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There's also fanfiction.net

Yes, FanFiction.Net is a great place to look for Star Trek and other fan fiction.

One of my favorite authors there is Tavia, and she writes a whole bunch of Star Trek stuff. It's really good. My favorite story of hers is Chicken Noodle Soup For the Trekkie Soul. It starts out as just reactions and then it grows to so much more. It is wonderfully written and thought out and hilarious. Her other stories are great, too. If you're looking for some good fan fiction, you should check out her writings.

I just had the best idea. Well, maybe not the best idea, but it's a pretty good one.

How about watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

I love that movie. It would be so funny. T'Pol sitting through it... everyone around her laughing... It's hard to believe anybody could keep a straight face through that movie.

I don't like spoilers, and I don't read them. I sort of like the anticipation... the building of excitement. Whenever I think of Enterprise I nearly explode with eagerness. I think not getting spoilers makes the episodes better, not just because you have no idea what's going to happen, but also because the waiting makes the episodes more special. If I already know what's going to happen, I'm not as excited.

*shrugs*

I don't mind minor things like people saying "Oh, T'Pol's going to have a new look" or things like that. It only gets me more interested. But when they start going into the plot, I just stop reading.

I don't know if I'll be there or not, but I'll certainly try! It all depends on what's going on that day.

I don't like Weakest Link (the show) much. They always keep the one who answers the most right until the end, and then the other two vote him/her off. I don't think that's fair, because that person answered the most. *shrugs* If you could figure out a way to do it where not just the winner gets points I think it would be interesting.

Maybe Jeopardy style? That'd be neat.

I really want to see a scene where Jon and Trip give T'Pol a hard time about looking like an elf.

Alien Movies. It would be kinda neat to see the crew watching an old film about a giant space octopus attacking a space ship when Suddenly there is is a Reed Alert to deal with a giant space octopus attacking the ship.

Those are great ideas!

Aw, you made me choose between The Matrix and Galaxy Quest? How cruel. But in the end I chose Galaxy Quest. Just because it would be too funny. It's just so close to what they're doing.

Roguedawg, great idea with It's a Wonderful Life. I love that movie! It's one of my favorites.

My all-time favorite movie is The Brave Little Toaster, but I doubt the Enterprise crew would watch that. I just don't think that kids' movies are specifically for kids. I find that I like this movie just as much now as I did when I first saw it. I don't know... maybe T'pol would like it. Wouldn't that be funny if she got into cartoons?

I suppose the Star Trek movies are ruled out, eh?

I suppose it's for the same reasons we name high schools after Robert E. Lee. All emotions and personal feelings aside, he was a great general. He might have been fighting for slavery and disconnection from the United States, but he was a great military leader. I figure he deserves a few high schools and maybe even a starship named after him.

I'm with VaBeachGuy on this one. These people/things are all very historical, and perhaps in the future they look upon history as just... history.

I agree that it was very irrational and wrong for Torres to do what she did. I'm glad that she didn't accomplish her goal. But I can feel sympathy for her, all the same. I agree, she was being oversensitive, but this was an important subject to her. A very sensitive subject. I know how it feels to be different, to not fit in, and it is that sensitive a subject. It can really make people feel terrible. She just didn't want her daughter to feel what she felt and to go through what she went through. I'm not saying that's a justification, not at all. I can just see why she would try to do it.

Some of it was also about the life that she didn't have. She was going to try to live that life through her daughter, which was entirely selfish and wrong. She wanted her daughter to be what she couldn't be; an "ordinary" girl.

Torres was very confused. It's a good thing she had Paris around to help her come to her senses.

As for not punishing her, I think Janeway understood what Torres was going through. She understood her intentions. She knows Torres too well, and knows that it's not something she would repeat.

I think this episode was about what society is coming up with today. I've heard of these "build-your-own-babies" and you can make it so your baby has blue eyes and brown hair and good brains and an athletic body. I don't know if that's possible right now, but I've read about theories. I just think it's wrong. And I think this episode might have been trying to address that issue.

