VaBeachGuy

I don't think I've ever actually watched an episode of "Family Guy"

Then you've lost out. Its the funniest show on TV!

I'm not really into those cartoon shows. In all the years that The Simpsons have been on I've never once watched an entire episode.

Just the fact of an Orion Slave Girl being in Starfleet shows a lack of research on the part of the writers. They just wanted to have the "cool green chick" in the movie. They didn't take into account the past history of Orion females and their ability to control human males.

 

Remember, history changed in this Universe after the Narada appeared, so it works.

How does that change a races body chemistry though?

I don't think I've ever actually watched an episode of "Family Guy"

Wow, Patrick Stewart is 69? I don't know why that surprises me but I hadn't realized he was almost 70.

Well, on DS9 they wound up breaking their agreement with the Romulans to only use it in the Gamma quadrant but at the time Voyager had been lost in the Delta quadrant they didn't even have that agreement yet or if they did it was so brand new and secret that Voyager wouldn't have known about it.

As for Voyager having one, it might have made it easier but it'd have also made it less interesting. With the cloaking device they wouldn't have had a situation to get Seven.

The one time Russell uses the immunity idol for himself he doesn't even need it!

 

It doesn't really matter if you have the hidden idol. As long as people *think* you have the idol that is protection enough.

You know, I think Russell has to be one of the worst players to ever play Survivor. He does great for two thirds of the game but he doesn't seem to understand that he needs the jury to win and the way he plays guarantees that the jury will hate him.

I watched Children of Time again last night and there a classic Worf quote in it.

 

http://www.startrekfans.net/pics/swf/worf.swf

 

I love this quote!

I still love this...

I actually like all of his music on DS9 but the one I have in my head right now is this one:

I don't know if it would have been right to do that or not, I just wish they could have found a way for the duplicating theory to actually work so the colony could thrive and the crew could also go home.

Many polls that I have seen around the internet (including one we did here) proclaim it to be the best Trek episode ever made and I agree.

 

We won't post any spoilers here though, we don't want to ruin it for Mandy before she sees the episode... lol

 

Yeah, we will wait to see what she thinks so that we don't give anything away.

Yeah, I know she's going to like it. She loved "Call to Arms"

Many polls that I have seen around the internet (including one we did here) proclaim it to be the best Trek episode ever made and I agree.

We won't post any spoilers here though, we don't want to ruin it for Mandy before she sees the episode... lol

I'm just waiting to see what she thinks of "In the Pale Moonlight"

Just the fact of an Orion Slave Girl being in Starfleet shows a lack of research on the part of the writers. They just wanted to have the "cool green chick" in the movie. They didn't take into account the past history of Orion females and their ability to control human males.

It's good and they do interview others, so passing on it would be a mistake (since it's free and you can change the channel at will lol). I just wish they had left a few of the "celebrity" interviews out. Sheryl Crow on the History Channel? Really? lol

From a TrekMovie.Com Q&A session:

 

Vapad: When watching this film there, nowhere does it say or implied that it is a alternate timeline. It’s not there, and I think Bob is grasping for straws.

 

BobOrci: Uhura says it, and I quote, “An alternate reality.” To which Spock responds, “Precisely.” And then Kirk and Spock debate it, with Spock telling him that Nero’s actions, beginning with the attack on the Kelvin, have set them on a chain of events that neither side can predict because these are alternate events. But I will agree that it goes by so fast that you may need to see the movie, with friends, 20 or 390 times to really catch it.

 

See? An Alternate reality not altered reality.

Like I said, I won't rehash a bunch of the issues. I personally just hope they fix those issues by the end of how ever many installments they make. If they don't then as far as my DVD shelf goes, the new cast movies will either be non-existent or if I do get them will sit with the final TNG DVD and be treated like a "red headed stepchild" (no offense intended toward actual redheaded step-children lol).

