NordicBearskin

Spying on people, if only for the practical joke value. Imagine the bed-wetting fear of a marble or a hairbrush suddenly morphing into a humanoid shape. :blink:

'Ex post facto' I beileve. I was relativley new to Star Trek, as I had only seen a smattering of TNG and DS9, but this episode hooked me straight away. I watched every episode following that fanaticly and finally got my wish when my local TV supplier re-ran VOY, start to finish.

I don't know. Having seen Firefly I can say that they definetly deserved the Outstanding Visual Effects emmy. It has become harder for Star Trek shows to win emmy's though, with the growth of competion. (e.g. DS9 collected at least 4 in its first two seasons, I'll have to check the precise facts)

I would like a blend of DS9 and VOY elements in ST:XI. I like the idea of Chakotay being awarded command of Voyager and most of its crew while Admiral Janeway is given a new vessel, possibly the Prometheus? As for a story I don't have any real ideas, although I'd like to see the Gamma quadrant investigated a bit further. Oh and we should definetly see Bajor and hwht has happened to it since DS9 ended.

Great idea. I would enjoy reading and writing. I have also wanted to have a good reason to say, out loud, 'Lt. Commander Sasooni's log: Supplemental. Today a very special incident happened...' for ages. If anyone asks I can say I'm just getting the words sorted out in my head. And hope they don't realise the computer is not on. :o

Again, I love all of the Star Trek shows nearly equally. I voted for Ent, but it could just have easily been VOY or TNG as my 'least' favourite. All the shows were good and all of them have brought something new to Star Trek.

Well...the Federation controls a vast area of space and as there have been less than 20 Galaxy ships ever constructed it wouldn't make sense to rely on soley these kind of ships to explore space. StarFleet probably wanted a ship that could explore known space and could be produced in vast quantities. It was only meant to travel inside Federation space and so be (in theory) safe. It also could be that if StarFleet wanted to study , for example, a nebula near the Romulan border, an Oberth class ship would be able to collect the data without seeming threatening. Of course, I'd rather be in a Galaxy and be threatening then to be in an Oberth and be squished.

Great show. I really liked the air of desperation and destruction in this episode, simply because it as a change from the usual VOY fomat. Funnily enough, it reminded me of the Blitz. I had been learning about it in history and the sense of people coping with the tremendous burden, helping each other out without a second's hesitation and learning to live under the most extreme of conditions really made this episode special to me.

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I was wondering, does anyone have any specific aims or goals involving StarTrek? I have a few I'd like to do.

1) Buy series 4 + 5 of DS9

2) Watch every episode of TNG

3) Attend a convention in 2004

4) Buy more Star Trek books

5) Actually get some work done on my FanFic!

6) Not to become an obsessed fanatic who gives up the few friends he has, despite number 2

If I could get mos of these done anytime soon (for FanFic, read 'within 3 decades') I'd be a pretty happy camper!

Odd choices you put on your list. 

 

From that list, I went with Geordi.  Just like him, that's all.  Paris would be second.

I too liked Geordi for no particular reason. Maybe with Geordi, B'lanna and Miles O'Brien, engineers just have the coolest characters.

I agree with EVEYTHING admiralpeewee said! Tom Paris was such a good character in the first few series. His Capt. Proton hologrammes and general fixations with the 20th century were a great concept and I agree that his and B'lanna's realationship was very good, the 2nd best ever in Trek! His all round character was fantastic and fitted the whole 'breaking away' from the typical 'perfect' StarFleet crew, (B'lanna, Neelix, Chakotay etc) all characters we would never have seen in TNG. An interesting compliment to an interesting crew.

DS9 is amazing. Simple. Anyone who doesn't like it simply hasn't seen it enough to grasp its beauty. It's rather a shame that VOY was rushed onto the screens. I felt like it kinda 'upstaged' its older brother...

Anyhow, how come DS9 has this reputation for being dark and gloomy? Okay, so it wasn't a happy, flying nursery, like TNG, and it does have a complex, mature nature but DS9 has more humor and 'feel-good' situations built into it then any other Star Trek show.

I don't think that either side of her heritage had more or less of an impact on who she was. As in Faces, we see that both sides of her ancestry have equal importance and effect on her. I liked it that she was clearly not a typical, 'StarFleet' person who was calm, rational and who didn't allow their feelings to get in the way of her job but that she wasn't also a full Klingon, full of rituals and 'belly-fire'.

I have an idea for holograms on Star Trek.  In TNG we got to hear the computer as the voice of Majel Roddenberry.  By why do they continue to use "voice" computers?  They could make shipboard computers with holographic interfaces.  You throw in command hologram protocals like the Doctors.  With this idea, Starfleet could have a sentient hologram capable of running the ship on its own, as it would be linked into every system.  This would be similar in concept as when Barclay interfaced his mind with the Entprises computer.  Actually, this could have even made an intersting Voyager episode --- "The Doctors holographic matrix becomes fused with the ships computer giving him full command of every ship function..."  Oh, and um, I'd appreciate it if this idea did NOT leave this chat room.

