Takara_Soong

Here's a proposal for you Takara.

 

A "DEEP SPACE NINE WEEK"

 

All DS9 banners!!!   

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That would all depend on VBG. He has to take down and put up each banner individually sooooo...

you could see it in a few, even in movies

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You see what? where? Ship, Florida - I'm not sure what you're responding to. And please be more specific if possible.

Here is a new banner for Mrs. Picard:

In a way, however, there was cannon there; the fact that the Wall of Ships never had the NX-01 is more then a lack of canon; it IS canon. They fairly established the past Enterprises, making the lack of the NX-01 a canon fact.

 

And what about the hole in Florida? They never said anything about that, and showed pictures of earth; I never seen a hole in it. Did they fill it up in 200 years?

 

Lets face it; they upped into Enterprise just to try to make a new TOS; in the process messing everything up.

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I'm not certain what series you are referring to when you talk about "Wall of Ships". As far as TNG is concerned, they only had Federation ships on display so there was no canon breach by not having an Earth ship displayed. I'm not familiar with a "Wall of Ships" on TOS because I've not seen all the episodes. What series had the aircraft carrier displayed?

As for Florida, what episode/movie of Trek showed a clear image of Florida post-22nd century? I haven't seen every Trek episode so I'm not familiar with any images.

I had forgotten that on Betazed the people don't wear clothes

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Isn't That Just For The Weddings? :)

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Is it? I may be mistaken.

 

Now I'm watching Birthright. TNG meets DS9!!! It's so cool seeing the Enterprise crew on the Deep Space Nine. I'm seriously overjoyed.

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It is only at weddings that they go naked.

I watched Birthright tonight as well. I do enjoy Part I more than Part II though but then I'm a Data fan. lol

Before Birthright came on, I watched Enterprise's Cease Fire and Stratagem on television. I also watched Unexpected and Terra Nova on DVD.

I love have Trek marathons!

Sure there are ships named enterprise; but there is a clear difference between a small scout ship name enterprise and the first warp 5 ship. It is clear that the NX01 was in the same line as the NCC1701-s; just like the aircraft carrier and the rocket; so why was it never ever even hinted at?

 

My point is not that Enterprise was horribly non-cannon; it’s that there was so much room to expand inside cannon they had no reason to brake it at all.

 

Did they need to name it Enterprise; knowing it should have been shown/talked about before if it was? Not as long as there were other options. They wanted to make a “new” star trek but generally kept the ent-ship-line going; if they really wanted new would it not have been better to make up a new name and get rid of the “wall of ships” in Archer’s office (or replace it with the new, appropriate one).

 

Ok, now I do sound fanatical; just ignore me…

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Did they have to name the NX-01 Enterprise. IMO, yes. Can you image the outcry from Trek fans if the first warp 5 ship had not be called Enterprise?

I made this point in another thread, just because something isn't mentioned in a series set later does not mean there is a canon violation. If there were no mentions of the first warp 5 ship in the other series then there is nothing that has been violated. You can't breach canon that doesn't exist.

I think the movie will be a success.

 

I could certainly watch the Simpsons for two hours or so.

 

More probably.

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A movie can be a success and a disappointment at the same time (ie Phantom Menace). LOL

It will be interesting to see how well it translates to the big screen. Some series are able to do it, some are not.

Personally, I fear the day sometime in the future when someone pitches a live action Simpson movie. *shudder*

Vaughn Armstrong, who holds the record for playing the most characters on Trek, also auditioned for the part of Riker.

But they knew it was the Romulans; the others they didn’t.

 

The thing I find as a real cannon violation in ENT was the ship itself; never was there any mention of a  warp-ship name “enterprise” before the NCC-1701; why was it on NO wall of ships ever; even when the aircraft career enterprise was?

 

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Knowing about the Romulans wasn't breaking canon. The Romulan-Earth war takes place only a few years after the timeline of Enterprise. TOS had Kirk's Enterprise being the first to see Romulans and learn about their link to the Vulcans. That canon wasn't broken.

I read somewhere that there are 15 ships named Enterprise that are established in Trek canon (I think that was the number). How many of those 15 have you seen on display in the various series/movies (not including Enterprise)?

you mean Dean Stockwell, who played Al on Quantum Leap? yeah, he was on Enterprise. I haven't seen it yet, but I've read that he was

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The episode you are referring to is season 1's Detained in which Dean Stockwell played Colonel Grat, the Tandaran in charge of a Suliban internment camp.

So, how many canon violations are there again?? 

 

I suppose I'll just sit back and enjoy the show.... now where is my cheeseburger?

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There are too many violations to list from every series and movie. Most of it is so minor no one would notice if some nitpicker didn't point it out.

Problem is getting people to agree on what is or isn't a breach of canon. Some people claim the Borg and/or Ferengi on Enterprise were canon violations while others, such as myself, say there were not. Everyone interprets things differently so disagreements on this is understandable.

