Yillara Skye

I got 12 out of 12

B) B) Data!!!

Definately cannot complain with that result! B)

Oh, to answer a question that was posted earlier, my little brother took the test and got Roy Batty. I found out from him that Roy is a character from Bladerunner ( B) Ugghhh, I should have remembered that. Well, I have not watched that movie in quite some time though).

what is ASL

Sorry I did not see this question earlier, Roetae. For you, and anyone else curious about this....

ASL stands for American Sign Language.

and I believe USL stands for Universal Sign Language

I admire anyone who speaks German as a second language.

Cool. :) In high school, I took three years of German(freshman through junior years). I decided that that was the best class for me, as I am(amongst several other backgrounds) part German on both sides of my family. Plus, at the time, my father was working as a musician at a local German resteraunt. Though he could speak a small bit of German(LOL, it somehow kept turning into Norwegian though. Which is where his father, my grandfather, was from), he would recruit me to assist him in translating and learning songs. True, nowadays I am a bit rusty when attempting to translate English to German, or German to English though.

I also took one year of French, not my first choice though(in 1993-1994). My middle school only offered French or Spanish for a High School credit :) Darn. My favorite thing about that class was, besides the French Food Day that we had, my end of the year project. LOL, I sang the Alphabet Song in French(for those who don't know: A, B, C and so on is pronounced a bit different than we do here in America). And except for singing that song and counting to 10....I am very, very rusty nowadays.

I had learned a small bit of Russian, for my 3 week trip over there(I went at the age of 13, as a part of a Student Ambassador program). Again, I can recall only a small bit: counting to 10, yeas and no, farewell, please and thank you.

I have always admired other languages, and love singing in as many different ones as I can. Once I get the lyrics, I start working on learning them :) . Matter of fact, my current signature is a section of a song I love to sing along to. "Every Heart", and it is in Japanese.

I, so far, have sang in: English(of course), German, Swedish, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, Japanese. (this is just for fun, not for concerts or anything like that. At least not yet)

And English(or American..whichever you would prefer to call it)...hmm, difficult? Yes, it can be. Middle English is a little more tough, I think. In High School, we had to recite the prologue of the Caunterbury Tales in Middle English(cool thing is, is I still remember most of it..can't write it, but I sure can recite it).

Seems like a few things changed over there besides the chat closing down(saw the posts regarding this on this site), I went to look a few things up in the library there and got error messages(kind of like a script error) on pages I had been able to view before.

Oh well..

Yeah, it sure did get very busy over here at STF. Lots of people in the chatroom here too.

Yillara_Soong, I've seen every VOY episode.  With the exception of two-parters, there's not an episode I can think of that you can't enjoy as a stand-alone story.  Yes, VOY had story arcs, but you could basically walk in on any episode and enjoy the show without getting lost.  So far, the only heavy arcs in Trek that'd require the viewing of pasts episodes, I'd feel are:

 

DS9 Seasons 5-7 (Dominion War arc)

ENT Season 3 (Xindi arc)

 

Sure, it helps to have background info for the newer series, but it's not neccessary to enjoy the show.  Just thought I'd clear this up for you.

Well, like I had mentioned in my post before...I was not entirely sure which of the later series it was.. I was pretty sure it was DS9, but ENT and VOY was a toss up.

I thank you for clearing up which I was trying to think of.

Again like, I posted before... I think it is an individual issue, deciding what counts as a standalone. VOY had the ongoing deal with the Borg, so to me that was a continuous story arc...albeit that the main reason for that was the growth of 7 or 9 as a character. I say it had an arc, you say it did not...So no big deal..to each their own, I guess.

Also NEM might have had a fighting chance against the Big Boys it opened against if they had not chopped it up and had allowed it to be the more epic tale it was written to be

Very true, if had been left at the nearly three hours...it could of made for one hell of an epic, whether it would have beaten out LOTR...not too sure of that, those films were excellent( I loved all three films of LOTR), however, it would have been an interesting competition.

Yeah, It Never Even Came Here. I Had To Go Out Of Town, As I've Stated Before Somewhere.

Same here, the theater was scheduled to have it here....but a few days prior I went there to confirm times. They had gotten everything for it, but the movie got removed off their list. I ended up travelling over 45minutes to see the film.

'Course...This Is Just My Opinion, But I Think The 'Nemesis' Box Office Records Were Also  Killed By 'The Two Towers'

You do have a bit of a point there, also the film was shown in less theaters than a lot of the other top 10 films.

