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  1. Posted

    I see some people are all excited about the next season.  I am glad for some of the changes but I can't deal with the Trip and T'Pol scenario.  I know these aren't real people so I shouldn't care.  But they had to pick a character I liked - of course by now I like most of them.

     

    But I am really sad, sad, sad.  Oh well, thank goodness for Stargate.

    Um, can someone please tell me what the 'Trip and T'Pol scenario' is? I've been to the sunny shores of France for a week and I am currently not 'in the know'.

     

    Cheers :wow:

  3. Posted

    DS9... :hug:

     

    It simply beats all competitors hands down, in and out of Star Trek. I loved the enhanced character devlepment and the fact that an episode in series one, for example, could be picked up again and explored further in series 5 and 6. The story arcs in DS9 have also so far beaten all other Trek storylines.

     

    :hug::wow::hug:

     

    I have just ordred season 3 of DS9 as well so I'm in a party mood... Woo-Hoo!

  4. Posted

    Which of these has a larger 'universe'? On the face of it, Star Trek has a much larger 'universe' as it encapsulates a whole galaxy, while LOTR takes place on a continent named 'Middle Earth'. However, LOTR, aside from the ring-bearers quest and the fellowship, has a complete history streching back 6000+ years, all of it written in as much detail as the 6-book tale The Lord Of the Rings and this history is of EVERYWHERE in Middle Earth. For complete example there is a lengthy tale of the besieging of the Shire in 1409 in the Third age. It chronicles how whole kingdoms came into being and withered away. How races and language evolved over the millenia. So which is it?

     

    A ~ Star Trek

    or

    B ~ LOTR

     

    Any ideas/comments/drunken scrawls will be appreciated... :wow:

  6. Posted

    It depends. If I was living on it then... :laugh:

     

    However that's not possible, at least untill I build my own scale replica model in my shed...

     

    For watching purposes, I thought that it was okay if a little too 'cutesy'. The Ent-E, Defiant, Voyager and the good old NX-01 got it just right.

     

    The Ent-D looked mighty fierce in Generations though...

  7. Posted

    No, Torres was always an Lieutenant.

     

    In Worst Case Scenario, B'Elanna was on the holodeck playing the part of a security Ensign. The holodeck program was created by Lt. Touvok in the first few weeks of Voyager's show and was made to allow security personnel to practise and counter-act what to do in the event of a Marquis takeover, which Touvok thought was highly likely at the time. As the Lightyears passed, Touvok realised that the threat was becoming less and less probable and, fearing it would spark off a revolt if found, hid it deep in the computers databanks. And there it stayed, until B'Elanna unearthed it..

     

    The start of the show does throw you a bit. What I've described only happens in the fist ten minutes or so. Click here for full review...Complete overview of the episode

  9. Posted

    Cool space saga games

     

    Nice set of games that follow on from each other. They are vry good for blasting away some (virtual) energy. I was playing the space station game when the similarity between these games and another space station that faced a war struck me. All the infomation is on the site. Cheerio! :biggrin:

  11. Posted

    :grin:

     

    What exactly is your question? Why was DS9 situated on the frontier of Federation space? Because it was not a Federation station. It was a station the Cardassians had left behind and the Bajorans had claimed it in their wake. The Federation was there on request of the Bajoran Provisional Goverment and was there to look after Terak Nor while Bajor regained its strength and to make sure that the Cardassians did not try to re-take the station. It was given a StarFleet designation, DS9, to show that it was currently under Federation control. Deep Space *number* is the standard designation for stations that the Federation control but that were not built by the Federation and do not comply to Federation specifications. Invariably these are alien stations, often science facilities.

     

    As for Farpoint... :biggrin: I've never seen it...

     

    What is your question exactly?

  15. Posted

    I don't think money was an issue. After all there have been a lot of crossovers in Trek so I don't think that bringingPicard in for one more episode would have made that much difference. There must be an answer to this question somewhere. One of the great things about Trek is that EVERYTHING has a reason for happening...

     

    And yes, it would have been cool to see both Ships fight side-by-side. Maybe the Defiant could have been getting its *buttocks* kicked (after destroying various Dominion ships of course B) ) and the Ent-E could have rescued it and the accompanied the Defiant, thus allowing the terrible twosome to wreck havoc for an episode or two. :wacko:

  18. Posted

    At this point, I think it's far too early to even begin to think about considering to guess.  B)

    Unfortunatly that isn't true. I've just read an article that says less than 5 million people in America have been watching Enterprise. Compare with 20 million for TNG. Enterprise is guaranteed 1 more season. After that it depends on the audiences...

     

    Anyone in Britain can read this. Look in the magazine Radio Times. :wacko:

  19. Posted

    I had always assumed that in the early series it was the budget and the fact that the (now) neolithic computer systems they had weren't capable of portraying CGI aliens to good effect. Now, of course, there are no excuses...

     

    I thought that the changelings in DS9 were a good idea. Here was an alien that had no primal form and could (and did on several occaisons) change into wierd shapes when it suited their purposes, but only stayed in humanoid form for politeness. This was an indication that not all alien lifeforms are humanoid. Voyager followed on from this with some ultra cool CGI aliens.

