prometheus

Slap on a fur bikini and a Talaxian wig and dance down a corridor, luring him to the canteen where I would pan fry his bum with some Leola root while humming the theme tune to MASH.

It is HBO, yes. Very very good. Bit surreal at times and deals with some of the most difficult religious, political and sexual issues of the 1980s.

Why were the TNG crew judged so harshly? Why not another crew?

I enjoyed it very musch. Al Pacino is one of my favourites.

Im glad you asked our advice on this, because building plastic models does require a lot of commitment. It's not just something you can go out and do overnight. I have often thought about it myself, but just dont know if I would have the skill and dedication to complete such a momentous task as building a plastic model kit. What to choose? And then there's the glue - oh my. Well. I would say, as a fellow ponderer of plastic model kit building, just go for it! What the 'heck'. Why not? :huh:

I think the Enterprise D yacht wouldnt have been very 'actionable'. It looks a bit (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't). I think it was only used for diplomatic missions. Not like it's bad asss E counterpart.

Word of the day:

 

CANON CANON CANON CANON CANON CANON

 

USE IT SOME MORE. GO ON, I DARE YA!!

I consider Rick Berman to be gospel.

 

And yes, I know that we didnt SEE the Yorktown ie outside perspective, blah be blah, but we did SEE part of it. Sigh. You are all so picky!!!!!!! I didnt realise this was a 'criticise other people's posts as much as possible' forum. The spirit of what I said is there. Why not just discuss THAT rather than take apart what i'm saying like a grammar lesson. (Sighs)

Well can we all just IMAGINE that that is what it is and looks like. What is all this flippin Canon (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't)?

I was reading an old interview with Rick Berman and he said that Gene Roddenbury originally called his star ship the USS Yorktown, before changing it to the Enterprise. Yorktown was then seen in a TOS episode, and that is why they have named the NX-02 Yorktown on Enterprise: a homage to his first choice. Also, the Enterprise-A from the movies was actually the USS Yorktown (as seen adrift after the Wale Probe in Star Trek 4) renamed. A bit like the Sao Paulo on DS9 being re-named Defiant. That is why the Enterprise a was decommissioned after only 5 years (the end of Star Trek 6): because it was actually quite old.

It sometimes irritates me that the characters in Star trek are always 'Star Fleet's finest'. They all go on to become Admirals and come top of their year in the Academy. Or they are from fine well off families, like the long line of Picards, Troi and her High Status mother, Hoshi 'the genius' translator, Tom 'the best pilot in the galaxy' Paris, etc tec. True, true, if they werent the best then they wouldnt be on the flagships and so on. But everyone seems to be these geniuses that can come up with the solution all the time. I just wish that they would all mess up a bit more, once in a while, and say 'oh dear. I dont know what to do....'

Look closely all over your body: at your fingers, toes, eyes - eberything. And tell me that you would be able to let a race of cybernetic beings cut them off, and stick things in you. Even if the Dr could replace them , it still wont be YOU in the end. Very traumatic. The human mind would find it very hard.

And what about the Romulans? The Klingons and them weren't on good terms either. After that open attack - a sign of brutality, why not launch war on them? Why attack someone who has helped you get back on your feet instead? It makes no sense. They can't attack both either.

He was the first Vulcan in Star Fleet. But on Enterprise .....

 

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In an upcoming episode, T'Pol will be in Star fleet in an alternate future time line

I liked the idea of Spock having a disapproving father. It added a whole new dimension to Spock's character. Because Spock was half human, he had feelings - as much as he tried to dispel them on the outside. And his father's approval seemed to mean a lot to him. Remember his guilt in Star Trek 5: "so human". Spock was sort of between a rock and a hard place. Not like his mother, nor his father. She was the warm and the comforting while the father was the hard, and the sincere. I loved Journey to Babel because we see how the son and father manage in an awkward sort of relationshiop. It is clear that they love each other yet show it in a strange way. I often find myself having a similar relationship with my father. Awkward, but underneath all the masculinity - caring. In Star Trek 3 Sarek is almost emotional in his out burst with Kirk - "WHY did you leave him on Vulcan!!??!" Through the movies and eventually TNG this relationship continues, and we learn Spock never melded with his father. In the end, it is Picard that allows Spock to 'touch' his father.

 

A great relationship. Im glad they left Sarek out of Star Trek 5. That whole Sybok crap needed no further development.

What I never got was why the Klingons launched a war of the Federation just because they failed to help out at the attacked outpost. Because if you look at it, it was the Romulans who were doing all the attacking: why didnt they wage war on them? And even if they did, they wouldnt have had enough resources to wage war of the Federation as well. At the end of Star Trek 6, the Klingons were on the brink on annhilation. Now all of a sudden they are in the position to destroy the Federation all because they werent around to save their skins!!!