Funny you should mention this... it was just on TV! I just got finished watching it!

I loved it! Oh... those uniforms the impostors wore were so... bad! The guy who played Chakotay had this huge tatoo. (I love it when Chakotay's tatoo is exaggerated... for some reason I just think it's hilarious.) The guy who played Tuvok was especially funny. He seemed to really be into his part. "As chief of security, I would never!" Heh!

Psoriasis?! My reaction was the same as Janeway's.

I loved how they out-conned the con artists. The whole escape was just too easy, I knew something was amiss. The way they used the Doctor was just ingenious.

And at the end when Neelix and Paris fooled the Doctor, that was great. "That's not fair! You cheated!" Heh. "We still got it!"

Great episode. I loved it!

I heard this song one time while I was going up a ski lift. It was night and quite cold, and very, very quiet except for this song playing over the speakers and the occasional squeaking of the chairs going up the lift. It was very peaceful. Whenever I hear this song (which is not often, I listen to country) it reminds me of that time. It makes me feel all nostalgic and happy. Thanks for bringing back a great memory. Isn't it funny how songs can do that?

She changed her name and became a nurse.

Heh. ^-^;;

Pike moved on and his crew moved on, too. That's just what I think. The only one who stayed was Spock.

I tried to think of all of them. I might have missed a few, and if I've missed your favorite, just vote "other" and be sure to jot it down in a reply. I think that the "Endgame" and the "All Good Things..." uniforms look the same, but I wasn't sure if they were the same or not. I put both of them up just to be safe. ^-^

My vote goes for the DS9/VOY uniforms.

First of all, they look great. They have a good amount of black and a good amount of color. I think that the DS9/movies VIII-X uniforms have way too little color. While I like the TOS uniforms, I think the DS9/VOY's are a little better because they don't blast you with a lot of very bright color. The colors on the DS9/VOY uniforms are a little darker. I like the gray turtleneck and the way the wearer can choose to zip the jacket all of the way up or only part of the way.

Secondly, they look comfortable. I just love the TNG (later seasons) uniforms, but they look quite uncomfortable. Picard and others are always pulling the jackets down and trying to adjust them. I also like the ENT uniforms, but they look like they would be hard to get out of if you needed a bathroom break. The DS9/movies VIII-X uniforms have so many layers that look so thick that they probably keep the temperature on the ships very low so that the crew doesn't burn up. The DS9/VOY just look easy and comfortable. They don't look like they'd be too hot or too cold. I think they almost look like pajamas. I love wearing pajamas all day (any day I can get away with it) and I think these uniforms would be very nice to wear.

What are your thoughts?

Perhaps you have the Where's Waldo? version?

^-^

I don't have it, but that does sound kind of strange.

I voted Dragon Ball Z. It's so much more than "Oh, no. There's a new enemy who's so much stronger than we are and we have to save the Earth again." I love the characters. They are all so dynamic and that's what makes the show so interesting. The changes in Vegeta over the course of the show just make me... I don't know how to describe the feeling. But Vegeta is great, and I just love the way he changes and then sacrifices himself for his family in the Buu saga.

I especially love Trunks. *drool*

I just finished watching the Buu saga and I think everything just fit perfectly into place. The way that everyone was needed. The way that Vegeta yelled at Goku for saving Hercule and Dende when, in the end, it was Hercule who rescued Vegeta. I loved the way it all fit.

I like the terrific speeches the characters give. I love the emotions of the characters. The way gohan just let loose after Android 16 died. I love the music. I just really feel a connection with these characters. They're wonderful people.

DBZ is definitely my favorite.

Though some would argue, it's not a cartoon.

I'm not that stingy. ^-^;;

7 rules!! I'd be the kid who'd never get his favorite/lucky # on his soccer jersey only to watch someone else run around with # 7 :(

Oh, that happened to me, too! Only, my favorite number is ten. There would always be someone else on the team who'd had ten before me. *sigh* It was the first number I ever had on a soccer jersey and I could never get it back. But it's still my favorite number.

