Khaaaaaan!
3 is definitely the best of the odd movies, including all the TNG ones.
Christopher Lloyd's Klingon is fantastic. And boom goes the Enterprise. Heavy stuff.
I... have had... enough of... YOU!
Glad you are enjoying it Sorbicol. I liked Voyager and don't fully understand the general dislike for it.
I think Voyagers two main problems were the incipid nature of many of its crew in the early seasons, which - to be fair - were also among the worst early seasons of any Trek series, even Enterprise. It picks up considerably once Kes leaves and Seven of Nine arrives. Not for the reasons most prepubescent teenage boys will tell you either! However that’s probably more for discussion when you get that far later in the year.
I’m currently watching Star Trek Discovery (I have access via Netflix here in the UK) and it’ll be really interesting to get your perspective on it if you decide to watch that too. Sorry I wasn’t clear from your early posts If that was your intention or not.
kazar wrote:Glad you are enjoying it Sorbicol. I liked Voyager and don't fully understand the general dislike for it.
I think Voyagers two main problems were the incipid nature of many of its crew in the early seasons, which - to be fair - were also among the worst early seasons of any Trek series, even Enterprise.
Nostalgia goggles are a factor. I would watch a random episode of the first two seasons of TNG before I'd watch a random episode of the first two seasons of Voyager, but if you stack them side by side, it would be hard for me to argue that the former is actually "better" in any kind of objective sense.
1987 for the first TNG episode. Man that makes me feel old!
My experience of watching TNG was two fold. It didn’t start to be shown here in the UK until 1990 if I remember correctly. It was on BBC2 at 6pm, and my family (me, parents & older brother) would all sit down for tea and watch it together. I can’t say my Mum was that bothered but my Dad and I loved it. After the first season my brother moved off to university, I was doing my A levels by then, was getting older and more sociable and so I didn’t see every episode (unless I remembered to set our video recorder - those were the days!) and it sort of faded from my ‘list of things to do’.
When I went to university in 1993 I’d pretty forgotten all about it. It wasn’t until a random party I meet 2 girls who mentioned they were renting TNG videos from the local blockbuster equivalent on a Friday night and going through from the start. They invited me to come along and watch with them. So I did, and it was a weekly thing for us all pretty much the entire 3 years we were all there.
We got through all in TNG by the time we graduated, and had also started on DS9 (which we weren’t that impressed with for the first season) We’ve all been life long friends ever since. In fact, I’m going to a football match this afternoon with the husband and son of one of them.
Just felt the need to share after reading what you’ve posted about Encounter at Farpoint.
That's awesome.
Was TNG syndicated in the US for new episodes? In Louisville it came on Sat night at 7pm on NBC. DS9 ended up on FOX on Sunday evenings and I never got into it live but went back later and marathoned it in DVD from the library in around 2006 or 07.
Yeah, it was first-run syndication, I believe.
Yeah, it was first-run syndication, I believe.
I think TNG was the first straight to syndication TV show ever.
Are you sure Tboon? I mean The Muppet Show exists.
Are you sure Tboon? I mean The Muppet Show exists.
I forgot where I heard that. And it turns out not to be even close to true.
Now I know a lot more about the history of syndicated TV.
Wow, what a cool project -- tagging in for updates.
Amazing! I did this with my first born. It started as a way to pass time during night feedings and then grew into a similar undertaking as yours, minus the book and video game.
I'm making my way through all of trek and currently on Voyager. The fun part is noticing actors playing different parts that I didn't notice before.
Even more fun is seeing A-list cameos in the movies.
Bonus: Seth McFarlane has a recurring role on Enterprise!
Keep an eye out for Ashley Judd!
I saw The Rock in a obvious place.
A counselor as a bridge officer is something new to Star Trek. I don't even know if it is normal in the Federation or something that Picard explicitly was looking for. Voyager for instance didn't have a counselor on the bridge that I know of, even before being flung into the Delta Quadrant.
Voyager was a smaller ship, and didn't have families aboard the way the D does. Maybe counselors are just for the big Galaxy-class ships that are more like small towns in space. There's probably a lot more demand for a dedicated counselor when you've got marriages, parents with their children, civilians, etc.
I always found the range of her ability strange. Was communication-tech so advanced that it picked up, and transmitted, the emotional-states of beings? Because I’m sure the minimum distance between ships, even during their face-to-face “meetings,” was at least a kilometre. When you live in a galaxy full of telepaths, and empaths, you’d think you’d design your transmitters to NOT carry that extra data... You can’t tell me that she’s picking up on their facial “tells” and body-language (even if she’s studied them), because she’s used it with non-humanoids, too.
I suppose it’s like the transporters, if you create a tech that would trivialize a lot of problems, you constantly have to come up with a reason you can’t use that particular “magic”.
“It does what the story needs it to do, when it needs it.”
Ugh, The Child. That was an unfortunate episode, especially when the men in the room have a conversation about whether to abort the child without once asking the mother.
Just noticing that Chief O'Brien is nowhere to be found in the thread mural. OUTRAGE!!
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