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    Episode 06.09: No Encounter at Near Point

     

    Tedium and her crew are dispatched to Clamp Klitomer, close to Near Point Station, where they are to rendez-vous with the Klingon ship B'Zinga.

     

    No-one shows up so Tedium goes home. Turns out the Klingons all had Klingon flu (which they actually call 'Klingon flu' and not just flu like you would expect they would) so they all decided to meet up the following week instead.

     

    The end.

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    It would have been funny to have seven seasons of Star Trek: Tedium, set aboard the Star Ship Tedium NCC-000-NO.

     

    Each week the crew find less and less things to do that have any level of interest to anyone.

     

    Episode 01.01: New Paint

     

    The Star Ship Tedium books itself into Star Base Whoocares, to get a new coat of Space Paint. The crew sit down with a cup of tea in the Star Base's observation deck and watch it dry for 60 minutes...

     

    Episode 05.19: The Smell

     

    There is a mysterious smell of deck 9. Alien crewmate He-sux, who hangs around the ship like a useless cat and sometimes knows something but not often, decides to shampoo the carpet from one end to the next.

     

    Episode 07.24: The End

     

    Tedium is being retired and her crew stood down. The crew celebrate by going for a Chinese. Captain Y'awn orders honey chilli chicken with fried rice but it comes with boiled but that's all right as he was trying to be healthy anyway. Lieutenant Whitebread decides to have some soup. After they eat their meal they each go home and go to sleep.

  4. Posted

    Another "the crew of the Enterprise D are geniuses and all other crews are pratts!" storyline. Poor Frasier and co, stuck in there some 60 or 70 odd years - only took the TNG gang a week and they had it figured out. Why hadn't Frasier and co gone barmy? Apparently Kirsty Alley was going to return as Saavik on that bridge but there were problems etc. Wouldn't get her on there now. They'd need to sew together Scotty's and Kirk's costumes from Generations...

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    The Borg Queen was of course the perfect villan against Janeway. The hissing, snydie, little comments. The Crystal and Alexis of the Star Trek universe!

     

    "Janeway, i will asssssimilate you - but not your hairstyles, they sssssssuck..."

     

    "Well, well, if it isn't the Borg Queen. Love your make-up. Where would one get that particular shade of slime green?"

     

    "In the ssssame placcce one would get your pebble-dashed gravellie voice Janeway"

     

    "Oh come come Borgie Queenie baby. You're starting to 'drone' on a bit"

     

    "I'd rather do that, than end up like you Janeway, a frustrated old spinster whose man couldn't wait to ditch the dogs and get himself a new woman as soon as you dissssappeared into the back end of no-where..."

     

    "Rubber boobs"

     

    "She-he"

  8. Posted

    I hear Gary Mitchell is going to be the next big villan, he's the hot favourite at the moment. In TOS he was like a big mate of Kirk's at the Academy but since this is now an alternate timeline that may not have been the case.

     

    I think in the TOS timeline Kirk went to the Academy a lot earlier and slowly became a captain eventually getting command of the Enterprise. But in this alternate universe (because daddy died) Kirk was a bum for a bit and didn't go to the Academy til a few years later (but luckily enough graduated as a fully fledged captain and got command of the Enterprise - a brand new state of the art ship mind, to someone who had been a cadet a few weeks prior, probably at the same time the Prime Universe Kirk go command, so the two timelines sorta converge a bit only with differences blah blah!!!)

     

    In any event, i digress...

     

    In Star Trek 2, Mitchell may be aboard the Enterprise and may gain his powers in much the same way as in the episode Where No Man has gone before.

     

    What do you think?

  9. Posted

    You might be able to make some money with those writing skills.

     

    Good to know if i ever end up on the breadline.

     

    I dont think Paramount would go for a hole series of "Boob Trek" though lol, do you?

     

    I was thinking about re-writing the TNG Series Finale, "All Good Thongs", what do you think? The Boobies to the North of Planet Bikini VI decide to invade the Southern Continent, poplulated by the Thongs ...