The other problem is sifting through false canon (stuff people think is canon but really isn't ie Spock being the first Vulcan in Starfleet is false canon).

I was just looking for any updates regarding Quatum Leap at IMDB and the only thing I found seems to be for a tv movie.

Synopsis:

Twenty years after the original series left Dr. Sam Beckett "leaping" into the great unknown, Sam is finally reunited with Al, his old mentor and "partner in time." But when circumstances beyond their control send Sam away once more, Al must recruit his lost friend's daughter to pick up where her father left off and hopefully help find Sam again in the process.

There isn't much information regarding it though and no mention of Scott Bakula.

Here's the link: Quantum Leap: A Bold Leap Forward

I'd like a ride that uses either the Defiant or a shuttle and goes through the wormhole. Don't know how the rest of the ride would go right now but that's the start or finish.

Wouldn't it be cool if they re-did some of the rooms at the Hilton to look like crew quarters on the various ships.

Actress Anne Bancroft Dies at 73

 

Actress Anne Bancroft, who won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker and a place in pop culture history as the seductive Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, died Monday of cancer; she was 73. The wife of comedian Mel Brooks, Bancroft died in New York at Mt. Sinai Hospital. One of the most popular actresses of the '60s, Bancroft's career started off dubiously in the '50s with a number of B movies for 20th Century Fox such as Gorilla at Large and Demetrius and the Gladiators. The studio also renamed the young actress, who was born Anna Maria Louise Italiano and originally went by Anne Marno; given a list of names, she chose the dignified Bancroft. However, fulfilling roles for the versatile TV and movie actress didn't follow, and Bancroft left both big and small screens for Broadway in the late 50s, winning two Tonys, for Two for the Seesaw and The Miracle Worker. When Hollywood came calling to adapt both films, Bancroft lost the role in the former to Shirley MacLaine. However, when studio heads wanted a more glamorous actress for the role of Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, director Arthur Penn put his foot down and refused to budge. Then faced with a minimal budget, Penn created a gripping black-and-white film which won Oscars in 1962 for both Bancroft and co-star Patty Duke (as Helen Keller).

 

That role was followed by another Oscar-nominated performance in The Pumpkin Eater and the acclaimed The Slender Thread and 7 Women. In 1967, however, Bancroft did a total 180 from her saintly persona as Annie Sullivan and donned leopard-skin lingerie for her role as the wily Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, which nabbed her another Oscar nomination and permanent enshrinement in film history. By then, she had seduced not just Dustin Hoffman but the filmgoing public as well, and for the rest of her career she was pretty much able to call her own shots. She worked almost non-stop through the '70s and '80s in both comedic and dramatic films, including The Turning Point (another Oscar nomination), The Elephant Man, To Be or Not To Be (directed by her husband), Agnes of God (her last Oscar nomination), 84 Charing Cross Road, and Torch Song Trilogy. In the '90s Bancroft took a number of character roles, most notably as a mysterious old con woman in Malice, a menacing senator in G.I. Jane, a comedic matriarch in Home For the Holidays, an elegant trainer of a young assassin in Point of No Return, and an updated Mrs. Havisham in Great Expectations; she most recently appeared in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Bancroft is survived by her husband, whom she married in 1964, and their son, Max.

 

from IMDB.com

I just have one problem with this.  Its only going to be played once a week on the weekends no less.  Most shows I know of that go on syndication play once a day during the week or is that only half hour comedy?  I am going to have to wait and see what stations pick it up in my area and when to make my full thoughts.  It just seems to me that they are trying to make it fail.  IMHO

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There are a some hour long dramas that are shown daily (Law & Order, CSI, other Trek series) but not a lot compared to half hour comedies (half hour programming is easier to sell into second run syndication than hour long dramas with some exceptions).

I don't think Enterprise being on once a week will cause it to fail. There are so many Americans who will have access to it for the first time, it may be better to have it weekly (almost as if it were in first run syndication, rather than second run).

Native Americans such as Sitting Bull, Tecumseh and athlete Jim Thorpe.

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If it makes you feel better, Tecumseh came in 37th in the list of 100 Greatest Canadians. He made the list partially based on his alliance with General Sir Isaac Brock in the capturing of Detroit in the War of 1812. Without Tecumseh and the Shawnee, Upper Canada may have fallen in the war.

I was wondering when you guys would get around to this. We had a Greatest Canadian competition a few months ago. The winner ended up being Tommy Douglas, the father of Medicare in Canada.

 

And in case anyone is wondering, Shatner made the list at 56.

 

Here's a link for anyone interested in taking a look:

http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/

 

There are some dubious additions to the list as well (i.e. Pamela Anderson).

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Even more dubious was Hal Anderson coming in at #34. He's a Winnipeg dj who used his morning radio show to have his listeners nominate and vote for him. I really don't like this guy.

