Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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Hoshi was terrified to be transported to the surface. And was terrified to be transported back to the ship.  So much so she imagined her molecules weren't reassembled correctly.  Remember? What cured her? Anything? I remembered this episode very vividly. I thought the special effects were, well, special.

Actually, the episode was from season 2 - "Vanishing Point". In her "hallucination", for lack of a better word, she had to get over her fear of transporters in order to save the Enterprise from aliens planting bombs inside the ship. When she made herself follow the aliens into the transporter, she came out of the "real" transporter, only to learn that it was all in her head over the coarse of a few seconds. Wild, huh? :wacko:

Indy and I thought this would make for a good topic, so here goes:

What do you think of the various escape pods seen in STAR TREK? I believe the first time we see them launch out of a ship is in Star Trek: First Contact, which is still my favorite scene where escape pods launch from the ship. Here's another thing to ponder. The escape pods which launch from Defiant and Intrepid-class ships, square hatches open up, allowing them to launch. These square hatches are identical to those on the Galaxy-class and Nebula-class ships. Is it possible that the Intrepid & Defiant-class escape pods could be the same as those on the Galaxy & Nebula-class ships? Check below for some pictures of various escape pods seen in Trek.

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Here are some questions that Indy suggested:

Is there food in there?  How many people fit?  What if you have claustropobia?  How long would you want to stay in one?  Would you be scared to get into one?

in 6-10 years, will anyone care about trek?

This is a question that I think shouldn't be asked. You will have your TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT and franchise fans. Will Trek take a break from TV after ENT? Probably. How long? Who knows. The question, in my opinion, should be: Will people be interrested in a new STAR TREK show in 5-10 years?

Time to be a pessimist, and My apologies, but I think there are people who are losing faith in Star Trek.

I agree, but for different reasons. Some people have had enough of Trek and are ready to move on to new things like STARGATE. Others are obsessed with continuity, some only like a "specific" Trek show. This is why I strongly believe that each series and movie needs to be able to stand on it's own if the franchise as a whole is to survive. B&B made the right choice to try and build a new audience with ENT as the existing one is shrinking.

their numbers, while small, do grow. in 10 years, there may NOT be enough people who will watch a new series to make it worth while.

That is a strong possibility, but this will put producers, whoever they be by then, to produce a truelling compelling TV show that will draw in viewers.

The sad truth is, if you ask a random person to watch an episode, they'll say, "No thanks, I don't like Star Trek." It doesn't matter which series the episode is from, or even if it's a movie. They're answer will be the same.

Yes, Data didn't take a shuttle becuase he figured that if he "lept" to the Schimitar instead of taking a shuttle, he might go unnoticed.

If the ratings numbers are not that different from TOS & TNG to DS9, VOY, & ENT, then why do you think there's no plans for a DS9 or VOY movie?

There's no decission to be made here.

Sisko started growing a goatee in the 3rd season, and then in the 4th season decided to start shaving his head. This is true, because I remember seeing an episode where Kassidy was shaving Sisko's head in his quarters.

I wanted a place to talk about this phenomenon. Are they real relationships? I know the feelings are real.  How do we keep this in the right perspective and not let it take over our live? How do you end one? Things like that.  This is not a thread for s*x talk, Please.  It's about feelings

I do not believe a cyberlove relationship is real nor could work. I believe two people can meet on the internet, become friends, meet in real life, and then fall in love. However, I do not believe they can fall in love based on words on a computer screen, they are fare more factors involved then words.

EJP, where did you get that info? I was under the impression that TOS & TNG were both a huge success, thus why both shows got movies, while DS9, VOY, & ENT get average ratings for a SCI-FI show.

It just boggles my mind how a crappy show like FRIENDS can do better than ENTERPRISE.

kes was... well she looked like she was like 7 years old in a way she didnt do anything for me... 7 was much better lookin

Since Kes life spend was 7 years.

Actually, the Ocampan life span is 8 or 9 years, but Kes met up with a group of Ocampans with the female Caretaker who lived to be in there teens. After Kes's transformation in "The Gift", who knows how long she'll live. I believe she looked "old" in "Fury", not becuase of her age, but becuase of how bitter and angry she was when she took physical form again.

Yes, as it's happened to me. What do they do? They hack your computer, e-mail account, and websites that you're registerred at. It's not a fun experrience. Fortunately for me, I only had some accounts hacked and not my actual PC.

I would like to add, Trekzone, that if you truelly want to make a 6th Series and have a good enough imagination, go for it. However, you can't just go out and produce it. You'd have to go through Paramount and ask them if they'd let you produce a Star Trek series, assuming you pay them royalties. Do research on U.S. Copyright, since it's a U.S. copyrighted product, and get an agent. Who knows, you might succeed. Just do us fans two favors: hire a continuity guy and don't reset the franchise.

Spock has no emotions...

He can't have a sense of humor....

Have you seen TOS or the movies? Vulcans have emotions, they just supress them. Spock has has what you could call an unintentional sense of humor.

