Validus
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The greatest work any man can do is to write, so the greatest American would have to be America's greatest writer. Tough to pick, but I'll go with:
Edgar Allen Poe
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I'm waiting for them to start putting warning labels on things like Cars:
WARNING: May cause death or injury to yourself and others. May destroy the ozone layer and force jobs to be sent overseas. May run you financially into the ground due to the cost of payments, upkeep, gas/oil, and insurance. Dangerous if driven while under the influence of alcohol, drugs (perscription or illegal), moodswings, nagging spouses or uncontrollable children.
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My favorite animation...? Too many to pick, so here's my top 5 in no specific order:
Akira (1988) Dir. Kasuhiro Otomo
Batman: The Animated Series
"What's Opera Doc" (Best Bugs Bunny Cartoon ever)
Weather Report Girl (Anime)
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law!
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As you all know I'm a huge science fiction fan, not just of Star Trek but of other shows as well. Outside of Star Trek (and Babylon-5) I'd say my favorite is LEXX, which is hard to locate except late at night on the Sci-Fi channel.
The first four LEXX films are only currently avalable in Canada but are still Region-1 and can be found here at www.Videoflicks.com.
Those interested in discussion groups should go to www.Lexxfans.com where you can find me (I use the same screen name there as I do here). Hope to see some of you there!
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I think Picard was the better Captain for essentially one reason. Picard would never have gotten his ship stranded in the Delta quadrant. That Janeway did was a poor desision on her part (something she admits more then once in Seasons 5 and 6 of Voyager).
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Well, as we all know, or should know, in First Contact Picard destroyed the Borg Queen. Now I was wondering, what happened to the rest of the Borg. Like in the Delta Quadrant. Did they all get severed from the collective, did the cubes explode, or was their some sort of backup Queen? Any theorys or rumers?Well- in an ordinary ant colony or bee hive, a new queen always comes about to replace the one that has died, assuming that there is enough time and the hive itself is strong enough. I've seen on Discovery channel how sometimes two queens will be bread by mistake and they end up fighting one another to the death...winner take all.
I always wondered if they'd use that as a plot device in Voyager or one of the Star Trek films. Imagine one queen trying to ally itself with the Federation in exchange for some sort of treaty....could've been damn good. :lol:
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It was established in Voyager that the Borg do find the Kazon worthy of assimilation (Seven tells this to Janeway -can't remember the episode name).
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I know it is not on the list, but would anyone consider 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' original version of course? I always see it on lists as a sci-fi you must see... Just caught it last year, the story was good but the acting was stilted.My aunty who I would never have guessed watched sci-fi movies recommended Metropolis. I'll try to catch that one when I can.
Wasn't "Day the Earth Stood Still" directed by Robert Wise, who later did Sound of Music (won Best Picture that year) and ST: The Motion Picture?
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I'm sure there are many who will claim I've left out something important, but i did decide based on what seem to be the most influential science fiction films. I left out all the Star Trek films because there are, after all, so many forums and polls already devoted to them.
It is my hope that this thread will spark discussion about science fiction cinema as a genre and how it has evolved & grown.
In looking at the above list I will say that it was hard for me to pick but in the end it came down to 2001 and Blade Runner, and I had to give it to 2001. Some might wonder at my choice, but you should remember that when looking at science fiction film it is entirely possible to look at it in terms of Pre-2001 and post-2001.
2001: A Space Odyssey was the first science fiction film that had the virtue of looking real, and of having a plot that was not filled with rubber monsters and ray guns. It also managed to combine a variety of themes into a unified whole (alien artifacts, space travel, artificial intelligence, dehumanization, faster-then-light travel, etc). it is also important to remember that it was made in 1968 for an unheard of $10,000,000 (the original Star Wars, in 1976, would cost $9,000,000).
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I just could not get into ENTERPRISE, and believe me, I tried. I have to say that the current trend of prequals has produced nothing to recommend them. ENTERPRISE is by far the worst of the five ST shows. The new Star Wars trilogy is just friggen terrible. Exorcist: The Beginning was unwatchable and never should've been made. I'm much more excited about Andromeda, Season 5 on DVD...also coming out very soon. :P
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I don't think anyone's ever tried. Let's be honest, if you're not a self sufficient union of planets or an empire then you kind of need some ot look after you... so you ally yourself with one of the major players.Federation
Romulan star empire
Cardassian union
Dominion alliance
Borg collective
Klingon empire
There's also:
The Gorns
The Tholians
The First Federation
-all from ST:TOS and all having formidable space capabilities.
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I dunno....one Borg cube wiped out dozens of ships at Wolf 359 with little effort. I've no doubt that a few dozen Borg cubes could crush the Federation and the Klingon Empire in under a week no problem. The only way they'd avoid defeat is if they had someone very powerful helping them, perhaps the Fesarius from "The Corbomite Manuver" (TOS) or the Tholians with their web technology could bind the Borg....???
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Not really...those could have been altnernate time-lines or parallel universes.
