Voyager recruit

Understood, no prob. I actually haven't seen any of the remastered eps that have been running on a local station-for about nearly two months! I don't have a setup for the digital transition yet-DUH. There's not much on in the summer, but reruns, but I plan on starting things up before the fall season. Maybe then, with digital, I can vidtape those eps-without the signal fading in and outwith weather, etc...not to mention clear pics all the time, everywhere. I hope.

I agree! I loved this race-and wish the producers hadn't just let them disappear from notice in the series. They came up with a powerful, enigmatic, and unique species...(darn I wish we knew what their REAL name is!)..and then after the four eps...a conflict between those who were considering tolerance, and perhaps even more with the Federation someday, and the 'hardliners' might have made for an interesting further reveal....and it gave one of my fave characters Chakotay a chance to be predominant in the storyline...oh, and Ray Walston...wonderful as before-even if Boothby-approximated!

For one who grew up with the original, I have to 'defend' Bill, and his style, which, if at times a bit funny(reacting in pain, etc...chuckle) he still created with the Kirk bravado and tenacity, etc a memorable , legendary character, and there would be no Chris Pine Kirk-who did just fine, BTW-without the first one....and yes, like Jeffrey Hunter, they are from a different era-my era as a kid-and to me they represent what Trekkies used to call 'Classic Trek'..and it will forever be, to me.

Perhaps it may be so, but, for me, it's not really so an issue. Anyhoo, as I say, I have only good things overall about the whole redo...

A shortlsleeve collared shirt, with horizontal red-darkblue pinstripes, and a pair of jeans, a hole in one knee...no shoes or socks...

Though not into the Borg per se, I found the ep a good one. I liked One-played by the same actor who did a memorable Vulcan, Mostral, on Enterprise some years later.

I liked this ep. It took Kathryn on a suprising psycho-emotional journey....even if it was a bit saddening, to hear her regret coming out, after the endless days in the Void...but of course she comes out of her fugue in the end. It was a strong dramatic element to me...I have used it in a sequel story, taking some liscense, as it were, to have her not entirely over it all even after they exit the area...and a certain entity shows up, to transport her to a certain arid planet, so that she may see what would have unfolded, had Voyager NOT been taken so far from home...

Actually, I found Lanna's actions to be a powerfully dramatic story element, if worriesome inasmuch she IS torturing herself...but it highlights the price paid by those who stood for whatt they believed, and the bruatl nature of the enmey back home...I found it overall to be a very good Season Five ep...and recall Janeway's loving concern for her friend, as well as 'Kotay....

Enterprise is at the top of my list, and off the top of my head, the current one to mention...

Glad to hear both of these news bits. About time Clark started looking the part, and coming truly into acceptance of his destiny...but all things in time. Terrific to hear about the Justice Society. I'd like to see the other heroes beyond GA back on the series now and then...but I wish Bart would be called what he is in at last I knew in the comics as 'The Flash'....

Happy B-Day!

I was walking near my old neighborhood about a week-plus ago, and happened to glance to my right, where there was a small sign-and-lettering business, with samples of types offered placed on the front window...and what did I see..but a Ferengi symbol, and the Klingon Trefoil we all know so well!! I was tempted to go in, and ask for the owner-and see if, and surely they must be-'Are you a Trekkie!?'....

Indeed! Thanks for introing we Voyager fans to this. I was certainly unaware of this gentleman, but, especially given his inside look at my favorite series, well, terrific! Let us know when the next comes out. VR.

Yes, I was 'around' that day, and will always remember sitting there on the floor in front of our rather large black and white set, not that this would have helped with the actual live feed..grin...but so what? I WAS THERE TO SEE IT HAPPEN, like so many....and also was an avid Apollo follower over the years. I recall having this little model set, of the LM and Command modules, and mini-minis in the set of moon astronauts....I still have my copy of 'Footprints On The Moon'', by the AP, looking back at the space program's inceptions-from failures, and tradgedies, to the triumph of '11'...and that long-iconic closeup of Aldrin, I think it was....and several National Geographics detailing the subsequent missions. It's a thing of pride, to be able to say I was a part of that generation....as a kid.

Thanks for you latest, and ongoing artistic works. The BOP is a classic vessel. Say..where are the Targ-holding rooms? Heh heh heh...

And the last time we saw our beloved Vulcan before..well, you know! A classic two-part ep....that gave us a glimpse into everyday Romulan life, and the ties that bound two 'sundered ' races...

Right you are, I was thinking about that...ooops. Imagine how Starfleet would have wanted to keep the facts of how forces from AHEAD in time had been manipulating the then-present...it would be chilling, to a population rocked by the Xindi Crisis...

