In the span of four decades, five television incarnations and countless motion pictures, the 23rd-century crew of the Starship Enterprise and the brave utopians of the United Federation of Planets have boldly gone where no one has gone before.
But now, with the franchise seemingly gone and no new Star Trek film or show in sight, the world’s most infamously obsessive fans have been forced to go where no Trekkie has gone before: off Trek.
“Trekdom has scaled back to its very core,” said Gabriel C. Koerner, an Emmy-nominated visual-effects artist and a man generally known as the Star Trek “superfan.”
But the time without Trek may, ironically, be the best thing to happen to the franchise, according to some.
“It may feel like a mourning period for a lot of people, but sometimes you don’t know until you look back and assess what happened,” Roger Nygard, director of the documentaries "Trekkies" and "Trekkies 2," said. “My guess is if history is an example, this will be a very fertile time for the fans.”
The final Star Trek television series, "Enterprise," (2001-2005) suffered from the ridicule of diehard and notoriously nitpicking Trekkies — or Trekkers, as they preferred to be called.
It couldn’t find a new audience, either, and by the time Paramount took it off the air in May 2005, its ratings were dismal.
On the silver screen, things weren’t much better.
The fan clubs are still out there, and the conventions are still being held, funny ears and all. But some Star Trek fan clubs have redirected some of their energies to other sci-fi shows, like the Sci-Fi Channel’s successful remake of “Battlestar Galactica,” which notably includes writers from “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.”
“A lot of the fans have been tuning into shows like ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘Stargate,’” said Denise Crosby, who was part of the original cast of and had an ongoing role on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (which ran from 1987-1994).
And, according to Koerner, attendance at Star Trek conventions has been noticeably down, with some organizers forced to merge purely Trekkian events with those dedicated to other sci-fi and fantasy themes.
“[One convention organizer], primarily known for organizing Star Trek conventions, has indeed been refocusing its conventions into multi-genre-show events, because there has been a perceptible drop-off in Star Trek interest,” he said.
It's nice that with the domestic termoil we have today, and our sons and daughters are dying overseas in war that people still have time to write articles abouts shows that arn't on anymore.
I hope somebody's parents are happy today of all the sacrifices they had to make to send thier child to colleage for journalism.
I do think the failure of Enterprise as well as the low ratings of Deep Space Nine was simply due to tightassed fans. Neither were perfect series in the least, but have we all forgotten such episodes as Spock's Brain and pretty much the first three seasons of The Next Generation? I think the writing was really good on those shows, for the most part. The fact that the same fans who dismissed DS9 for its dark overtones are embracing the new Battlestar with the same overtones and writers just shows that it wasn't the writing that was wrong, just the fact that it had a Star Trek title. The franchise does need a rest with a, what, fifteen or so year run of always having a Trek on TV? Let the dust settle. In ten or so years, I think fans will probably be a little more willing to accept a revised Trek that does more than tread the same ole ground episode after episode.
I didn't care much for the first season of Star Trek; the Next Generation...and the second season was uneven, with some very good episodes mixed with some not so good ones...but once the show entered the third season, it became much more interesting.
As for the other shows, I like DS 9 and Voyager well enough. Hopefully, at some point in the future, another Trek show will appear...but now is not the time. The franchise burned out..and, like a Timelord, it needs time to regenerate.
Of course, Star Trek is NOT the most important thing in life..though it makes for a lovely diversion.
I think the problem for "Trek" ultimately came down to, as the article hints, too much of it going on the air.
There was almost a 20 year gap between the original series and TNG. That gave the writers of the show 20 years of cultural change-and 20 years of new technology-to work with.
Since, TNG, however, the producers kept one version of Trek after another coming out, each mining the same themes over and over.
I don't know if they all mined the same themes over and over. In my mind, DS9 was a very different sort of show from TNG. I think there were other factors involved in its demise.
I'll be the first to agree, though, that Voyager tried to be nothing more than an TOS/TNG mix.
