Makurosu

Out of the two, I would rather be called "Trekkie". My life doesn't revolve around Trek, but it sounds better to me than "Trekker". Trekker sounds too much like a nerd trying to make his obsession sound more sophisticated.

I would prefer to be called a "Niner", or just plain old "Trek fan".

What about Linux?

I have Windows XP, and Red Hat Linux 9.

I liked history a lot. It's really neat to learn about older cultures, etc. I also really liked Political Science (it was even my major for a short time).

The Vulture

Quiet, highly observant and quick to see possibilities, you may look harmless enough hovering around the office, but all that time spent watching and listening has to pay off somehow - and it does. You may not often make the kill yourself but you're quick to move in on weakened prey and when you do you always make your mark. Using the information you gather about them, your sexual targets are usually putty in your hands and you are free to get your wicked way. The only thing is sometimes you can just wait too long and only get the leftovers - maybe sometimes you need to make your move a little faster? For a few ideas to help you, click here

I'm game. :lol:

Cancer. July 6th, 1976

Don't feel bad. Some of yours are on my list too, and I'm a guy. Then again, DS9 (which I thought has done the best at exploring relationships) is my favorite series. Having characters with some depth is what makes the show for me. Enterprise has some excellent character episodes. I hope that they get affected over the long run like on DS9, rather than staying relatively static like on Voyager.

1) Shuttlepod One

2) The Expanse - the episode itself wasn't superb, but I like the ideas it set in motion. For once, it made me like Archer.

3) Catwalk - could have used a better story towards the end, but the scenes of the crew in such close proximity was really good.

4) Dead Stop - like I mentioned in another thread, I loved how the effects of the previous show (getting damaged by a mine) was carried over to the next episode. Nice story to boot.

5) Vox Sola - not very much like a regular Trek episode at all.

I'll start with the superficial.

I love the look of the ship. Not so much the exteriour, but the bridge and hallways, etc. It has a very submarine look to it, and at the same time it looks futuristic. The consoles on the bridge look pretty neat. In fact, I like most of the ship sets. Whether or not it looks more futuristic than TOS doesn't really bother me. As a prequel they're kind of in a quandary. They can't make it look too advanced since the 60s show would look relatively low tech, but our vision of what's futuristic has changed a lot since then. Personally, I don't think it looks all that advanced. The submarine look to the interior makes it look rather modern, IMO. If you were to compare it to the look of the TOS era as presented in the movies rather than the series, it looks more like a prequel than if you compare it to the designs made in the 60s.

Hats. I loved that these guys wear hats. At least early on. I've always wanted to see matching hats with some of the uniforms, especially the more formal ones. It's also nice that they're ball caps like would be worn on a modern ship. It's a really nice touch for showing that they're are still some similarities in the way people are between now and then. I've never liked the evolved human nonsense on TNG. While they're not much like that on DS9, and Voyager, there are still some differences in culture. The baseball cap, watching movies, talking about cars, etc all help to bridge the gap between when humans were more like our modern day selves, and the era where they're like they are in modern Trek.

I like quite a few of the cast. My faves are Trip and Malcolm. I like Hoshi, but not so much for her the acting abilities. :lol: Captain Archer is starting to grow on me. He's written too often as PC, and he tends to be...well, a wuss. (He watches water polo for pete's sake. Water polo? Can't he at least watch football or hockey or soccer?) I thought I'd like him more than I do. I've liked Scott Bakula for a long time. In the Expanse, as well as some episodes that have been shown afterward that I missed the first time around, he started to grow on me. I hope that he's written as stronger, and less to pull off cheesy solutions like in Marauders.

Overall, I like quite a few of the Enterprise episodes, and don't like others. Its first two seasons were fairly strong for a Trek series. Most of the complaints about the show as far as the writing goes have been problems since TNG started. Maybe seeing a lot of the same ideas, problems, etc repeated in yet another series have brought them more into the foreground of some viewers. I think it's judged rather harshly considering that modern Trek has always had some problems. Trek is good, but it is by no means perfect. This show could use some improvement, but it's doing fine for me now.

