A l t e r E g o

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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Vic in Discovery Renewed for Second Season   
    Star Trek: Discovery has been renewed for a second season, it was announced today by CBS All Access.
    “In just six episodes, Star Trek: Discovery has driven subscriber growth, critical acclaim and huge global fan interest for the first premium version of this great franchise,” said Marc DeBevoise, President and Chief Operating Officer, CBS Interactive, referring to the fact that Discovery set new CBS All Access records for subscriber sign-ups in a single day, week and month. “This series has a remarkable creative team and cast who have demonstrated their ability to carry on the Star Trek legacy. We are extremely proud of what they’ve accomplished and are thrilled to be bringing fans a second season of this tremendous series.”
    The first six episodes are currently available. As previously announced, Discovery will air in two chapters. The final episode of chapter one will debut on Sunday, November 12, and the second chapter, featuring the remaining six episodes, will return in January 2018.
    Star Trek: Discovery streams Sunday nights on CBS All Access in the U.S. and Space Channel in Canada. The series streams on Mondays on Netflix in the rest of the world.



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    A l t e r E g o reacted to GhostofMajorHayes in FIRST LOOK: "Lethe" Photos   
    It looks promising based on the photos. The introduction of Lt. Ash Tyler in last week's ep was a good move. It came at a crucial time and is one of the better introductions of a major character on a Trek series in a long time. Ash has been through a lot and he seems to mesh well with Captain Lorca who also has been through a lot during his service to Starfleet. Looking forward to this new ep. 
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to mj in FIRST LOOK: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" Photos   
    Discovery's propulsion system is amazing. The use of living creatures to accomplish it is probably why it remained a secret, and was never part of design of future ships.
    The creature is somehow not responding well to its role.
    People who seem like main characters keep getting killed. For noe I m interested to see where this all leads.
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to mj in FIRST LOOK: "Context is for Kings" Photos [SPOILER WARNING]   
    I was drawn in by this episode. I also watched this episode multiple times, which is one advantage to Star Trek being on all access.
    Saru was blunt and to the point. I loved Burnham's speech when she made it plain to Lorca that she lives and dies by Star Fleet Principles.
    The magnitude of her loss, and the pain it brings, is apparent but not overacted. I liked the scene where she touched the insignia on
    the pillow. I think crediting Burnham with starting the war with the Klingons is not quite accurate, since the Kingons were planning war all along,
    despite what everyone says. The Federation does not understand the Klingons well enough to make a better assessment of what started the war,
    But she did mutiny. I am glad she is out of jail.
    What I liked about this episode was how an apparently resigned to her fate  Burnham popped right back into top form when put into situations that needed her expertise.
    I also liked Lorca's comment on how the universe perhaps did not like waste.
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to GhostofMajorHayes in FIRST LOOK: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" Photos   
    I can't wait to view this ep on Sunday. 
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to GhostofMajorHayes in Updated Discovery Scheduling Revealed   
    I like what i have seen of the series so far and am looking forward to more eps as it continues to find its legs, although it seems to be leaning heavily towards a covert operations (need I say Section 31?) subplot already. I am stoked that there is new Star Trek available, but wish there were more episodes to look forward to. 
    Only fifteen episodes with a two month hiatus after a mere nine episodes into the series? I am kind of disappointed in that. Especially considering I am paying for CBS All Access to view this show (most of the other programs I would watch are already available on Netflix). I was really hoping for a 25+ episode season much like other series have given us in years past. Still, I am glad there is Star Trek rather than no Trek at all. 
    I just hope CBS produces more eps when they rollout season 2. 
     
