If they can build a probe like that to last 1000 years I'm sure a few could've escaped their star.
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If they can build a probe like that to last 1000 years I'm sure a few could've escaped their star.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
Over the coarse of its run they would have changed their stance on things a lot, he probably pinched it at the wrong time.
The odd thing to me is why he didn't try to make it as a novel, very little cost, he would have his foot in the door,ST has a steady stream of novels.
Probably a sleeper ship.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Inner Light II: The Wrath of Kataan
Henchmen21
Banned
No they probably thought his idea was stupid and wanted to let him off gently. That plot sounds idiotic.
Let's be honest, most TNG plots were stupid, it was the strength of the characterization/acting and careful editing that made them interesting.
GameplayWhore
Member
Maybe they did some science for once and discovered relativistic time dilation.
elrechazado
Banned
Kataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
Most TV writers are notoriously hit or miss. It's common for someone to write a really great episode and never come close to that level of quality again. Usually it's a matter of finding a good concept on the right show (with the right cast) that the full-time writing team can develop into something presentable. Success is never contingent on just a single writer and his/her idea. In fact, their scripts usually undergo heavy rewriting before being filmed.
DrForester
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So I'm watching "To Kill A Mockingbrid" and I feel silly that I never recognized Brock Peters in DS9. I'd recognize all the Star Trek roles he played but I guess I never saw the name pop up in the credits.
Haha time dilation in Star Trek, that's a good one.
Though I think there's a fairly good reason it doesn't tend to come up: Warp (in the ST universe) is an easier technical achievement than accelerating to relativistic speeds. So, if the people in Inner Light hadn't yet discovered warp they probably couldn't get a ship going fast enough to have time dilation affect their frame of reference enough to make it anywhere in one lifetime (or, at least, couldn't stop it if they did).
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Well from a tech point of view "The Inner Light" had some loopholes. This society can supposedly not leave their solar system, yet can create a mind probe with technology to pass through shields of a far more advanced civilization.
DrForester
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Full Article and more pictures.
http://trekmovie.com/2012/04/07/fin...t-saw-a-full-scale-uss-enterprise-attraction/
Full Article and more pictures.
http://trekmovie.com/2012/04/07/fin...t-saw-a-full-scale-uss-enterprise-attraction/
Yeah, somebody made a thread about that. Didn't take off for whatever reason.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Psionic_resonator
Shields are useless compared to this sort of mind-based ancient technological weapon.
Stands to reason that another society could develop a similar mind-based technology that wasn't used as a weapon.
Bad dylithium, probably.
The Librarian
Banned
SF Debris will have his review of "The Visitor" up tomorrow. I can't wait; I've been wanting him to review it for some time now.
GameplayWhore
Member
In its time, it was considered pretty groundbreaking compared to other cartoons, which were usually much more kiddified and often less coherent in storytelling. It has its downers (when the computer gets a sense of humour, a big low pointin Trek), but there were a wad of stories written by good SF authors in there, and they could draw things that they wouldn't've been able to feature in a live action show (like the new helmsman, a much more alien alien!).
Shouta
Member
I recall him doing it before, he just finally put it up again after having to take it down form youtube.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
I though Saturday was new Trek review day?
The Librarian
Banned
I'm pretty sure he hasn't done it before because it's "time" month.
I'm finally done, just catching up on the last Memory Alpha episode pages. 28 seasons, 704 episodes, more than 500 hours total, all watched consecutively (aside from that week I took off to watch all 4 seasons of Breaking Bad, after finishing DS9 before starting ENT). It's a strange feeling to finally be done with it all after 9-ish months. I was burnt out by the time I started season 26 (TOS S1), so Kirk's adventures took much longer to finish, but it was worth it overall.
Mr. Luchador
Member
What order did you watch them all in?
TNG
VOY
DS9
(Breaking Bad)
ENT
TOS
TNG and VOY were easy, since I knew I liked both. I did DS9 next to keep with the same timeframe, then ENT since I was familiar with it. TOS was last so I could end where it began. I had already seen all the movies, but I'll be going through them again as well. Seeing the TOS ones now that I'm actually familiar with the characters will be nice.
VOY
DS9
(Breaking Bad)
ENT
TOS
TNG and VOY were easy, since I knew I liked both. I did DS9 next to keep with the same timeframe, then ENT since I was familiar with it. TOS was last so I could end where it began. I had already seen all the movies, but I'll be going through them again as well. Seeing the TOS ones now that I'm actually familiar with the characters will be nice.
