prometheus

In Nemesis we see a photograph of Picard at the Academy and he is wearing the old cadet's uniform and is also TOTALLY bald.

However, if you recall the TNG episode where there is a flashback to Jack Crusher's funeral, we see Picard WITH HAIR wearing a Season One uniform.

Also, if you recall the episode Family, i think it was, we see a hologram of Jack Crusher shortly before his death wearing a movie era uniform without an undershirt. Perhaps the uniform was changed to the Season One TNG uniform just after this...

I can only explain the hair as follows: at the Academy, Picard's hair was thinning so he wet shaved it and then grew it back for a while before it all fell out naturally. Which would suggest that Shinzon, as he is about the same age as Picard in the photo, has wet shaved his head and is not yet totally bald.

I'd start with ST II:  The Wrath of Kahn, then, because they'd be dying to know what happened, I'd let them watch ST III and ST IV.  Those three really are just one long movie.

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I haev always got people who have never watched Trek to start with The Wrath of Khan. Such an excellant movie that leaves them wanting more. Once they get into the TOS characters a link with Generations completes the chain! Ha ha...

I dont think Voyager could separate, could it? The Enterprise E sorta followed that design lineage of having no section (or neck) connecting the saucer to the stardrive section. However, that doesnt preclude the E from having the ability to separate, and just because it has never been referred to on secreen, we cannot say that it cannot. I suppose it all depends on what we ourselves would prefer to think. I myself would be happy to see the E with this capability. The E has no children involved, and that is one of the main reasons for having the saucer separation ability in the first place - to provide a means of evacuation to safety on mas. Howvere, the Prometheus in Voyager had the ability to separate due to tactical reasons - the multi vector assault mode. And one section of that ship had tiny little warp nacelles tucked away underside. It would have been cool if the saucer section of the E had've had these somewhere, but they're not on the blueprints. Maybe a Sovereign class ship will show up n a future Trek production - with Enterprise anything is possible. It would be good to see a ship like that again...

Any thoughts of the Titan showing up on Enterprise through a time rift or something?

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I love the Trek references with this character.

'' Yes - and i would love an hour on the holodeck with Seven of Nine'' (when Homer asked him for Superman comic number 1 while being Mr Burns's prank monkey)

NCC 1701 number plate on his car

When he dressed up in TOS style uniform

There was a fight scene like the one from the Arena between Homer and Barney when they were training to be astranauts as well in one episode complete with TOS style music...

Any other refernces?

Imagine making a rug for about twenty odd years. Oh the joy... i wonder if one person could have like 100 kids over 300 years. Imagine the overpopulation problems. They were very Amish werent they. Admiral Doughety was a real bore. Bad character.

'You can live in a moment forever'. Hmmm... not with you love! With your voice i could sleep forever! The next time you watch The Astranaut's Wife imagine that it's Anij in the bath with the electric radio.

Data became to TNG what Spock was to TOS... in a way. What I mean is, he complimented Picard like Spock complimented Kirk. When, though, did this happen? I think that the Picard - Data relationship took off around the time of First Contact. Like a father and a son. This left the previously strong Geordi-Data relationship on the side line. The latter relationship was strong in Generations though, with the chip and the guilt and so forth. In the TNG series Data became stronger around the start of the third series I feel. But then again, all the characters did in a way.

I would have liked to have seen Data become first officer and Riker die, to be replaced with his twin Thomas Riker, who later went on to join the Maquis. That joung lieuthenant commander would have been fresh and fun and maybe his potential for insubbordination would have been fun...

Except when the 'know it all' fell into the water and nearly drowned. Those pouty lips were bobbing up and down like a dying salmon... ha ha ha.

I have an early novelisation by James Blish, of some of the first season stories and Yeoman Rand dons the cover with Spock and Kirk. And even says, The Adventures of Captain Kirk, Mr Spock and Yeoman Rand on the front as well!

It's a pity that the actress who played her got into such an alcoholic/drugs mess, but i'm glad to see with recent interviews that she has recovered well.

How significant were the contributions of these two ladies to TOS? Was Nurse Chapel as major a part of the crew as Uhura? They both popped up in the movies...

Or how about a time travelling DESCENDANT of Kirk? Like his grandson or something, in a TNG style shuttle???

How about a time travelling ancentor of Kirk? His grandfather time travels back 50 years or something? In a TOS style shuttle that has slung shot around the sun?

I personally think that the ancestor thing has been done now with Soong. Maybe a time travel arc or parallel universe would do.

I thin that during Insurrection Worf was still married to Jadzia, isnt that correct. And on board the bridge of the Enterprise E we see a Trill at the helm. Now imagine if this little scenario had happened...

While on the Enterprise E Worf has an affair with the Trill in a moment of passion due to the youthful tendencies he is feeling due to the metaphasic radiation.

He never tells Jadzia.

Jadzia is killed and then, while her symbiont is being transferred to the Trill homeworld it has to go into a Trill host on board....

