savagediana

Happy New Year!! :)

Hello! :)

That's always sad news, even if it's for the best. :/

Thanks for this too! I always find Marina's attitude toward her participation in the franchise hilarious.

Very cool! I may not attend the Walter Koenig Star Celebration, but I did donate for my signed photo! :) Thanks for posting!

That was hilarious! Loved it!!!

Diana

The movie Oblivion has some pretty awesome Star Trek references, as it has George Takei in it.

At one point his character, Doc Valentine, is holding a bottle of Jim Beam and says, "Jim, beam me up!"

Later, he asks the character Zack Stone to hand him his "tricorder."

A terrible film, even by camp standards, but I enjoyed those references. :)

Diana

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Just to be a pedant a typical nova usual goes something like this; As the sun/star runs out of its usual sources for fusion it expands as it draws upon the heavier elements (A la whatever star that killed romulus) then as those resources are used up it collapses upon itself (now here is the fun part) If it continues to fall upon itself and is of a sufficient enough size, it can become super dense and has the theoretical possibility of either becoming a black hole itself (extremely like or becoming a brown dwarf (a stellar object with a mass between that of a gas giant and a star, some debate is whether they have achieved fusion but for sake of argument here, it has) between collapsing on itself and brown dwarf it blows of a huge amount of debris (gas etc)

 

So essentially Jack when you say some reason it expanded and absorbed energy (beg to differ it is collating elements for fusion ergo transforming into energy, but neither her nor there) it is actually fulfilling its actual death throes of being supernova. [here endeth the science nerdism]

 

Big bug bear with the film is the death of the romulan ship.

 

Under relativity

 

to an outside observer action near to a large gravity object become slower as the gravity of the large gravity object acts on time, however to those actually near to the large gravity object time behaves in an apparently normal manner (basic rule is everything is relative to the observer) time speeds up the more gravity there is, but to those experiencing the speeded up time, they won't notice it. (which would indicate Bajor with 26 hours may possibly be in an area with less gravity than earth)

 

Given this, the enterprise would have seen the Romulan ship in a state of suspension and not destroyed immediately (Time being slower for the observer than the observed in this equation) it could have taken centuries if not millennia for the destruction of the Romulan ship. Where as for the Romulans themselves it would have been a momentary thing.

 

Feel free to illuminate me.

 

Diana

I dunno, I did find the phrase a little sexist. While technically it was my father who was the bigger ST fan, my mother also watched and enjoyed it--as did I, of course.

But I did cringe at it a little for other reasons too. While I agree that it probably wasn't intended to be insulting, my first reaction was, "But I like my father's Star Trek!" I guess it may have been a good way to attract more viewers, but it didn't and still doesn't sit particularly well with me. And I had many reservations about the film...but I loved it. So I'll forgive them that one bit of marketing that I didn't like. Okay, two if you include the music on the TV ads. :P

Diana

OMG! I am so excited. I can't believe it! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! :P (I don't know how I missed this until now. I'm a delinquent.) :( But yaaaaaaaaaaay!

Diana

I've got another one!

In "Half Moon Investigations" by Eoin Colfer, it says (on pages 180-181):

"Whoopee!" screamed the other girls.

April winced. "I've been thinking about that. Whoopee is a bit too Shona for me."

"It's on her second CD," said May, starting to sing. "Whoopee, look at me."

April plowed on. "So instead of whoopee, could we say Wonderful? Or Affirmative? I saw that on Star Trek."

"On the one where the thing's head explodes?"

"No, May. On the one where they couldn't find enough stuff to power the thing."

"I loved that one."

"Me, too. At least we can agree on something. Now to business."

Also, on page 267:

"Fletcher, what are you saying?" May had pushed her way on to the stage. With her dance costume, blond hair, and wobbling lip, she looked the picture of innocence. I would have less trouble convincing a trekkie that Spock was an impulsive hothead.

Pardon my penchant for children's literature...but I love Eoin Colfer.

Diana

For me, it's the entire show of DS9. The first time I tried to watch it was when it first aired, but after watching it on Spike, I like it and actually understand it. I still haven't seen all of the episodes or even all of the seasons, but I love what I've seen.

I still haven't watched that series. Whenever I came in on it for an episode or two, it confused me. And Sisko irritated me. Eventually I will watch it, of course, and I may love it! Who knows?!

Perhaps, as has been posited, it is felt that humanity will indeed evolve even further than the Q (that sounds familiar to me too, but I can't place it); perhaps that means a higher capacity for moral choice. Of course, I would imagine that morality would become extremely boring if one were immortal...

 

Sounds very Vulcanish to me.

I try.

It helps him feel like a pretty pretty princess.

 

LOL! I like this theory best of all.

Picard, without a doubt. He was a philosopher-king, and for that I applaud him. His ethics were beyond reproach, and I like a man with strong ethics.

I did like Janeway, though. (With one bizarre exception: her unreasonable confinement of Paris to the brig in "Thirty Days".) I appreciated that she was usually able to be strong and decisive in her leadership position--without being too terribly removed from her crew on an interpersonal level. I do, however, wish that more had been made of this golden opportunity to explore gender issues.

But being that Patrick was obviously the perfect choice to be captain of the series, they probably should have simply changed Picard into an Englishman. I mean, why not? England has a storied naval tradition. And Picard seemed rather fond of Nelson anyway, often mentioning Trafalgar during moments of crisis. I doubt a Frenchman would think back so fondly on the Lord Admiral.

LOL! Ah, but these are evolved creatures!

Yeah, it is sort of a mystery to me as well.

A little off topic, but I was also annoyed by Ben Sisko's total lack of a distinctive Louisiana accent. I lived in St. Landry Parrish for almost four years in my teens, and Sisko was about as Louisiana creole as the Klingons were pacifists.

I think Sisko's very existence is rather annoying, to be honest.

Considering the fact that the Voyager EMH became the full-time doctor, you would think that they would have created a back-up program in the event of something happening to the original program.

Just a thought....

That's precisely what I was thinking. Of course you need a backup of a backup if the backup is all you have!

It is confusing, though. Sort of like when Seven uses her nanoprobes to repair Neelix's necrotized tissues after he's been dead for something like 18 hours--but then she never does that with anyone else. Does that seem odd to anyone but me? Or am I just being dumb and missing something key? Please, feel free to tell me if it is the latter.

Of course I had to choose the Doctor...

But...

I know people say that Seven primarily brought sex appeal to the show, but I appreciate the contributions that her character was able to make to the various plots. I thought the show improved dramatically when Kes left and Seven "took her place."

And I just realized how hilarious that seems, considering my signature.

Thanks so much!

My favourite series is actually TNG, but that does sound really good. I'll definitely look into those. :blink:

Thanks again!

I have never before read a Star Trek book.

If I were to read one--one that would ideally make me want to read more--which one would it be?

I know that there are duds in all franchises. I would hate to randomly choose one and have it end up being one of those.

Therefore I ask for informed recommendations on which one Star Trek book I should read.

Diana

I know I keep posting these... But here's another one...

There's a song by the Barenaked Ladies called "Grade 9." One of the verses goes like this:

Well, half my friends are crazy and the others are depressed

And none of them can help me study for my math test.

I got into the classroom and my knowledge was gone;

I guess I should've studied instead of watching Wrath of Khan.

Heehee.

Torres, then Janeway--definitely.