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Wesley Crusher was a spoilt brat that got away with too much if you asked me!

Bev's mates are disappearing - fast! Before you know it, there's just her and Picard on the bridge. Poor Patrick Stewart - here is this wonderful Shakespearean actor trying to do a scene where just him and this doctor are flying a ship designed for over a thousand, by themselves. Bev decides to "say what they never say" (oh brother - pure cheese - not again!!!) and then poof, he's gone.

Awful. Watching this again after so many years makes me cringe...

A bad Elaurian on Generations was a bit pants to say the least. Thankfully, the casting of Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange) saved the day. I don;t know what it is about baddies and British accents though - it's a bit trite, but oh well. The Borg just sound like they smoke loads!

As for the Remans and the Sona, yes they were new. Where were the Remans dueing DS9? Would the Romulans really have sent themselves off against the Jem Hadar had they had this entire race of BAMFs just waiting in the wings? And the Sona were just a race of evil Joan Rivers trying to suck a planet dry of all it's juicy life force. Isn't it so nice that Picard has a gorgeous woman waiting for him on the planet of eternal life when he decides to retire!!!! Would you want to die if you were him given the hell that Q put him through on Tapestries?

It's the naughties version of the fan fiction of the 70s which kept Star Trek alive without a series being made for tv...

For me - here are the best scenes:

TMP: When we see the Enterprise for the first time in all its splendour

TWOK: When Spock dies through the glass

TSFS: I actually like the bit where the Excelsior is all powered up to go, all glitzy and high tech

TVH: It has to be any one of the little Earth scenes - "Nuclear wessels", "Hello Computer", "He did a lot of LDS in the 60s", "take these and see me in the morning", classic.

TFF: Erm, oh I suppose when they find "God" and he does the whole "brave souls speech"

TUC: The finale - very thrilling.

GEN: When Picard meets Kirk.

FC: When the Enterprise swoops in to save the Defiant at the battle with the Borg cube.

INSUR: The battle with the Sona - OMG The Joy Stick! And teh look on the Ensign's face when Riker does his thing - so cheesey (this was the beginning of the end for me)

NEM: When the Enterprise rams Shinzon's ship...

what bout ya??

They could have just stored Tuvix's pattern in the transporter's pattern buffer; then gone ahead and separated out the two separate patterns for Tuvok and Neelix and restored them, before recreating Tuvix from the stored pattern using some stored biomass or something.

I just don't think they tried hard enough for a problem that wasn't that difficult to solve.

Transporters are a bit skee-whiff when it comes to ethics and so forth. The Transporter essentially killed Tuvok and Neelix - no one was to blame. As a result it created Tuvix. Janeway and co, however, were then personally responsible for killing Tuvix. There was no accident there. They committed murder to help their friends. They proceeded without informed consent. The man was crying! For pitty's sake.

This Ultilitarianism doesn't wash. The good of the many outweighs the good of the one. Nonsense.

What other annoying combinations of crew members could there be? Paris and Harry - Harris Tim? Seven and Janeway - Jevenway? Chakotay and ... oh you get the point!

The Andorians were also, probably quite hard to achieve on screen with the makeup techniques available during TNG Era. They looked awfully fake - very blue etc. The Klingons' brown makeup was easier and looked better on screen. Giant blue bugs probably took away from the "seriousness" which TNG was trying to achieve in the cynical 90s. I note also (groan) Gene's insistence that TNG try not to use any "old" TOS Races. Yes Gene - that worked out real swell!

The techniques developed by the time of Enterprise were a lot more sophisticated and the antanae could move, etc. The Andorians took on more of a bluish hue rather than being a stand out electric blue. The wigs were better - more natural and the uniforms and xenophobic militaristic attitude (like little angry ants!) gave them a more "not to be messed with" persona. Throw in some cool ships and weapons and you had yourself a fantastic screen character. The ever witty and engaging Geoffery Coombs brought Shran to life as a leader with pazaz.

DS9 can be excused, being away out on the Frontier. Mentioning Andorian ships was probably enough. Seeing one or two a the odd troop on the Promenade would have been cool. But the writers were too obsesssed with their own little creation to worry about likning in with the grander Trek Universe.

Voyager - obviously in another Galaxy. However - NO Andorians on board? At least two Vulcans, multiple Humans and NO Andorians? Could happen, I suppose (again 90s "seriousness")

Enterprise was post-90s cynicism and with that the Andorians were born again. Retro-cook was the order of the day and with the arrival of Manny Coto by Season 4 we were back to the swinging 60s and blue makeup was the last of any worries...

I liked the drunken conversation that Bashir and O'Brien had, slumped in the corridor, about friendship. O'Brien wanted to impress upon Bashir that he was his best friend and loved spending time with him. However, wanted to stress to Bashir that he did not LOVE Bashir... he LOVED his wife. He just liked spending time with Bashir more. I don't know what the quote is but I recall it as being something like this:

O'Brien: "I don't love you. I LOVE my wife. But I DO love spending time with you. As a friend. You're more ... you like to do more things that I like to do. But I LOVE my wife ... etc "

I hope those uniforms are Enterprise crew uniforms and not StarFleet, for the purposes of continuity. The star symbol only became the symbol for all of StarFleet after The Motion Picture...

I laughed my head off when she did that crouching tiger hidden dragon stylee hand/finger/crazy eyes thing at Q. I'm not sure of he was scared of her or whether he just thought if he opened her a tin of tuna she would back down and start purring.

