jsut caught 'inner light' episode of TNG. best episode ever?
It's between that and "Yesterday's Enterprise" - both are miles better than "Best of Both Worlds"
― Duane Barry, Monday, 10 September 2007 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link
there was a captain named christopher pike? like the kids' horror author?
i think that the author christopher pike named himself after ST's captain christopher pike.
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
The Menagerie is like an animated tumor at the back of my brain, informing every move I make as an adult. Well, almost. I was so in love with Kirk as a 13-yr-old. I never watched the lated incarnations of the show.
― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
larer, No, later. I r drunk
― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
pike's going to be a major character in the upcoming movie, yeah?
― Alan, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Easy job for the scriptwriter then.
Pike: BLEEP. BLEEP BLEEP. BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEEEEEP.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
somewhat incredibly there was a slash fiction question on University Challenge last night, specifically the *very easiest* question about it imaginable.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 10:10 (sixteen years ago) link
no, this will be pike pre-accident. pre the events of the menagerie even.
― Alan, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
NO SHIT
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 10:17 (sixteen years ago) link
isn't the film abt Kirk in his Starfleet Academy days?
i think i read that somewhere.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
7307 Takei, people!
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 4 October 2007 03:01 (sixteen years ago) link
ethan is the best on the star trek threads. :D
esp abt TNG
― Abbott, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
SIMONTRIFE: its funny to imagine teh rest of culture continued on without them but on the enterprise they just wanted everything to be old and european bcz they were white supremicists SIMONTRIFE: like, everybody else in the galaxy is listening to get low 2450 SIMONTRIFE: theyre like a bunch of renaissance faire nerds SIMONTRIFE: its a show abt a bunch of nerds who fly around in a spaceship SIMONTRIFE: a bunch of rich white yuppie nerds
i still think this is a good theory
― and what, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
"rainbow that grants all your wishes" "frere jacques elevator" still make me laff alla time
I was laughing about them today and that's why I revived this.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Ronan909: they were all into such shit stuff aswell Ronan909: on the holodeck Ronan909: "i've recreated a 1924 jazz club with no one in it" Ronan909: "i feel this is the best use of being able to simulate any event ever"
― and what, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
SO FUCKING CLASSIC! hahahahahaha
― Abbott, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Still gold.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I can never see TNG now without thinking of that convo.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
And porno Interactive Fiction, obv.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Ronan909: REG BARCLAY SIMONTRIFE: honestly, is he like ten?? Ronan909: AKA *******
pretty sure this said "NED RAGGETT"
― and what, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is why ethan should never ever be banned, lol
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Beautiful.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
false alarm, it was 'graham'
― and what, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
None of you are real geeks. Listen: I.. played.. Star Fleet Battles.This means that I not only believe in an alternate timeline for the original series, but that I also played a tactical simulator based on that timeline using counters and hexagons...
This means that I not only believe in an alternate timeline for the original series, but that I also played a tactical simulator based on that timeline using counters and hexagons...
Been there. Done that. I can also trump it because I had a copy of Federation Space, which was the short-lived strategic macro-level version of Star Fleet Battles. Imagine the Dr. Strangelove war room or the Imperial War Museum map room only with Federation vs. Romulan vs. Tholian vs. etc.
Sold it for quite a bit of $$$ on eBay.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 8 November 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, so you played sStar Fleet Battles, but did you play the rules set that took it into 3-D. If not, I win.
Actually, I lose for admitting to that. Forever.
― Stone Monkey, Thursday, 8 November 2007 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes I did. I also played this game... A lot!
At least it provided some answers as to what would happen if a bunch of X-Wing fighters and the Millennium Falcon went up against the Enterprise (the X-Wings usually won)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 8 November 2007 07:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Chris, when we're of retirement age, I still have my copy of Federation Space!
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 8 November 2007 08:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I also long for the day when I have enough time to play a full game of Days of Decision+World in Flames!!!
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 8 November 2007 08:12 (sixteen years ago) link
SIMONTRIFE: they borrowed their shoulder pads from vivian banks
― adam, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Ronan909: the irish guy is so funny too Ronan909: colm meaney Ronan909: chief o brien Ronan909: one of my friends gets called chief cos he looks like him Ronan909: have you ever seen "the snapper" Ronan909: he plays an Irish dad in it Ronan909: whose daughter gets pregnant at 16 Ronan909: its so fucking funny Ronan909: he has slippers and dodgy cardigans etc Ronan909: his wife goes but what about the neighbours Ronan909: and he flings a cup of tea and goes Ronan909: "AH FUCK THE NEIGHBOURS"
― and what, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
virgin 1 is showing TNG but despite it being a bank holiday i don't think i can take encounter at farpoint again
― DG, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i scored both parts of this at a thrift store for a buck apiece on VHS, but they've really, really worn out their welcome.