Some of my Greatest Britons would include, Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Brunel, Churchill, Darwin, HG Wells, Newton, The Beatles, Nelson, Cromwell, Shackleton, Cook, Fleming, Queen Victoria, Faraday, Hawking, Wilberforce, Queen Boudicca, Paine, Dickens, Baird, Drake, Nightingale, Bell, Stephenson, Caxton, Tolkien (British S. African) and many many others.

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King, you didn't give the link for the BBC program from 2002 regarding Great Britons so I will. :(

These are the top 25 for people to vote for (according the program, which aired tonight):

Muhammad Ali, Lance Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Gates, Billy Graham, Bob Hope, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Elvis Presley, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington, Oprah Winfrey and the Wright Brothers.

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I'm pleasantly surprised to see Muhammad Ali on the list - an Islamic draft dodger - who'd a thunk it.

I don't agree with Lance Armstrong being on the list. Yes I know he has overcome the odds by beating his cancer and winning the Tour de France but there are a lot of brave unknown people out there who have beaten cancer (or other diseases)and done great thing for their community. And there are also a lot of athletes who have overcome great odds to triumph in their sport as well.

I don't agree with George W. Bush being on the list. He's polarized Americans and polarized the world more than any US President has in my lifetime.

I can agree with Bob Hope being on the list but more for his committment to entertaining your troops through the USO starting back in WWII.

Sorry VBG, but Elvis shouldn't be there IMO. Sure he was a great singer and influential to modern era music but I don't think he should be on the list. I'm not a Reagan fan so I'll not say anything about him to make up for it. LOL

That is a tragic story. I wish it was the first time I've read about an incident like this but it's not. :(

I like them all but I would go with Archer and Trip as my favourites...oh, and Malcolm and T'Pol...wait, Hoshi and Travis and Phlox...heck, I can't choose just one.

from st.com:

Enterprise Relaunches

 

Star Trek: Enterprise will enter the world of syndication in the United States commencing the weekend of September 17, 2005.

 

With the majority of the country already committed — virtually every major media market — Enterprise will get a strong second wind in syndication following its run on UPN. (After June 12, there are no more scheduled broadcasts on the netlet.) In syndication, one episode per weekend will air, with individual affiliates determining the day and time, either Saturday and/or Sunday.

 

The first scheduled episode to air will be the pilot, "Broken Bow," with the remaining schedule to be confirmed. STARTREK.COM will publish a more complete episode list once we have it.

I'm looking forward to the start of the syndication run. I'm very interested in seeing what the ratings will be once the series is available to the majority of Americans.

All of the series have faced canon issues at one time or another. It's the excessive nitpicking that is killing Trek - the people with a compulsive need to go over ever episode with a fine tooth comb and complain that some railing on the Enterprise's bridge in episode B is different than it was in episode A.

Generally speaking, would you notice an alleged canon violation if it wasn't pointed out by someone who was nitpicking?

I voted other because it's all of the above. I check all of those sites every day. When I see something I find interesting, I then post it at STF for all of you.

Tiffany had a beer gut as well. Shes gained some weight since she appeared in Playboy last year.

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Can you say "digitally enhanced" and "airbrush"? lol No one looks in real life the way they do in a magazine.

This is part of a transcript of an interview Marina Sirtis did with Chase Masterson at TheFandom.com which was posted at TrekToday:

Though Sirtis said that she did think Star Trek needed a break, she added, "I would put my spacesuit on to act with my TNG actors in a nanosecond." Claiming that Star Trek will never be over, she said that everyone from her cast would like to do another film together. "We all miss being with each other all the time. When we did the movies, it wasn't like we didn't see each other in between, but it was so much fun to spend 16 hours a day together again and just laugh." Patrick Stewart's British reserve melted until he was one of the silliest; Sirtis said that she could not describe some of his antics or "he'd kill me", but she did describe a pretend feud between Stewart and Michael Dorn, who would hide in corners and jump out at each other. "Can you imagine Patrick Stewart leaping onto a Klingon? It was hysterical." One of the first-season directors had refused to keep working with the cast because they were so rowdy, she admitted, saying that "we were reamed by Rick Berman because that had never happened in the history of Hollywood."

I'd like to know who that director was and if he is still working 18 years later. LOL

A brilliant performance by Patrick Stewart, especially in the scene in which he is experiencing Sarek's emotions. Mark Lenard's reprisal of the role of Sarek was also wonderful.

This episode marked Jonathan Frakes' first foray in the director's chair and he did a wonderful job. Helped along by brilliant performances by Brent Spiner and Hailie Todd, this episode is a classic emotional rollercoaster.

Watching Data as he copes with being a parent was a treat. From the comedic touches (Lal kissing Riker, Lal "playing" catch) to the emotional ending, this episode had it all. I doubt anyone could keep the tears from flowing during the scene in which Lal and Data say goodbye. No matter how many times I've seen this episode, it still affects me.

It was also interesting to watch how Picard came to Data's defence when Admiral Halftel ordered that Lal be taken to his ship. Despite his own initial misgivings over what Data had done, he was still there for Data in defending the parental rights of his android second officer.

Definitely a 5.