Theunicornhunter

I have never seen one or known anyone who was a "credible" witness to one. I think it's interesting how close of ties UFOs have to the occult and the paranormal. I think if you you really want to have a UFO experience you can probably have one but it may turn out in the end to not be at all what you expected but a deception from another realm. Just my opinion.

 

Ktrek

I have to disagree - a lot of things people see that they don't understand have a scientific explanation if someone with the equipment was around to investigate it. That scientific explanation fascinates me.

You're taking your chances but I always go to Hallmark after Christmas - I got the NX01 for half price.

Someone actually gave me the Enterprise D - and I had Voyager. I have a few more characters - not ships.

I also got Dr. Seuss's Red Fish Blue Fish which has nothing to do with Star Trek but I really wanted that one.

They just said they were going to change the intro - I don't know if they mean the music or the visual. For all we know they're going to a totally different kind of theme - not necessarily orchestral. That's why we have the mute button if we don't like it.

I believe that one day a woman or a black person will be Preident.

I think Colin Powell would have won hands down if he had run in 1996. He would have won because he was respected and because he was incredibly capable. The most irritating thing Bush has done, IMO, is discount his secretary of state - who has the contacts and abilities to build bridges with other nations.

I know it is so fun to dis' Americans but I think most people would vote for a person's politics more than their gender or race. I think Bush won the republican nomination because 1. he had the money and resources to influence votes 2. he plied the Christian values in his campaign. 3. people were afraid of Pat Robertson and wanted to stand behind one candidate. 4. He stole McCain's position 5. Archaic primary voting regulations gave him an unfair advantage.

And the 6. biggest problem is too many Americans don't take primary's seriously and only get out to vote in the general election.

IMHO, if McCain had gone up against Gore I don't think the vote would have been so close in the general election. (McCain would have won by a bigger margin)

So back to the issue at hand. I voted for Janeway - not because she's a woman but - because I thought she was the best candidate. Yeah sure, Picard was a diplomat, etc. but Janeway was singularly responsible for safeguarding her crew in an unfamiliar and constantly dangerous environment. She had the right stuff.

I have just finished watching First Flight.  I thought it was AWESOME

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allso something I found funny that I notest was the part where Archer punches Robbinson did anybody note that Tirps reaction was to "GRAB THE DRINKS!"

 

 

 

All in all I thought that the episode ROCKED

I noticed that too....

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This episode gave me a greater appreciation of Archer; for some reason I thought he'd been a paper pusher but he was fly-boy. Big difference.

I'm sorry. I know how you feel, I got really worked up over some third season spoilers myself. I don't really think that is a good direction to take their relationship. I thought A Night in Sick Bay was one of the worst episodes they had ever done. Although he obviously has a physical attraction for her and I guess she has a great deal of respect for him, and physical attraction too - who wouldn't. I haven't seen that in any other spoiler so maybe it was out of context - they haven't started filming the third season yet and they're going to have some pretty serious stuff to deal with. One of the interviews I read said they intended to have less sexual content in the third season - I think they're aware it's not working. So hang in there.

hadn't seen this one before

Connor Trinneer

I so need to find a job......

I got the biggest kick out of watching the Chronicle - so stupid it was funny. I also enjoyed The Invisible Man - that show was very clever most of the time. I also loved a short lived show called Harts of the West with Beau Bridges a few years ago. I liked The Lone Gunmen too

Of course may all time favorite was Due South. It was very clever but you had to know something to understand the humor which is probably why it didn't do well in the US - like the irony of the Mountie explaining to the Chicago cop what the colors of the American flag stand for. I loved that show.

CJLP - it was Jimmy Bond and Eva Dale Harlow

Inspired by the "favorite color" thread I went looking and found these:

Short and fun

Color quiz

Didn't like this

Psychoanalysis by Color

Longer but interesting - my favorite color isn't what I though it would be:

Career - personality analsysis

edited to add results of quiz:

Actually I prefer peach but it wasn't there:

Lavender

People who love this tint use it sometimes to the exclusion of all other colors. Just as with purple, this person likes to be considered different. You are quickwitted, though usually not intellectual.

