would rather have a twilight zone style anthology show where they can try out different casts and formats each week.
starfleet medical,federation legal,starfleet: port of call: new orleans,That's my Nagus, etc...
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
ha I would totally watch that
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
Verdict: Guilty! with Judge Q and Worf the Bailiff
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link
I was going to joke about Star Trek: Temporal Cops but apparently there's a series of books addressing that contingency
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
maybe it would beStar Trek: Relativityhttp://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Relativity
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
Too Many Tribbles!
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
Channing Tatum wd be a great Kirk in the Star Trek musical
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
New series should focus only on the far flung backwater planets whose whole civilizations are modeled on randomly received broadcasts of 1950s tv
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
Planet Mayberry
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
Good news, everyone!
CBS has already announced that its as-yet-untitled Star Trek series will not directly connect with its JJ Abrams-produced movie franchise - a decision that fits quite well with a Next Generation-style companion project Fuller once touted.
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/star-trek/feature/a783107/heres-what-star-treks-new-tv-series-could-look-like-with-bryan-fuller-at-the-helm/
― La Lechazunga (Leee), Friday, 12 February 2016 00:34 (eight years ago) link
really loving S4E5 "Remember Me" where Beverly Crusher finds herself in a reality where everything is disappearing, trying to figure out if she is going insane or not. very Twilight Zone.
"If there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe..."
so great!!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 28 February 2016 03:22 (eight years ago) link
the Worf episode in season 4 TNG is really heavy. wow. i don't really like that they went there writing-wise. it was still fascinating to watch and there aren't many full Worf episodes so it's definitely worth it. SPOILERS K'Ehleyr was a cool character why did they have to do that? too often dudes get to be space gods and ladies have to die on this show imo. oh well. Worf teaching his kid how to use that awesome Klingon blade was an all-time cute moment.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 28 February 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
Worf: "What caused the explosion?"Duras: (sarcastically) "It was a bomb."
― bored at work (snoball), Sunday, 28 February 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
That ep feels like the beginning of the bronze age of trek. It starts off with the standard formula of setting up a mystery to work on. But, instead of solving it, they fridge a girlfriend.
― remove butt (abanana), Sunday, 28 February 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
some fans > writers > producers (not me btw) seem to believe that the Kirk/Spock/McCoy (well, they kinda forgot about McCoy in the second reboot movie) is the ultimate representation of ST character dynamics
I wonder if this is a generational thing, of what the ideal(platonic/prototypical?) image when people think of ST.
Do you think Kirk/Spock/McCoy, or do you think TNG crew? Because I came of age when I did, it's the latter, tho I first encountered the former.
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Sunday, 28 February 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
TNG
― Jeff, Sunday, 28 February 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, exactly. The best bits of the Mass Effect games for me, for example, were when it was effectively Bioware doing their best TNG episodes.
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Sunday, 28 February 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
Same here. First encountered the former through reruns (and The Voyage Home, which came out when I was 7, was a Big Deal) but TNG is baseline Trek for me. Must admit, even adjusting for pace, I find TOS kind of boring (although preferable to Enterprise or Voyager obvs).
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
One of the surprises of my ongoing rewatch is that Picard and Riker really don't seem to have that much chemistry together - but that doesn't seem to matter.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
To me, as a TNG fan, the Ultimate Star Trek dynamics are (a) two characters having an awkward conversation in Ten Forward, (b) the very 1990s lack of macho-ness, and (c) the very 1990s clunky attitude to female characters. It's post-AIDS but pre-irony - touchy-feely but never meta.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:27 (eight years ago) link
As you can guess, yeah I'm definitely on TNG as the main thing, but DS9 is almost equal, as far as taking the whole "Space UN" concept furtherBut specifically what I was referring to was the trinity of KSM as heart/logic/reason, the later series avoid that kind of thing and make all the characters generally more complex (and far more conflicted in DS9)
― Nhex, Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:36 (eight years ago) link
TNG and DS9 are essentially equal to me. Difference is I watched one as it was on as a kid, the other not completely until I was an adult.
― Jeff, Monday, 29 February 2016 01:23 (eight years ago) link
Interesting!
http://io9.gizmodo.com/wrath-of-khan-director-nicholas-meyer-joins-the-star-tr-1761564904
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 29 February 2016 12:31 (eight years ago) link
englisher trekkies: first 4 films on ch5 over this coming weekend (1 on sat, 2, 3, 4 on sun)
― koogs, Monday, 29 February 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link
i only care about tos
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 February 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link
sorry that was re yesterday's discussion not just a combative non sequitur
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 February 2016 23:58 (eight years ago) link
TNG is fake Trek
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 11:05 (eight years ago) link
They had the Data poetry recital & Riker being probed by subspace insects episode on UK Sci-Fi channel:
Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature.Your visual, olfactory, and auditory sensesContribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,A singular development of cat communicationsThat obviates your basic hedonistic predilectionFor a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents.You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.Oh Spot, the complex levels of behavior you displayConnote a fairly well-developed cognitive array,And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 12:12 (eight years ago) link
at some point in TNG, "new life and new civilizations" became "evil aliens that like to fuck with humans"
― remove butt (abanana), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link
Really? What examples are there of this besides the Borg? Because in most cases the conflicts rose from misunderstandings and/or alien customs, not from anyone being evil. Even the Borg were eventually humanised in "I, Borg" and "Descent".
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
I'm on season 2 now and just watched this very awkward episode.
https://m0vie.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/tng-theoutrageousokona91.jpg
"Now, that's sex appeal."
― jmm, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
A whole subplot about Data's yearning to learn the nuances of 80s stand-up comedy.
― jmm, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
so far the evil ones are mostly people/aliens they already know. last entirely new alien episode i saw was "The Tin Man" which was about them doing everything they could to preserve new life form that has taken the shape of a spaceship. the Borg seems to really be the only wholly evil aliens in it. but i'm halfway through season 4 maybe this will change.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
season 2 has some clunkers. the first one with Troi's mom is pretty bad too but the one where Data tries learning how to be a comedian from Joe Piscopo is all-time worst.
fwiwi i thought having a Star Wars-style dashing space pirate aboard the stuffy Enterprise was funny/interesting
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
there's def some kind of generational split between TNG and TOS fandom. TNG will always be second-rate to me. It's okay and occasionally great but its flaws are much more glaring and less tolerable.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
The Borg aren't evil! Just amoral.
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
well yeah evil in the subjective sense. maybe in the same way you wouldn't think twice about killing a bug.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/9/91/Jerry_Lewis_impersonation.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121213025929&path-prefix=en
― nomar, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Huh, I didn't recognize Teri Hatcher in that episode.
http://cdn3.whatculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/teri-hatcher-trek.png
― jmm, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
teri hatcher had some singular guest roles for a young me back in the day (TNG, night court, seinfeld)
― nomar, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
Hey so I completely misremembered the responses to my idea about floating a an All-Treks ballot pole, are our Trekkies Trekkers still interested in one?
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
Jeebus, *poll.
like, an episode poll?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
Yes!
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
An episode pole!
sure, I'd vote. My ballot would be almost entirely TOS though, there's really only a handful of TNG episodes I would single out and everything after that is p much garbage
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
That's fine, I'll probably just throw your ballot out. ^_^
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
i'm in
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
i'd probably participate in that though my ballot would be very skewed towards tng and ds9 since i haven't seen nearly as much of the others
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
i think i already have a ranked list somewhere of tos episodes :/
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link