Tank

My favorite cartoon is Inuyasha. Not the crappy dubbed version that they show on Adult Swim but the original Japanese version. Of cartoons on the list I would have to go with either Simpsons or Bat Man.

So why wasn't Star Trek The Animated Series on the list?

I gave it a 9.5, definatly one of my favorite Enterprise episodes to date! About half way through the show I started predicting that Archer was going to wake up and we would find out that he has been asleep and under some kind of alien minipulation or something. You know like the kind of thing that was always happening ot Riker. I was really happy with the way they ended it however becuase it took me by surprise. Finally something new!

A great episode!!

I voted Good.

It's off to a great start but it's still not perfect.

The NX-01 is cool... but the Defiant is SUPER COOL! So of course my vote goes for the Defiant.

Season three sounds really promising! I've been re-watching the first season again and it seems like they did a lot more with Trip and T'Pol in it then they did season 2. I'm interested to see how they will develope.

I had to go with M.A.S.H. Other then Star Trek M.A.S.H. is one of the only shows that I can watch all day everyday and not get tired of.

My second vote would have gone to Twin Peaks.

THAT'S AWESOME!

I've been away from the site for almost 2 months (due to a heavy work load and a lot of stupid things I'd rather not go into) and now I come back and your getting awards! That rules!

The first movie I saw in the theater was IV. I was only like 6 years old but I remember that the first showing we went to was sold out so we had to wait until the next showing. Even it was pretty packed.

I saw V the day after it came out and it wasn't really that full, but it was in the afternoon.

I didn't see VI until the Monday after it was realesed and again it was like a 2:30 showing or something so it wasn't that full.

Generatoins took me almost a week to get to the theater to see but I remember it bing kinda full.

I saw First Contact the day it came out and I remember having to wait in line for 30 minutes just to get tickets!

I also saw Inurection the day it was released and though I didn't have to wait in line as long as I did for First Contact, it was pretty full.

Unlike 4-9 which I was living in Oklahoma at the time, I got to see Nemesis at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood! (I had just recently moved to LA). It was really full but not quite sold out. By far the most people I've ever seen at a theater at one time to see a Star Trek film, but there really just aren't enough Trekies in Oklahoma!

I don't know, though it might not be as dramatic as the death of Spock, Data's death still makes me choke up a bit.

Nemesis is by far my FAVORITE of the TNG films. It still had some of the problems that all of the TNG films have had however and that's that it spent why too much time trying to cram in the action and not enough time with the charactars. Rick Berman said that the original cut was close to 2 hrs and 45 minutes long. I kinda wish they had kept it that way because it felt like there was simply a lot missing. (and I don't just mean the small handful of deleted scenes on the DVD).

Overall however it is still an excellant movie! Picard was awesome as always, Shinzon was a great villin, the wedding of Riker and Troi was fun, and the death of Data made me cry.

Hey neat! you and my baby sister share a birthday.

I'm actually going to finally be able to buy season 1 this weekend. I'm hoping to be up to season 3 before season 4 is realesed. Season 3 is about the time I started missing episodes and then I saw very little after season 4. I'm looking forward to finally catching up!

I love sticker books! I used to have one for season 1 of TNG. I loved buying the sticker packs and trying to fill the book. Unfortunatly the stickers were really hard to find and I never did get it filled...

I'm sorry VGB, perhaps after you loose some more hair. Until I'm staying faithful to my French Captian.

I was always a very mixed soda kind of person. I like it all. A few years ago however I had to pretty much give up soda because of some blood sugar problems. I found that I could drink diet coke but the more I found out about Asparteme (the sugar substitute used in most diet sodas) the less I wanted to drink. I now drink Diet Rite which is made by RC Cola. It tastes a lot better then diet coke and it's sweetened with Splinda which is much safer the Asparteme but still doesn't effect me like sugar.

Tank, do you happen to know if it's good with lemon in it?

 

I drink waaaaay too much Diet soda (esp. Coke), and I LOVE Diet Pepsi w/lemon in it.

 

Problem is, no place around here sells Diet Rite. (Or RC, for that matter.) AUGH! I want to stop the Aspertame!

I've never tried it with lemon actually. I wasn't a huge fan of Lemon Diet Coke.

I remember I use to have a friend who loved to put lemon in his Dr. Pepper. We used to always go to the Waffle House and he would order a Dr. Pepper (or Mr. Pibb) and a bowl of lemons. I tried it once but I wasn't too hot on it.