I felt like posting more... :lol:

 

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This is probably the funniest.

(I'm not one who cares much for technobabble).

I don't worry about so much, anymore. I belong to so many message boards that it's to devote any time to earning "ranks". Besides that, I've had my feel of wanting to rack up post just for the sake of doing so. I'd rather take more time and post something that it hopefully more relevant.

There are days, or weeks, when I just don't know what to post, or decide that I just don't want to open another thread and look at it. It's a bit easier at TrekBBS since there are so many users there. I'm bound to find something that's interesting to me, and that I can probably contribute to.

I'll probably go see it. I like the Pixar movies that I've seen. They could be better, but they're usually fun, and have decent animation.

Until about an hour ago I was a cash office specialist at a local store. In a few weeks I'll be working as a cashier at Walmart. Not exactly my dream job but it's either this or sell my car and live under the local bridge until I finish school.

I'm very sorry to hear about that. I'm in a similar boat, but luckily I'm mooching off the parents until I transfer to another school. :)

I recently lost my job due to the school's lovely decision to cut off my financial aide. The job situation around here is terrible, so I can't afford to get a job and pay for school until my aide gets restored. Hopefully I can get enough aide at this other school, and enough money save up this summer, to go there next year.

Being out of work without some sort of good skills sucks. I'm good at computers, but without a degree I get passed up by these dorks who took a class to learn how to double-click and move windows. :)

btw, any of you who might be in and out of work might want to check with your local computer training places. Locally, one of them is offering free computer classes to those who've been laid off in the last 6 months. They're not much, but it's something to add to the resume. It's funny, but unless you can say you took computer courses a lot of potential employers won't even consider you. Even if you have an aptitude for picking it up and can teach yourself, or track down info, on how to do just about anything.

I liked Seven of Nine, but not so much the direction of the show afterward. Too often the episodes revolved around her somehow. She was the solution to so many problems, and the other characters (besides the Doc and Janeway) went too far into the background. If the show had started out that way, perhaps it wouldn't have been so bad. The original was very much like this. But this started out as an ensemble cast with some excellent characters like B'Elanna, Chakotay, and Tuvok. All of whom were ignored too often once Seven came on board. Even the best interactions were replaced by her - such as Janeway and B'Elanna, and Kes and the Doctor.

I, for one, wish that Kes would have stayed. She was a great character, and had a warmth that I missed when she was phased out. It wouldn't have been so hard to keep her about as prominent as the other characters.

Oh my gosh - that's hilarious!!! :) I would have thrown Harrison Ford in there somewhere, though!

Yes. I'd go for Harrison Ford. Maybe he could be Riker to Sean Connery's Picard?

Imagine a starship being headed by James Bond and Indiana Jones.... :)

I can't believe that I hadn't posted in this thread yet.

It's hard for me to choose since there are so many good characters on DS9.

My top 3 are, in no particular order:

1) Kira Nerys - One of the best developed characters in all of Trek, and played by one of the strongest Trek actors ever. As I originally liked DS9 largely for the Bajoran/ Cardassian issues, and the disputes among Bajoran political leaders, her character really solidified my liking of the show early on.

2) Ben Sisko - What can I say? He's the man. :)

3) Miles O'Brien - He was my favorite TNG character. One that I thought wasn't used on TNG often enough, so I was ecstatic when I found out that he was the main crossover character. DS9 took what was great character already and added a lot more depth to him.

Congratulations ddillard! I hope you enjoy your new job. :)

These are the shows that I try not to miss, but I don't watch them every night. I also try not to watch more than 2 or so hours of TV. So, if I catch a couple of them, I'll usually miss the other ones.

These times are all Mountain.

M-F 5pm - The Screen Savers on Tech TV. This a great talk show, and often informative.

