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    i sit. on my kitchen floor. black tiles. blind in one eye despite trying to find that contact lense that doesnt exist. is it just me or is it just the drink? i don't know. i@m typing quite slow but i think im blind in one eye. i cant find that contact lense but if i poke my eye one more time it will hurt i am going to go for a fag i will be back ... iwent on the hunt for a lighter which ii found in the pocket of jeans which i forgot im still blind in one eye but hey it's my seventh anniversary and i might still be drunk but i'm still functional and can talk about star trek better thananyone so here is my pitch: in the wake of the new movie with all of its glitz and glamouir is threre any chance of a new seriee? no of course thereisnt there will be a new star treak 2 wqith sime guy polaying the part of khan or something its an alkterante realiy so anything is possible. no one knows im not on facebook as that is revdeaking

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    <span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>Just an interesting point on this one, they (TPTB) wanted to have Kirsti Alley (As Savvik) to play the First Officer on Kelsey Grammers ship but because of her schedule she couldn't do it.</span>

     

    Imagine her doing it now ... Savik has let herself go a wee bit. She would take up half the bridge ...

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    Vulcan loos would probably be immaculate. Super fresh. I think you would have to pay to use a Ferengi toilet - i slip of Litinum per sheet.

     

    Is this a paraplegic Bolian ,with one arm and a lazy eye, disco dancing? :clap:

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    When the crew of the Enterprise prepared Krudge's cruiser aka "The Bounty" for their trip back home, Mr Scott quite candidly proclaimed the Klingon ration packs as having given him a "sour stomach". Obviously the crew should have liked to have made many further modifications to the ship on Vulcan in order to make it a little more comfortable by Human standards.

     

    I wonder though, did you think Uhura needed to make a few mods to the loo? I can only imagine what the loos were like on that ship ... stinking!I never thought of Krudge and his crew as being the kind that had a clip on (or kling-on, lol) blue rim block on the side of the bowl. A wee bit of bleach, a wee furry seat cover and a few Home and Garden magazines in a rack beside some pink ultra soft Wipey-Wipe roll would have cheered it up rightly i'm sure.

     

    What other mdocifications would you make if you had to fly home on a Kilingon cruiser? A more confy matress? A wee lick of magnolia paint and a few throws??

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    It seems that an alternate timeline version of Khan may spring up, top rumour at the minute. However, i have read that the Klingons will probably be the lead villans. They did appear in a deleted scene of the new movie - torturing Nero. I note that the producers decided not to show them pre-Enterprise/TMP onwards- mode (with ridge) or inter-TOS era (without ridges) etc by having them wear 'ridged masks' which doesn't reveal what they look like underneath. I'd be happy with this style of Klingon. Kirk would have to really pi55 them off though as he usually did . . .

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    Here in the UK, FX are showing Babylon 5 from Episode 1. An early episode is on right now in the background called "Eyes" guest starring Jeffrey Combes aka DS9's Weyone and Enterprise's Shraan. I never really loved DS9 - I preferred the thoroughbred Star Fleet character of TNG and Voyager. Only recently have I started to Series Link the series on the Sky Planner and watch them over again with a new appreciation. Perhaps it's just nostalgia? Whatever it is I now like DS9. At the same time, I am now re-watching Babylon 5, a series which I did like the first time round. It is very clever, sharp, edgey with a common thread woven through it, mystery and intrigue. Some web-sites have compared the two series, saying that elements of DS9 had been pinched from the Babylon 5 premise, but I am not so sure. Yes there are similarities and yes, I suppose that DS9 had a continuing thread and mystery from the Wormhole aliens. But, despite being a die hard Star Trek fan, I do feel that Babylon 5 was better. If anything, it is like a cross between DS9 and Enterprise.

     

    Do you like Babylon 5 and do you think it is better than DS9?

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    I'm 30. I have a lovely boyfriend and two beautiful cats. I live in a lovely house. In a very nice area in my city. I drive a MercedES CLK 500 Cabriolet. I have a BMW 320 coupe for fun. I earn good money. I have 2 cats. i'm sorted. When I joined this website I had nothing. No money. No house. No car(s). I was broke. I was alone. Now I am the richest man alive. But I am still going to log on to this website. I love this website. It is the one varible that never changes...

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    your best friend has been replaced by a changling. how would you know? jadzia is a 450 year old smart cookie. miles is the best friend from ireland who knows him inside out. yet... that clever little changling fooled them all. with his "sandwiches" and all. how ould you know if your friend was replaced by a changling????

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    I think Captain Pike, or Admiral Pike as he was at the end of the movie, is going to play a big role in the new movie. Someone said that the "mind control beastie2 which the big bad Romulans put into his brian to control him could still be active. Although, who would be controlling him? Maybe there will be a few flash backs with George Kirk in them? Maybe the Brain Beings from The Cage will resurface?

     

    The Tholians were quite mean in Enterprise...

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    Well. We've had the first installment of the re-boot. The stage is set. Kirk is now Captain Kirk. He has taken a fast track to the Captaincy which the first Prime-Timeline Kirk got to in a surely longer period when you consider that Sulu and even Chevok were officers before the Kadet in this new alternate universe.: where mad Romulans full of revenge have gone back and killed ole George, obliterated the ever-superior Vulcans and generally tried to fry the Earth like the Cetacian Probe on steroids. What is next? Well, who knows is the honest answer. The Enterprise sets off in it's first 5 year mission and encounters Khan? The Borg? Through a worm hole and finds Voyager? What?

     

    What would YOU like to see??

