Validus
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I wouldn't be so pissed except that this is the second time they've issued the original series on DVD...so it was my hope they might "get it right" this time. They did the same thing to fans of Farscape....they released the show in expensive ($45.00 a shot) packs with like 4-5 episodes a pack. Then they reissued the whole thing in special editions that contained better special features and like 8-10 episodes for only $9.99 at Best Buy. Same with Inuyasha, oddly enough.
Paramount really knows how to shaft the fans.
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I watched it every Sunday religiously on the Comedy Channel until it was cancelled and then I began watching it over on www.scifi.com
Like many, my favorite is Manos: The Hand of fate. Last month they did an article in Entertainment weekly about that film called "The Worst Movie Ever Made". It was very informative to say the least.
I also enjoyed Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
when they riffed on "This Island Earth".
Fans of Mike Nelson might want to track down the recent special edition DVD's of "Night of the Living Dead" and "Carnival of Souls" which have audiotracks with him that are too funny to be believed.
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I think Jessica Simpson is a very attractive young woman with below average singing talent and a clear ability to only play herself in a film.
She's this generation's Cheryl Ladd, and she'll fall through the cracks of the mainstream fairly soon...along with Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, and Hillary Duff. I'm guessing she'll end her career like many of her ilk do...by posing nude in Playboy for seven figures when she can't get a job in films or tv anymore.
Happens all the time. :borgqueen:
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What I wonder is how parents can be so cavalier about things like that. I would never ever let my daughter wear something so blatantly sleazy. Here in California there's a lot of that, especially at the Mall(s). If its hot I can understand wearing something cool...fair enough- but must teenage girls dress like whores just to go to The Gap?
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What season....?
Do they ever show the original LEXX films?
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That's pretty easy. Q could simply merge the two universes by whatever plot convinient method works best for his own amusement.
It seems evident to me that the Empire wouldn't stand a chance against the Federation. Four Star Destroyers were unable to apprehend one crummy corelian freighter (Millennium Falcon) and a small handful of rebel fighters were able to destroy the Empire's "Ultimate Weapon".
Kirk or Picard could have figured out the Deathstar's weakness (with the help of Spock/Data and the ships scanners) and done essentially the same with a well placed Photon Torpedo. Tom Paris could have matched Luke Skywalker's performance in the Delta Flyer and he wouldn't need the Force, either.
The Empire's ships seem very poorly constructed compared to Star Fleet vessals. Han Solo is able to trick an entire fleet of Imperial Cruisers just by hiding on one of them...something that would never work on a Star Fleet ship.
The Empire's vessals also seem very poor at maneuvering. Granted this could simply be because of their size, but a Federation fleet would buzz the larger Imperial ships like raptors attacking a wounded elephant. Phasers would make short work of Imperial fighters, which would not be able to penetrate Federation shields.
The Federation would also be able to beam security troops to the enemy Imperial ships and take them over with ease...
So much for the "mighty" Galactic Empire.
In responce I will simply refer you to my above post.
The weapons on a Star Destroyer are pathetic. Even the Millennium Falcon was able to withstand a direct hit from a Star Destroyer with minimal damage. An ordinary Constitution Class Federation starship (with shields capable of withstanding The Doomsday Machine repeatedly) would make short work of the large but inferior Imperial Cruiser.
Game Over.
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Just a gentle reminder that Battlestar Galactica is on tonight:
Check your local listings or go to:
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Talk about a hard decision!
I really liked the very first Batman. Batman Returns was so dreadful one might imagine that Ed Wood had directed it. Mars Attacks was far better then the jingoistic Independence Day, and Sleepy Hollow is to my mind a classic horror film in the same vein as the old Universal classics.
In the end though I had to go with the one I enjoy the most:
Ed Wood
Proof that drive is mightier then talent (if you doubt this, just look at our President...the Ed Wood of politics).
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Well, I'm of the opinion that LEXX is one of the best science fiction shows ever made.
The Premise: In the Light Universe (the Universe parallel to our own) there was a man named Stanly Tweddle who was a 4th class security guard on The Cluster, the capital world of the League of 20,000 Planets. The League was ruled by a being known as The Divine Shadow, and he had just recently built the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two Universes: The LEXX.
Stan is unjustly setenced to death, and decides (with the help of a beautiful love-slave named Zev) to steal the LEXX, which he does. The show itself chronicles the various adventures of Stan, Zev (later Xev) and Kai, an undead former Divine Assassin as they search the Cosmos for a home.
The show itself is laced with much humor and is sometimes compared to Red Dwarf or the books of Douglas Adams. I would argue that LEXX, while often having humor, is ultimately much darker then either Red Dwarf or The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. That it was inspired by Star Trek is fairly obvious, but the tone of the show is totally different.
