prometheus

Well, hola there chicos. I hate to say "I told you so" but I was always one of the cinics who said that the next movie wouldn't be anything spun off from the other series and crews. Only too often you hear fans on the net blagging away about how the next film would involve members of other crews; fantasy stories invloving Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Janeway, joing forces etc etc. The francise died in the arms of Enterprise and Archer, in the realms of week by week serial Trek. And although the fourth series was a fine and enjoyable attempt to rekindle the magic of the Trek Universe, attempting to lure in new and old fans alike, and keep the francise's head above water, it was alas, not enough to get a fifth series. It seems that for now, a weekly series has no appeal. And the characters that we all loved to trek through space each week have just passed their sell by date. To bring a new audience to the world of trek, we indeed need to start afresh with a new crew, new possble ship, and a new bold storyline taking us somewhere we haven't gone before; where the general public will be willing to shell out the price of a cinema ticket to watch a film that will entertain them and they can understand and tell their friends about - which makes any new film a success worthy of a sequal; and something that will unfold in a manner that brings it bang up to date for the 2006 generation.

Is Star Trek going to die out? Is there no hope? In ten years time is it going to be like another X Files just no more creative input, an aging fan base?

I think that a simple Mind Meld, like Tuvok did on Voyager with Naus, would have sorted out poor Nurse Chapel who was in love with Mr Spock. Behind that swave Vulcan exterior, lies just another insensitive man! Glad to see she was over it though, in The Motion Picture. Though the advent of the trouser suit must have bunked her IQ up a nothch from the Peroxide Mini Skirt days to allow her to become an MD. ie Learn how to use a hypospray and programme the bio bed.

I read in a newspaper article that there has been a new surgical tool developed in the form of sort of preotoype nanoprobes for targeting drugs specifically at Cancer cells...

It's weird how i started this post nearly two and a half years ago... so much has gone on since then but Star trekfans.net is still here... as always B)

I didn't! Wow. Thats really cool. His boyfriend muxt be a lucky man... Sulu always demonstrated a certain dexterity on the bridge unlike any other hands... B)

Halloween is almost upon us. I was just wondering what episode or moment in Trek history really put a chill in your bones or that you thought was freaky. If you have pics of a certain scene you are talking about, show 'em! We'll be able to see why it's freaky

 

Anyway, the creepiest moment of Trek for me was an episode of Enterprise I just finished watching called "Doctor's Orders". Doctor Phlox sees Hoshi's shower running and what comes out is...

 

 

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Yeah i heard a rumour that they were going to leave Hoshi like that for the rest of the show but that idea just got nixed as it was reckoned if Scott Bakula kept hitting the sun-beds as much as he did, he would look like that too and then it would just get confusing...

That's really interesting. In my bedroom at my parents' house I had amodel of Voyager above my bed and it always intriged me what the shape was..

It's actually Barry Beardstrimmer. He worked on TNG from 1992 and was responsible for polishing any vases on the sets and Patrick Stewart's head. Beardstrimmer went on to be Mulgrew's bun assistant on Voyager, losing that position after season 4, shortly after it was decided to lose Janeways bun hair-do. Beardstrimmer worked as Manny Coto's assistant on Season 4 of Enterprise, where he was responsible for picking at the bones of The Original Series to see if there was any meat left to make something out of. He was also responsible for injecting Jolene Blalok's lips with Cologen, when that extra bit of pout was required. Following Trek, he was recently appointed Canned Goods Display Co-Ordinator at his local Walmart, enjoys fried chicken and watches Reunification over and over again religiously, pointing to and laughing at his reflection in the vase to anyone who will listen...

I always wanted to make one but didnt know how. Im sure i have all the necessary software on my home pc. I have broadband and windows xp...

No, give it no more rope and just leave it. For Heaven's sake, and put the money towards something better.

Is this the same race as the Federation President?

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Yeppers... It sure is.