For example: Maid in Manhattan beat out Nemesis in their first weekends by appx $2million. But Nemesis was shown in appx 270 less theaters than Maid. Put the theater count to equal amounts, and Nemesis would have more than likely been the #1 film that weekend. True in the long run it was fighting the likes of "Harry Potter" and "LOTR... 2002 was a rather jam packed year as far as new films go.

As written that's a nice theory. :lol: If it's true then it seems the fans just don't want stand alone films and tptb would do well to take notice and only do films which have everything to do with the respective series or the saga as a whole.

See that is my problem, these films(5, 9, & 10) seem like they are merely standalones but there are ties to other films and the series...well at least 9 & 10 do.

So are they really truly standalones? I guess that is up to each fan to decide. In NEM, Janeway brings up the "easy" assignments the Enterprise crew get: the Sona(ST INS) & the Borg(FC & the series) are amongst the ones mentioned. OK so that might not count as a major thing linking them...but still. The emotion chip...that carried over through(at least in some way) through all but apparently one of the TNG films and of course had mentions in the series. Riker & Troi's romance...that has mentions from day one of the series, got rekindled in INS & marriage in NEM.

Yes, those are little things...but still are continuations.

I mean maybe you are right, AE that the fans dont want standalones they want continuing sagas like they had on the small screen. But except for continuing stories on (I think, not sure since I only read synopsis of these at times) DS9 & VOY(maybe ENT??), TOS and TNG's episodes could be watched as short tv movies just about...except for TNG's two parters, they did not continue the same storyline each and every week(though there were little things here and there to tie the season or even the series together on some level---thus essentially standalone). DS9 & VOY had episodes where you had to watch a couple in a row, or even a whole season to know what was going on. Heck, I tried a second time to get into DS9 & VOY(before our area lost UPN..so it is pretty much hopeless to catch ENT unless I want to watch it at something like 1am), but the storyline had holes in it for me. It was a case of OK, so who are these people?, and why are they doing this?...only to read at ST.com and discover I needed to catch the earlier episodes of that season to know the story arc(thus VOY and DS9 are the continuing sagas). So it is a little hard for me to decide on whether or not the issue of standalone or continuation is the sole cause for the failure at the box office.

I hope my post does not get people all confused. ..if it does I am so sorry. It is a little difficult for me to put this all in words without getting people to look at it and go HUH?!

Darn it, I went to hit ST:V which was my choice, but hit VI instead. Oh well, though I favor the TNG movies, I did see all ten films...Star Trek V held my interest the least.

Star Trek II & IV are my favorites from TOS

First Contact is my favorite for TNG, with Nemesis a close second.

Picard. though Spock is a close second.

I picked American football (NFL-favorites: Jaguars, Packers, Vikings...and the Eagles are quickly becoming a favorite of mine, darn they are playing really good this year!)

But, I also favor watching:

*gymnastics(I retired in June 2003, after 20 years in the sport-1983-2003, competititive 1986-1998, and coaching/choreography-1998-2003).

*figure skating(a sport I always wanted to try competiting in).

It has been a few months since the new set up over at the official site, it did take some getting used to. But, I actually like the way it is set up...especially the library section. Really rather easy to navigate.

New Orleans Over Jacksonville

I got to see this one live(halfway up the stands near the endzone ), it was a very good, very close game....but YAY! the home team (Jaguars) won! Now if only they had did that the entire season.

North Miami, Florida

Congrats to everyone, great job!

New England Over Jacksonville

LOL, this one figures. Bleahh. Damn they did good against Houston....and I look at the bright side of it, they are going to have a better record(currently 4 - 10) than their inaugural year(2-14).

And congrats to the Eagles! Awesome :biggrin:

Did you like the Enterprise-B?

eh it was OK, personally I like the C, D and E better. Probably the E the most, though the D was the most familiar(of course after 7 years)

I hope that all goes well with your job, and that you can stop by and say "Hi" now and again.

Pretty cool, AE. :biggrin:

Personally I am hoping that a)the skies remain clear here, and B ) that there is a good count....the peak of the Geminids meteor shower is supposed to be late tonight/early morning tomorrow. the actual range was Dec 6 through the 19th.

:( That smilie cracks me up every time!! :(

Both my sister(EmilSoong) and myself got that same email. *shakes head* cant figure out why though.

My sister joined hoping she'd find out what it was all about, and was not told much....if anything.

As for me....naw did not join, probably will not. I do not know at this time.

I had read that article... :lol: this stuff is just silly. the terms master and slave are still used when referring to computers here at my house.

It was a toss-up between new cast and mixed cast, mixed cast won out.

Awarded an Associate of Arts degree in 2000, Now going for...an Associate in Science, then back to work on my Bachelor of Science degree (a different major for each).

Hope to get my Masters as well as Doctorate in the future.