 

Anyways, HAD the Klingons beaten the multi - planey, highly organised Federation, then the Federation would have been in tatters and then there would be an uoprising after about 50 years and a re-building into a less powerful, fragmented Federation type organisation after about 100 years.

I thought Roger Moore was just so 'British' and so smarmy. He emade me laugh.

We never saw the Captain's Yacht being used in TNG either: it looked like a mini saucer section. Strange...

Trip as that Dax would be a disservice to Trip.

Oh. Right. Sorry.....

> I met a Dutch girl with inflatable shoes last week, phoned her up to

> arrange a date but unfortunately she'd popped her clogs.

>

> Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire

> in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have

> your kayak and heat it.

>

> So I said "Do you want a game of Darts?", he said "OK then", I said

> "Nearest to bull starts". He said "Baa", I said "Moo", he said

> "You're closest".

>

> You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the

> night before and shoot the fox.

>

> The other day I sent my girlfriend a huge pile of snow. I rang her

> up, I said "Did you get my drift?".

>

> So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make

> complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are

> pickled onions".

>

> I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah, I thought "he's trying to

> pull a fast one".

>

> So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said

> "Eurostar?".I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".

>

> So I said to the Gym instructor "Can you teach me to do the splits?".

> He said "How flexible are you?". I said "I can't make Tuesdays".

>

> But I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to

> pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.

>

> So I met this gangster who pulls up the back of people's pants, it

> was Wedgie Kray.

>

> So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with

> a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said

> "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".

>

> But I'm in great mood tonight because the other day I entered

> competition and I won a years supply of Marmite......... one jar.

>

> So this bloke says to me, "Can I come in your house and talk about

> your carpets?". I thought "That's all I need, a Je-oover's witness".

>

> You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a

> catholic converter.

>

> So I rang up British Telecom, I said "I want to report a nuisance

> caller", he said "Not you again".

>

> So I was having dinner with Garry Kasporov (world chess champion) and

> there was a check tablecloth. It took him two hours to pass me the

> salt. He said "You remind me of a pepper-pot", I said "I'll take that

> as a condiment".

>

> Now did you know all male tennis players are witches, for example

> Goran, even he's a witch.

>

> And I've got a friend who's fallen in love with two school bags, he's

> bisatchel.

>

> So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a

> barcode. I said "Are you two an item?".

>

> So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins,

> I thought "That's a turtle disaster".

>

> Four fonts walk into a bar The barman says "Oi - get out! We don't

> want your type in here"

>

> A jump-lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but

> don't start anything"

>

> A priest, a rabbi and a vicar walk into a bar. The barman says, "Is

> this some kind of joke?"

>

> A sandwich walks into a bar. The barman says "Sorry we don't serve

> food in here"

>

> Dyslexic man walks into a bra

>

> A seal walks into a club...

>

> A man walks into a bar with a roll of tarmac under his arm and says:

> "Pint please, and one for the road."

>

> A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He slides up

> to the bar and announces: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw."

>

> A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing

> in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After

> about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to

> disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he

> said "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."

>

> There was a man who entered a local paper's pun contest. He sent in

> ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would

> win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

>

> A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes

> to a family in Egypt and is named "Amal." The other goes to a family

> in Spain, they name him Juan". Years later, Juan sends a picture of

> himself

to

> his mum. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she

> wished she also had a picture of Amal. Her husband responds, "But

> they are twins. If you've seen Juan, you've seen Amal."

Would you like to see time travel to the Kirk era? Perhaps the movie time frame? We wouldnt want a repeat of DS9 Trials and Tribblations. But def something like that would be fun I think. Imagine Trip on the Enterprise A disguised heavily as an alien crewman Dax???? Hahaha.

Vidiians. They were bad yet you could sympathise with them. They harvested organs to survive to try to save their species. I was so happy to hear that the Think Tank had cured their ailments, even though we never saw it on screen.

It was sesigned with wings for travelling better through atmospheres - hence the 'aero' part.

Defiant, U.S S.

Federation starship, Starfleet registry number NX-74205. Prototype for the proposed Defiant class, the second starship to bear the name. The Defiant was officially classified as an escort, but began development in 2366 as a small, highly-powered, heavily-armed starship intended to defend the Federation against the Borg. The Defiant was the first of what was to be a new Federation battle fleet. Starfleet abandoned the project when the Borg threat became less urgent and after design flaws turned up during the Defiant’s shakedown cruise. In 2371, the Defiant was assigned to Deep Space 9 to help counter the threat posed by the Jem’Hadar, and was equipped with a cloaking device on loan from the Romulans. (“The Search, Part I” [DS9]).