     

    For me, the real indication that this humanoid mentality has changed in Star Trek is when we see a non-humanoid captain of a starship... has that ever happened?

  21. Posted

     

    It's so hard to figure

    Did Kes really do that? Unfortunately I've never seen the episdoe where she exits Voyager, an episode I am dying to watch as Kes was my favourite character in the early seasons.

     

     

     

    (To Gotabite) Ensign?!? I am insulted! I shall soon take a rank no lower then that of Lt. Commander. Now, I shall go forth and POST... ;)

    The Voyager episode you should watch is called "The Gift". Next........I'm not taking offense, but, I didn't give you the rank of Ensign, that is what is written beside your name/ID . We earn rank here on this web site based on the number of posts we have on the boards. ;);)

    Great, thanks for the tip.

     

    I know you didn't give me the rank of Ensign and I know how the ranking system goes. When I said 'Now, I shall go forth and post...' I meant I was going to post a lot to get to a higher rank. I wasn't really insulted. (that explains the ;) , I couldn't find a sarcasam emoticon) Sorry for any confusion. It's often hard to get emotions across using type.

     

    Signing out

     

    *beep*

     

    :)

  22. Posted

    ;) Sorry ensign, this was one of my least favorite episodes.  To me it just didn't "Jive" with the Kes that left Voyager.....the character that loved her fellow crewmen so much that her final gift as she left the ship was to throw Voyager 10 light years closer to earth.....a Kes who had almost a daughter like relationship with Captain Janeway.  It just didn't seem logical to me that she'd somehow in her mind turned into this villan type that wanted revenge.on everyone........again this is just my opinion.  But I did enjoy reading your "take" on the episode.......By the way, Welcome to the boards. ;)

    I have to agree that for me too, it was hard to see Kes that way.

     

    How a so good natured person can turn so bad...

     

    It's so hard to figure

    Did Kes really do that? Unfortunately I've never seen the episdoe where she exits Voyager, an episode I am dying to watch as Kes was my favourite character in the early seasons.

     

    Kes wasn't bad, she was just in a lot of pain and felt that she needed to blame someone. ;) We see her 'good' side for an instant a couple of times and at the end she becomes nice. *yay* ;)

     

    (To the Cap'in) I have been watching Voyager off and on since it first aired, when I was a mere 7 years old. Awwwwwww. I have been watching it consistently for about 8 months now.

     

    (To Gotabite) Ensign?!? I am insulted! I shall soon take a rank no lower then that of Lt. Commander. Now, I shall go forth and POST... :)

  23. Posted

    Has anyone else seen the episode 'Fury'? It is AMAZING! In the episode Kes returns to Voyager as an old woman detremined to destroy Voyager and all of its crew. She uses her phsycic abilities to travel back in time to when Voyager was a scarce 53 or so days in the Delta quadrant. There she plans to disrupt the timeline by helping Voyager's enemy's at the time (I've forgotten their names, they need to harvest organs to stay alive) and gain passage for herself and the younger Kes, whom she plans to place on ther homeworld. There is far more plot than this, this being just a brief strucure to save time and to not ruin it for anyone else. (It's really that good!)

     

    Not only is this an excellent show in its own right and that it advances Kes's character, It illustrates just how far Voyager has come, in plot obviously but oh so much in the development of characters. For instance, it is facinating to see the Federation and Marquis divison, the isolation of the Captain from her crewmembers and most importantly the treatment of the Doctor. His plight for equal treatment and indeed his character has been an gradual evolution over all the series. Its shocking how different his regard for the crew and their regard for him in comparison from a couple of years on. There is some great acting here and there is no lethargy which slowly became apparent in the storylines. There is no smiles and jokes in a quaint Irish village. (Earlier VOY episode, another great one!). Here is a crew struggling to cope with being suddenly marooned, their lives, family and everything they knew hundreds of years away and they are being hunted for their lives. Dark, grim, gritty and very, very tense.

  24. Posted

    However, both DS9 and VOY ended their series very abruptly and definitely, leaving little room for a movie. And Ent is far to early on yet.

     

    I don't agree for DS9.

     

    They were a lot of plot unsolved...

     

    What happends to Bajor? Will it join the federation someday?

     

    When Sisko will be back and on what form?

     

    And will Odo be able to make his kind understand that solids aren't all bad and inferior?

     

    And on and on...

     

    I'm sure they would have been able to do another DS9 season without it being boring...

     

    So why not a movie?

    I was talking about the crew, of which I felt that it would be hard to include them without belittling the story. However I am slightly handicapped by not knowing exactly what happened... :laugh:

     

    I would love a DS9 movie so I am pessimistic in raising my hopes for fear of them being dashed...

     

    However, with my hopes now firmly raised, what can Star Trek do now but make at least 3 DS9 movies, *buttocks*-kicking they be? :laugh:

  25. Posted

    In a small way, haven't they changed the timeline anyway? For instance the crew of Entrprise have nice streamlined little communicators while TOS had large clunky ones in comparison.

     

    Despite that, Ent should in no way be allowed anywhere near a holodeck. Instead maybe they should have a primitive prototype, like Captin Branson's on the USS Equinox.