We used AOL with our first computer, but that thing was so slow that we couldn't use the Internet. We only used the e-mail. ^-^;; Whenever we tried to cancel, they'd give us another month free. So we got a lot of free... e-mail.

When we got a new computer, I don't think we ever installed AOL. I would never use AOL, now. The only good feature about it is the Instant Messenger, and you can download that free without ever getting AOL. *shrugs*

I think I saw a commercial for AOL Broadband, once, though.

After hearing all of these bad stories about AOL, I'm not so sure I like it, either. I'm pretty indifferent.

I do use AOL for one thing though... They send me CDs in the mail for free trials and sometimes I can pick them up from stores like Target. I tape them to my walls shiny side up. It looks pretty neat, I think, to have CDs all over my walls. I probably couldn't get a job in interior designing, though. 0o

I think it should be turned into a museum. It's the first Earth ship in deep space! Very historic. Just think about it. Pictures and information plaques, little kids running around in an "interactive area," getting your picture taken in the captain's chair. I think that would just be really neat.

If nothing else, you wouldn't have to eat Neelix's cooking anymore.

^-^;; That's certainly a plus.

But you're right. I'm sure some fresh air for once would be great. Funny, the things I take for granted. Things like fresh air, bird sounds. It'd be nice to hear some rain splashing on my roof again, and then to smell the air once the storm is over. It's one of the best smells in the world. Thanks for the fresh perspective!

Well, you might try looking around at this place. They have a lot of Trek merchandise. At a quick glance I found this shirt. It has the Romulan symbol on it... But you might find something more if you just search around there.

Hope you find what you're looking for.

Oh, dear, that was way too funny! I think Chekov was having a little too much fun with his photon torpedoes.

I love Weird Al. He's great.

Vanishing point just played into Hoshi's incessant whining.

Yeah, it did add to the constant whining of her character.

I disagree. She did whine a little, but she was just scared. Wouldn't you be a little upset if you started to disappear and people couldn't see you? In the end, Hoshi came over her fears and took a jump into the unknown, all for the safety of Enterprise. I think she really grew as a character and I agree with Alterego in that it marked a turning point for her. She really is getting stronger.

Instead of adding to Hoshi's whining, this episode detracted from it, because as she grows more and more steady, she won't be prone to it was much.

A while ago, Prometheus posed the question, "How would you have coped as a crewman on Voyager?". Now, seven years after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant, you find yourself quite suddenly in the Alpha Quadrant and only hours, if not minutes away from Earth. How would you deal?

I don't know how I'd do. Seven years is a long time. Voyager would have become my home. The crew would have become my friends and most probably my second family. I would have a routine down. I think I'd be quite upset if my routine suddenly got shaken up. Now that I'm home, I don't have a purpose. For seven years I had a goal. For seven years, our mission was to get home. Sure, we've had a lot of detours, but the overall goal set by the captain was to get back home. All of a sudden, here we are. Now that goal which had so filled my life is gone, leaving an empty hole. Now I have to leave Voyager, my home for seven years. I have to leave the crew, who I have gotten to know over the last seven years and who have become as close as family. I don't know if I could do it.

Things change. I went away from a place for a year and a half and when I came back, things were different. I found new friends in that place, and didn't spend any time with my old friends who were still living there. There were new roads, new buildings. Some stores that I used to go to were closed down and replaced by others. I lived in the same house, but neighbors had moved away and new neighbors had come. It was the same place, and yet totally different. It was like I was a stranger in my own home. I couldn't imagine what kind of changes would happen in seven years. I would come home to something totally different and feel very much like a stranger. Sure, it would be nice to see my family and old friends again, but it would be different, and it could not possibly be as grand as I had made it up to be. See, if I was gone for seven years, dreaming of getting home, I would have created an entire scenario in my head. I would have dreamed of going home every night. But no reality can match the dreams of man. No matter what would happen when I returned home, I would be disappointed because it wouldn't be what I thought it was going to be.