 

Later that year, Maquis member Thomas Riker hijacked the Starship Defiant from Deep Space 9 to investigate a suspected Cardassian military buildup in the Orias system. (“Defiant” [DS9]). The ship had minimal crew accommodations, a small sickbay, and no provisions for families. (“The Search, Part I” [DS9]). The Defiant carried at least two shuttlecraft. (“The Search, Part II” [DS9). In 2372, the Starship Defiant was flown to the Gamma Quadrant to observe a subspace inversion of the Bajoran wormhole. During the mission, an engine-room accident almost pulled Benjamin Sisko into subspace. (“The Visitor” [DS9]). Shortly afterward, the Defiant battled the Federation starship Lakota when the Defiant transported Lieutenant Arriaga, a key witness in the case against Admiral Leyton in Leyton’s attempted coup, to Earth. (“Paradise Lost” [DS9]). In 2373, the Defiant, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Worf, was part of the Starfleet armada that intercepted a Borg cube at Earth on stardate 50893. The Defiant was seriously damaged and the surviving crew members were beamed aboard the USS. Enterprise-E. (Star Trek: First Contact). Fortunately, the Defiant was repaired in time for the next episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

 

The Defiant was named after the ship from “The Tholian Web” (TOS) and was first seen in “The Search, Part I” (DS9). The model was designed by James Martin under the direction of Herman Zimmerman and Gary Hutzel. It was built by Tony Meininger. Interior sets supervised by Herman Zimmerman. The Defiant was originally to have been named the Valiant. When the ship was renamed Defiant prior to filming of “The Search, Part I” (DS9), some concept drawings for the ship suggested that it was a Valiant-class vessel. This notion was dropped after a revision of the script for “The Search, Part I” made it clear that the Defiant was the first starship of its type. The Defiant’s engine room was first seen in “The Adversary” (DS9).

 

Defiant, U.S.S. - Supplement

Federation starship assigned to starbase Deep Space 9. The U.S.S. Defiant had a class-7 warp drive (“One Little Ship” [DS9D, which was exceptionally powerful. Because of this, it could ionize nebular gases. This rendered the ship detectable in the Badlands, even when under cloak. (“Blaze of Glory” [DS9]). In 2373, the crew of the Defiant numbered about 50 people. The Defiant encountered a temporal anomaly at planet Gaia, creating an alternate timeline in which the ship was destroyed 200 years in the past, stranding the crew in the Gamma Quadrant. Although the timeline was excised, members of the Defiant crew did retain memory of the incident. (“Children of Time” DS9]). The Defiant was destroyed by Breen forces in late 2375, just before the final battles of the Dominion war. (“The Changing Face of Evil” [D59]). Several weeks later, when the Defiant-class U.S.S. Sao Paulo was assigned as a replacement to Deep Space 9, Admiral Ross granted special dispensation to Captain Benjamin Sisko to rename the new ship U.S.S. Defiant. (“The Dogs of War” [DS9]). The new Defiant played a pivotal role in the final battle of the Dominion war. (“What You Leave Behind” [DS9]).

 

Defiant (mirror)

Starship constructed by the Terran resistance in the mirror universe for their struggle against the Alliance. The Defiant (mirror) was a close copy of the Federation starship of the same name from our universe, and was built using technical information downloaded by Miles O’Brien (mirror) during his visit to this universe’s starbase Deep Space 9 in 2371. The mirror Defiant was launched in 2372. Piloted by Benjamin Sisko, this Defiant led the Terran resistance in fending off an Alliance fleet led by Regent Worf (mirror). (“Shattered Mirror” [D59]).

 

Defiant, U.S S.

Federation starship, Constitution class, Starfleet registry number NCC-1 764. The Defiant disappeared in 2268 near Tholian territory into what was believed to be a spatial interphase. This interphase had an adverse effect on humanoid neurophysiology and caused mass insanity among the crew prior to the disappearance of the ship. The Defiant was last seen shimmering, suspended between two dimensions, until it faded into interspace. (“The Tholian Web” [TOS]).

I am a big fan of the visual aspects of Star Trek and the special effects, even when the story is weak sometimes. So from that perspective, TOS can be a little slow and visually unappealing to my tastes. However, the storylines are often brilliant. And the show has a nostalgic 'feel' that reminds me of watching tv at my granda's house as a child. So from those perspective it is highly enjoyable and well worth watching.