I do recomend that you make the switch however. Not only does Diet Rite not have the asparteme in it but it also taste way better!

By the way my vote goes to Nicholas Meyer. I love what he did with the Wrath of Khan but even more then that is what he did with The Undiscoverd Country. I believe that the battle scene between the Enterprise and the Kliingon Bird of Prey at the end of the movie is one of the most intense to ever be in a Trek film. He had a way of keeping the camera moving through out this movie. I loved how there were a lot of scenes on the bridge when he would use massive pans insted of several cuts.

Not only was Meyer a good director but he was also a great screne writer. Also Meyer was partly responsible for the more military look that set the basis for the rest of the films.

Note from Mod: I edited the poll for you to correct the spellings.

NOTE: This isn't a poll for you favorite Star Trek film but rather for who you think was the best director. I expect that for most people favorite film and favorite director will go hand and hand but still please try to be subjective.

Who was the best director to do a Trek movie? What was it about them did you like?

I would love to see Enteprise on the big screen, but I think the show should finish at least 5 seasons before they should ever consider making a movie.

Why is that? Perhaps a mid series movie is just what Trek needs to shake things up a bit. (?)

In some ways a mid-series movie might be cool but at the same time I think it would be hard to go back. After we see one of our favorite casts on the big screne with movie quality special effects I think that watching them everyweek on UPN would seem like a step down. I guess it would have to depend on the movie.

Now special TV movie events would be really cool.

Nice....

For me it was a toss up between Lore and Lal but in the end I figure Lore was evil so Lal wins! Also Offspring was one of my favorite episodes.

In reply to Tank, do not worry I have seen both Generations, and The Undiscovered Country(both when they first came out...well GEN in the theaters and UC when it came to video). So when I chose GEN, I was most assuedly making an informed decision.

I have no problem with anyone who has seen both and still thinks that Generations is a better movie. I just think that as what I think to be the best movie of all time everyone should take the time to watch the Undiscoverd Country.

Anyway best of luck with the surgery VGB and btw I love Riker with the cowboy hat!

LOL that's not quite Riker. Actually I tool Cpt Picard's body and added my head. I just happened to be sitting at the right angle in that pictureto make the picture look like it actually fits.

Damn you look a lot like Riker! At least at a quick glance, now that I look at it I can tell.

I have not seen it, but it was in the book and i did read that. I too thought the idea of the seat belts sounded lame. Why there and not in the other seats? is only the captain of value?

I wanted to see the scene in Ten Forward and when my sisters told me it was not included, i was very sad.

Yeah, I agree about the seat belts being lame....And also, I agree...Only the captain gets one?! WAIT!!You have a similar situation here on 21st century Earth....On Cheese Wagons(school buses) only the bus driver has a belt, and up to 50 children have to go without. Or 64 kids, if you were the bus I rode in high school for four years. (yes, almost full grown young adults crammed up to four to a seat designed to seat 2 smaller children comfortably! and not a single seat belt). WHERE IS THE LOGIC IN ANY OF THIS?!?!?!?!?

Haven't you ever heard? "The needs of the captian out way the needs of the many or the few."

FOX was not the best channel for TNG either. The station was not really up in the ratings. In fact, I did not watch the first season of TNG at all, until it was rerun because of the writer's strike.

 

To be honest, Enterprise is the only show I watch on UPN.

The difference here is that TNG was syndicated so it wasn't only on FOX. For example where I lived we got it on our local NBC station. From what I know this was true in most places. DS9 was also syndicated and I got it on FOX but by that point FOX had become a much bigger name.

Just wondering.. After the imedate culture shock, how long did it take you to adjust to being home?

Not too long. It was the changes that wree most interesting - friends that moved away, new products on the market, slang and colloquialisms, etc. The biggest effect came from habits

acquired in Japan. For example, upon returning, people found it strange that I bowed to them, eating habits, removing shoes in buildings, etc. It wasn't a problem to fit in, but the

changes while I was gone, and the habits picked up (many of which I still do without

thinking) made for some interesting situations. I've been back a year, and still do some

"Japanese" things that are unusual in America. Does that answer your question?

Now just think how much different it would be if you had come back to America to the exact moment that you had left. Non of your friends would have moved, no one would have aged, you would be a year younger, ect... The more things that change while your gone the longer it will take to adjust. And since for Picard nothing had changed in his absence the adjustment period would be almost instant. At least IMO.

On an off note: I really want to go to Japan!