  11. Posted

    TNG Episode s3.e26 The Best of Both Boobies

     

    "The Boobies have evolved from a peaceful race into a Cybernetically enhanced race of drones now known only as The Boob, hell bent on assimilating whole races into their Silicon collective. Jean Luc Picard is abducted by The Boob and taken aboard their craft, a Boob Tube, where he is held hostage and tortured for information. The crew worry for his safety. As the Boob Tube descends on the Enterprise, Riker has to cross his legs for once when Picard appears on the view screen, assimilated by The Boob and sporting fresh implants. He announces he is now called Low-cut-top-is and resistence is futile ... rrrrrrrrrr ... (to be continued)"

  12. Posted · Edited by prometheus

    But what do they do with the boobies after they trap them?

     

    They build a boobie fort and then hide in it if things go t1ts up...

     

    I would say having seen the ageing proccess the correct direction is down. lol

     

    TNG Episode s3.e06: Droopie Boobie Trap

     

    "The Enterprise D stops at Bikini Alpha VI, a remote outpost where the Boobies, a race of entrancing and evocative aliens have dwelt in peace and love for 5 generations. The Boobies live closely in pairs with one Boobie complimenting and bringing balance to the other. However, all that changes when a residual strain of the virus seen in The Deadly Years and Unnatural Selection, infects the Boobies, causing them to age rapidly. The older they get, the saggier they become. First to fall is N'Pall, leader of the Boobies to the East. Then N'Pall Too, the leader of the Boobies to the West, is the next to fall. Data saves the day when, ingeniously, he crafts a device with the assistance of Geordi, inspired by the Un d'r wa R-Bra, a Klingon invention sported by the Duras Sisters on many an occasion. Geordi finds the device difficult to manage never having been able to get close enough to one himself before. This device instantly lifts and supports the Boobies until Crusher's old Professor, Dr Christian Troy, arrives and performs emergency surgery restoring the Boobies to their former perky selves"

     

    TNG Episode s5.e07: Silicon Wonderbra

     

    "The Enterprise D re-visits the Boobies and although everything seems normal on the surface, the Boobies seem unusually overly perky and are quite firm when they ask the Enterprise crew to leave. The crew beam down to the deepest crevices of the Boobie valley, a dark haunting place deep between two great mountains. There they discover deep scars on the soft surface which reveal that the Boobies have been genetically enhanced against Federation ethics and have become superior beings defying natural law. The leader of these New Boobies, Pa Me La Ander Soong, kidnaps Data and reveals that she is the daughter of his creator, Dr Noonien Soong. Dr Soong performed experiments on Pa Me La, cruel experiments, in a bid to create a half Android-half Human female companion for Data. He only got so far with his work before she fled to Bikini VI where she passed on her knowledge to the Boobies, enhancing them also with Silicon based cybernetic implants. The Boobies are a much superior race as a result and have decided to wage war on the neighbouring panet of Debra Messing. The Boobies aim to bring the advantages of Silicon to Debra, bringing a much needed boost to its otherwise flat body ..."

  14. Posted

    I would have loved to have seen a 1000 year old race once in a while, who's technology was not 'older' than the Federation's was at the contemporaneous moment. I suppose we need see a lot of that in TOS - ancient races with highly advanced technologies but it would have been nice for the Promelian's etc to have been like super-advanced and not some old rickity pile of Amstrad cast-offs soldered together.

     

    As for Geordi, what does he see through his VISOR? I thought it was all heat and stuff. Therefore his idea of beautiful would be a nice heat pattern. So how would he know what Leah Brahms looks like? She's a hologram. By that token, any holodeck program would be just a load of nothing to him.

     

    In a later episode Geordi has the holgraphic Leah programmed to speak sweet nothing in his ear which is such a breach of ethics.

     

    I didn't like the ending. It was like 'oh, just crawl on yer belly and you'll be grand' sort of thing...

  20. Posted

    Roddenbery deserves credit for his vision, but as a writer he sucked. Star Trek, movies and TV, didn't get good until creative control was taken from him.