I highly recommend you purchasing LEXX 1.0: "I Worship His Shadow" avalable from Videoflicks.com, the link can be found at the top of the thread. Currently they have it for a mere $13.00...
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Am I the only one here that's as bugged about the lack of good special features on the various Star Trek DVD's?
Now granted, so far the ones for the films have been very good and I'm more then pleased.
But how could they make DVD's for Voyager, DS9, Next Generation and the Original Series...
Without any audio-commentaries at all?
I couldn't believe that they had no audio-commentaries especially given the heafty price tag for each season. By contrast, Babylon-5 is loaded with commentaries by the show's creator and the cast. Now don't misunderstand me, I know Gene Roddenberry is gone, but they could have at least let some of the cast and script-writers have their say...it would have made them so much better.
I also can't believe they did all those seasons without any bloopers, especially the famous bloopers which have been shown countless times at conventions of the Original Cast. I was so bummed when I finally got all three seasons of TOS and I was like "That's all...that's it???" I paid $109.00 a pop (Best Buy) plus sales tax and that's all they give us...???
Even Babylon-5 and Buffy feature gag reels...are the people at Paramount just idiots or what...???
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I agree...being on a Star Ship in almost any capacity would be exciting (speaking as a Navy veteran). I'd probably want to be a gunner just like I was in my actual Naval career. Either that or Captain Seven's Yeoman. :lol:
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That doesn't make any sense.
I would think that it would have been cheaper to build a TOS style model given its simplicity.
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I tend to agree, but I think they'd have an even lower opinion of us then that. Quark tells us in an episode of DS9 that the Ferengi, for all their greed, have never engaged in things like systematic genocide or death-camps. I think the Klingons would look at us as essentially a depressingly decadent culture with no honor at all. They'd find most of our religious ridiculous and our politics convoluted. Hell, they wouldn't even like our food...
"...too bland for the stomach of a Klingon." -Kern (brother of Worf)
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Humans do have the sexual drive of Klingons! The only difference is that we have church-types that make us feel neurotic and guilty for just being normal and healthy...that's why you never see a Klingon psychologist...he'd never be able to pay the bills because no one would ever go to him.
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I went with Seven of Nine, just because Jeri Ryan is probably the most beautful woman in all Trekdom.
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I always felt that the Organians (like the Metrons and Trelane) were essentially just being from the Q Continuum who had their own agenda different from the rest of the Q.
Ya think...?
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Worf- for me it isn't even a coin-flip. Worf is interesting because of his fish-out-water plotting, his explorations in both Human and Klingon culture, his relationship with his son (the only character to have a child except for Dr. Crusher), and his romance with K'lar [pardon my spelling].
He was, apart from Data, the most three-dimensional character in Next Generation and subsequently on Deep Space-9.
Pity he never got a descent death scene..."it would have been glorious".
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I've not seen any evidence or stories since my television went on the fritz. Do we know for certain that it's Muslim Fundamentalists or is it just the IRA starting their war up with England all over again....?
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I think we must be showing our age.
When I was just a kid in the 70's and saw the Enterprise on the big screen for the first time in ST:TMP...I was just blown-away. It didn't seem like a model or a set...it seemed like a real place. By contrast, I always hated the Next Generation Enterprise. The nacelles are too short and the secondary hull looks anorexic to me. I also hated the bridge, which was done in those aweful unmilitary earthtones. It should have looked more like the bridge on Voyager or the Excelsior NX-2000.
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It was tough, but I finally voted for Laura Bush.
[just kidding....well, not really]
Actually I voted for K'Ehleyr. I really liked that actress even though I cannot summon her name at the moment. Apart from also playing a Vulcan and a Q, does anyone know if she's done anything else in or out of Star Trek....?
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Hmmm...
Well, Balance of Terror is not only the best Romulan episode in the whole of Star Trek, it is also easily one of the best episodes period. Marc Leonard gives a performance so far above the watermark of standard television that if this had been a film he should've been nominated for an academy award. A wonderful meditation on war, its costs and its futility.
I'm also a big fan of Unification I and II. Denis Crosby is a great villianess, and seeing Spock again was terrific. Pity we never saw him again...
Godzilla!
in Holodeck 1: 20th & 21st Century Entertainment
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Of course "Japanese Science Fiction" covers a lot and I wasn't intending to include things like Anime or Manga.
I'm just wondering if there are any fans of Godzilla and perhaps Ultraman. I grew up in the 70's watching those films and loved them. Recently the Japanese have made recent Godzilla (Gojira) films that feature greatly improved special F/X and not unreasonable plotting. Might I suggest a few of the more recent films:
Godzilla versus King Ghidorah (1993)
Godzilla against MechaGodzilla (2002)
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monster all out attack! (2003)
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2004)
www.StompTokyo.com
www.G-Fan.com