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Nice touch, RC! A fun addition.

But one that would be near or at the top of my list would be the scenes between Data and his daughter, Lal in "THe Offspring".

Agreed. My very favorite Data scene is the one where Lal is "dying' and tells her father, Data, that she loves him.

I have to agree with Ace! That was a really strong season! My favorites include One Small Step, which I voted for; Fair Haven,which was great fun; Blink of an Eye, which was a brilliantly conceived episode...time passing differently and how one would interact; Child's Play, which was heartbreaking---when one thinks about one's child being the future, one does not think about the child's death as guarenteeing your future...; and many others. I voted for One Small Step because it honored the courage of the early space program (the program we support now), and honored someone facing death alone, and yet having the courage to continue his exploring until his dying breath. Little did he know that his fellow humans would some day find him, and collect and study the data he gathered. Great episode!

I voted Someone to Watch over Me, a good episode involving the Doc and Seven.

No strong preferences here. I voted for Timescape, but I also like Aquiel, The Chase, and a few others. I like most of them...just no real favorites.

Glad to hear this good news! Congratulations!

Ditto. Spiner is good in any role he plays.

I just rented LOTR: The Return of the Kings. It was quite good, but I did not like it any more than the other two. In fact the first movie had a bigger impact on me, and I own it on DVD, but do not plan to buy the others. I thought the ending was excellent, especially the fact that Frodo could never recover his life....even though he finally destroyed the ring, the experience had so scarred him that he could not recover, adn left Middle Earth with the elves. Frodo and his struggle was my central focus in watching the LOTR, and I was satisfied with the ending. I enjoyed the other characters too. I have not read the trilogy.

Isn't making a movie about it kind of defeating the purpose? I mean its about the society going lazy and slowly stop reading books until it because culturally unacceptable and then finally illegal...

Very good point. And the producer/director/actors certainly embodied a spirit of laziness on the set.

I'm pretty sure I haven't read the book, but I have seen the movie you are talking about and I liked it. The people did seem wooden, but I thought that just underscored the condition of people in that society.

Seeing the movie has not made me lazy or unable to think for myself. I may get around to reading the book, but I am glad I had the opportunity to think about the issues of the book through having seen the movie.

There is an episode from season 5 called "In the Cards" when everyone is depressed about the war, and so Jake Sisko decides to cheer up his father by giving him a Willie mays baseball card...if he can only get it! In the effort to obtain the card, he and Nog end up doing different things for different people, lifting the spirits of all those they became involved with.

I think it is interesting that the writers chose to deal so openly with this depression in one of the episodes.

I'd just like to see them have some kind of life together, after all they have been through.

AE, you have much greater faith in TPTB than I do.  I honestly believe they do not think there was anything wrong with T'Pol's actions and they were merely looking for a plot device that could explain her hooking up with Trip.

 

I also think there is more to accepting responsibility than some people understand.  The crucial step is "accepting" responsibility.  I mean looking at yourself in the mirror and realizing with horror the choices you made, to admit to yourself and to your Captain what you did, and to feel genuine remorse for it. 

 

The other step I think people overlook is that "punishment" isn't about revenge - it ultimately should be about helping the person regain their confidence and their self respect.  T'Pol, of course, hasn't lost her confidence or her self respect because she doesn't think she did anything wrong.  But if you truly forgive a person then you want them to able to forgive themselves and people often need a process in order to do that.

I completely agree with TUh on this. It would be a shocking (though welcome) development to see TPTB actually deal with the behavior approrpiately.

Definitely a Vulcan in Star Fleet. It could be Tuvok, because of the hairline, and the fact that you do not include color in your picture.

I see now...but your sister is right... it does not look like a beard. Nice work, and a fun thread! Congrats, TUH!

Either my sister or I found Star Trek when the original series was on the air. The first episode I saw was Where No Man Has Gone Before.

I went to the members list and looked at everyone's signature, and I liked a lot of them. My final list included Ace, Indy, mrskirk,Odie, Spacetigger, trekkergirl220, and VBG.

I voted for Spacetigger, because I think the picture in act of transporting is pure trek...and the scene is from City on the Edge of Forever, one of the best ever episodes of Star Trek!

Get plent of rest! It will get better. You are in my prayers!

Most of the books I own are non-fiction.

I voted for Darmok, since Inner Light has so many votes.....but it is still a toss up in my heart. I like Picard's comments about Dathan at the end of the episode...that communication was so important to him the he was willing to risk everyone's lives just to try to be able to talk to one another.

Like many times before, I find myself faced with choice of episodes I like equally. I voted for In the Cards, for the improbable way in which Jake's desire to give his father a gift, led to his and Nog's changing th whole mood of the station. It was both poignant and humerous.

But I also like Nor is the Battle to the Strong, Begotten, Trials and Tribulations, By Inferno's Light,

The Darkness and the Light, Assignment (O'Brien really outsmarted the bad guy!), and others.

Far too many favorite scenes. I will list a few, but it does not begin to make a dent in my real list.

The final scenes from King's row, where Paris is struggling between being a doctor or friend to his troubled childhood friends, and finally decides to do what he should do as their doctor.

In The Man From Snowy River, I like two scenes: one where he and Jessica are riding on his horse in the mountains with the beautiful scenery: the other where he single-handedly runs down the herd of wild horses.

In Return to Snowy River, I like the scene where he beats up the bad guy who shot his horse, sits down, dejectedly thinking of his dead horse, and when the bad guy sneaks up on him, the wild horse he now rides goes after the bad guy. You would understand what I am saying if you had seen the movie.

I like the scene from Ben Hur where he confronts the man who wrongly sent him to the galleys. I especially like the way he smacks the proconsul's seal on the tablet the man was holding.

I like the scene in Greatest Story Ever Told when Jesus comes to Lazarus' tomb and raises him from the dead.

I like the scene in Moses when God gives the 10 commandments ( better then the parting of the Red sea scene.)

I like the scence in the Undiscovered Country where Chancellor Gorkon tells Kirk that if there is to be a new world, it is people like them who would have the most trouble living in it.

I like the scene in Insurrection where Aneesh is with Picard, and makes the beautiful moment they are having linger; I like the scene where Geordi awaits his first sunrise.

I'm glad I peaked, but is this going to be another arc?

I received Season 4 as a gift, and bought Seasons 5 and 6 recently. I was surprised at how many of the episodes I had not seen.

But I did not have the discipline to watch them slowly and deliberately. I had a DS9 marathon of my own when I was on vacation recently. I have a new respect for the depth at which they dealt with some issues in that series.

I agree...it's tough! I cannot choose between Darmok and Inner Light. I'll come back later. I also like The Masterpiece Society, and practically all the episodes of season 5.

I don't have a clue! Kirk?