The lavender person seeks refinement in life. Yours is a fantasy land where ugliness and the baser aspects of life are ignored. Outward appearences are very important. Gentility and sentimental learnings also go along with this color, as do romance, nostalgia, and delicacy. Since lavender is first cousin to purple, you may aspire to creativity, but if not cabable of it, you tend to encourage those who do have talent.

This topic fascinates me because I believe there really is something going on. I'm not sure that it is aliens - but something is going on. I read a book about using science to analyze unidentified events. It was pretty fascinating - most cases did have some scientific explanation. The really scary one was the one suggesting the US government exposed people to radiation during some secret test flight. And I would so like to know what happened in Roswell

1. Going blind

2. Going deaf

3. Snakes

4. Being stung, stabbed, bitten, or killed by something in the ocean.

5. Clowns

 

I know, unsual fears...

I've actually seen something about #5 - it's apparently more common than you would think.

#3 - is a pretty realistic fear - at least the rattlers, coral, cottonmouth and water mocassin.

I guess I need to add to my list. I like to go walking in the neighborhood but there is a big pond at the end of the road and I'm afraid I'll be out walking and come face to face with a gator and can't find anything to climb up on. I climbed into the bed of a parked pick-up once to get away from a dog.

On StargateSG-1 last night O'Neill and Carter were going over a preflight checklist. He read off - she said check. At the last item:

O'Neill: Phasers?

Carter: Sorry, Sir.

At the video store I buy season box-sets at, on the day before the release date of DS9 season two on DVD, the people responsible for bringing out the next days releases and shelving them had not done their jobs. So in I come asking where they are and the clerk starts making this Hugh scene, shouting across the store asking other workers where the "New Star Track’s" were and griping about having to do other peoples jobs. Eventually she goes to the store rooms and comes back out with a hand truck full of boxes, starting at the top she opens them one by one, all the time continuing her temper tantrum and drawing the attention of everyone in the store to the scene. Turns out the DS9 were in the last box and she takes one out and is holding it up in the air, waving it around, making sure everyone gets a good look at what it was that had caused the trouble. I had never been so relieved and embarrassed at the same time.

Sure hope they didn't have sales commissions at that store.

clever

phobia: spiders; I dislike cockroaches but I don't have panic attacks when I see them. I did battle with a cockroach once that had more lives than Rasputin.

Genuine Fear: American drivers - people that drive their huge tanks at amazing rates of speed on the Interstate (with less than a car length between vehicles) particularly frighten me; as do people that chatter on cell phones, read the newspaper, shave, put on make-up and eat hamburgers in the driver's seat.

Oh, come on guys.  Star Trek has always been sexually exploitive from the very beginning.  .... Is Enterprise supposed to be totally sexless?

No, but I personally didn't enjoy watching this episode - it was more sexist than sexy IMO. My favorite line was when Phlox yelled (in a whiny scream voice) "You're disturbing my serum"

I'm still bugged that the Klingon ship had escape pods. 

Excellent observation

We got to see Malcolm and Trip working very effictively together. 

The highlight of the episode to me.

Would I be offended by a whole episode of Archer, Trip and Mal running around the ship in their blues? 

Offended no - Bored out of my mind YES- I still prefer a plot - on this I agree with master-q; why go to the expense of building a starship etc just to show semi-clad bodies running around. Soaps are much cheaper to produce.

Really interesting character.  Good ole' southern boy on the outside, but on the inside?  There's a lot more going on there than we've gotten to see, yet.  I'm really looking forward to watching his growth.

Southern boy on the outside ... Southern Gentleman on the inside. I think episodes like Stigma where he refused Feazel's attention because "he didn't believe in fooling around with another man's wife" shows that Trip has a strong sense of personal morality. That is part of his appeal to me - that he has principles that he lives by. He also showed that in Desert Crossing when he told the Captain..."I never take another man's water." He is the kind of man that would stand his ground in battle.