Imagine if it hadnt been Ezri but the Trill that Worf had the affair with

And then that Trill gets all of Jadzia's personalities mixed in with hers

How guilty would she feel WITH HERSELF, and hurt

Just a strange thought on a friday afternoon.

By the way, what are you all up to this weekend? Im away for a pint in a wee while...

I dont smoke during the day but would smoke Marlboro Lights when i'm drinking. The two seem to go together. Therefore my smoking pattern is very irregular and what I smoke in a week depends on if I have been going out much. I hope that a smoking ban in bars will be imposed here which will reduce my smoking considerably. When I was in Canada, I smoked like a train in Montreal but nearly not at all in Ottawa.

I think that you are doing a good thing by quitting. Though I think if you really want to the short sharp pl=unge is best. Just cut them out completely.

If you switch to light you may smoke double the amount as you will feel less guility each time and wont get enough Nicoteen.

Taking less to work will just mean you will ask other people for one which will make you feel bad.

It seems to mean that it is not so much the actual Nicoteen you like but the actual physical habit of holding a cigarette and going out on smoke breaks. Am I right? I know for me it is comforting.

Cigarettes are deadly. There's no mistaking it. But then often we are ignorant to the damage we cannot see...

Good luck Jim. Dont beat yourself up any time you fall off the wagon, and don't feel deprived every time you dont have a cigarette - consider yourself one less cigarette healthier! And cravings only last three minutes....

I'm not going to comment, is case is make an @ss of myself (ho ho ho...)

Also, my throat is sore and i'm feeling a little 'horse' (ho ho)

Maybe this discovery is do' key to genetics! I just need some time to mule it over. Sorry - im just hoofing with ya!

Maybe the Borg assimilated a very b1tchy race and that is why the Queen was such a major one...

I know that this seems quite a simple question but I preferred DS9 when it was Post Dominion. The Defiant, Worf, the new uniforms, the war, the 'outed' genius Bashir, etc were all great in my view. Not Ezri though...

To be honest this is one of my least liked Star Trek films. The plot was okay but I never understood how a small contingent from that planet could conquer an entire species. The whole face streching thing was just too gross.  I also didnt like the FX all that much.

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They actually conquered two species. They were probably pre warp or something. One of those Sona ships could take over an entire planet like that, or at least enslave a lot of their population. Power and fear are everything. Didnt they say they 'integrated' them into their culture? Maybe they did a trade of some sort.

I noticed one plot discrepancy. Data says he can serve as a flotation device. However, in one episode of TNG he says that he would sink in water as he was so heavy. Though I just CANNOT remember the episode. Does anyone else remember this? Was it Descent? Hmmm.....

I've notciced in tuc and I like it. The Enterprise bridge in STV looked too much like Enterprise D's. Shatner probably wanted to compete with STNG.

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I agree. The back lit panels - 'Okudagrams', the brown carpet everywhere, the bright lights, etc all tried too hard to link the Enterprise A with the D. It was too forced, I feel, as the jump from that era to the next was something like 87 years and design would move on a lot in that time. The 'boing! boing! boing!' background noise on the bridge of the A was very reminiscent of the TOS bridge. However, I felt this too was forcing the link too much. I was happy to see exposed deck plating and toggle switches in The Undiscovered Country.

On another note, it was interesting to see that General Kord was played by the actor who played The Chancellor in TNG. The Klingon Klaa was to feature as a translator in the court scene in Undiscovered Country - no doubt punishment for his insubordination. I am surprised that the 'ancient earth probe' had not been detected earlier or even searched for and put in a museum. And why was that Human calling himself a Terran and referring to Heaven as Eden??? Dear, dear...

The lookout set was a waste of space i feel. And - I hate to say it - but I hate the much loved Scotty scene where he says he knows the ship like the back of his hand and then bangs his head. For me it's just too gratuitious and a bit tacky.

Like Tim Russ in Generations, that wasn't Tom Paris at the Academy, although that would have been a great continuity plot. The character played by the same actor is called Nick Locarno or something like that. Same actor - just different characters.

However, to just mention a continuity in the Trek Universe, they use a picture of Nick from this episode, in his cadet's uniform in an episode of Voyager to look like a young Tom Paris, on his father's desk.

My last meal was egg mayonaise sandwiches and the weather is gloomy and wet. It gets dark at 5pm... sigh. Im going to have chicken curry for dinner.

I loved The Grudge. It was stylish, atmospheric and very intriguing. I can explain the story as follows...

Yes but the point that I am making is that the visual artists went to great lengths to make it look older than TNG. How ever, the Enterprise in Star Trek 5, for example, looks a lot more high tech: flat touch screens, carpets, no use of paper and so forth. I think Nicholas Meyer is always a lot more contemporary with his Trek, from a visual view point.

If I could change anything about myself it would be my teeth. I would love to have straighter teeth, though people say they look fine.

What would you change about yourself, if at all?

I would call mine The Ulysses. Like the ship in that cool 80s cartoon.