     

    I agree. Yes, he was the great bird of the galaxy etc. But he wasn't too quick to allow others to take any credit for their input which you can read alll about in the various bitter biographies and behind the scenes literature out there. I wouldn't belive all of what has been levied at him but when you put it all together ot paints a picture of a big kid whose writing skills were limited to a few themes. I recall reading about his plans for a Star Trek movie where the crew go back in time and are present at the Kennedy assasination. ;) Droll. I think that idea was batted about time and time again.

     

    The Klingons were tamed by the time of TNG and the later TOS movies. To the point where we had one in a red spandex Season 1 style uniform and others in s&m gear having dinner parties with Kirk etc. :rofl: They were no real threat. Indeed, had the events of Star Trek 6 been anything to go by, the Kingons were pretty much ban-jaxed. New threats were needed. Season 1 of TNG had the disastrous Ferengi (which were later salvaged for comic effect) those Comspiracy alien things which were a bit darker than what came before. Heaven fobid a Star Fleet officer should EVER have a nasty bone in his body or perverted thought in his head. However, with the departure of Roddenberry the road was opened up to the development of the Borg, The Macquis, Section 21 or 48 or whatever it was called (no-one correct me! you know what i mean lol) etc etc.

     

    Roddenberry lit some twigs which grew to a bush fire. Fans lthen 'fanned' :rofl: the flames over the years. However, those than came after him pumped fuel into that fire and kept it burning bigger and brighter than it ever would have solely under Roddenberry's control.

  22. Posted

    Bump ;)

     

    Watching Year of Hell on rerun and it is by far one of the best episodes of Voyager. THAT should have been what the pilot was like. The named Anorax is a bit funny though. Like jackets.

     

    We needed a darker more dramatic realistic series called Voyager. Even the name could have been better. Voyager is a bit blah. They might as well have called it Challenger or something.

     

    Storylines, for example, where a crew member has Cancer and knows he or she is going to die without ever getting to say goodbye to their loved ones. An episode where the crew are so hungry and working so hard to keep the ship going that they are bad tempered and fight. Maybe fly on the wall style like they did with Galactica ...

  24. Posted

    I started watching TNG from the end of Season 5 onwards on BBC2 terrestrial tv. I bought the TNG Companion about a year later and really enjoyed reading about the episodes i had watched, the episodes i was yet to see, and more importantly - the episodes which i had missed and could look forward to seeing in future re-runs (in particular The Best of Both Worlds)! I loved reading about the gossip behind the scenes and why matters were why they were. In any event, i digress ...

     

    I saw the Pilot Episode after the Finale 'All Good Things'. I think it ran on BBC2 the very next week after that. I was surprised at the poor quality storyline (Roddenberry no doubt, idiot). The effects were okay i suppose. I nearly fainted when i saw the Enterprise D separate into two ships. Never saw that before - that was good. The uniforms were naff. Troi's accent was thick - she looked and sounded like an Eastern European air stewardess. Riker looked like someone else. I didn't like Yar. Data was annoying. Crusher was super-annoying. The bridge of the Enterprise was a bit brown.

     

    I suppose as the show developed over the seven years it ran on tv, the characters developed to a high standard as did the storylines, effects, and the Star Trek TNG universe as a whole. Season one creaked of growing pains as did Season 2. Since i was used to the better quality fully grown TNG of Seasons 5, 6 and 7, that was what i was used to. It was not until i started watching Season 3 of the re-runs that i started to see the TNG i was familiar with and when Season 4 came on, it had come full circle for me.

  25. Posted

    The Borg and the Federation are enemies. She attacked a military target in a time of war. How is that unethical?

     

    DARK FRONTIER PART 1: After Voyager manages to destroy a Borg probe, Seven of Nine finds data nodes filled with tactical information among the debris. With it they locate a heavily damaged scout ship nearby, and Janeway decides to plan a "heist"—invade the Borg vessel while its defenses are down and take its transwarp coil, which will shave 20 years off Voyager's journey. The crew will create a diversion, then send an away team in to steal the technology.