― ian, Monday, 24 March 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Season 3 of TNG is when the show really starts getting good anyway.
― Sparkle Motion, Monday, 24 March 2008 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I was thinking this was the thread where I made the joke about Troi lezzing up with Worf's forehead, but I guess not.
― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I like to watch TNG with my pissed mates when BBC2 show it on a Friday night at about half two in the morning. Essential post-spoonies viewing.
― Bodrick III, Monday, 24 March 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
the bravo listings promise that at midnight
Picard is in love but won't admit it, so Q transforms him into Robin Hood and an old flame into Maid Marian, and sends them both to Sherwood Forest.
― DG, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck this show
That's a good episode!
― Bodrick III, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
mind you the opposition is
The Cult of Hamish Macbeth
Hamish Macbeth was a different kind of policeman, a laid-back local bobby policing a small Scottish village, but the viewing figures regularly topped 10 million.
― DG, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
no it is not a good episode
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
All the Q episodes are great, obvs.
I've really enjoyed all the Q eps I've caught. The one where he became human was good.
― chap, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
You could tack "fuck this show" at the end of practically any Star Trek epsidoe summary and it would be wholly appropriate, regardless of how good the episode is.
― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
ditto for hamish macbeth
― DG, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
-- chap, Monday, 24 March 2008
I really felt for him, lol. A++ episode.
― Bodrick III, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry Has Died
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0632213/
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 18 December 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Aw man, fuck. One of my dork friends freshman year helped escort her around Panama City, FL in the early 90s for a fan event. Said she was a hilarious dirty old lady who told great stories.
When they finally create true voice synthesis for talking computers, I hope they use tapes of her.
RIP.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Thursday, 18 December 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh no! RIP
― There was even a brief period when I preferred Sally Forth. (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 December 2008 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
supercool they got her voice in for the new one though
― There was even a brief period when I preferred Sally Forth. (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 December 2008 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES—Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry who nurtured the legacy of the seminal science fiction TV series after his death, has died. She was 76.
Roddenberry died of leukemia Thursday morning at her home in Bel-Air, said Sean Rossall, a family spokesman.
At Roddenberry's side were family friends and her son, Eugene Roddenberry Jr.
Roddenberry was involved in the "Star Trek" universe for more than four decades. She played the dark-haired Number One in the original pilot but metamorphosed into the blond, miniskirted Nurse Christine Chapel in the original 1966-69 show. She had smaller roles in all five of its television successors and many of the "Star Trek" movie incarnations, although she had little actual involvement in the productions.
She frequently was the voice of the ship's computer, and about two weeks ago she completed the same role for the upcoming J.J. Abrams movie "Star Trek," Rossall said.
Roddenberry also helped keep the franchise alive by inspiring fans and attended a major "Star Trek" convention each year, Rossall said.
"I think 'Star Trek' will always be her legacy," Rossall said.
"Star Trek" and its successors often focused on political and philosophical issues of the day. Roddenberry and her husband, who died in 1991, believed in creating "thoughtful entertainment" and were proud of the show and the passionate devotion of its fans, Rossall said.
"My mother truly acknowledged and appreciated the fact that 'Star Trek' fans played a vital role in keeping the Roddenberry dream alive for the past 42 years. It was her love for the fans, and their love in return, that kept her going for so long after my father passed away," her son said in a statement on the official Roddenberry Web site.
Born Majel Lee Hudec on Feb. 23, 1932, in Cleveland, Ohio, Roddenberry began taking acting classes as a child. She had some stage roles and then in the late 1950s and 1960s had bit parts in a few movies and small roles in TV series, including "Leave It to Beaver" and "Bonanza."
She met her husband in 1964 during a guest role for a Marine Corps drama he produced called "The Lieutenant." That same year, she was cast in the pilot for the "Star Trek" series as the no-nonsense second-in-command. The pilot did not appeal to NBC executives and a second pilot was made, although portions of the original later showed up in a two-part episode called "The Menagerie."
The couple married in Japan in 1969 after "Star Trek" was canceled. After her husband's death, Roddenberry continued her involvement with the "Star Trek" franchise.
She also was the executive producer for two other TV science fiction series, "Andromeda" and "Earth: Final Conflict."
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 19 December 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link