I think that in that dialogue there was a suggestion that Guinan was somrthing other than she was - "is that the name she goes by now", "she's an imp" etc. But then Times Arrow farted along and destoyed that mystery and Generations just made her into a good ole gal that is as wholesome as a cup of earl grey (yawn)

and that annoying wee Noami Wildman - half Human, half Katarian.

I'd be glad to be only half Betaziod - all the fully Betaoids we encountered were weirdos - a Nymphomaniac, a sociopath and a murdering psychopath!

Savik was originally conceived as being half Vulcan - half Romulan.

Kirk - half Human - half lurve machine!!!

and don't forget the funky grey jumpsuits and afros. Uhuru looked very Foxy Brown in that one...

Half human half Borg? Like Seven of Nine kinda sorta?

What other hybrids have we seen on Star Trek?

Half Vulcan - half Talaxian (Tuvix)

Half Romulan half Klingon - (Sins of the Father)

Half Bajoran half Cardassian (that girl in DS9, shows how much I care bout that series I don't even know her name!)

Three Quarters Human, One quarter Romulan (The Drumhead)

If you could be a Human - Alien Hybrid, which would you rather be? Troi was half and half Betazoid, Keyler and Belanna were both half Klingon, Spock was half Vulcan ... which would you prefer? I would like to be half Betazoid I think ...

I would NOT like to spend eternity with Whoopi Goldberg - Back in the habit! Oh brother ...

I like the Bill and Ted apprach to time-travel.

ie We'll remember to go back and put a hammer behind that post.

We'll remember to go back and put ...

etc

First Contact could've gone like this -

Borg Queen - "Damn you Pic-Ard, Locut - hissssss.... (right Queenie, remember to put a big pair of shears behind that tubing)"

Jean Luc shimmies up the tube after the Queen (hold on - where'd she get those gardening shears - ARGH!)

A couple of cheesy horrors and that was her, wasn't it? Well that's the risk you take I suppose...

Daa, da-da daaaa, da-da daaaaaaaaa, da-da-da-da-da-daaaa, daaaa, daaaaaaaa, da-da-daaaaaaaaaaaaa (weeee)

Daa, da-da daaaa, da-da daaaaaaaaa, da-da-da-da-da-daaaa, daaaa, daaaaaaaa, da-da-daaaaaaaaaaaaa (weeee)

Da-da da-daaaaaaaaaa, daaaaaaaaaaa, da-de-da da da. Daa daaa daaaaa daaa da-da-de-daaaaa, DA DA!

Daaaaa daaaaaaaaaaa da de da da daaaaaaaaa, DA DA DA DA DA-DA DE-DAAAAAAAAAA, DA DE

Daa, da-da daaaa, da-da daaaaaaaaa, da-da-da-da-da-DA-DA-DA-DA-DE-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA!

duh duh duh duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

3 Klingon ships, weird looking brown ridgy guys.

Big cloud.

Fire - oh all gone.

To be continued

In the UK, Sky now only shows Enterprise; TNG and now Voyager have both been shown on Bravo; DS9 and Enterprise and now TNG have all been shown on Virgin (so far); and TOS has been shown on Sci-Fi. BBC2 shows TNG and TOS sometimes in the early hours at the weekends, but very rarely... I think that that's it. The movies have been shown on Sky Movies and sometimes Channel 4. But they have been on the BBC in the past and ITV? Unsure... Star Trek used to be a BBC thing. Channel 4 bought TOS though didn't put it on very much. Channel 4 also bought the rights to Enterprise from the BBC along with the Simpsons. The BBC seems to shy away from US TV programmes a fair bit nowadays, wasting our licence fee on silly nonsense. Documentaries about private parts and so forth! Sigh...

I think that when you're trapped out in the boondocks of space and surrounded by the universe's least interesting species, new weapons and a new shuttle are more important than new uniforms.

Following that logic then , Voyager shouldn't have bothered re-painting the decks following every invasion or battle, or replacing the carpet, or using the holodeck, or ... etc etc

IT'S. ONLY. A. UNIFORM!!!!

It should have been replaced. No one even complimented Barclay's new threads when his hologram was on Voyager. Or when the Alpha Quadrant appeared on their viewscreens.

Racism? The fact that Geordi was a bright engineer and a chief was needed urgently and he filled that niche? Maybe fact that Worf smelled and no one wanted to work with him...

However, DS9 castrated the Ferengi and made them into a PC bunch of hippies just as fast as Voyager castrated the Borg and made them into villians of the week.

Star Trek does that so often to good villians. The Hunter Species from Voyager became all cuddley and full of remorse.

Imagine if Babylon 5 had've stuck the shadows into wooly jumpers and they all had've ended up eating Ferrero Rocher at teh Ambassader's party laughing etc ... no, it didn;t happen, that's why...

I'd be more freaked out if I was the clone...

Spock always, apparently, had a hard time for being half human. So did Belanna Torres. And K'ller? However, Troi did not. They were all from within Federation worlds. I suppose for Troi it didn;t show as much. And it would depend if your two heritages were hostile towards each other.

Sella chose to be Romulan more than human. I would say that it was easier for her to integrate the two parts of her personality as we are very like Romulans in our deceptiveness and wish to wage war. It was harder for Spock to marriage the two, the emotionlessness of being Vulcan with the roller coatserness of Human emotion.

I would say that the fact Sella betrayed her Human mother was symbolic of how she betrayed her human half. She was no longer human in any way and instead became perhaps more anti-human than the Romulans themselves.

This is maybe where she shares something with Spock who was so concerned with eliminating traces of Humanity from himself that he ended up, not hating human - obviously, but just having, generally, a more distainful view of them, more criticism of humans than other Vulcans who neither knew them nor were bothered by them...