Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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  1. Posted

    This was my first complete Angel episode. I thought they tried to tell two much over the coarse of an hour. Had the show been two hours, then the story could be fleshed out more, and would probably have worked far better. However, the characters were dark, crude, lacked morals and principles... heck, some of them were creatures of pure evil, demons, whatever you want to call them. I also didn't like the implication that all you had to do was "be good" in order to go to Heaven. If demons are a major player in the show, then where is God, Jesus, and the Angels in this show? Why don't they intervene or help? I also don't like the idea of the series lead being a vampire. Spike was a vampire on Buffy, but he sacrificed himself in the series finale. That, too me, was the ultimate way for the character to come to an end. Realising that he's truelly evil and that as a result, he can't be good for Buffy, he sacrificed himself to save everyone. At least, that's how I interpretted it. In Angel's finally, you didn't have any self-sacrifice like that, just bad guys fighting other bad guys. Also, what's with the cliffhanger? DS9 ended with a cliffhanger, but the kind where the show ends, but makes you ask, "Is this it, or can we expect a movie in a few years?" Angel felt like a season finale. Where's part two? Where's the resolution? Do they die? If so, what kind of message is that? Evil triumphing over good? HA! Not in my book.

     

    Conclussion:

    I'm glad the show got cancelled, as I explained in my post, I believe the show had no redeeming value.

  2. Posted

    I'm one who believes that God created the universe. As a result, I believe that there are three possibilites, each having an equal chance of being true.

     

    1. The universe is infinite. There are multiple universes floating arround, and in time, we will spread to the farthest reaches of this universe, and perhaps beyond.

     

    2. The universe is every growing, but not expanding like many scientists believe. I believe the universe could be growing in the sense that God never stopped creating. I believe that he is so... well... powerfull.... he's just... God, thus I believe that he can have a plan for this whole planet, down to the tinest details like where dust falls, have a plan for our galaxy, much more beyond that, and constantly add to our universe, growing for however long he sees fit.

     

    3. The universe is infinite. Since God has always been and forever will be, I believe it's possible that the universe was created with that same concent. If God is eternal, why can't existance be infinite?

     

    #3 is my favored of the three.

  3. Posted

    From a distance, all 6 NCC-1701 Enterprises look the same to the casual viewer. :laugh: My point is, the NX-class is based on the Akira-class due to the fans expressing their appreciation for the Akira-class. They were just trying to give us, what they felt we wanted. Who can blame them for that?

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    i am quite disappointed with the fact that they stole the "AKIRA" design.

    How did they "steal" the Akira design? It is owned by Paramount.

     

    I liked the idea of using a ship design that has one similar in the future of the timeline. It allows us to see that the ships did progress and it may also show that in the future the Akira design may have been created by a ship designer that had a flair for historic ships in which he would have created the ship design to honor the NX-01

    I mean, that they didnt think of anything new.

     

     

    i still like ENT tho!

    What they did was no different then basing TNG's Enterprise-D on the TOS Enterprise and basing Voyager on TNG's Enterprise-D. I loved the Akira-class, so I was quite excited to see the NX-class be based on that design. :wub: I just don't see how fans can't assume that the Akira-class would be based on the NX-class. :wub:

  11. Posted

    I just heard on the news that an ingredient in shampoo (DEA) can cause you to loose brain cells that help you retain memories. So, shampooing your hair can make you seem stupid? HA! I've been shapuing my hare for yeers, and Iym not stoopid. So thair!  :blink:

    O...k... I've a question. How does shampoo seep through your scalp, continue through your skull, into your craniel fluid, then spread into your brain, and thus effected a very specific region, damaging brain cells deep inside the brain?

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    Daedalus-class has never been seen on screen.  The picture you provided is a rejected design of the TOS Enterprise and will likely never be seen on screen.  If it is, however, expect a complete revamp like what the Enterprise got for the movies.

    Umm, cap, did you forget about the model they had in Sisko's office? :blink: I think that makes it pretty official.

    That was a model. Unless Sisko referred to it directly as being a Daedalus-class starship, we have no reason to believe that it is that. Sisko's model being Daedalus-class has always been a fan assumption. There is no evidance that the model and Daedalus-class are one and the same.

  15. Posted · Edited by Captain Jean-Luc Picard

    1. The ship was launched in 1996, according to "Space Seed" and The Wrath of Kahn, so changing the date to 2046 throws off continuity really bad.  How does it fix the Trek timeline? :look:

     

    2. If the NX-01 had run into Khan, wouldn't Kirk's Enterprise have those records, and as a result, ignore the Botonay Bay?