I also feel Trip is the most human character in the ST pantheon. He's far from perfect and sometimes crosses the line with his impulsive editorials but OMG his words are priceless. In some ways he reminds me of Tom Paris - he enjoys life. Tom had his holodec programs - Trip pushes movie night.

About the only thing that seems out of place is the harmonica - it just doesn't seem to fit for me. He strikes me more as the kind of kid whose mother made him take piano lessons and practice every day when he was dying to go outside and get into mischief. He's still kind of like that; he's developed the discipline to be a Star Fleet officer but in his heart he still wants to go outside and play.

Yes, I know I'm talking about a fictional character. CT has done a great job of blending boyish charm, homespun humor and a resourceful engineer into a charming, compelling star-fleet ofiicer. He might fit into Kirk's Enterprise but it's hard to imagine him on Picard's Enterprise. I loved TNG but thinking about it now I realize everyone there was so polished, so homogenized. Trip is my favorite in case you hadn't noticed.

No - I think there's a better use of the mod's time. We usually know what someone is saying and read past the typos. Occasionally what appears as a typo might have been intended for creative purposes?

I can drink a 24 oz Mtn Dew and lay down and be asleep in five minutes. (that's after having had two more earlier in the day)

I have a lot on my plate this weekend

I am moving and preparing for my week stay in the hospital ( I am being tested for seisures or what ever cant spell but oh well)  next week

Good luck - I hope it's nothing serious. Get better soon.

I would have zero reception without cable - besides I couldn't live without the SciFi channel. Here's my strategy for commercials. I've got two VCR's hooked up to my TV so I can watch one tape while I tape another program and then I can fast forward through all the commercials. Enterprise I usually watch but a lot of things I tape to watch later. I've also been known to put a tape in the VCR and watch it when the program I'm watching goes to commercials. I truly hate commercials. I got the biggest kick out of hearning my little niece, who's not quite three, complaining about commercials.

im unemployed, been so since feb. so its always saturday for me.    gets kinda boring after a while though. but as far as plans, i guess whatever the wife has planned for me. im always the last to know. probably a couple of picnics.

I lost my job about three weeks ago - major layoffs...I'm living the perpetual Saturday's too.

Trip is afforded the dignity of a proper work uniform while he's on duty.  T'Pol is not.  Therein lies the difference.  Until Trip is running around in a fever begging T'Pol and Hoshi to (I'm trying to misspell a badword but can't) him, his "exploitation" doesn't even approach T'Pol's.  Do you see either him or Archer dressed in unitards which emphasize their packages while on duty?  Of course T'Pol's breasts are cinched to her chin and her buttocks are like two ripe half melons.

 

TPTB do not respect the character of T'POl.     Not by a country mile.

I agree T'Pol is exploited and Trip isn't always in his underwear but when he is I 'm not thinking "boy that Trip's a fine engineer"

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I just read the thread entitled "What kind of girl is T'pol?". That's distressing....maybe master-q was right

This is my favorite cartoon

master_q,May 16 2003, 07:24 PM

It seems everyone here likes to label all ST as “great” and “wonderful”. ... It just seems like some of you are just cheerleaders for this great show called Star Trek and nothing more.

 

Master Q

StarTrek_Master_Q@yahoo.com

That is a bit of an over-generalization. A lot of "us" recognize the sexploitation in which this show revels- and a lot of "us" have complained about it. But for some us even bad Star Trek is better than the full blown idiocy on the other networks.

Well you are not really seeing the full picture of what I meant. Most of it was implied if you want to refer to it as an “over-generalization” or not is that a lot of fans of a specific show or thing sometimes get blinded. But I’m not going to get into the overall picture that I’m seeing.

 

I know that a lot of “bad” Star Trek is better then other programs, but when you consider an episode like this one it is not that much different then much of the junk that’s on TV. And it fits more into that classification

 

 

Master Q

StarTrek_Master_Q@yahoo.com

If you meant to say "Love is blind" - I suppose it can happen but not to me....I mean T'Pol in her underwear is exploitive...but Trip in his underwear - that's art...Right?