Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

On the other hand, Troi's mother was AWESOME.

And the original ST's music was Varese-influenced, hey? Hmmmm ... never knew that! Maybe I should go over to that "Who Opened Your Ears" thread in ILM and change an answer or two of mine :-)

Troi's mom was cooler than Troi, not more attractive! Aigh, my eyes!

troi: not attractive.

crusher: nuh-uh.

troi's mom: uh.

that guy who was troi's mom's butler or something and was the guy who played lurch in the addams family movies: mrowr.

question: who liked first contact? it was like a next generation episode, only like, cool. plus, supercool supporting cast with alfre woodard and the farmer guy from babe.

someone start a star wars thread so i can bitch about how much that sucks except for empire strikes back.

hey i just remembered something else i liked in next generation, although it's from that bastard movie where kirk dies (falling off a walkway! the fuck? he's saved the universe like two hundred times and he falls of a walkway and dies? fuck). um anyway, i liked when data said 'shit'.

Andrew L has not mentioned his great expertness in this area, for some reason. I know about it because I very briefly worked under him on a Star Trek magazine!

Enterprise - trip is annoying but that vulcan's fit.

first series: like what i haf seen but haven't watched many episodes.

Next generation: only reached goodeness after the Borg came in the picture.

Deep space nine: deeply flawed (a space station in the middle of nowhere and they had to make a war to make it interesting so it had problems just like next generation) though I did watch most of it.

Voyager: the absolute fucking classic. They are stranded and haf to go back but they explore the other side of the quadrant which means all sorts of storylines, (this aspect is exploited to the full) and if that isn't enough then here are the words that settle this argument.

SEVEN OF NINE.

The woman of my dreams (Troi is an ugly witch compared to my seven). She's like Data (both trying to gain 'humanity') but she's a woman. And what a woman. Then the doctor who i think is rilly rilly funny too.

I was pissed off that my brother missed taping two episodes and I made him aware of that to say the least(only six were taped, I had to spend all night watching them on the day i got back from canada and it was time well spent though seven is breaking my heart trying to 'get' chakotay).

(Fun fact: The student services building at my school is called the William Shatner building & even has the Shatner Ballroom. Classic!)

DO YOU SEE!!?

heh. Alex (my brother's name) would never say 'improv' as he doesn't know what that is. or wants to know.

Good: Wrath Of Khan, The Voyage Home (time travel, whales), The Undiscovered Country (Peace with the Klingons), First Contact (The Borg hit Earth), hopefully Nemesis

Bad: Star Trek: the Motionless Picture, The Search For Spock, The Final Frontier (Crazy Vulcan searches for God), Generations (Malcom MacDowell froths, Kirk dies), Insurrections (not that terrible, just a double length TNG episode).

Having finally seen the trailer, my hopes for the film are now quite high.

ARGH. Now I'm massively disappointed as well!

So while I can see the intrinsic appeal of the attractiveness of the women in late STrek progs, I can't see it as a tribute to the imagination, skill and integrity of the programme makers.

There is hope left in this sad world.

Riker and Troi get married in the new movie...

And of course:

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"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!"

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Between the ages of 11 and 16 or so, I collected some 100+ of the novels, which I'm hoping to pick up out of storage from my parents' house for some between-semesters pulp reading. Because they were all from different authors, they ran the range of being shoot-em-up's, cheesy comedies, psychological thrillers, and really quite provocative sci-fi that just happened to have the Star Trek characters involved.

Hm, that actually would be a good way to get in some sharp ideas via a larger superstructure. Wonder if the Star Wars novels have said range. (I am not anxious to find out for myself.)

I remember it getting pretty good near the end, although I only caught episodes here and there.

every other episode seems to be a vic fontaine episode 8(

I read somewhere Worf's "Irving Berlin" groan when Data sings blue skies is a clue he spent way more time getting music education with Vic than we thought.
I dunno, I like the idea better that Worf just randomly recognizes and hates Irving Berlin.

DS9 finished yesterday. Voyager starts on a different channel next week (i saw the second half of this during lockdown, but can't remember just how much)

pretty good: https://b3ta.com/challenge/startreksings/popular

Lol @ Don't Luc Back in Anger

These are great! The Rumours cover with the Mick Fleetwood-as-alien is a good deep cut joke.

Those are really good! Also, I am procrastinating from writing an essay and

https://i.imgur.com/VhHzg7O.png

didn't think I'd seen voyager since it aired other than catching the last few series during lockdown, but s01e03 i could remember chunks of, and the phage episode

I put a random VOY ep on as comfort viewing yesterday and it was the 2-partner where the Hirogen have captured the ship and everyone is in a bloody WWII French resistance dive bar in the holodeck. I couldnt get through the episode, the premise feels so overdone. And also, why did Janeway get made to look like a klingon but everyone else just looks like themselves? Anyway bleh.

ugh i hated that one, bloody interminable

that one was bad but i liked the hirogen in general

especially when it's tony todd

at least there are no Ferengi (apart from episode 1 where they set off from DS9 and Quark makes a cameo)

there's another one but it's not good either

Ha when I was watching the first of the hirogen eps a few days ago, my other half says "thats the Candyman guy doing the role isnt it", just from his voice.

rewatched the first appearance of Tony Todd as Worf's brother Kurn on TNG recently. good stuff

Tony Todd's DS9 episodes are incredible tearjerkers.

Just watched The Visitor for the first time today! Great episode

voyager 2.02 features Kar, a young kid.

who is, from the first moment he opens his mouth, the same guy who played Nog in ds9.

nog

Meantime, a state o' the franchise report

https://variety.com/2024/tv/features/star-trek-future-starfleet-academy-section-31-michelle-yeoh-1235952301/