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Mmm... Wrath of Khan. I remember the trailer:
"In every warrior's ife there is a battle, which is his greatest, or his last." YEA BABY YEA!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
kronk wrote: Wrath of Khan is to Star Trek what alcohol is to cougar hunting.
A necessary and wonderful component.
Kronk, when the Great Wiener comes, you will be well rewarded for such epicness.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
My best Trek memories come from my childhood watching ST:tNG more than any of the others.
I like both the ones with Moriarty; 'Elementary, Dear Data' and 'Ship in a Bottle'. Popular favourite 'Best of Both Worlds' is top of my lists too, then there are others that stand out as highly enjoyable like like 'Yesterday's Enterprise', 'Data's Day', 'Clues', 'Tapestry', 'Cause and Effect' and quite a few others.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Mine are Probably The City on the Edge of Forever, Space Seed, The Corborite Maneuver, The Inner Light, any of the TNG episodes featuring Worf and Picard and the exploration of Klingon culture, (Enterprise) Chosen Realm, Doctor's Orders, The Forge, The Awakening, Kir'Shara. DS9, anything with quark as the main character.
My favourite episode is the one where Wesley Crusher gets brutally killed by some Klingons on a stag night
If only
Back OT Favourite episode: DS9 'Waltz' the one where Sisko puts Dukat on trial, and Dukat goes mad. For my money, Dukat is one of the greatest characters in TV history. Garek is up there too.
"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
"In the Pale Moonlight" (DS9): Sisko's ending monolog is both chilling and though provoking, what evils would you commit to protect something you loved?
"Relics" (TNG): Scotty has always been my favorite Star Trek character, and to see him with the crew of the Enterprise D was awesome.
"Babel One", "United" and "The Aenar" (ENT): This was my favorite story arc in Enterprise. It was fun to see the birth of what would become the Federation and learn more about the Andorians.
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Khornholio wrote: One thing Star Trek got wrong is that computers don't explode when you ask them 'Why?'
Just to be careful I make it point never to ask my computer why.
Or to compute pi to the last decimal.
I've noticed the repetitive pattern of the shows too watching them on DVD. I'm at the point now where Scotty's hairstyle changed. And Sulu and Chekov rarely appear in the same episode...just a small observation this time around.
I've never been overly fond of Star Trek - it's too po-faced and continuity-obsessed - but I retain a healthy measure of fondness for a few of the better episodes for the original series, particularly (from memory, there are probably others) "The City at the Edge of Forever", "Balance of Terror" and "Space Seed". Now I realise that for every good episode there was also a "Spock's Brain" or an "And the Children Shall Lead", but I'll take the 1960s' brightly-coloured, relentlessly optimistic and scientifically-positivist* Trek over anything "gritty" and "realistic" any day.
*Which does not, of course, mean scientifically realistic, plausible or even consistent, merely firm in the belief that there is a scientific explanation for everything, and that "God"/"Apollo"/Landru/whoever inevitably turns out to be an advanced alien or crazy supercomputer who will shortly be defeated by old-fashioned human ingenuity (or, failing that, a punch in the face from Kirk).
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Without a shadow of a doubt, my favourite episode of Star Trek is the DS9 episode 'Duet'.
It has none of my usual criteria, no epic space battles, no cool new alien species, no gunbattles or sexy alien ladies up to naughty business. I wasn't even very keen on the Kira character until this episode (I didn't mind her much afterwards, but I did utterly change my views on the acting skills of Visitor).
What it does have is acting. It is indeed a duet, between Nana Visitor as Kira and Harris Yulin as Gul Darhe'el, with echoes of real world events of the last century that chill you.
I am a cynic and I usually find fault in episodes of shows I really like, even good episodes. I have nothing but praise for that episode, it's television of a far higher calibre than the show it came from. It was amazing and Yulin deserves a golden globe for his acting. It leaves you thinking, it is also emotionally moving.
Star Trek is watchable, but the only episode that I found really interesting was In A Mirror, Darkly. A two part episode from Enterprise, which ironically was otherwise by far the weakest of the Star Trek franchise series.
In A Mirror, Darkly is set in a mirror universe where Captain Archer leads a crew of a warship in a fascistic space Empire that takes the place of the Federation in that timeline. No high principles or Prime Directives, Archer and his crew is out for loot and glory and the need to crush aliens underfoot so that they dare not raise their heads in defiance against their human overlords. Their main enemies however are not the subjugated aliens but each other as threats bribes and assassination as key tools to promotion and power.
I would be an instant fan of dark Star Trek if they ever made it.
Saying that Wrath of Khan ranks very high on the list of my favourite films of any genre, though best taken in isolation from the rest of the franchise. It's the only Star Trek I bothered ever to buy and keep.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Khornholio wrote: One thing Star Trek got wrong is that computers don't explode when you ask them 'Why?'
Just to be careful I make it point never to ask my computer why.
Or to compute pi to the last decimal.
Oddly enough, the computer did not explode on the Pi question.
And didn't you know? All Computers in the future will have inbult self-destruct mechanisims, just a half gram of C-4 should be sufficient.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Hey when Deep Think finally takes over, you'll wish they had.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I'm getting near the end, watching the Road to Eden, aka Kirk vs Space Hippies.
Y'know it's not nearly as bad as could have been, even with the singing.
I wouldn't be too hard on all the Space Roman, Space Gangster, Space Nazi episodes etc. Not only was there budget pressure to use existing props and costumes, there's the simple fact the I care more about the Planet of Space Gangsters than I do about 100 planets filled with bumpy forehead aliens.
Thanks to everyone who described the episodes. I never picked
up on too many of the titles.
"Inner Light" where Picard lives a lifetime on an alien world is indeed one of my favorites.
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