Cramase

Because that is the avatar that one of our characters has chosen to use. In VF You are free to choose whichever avatar you wish, providing it is not one of an established Star Trek actor or actress.

Valkyrie Fleet

The make-up was actually designed so that the mouth had a mechanism for him to speak with, it just that in the end they never gave him any lines. Too bad really. I would have liked to have seen his character expanded on a little more.

I wasn't too sure about DS-9 when it first started. I wondered how they would be able to develop original episodes when the characters were confined (primarily) to the station. Although by the end of the third season I was well and truly hooked.

I say Season Three,

Basically for the same reasons Prometheus pointed out.

Kirk's death in Generations really hit me, I mean - James Tiberius Kirk, actually dead.

The O'Brien character had minimal development in TNG, he was just a recuring extra most of the time, during which he usually said nothing more than "Energizing". There were only a few exceptions to that, which came along in later episodes, ie marriage to Keiko epi. In DS9 he became a fully fledged regular cast member and his character was developed so much more, thats why I voted for him being better in DS9.

Just wondering when the last banner update was? My banner was posted back at message #263 but I havent seen it up on the rotation yet.

Thanks

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I really wanted to go to the Experience when it came over to London for the summer in 2003 (i think) but I didn't have enough money :)

I'd love to go to Vegas anyway, my friend and I both want to go over to play the Poker tables, and I'd love to visit the experience while i was there, only problem is the previously mentioned lack of cash :P

Hey Takara - dont yet get bored posting how to make a banner every time we get to a new page? wouldnt it be easier to have a special page link with instructions on it?

Just the random babblings of a nutter, but thought I'd suggest it anyway.

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Meh, its just another day when I have to work

I probably would have said something along the lines of "Mummy" then fainted in a gibbering wreck, lol

rofl, nice one wishfire!!!

Go Picard!!!

YAY! Its finally up. Thanks Takara.

Can you stick it on the rotation now VBG? Thanks!

I have photoshop too. If you want, you could email the .psd file and I'll save it as a jpg and upload it into your post. My email address is takara_soong@startrekfans.net

Ok, I sent the email today so you should have got it now

Have you checked the format of your banner? I don't know what program you used to make it but make sure it is saved in a format that the board can upload such as jpeg.

I created it in Photoshop then converted it to Jpeg format to decrease the size of the file. I don't understand why my computer crashes every time i try to attach it to a message or PM.

Gargh!!! Stupid dumb **** **** Idiotic ******** Computer!!!!!!

Damn thing wont let me post my banner!!!!!!!

Each Captain only has the codes from there own ships and on occasion the codes  of other ships like in "TWOK "

Kirk didn't know the prefix of the Reliant, he had to get it pulled up on the computer (Which took forever if i remember rightly....... they probably ran on windows back then)

ok, but ill have to do it later, my computer keeps crashing every time i try to attach it at the moment.

Ok, just finished designing my banner, should i post it here or email to ya VBG?

I think bringing in and established Star Trek actor like Brent Spiner as a regular would snub and overshadow the rest of the cast. It would be like turning round and saying "You guys just arent good enough so we brought in Brent to keep things going"

But thats just my opinion

I agree with the idea that Seven was much like a child and Janeway an overprotective mother. While it is true that Janeway wanted Seven to express her freewill, she had to intervene sometimes because Seven did not always use her freewill in the 'correct' way. At the end of the day freewill must sometimes be suppresed, because the results are not always good. (Would you let a man kill another just because he was doing it of his own free will?)

I agree with fredbroca - Picard would only have known the Enterprise's prefix code and I'm sure it is standard policy that if a Captain, or any personnel who know any codes of any sort, are captured then those codes must be immediately changed.

At the end of the day there is only so far you can go and so much you can do without going overboard and ruining the whole thing. As much as I wish the opposite, there will come a time when there will be no more star trek related series or films made because they will simply have run out of ideas for plotlines.

It's all well and good trying to start a new series set even further in the future, but you have to remember that the scriptwriters are here in the 21st century and you can only imagine a certain amount before it becomes ridiculous.

Star Trek is an amazing show, and has been throughout all five of its incarnations over the past forty odd years, we just have to accept that (and sorry to sound cliche here) All good things must come to and end.

I agree, they can't realistically be human, since no species that abducted them would just dump them on a planet to form a colony would they? It wouldnt make any sense.