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Apparently you have one of the newer replicators with the latinum-block programming in place. How much do you need?Evo said:As soon as I get a transporter I'll send them right over.
Apparently you have one of the newer replicators with the latinum-block programming in place. How much do you need?Evo said:As soon as I get a transporter I'll send them right over.
Ivan Seeking said:And I had high hopes for Enterprise since I liked Bakula from Quantum Leap, but I have only watched about a half dozen episodes.
Kurdt said:I think Ivan is correct. You can never go back. What star trek was about was finding a better future and you must always go forward. As a Trek fan I found Enterprise extrememly irritating because the history I had built up through watching TOS TNG DS9 and VOY, was systematically destroyed and inconsistencies started to crop up which had been very rare previously in the world of star trek. For instance the fact the NX class had photon torpedoes when as we know from TOS that Daedalus class starships still carried nuclear warheads as an obvious example. The 11th film is on the way and its is based in the "past" of the star trek universe. It seems to me that this could destroy the franchise when looking to the future could save it.
Janus said:BTW, did you ever wonder why they put that little moving backwards in time sequence at the end of "The Naked Time"? The reason is that it was originally going to be a two part episode, the second half was to be the episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (the one where they accidentally get thown back to the 1960's) The above mentioned sequence was meant to be the cause of their being thrown back in time.
Ode to Spot
Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature,
an endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature.
Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses
contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
a singular development of cat communications
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
you would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion,
it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
O Spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display
connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
Ivan Seeking said:Best Trek one-liners?
I have two:
"Who put the tribbles in the quatrotriticali" - Kirk
For some reason I have always found that sentence to be implicity humorous.
And one of my favorites from TNG: "She kissed me in the torpedo bay" - Data.
One of my favorite social conundrums was the return to normalcy for Janeway and Paris after getting it on as lizard things. Now that would be difficult to forget.
I think Data may have been my all-time favorite character; if nothing else, because he waxed poetic over his cat, Spot.
Ivan Seeking said:To me, the difference between Trek and the other shows was that Trek pioneered new ideas and explored the remote recesses of theoretical physics for its inspiration. IMO, the rest are just space operas and never have captured my interest, with the exception of Stargate SG1.
Newbie says Hi said:Say it isn't so, Ivan! I thought mentors upheld higher standards in science!
I mean, using zero-point energy as a power source? Extracting "free energy?" I hope the US Patent office isn't watching.
How do I even know of such plot devices? Well, I used to LOVE SG1 once upon a time, but as my understanding of physics grew, I found that show to be, well, inspired by crackpot literature.
(Oh and, I mean... no offence)
You mean the warp core doesn't really use dilithium crystals?Schrodinger's Dog said:Oh and Star Trek is legitimate science is it?
Evo said:You mean the warp core doesn't really use dilithium crystals?
Schrodinger's Dog said:Oh and Star Trek is legitimate science is it?
"MechanicsSchrodinger's Dog said:Actually what the hell is dilithium, I always wondered?
Newbie says Hi said:Oh please, there is no comparison! Star Trek (the original series) is 300 years into the future (from their original airdate), whereas SG1 is happening right now. I can't suspend my disbelief in the plot device that our govn't is that technologically advanced RIGHT NOW... enough to violate our current known laws of physics. The govn't isn't efficient enough to keep all that secret.
I mean, I am willing to suspend my disbelief at the impossible, but not at the improbable! (no it's not mine!)
Evo said:
Schrodinger's Dog said:Now come on I didn't say that, obviously dilithium is real
Actually what the hell is dilithium, I always wondered?
Newbie says Hi said:Oh man! Isn't it common knowledge? What do they TEACH you in school?
:tongue2:
Schrodinger's Dog said:The ancients built the stargates, their technology was much more advanced than Star Treks, is it beyond the realms of possibility that there new "quantum" theory found a way to harness energy in a way and using a clearer understanding than we have? Let's face it there are few sci fi films, series etc where you don't have to suspend your disbelief. It is fantasy after all.
OK, fair enough. But I just wish SG1 would quit borrowing MAJOR plot elements from the crackpot literature.
Schrodinger's Dog said:OK so I'm not as big a geek as you guys, sorry
Newbie says Hi said:Say it isn't so, Ivan! I thought mentors upheld higher standards in science!
I mean, using zero-point energy as a power source? Extracting "free energy?" I hope the US Patent office isn't watching.
jtbell said:Has anyone visited Riverside, Iowa, the "Future Birthplace of James T. Kirk"?
I actually drove past the exit last summer, but I was with a group that was in a hurry to get somewhere else.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=65357NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A rare, 184-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence found by a bargain hunter...
The opening bid is $125,000 and appraisers have estimated it could sell for nearly twice that. [continued]
Newbie says Hi said:BIG NEWS: Paramount Pictures announced that the next Trek movie is going to be comming Christmas Day 2008! Woohooo :)
After the Enterprise series, I though trek had died, but if this movie turns out to be up to the par of the Original Series (or even TNG) then it will be great!
Also according to wide-spread rumors, MATT DAMON is going to be playing Cap'n Kirk in this movie [1]. I think having Damon would help the movie's appeal to non-trekkies and I think it's a great move (yeah, yeh, I know ;) ). But Adrien Brody, and Gary Sinise as Spock and McCoy? I don't know... I'll have to see it to believe it.
[1] http://www.trektoday.com/news/270207_01.shtml
Janus said:I can easily see Sinise playing McCoy, But it's a bit ironic to have an actor playing a younger version of a character who is older than the original actor was when he started the roll. (Sinise is 50, and Kelley was 46 when Star Trek debuted.
I also wonder how they are going to come up with a plausible story line that explains how all these characters happen to come together when they were younger. For instance, we know that Spock served under a different captain (Pike) before Kirk became captain of the Enterprise, McCoy is quite a bit older than Kirk etc.