Validus
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I agree. Brian Singer did an excellent job with the little known but excellent film "Apt Pupil" (an excellent study in the nature of evil) and also with X1 & X2. I like the costume...the subdued red seems less flashy and that's probably a good thing. People often forget that the whole reason comicbooks heroes from the 1940's had primary colored costumes was because they used a 4-color printing process back then and they had no choice...it wasn't like Joe Shuster could have made Superman pastel or "vermillion". Same with Batman, Wonder Woman, and all those characters.
I'm much more interested in the plot. My understanding is that its a good script, and that it even got the blessing of Richard Donner, who directed the original Superman: The Movie & Superman II*(as well as all the Lethal Weapon films). Considering how good Batman Begins was...I'm stoked.
*The producers of the Superman films, the Salkinds, fired Richard Donner when he was three quarters finished with Superman II and brought it Richard Lester to finish. While he received sole credit for SII, he clearly didn't deserve it. Compare it to Superman III, which is totally his work and you'll see the difference.
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I voted for "All Good Things". It has the production values of a Star Trek film and is probably the best episode of Next Gen (after "Yesterdays Enterprise").
Voyager's ending was a complete anti-climax because we all knew exactly how it was going to end anyway...so there was no surprise there.
DS-9 didn't have an ending...it just fizzled after the Dominion War was over (a blatant rip-off of the Shadow War from Babylon-5 by the way).
Star Trek VI was really the "ending" for the original crew and it left me cold for the most part. What's with up a Klingon villian who quotes Shakesepare and has a Chinese name (Chang)?
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I came through a fractal core just before the Light Universe was consumed by Mantrid.
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You think Buffy sucked? I'm sorry to hear that your so very opinionated...I have to wonder if you've actually given the show a chance. Like Babylon-5, you can't really jump in at the middle...otherwise you'll be lost.
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I always hated the defiant. It looks like a part from a crappy american made car (my guess would be the muffler or maybe the distributor cap).
I went with the Sovereign Class. Ronald Moore (current auteur of Battlestar Galactica and co-author of First Contact) had some design input and stated that he wanted the new Enterprise to be more muscular and it looks like he got his wish. The Enterprise-E is the ship I wish they'd had for all 7 Seasons of Next Gen.
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1. NES2. Super Nintendo
3. Sega Genesis/Master System
4. Playstation
5. Playstation 2
6. X-box
7. Game Cube
I want to play all the ones everyone think is the best, I will check back here in a week, I hope you guys will help me out, I was never a big ST Video Game fan, so I need some suggestions,
I never owned an NES (hated the controller).
For Super NES my favorite was always Star Fox.
For Genesis: Street Fight 2: Turbo.
For Playstation: Tekken 2 & Street Fight Alpha 3
For PS2: Twisted Metal Black
Never owned an X-Box or Gamecube.
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I've got a friend who recently showed me the actual TAS on DVD and he told me they were from China and that he got them through the web. I looked at the cases (they're formatted like The Pretender or Firefly DVD's with two discs). I noticed something odd about the cases: seems they don't have a copyright or "TM" on them. I'm wondering if they were made in China illegally or if that's just how they package things there...or at least this specific product.
At anyrate they do exist (I held them in my hand).
Either they were very good bootleg copies, or maybe they were doing a test market in Asia.
Thought everyone here would want to know.
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Any weakness in Voyager I think has to placed where it belongs: Rick Berman. Rick didn't let the writers do their jobs because he was more concerned with milking the franchise for product (more and more episodes) then with quality. I would have been happy with only two seasons of Voyager if they'd been as good as the first two seasons of ST:TOS.
Simple as that...
Instead we got 7 seasons of mostly bland episodes and lots of Seven in her leotard acting cryptic.
As it stands I've yet to see a single episode of Voyager (and I own all 7 seasons) that's as good as a single episode of Andromeda or the new Battlestar Galactica.
Thanks, Rick. Thanks for nothing...
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Peter Jackson not withstanding, if you want me to pay more then $100.00 for a show that aired before I was born...by God you better give me a reason!!!.
I mean- any given season of Buffy is loaded to the gills with special features and only costs $44.99 brand new!
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Fans of the original Battlestar Galactica (1978) uttered the same sentiments and were rewarded with Galactica:1980, one of the worst science fiction shows ever produced in the history of Hollywood. The view that "some Stars Wars is better then none" gave us the hidious Jar-Jar laden Trilogy which all but the most blindly loyal depise, and rightly so.
Even loyal X-Files fans often conceed that it over-stayed its welcome and probably should have been wrapped up in 7 or 8 seasons rather then 9.
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Popularity does not = Quality. If that were the case then we'd have to conclude that professional wrestling and Jerry Springer have more merit then Shakespeare and the films of Orson Welles.
Battlestar Galactica is better because it has better quality writing, more compelling plots, and doesn't rely on many of the cliches one finds in something like Stargate:SG-1 (possibly the dumbest name ever for a television show since in effect it amounts to "Stargate: Stargate One". :)
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As a Buddhist I approve. :)
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"Wish you were here" by Pink Floyd (1975).
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An old copy of Maxim on my coffee table with Carmen Electra looking all leggy and smiling. :)
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Actually it is.
You can get it as either a three-disc set, or as part of a gigantic boxed set which includes every single Godzilla movie ever made.
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I voted that it should be both- but again: Only if some kind of quality can be maintained. Of the last 4 Star Trek films, only First Contact was worth the price of admission.