I think the shock of suddenly being back home after being gone for so many years would, for me, far outweigh the shock of actually getting stranded in the first place.

What are your thoughts?

Oh, an LCARS operating system! That would rock! When I become a super cool computer programmer, I promise I'll try to make one.

Excerpted from the magazine, Star Trek Communicator, issue 145. From the article titled "Enterprise Season Two Review/Preview" by Matthew Saunders. Page 26.

Hoshi then took center stage in "Vanishing Point," which further explored the character's insecurities following her first trip through the transporter. While fan response was rather negative, [brannon] Braga strongly supports the episode.

"It was a great exploration of Hoshi's character, her insecurities and what she fears most, which is being insignificant," Braga says. "That's something a lot of people can relate to. It was also a tribute to 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' but with a transporter, which I thought was a great twist. Some people saw it as a cop-out. But if you watch the episode, there are almost too many clues that this is in her mind."

Before I read this, I didn't connect "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" with the episode at all. I had read the story earlier, but I didn't even think about it. Now that I've read this, I see that it sort of is the same thing, only with a transporter. I liked this episode before I knew this, but know that I know it, I have an even greater appreciation for it. I think that the whole twist is very neat.

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a short story by Ambrose Bierce. It's very interesting and it's a great story. If you want to read it, it can be found at this page. It shouldn't take long to read. It's very short. The following is a summary.

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WARNING! If you haven't read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" but were planning to, I highly recommend you read the story before you read the summary. It'll ruin the entire story if you read the summary first.

The story is set in the South during the American Civil War. There is a man, Peyton Farquhar, who would very much like to be in the army to defend his land and his views but, for unexplained reasons, can not. He does whatever he can to help the soldiers, though. Thus, when he hears word of the North's advance, he hurries off to burn down a nearby bridge. (Supposedly so that the North's forces will have trouble crossing the river which runs under the bridge.) However, he is caught by northern solders who decide to hang him over the bridge. When Farquhar drops, he swings around for a bit and then the rope holding him up breaks. He falls and splashes into the river below. He manages to wriggle his hands free of the rope that binds them and then he throws off the noose that was around his neck. He swims to the surface and discovers that his senses are heightened. He can see and hear and feel much more clearly than before. Apparently, having a near death experience will do that. He swims downstream, dodging bullets fired from the soldiers by diving deep underwater. He then swims to the shore and starts toward his home. He walks all through the night and, tired after walking, he reaches his house. His wife appears in the doorway and he runs to her and right before he reaches her to bring her into a hug, he feels a sharp pain on the back of his neck. He hangs, dead, from Owl Creak Bridge.

As it turns out, he imagined the whole escape in the few seconds that he was falling to his death.

Interesting, isn't it? Do you see the connection between the story and "Vanishing Point?"

The article mentioned that many fans were disappointed in this episode or did not like it. If you are one of those people, has your opinion changed knowing what you know now? If you did like it, do you like it more or less now that you know it was a tribute to this story? How many of you knew about this before you read the article (either here or in the magazine)?

I think that these "bugs" could very well be the Xindi. As takara said, there are many different kinds of Xindi. It is possible that this is because the "bugs" control a number of different species. If the "bugs" are the Xindi, then all of the species they control as a group could be called Xindi.

I used to read a book series about these "slugs" called Yeerks that crawl in through the ears of other species and control them. They had conquered all sorts of species, beginning with monkey-like creatures on their own world and then moving on to other worlds and eventually they came to Earth and started on the humans. And anything with one of those "slugs" in their heads was commonly called a Yeerk.

Perhaps, if the Xindi are these "bugs," they've conquered some of those reptilians, sloths, insectoids, humanoids, and whatnots.

I think that it was a very interesting idea, Captain. And, I think it's entirely possible. It probably won't happen, but it's possible.

I don't have a "Soong" in my handle, but I'm one of those many Data fans. He's my very favorite character of all the series.