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And isnt it the same race as the guy that you saw on the Saratoga in Star Trek IV The Voyage Home? It is a pretty cool race, and I love the TOS style clothes they gave you. Very Sarek-ie!!

T'Pol - from a freak lip-reduction operation, to remove some of that pout...

Mayweather - just bored himself to death

Trip - ironically dies after trip over a loose cable

Soto - accidently translates a rare alien language wrongly, to replace the words 'peace' with 'faeces' and 'hello' with 'go and take a long walk on a short pier, you smelly cat litter tray' - hanged for treason on their low gravity homeworld

Reid - from winding himself up too tightly and exploding in cargo bay 2

Archer - puts too much hair die in, and then has one more sun bed too many

Phlox - nah, he can stay,

Ensign Useless woke up at 6am sharp and leaped out of bed. Ah, he said, with a smile on his face, this is going to be a good day. As the sonic shower poured over him his thoughts turned to the day's activities. Ensign N0-Need loved being a security officer; and working on the finest ship in the fleet - the Enterprise. Ensign Useless headed to the messhalll and was just about to tuck into his synthesised eggs and ham when the 'weee-o' of the comm interpupted him. "Attention, crew" Captain Kirk's hammy voice boomed. "We have arrived at Panet Omicron Beta 6 - Could Ensign No-Need go to the Transporter Room". Ensign Useless ran to the Transporter room - me! He thought. Yay! Im going on an away mission. He had heard of the wonders of exotic planets, the fun adventures. On arrival the Ensign joined the Captain and Mr Spock - wow. He ofetn didnt get to speak to th fine Vulcan. As the transporter wirred away, the Ensign found himself suddenly on a orange skied planet. But what was this? A blue dwarf fish creature man., With a ray gun."gET BACK eARTHLINGS... " THE blue dwarf fish creature SCREECHED. And what was htis? The lizard had a ray gun, he was pointing it at Ensign Useless. But why him??? "No....!!!" the Ensign screamed as a beam blasted towards him.....

Stupid Redshirt

Can you see a pattern :lol:

Ensign No-Need woke up at 6am sharp and leaped out of bed. Ah, he said, with a smile on his face, this is going to be a good day. As the sonic shower poured over him his thoughts turned to the day's activities. Ensign N0-Need loved being a security officer; and working on the finest ship in the fleet - the Enterprise. Ensign Walkon headed to the messhalll and was just about to tuck into his synthesised eggs and ham when the 'weee-o' of the comm interpupted him. "Attention, crew" Captain Kirk's hammy voice boomed. "We have arrived at Panet Omicron Beta 6 - Could Ensign No-Need go to the Transporter Room". Ensign No-Need ran to the Transporter room - me! He thought. Yay! Im going on an away mission. He had heard of the wonders of exotic planets, the fun adventures. On arrival the Ensign joined the Captain and Mr Spock - wow. He ofetn didnt get to speak to th fine Vulcan. As the transporter wirred away, the Ensign found himself suddenly on a yellow skied planet. But what was this? A pink lizard man., With a ray gun."gET BACK eARTHLINGS... " THE LIZARD SCREECHED. And what was htis? The lizard had a ray gun, he was pointing it at Ensign No-Need. But why him??? "No....!!!" the Ensign screamed as a beam blasted towards him.....

Ensign Walkon woke up at 6am sharp and leaped out of bed. Ah, he said, with a smile on his face, this is going to be a good day. As the sonic shower poured over him his thoughts turned to the day's activities. Ensign Walkon loved being a security officer; and working on the finest ship in the fleet - the Enterprise. Ensign Walkon headed to the messhalll and was just about to tuck into his synthesised eggs and ham when the 'weee-o' of the comm interpupted him. "Attention, crew" Captain Kirk's hammy voice boomed. "We have arrived at Panet Omicron Beta 5 - Could Ensign Walkon go to the Transporter Room". Ensign Walkon ran to the Transporter room - me! He thought. Yay! Im going on an away mission. He had heard of the wonders of exotic planets, the fun adventures. On arrival the Ensign joined the Captain and Mr Spock - wow. He ofetn didnt get to speak to th fine Vulcan. As the transporter wirred away, the Ensign found himself suddenly on a red skied planet. But what was this? A green lizard man., With a ray gun."gET BACK eARTHLINGS... " THE LIZARD SCREECHED. And what was htis? The lizard had a ray gun, he was pointing it at Ensign Walkon. But why him??? "No....!!!" the Ensign screamed as a beam blasted towards him.....