M-F 9pm - Futurama on Cartoon Network, also The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I flip back and forth and watch them at the same time. (This annoys the hell out of others, of course :) )

M-F 10pm - Farscape on Sci Fi - I just started watching this again. Definitely one of the best sci fi series ever. Too bad it ended early. I'm going to get this one on DVD.

M-F 11pm - DS9. I actually haven't watched this in awhile, but it's my favorite Trek series. I've been taping it lately since I'm too po right now for the DVDs.

I also watch a smattering of news programs here and there like Hannity and Colmes and the O'Reilly Factor. I'll also watch interesting stuff on one of the various Discovery channels or History.

I didn't care much for this episode. I'm not sure why, these more fun ones are usually episodes that I tend to enjoy.

I can't wait to get the moolah from my new job so I can buy the first three seasons. :)

Just a few I'm looking forward to:

The Search

The House Of Quark

Civil Defense

Past Tense

Visionary

Improbable Cause

The Die Is Cast

Explorers

There's a few others that I still haven't seen from season 3.

This episode was really good. Enterprise gets slammed for being not so good, but this episode, like Minefield and the last few new episodes, were all pretty good. Sure, Enterprise has problems (some of which are characteristic to all of Trek, IMO. At least modern Trek), but so far it's had a fair number of enjoyable episodes. Now if only Archer wasn't such a wuss.... B)

One thing I really liked about Dead Stop was that the Enterprise had damage that carried over from a previous episode. I just loved this. This was exactly the sort of thing that Voyager needed to have in it. I liked Voyager somewhat, too (not so much after Seven joined the crew, though I liked her character. And not just for her um, assests. :) ), but it did a poor job of presenting the danger of being isolated in space. Their hull integrity, for instance, would drop to 30% during a fight, and yet at the end of the episode they were just fine as the credits rolled. If you hull is down to 30% integrity, you've got some serious repair issues ahead. Why not explore those? It wouldn't have needed to be the whole episode, but why not at least have some throwaway lines?

I hope we see more of this type of thing. So far, Enterprise has done a good job of making the humans seem relatively naive as they've finally joined the members of warp capable species. It's kind of sad to see it that way after the opening montage of brave explorers who ventrued out into space and then in the show humans appear to be the whipping boys of the Vulcans. :)

I'm a periodic student. I say periodic because my school tends to have lots of FUBARs that end up preventing me from attending for whatever reason. :) Of course, I'm transferring next year.

I've been doing a little bit of whatever the last year or so. Being a student, I worked a few different work-study jobs on campus. Some of them good, and others not so good. I've also been working for a contract/temp service. It doesn't pay much, but the jobs look good on a resume, and they get me by. Too bad they don't last very long like they used to a few years ago.

Ack. I can't wait to get my degree. Work in my area is terrible if you don't have one. The other option is move, but getting a degree is high on my priority list.

Another one from the US here. :)

I don't expect it to live up to T2 at all, but it probably won't be the worst movie ever. Who knows, if people aren't expecting much because it's not directed by Cameron, maybe it'll turn out better than expected.

Have any of you heard about T4?

I have seen the trailer of ' The Hulk " and I don't think I will go and see it. He looks horrible. :)

Yeah, he does look pretty bad. The newer trailer actually made the movie look like something I want to see, though. I'm also interested to see how Ang Lee did with the story. It's probably going to be mediocre at best, but I might be pleasantly surprised.

Out of the movies on the list above (Thanks :) ), the only one that really interests me is Terminator 3. I'm not expecting it to be great, but since I liked the other two (moreso Terminator 2), I'm willing to check it out. It's really too bad Cameron wasn't on board for this one. I'd have liked to see it continue as his vision.

I have two rides......My first is my Toyota Corolla.  My second is my RV which is what I love the most......as it takes me to my vacation spots.........my GET AWAYS   :o

Really? What year is the Toyota Corolla? I have a 91.

Sorry to hear that. Good luck on getting a new job (if you don't have one lined up already).