True, DSN is probably the one exception to that statement. However, by running DSN more or less concurrently with either TNG or Voyager, you had the one show that was trying to do something a little different being further diluted by the other shows (and vice versa) since you had two/three shows from the same producers in a short period of time trying to come up with ideas.
Going back to TOS and TNG, you see that, generally, the best shows were the ones that were about something, that served as metaphor for themes our nation was grappling with at the time the series aired.
TOS, being a creature of the 60s, mined real world events such as the cold war and the civil rights movement.
TNG, being a creature of the 90s, mined real world events such rampant technology, environmentalism and homosexuality.
Because the two series were so far apart, the passage of time allowed each to have a unique voice that later sequels, churned out one right after the other were denied.
Quote: the G-man said: True, DSN is probably the one exception to that statement. However, by running DSN more or less concurrently with either TNG or Voyager, you had the one show that was trying to do something a little different being further diluted by the other shows (and vice versa) since you had two/three shows from the same producers in a short period of time trying to come up with ideas.
Going back to TOS and TNG, you see that, generally, the best shows were the ones that were about something, that served as metaphor for themes our nation was grappling with at the time the series aired.
TOS, being a creature of the 60s, mined real world events such as the cold war and the civil rights movement.
TNG, being a creature of the 90s, mined real world events such rampant technology, environmentalism and homosexuality.
Because the two series were so far apart, the passage of time allowed each to have a unique voice that later sequels, churned out one right after the other were denied.
TNG, being a creature of the 90s, mined real world events such rampant technology, environmentalism and homosexuality.
TNG said very little, if anything, about homosexuality. There were no gay characters in TNG.
You are correct, Jim, though, as in an earlier thread, I pointed out that " The Outcast", from season 5 of Star Trek : TNG was a metaphor for being gay and how it affects one's life.
Quote: thedoctor said: The Borg were the homosexuals. Going around, trying to convert everyone to their ways.
I always believed the Borg was more of an amalgram for the bulk of our society, and how, in spite of society considering itself unique and fresh, it is actually a collective mind in itself : " Wear these clothes, listen to this music, talk like us, behave as we do, be like us or suffer the stigma of being ostracized."
You are correct, Jim, though, as in an earlier thread, I pointed out that " The Outcast", from season 5 of Star Trek : TNG was a metaphor for being gay and how it affects one's life.
It was a weak metaphor.
And one episode with a weak metaphor is not enough to make the assertion that TNG had much of anything to say about homosexuality.
You are correct, Jim, though, as in an earlier thread, I pointed out that " The Outcast", from season 5 of Star Trek : TNG was a metaphor for being gay and how it affects one's life.
It was a weak metaphor.
I do not feel that way about the metaphor. It was much better than ignoring the issue entirely....
Well, what I really wanted to see would NEVER ever happen in Star Trek.....have Worf and Riker in a relationship..... So, I do what I have done for many years now..use my own imagination.....It really would be fantastic if someday...there was a top rated Trek show with two gay male characters.
Worf : " Commander..I must warn you.....Klingon sex ..is very rough compared to human sex."
I do not feel that way about the metaphor. It was much better than ignoring the issue entirely....
Well, what I really wanted to see would NEVER ever happen in Star Trek.....have Worf and Riker in a relationship..... So, I do what I have done for many years now..use my own imagination.....It really would be fantastic if someday...there was a top rated Trek show with two gay male characters.
Worf : " Commander..I must warn you.....Klingon sex ..is very rough compared to human sex."
Quote: Jim Jackson said: TNG said very little, if anything, about homosexuality. There were no gay characters in TNG.
The beauty of Trek was that it normally did things subtly and with metaphor.
The episodes about the Trill/Dax were often metaphors for homosexuality.
Similarly, in TOS, the classic stories about civil rights weren't starring African Americans, they were about aliens, the classic example being the ep with Frank Gorshin.