Stupid Redshirt....

All the great villans in history never realised that what they were doing was wrong. They had an agenda which they felt was jsut and they pursued it at all costs, thinking that their erceived 'eight' ending would justify it all When Hitlor, to use an obvious example, extterminated 6 million Jews, he felt that this wasn't wrong, in his own warped mind. He felt that he was creating a Utopian existence. What is right to one man can be worng to millions. It is our collective balanced judgment that it the 'right' coures of action in a lot of caese, following well tested and equitable ethics. However, at the end of the day, it is a metter of perspecive. To some, President Bush is a visionary and to others he a misguided invasionist, tramping into other countries where he is perceived as evil.

Sybox didnt kill anyone, he gave gifts and the stealing of the Enterprise was jsut a means to obtain his goal of finding the Heaven planet. He never meant to hurt anyone, and at the ned of the day he turns control of the ship back to Kirk and saves everyone's lives. So no, he wasnt a villan in my book. Just obsessed, crazed and tortured.

This was on UK Sky Mix yesterday... i went outside and washed the windows. Seriously!!

She's a MILF ...

Sigh.

Death has to occur some time to some characters. It would be realistic not to. And who better to kill off than Data, especially after he downloaded his neurall net into a carbon copy

And besides...

NO ONE DIES IN STAR TREK!!!!!

Dat was unique.

Oh hold on, there's another one - Lore.

Oh hold on, there's another one - Data's ma, Juliana.

Oh hold on - there's another one - B4.

I mean, COME ON! Push it why dont they.

I would not be surprised if there were actually a million made, off a production line, and more will turn up in old attics and Runabout Trunk sales all over the galaxy... how much for the android? oh this old thing, well... it has a built in dvd player...

Use you imagination... Star Trek can make anything fit.

The afterlife has been described in different terms in the history of Star Trek.

In Star Trek V It was the planet at the centre of the galaxy - VortaVor, Eden

In TNG Picard has a life after death experience in Tapestry with Q

In DS9 We hear of Stovokor and the sybolism in the Bajoran faith is rich

In Voyager we get to see The Barge of the Dead

However, i think it is the Voyager episode Mortal Coil that we see Neelix dying and there being no afterlife...

How important is the concept to you and do u think Star Trek should have tried to create a uniform almost scientific explanation for what happens after death?

I have to say that i love Kai Winn played by the marvellous Ms Fletcher. I think she is such a 3 dimensional character. Like a lot of characters on DS9 she is not has many facets.

No one on DS9 was 'bad' or 'good'. They all had dark sides a s well as good sides. Dukat, Garak, Martok, were all villanous but with a hint of honour and a sense of goodness to them. Even the evil founders had a pitiful reason to hate the solids. And that is the way it is in real life. No one is just bad or good. It's not that black or white.

Sisko was bad in that he induced the Romulans to enter the war with a forged reason. Bashir had his dark side, as did Kira.

But Kai Winn was my favourite. Manipulative, cowardice, egotistical, misguided. She was the woman who had given all to the Profits and could never be rewarded enough. In 'The Reckoning'

I loved the way she slimed her way too the top on the shoulders of others. And how she is, in effect, seduced by 'the Devil' and falls to new depths.

In the end

The doctor probably did deserve a name, but it was more fun and elusive to refer to him as The Doctor however. It made him seem special and one off. Not like Doctor Who tho, who was also called The Doctor. Hair, maybe, he deserved, as a thinning man myself, if i was a hologram i would just type it in - More Hair please...