Part of the problem with Star Trek is that nothing is ever really at stake. No one ever thinks the Federation is really threatened or that anyone is going to die...in short- Star Trek is crippled by its own predictability. One of the reasons Wrath of Khan was so good was because of the heroic death of Spock, made pointless by the grossly inferior STIII:The Search for Plot. No one expected Spock to die, and it wasn't just that he died, but he died well as befits a well written tragedy.
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I doubt they could swing it, but I think that Star Trek should be bought outright by the people behind the www.SciFi.com channel. It was them, after all, who saved Andromeda from cancellation.
Paramount has proven its ineptitude time and again with its bad handling of the Star Trek franchise, milking the fans for more and more $$$$$ while continuing to produce a progressively inferior product. In point of fact, Star Trek: The Next Generation was not as good as the original, DS-9 was not as good as Next Generation, Voyager wasn't was good as DS-9, and Enterprise was....well....need I say more?
Star Trek did set a standard in its day (the late 60's) that wasn't to be surpassed until the British produced Blake's 7 under the creative direction of Terry Nation a decade later. While other shows have continued to expand the horizons of science fiction (shows like Babylon-5, LEXX, Firefly, Andromeda, and the current incarnation of Battlestar Galactica) Star Trek seems content to repeat itself with the same tired cliches that were cutting edge 40 years ago.
To regain what made the original concept work so well would require a heroic violation of the norms, something Paramount will never do because they view Star Trek not so much as a creative endeavor, but more as an easy source of cash to bleed from fans willing to lap up anything fed to them regardless of its quality.
The lack of quality in Star Trek should be evident in how it measures up against the novels and fan fiction produced all the time. It is astonishing how often fan fiction is better (often much better) then the actual episodes which were produced at great expense.
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I must respectfully disagree. The ending of DS9 was totally arbitrary, lacking either substance or pathos. Again- none of the characters get their stories resolved, and this weakness will always hang over all the Star Trek shows.
This is in stark contrast to something like Blake's 7, or Babylon-5. The bottomline is that we do not know the ultimate fates of Sisko, Odo, Worf, Kira, or even Quark...
For me that just isn't good enough.
Personally I think DS-9 should have been blown to bits defending Bajor with Sisko on the bridge, surrounded by flames, fighting until the last minute against the Dominion.
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HI allI have watched this episode so many times I'm pretty much sick of it LOL anyway what was the purpose of Q doing what he did to picard I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but it has bother me for some time and never really talk to anyone about it so now is the time lol.
Many Thanks.
Brian
As a Buddhist, it seems evident to me that Q was simply adapting himself to the role of Zen Master for the purpose of allowing Picard the chance to, as HRH said, "expand his mind to new posibilities". Q's role in Star Trek has often been as a trickster (not unlike Mr Myxysptlk in the Superman comics), but here he seems to have a specific role in trying to teach Picard something important.
He succeeds, and Picard has been made better for it.
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It's not a bad movie, but there are a few things I didn't like about it:1- The Enterprise travelling to the center of the galaxy in such a short time.
2- Uhura dancing naked and looking ALL of her sixty years of age doing it. Yuk!!!!!
3- The crappy Sybok army. Especially that bald crippled bloke with the bad teeth.
4- The "God" special effect.
5- The Enterprise having about 374 decks.
6- Spock neck pinching the blue horned horse....thing.
7- The butch female Klingon.
8- The Federation, Klingon and Romulan ambassadors.
9- That weird cat feline dancer woman thingy.
Other than all that, it was OK.
Many of these points I agree with. Sybok's army look too much like extras from a Mad Max film, and the special effects on ST5 were not done by Industrial Light & Magic...and it shows. The whole "God" premise is now a cliche, already explored better in 2001 and the novels of Frank Herbert, not to mention Olaf Stapleton. I actually thought Uhura looked pretty good...but then, I like black women so I'm bias.
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I don't typically like those "mirror universe" episodes, but anything would have been better than Nemesis.How vindicated I feel in my dislike of this movie after reading Frakes comments. Seems like the cast didn't much care for this movie either ... at least they understand what the fans want. Why doesn't one of the cast members write the next movie?
The whole reason that Star Trek succeeded back in 1966 to begin with was because it had an intelligent & compelling premise, and it also had a slew of professional science fiction writers (rather then the usual stable of tv writers) which resulted in wonderful plots.
For a film to work, story is everything. They should have gotten a script from Peter David or perhaps William Gibson (author of "Neuromancer"). Instead they essentially copied "Wrath of Khan" even down to the whole dualing starships climax and the death of a significant character. If they ever do make another ST film, let us hope and pray that they don't call it "Star Trek: The Search for Data". :)
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I recently went to Amazon looking for Godzilla: Final Wars and found nothing. Hopefully it'll be out on DVD before the end of the year.
Godzilla fans might want to check out these sites!
The New Battlestar Galactica
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Anyone here bought Battlestar Galactica Season 1 on DVD? I just got mine from Best Buy ($48.99) and I gotta tell you...it is amazing. It's so nice to watch the episodes without any commercials.
I always found it impossible to get into Stargate for one simple reason: I was never a fan of the initial film by Dean Devlin, who later went on to bore us with Independence Day and the hidiously bad American "Godzilla" film. It just always seems like every episode is the same as every other episode...guys in fatigues running around with rifles shooting at crappy special effects or guys in lame make-up. What's the point?