Quote: Jim Jackson said: TNG said very little, if anything, about homosexuality. There were no gay characters in TNG.
The beauty of Trek was that it normally did things subtly and with metaphor.
The episodes about the Trill/Dax were often metaphors for homosexuality.
Similarly, in TOS, the classic stories about civil rights weren't starring African Americans, they were about aliens, the classic example being the ep with Frank Gorshin.
I find the eps about Dax and the Trills to be more comments on "what is gender?" than on homosexuality.
Quote: Jim Jackson said: TNG said very little, if anything, about homosexuality. There were no gay characters in TNG.
The beauty of Trek was that it normally did things subtly and with metaphor.
The episodes about the Trill/Dax were often metaphors for homosexuality.
Similarly, in TOS, the classic stories about civil rights weren't starring African Americans, they were about aliens, the classic example being the ep with Frank Gorshin.
I was 11 years old when that Frank Gorshin TOS episode first aired..and I got the message....looking back, it was a great metaphor for prejudice, in an era when it was not quite time to totally discuss prejudice on TV.
Quote: Wednesday said: Back on topic, Jim's right, one weak allusion does not a theme make.
Quote: But that doesn't mean TNG wasn't a product of its time. In many ways it was, and DS9 even moreso.
I understand that. It's not that I find the lack of gay characters or substantive gay themes bases on which to criticize TNG. It was great stuff. But TV still wasn't ready for an openly gay character or blatant gay themes. I'm cool with that.
But if TREK ever reappears, the lack of a gay main character will indeed be grounds for me to take it to task and believe me, I will.
Quote: Wednesday said: Back on topic, Jim's right, one weak allusion does not a theme make.
Quote: But that doesn't mean TNG wasn't a product of its time. In many ways it was, and DS9 even moreso.
I understand that. It's not that I find the lack of gay characters or substantive gay themes bases on which to criticize TNG. It was great stuff. But TV still wasn't ready for an openly gay character or blatant gay themes. I'm cool with that.
But if TREK ever reappears, the lack of a gay main character will indeed be grounds for me to take it to task and believe me, I will.
As long as that gay main character isn't a flaming queen like the guys in " Queer Eye For The Straight Guy." I would want the general public to see that not all gay men are fem.
Quote: Wednesday said: Back on topic, Jim's right, one weak allusion does not a theme make.
Quote: But that doesn't mean TNG wasn't a product of its time. In many ways it was, and DS9 even moreso.
I understand that. It's not that I find the lack of gay characters or substantive gay themes bases on which to criticize TNG. It was great stuff. But TV still wasn't ready for an openly gay character or blatant gay themes. I'm cool with that.
But if TREK ever reappears, the lack of a gay main character will indeed be grounds for me to take it to task and believe me, I will.
As long as that gay main character isn't a flaming queen like the guys in " Queer Eye For The Straight Guy." I would want the general public to see that not all gay men are fem.
Some gays are rough and virile cowboys. I think that Trek would be better served with a Brokeback-style gay guy then with Truman Capote in space.
Quote: Wednesday said: Back on topic, Jim's right, one weak allusion does not a theme make.
Quote: But that doesn't mean TNG wasn't a product of its time. In many ways it was, and DS9 even moreso.
I understand that. It's not that I find the lack of gay characters or substantive gay themes bases on which to criticize TNG. It was great stuff. But TV still wasn't ready for an openly gay character or blatant gay themes. I'm cool with that.
But if TREK ever reappears, the lack of a gay main character will indeed be grounds for me to take it to task and believe me, I will.
As long as that gay main character isn't a flaming queen like the guys in " Queer Eye For The Straight Guy." I would want the general public to see that not all gay men are fem.
Some gays are rough and virile cowboys. I think that Trek would be better served with a Brokeback-style gay guy then with Truman Capote in space.
