

I do not think that was voyager's only issue shorty

Shorty

well no of course not

but that's my main complaint about it

there are lots of others, like how they made the Borg from a big deal into a Welp The Borg Are Back Again kind of thing

and 7 of 9

basically everything about that character

WeedLordVegeta

I wish the Maquis hadn't been integrated so smoothly

Shorty

yeah, there should have been a lot more tension with them and the rest of the crew

I'd basically forgotten about their origins completely after a few episodes

commander chocolate latte is one of my favorites

wandering

someone suggested making a new TNG series using the old crew because hey, they're all still alive

well yeah but (not to be ageist) but they are all also really old. Also maybe the network couldn't afford them.

You know what I could go for though? A new show about Picard but Picard is surrounded by an all new crew. Like maybe he gets a different ship or maybe he becomes an admiral and the series follows the adventures of what goes on in an admirals office and it would be about battle strategy and he'd have a big board with little model ships or something

I dunno

I just want more Patrick-Stewart-as-Picard because Patrick Stewart is still alive/awesome.

WotanAnubis

Did Voyager ever really do anything with its 'half the crew is Maquis' premise? I guess there were a few incidental episodes, but nothing exactly lasting. Seska doesn't really count because she wasn't Maquis, she was a Cardassian spy.

And then Deep Space Nine, the series that had the Maquis foisted on them because they were going to be important on Voyager, had Eddington.

WeedLordVegeta

Yeah the maquis were wasted

Orikaeshigitae

Patrick Stewart loves Picard, too. He's not one of the Trek veterans who looks down on it. God I heart that man.

I was somewhat underwhelmed by the DS9 pilot but I'm interested to see where this series goes from here.

Orikaeshigitae

also, man. some of the staging on trek is awkward as fuck.

Shorty

wandering wrote:

someone suggested making a new TNG series using the old crew because hey, they're all still alive

well yeah but (not to be ageist) but they are all also really old. Also maybe the network couldn't afford them.

You know what I could go for though? A new show about Picard but Picard is surrounded by an all new crew. Like maybe he gets a different ship or maybe he becomes an admiral and the series follows the adventures of what goes on in an admirals office and it would be about battle strategy and he'd have a big board with little model ships or something

I dunno

I just want more Patrick-Stewart-as-Picard because Patrick Stewart is still alive/awesome.

well the problem would be coming up with an excuse to throw them all together

because most of the line officers (redshirts) would have been promoted to the point where they would have commands of their own

Shorty

WotanAnubis wrote:

Did Voyager ever really do anything with its 'half the crew is Maquis' premise?

not really, from what I recall

it was a great opportunity they did nothing with

Goatmon

WotanAnubis wrote:

Did Voyager ever really do anything with its 'half the crew is Maquis' premise? I guess there were a few incidental episodes, but nothing exactly lasting. Seska doesn't really count because she wasn't Maquis, she was a Cardassian spy.

There's really only so much potential for the Maquis, when their main motivation was driving out the Cardassians, and there's hardly a one of them in the Delta quadrant.

Frankly I don't know why they bothered with that whole thing, unless they originally planned to have more Cardassian antagonists in the show.

Tallahasseeriel

I really want a good new star trek series.

But think of all the ways it could go wrong.

My idea would be an alternate timeline TNG following the events of the new movies, featuring the federation and the klingon empire having to fight together against invading borg who have already decimated the Romulans.

Patrick Sterwart could be an admiral.

Shorty

I don't understand why they didn't start making a new series right after the movie came out

how was that not a great time