Tank

I do hope to see Enterprise on the big screne after it's run it's full seven years, but I don't think they are ready yet. For the moment I'm hoping for either a TNG or else a mixed cast DS9/TNG/VOY movie to come next.

My all time favorite Star Trek book is "Crossover" by Michael Jan Friedman,its a great story about Mr.Spock and some of his reunification followers that are captured by the Romulins.Capt.Picard is sent to the neutral zone while Stafleet trys to figure out what to do.Also on board the Enterprise-D is Admiral McCoy as an advisor.

Meanwhile Scotty hears about Spock and returns to Earth and steals an old Constitution Cass starship (Which was an orbiting museum) Installs the old romulin cloaking device that was on display and warps off on a rescue attempt.I've read this book a couple of times now,its really good!

I've also enjoyed Peter David's "New Frontier" series and the "New Earth" books as well.

Crossover sounds really good, I think it might have to be the next book I pick up actually. Ever since Reunification I've been wanting to know what else happened on Romulous with Spock.

I think a better idea then making a animated TNG series might be to actually make a cartoon based around a completly new set of characters. I really do think that a new animated Star Trek would be awesome (as long as it wasn't TNG) but I have absolutly no idea how they would/could market it. As awesome as it might be I have a strong feeling that it would flop.

Go ahead and watch the animated episodes, if you want to say you've seen all Trek. 

 

But then you should really read the adapted book versions ov the cartoons that Alan Dean Foster wrote.  They were much, much better.  In fact, the story he wrote about the ancient, posessed ship is one of my favorite Trek stories of all time.  It was very haunting and beautiful, not to mention intense Kirk torture/Spock comfort.

Your talking about the "Log" series are you not? Log 1, Log 2, Log 3 ect... I can't remember how many they made. I've never actually read them but I've been wanting to.

Good luck finding a new job! I hope, for our sake, that it is one with internet access.

Kev, I have a question and I've not Pm'd you so that others may learn as well. As you may or may not remember I've said in the past that I wear a wrist brace to bed every night and have spoken to my doctor twice about carpal tunnel. I read both of the descriptions behind tunnel and the elbow one and am curious, When you first experienced carpal tunnel, what did it feel like? I'd apprecaite as much as you can remember as I believe I'm stricken as well.

 

Btw. best of luck with your surgery and I'm glad you will still be around to watch over the Mods.

Well, it's hard to say for sure because I had no idea what it was when it started. Best I can remember it was just a slight numbness in my fingers at first. I remember it happening and I also remember figuring that it was just my hand "going to sleep". Then in mid February my wrist started to hurt. If I would shake my hand, as you might if you had hurt it and you wanted to "shak it off" it would hurt a lot. So much so that I thought I mught have broken my hand. I went to get it X-Rayed and they told me it was Carpal Tunnel. So the first real memorable pain I had was in my wrist and was like a deep bruise. Then my hand, specifically my middle 2 fingers would go numb and I would feel pressure in my nail after about 3 hours of typing. That was the Carpal Tunnel portion, the Cubital Tunnel portion causes pain in my elbow and numbness in my little finger. All of these things kind of came all at the same time, but since I had no clue in the beginning I dont' really remember exactly how it all started.

I definatly show a few of the early warning signs but for now I'm going to assume it's just my imagination. My grandmother had surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrom about 2 weeks ago and it didn't sound like it was any fun. It probably doesn't help that she aslo has really bad arthritiest in her wrists as well.

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

I voted for Shindlers List. I've never actually seen more then about 30 minutes of the movie (it's on my to do list) but a friend of mine used to have the soundtrack and I think it could very easily be John Williams best score ever. The solo violin by Issac Pearlman is extreemly emotional. I think my second favorite John Williams score is probably Empire of the Sun.

Do you not thin k that the Next Generation films are resorting top too many gimmicks to hold our attention? I mean, new ship, Geordi's new eyes, Data's appearing then submerging emotions, no beard/beard, marriage, tanker tanmper etc etc

I love the TNG films but I would have to agree that they seem to throw in too many "gimmicks". I wish they would just focus on what made the Next Generation great in the first place and not tried to be so flashy with the movies.

I have found problems with Trillian also. I have stopped using it because it does not seem to support mics and webcams. It does keep a neat consolidated list of buddies but it has too many limits. It does have a lot of smilies though.

That is why I stopped using Trillian as well. I agree it had some great features, but far to many limitations.

I don't want to stop using Trillian but I guess I'm going to have to re-install AIM as well so that I can get into the chat room. Why can't anything just be easy!

At this point I don't think making an animated TNG would be a good idea. However back in the day before they had made 3-post TNG series wishing that they would have.