So far it's been an excellent series, my only complaint would be the people that they interview. Donald Trump and Michael Douglas and people like that? They wouldn't be my first or even fifth choice to interview for a series on American History.

Well I don't want rehash any arguments either but, Star Trek Canon has also previously laid out that AU's exist and so does the possibility of passing between them given the correct circumstances and that is what we have here.

That's my biggest question about the new movie, is this an alternate universe (officially) or an altered timeline? Has it ever been stated?

Neither does the new movie really alter what came before, the writers have stated that was their intent. They both occur in different realities. (The movie c/should have made that more clear)

If they're saying that this is an alternate universe then that's ok but they should actually come out and say that this isn't the "real" Star Trek universe. If they have said that I just missed it, which is very possible because I haven't had a whole lot of time to follow much of anything for the past year.

The last thing I remember though is that they were saying that this is the "real" Star Trek universe. If that's the case, which again I could be wrong on, but if that's the case that their intention is that this is the "real" Star Trek universe then they really did alter some things. The argument could be made that the altered things were minor, but the alterations would be there none the less.

If by 'correct mistakes' you mean, reset us back to the Original Universe, I hope not. At least not yet. I'd be a bigger mistake not to take advantage of this Universe for at least a Trilogy. I really want to see how things play out here. Just as the original Mirror Universe got some fleshing out in DS9 I'd like to know more about the Nu-Mirrorverse.

It wouldn't matter to me if they took 3 movies to get the Trek universe back to 'normal', if I knew for a fact that they were going to do that then I could enjoy the movies more now. I didn't like it one bit when they killed Spock in TWOK, they fixed that by the end of ST III and filled in the story more in ST IV. If they did something similar here I'd be more than happy.

With the mirror universe in DS9 they didn't really alter what had happened previously, they just carried it to the next step. What happened after Kirk meddled in their business? How did their universe develope once Mirror Spock had been influenced by Good Kirk? Then they just put the click on fast forward for the 80 or whatever years between then and DS9. How did the universe develope? That was a cool thing to see.

I look forward to seeing how they'll develope the coming movies and just hope that they don't have the attitude of "Star Trek before 2009 sucked and now WE have to fix it". I also hope they stop trying to merge Star Wars with Star Trek. I love Star Wars and would just as quickly go to a Star Wars convention as I would a Star Trek convention, but the two shouldn't be mixed on the screen.

I haven't watched it for about 5 or 6 months, maybe a little longer. I have been planning on watching all of the Star Trek movies again this summer though so I'll eventually get to that one. Right now I have about 20 days off so I could watch one every other night and be done right when my time off ends.

I initially gave it a 5 too but as of right now have also lowered it to a 4. I doubt my opinions have changed in terms of what I didn't like, that doesn't mean I didn't like the movie. Just that I didn't like what they did and hope to see them correct their mistakes down the road.

Hollywood, like the RIAA need to find a way to make this file sharing technology work for them rather than trying to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube. They will fail, technology will advance and they'll have to play catch up.

A few people may get prosecuted along the way but they'll never stop it from happening.

zero

Afraid not. Zero is outside of the 1-10 range.

 

Options at this point are to say 1 again ot proceed to 2, poster's choice.

Not going to explain?

Well if there is one thing we've learned is unreliable, it's VBG's post counts. Right Kor?

What? Care to explain?

Cinco (de Mayo)

I think the counting got off somehow, which is a pretty good feat seeing as it's only a "count to 10" thread lol.

 

Anyway, this post should be 8 going by the post number.

 

This is my topic. We're going by the the actual posts, not the post number, and I don't see where any numbers have been skipped or duplicated.

 

*holds up 4 fingers*

 

This many!

I just hadn't realized it was going backwards, I was counting fowards lol too much going on right now.

2

Cinco (de Mayo)

I think the counting got off somehow, which is a pretty good feat seeing as it's only a "count to 10" thread lol.

Anyway, this post should be 8 going by the post number.