mrskirk

Hi! Your friendly neighborhood Time Warner Cable customer service rep here! Both the Trek and WWE programming will continue to be seen on the new SpikeTV.

Awwww!! That IS sad!!! Is that final episode available on DVD or download? I just gotta see it!!

I too was a Quantum Leap fan. That was the first time I got an eye full of Hott Scott Bakula. I watched as many episodes as I could, but missed a few, including the ending. What happened?

I think this is such a great place because - we have great members and moderators - and of course VaBeachGuy!

 

The people who make ST.com so bad thrive there because no one can stop them - here we can!

I completely agree. It seems peoplelink (the company who runs the message boards at st.com) doesn't give a damn about who does what on the boards. Spammers are allowed to run rampant and Wolftrek continues to add post after post of drivel and nothing is done about it. They don't seem to update their software AT ALL! I mean, since when have you posted on a message board that doesn't bump a post to the top after someone responds? At the st.com boards, if you want to see if your post has been answered you have to dig through 3 or 4 pages of filth and lists of Wolftrek's DVD collection. YECCCH!

Then, one day I spotted a post from some guy called vabeachguy33. It contained a link to this site. I came here and have never looked back. As stated in previous posts, the mods here do their jobs and do them well. VaBeachGuy is always willing to lend a helping hand to newbies like me. The reason everybody is so nice? IMHO, this site is a breath of fresh air and I don't want anything to happen that might cause it to go away!

The last station I worked at was WJZI, in Milwaukee, Wis.

What style of music does WJZI play? Is it AM or FM? I live in Milwaukee and have never heard of that station.

When TOS went off screen, a very popular show had been cancelled. There was still an appetite for it in a big way. People watched re-runs of Star Trek as that was all they had. When the first movie was released, it was very successful. Why? Because the majority of Americans loved Star Trek.

That is also the reason the TOS movies were more enjoyable to attend. From 1979-1986 there was no other Trek. The movies were the only way to see brand new adventures of Captain Kirk and crew. When the movies were finally released, you couldn't get near a ticket for the first week or so it spent in theaters without pre-ordering. The whole atmosphere was much more fun, because the crowd was much more "into it." I remember applause throughout the theater the first time Spock appeared on screen during The Motion Picture. Hoots, hollers, and cheers during the battle between Reliant and Enterprise in The Wrath of Khan, especially after Kirk's famous line.."It's coming through now Khan....here it comes....FIRE!" Every movie was like a Trek party!!

I also voted for TWOK. The reasons are the same as many of the previous posts have mentioned-Ricardo Montalban's fabulously evil performance as Khan and the emotion between Kirk and Spock during Spock's death scene. I also liked the addition of a new character, Lt. Saavik, to the trek universe. The uniforms were cool, too! First Contact was a good movie, but I couldn't connect with the characters during that movie. TWOK had much more of a "family" feel to it, showing how the Enterprise crew had come to care for each other after serving together for so long. I never got that feeling with the TNG crew.

I work in a call center..or as some people like to describe it, I'm a "phone jockey." Right now I'm a customer service rep working for the local cable company. My job description? I get (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't)ed at for a living. Oh well, at least my job is never dull.

I was born in 1959 so I was just a tot in diapers during the "Golden Age of Television", but I also enjoy many old TV series besides TOS. The original versions of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits are at the top of my list. There was another old sci-fi/horror series that I love..it's called "One Step Beyond." Classic stuff! My dad enjoys alot of old series as well. He doesn't have a VHS collection but his favorite channel to watch is TVLand, a cable channel which shows nothing but old classic TV series from the 50's, 60's, and 70's.

Well, IMHO, the reason the franchise has taken a turn for the worse lately is that TPTB are trying to "appeal to a mass audience." The problem is, the producers think that the way to appeal to a wider audience is to add more T&A along with more stuff being shot at and blown up. That's why the newer Trek series and movies have women in tight catsuits or getting goo rubbed on them while dressed in their underwear and huge battle scenes with multiple ships flying around, shooting, and blowing up. To me, that's not the reason Trek has survived for almost 40 years. I think the reason is because of intelligent writers tackling controversial subjects which made viewers think. Sure, Captain Kirk had his babe of the week, but most of the episodes of TOS revolved around the characters and intelligent story lines. Just my two cents!