Very true! I lived with a man for many years. He built the house we lived in himself. He was an able carpentar, brick layer, and very mechanically inclined. He was as comfortable repairing his car himself as he was cooking a three course meal for a dinner party of nine. He did not act or look gay, not in the slightest.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Well, what I really wanted to see would NEVER ever happen in Star Trek.....have Worf and Riker in a relationship.....
Worf : " Commander..I must warn you.....Klingon sex ..is very rough compared to human sex."
Riker : " Bring it on, Lieutenant!"
I noticed how you took the two most heterosexual, testosterone characters of that show to make a couple. I'm not laughing at you for it. But...fuck...knowing the character like we do, that really strikes me as hilarious...
I think it was obvious TNG had a main gay character for about four years.......Wesley Crusher, anyone? Scared of girls, super-smart, perfectly groomed hair....come on! Get the picture!
Quote: Prometheus said: I think it was obvious TNG had a main gay character for about four years.......Wesley Crusher, anyone? Scared of girls, super-smart, perfectly groomed hair....come on! Get the picture!
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Well, what I really wanted to see would NEVER ever happen in Star Trek.....have Worf and Riker in a relationship.....
Worf : " Commander..I must warn you.....Klingon sex ..is very rough compared to human sex."
Riker : " Bring it on, Lieutenant!"
I noticed how you took the two most heterosexual, testosterone characters of that show to make a couple. I'm not laughing at you for it. But...fuck...knowing the character like we do, that really strikes me as hilarious...
I think it was obvious TNG had a main gay character for about four years.......Wesley Crusher, anyone? Scared of girls, super-smart, perfectly groomed hair....come on! Get the picture!
Yeah! I always thought Wesley's hair was TOO perfect for a straight guy!
Quote: Prometheus said: I think it was obvious TNG had a main gay character for about four years.......Wesley Crusher, anyone? Scared of girls, super-smart, perfectly groomed hair....come on! Get the picture!
He dated Ashley Judd in the ep, THE GAME.
Love that episode, Jim..will be taping it in a few weeks, as soon as G 4 runs it again.
Quote: Jim Jackson said: But if TREK ever reappears, the lack of a gay main character will indeed be grounds for me to take it to task and believe me, I will.
Let me ask you this: How would that serve the series as a whole?
I mean, I can understand if you have a character...cool...in charge...whatever. And, then, at some point, you hear he has a date on the ship that night. The audience must automatically assume it's some chick. But then BAM!, there he is in Ten Forward with Lt. Kyle Smith!
But, forcing the issue....making a character "just to be gay"...that would be a disservice towards the homosexual community in my view. It limits their lifestyle to a two-dimensional character trait, as opposed to it just being a fact of their life.
Besides, you could never have an episode that "explorers homosexuality" in a "Afternoon Special" kind of way. If homosexuality isn't just another facet of normal life by the 24th century....if it is still an "issue"...then, I would say that civilization hasn't progressed much in four-hundred years.
For me, the most respectful I've ever seen homosexual character realized in fiction is in the comic 'The Authority'. Here you have these two Superman and Batman analogues, Midnighter and Apollo. Badass. Hardcore. The ultimate fighter, and the man who walks like a god. They are the heart and soul of that team.
Oh, and look....they're kissing.
That's how it was presented in the run. It wasn't "Hey here's Midnighter and Apollo, the GAY members of Authority!". It was taken matter-of-factly, and nonchalantly. That was genuinely respectful and believable. For the homosexual community, it was gays being represented in a positive light. For the heterosexual community...and especially those who may not be comfortable with the lifestyle...it wasn't shoved in their face to the point of "ACCEPT ME! ACCEPT ME!".
Or, take Captain Jack Harkness on Doctor Who. Smooth talking, cool, conman. Rough and tumble. Funny. Han Solo all the way. And, by the way, he'll hook up with The Doctor just as fast as he would hook up with Rose.Omni-sexual, as he called himself. And fans love that character to PIECES. He is one of my favorite fictional characters. And not once has his sexuality been a focal point or an "issue".