     

    3. It's a cool concept, but I just don't see how it would work.[/color]

    (1) Cap, i think by "fixes" headborg means it'd place it during a time where it's more likely to occur, as the Cryosat and mars mission episodes show space craft which, despite "supposedly" coming around after the DY-100 is made, they are less advanced, and the fact no mention of a war was included in the episode of Voyager where (when? :blink: ) they are on earth during 1996.

    Well, the other ships were shown in recent times, thus they needed to be more realistic than some DY-100 sleeper ship that was seen in a single episode. As for Voyager not mentioning the Eugenics War, just becuase it wasn't mentioned, that doesn't mean it didn't happen. As for the DY-100 sleeper ship, one could always assume that it was a secret prototype or something. ;)

     

    (2) Not necessarily, due to all the temporal cold war stuff that's going on during Enterprise's journeys, starfleet may decide they're better off putting jonathan archer's adventures under Top Secret, so as not to possibly ruin the future as it's supposed to happen (this would also explain a lack of the ship being mentioned on later Starships named Enterprise/ et al).

    I see no logical reason for Starfleet to do this, especially since there's no Temporal Prime Directive yet. As for making the missions top secret, how are you going to keep everyone else from talking about them, like the Klingons for example?

     

    (3) I just gave reasons why it could work, nyah :bow: .

    Your reasons throw continuity to the wind though. :o

  16. Posted

    that's why i said it was a new idea

    ...that violates 35 years of continuity.

     

    - B&B have created the "mess"

    What mess? <_<

     

    it's just an idea to solve the plot problems of (1) the Vulcan's have knowledge of the Romulans, past "history" with them.

    How is this a problem?

     

    (2) Earth doesn't have a strong starfleet, needs a reason for building up a large fleet.

    SEE: Season 3, Xindi conflict

     

    (3) The Vulcan High-Command has a much more advanced/powerful starfleet in 2154/ there has to be an explaination as to where/what happened to it? Why is the Federation Starfleet dominataed by Earth Designed/Named Starships? where did all the Vulcan starships go?

    Vulcans aren't interrested in conflict. When the Xindi attacked Earth, they had no interrest in going after the attackers, so it's logical to assume that the Vulcans would allow Earth's Starfleet to become the dominant force. As for where the Vulcan fleet went... perhaps they are orbitting Vulcan?

  18. Posted

    (1)Enterprise finds Cochrane

    This was already done with a TOS episode, and I think Cochrane would remember a previous Enterprise finding him.

     

    (2)Archer "liberates" Orion slave girl ship-interfering with the culture affairs of other races in defiance of the "vulcan" non-interference idea-begins a "underground-railroad" .

    I think they're already learned their lesson in inteferring with other cultures, but the idea of liberating slaves is awesome! <_<

     

    (3) Enterprise stumbles across an old Dx-100 sleeper ship, at first has orders from Earth to "wake-up" the colonist, but discovers the ship is the S.S. Botany Bay launched in 2046(can fix the Star Trek time-line)and Archer has to make a moral decision...what to do with Khan....turn off life-support, or let Trip make needed repairs to the ship, leaving Khan to continue toward destination....or sabotage his navigational systems...sending him toward deep space.

    1. The ship was launched in 1996, according to "Space Seed" and The Wrath of Kahn, so changing the date to 2046 throws off continuity really bad. How does it fix the Trek timeline? :wub:

     

    2. If the NX-01 had run into Khan, wouldn't Kirk's Enterprise have those records, and as a result, ignore the Botonay Bay?

     

    3. It's a cool concept, but I just don't see how it would work.

  19. Posted

    Daedalus-class has never been seen on screen. The picture you provided is a rejected design of the TOS Enterprise and will likely never be seen on screen. If it is, however, expect a complete revamp like what the Enterprise got for the movies.

     

    You do have a point. The Olympic-class from TNG "All Good Things..." was taken from the rejected Daedalus-class idea. The NX-class is based on the Akira-class, in terms of production, but in terms of the fictional universe, the Akira-class is a tribute to the NX-class. <_<

  21. Posted

    Something I noticed from the final episode of season 6, could this be an ancestor of the NX-01?

     

    PDVD_673.JPG

    That's an Akira-class ship, designed for Star Trek: First Contact as one of four new (as in we haven't seen them before) ship designs. 3 of those four were used in DS9, including the Akira-class which also appeared on VOY a few times. Due to popularity among fans, the producers decided that they wanted to base the NX-01 design on the Akira-class, much like how TNG's Enterprise is based on TOS's Enterprise. :unsure: