Star Trek is still dead... - Democratic Underground

MrScorpio

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Sat Oct-22-05 03:18 AM
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Star Trek is still dead...

But it still has a web site

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/index.html

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Robeson

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Sat Oct-22-05 03:22 AM
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1. Oh, but its not dead. I watched 2 episodes on Spike tonight!....

...and they were both good TNG classics...;-)

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SeattleGirl

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Sat Oct-22-05 03:25 AM
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2. Funny you should say that

I am watching an episode of Star Trek: TNG at this very moment!

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Peter Frank

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Sat Oct-22-05 03:32 AM
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3. You Guys Are Lucky...

...the closest I get to Star Trek these days is Limewire and my deeply spaced girlfriend.

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DanCa

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Sat Oct-22-05 03:34 AM
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4. I watch Deep Space nine daily.

Vic Fontaine and Ben Sisko rule.

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Robeson

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Sat Oct-22-05 03:48 AM
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5. The Sisko, is the man.

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SeattleGirl

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Sat Oct-22-05 03:52 AM
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6. He's definitely the best of that crew!

:-)

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baldguy

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Sat Oct-22-05 08:36 AM
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7. You'll know Star Trek is dead

When Paramount stops trying to suck every last drop of blood out of it.

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Deja Q

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Sat Oct-22-05 08:44 AM
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9. Quite. $100+ for one season DVD set is atrocious.

Try $60, like most other 1hr programs are...

And having re-watched a lot of TNG lately, it's dated. Sometimes worse than TOS. :( :wow:

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billyskank

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Sat Oct-22-05 01:58 PM
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17. The effects

My god, the special effects in TNG, for the first few series are DIABOLICAL. I don't remember them being that awful at the time, but there it is. They were really bad.

They did improve before the end - I guess they went to 100% CG or something.

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Deja Q

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Sat Oct-22-05 08:43 AM
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8. Y'all should try Blake's 7...

Made rather before Rick Berman's retooling of Trek but after Kirk's era, it was by far the best sci-fi to grace our screens in the late 1970s.

It's also British which means the writing and acting are generally rgeat, but the special effects are given a seat in the back. Waaaay back. But we're all intellectuals here, so we're not going to mind too much. :D

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Orrin_73

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Sat Oct-22-05 09:58 AM
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12. I have fond memories of Blake's 7

It is/was one of my favorite shows on tv. When I saw the pic first I immediately thought of Blake's 7 and I have the theme music of it as a mp3 on my computer.

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MrScorpio

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Sat Oct-22-05 10:10 AM
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13. Yes, I know Blake's 7

Edited on Sat Oct-22-05 10:11 AM by MrScorpio

And its habit of killing off long running characters, with weapons stuck on one setting... KILL!

Quite refreshing

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Orsino

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Sat Oct-22-05 09:02 AM
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10. A legend can't die.

Not quickly, anyway.

Captain Kirk is now folklore, and Picard isn't far behind.

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Orrin_73

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Sat Oct-22-05 09:55 AM
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11. Rick Berman killed it!!

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FVZA_Colonel

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Sat Oct-22-05 03:40 PM
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19. I will never forgive that SOB for what he did in ST: Voyager.

I remember an episode in ST:TNG when Picard is talking to Q and asks him what sorts of things exist in the depths of the galaxy. "Things that would chill you right to the bone," Q answers with a malevolant smile. They could have used that as a basis for a Star Trek with horror elements to it, but they instead created one of the worst sci-fi shows ever!

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Orrin_73

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Sat Oct-22-05 04:14 PM
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21. One of the things that I dont get is

that each series that ended whether it was TNG, DS9 or Voyager, ended with time travelling. I hate time travelling in scifi. That really was the point that brought star trek down for me.

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edbermac

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Sat Oct-22-05 11:24 AM
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14. Star Trek went bad with Voyager

And Enterprise was the final nail in the coffin; I knew it would be bad five minutes into the first show when they played the opening credits with that SUCK ASS theme song...

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billyskank

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Sat Oct-22-05 01:56 PM
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16. Yes, that theme song was most inauspicious.

Shoulda gone with some bland orchestral music as usual.

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FVZA_Colonel

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Sat Oct-22-05 03:40 PM
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20. Enterprise had a FEW good episodes.

Part one of the Mirror Universe duology kicked all sorts of ass, and while part two wasn't as good, it was still pretty damned nice.

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Jara sang

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Sat Oct-22-05 01:55 PM
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15. They will come out with a new series, guarans.

They have to retool the old formula, though. They know that just having a ship flying around space having adventures just isn't going to cut it anymore. Maybe they will do something set on a Federation colony on some planet in the Neutral Zone or something.

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Outer_Limit

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Sat Oct-22-05 03:25 PM
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18. Star Trek may be flatlined, but Battlestar Galactica is rocking!

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GreenPartyVoter

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Sat Oct-22-05 05:15 PM
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22. Don't care. I still love it and am Tivoing all the STTNG to put on DVD

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