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to GhostofMajorHayes in TNG 30th Anniversary Posters Available Now   
    Artwork looks nice. Many of the non-TNG posters looked awesome as well. 
    I hate to be the one to state it, but the TNG crew poster should have included Wesley Crusher. He was based on Gene Wesley Roddenberry as a young man and Wesley Crusher played a significant role in many memorable TNG eps such as "The First Duty" and one of my personal faves, "Journey's End". 
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Admiral Kirk in First Impressions of Star Trek Discovery   
    No I don't hate it. I found it to be entertaining and saw that it was beautifully made with great production quality. I just wish that it was set in the 25th century and that the species they were dealing with  were  not Klingons. 
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to GhostofMajorHayes in WATCH: Discovery Main Title Sequence   
    I like the intro. It has a retro cool feel to it with a definite sense of well, for lack of a better word "discovery". 
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Bethlehem in Orville   
    Who are these Nielsen People? I suspect they don't laugh, play cards, dance and sleep in separate beds like in Leave it to Beaver.
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    A l t e r E g o got a reaction from Indy in Orville   
    Characterizations, Treknology, Treknobabble, it really has it all.
    It's a shame someone can parody Star Trek better than Trek owners can create actual new canon. 
    I am keeping my fingers crossed that the Discovery story hits a home run.
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Indy in Happy Birthday, STAR TREK!!   
    Happy 51st Birthday to the BEST TV series EVER!!
     
    (You can delete this if it's posted elsewhere and I just missed it!  :))
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to mj in 6 Things You Should Know About John Billingsley   
    I really liked John B.'s Phlox. He had such depth and his responses made him seem so real. Two examples.
    His response to the new prejudice against aliens he encountered I think at the start of season four, when he just wouldn't
    go back down to the surface, even though he had been craving Chinese food for so long, was so real. The response to prejudice that never makes the evening news is why it is successful and will never go away......people just stay away from mean people. He settled for take out.
    Then I loved the time he was playing basketball with the senior staff. He was playing the game by standing in one spot shooting 'three-pointers', enjoying himself and thinking about a Denobulan (spelling?) 'analog', interpreting the game in terms of his own cultural perspectives. Everyone else was sweating, running and jumping and exhausting themselves..... playing basketball! To me this is the kind of understated excellence Star Trek had over most sci-fi....interspecies cultural interaction. Phlox considered himself to be playing the game, but was seeing things from his own perspective. The humans were including him and doing things from their perspective, including using and trading Phlox's special shooting talent to win...it was a brief, excellent vignette of inclusion. And right before the tragic news of the embassy explosion.....
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Bethlehem in Happy Birthday trekz   
    It is always great to see there is someone older than Me A very Happy Birthday wish to you.
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Bethlehem in R.I.P. BakulaBabe   
    Very Sad, she always seemed so upbeat even though she had some health issues. Will miss her so much
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to VaBeachGuy in Advertising reaches new low, advert emails from your email contacts!   
    In the past, I'm sure I had mentioned my neighbor and good friend Norm. He passed away in 2012 and his wife unfortunately followed in 2014. But around 2010 or 2011, she received a call from someone who started off the call by calling her 'Grandma' and going on to say that she was Norm's son (he had children from a previous marriage). "Scott", went on to explain that he was in the Bahamas or maybe it was the Virgin Islands, and was arrested for being drunk at a concert and the local police were demanding $2,000 as a bribe to let him go. "Scott" also asked "Grandma" (she was really his step-mother), not to tell his father anything about it. Now keep in mind, the real Scott lived in Alaska at the time and would never call her 'Grandma'.
    Being a very stressful situation, she dutifully went to the Western Union office and wired him $2,000. After she got home, 'Scott' called back and said that they were demanding $5,000 more or they'd charge him and he'd spend a year in their jail.
    At this point, she was very upset, and told Norm (my friend). He immediately realized that it was a scam, but just to double check, he called his son in Alaska and sure enough, he was safe and sound in his home.
    The $2,000 was gone for good, an expensive lesson to learn for Norm's wife, but a lesson learned. These sorts of scams will never end, and will only get more creative.
    I've read of the 'Can you hear me' scam, where someone will call you and the first question is 'Can you hear me?' or some other question that will get you to give a 'Yes' or other affirmative answer. They're recording your voice saying 'Yes', and later add it to a recording where it sounds like you're agreeing to buy something or pay some bill or something of that sort.
    You can, of course, fight it. But like identity theft, it can be time consuming and expensive.
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to mj in Advertising reaches new low, advert emails from your email contacts!   
    What about this, AE.....you know those emails from foreign countries that ask for money for all kinds of personal catastrophes? Well I received an email from a friend saying something sad had happened. This was an out of state friend
    and professional colleague so I emailed her back to say I was praying for her and to let me know if there was anything I could do.  As I left work it occurred to me to just call her....and lo, nothing was wrong! Plus, she had been getting calls all day from friends, and was in the process of investigating how she had been hacked.
    The next day I received an email reply to the email I had sent, supposedly replying from my friend. According to the letter my friend was stuck in a foreign country was ill, and needed thousands of dollars, and oh...she was so embarrassed to have to ask for this money.
    Now that reply site has been sent out to our IT people as a phishing site. But there is no restraint on these people.
    You just got an America version!
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to mj in Leaked photo of Klingons   
    Are you sure they are klingons and not some other new race?
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Vic in Rainn Wilson, His Name Is Mudd... on Discovery   
    Let there be Rainn! Emmy Award-nominated actor Rainn Wilson has joined the cast of Star Trek: Discovery and he will play -- are you ready? -- Harry Mudd. Mudd, the charismatic conman and intergalactic criminal first introduced on Star Trek: The Original Series, is one of Trek's most-popular characters.