That's how I think any character, homsexual or heterosexual, should be represented on Trek. As just another character.
If..when ....they create another Trek show..and I hope it won't be for at least another ten years..I hope they can make it as fresh as Next Generation was when it aired back in 1987 - 1994.
I remember watching those episodes and going " Wow...." a lot then.
Quote: Let me ask you this: How would that serve the series as a whole?
I mean, I can understand if you have a character...cool...in charge...whatever. And, then, at some point, you hear he has a date on the ship that night. The audience must automatically assume it's some chick. But then BAM!, there he is in Ten Forward with Lt. Kyle Smith!
But, forcing the issue....making a character "just to be gay"...that would be a disservice towards the homosexual community in my view.
I'm sorry, but your view is in error. It fails to grasp a few obvious aspects:
1. there are gay people in the real world; good SF always has something to say about the real world
2. there are TONS of gay Trek fans; to deny them representation within Trek is akin to not having any blacks on the ENTERPRISE.
Quote: It limits their lifestyle to a two-dimensional character trait, as opposed to it just being a fact of their life.
Does it limit any str8 character to depict him or her in a relationship?
I'm not saying "create a queer just to have a queer." I'm saying "create a queer character who's a substantive character."
I do not see how this is so difficult to grasp. When you think it might be a bad thing to do, just substitute the word "black" or "asian" with gay and then rethink your position.
Quote: Jim Jackson said: But if TREK ever reappears, the lack of a gay main character will indeed be grounds for me to take it to task and believe me, I will.
Let me ask you this: How would that serve the series as a whole?
I mean, I can understand if you have a character...cool...in charge...whatever. And, then, at some point, you hear he has a date on the ship that night. The audience must automatically assume it's some chick. But then BAM!, there he is in Ten Forward with Lt. Kyle Smith!
But, forcing the issue....making a character "just to be gay"...that would be a disservice towards the homosexual community in my view. It limits their lifestyle to a two-dimensional character trait, as opposed to it just being a fact of their life.
Besides, you could never have an episode that "explorers homosexuality" in a "Afternoon Special" kind of way. If homosexuality isn't just another facet of normal life by the 24th century....if it is still an "issue"...then, I would say that civilization hasn't progressed much in four-hundred years.
For me, the most respectful I've ever seen homosexual character realized in fiction is in the comic 'The Authority'. Here you have these two Superman and Batman analogues, Midnighter and Apollo. Badass. Hardcore. The ultimate fighter, and the man who walks like a god. They are the heart and soul of that team.
Oh, and look....they're kissing.
That's how it was presented in the run. It wasn't "Hey here's Midnighter and Apollo, the GAY members of Authority!". It was taken matter-of-factly, and nonchalantly. That was genuinely respectful and believable. For the homosexual community, it was gays being represented in a positive light. For the heterosexual community...and especially those who may not be comfortable with the lifestyle...it wasn't shoved in their face to the point of "ACCEPT ME! ACCEPT ME!".
Or, take Captain Jack Harkness on Doctor Who. Smooth talking, cool, conman. Rough and tumble. Funny. Han Solo all the way. And, by the way, he'll hook up with The Doctor just as fast as he would hook up with Rose.Omni-sexual, as he called himself. And fans love that character to PIECES. He is one of my favorite fictional characters. And not once has his sexuality been a focal point or an "issue".
That's how I think any character, homsexual or heterosexual, should be represented on Trek. As just another character.
Thoughts?
I agree on this wholeheartedly. I want to see a GAY character in Trek..I just don't want a character who is gay MERELY to have a gay character......I want to see a character who just happens to be gay. That is how I see myself. I have many interests. I have my hopes, my dreams, my ups and downs..and I just happen to be gay..much like others here are themselves with their lives. ...only they are straight.
Having any character be believable and real is just good writing.....be they a gay or straight one.... a gay character ought to be filled out and given a history...feelings...likes, dislikes..same as any other character.