I like them all about the same for different reasons. However I've been a big Robin Hood fan for about as long as I've known how to talk so I voted for QPid.

"I am not a marry man!"

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I'm more of a TNG fan but between films I'm forced to go with TWOK.

Interesting point, Tank.  A year ago, I returned to the U.S.A. after spending several years

in Japan.  It was like getting culture shock coming home.  Many things were the same, and many were different, including myself, having adapted to Japanese culture and language.

 

I've also found it somewhat concerning that Picard has been through some pretty traumatic events, such as what happened in "The Inner Light," his Borg assimilation, and his capture by the Cardassians.  I guess he's just a pretty strong person.

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

DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE!

Reading down the list of choices I remember now why Stewert/Picard is my all time favorite actor/character, he's always great!

I picked Chain of Comand but really it was tied along with Sarak and The Inner Light.

well actually most dvd players can play laserdiscs. i know my dvd player can play laserdiscs and my dvd player is already 4 years old. im sure most still do play them.

I'm not trying to be argumentative here but I would like to know how your DVD player can play a 12" laser disc since the standard size of a DVD is 4"? Perhaps you were thinking of another format like the VCDs mentioned?

 

Ktrek

Let's face it KTrek, Bysty here is young and probably doesn't remember the days of Laser Discs and L.P.'s. Not that I'm very old but I do remember when you could walk into a record store and the whole store was full of vynal except for a small area for casset tapes and an even smaller area for CD's. And lets not forget the days of Beta!

I have to go with Spock. This was the longest death scene and by far the most dramatic. Both Shatner and Nimoy played it so well that I choke up everytime I see it.

I actually think that Data's death was very well done but in a completly different way. Unlike Spocks death, Data's death was very quick. The clock was ticking, everyone was rushing, then *booom* he was gone and everything was still. The look of sudden shock on everyones face gets to me everytime I see it.

I think the most disapointed death would have to be Kirk's. I'm sorry but falling off a bridge is no way for the man who's saved the galaxy countless times to die.

I'm was also sad that Dax died but I've still not seen the episode yet.

I thought that the sickbay scene seemed a bit akward and it served very little purpose other then giving Crusher a few more lines (which I'm not at all against). I didn't understand why the included it in the deleted scenes however considering some of the scenese that they didn't include.

I don't think UPN is really good for anything, least of all Star Trek. How good can any show do on the network with the lowest overall ratings!

All of the bad press before it came out really hurt it in the theater but now that the bad press has died down I've heard more and more people talking about how good it actually was. I myself was more surprised at how badly it did in the theater then I am about how well it is doing on Video/DVD.

Nemesis was the first Trek movie that has truely gotten me excited since The Undiscoverd Country so I hope that it continues to do well. GO NEMESIS!

My mom has told me about a few times that i sleep walked when I was a kid (between 6-9) but to my knowledge I haven't done it since.

A beautifully broken-in 1988 Honda Accord. It's the 2-door/hatch back model which to my knowledge they don't make in Accords anymore. It looks like a space ship and 4 of 5 geers still work! I call her the Falcon. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts!

Have you ever left your home for a long pirios of time and then returned only to find it exactly like you left it? Though I've never left "my life" for 40+ years I have managed to escape it for months at a time.

Example: Last summer I was on the road for two and half months as a driver/rhodie for my friends band. After about a month of touring the idea of doing anything else seemed about as forign to me as living in a small hut in India. The band I was with became my family, the other bands on the tour became my friends, the RV became my home, and driving for 8-12 hours a night became my job. I can remember at one point trying to remember what it was like to get food anywhere except in the food line every day. The thought of showering in non-public places seemed strange as well. After 2 months of living on the Warped Tour I returned home. It took me less then 30 minutes to remember what everything was like. I was around my old friends again, my real family, back at my old job, and living at my old home. Almost imedetlly life on the road seemed more like a dream then anything else. It was all of the sudden very distent to me.

All though much more extreem I can imagine Picards experience being much like this one. The human brain has roughly nine billion brian cells in it so it's not un-belieable that it can and does store everything that a person experiences during their life. Just because a person can't recall something doesn't mean that the information is lost. A simple sight or smell can bring it back up to the surfice in a milla second. So as soon as Picard woke up on the bridge of the Enterprise the alternate life that he experienced would instantly seem more like a dream then anything else. A very odd dream mind you...

I have to go with FOTR on this one. The second move definatly had more action and it moved a bit faster but it didn't capture me like the first one did. The first one had me on the edge of my seat through most of the film. There may have been less action but what there was seemed a lot more pure.

In defense of Two Towers however I've only seen each film once so far so my view may change over time.

I thought Kirk's Admiral's uniform was the best in the movie.

I agree, they sould have made all of the uniforms like that.