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    The Enterprise D did once twice at DS9? Once during Birthright and then again in Emisary the DS9 pilot? As did the starship Voyager in Caretaker. Riker once contacted Quark via subspace radio to get information. There were other references i'm sure, mostly through Worf and cameos by Lwuxanna Troi and Vash. But I suppose the only thing linking the Enterprise E to DS9 was the Defiant being saved by the Enterprise E in First Contact and Worf's mention of married life in Insurrection et al.

     

    In my imagination, the Enterprise E was deployed closer to home in that corner of the Alpha Quadrant during the Dominion War, rather than being out on the front line near DS9. Maybe the flagship was a symbol of pride and an idol for Star Fleet which couldn't be risked in such battle? Maybe Star Fleet thought that the crew had been through enough with the Borg and stuff? Who knows ... it's a big galaxy, we know that for sure.

     

    I now have to admit, some years on, that perhaps it would have been fun to make an "Admiral Picard" Sisko's superior during the Dominion war, given Sisko's hatred and animosity towards Picard for the events surrounding the battle of Wolf 352 and the death of Jennifer, when Picard was linked to the Borg as Locutus. Star Trek would have benefited from more flashbacks (look at Desperate Housewives and the timeline jumping storylines which are produced as a result of that) andmaybe episodes set at the time of past events.

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    I'm sure they had a lot of other things to think about than updating their uniforms..

     

    What, like running "Irish Village" programmes on the Holodeck and entertaining Ambassadors? No time to run up a few new uniforms...

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    Maybe the reason why Sulu and Chekov were on PIKE's bridge and not Kirk's was this: Nero came through the rift and destroyed the Farragut; when Pike (who was on that ship) survived that incident, his life maybe took a different course and he didn't end up going to that Planet that left him all disfigured and disabled etc in the original timeline, causing him to give up the Enterprise. Therefore Pike continued Captaining the Enterprise much longer than he did in the original timeline and therefore looks older in the movie than when he was captain of the ship in the original timeline. Maybe the events lead to the Enterprise being completed later than in the original timeline? Similarly, Kirk joined StarFleet at a young age (say 17) in the original timeline because he wanted to be like his father 9remember what old Spock says in the movie?); however, in the movie timeline, Nero killed George as Kirk was born and therefore, Jim didn't go into StarFleet until he was, say, 25 or so, as in the movie - therefore, he isn't a StarFleet Captain at this point. Regardless of Nero's actions, Sulu and Chekov may have just joined StarFleet and qualified, in the movie, as they did in the original timeline (as may Uhuru and Spock etc) only instead of joining the Enterprise under the command of Captain Kirk, they join it under Captain Pike.
    Just my thoughs...

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    Jim Kirk grew up with loving parents, his dad's Star Fleet career serving to inspire Jim to enlist in Starfleet at a young age and become the Captain we all know and love, etc etc. Now what if Kirk's dad had been

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    cruelly masacred instead by, say, a time-travelling Romulan, just as Jim was born? How would he have turned out? Well this movie lets us see that. An alternate timeline tale which concludes with Jim back on the rails as a Captain with the well known crew in place. In this alternate timeline, the parties - Spock, Kirk, Bones et al - all meet up and their individual talents ensure that they end up together on the bridge of the Enterprise. Whether or not they all met up in the same way in the original timeline is unlikely - however, it makes for a brilliant storyline which takes in the destruction of Vulcan, a love affair between Spock and Uhura and the Darth Maul-esqu Romulan villan who seeks revenge on the man who let his loved one die! A bit of Star Trek Voyager "Year of Hell" type thing (do these villans never just get over it and re-marry or something??) In any event, I was thoroughly enthralled.
    The music was original and punchy and in keeping with Trek as we have known it; I actually bought the Playmates Enterprise yesterday prior to seeing the movie and I have to say the ship looks great.

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    On the bridge the glass see-through displays put the TNG Okudagrams to shame! Really they do - the touch screen technology is a progression of that used on Enterprise and indeed the references to Admiral Archer's Beagal and the Vulcan Science Academy all tie in well. Leonard Nemoy makes a welcome return as a century and a half old Spock though "bumping into Kirk" down some random ice cave on some random planet was a wee bit unlikely.
    In any event, I am not going to criticise anything as this movie gets 10 out of 10 from me.

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    The infamous meld became a vehicle for bringing the young Kirk and Old Spock together. I felt that old Spock could have done without the "lines" from previous movies but overall it was good screen time.
    Excellant.

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    I would have liked to have seen an elderly T'Pol however, as say, a memeber of the High Council on Vulcan.

  25. Posted

    I like cars. I'm not much on fuel ecomony or anything like that. I belive that if you drive a lot, your car can affect your mood. If it's fun you derive (or drive!) pleasure from it. Therefore a car may cost more but it gives you more pleasure.

     

    I remember learning the theory of "pleasure points" at college. That everything you do can give you pleasure measurable in points. For example, two burger smay cost the same as a packet of 20 cigarettes. One may derive one point from every cigarette you smoke. A burger may give you 5 points in total. Therefore, aside from health and nutrition etc, looking just at the pleasure you get, the packet of cigarettes would give you more pleasure for your money.

     

    It is all subjective of course. But I thought that it was interesting.

     

    Star Trek Magazine costs £3.99 and I would get more pleasure from reading it than seeing a movie which may cost the same - a movie like The Changeling say for example, not Star Trek which will undoubtedly give me a point for every minute!!!

     

    What gives you most pleasure points? A bottle of wine? A walk in the park may be your special thing which costs nothing. Recently, a trip to New York was expensive, but boy did it deliver pleasure points. I haven't been so happy in all my life when I first walked through Central Park. For a native New Yorker i'm sure it delivers a lot less points.

     

    Another theory I recall was Utilitarianism - the good of the many outweighs the good of the few or the one - as Spock espoused in Star Trek 2: TWOK