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*Ahem*
I think you misunderstand. I think that the Borg are an excellent idea for a villian in the Star Trek Universe...but I think it is important to remember what they represent. The Borg represent, in my estimation, the absolute worst impulses in human beings to absorb and smash flat what some historians call "the Other". This has happened many times. When the frontiersman began to move West, they had no consideration for the Native-Americans that were already here...they simply took their land, aite their food and considered them to be "godless savages". The result of this was that most of the Native-American population was wiped out wholesale thanks to displacement, smallpox and outright murder. Those who survived either ended up on miserable reservations (where many of them still are to this hour) or were assimilated into American/Christian culture.
What we are currently doing to Iraq is no different then what the Borg do all the time.
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I have always found the borg to be so werid. I dont see what is so cool about them. They seem to scare me at times, but i think that why alot of people seem to like them. Expect the unexpected as they say. In the movies, they seem to be wimps to me only wanted just to take over and they way or making things better is just a waste of time. I'm sorry but i would not want to look like any of them in the morning.Lursa
I've always felt that all the races in Star Trek were essentially metaphors for aspects of humanity. Klingons represent aggression, Vulcans logic, etc. I think the Borg represent Big Buisness. After all...they tool around in box-shaped ships that look like office-blocks, and they perform hostile takeovers (assimilations) of other races the same way Time-Warner and Viacom crush small buisnesses. Put a Nike "swoosh" on the side of a Borg cube and the picture is complete.
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I would simply argue that V'Ger is far more advanced then the Borg. V'Ger is clearly a living vessal with planet shattering capability, something even the Borg cannot do. V'Ger was also advanced enough to have no need for "drones" but plasma-based entities that seem like drones but again, are clearly far more advanced.
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Roddenberry might have said that, but it doesn't really make sense. Sex is a function of reproduction and for humans it also carries more then a little emotion, even if its just basic physical desire for the person you happen to be sleeping with.
It seems evident to me that Vulcans abstain from sex unless they need to reproduce. Consider that Neither Spock nor Tuvok ever had a girlfriend and you'll see what I mean. True- Tuvok was married and had children, but again it seems to me that for Vulcans sex is just biology, like eating and bathing. Even if Vulcans did engage in regular sexual activities, one finds it difficult to imagine them "enjoying" it since that would be an emotional responce.
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Star Trek guilty pleasures? Too many to list them all, but here's a few of mine:
Uhura's exposed mid-rift (Mirror Mirror)
Watching the opening credits of "Who Mourns for Adonis" and saying "I guess they needed a hand!"
Kirk explainig Fizzbin to the Iotians (A Piece of the Action)
Picard giving his chair to that idiot Ferengi.
Kirks's best line ever: "Well....double dumb-a$$ on you!!!" (ST4)
Data and Yar getting it on.
Kirk and Spock's breakdown (The Naked Time).
Seven of Nine...whenever she's on screen and looking pouty.
Janeway in bed with Q.
Sisko punches Q ("You hit me! Picard never hit me!")
Diana Troy loaded (First Contact)
Every minute of "The Trouble with Tribbles".
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I always hated that they didn't do a mirror episode for either Next Generation (would've made a great movie) or Voyager. I can only imagine how an evil future federation deals with problems like The Borg and the Q Continuum. Perhaps in the mirror universe the Borg are.....the "good" guys???
Back in the 80's they had a facinating mirror universe storyline in the Star Trek comics published by DC. It involved the mirror Spock (now in command of the Excelsior NX-2000) leading an entire fleet through a stargate for the purpose of conquering the Federation in this Universe. I seem to recall that the mirror Spock was killed by our Spock in a kind of "mind-meld dual" of wills. I wish DC had published those stories in a collected edition.
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I think this question is partly answered if one considers The Matrix Trilogy.
I have no trouble imagining a scenario in which the machines from the Matrix eventually get so good at their technical know-how they they start sending out ships and conquering other races. In time their technical know-how becomes so advanced that they need no longer both with mere "conquest" (subjugation by force) and eventually move to assimilation...not unlike what the United States did to the Native-Americans and Mexicans that were already living here. :P
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It seems to me that because of the culture of Vulcans, and their biology, that by human standards Vulcan sex would be mind-numbingly boring. For one thing they only mate once every seven years. Who can go for that long that isn't a Vulcan? That's why I always found the marriage between Spocks parents to be so totally improbable. That poor woman would have had to live like a nun for most of her marriage...I can't think of any woman that would put up with that.
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I agree 100%. I love DVD's (I own more then a thousand right now...its an addiction) and I'll be the first to say that most audio commentaries are pretty dull. The ones I've enjoyed the most so far have been for such films as:
Fight Club
Alien
Terminator 2
Secret Honor
-and First Contact to be sure. I found that J. Frakes has a warm sense of humor and a willingness to laugh at himself.
End of Borg,
in Borg Assimilation Center
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Something like that actually happened in Season 2 of LEXX. A being much like the Borg known as Mantrid consumed virtually all the matter in the Light Universe (the Universe parallel to our own) and in so doing caused it to collapse...destroying all planets, stars, and life there. The LEXX only escaped by diving into the singularity created by the collapse and emerging into the Dark Zone (our Universe).