    Wilson is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on The Office. His other television, film and stage credits include Galaxy Quest, House of 1000 Corpses, Six Feet Under, Juno, Titus Andronicus and the Broadway production of The Tempest (with Patrick Stewart). He's also written two books, SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions and The Bassoon King.  
    Star Trek: Discovery will be available in countries around the world.



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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Vic in 50 Years Ago Today - Eddie Paskey Finally Gets Screen Credit   
    Eddie Paskey appeared in nearly 60 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, most of them as Lt. Leslie, but he only ever earned screen credit twice... for "The Alternative Factor" and "This Side of Paradise." So, why do we bring this up now? That's because "The Alternative Factor" debuted on March 30, 1967... or 50 years ago today.
    Rather than toast "The Alternative Factor," we're going to tip our cap to Paskey. Did you know that he:
     

    Only ever spoke in "The Naked Time" and "The Conscience of the King."
     

    He was glimpsed sporting gold, blue and, yes, red shirts over the course of his time on TOS. 
     

    Served as William Shatner's stand-in and turned up briefly as a Starbase 11 medical care assistant in "The Menagerie, Part 1."
     

    Can thank Shatner for the character name Lt. Leslie. According to Paskey's official site, "This was a result of his friendship with William Shatner. During a scene in which Eddie was at the helm, Bill felt that he should have a name since he was to issue a command to Eddie. Thus, he became 'Mr. Leslie,' named after Shatner's oldest daughter, Leslie."
     

    Drove the truck that claimed the life of Edith Keeler in "The City on the Edge of Forever."
     

    Appeared as Connors in "Mudd's Women."
     

    Died in "Obsession" and seemingly came back to life in the next episode.
     

    Played one of Bela's baddies in "A Piece of the Action."
     

    Hand-doubled James Doohan in several episodes.


    Retired from acting during season three of TOS. "He had been having cluster headaches that were further aggravated by the set lighting," it's explained on Paskey's site. "In a scene in which he received a 'Spock pinch' and was thrown against a railing, he felt his back go out. At this point, Eddie knew he could no longer handle the job's activities."
     

    Remains a popular guest at Star Trek conventions around the globe.
     
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to VaBeachGuy in Frasier Alert   
    I saw this episode again for the first time in several years, it always makes me laugh.
     
     
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to VaBeachGuy in STARTREKFANS.NET will be upgrading   
    It's been 6 years since our last upgrade, and it's time for a new one. I hope to have it completed within the next couple of weeks, but it's been so long since the last one, that a lot has to be done to prepare the site from a compatibility standpoint.
     
    I've created a STARTREKFANS Twitter account as well, and the new board platform will have enhanced social media connectivity, so look for some exciting changes coming to STF.
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Sam The Smuggler in NEW STAR TREK SERIES OFFICIAL!   
    Hey guys! Gotta say....I'm looking forward to this, to a degree.
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Kor37 in NEW STAR TREK SERIES OFFICIAL!   
    It's amazing how much like DeForest Kelley Urban sounds. His McCoy and Quinto's Spock are the two characters that are most like the originals.
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    A l t e r E g o reacted to Indy in NEW STAR TREK SERIES OFFICIAL!   
    It did look good. I loved Karl Urban's part with Spock beaming away, and thought he truly recreated how DeForest Kelley would have done it.