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  1. Posted

    I was randomly flicking through Star Trek websites when I came across wilwheaton.net. It quickly becomes clear that he's actualy quite bitter about the whole 'Wesley Crusher' thing. He says twice that there were people out to get him and who used Gene Roddenberry's illness to attack Wesley. It's surprising how much it affected him. It also turns out that he has a (very) big ego.

     

    Here is the website. It makes for fairly entertaining reading.

  2. Posted

    Yep thats right. That was one of the main reasons why she was on TNG in the first place. Didn't M Forbes want to pursue a film career instead of doing another TV series?

     

    Anyways, Michael Piller, one of the executive producers of DS9, said that in hindsight it was far better to have Kira than Ro as Ro would eventualy always have to obey Sisko as they wore the same uniform.

  3. Posted

    I liked Ro primarily for the change she brought to TNG. She wasn't as upright and noble as the rest of the crew but once we grew to know her she turned out to be a really good, honorable person. I would have liked her to guest star in DS9 or Voy, incidently she expressed an interest to guest star in an episode of DS9 at the end of TNG. It's a shame it never got done.

     

    However, I still think that Major Kira was far more suited to the role of First Officer tham Ensign Ro, not least because Kira wasn't StarFleet.

  5. Posted

    I am in total agreement with everyone here... Avery Brooks was fantastic as Ben Sisko and he is an extremly talented actor. I just love it when the writers make Avery play a deranged character (Dramatis Personae, Our Man Bashir...) he is just SO good at getting under the characters skin!

  8. Posted

    Although I did see Star Trek TOS as a wee barin, the SF show tha glued me to my TV was called Sliders. Very cool show, all about dimension hopping and 'what if' scenarios.

     

    Sliders site!

     

    It was a really great show, although towards the end the producers got rid of the best characters and hired some 'sex appeal' young women. I quickly stopped watching.

     

    However, the first three seasons were golden, sometimes rivaling Star Trek in quality. My fave episode is in the first season, where the premise is 'What if the USSR had won the Cold War?'. Another is where America is a still protectorate of the British Empire, (it still exits in this universe) and an interesting sidenote is that because in that timeline the British crushed the revolution, the other revolutions across the world (e.g. the French) never happened and the world is governed by a few imperialist empires. (I think it was Britain, France and China, setting a politcal atmosphere a bit like 1984) Meeting the American resistance cells for the first time is like :clap:

     

    :clap:

     

    Ahhhh, I could do this all day! :(

  9. Posted

    I thought there was an adequate amount of behind the scenes stuff included it this book

    Where???

     

    I can't find ANYTHING! Also, on a side note, I wish they hadn't put 'that' doctored image on the front cover. A simple cast photo, a la TNG, would have sufficed.

     

    The image BTW is a twentieth century bridge in the foreground with Voyager flying verticaly above it. Oh and there are some cut-and-pasted fireworks in the sky. Just really annoyed me. :blink:

  10. Posted

    :) I thought that Terran was just a slave name for humans in DS9. Nice that it's a proper word.

     

    Maybe 'Human' is sort of an affectionate nickname, just like Cardassians and 'Bloody Cardies!', as Miles O'Brien gently puts it.

     

    ...Its stupidly late to be posting. Arrrrggghhhhhh, damn-my-love-for-Star-Trek-affiliated-inter-communal-discussions!

     

    Anyhow, there is Klingons and Kronos.

     

    :)

  15. Posted

    I recently bought the TNG, DS9 and VOY companion. The TNG and DS9 have a humorus narrator, and as well as episode synopsis's, has incredible behind-the-scenes infomation for every episode, what the cast and crew felt during the series (e.g. that Quark worried that he would be fired after Emissary) , what was a success what wasn't etc. And other titbits (the evolution of Rom is one of my favorites so far). They also go into great depth about what happened between the seasons (for instance, that Troi and Tasha Yar originaly read for each others part and were later swapped by Gene Roddenbury is quite interesting). TNG has copies of the original casting advertisements ('Leslie Crusher') and a history of how Star Trek: The New Generation (the original name) came into being. DS9 has some never-before-seen illustrations (e.g. one of the first designs of the Bajoran sub-light resistance fighters. It didn't get made but inspired the design for the Defiant) and they all include some of the bloopers and jokes that happened.