Oh, no...!! Bless Walter..what a legend...RIP, to one of the greatest broadcasting legends of the past century-plus...I am WELL old enough, to remember growing up with him on our family's tv screen every weeKnight, as we were big CBS watchers, including the news, always....all those events he brought to us-including Project Apollo-so in the news today, and in coming days..strange irony. I watched him describe for we viewers, how the events would take place as the crew's mission unfolded, sitting there with Wally Schirra, and discussing these then and now historic events....''Wow'', was a comment he is famous for, I believe when man touched down on the moon..he said it best, as so often, and for all of us....and he was there, when Vietnam was unfolding on our tv screens, when Nixon made history-in China...and, regrettably, here at home in ways hard to forget...noone will replace him, that is sure...

I know there's no canon to support this, but I'd wonder if the TOS temporal events are not what got Starfleet started with the TI office. 'CITY' certainly would make the brass shudder, to think what one person, no matter their intent, could do to the timeline....in the Alan Dean Foster treatment of 'Yesteryear', the Guardian's planet is described, in the wake of its discovery, as supporting, with considerable effort by the Federation, ground-based p installations, and missile tubes to defend it from conquest by hostiles who could easily alter history....in addition to an orbital facilty I believe to protect the planet...

Oh yes! Bring it on! I can't wait to see the Klingons and the Narada in battle...which, according to an article I read last week or so, would have, had an earlier script-draft been filmed, Narada being beset upon, following the destruction of Kelvin, and the behemoth-vessel's being wounded....it would have made Uhura's reference to the 47 ship slaughter at Klingon space more logicallly brought out...but, still, this delay makes what we will see worth the wait, I hope....among the pleasure of seeing the new Enterprise, Leonard, and so on.....

As far as the first six-not that I am discounting the rest, but, Khan and Country are the best to me, though Home had funny, or touching moments. That was about the time I became what I would call myself a 'continually active, and full-scale participatory fan' of ST, though ALWAYS liked and was a fan of whatever degree for years before, back to the earliest syndication...

'Yesterday's Enterprise' for example....great ep.

I will admit, that in the Shatner novels his impatience with the current Starfleet-which was quite knowingly and intentionally made a clear part of the fabric of much of the past tales-was borne out, and, as evidenced with some equal irritation from Admiral Janeway for his 'style'...but he acted, if outside the bounds, at whatever points, to do what he felt was crucial to what was so deeply affecting him in the books-such as the abduction of his son, rescuing his wife, etc....he has been branded a rebel, in the non-canon Shatbooks...but I think many fans still appreciate the full speed ahead style that, in the end, gets it done....and he is set apart that way from the other Trek captains-who, HOWEVER-in various moments-have had their little bursts of 'Insurrection'-wink wink..but Jean-Luc's came out of what he saw as a righteous cause-done as a remote Starfleet was unaware of goings on, true...and the future Kathryn tossed the TPD out the window..for the sake of two she loved-again, devotion to one's friends-crew...to me, to many a reader, a dramtic, powerfully moving, and completely human act....and Jonathan Archer would never have been afraid to do as he felt it morally necessary, if pushed to it...Kirk is 'colorful'. He is headstrong. He doesn't allow what he sees as ANY obstacle sway him, yes, at times...but this is part of what makes him the dynamic personality that has marked him as a legend, because he just doesn't quit...and if nothing else, THAT is a powerful thing. Not to 'argue' here..just to state some opinions, eh?....but, (wink, wink) I have a feeling Jean-Luc will in the non-canon books have that Admiral promotion-and keep it-Kirk did not. But, who wants to see Jim Kirk chained to a desk, in any time or place,when he can be out there 'hoppin' galaxies'....

Precisely. Jim valued those under his command greatly. Remember the death of poor Yeoman Thompson at the hands of the Kelvans in ''By Any Other Name?''...the expression on his face, as he held in his hands what remained of her...or when he faced not one but what, the deaths of two or more security guards in 'the Apple'....and the ultimate selfless act was at the end of Generations..where he died with a smile on his lips..knowing that 'He had made a difference'...and...''It was...fun.'' Both Captains, whatever their eras, were committed to defending the Federation, and all its peoples, to if need be, give up their lives-even those of their crew-to protect those countless beings. The Kobayashi Maru taught that, if you are in Starfleet, you had best be prepared to make that sacrifice..and even in so doing..go into that Undiscovered Country with grace...but then, some just hate to lose, so, we'll forgive Jim there... desiring to defeat death, is not the same as being also unwilling to accept-if it must come.

What's a vacation? Grin. Been YEARS....lotta years...