They addressed this idea in VOY. I forget the name (as usual) but it was the one where the Doctor incorporates the ability to daydream into his programme. He also recommends the use of a ECH, a Emergency Command Hologramme, which Janeway more-or-less shoots down. However, he begins to daydream more and more and is unable to either prevent the dreams or know what is real and what isn't. Meanwhile, we see a group of aliens, who plan on attacking Voyager, attempting to spy on Voyager by using the Doctor a a kind of 'camera' which will allow them to gain data on Voyager without being detected. However, by now the Doctor is daydraming non-stop and the crew are forced to imprision him for his own safety and theirs (just before he attempted to eject the core, believing that it was the only way to save Voyager) and they decide to view his 'fantasies' to see if they can identify the problem. Among a couple of rather lewd dreams, the crew come across one where the bridge crew are incapacitated due to a Borg attack and the Doctor becomes the ECH and destroys the Borg sphere with a fictional weapon, the Plutonic Cannon, in one blast. As Janeway prepares to leave she sees the Doctor saying to her, in a daydream, that all he ever wanted was to reach his full potential and to help his friends. Sadder but wiser, Janeway leaves. Meanwhile, on the alien vessel, the alien monitoring the Doctor now realises that what he was viewing was not information but the Doctor's fantasies. He cannot tell anyone as he fears for his career over making such a mistake. He manages to communicate with the Doctor and warns him of the attack and states the Doctor will have to play the part of the ECH as in his daydreams, to convince the alien captain that the 'information' is true and that Voyager is armed with the might of the Plutonic Cannon. We also learn that it is the aliens fault that the Doctor's daydreams were malfuctioning. Everything is set in place and after some theatrical improvisation and a few narrow misses, the Doctor convinces the aliens that Voyager is too strong a target and they leave. Later, the Doctor recieves a party in his honor, a StarFleet commendation and Janeway's promise that she will instruct StarFleet to assemble a team of engineers to research te idea of making ECH when they get to Earth.

Presumably, StarFleet was midway through designing one when Nemesis was made.

Obviously, there is more in this episode then I wrote but you get the basic idea.

Great song! :( I loved that episode and this song was the icing on a very tasty cake...

(It's a cheesecake)

I was part of an away team on a starbase. We were beamed down to Bajor onto a tall, military-style building that dominated the landscape. I was talking to a Vedek (I forget what about) and gazing at the landscape when suddenly three Klingon Birds Of Prey decloaked and started firing at the building. Me and my team rushed inside (we had been on the roof) when abruptly a group of Klingons transported down in front of me, armed with Bath'leth's. Instantly, my team, the building and everything else vanished and I found myself on the arid desert I had glimpsed from the building. Facing me was one Klingon and we were both armed with Bath'leth's. We fought each other and eventually I managed to knock the Klingon down to the ground...

Then I woke up.

This dream was especially speacial for me as I very rarely remember my dreams.

Do you mean a Massively Multiplayer Online RPG or a single player RPG? I would love a MMO one but a lot of work would be required so that it would be faithful to the series and still be a good game, and also so that people couldn't ruin the RPG.

Heroes and Demons. Anything with the Doctor in is great and this show is the first baby step towards The Doctors character developing into the fantastically varied individual we see in the later series.

After recieving the package which I was informed contained my copy of DS9 Companion, I opened it with eager anticipation. After all, it has recieved some great reviews from both fans and professional critics. However, after starting to read this tome, I can safely say that this blew me away and my went over an above wildest hopes. And I'm only on the first series!

3 things stand out straight away:

1) The size! This book is A3 sized and is about 1.5" thick.

2) The narrator has a wonderful narrative voice, clearly knows his stuff and, most importantly, has been with the DS9 team and been writing this book ever since the first idea for DS9 began.

3) The Companion is crammed with interviews (with everyone!), facts, figures, reverence points, titbits of infomation, special features (including a great atlas map of Bajor spread across the opening pages) etc etc.

I won't bore people with the fine details. Go here to find out more about this brilliant book but I would seriously seriously recommend purchasing this book if you can; this is an incredible piece of work whether you be a die-hard DS9 fanatic or the most casual of Star Trek fans..

Edit: I know this thread could be posted in the STbooks and Fan Fiction board but as it is not a fictional book set in the Star Trek universe but a highly informative guide primarily about the making of DS9, it deserves to be in the DS9 board.

Best of luck in your life Prometheus! Have a great present and a fantastic future.

Just remember Lifes cardinal rule: Always Eat Your Vegetables.

Good luck and farewell. You will be missed.

:)

Oui, as a movie this concept would be well worth my money. They won't do it though as it does not make financial sense. Only Star Trek fans would watch, as a consequence it would do badly in selling tickets and more people would start harping on about the death of Trek. Nor would it make any money. Not what Paramount wants right now. Also, if they were do to this kind of movie, I wouldn't go to see it if it had the Klingons. I feel that they have been done enough in Star Trek and I would love to see a almost unkown race explored, as long as it didn't condradict what is known about them already. I also think there should be a tribute to DS9 in it, simply because (in my mind) DS9 doesn't get enough recognition.

I would love this to happen! A one off movie such as this would be a breath of fresh air, as well as providing entertaining background infomation on Star Trek. I agree it wouldn't be popular in the mainstream but who cares about them? This movie would be a Star Trek movie for Star Trek fans. Unfortunately they almost certainly will not make anything like this, but if they did, I would like to see the beginning of the Founders and the Dominion.

Yes, but I think that most inconsistencies can be explained or at least have a possible explanation. And as VBG says, for a show that has been going for as long as Trek, it's remarkable that they have kept things together so well, especially since they made much of the stuff up as they went along. Thank goodness Star Trek has such diligent writers!

Subversion, enigmas and deception are my favorite themes in an episode. For much the same reason I also love Garak but of course, his great sense of humour, dry wit and timing are also great parts of his character.

I also like episodes that make me think. Past Tense, Far Beyond the Stars and Honor Among Thieves are three fantastic examples, although there are many more.

I'd have to say the Federation. The Jem'Hadar have the sheer strength of numbers and the Romulans have the cloaking technology and the instictive cunning but the Federation has the most well rounded able ships. Plus, they have two great design initatives, the Sovereign and the Prometheus.