oh boy... i'm gonna get in trouble here... discussing Trek is like talking religion...
ok... be gentle with me after i say this...
there is really only one Star Trek... the first TV series...
even the worst episodes (the Harry Mudd ones), from the TV series, were a hundred times more entertaining than being bored to unconsciousness with Jean Luc continuous babbling...
i can count how many episodes he talked the Klingons to death... Kirk would've blasted em to the other side of the galaxy in a fraction of the time, and would've gotten the girl by then as well...
and if we really wanted a bar in space, a hangout for aliens, we just had to pop in the StarWars dvd... and watch that... without the commercials... the only thing that ever came outta that dissapointment was the Ferengi characters... a worthy species of greedy lil fu... err, alien life if i ever saw one :)
then it really started to get bad... and Scott Bakula got lost on his time tripping and wound up on the bridge of an Enterprise... hahahahahahaaaaaaaa...
the only reason i even watched it past the first one was that the Vulcan chick might slip outta that skin tight thing they amusingly called 'her uniform', and prance around in the buff for a few precious prime time seconds...
as for the best Trek movie... that's a hard one... i enjoyed the one with Christopher Loyd as the Kligon commander... the one where they find Spock's casket, tube, whatever...
but there were some moments in a few of the others... Sulu racing to the aid of his old friends near the end of Undiscovered Country... driven past all restraint... 'Let er blow apart!!'... that was cool...
Piccard and a love interest experiencing a 'perfect moment', and Piccard's single most notable piece of work in a Trek segment, his speech to Anthony Zerbe (starfleet commander) when he makes it clear to him that 'this is an attack on the very soul of The Federation'...
that was the only time i ever saw Patrick Stewart's character ever show some resolve... and the only time he was ever challenged to show his considerable presence in a Trek...
also... Spock's forcing Kirk... and the rest of us to face up to our own humanity... 'the Klingons are dying'... he made it coldly and logically clear to us that if we were indeed 'human' we had to do something...
you have to forgive me on this one Avon... i grew up with these people... these characters...
they are indeed 'friends'... not only the characters, but i'm sure the people behind them would be nice to know as well...
they all became larger than life... and they all had one admiral quality that raised them above the pack... they kew what friendship meant... undying, unquestionable friendship...
they'd never let each other down...
i felt it when i heard that 'Doctor McCoy' had passed away... and then 'Scotty' went to that great engineroom in the sky...
this was a once in a lifetime thing... like the 1964 NY World's Fair... like the original Mustang... like your first romantic interlude...
if you missed it... your the worse for that... i can only try an impart what it was about... nothing that followed the original, no matter what hi tech state of the art special effects it had... has ever equalled it...
da da daaaaaaaa daa da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
:)
--Mike
ok... be gentle with me after i say this...
there is really only one Star Trek... the first TV series...
even the worst episodes (the Harry Mudd ones), from the TV series, were a hundred times more entertaining than being bored to unconsciousness with Jean Luc continuous babbling...
i can count how many episodes he talked the Klingons to death... Kirk would've blasted em to the other side of the galaxy in a fraction of the time, and would've gotten the girl by then as well...
and if we really wanted a bar in space, a hangout for aliens, we just had to pop in the StarWars dvd... and watch that... without the commercials... the only thing that ever came outta that dissapointment was the Ferengi characters... a worthy species of greedy lil fu... err, alien life if i ever saw one :)
then it really started to get bad... and Scott Bakula got lost on his time tripping and wound up on the bridge of an Enterprise... hahahahahahaaaaaaaa...
the only reason i even watched it past the first one was that the Vulcan chick might slip outta that skin tight thing they amusingly called 'her uniform', and prance around in the buff for a few precious prime time seconds...
as for the best Trek movie... that's a hard one... i enjoyed the one with Christopher Loyd as the Kligon commander... the one where they find Spock's casket, tube, whatever...
but there were some moments in a few of the others... Sulu racing to the aid of his old friends near the end of Undiscovered Country... driven past all restraint... 'Let er blow apart!!'... that was cool...
Piccard and a love interest experiencing a 'perfect moment', and Piccard's single most notable piece of work in a Trek segment, his speech to Anthony Zerbe (starfleet commander) when he makes it clear to him that 'this is an attack on the very soul of The Federation'...
that was the only time i ever saw Patrick Stewart's character ever show some resolve... and the only time he was ever challenged to show his considerable presence in a Trek...
also... Spock's forcing Kirk... and the rest of us to face up to our own humanity... 'the Klingons are dying'... he made it coldly and logically clear to us that if we were indeed 'human' we had to do something...
you have to forgive me on this one Avon... i grew up with these people... these characters...
they are indeed 'friends'... not only the characters, but i'm sure the people behind them would be nice to know as well...
they all became larger than life... and they all had one admiral quality that raised them above the pack... they kew what friendship meant... undying, unquestionable friendship...
they'd never let each other down...
i felt it when i heard that 'Doctor McCoy' had passed away... and then 'Scotty' went to that great engineroom in the sky...
this was a once in a lifetime thing... like the 1964 NY World's Fair... like the original Mustang... like your first romantic interlude...
if you missed it... your the worse for that... i can only try an impart what it was about... nothing that followed the original, no matter what hi tech state of the art special effects it had... has ever equalled it...
da da daaaaaaaa daa da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
:)
--Mike