Regarding Seven's "eye piece": it's true that it couldn't be removed without killing her. That's because it wasn't an eye piece, it was a cortical implant, which controlled all of her central nervous system functions. I remember an episode where her cortical implant began to fail, and Seven was dying. Janeway tried everything to find a replacement for her, even going to a destroyed Borg ship and taking one from a dead drone. At the end, Echep (sp?) almost kills himself by removing his own implant so he can donate it to Seven. I forget the name of the episode...

I've seen the previews for this movie, and to me it looks like "Indiana Jones meets the X-Men."

I saw a biography on Jeffrey Hunter on TV not too long ago and it stated that Hunter's wife felt that the role of Pike on Star Trek was "beneath him," so he ultimately turned it down.

I can relate to the way the Soong sisters feel about the death of Data. I went in to mourning at the end of The Wrath of Khan after Spock died. Spock is one of my favorite characters for the same reasons Data has so many fans. He is half Vulcan, and had difficulty "fitting in" with other Vulcans, as well as Humans. His friendship with James T Kirk brought out his human half, and he was not embarrassed to admit that he considered the captain his friend. The death scene between Kirk and Spock was so powerful I still cry when I watch the DVD, even though I know Spock is resurrected in the following movie.

Thank you VBG and everyone else. I know I haven't been seen much lately, but that's because the call volume at work has increased dramatically over the past few weeks. Because of that, I don't have time to sneak in for a visit during work hours. Gotta keep working hard so I can save up lots of $$ for the startrekfans.net convention next summer!!

Whatever that was, it obviously caused great psychological harm to Kes, and might explain her premature aging.

I don't think her aging was at all premature. Don't forget, Kes was Ocampan, and they only lived for 9 years. I believe she was about 3 years old when she left Voyager, and "Fury" took place 3 years after her departure. That would have made Kes 6 years old-2/3 of her lifetime was over. So, the "aging" wasn't premature at all.

Wat du yuo mean by ttypos?

I didn't have to hide. I just kicked back in my comfy chair eating Culver's fried chicken and drinking Mountain Dew while rooting for whomever was winning.

1999 Dodge Neon

I voted "other." There's a fast food restaurant called Culver's that has THE BEST fried chicken I've ever tasted! Actually, all the food they serve is great..their butter burgers rule!

I cant wait for book three of the Eugenics Wars, (will take place on Ceti Alpha during the years of exile) should be very interesting to find out the truth about what happened to her. I’m betting she outlived her usefulness and became the victim of an unfortunate... accident.

I seem to remember Khan mentioning Marla's fate during Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He was telling Checkov about those ugly squrimy creatures and how they are the only indiginous life on Seti Alpha 5. He then mentions the creatures killed several of his people, including his "beloved wife." I assume Marla was his wife, unless he got rid of her and married one of the "super women" from the Botany Bay. I guess I'll have to check out that book when it comes out.

I just got done watching "Space Seed" on the Sci-Fi Channel's TOS marathon. I haven't seen that episode for a long time, and had forgotten much of it. After seeing it again, I just can't figure out Marla McGuyvers. She falls in love with Khan, who treats her with brutality and disrespect. She almost redeems herself by saving Captain Kirk's life, but at the end of the episode she follows her man, even after the way he abused her and her crewmates. I mean, is this the enlightened, educated woman of the future? I think not!! What do my fellow female trekkies think? Guys, I'd like to hear your opinions too!

LOL! "stunt butt double"! Geez, showbiz is so ridiculous some times!

When I read the above quote, I got a mental picture going of the poor guy directing that episode. It probably went something like this:

"Okay Marina, turn away from the camera...keep turning..slooowly..good! CUT!!! BUTT DOUBLE TO THE SET!!"

I don't know why, but I always liked Janice Rand's stacked up checkerboard look...

I am a huge fan of TOS. One has to view the series in the context it was filmed--the late 60's. As I mentioned in an earlier thread, the way Gene Roddenberry tackled controversial subjects, like racism, and snuck it past the puritannical (sp?) network censors of the time by disguising it as science fiction was nothing short of brilliant. I also liked TNG and VOY. I kind of fell out of DS9 when the story arcs started turning it into a "soap opera in space"-Worf doinking Dax, Kira doinking Odo, etc, etc, etc. I don't really watch Enterprise much so I can't really form an opinion. Maybe now that I have a DVR that will change.