     

    While VOY is boring and tedius. The tone of the book is of an encyclopedia and it merely extensively details the episode plotline and then includes every fact about Voyager, the amount of shuttles, the Delta Quadrant etc that the episode mentions and often repeats itself. While this is interesting, THIS IS IT! There is nothing new in this book, no interesting facts about what the writers felt about the episodes ('A bit of fluff' Rivals DS9 comp.), nothing. Its adequate for fact-finding but that's all. Nowhere as good as the TNG or DS9 companion. The only decent parts are the (far too short) extracts from the first ideas of the characters. The single page given for each charcter is mere quotes from previous interviews and a sentance of the narrators opinion. Tripe.

     

    It's worth getting as the only official book about the Voyager series in its entirety. But only just.

     

    :)

  16. Posted

    No sorry. The reason Voyager lost all continunity and its original idea. The idea was to have a ship lost deep in unknown space, travelling home. The concept that the Voyager would have to keep going and to save food and engery and get fuel. They only did one for that whole journey, it was fuel.  The used so much engery, got their ship captured about five times, used the repacator. Holodeck use seemed like it was okay to use engery you have to use to get home.  It lost all that somewhere in the second season. It became more and more Borg by season five.  Sorry but I am glad it is over and finished.

    Well... to answer one of your points, The Holodeck has its own re-usable energy source but that source is not compatible with the rest of the ship.

  19. Posted

    I agree with everyone here. Why would the UFP need uber-ships? It would be silly to have a massive super powered warship when their primary aim is peace. It looks like in combat situations the UFP prefers a million hornets to one grizzly bear, while the bear is fearsome, one well aimed shot can bring it down. The hornets however, are indestructible. (more-or-less) :o

     

    Anyways, from what I've seen of future UFP ships on VOY, the Federation is going to have even smaller ships by then.

  20. Posted

    Easy. DS9. I would love to soacilise with any of the characters there, espeacily Morn. Plus the fact that it's right next to Bajor and the whole Gamma Quadrant whenever I want to explore. I also really like it that it is a city and that there's always new people to meet-and-greet.

     

    I am in love :o with the look of the place.

  21. Posted

    After reading the A-Z of Science Fiction: Revised!, I was surprised to see that after giving Star Trek, TNG and VOY glowing reports, the writer assumed a condescending and almost insulting tone to DS9. Words such as 'dark horse' and 'error' strated cropping up all over the place. Why? After all, DS9 isn't poor in episode quality.

     

    The author's misgivings stemmed from the fact that DS9 wasn't set on a clean spaceship, exploring the great unknown. The writer obviously thought that Star Trek is all about 'boldly going where none have gone before'. After all, it has been a very sucessful premise.

     

    The author clearly saw DS9 as an enthusiastic blunder, an almost-embarassment. Something that should be noted as 'What Not To Do', with VOY (an ENT) being a return to form for Star Trek. In fact he said something like 'After the debacle of DS9, Voyager looks like a welcome return for the Star Trek series.'

     

    Lets briefly compare the ST series and their basic premise:

     

    Star Trek ~ Exploring the galaxy in a Spaceship

    Star Trek: TNG ~ Exploring the galaxy in a Spaceship (difference: set 70+ years from the original)

    Star Trek: DS9 ~ Rebuilding on a Spacestation (difference: everything but the most fundemental things e.g. it includes Star Fleet)

    Star Trek: VOY ~ Exploring the galaxy in a Spaceship (difference: set in the other side of the galxay)

    ENT: Exploring the galaxy in a Spaceship (difference: set in the past)

     

    With these preconceptions, these facts and the that DS9 was not recieved with nearly the same approval as TNG or VOY by most, It looks very unlikely that, if a new Star Trek series is made, it will be set anywhere different then in a exploring the galaxy in a Spaceship design.

     

    With this in mind, I think that it is very important to recognize Star Trek: Deep Space 9 for its uniqueness and differences, and for its ability to show that Trek, very good Trek, can be done without the confines of a Starship.