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I like Nog, I hate Jake.

Nog had tremendous character growth from Episode 1 to the final episode. I love his episodes and that dance at Jadzia's bachelorette party was insane lol.

I got my friend into TNG and VOY, he got into TOS on his own, he doesnt really like ENT but thinks its ok, but refuses to get into DS9, the dominion war was the best trek ever..

Has he ever watched DS9? Try to talk him into watching from start to finish, in order.

For me, nothing is better than II.

It looks cook but I didn't particularly like the phasers from the movie. Well, at least not the way they functioned. The way they look is ok.

I didn't even know there were different doctors lol

You know, I don't think I've ever watched even a single episode of Doctor Who. The old series or the new one. Some of the commercials look interesting but just never have watched.

 

She was pretty young though, only 63. It's a shame.

I remember watching that one. As a Odo/Quark supporter, I find it to be a very, very intriguing episode. I love how these two argue all the time.

I loved the Quark line when Odo was hurt and Quark was dragging him to the top of the Mountain and Odo told him to leave him. Quark responded by telling him that he wasn't trying to save him, he was taking him along as "Emergency Rations" and "If you die I'm going to eat you!" lol. A classic line for sure.

Encounter At Farpoint a couple of days before it officially aired. A friend recorded it from the satellite feed to the TV stations. Ahh for the good old days of 10 foot dishes and unencrypted feeds. We watched all of TNG before it aired on regular TV.

I too used to watch a lot of shows in that way. I watched all of TNG from late 1990 till the end of the series and some of DS9 that way as well as Quantum Leap and a lot of NFL football.

Season: 5

Episode No: 507

Episode Name: The Ascent

 

Written by Written By: Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe

Original Air Date: 11-25-1996

 

 

Nog and Jake are moving in together and Captain Sisko is unsure this is such a good idea. More a matter of fatherly home sickness rather then concern for his son's wellbeing though. When Nog arrives after his first year at Starfleet Academy he is very disciplined and eager to prove to Captain Sisko that he will do a good job.

 

Will this clash with Jake, who is on his own for the first time in his life?

 

 

Meanwhile Odo has been ordered to take Quark to appear before a Federation Grand Jury on Infernia Prime. The Trip will take 8 days to arrive so Quark and Odo will have plenty of time to get to know each other better. Quark even tries to get Odo to play a quick game of Fisbin.

 

On the way they run into some "problems" which cause them to crash land on a planet that can barely sustain life. So with little food, no water and near freezing conditions these 2 adversaries must rely on each other to survive.

 

 

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I really enjoyed this episode, it's one of the few times when we get Quark and Odo together for an extended period of time.

No review available, and no poll either! ARGH! Can we get a poll put in here? Kthx.

 

Loved this episode. I give it a 5. Great acting from Shimerman, and Klingons were great too. Loved seeing Gowron again. You knew Quark wouldn't die, but the way it happened... unexpected. Loved it. Excellent.

I don't know what happened to the poll but I've added it now.

Encounter At Farpoint. Watched it the night it aired and recorded it on VHS...lol

I don't think we have VHS in 1987, I don't think we got our first VHS until 1988. I don't remember if we recorded it to Beta or not. We probably did though.

My sister and I watched Encounter at Farpoint the first night it aired. We had already bought the action figures before the show even started.

Do you still have them?

I've always meant to take the TNG episode and this one and splice them together as best I could to make it run together as one. I'm sure someone out there has already done it but it'd be an interesting 'episode' to watch like that.

 

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All that would accomplish would be the fact that one notices even more that the ENT stuff doesn't really fit into the episode - Riker really doesn't strike me as completely lost and unsure what to do about Pressman. One would also notice even more how much (naturally) Frakes and Sirtis have aged. And that the background they had for their "fake Ten Forward" didn't fit. And that they actually stole a scene from "Menage A Troi". And so on and so on.

I would only do it for myself, so knowing that the ages and weights of Frakes and Sirtis wouldn't match and so on wouldn't be a big deal to me. Would the spliced episode actually 'work' like that? Probably not but it's still something I'd be interested in watching at least once.

 

The part that would probably interest me the most though would be the actual editing process.

You're trying, that's the important thing.

It seems too grow on you.

I've always liked the movie by itself. There's just a few aspects here and there that gnaw at me. Things that could have been left out or done differently without harming the movie.

Working on the new skin for the upgrade before leaving for class.

I give it a 4, it's a good episode with an interesting premise. It was similar to Night but good in it's own right.

I re-watched the movie for the first time in a long time, I was able to enjoy it more this time than the last time I watched it. Some of the litle things still stuck out to me but I went into the task of watching it with the intention of ignoring those little things.

Star Trek V came out 2 years after TNG went on the air, so that one doesn't count in relation to the movies released before TNG came out.

 

Compared to the other movies, TMP doesn't stand up but in the day it came out it was a popular movie. Could have been better but we were just happy to have new Star Trek.

 

III wasn't as good as II and IV was better than it too but I wouldn't call it a stinker.

You consider Star Trek II, III and IV to be stinkers? III wasn't as good as II or IV but I wouldn't call it a stinker.

This has always been a favorite episode of mine, I was planning on re-watching it later tonight in fact.

The banner is STF but the skin is generic. It seems to work well though.

I'll have to take a look at it and see if I can use the STF skin.

I love that the new one has a mobile version. I was just looking around and it works great with my droid.

I haven't looked at the mobile skin, is it the STF skin or a generic skin?

I decided to skin the new board myself, Invision is coming out with yet another upgrade in a couple of months and I didn't want to hire someone to make a custom skin that would only be good for a few months.

 

It's not perfect and is still a bit of a work in progress but you can see it here:

 

http://www.startrekfans.net/test

 

Everyone should be able to log in, I transferred the database into over and upgraded it to 3.1.4 so I could make the skin and try it out. Not all of the posts portion of the database properly imported, so not all of our posts are there and that may cause a few errors here and there but you can click around and see what it looks like.

 

I don't have a portal for it yet so it's just the forum view but from what I've been reading Invision has a portal solution that I'll be able to use here.

 

I'm looking to have the upgrade done in a few days.

Has anyone been watching the new Survivor season? It hasn't been too bad, once they got rid of Russell anyway.

 

Rob has been playing a pretty good game so far.