Sephiroth503
Member
Yeah that's how I'd recommend it to someone. Particularly TNG>DS9>VOY as there is reference to changing political landscape in the universe.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
Slightly off-topic, but Paul Krugman's reference to the Fed Borg makes me laugh every time I see it.
Mr. Luchador
Member
When I introduced Star Trek to the wife I went VOY > DS9. She loves Voyager.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
I loved the first Department of Temporal Investigations book (Watching the Clock) and gushed about it some last year, so of course I had the new one (Forgotten History) preordered. It's more straightforward than the first, partially because it doesn't try to spend as much time teaching you about the DTI itself of the rules of time travel. Still, quite good. While it's got a "modern" post-TNG era framing story set in 2383, the bulk of it covers the accidental and following not-accidental time travels of Kirk's Enterprise crew in the late 2260s and early 2270s. Small spoiler as an example of how it integrates old material into the larger narrative:
The TOS episode where they travel to the 1960s for historical research treats it pretty matter of factly, which in retrospect is pretty unusual. In this book, since the Enterprise had already been involved in accidental time travel to the 1960s on a previous episode it was determined that for early time travel experimentation it was best to go with a ship, crew, and destination that there was already some experience with, and wouldn't involve bringing more people in the circle of secrecy.
No idea what season one of TNG on Blu Ray is going to cost when it's eventually released, but Amazon.co.uk has it for $60 shipped. (Region free)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007Q1GK0A/
They charge when they ship, just like Amazon.com, so preorder now and if it ends up being cheaper somewhere else just cancel =)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007Q1GK0A/
They charge when they ship, just like Amazon.com, so preorder now and if it ends up being cheaper somewhere else just cancel =)
Been re-watching TNG lately or at least had it on in the background while hitting my head on a brickwall of a project and came to a odd thought.
One character survived all of TNG with 0 starfleet training
survived two different starship crashes
made riker his bitch
had half the command staff cowering in fear
One character survived all of TNG with 0 starfleet training
survived two different starship crashes
made riker his bitch
had half the command staff cowering in fear
Been re-watching TNG lately or at least had it on in the background while hitting my head on a brickwall of a project and came to a odd thought.
One character survived all of TNG with 0 starfleet training
survived two different starship crashes
made riker his bitch
had half the command staff cowering in fear
Didn't Spot start off as a more exotic cat?
Edit - or I was thinking of this (from Memory Alpha):
nemesis, although only in a deleted scene on the dvd.
Randy Lanzarote
Member
They cut Wesley Crusher, the Mintakan shawl AND SPOT?!
Those three scenes alone might have elevated the movie to a 2/10...
Haha I thought I was the only one that read that book. I loved it, especially when Janeway made dude nut up and start drinking.
The season one Blu-Ray set of The Next Generation will be released July 24.
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Star-Trek-Generation-Season-1-Blu-ray/16876
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Star-Trek-Generation-Season-1-Blu-ray/16876
That's the day after the UK release, hopefully the prices are similar =)
After finishing the series' last Sunday, I finished the movies tonight. I marathoned them a few years back so I was familiar with them, but coming off of the full watch really made me appreciate the characters more than before. Particularly the TOS films, they were much better this time around, being familiar with the people. The expanded roles of the TOS background characters was great. This was also the first time I've actually been able to finish Nemesis in years, so much potential in it wasted.
In retrospect that is how I should have done it, but aside from a few Dominion mentions later on, Voyager was mostly it's own beast. Plus it didn't do shit with the Maquis characters, so not knowing what they were wasn't much of a problem.
In retrospect that is how I should have done it, but aside from a few Dominion mentions later on, Voyager was mostly it's own beast. Plus it didn't do shit with the Maquis characters, so not knowing what they were wasn't much of a problem.
Henchmen21
Banned
And just 14 days after my b-day
GameplayWhore
Member
It was like a 3mph collision! How could he not survive it??
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I want the entire star trek collection on blu ray but im very doubtful voyager or DS9 Will ever make it to BR
Sephiroth503
Member
I want the entire star trek collection on blu ray but im very doubtful voyager or DS9 Will ever make it to BR
I'm making sure to buy TNG on Blu-Ray with the hope that it proves DS9 should get the same treatment.
Any poor bugger stationed in the front third of the ship may disagree.