This poll reminds me of a Biblical prophecy whereby near the End of Days all living souls are going to be forced into choosing between having a number assigned to us in order to be able to buy things (cake) or dying. I choose Death, Jesus did it and survived so I'm putting my faith in His example. I just hope by that time I can remember how strong my faith was now.

That's very philisophically good!

Your welcome, but please, wipe your feet.

Why do the shuttles have "number" classifications?  I've always believed that each ship class, and similar ship designs, have their own shuttle design which explains why the shuttle always mirrors the mother ship.  I also find it hard to believe that they only designed 11 shuttlecraft in 100 years.  If they're going to design a full-size starship, how hard would it be to design one or two types of shuttlecraft to go along with that design?[/color]

Because you want the shuttles to be interchangable so that one shuttle can work with several ship classes. (Why we feel the need to have so many ship classes is another issue but I won't get into that here.) Think about what would happen if each of the aircraft carriers in the US Navy were to have different planes, each tank in the US Army fired a different kind of shell, etc. There would be no interchangability.

 

Does that leave room for "special" shuttles such as Captain's Yachts and the Argo and the Defiant's shuttle? Sure. But the workhorses of the shuttle pool should be interchangable (and cheaply mass produced).

Even though the shuttles mirror their mother ships, who said they can't be interchangable? Voyager had a few shuttles that looked like they came from the Ent-D, in GENERATIONS we see a shuttlecraft rescue Picard that looks like a Constitution or Miranda-class ship shuttle with 1701-D on the side, and so forth. I think that each ship class would have it's own shuttle design, but at the same time, have them interchangable.

I choose... the carrot!

This post has served it's purpose, please delete, and thanks Takara! :P

I'm beginning to appreciate everything that this world has, except for dust... whats up with that?

Dust is mostly dead skin and hair.

You go Alterego! :P

Why do the shuttles have "number" classifications?  I've always believed that each ship class, and similar ship designs, have their own shuttle design which explains why the shuttle always mirrors the mother ship.  I also find it hard to believe that they only designed 11 shuttlecraft in 100 years.  If they're going to design a full-size starship, how hard would it be to design one or two types of shuttlecraft to go along with that design?[/color]

At one point I had the Next Generation Technical Manual and it said that there were, I think, Five different types of shuttles aboard it. Not all of them mirrored the Enterprise-D's design. And Voyager's original shuttles were the same as the D's.

I didn't know the Ent-D had 5 different shuttle designs, I just figured it was three designs, including the Ent-A-type shuttle from GENERATIONS, and the little shuttlepod. As for Voyager, the ship caried 4 kinds of shuttlecraft. The Baxial - Neelix's shuttle, the Delta Flyer, the small and sleek shuttles which I provided a picture of in a earlier post, and the TNG-looking shuttles - which are based on the Ent-A shuttles from ST-5 - but with VOYish features like bussard ramscoops on the naccelles mirroring Voyager's ramscoops among other details that make the shuttle mirror Voyager to some degree.

I would if I had cable

I don't, so I'll just have to get the season sets, fortunately, all 7 seasons are out. :P

To make this easy for me, I'll pick one from each series, then pick one from those five. Time for proccess of ellimination... :P

Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

William T. Riker

Julian Bashir

Tom Paris

Charles "Trip" Tucker III

Those are my choices from each show. I'll sleep on this tonight and pick from these five tomorrow. :(

I voted - Car

I know they make a lot of polution, but I'm hoping we will be able to replace the internal combustion engine with an electric, solar-powered, or fusion-powered engine. :P I'd like to own a Dodge Ram truck and a Dodge Durango. If I had the money, maybe a Dodge Viper too. :(

As for goats, you can't ride them. They're backs aren't strong enough. :(

Do you pick apart episodes saying this can't happen or that's truth or that's impossible?  Do you accept what you see or do you pick it apart?  Do you try to figure out how some things came to be? Saying well, if this happened that could be possible? What I'm saying is do you think that most of what we see could be possible in the future? And yes, I know Startrek is fiction. I'm not that far gone yet :( You'll have to excuse me now, my WarBird is sitting in the driveway warming up    :(

STAR TREK is fiction, so that's how I take it as - fiction. However, it is fun to ponder which technologies they have that we might develope in my life time. B)

Dear god this comin from the person who i call the 'pickiter', lol... anyways

Story telling - wether it be movies, television, theater, or books - and music are my favorite forms of entertainment and help me unwind at night, so you bet I get picky! :(

I only like to pick out details from episodes that completely dont make sense to me.

Agreed. This isn't Trek-related, but just tonight, I watched an SG-1 episode with a friend and Teal'c said that such'n such was "galaxies away" when the Stargate network only goes to planets in our own galaxy. Since this wasn't an arc episode, I just figured it was a writer's goof. B)

I try to find a common reason and how it relates to life and the message that it is trying to protray, I dont find a fault with the episode cause come on its fiction, not everything is true.

True. Often times, one can use their imagination and figure out an explanation. Other times, one must realise they goofed like the Ent-A having a turbo shaft that goes straight up 79 decks when the ship is 23 decks with the deck numbers going up as you go down. :P