The main cast of Next Generation seemed real to us because they were written and performed that way.
That is all I expect in a gay Trek character....or any other Trek personality, for that matter.
If a gay character is to be accepted..it ought to be on his own merit as a personality. Not as a man or woman who pushes his sexuality onscreen and turns it into a big issue. Just have him - her be like anybody else.
Quote: Jim Jackson said: I do not see how this is so difficult to grasp. When you think it might be a bad thing to do, just substitute the word "black" or "asian" with gay and then rethink your position.
And I think you need to go back re-read what I wrote before you knee-jerk me in with the crowd. When, my entire point was...
Quote: Jim Jackson said: I'm not saying "create a queer just to have a queer." I'm saying "create a queer character who's a substantive character."
...that. If THAT is what you're saying, then, I agree. I just don't want to watch an episode of Trek where it's a hard life for Lt. Smith because he's gay. It would be an irrelevant fact by that century, logically speaking. It should be as normal as Kirk snogging a chick. No better. No worse...
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I agree on this wholeheartedly. I want to see a GAY character in Trek..I just don't want a character who is gay MERELY to have a gay character......I want to see a character who just happens to be gay. That is how I see myself. I have many interests. I have my hopes, my dreams, my ups and downs..and I just happen to be gay..much like others here are themselves with their lives. ...only they are straight.
Having any character be believable and real is just good writing.....be they a gay or straight one.... a gay character ought to be filled out and given a history...feelings...likes, dislikes..same as any other character.
The main cast of Next Generation seemed real to us because they were written and performed that way.
That is all I expect in a gay Trek character....or any other Trek personality, for that matter.
If a gay character is to be accepted..it ought to be on his own merit as a personality. Not as a man or woman who pushes his sexuality onscreen and turns it into a big issue. Just have him - her be like anybody else.
Human.
See, that is exactly what I'm talking about. Homosexuals should be accepted as equal in all measures of life, not the equal-but-seperate bullshit.
I guess I have to ask, after all the times I have posted on the RKMBs, did you really think I advocated creating a queer Trek character just to have a queer character? A character that had no depth other than his faggery?
Quote: Jim Jackson said: I guess I have to ask, after all the times I have posted on the RKMBs, did you really think I advocated creating a queer Trek character just to have a queer character? A character that had no depth other than his faggery?
C'mon...
Well, that's the way I was interpeting you, yeah. Which is why I had to say all of this. It surprised me, coming from you. Obviously I was mistaken from what I just read...
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I agree on this wholeheartedly. I want to see a GAY character in Trek..I just don't want a character who is gay MERELY to have a gay character......I want to see a character who just happens to be gay. That is how I see myself. I have many interests. I have my hopes, my dreams, my ups and downs..and I just happen to be gay..much like others here are themselves with their lives. ...only they are straight.
Having any character be believable and real is just good writing.....be they a gay or straight one.... a gay character ought to be filled out and given a history...feelings...likes, dislikes..same as any other character.
The main cast of Next Generation seemed real to us because they were written and performed that way.
That is all I expect in a gay Trek character....or any other Trek personality, for that matter.
If a gay character is to be accepted..it ought to be on his own merit as a personality. Not as a man or woman who pushes his sexuality onscreen and turns it into a big issue. Just have him - her be like anybody else.
Human.
See, that is exactly what I'm talking about. Homosexuals should be accepted as equal in all measures of life, not the equal-but-seperate bullshit.
Quote: the G-man said: Maybe they eliminated the gene for homosexuality in the future...perhaps during the eugenics wars involving Kahn.
Quote: Jim Jackson said: That's a fairly assinine remark. I'll just view it as you being silly and give it no more credence.
Okay, it was a little silly. However...
As I recall, there are a number of Trek episodes, both in the original series and beyond, that hint there were some dark eras of human history between "our" time and the time of Trek. For example, the genetic supermen war that Kahn was involved in.
If there was genetic tinkering going on in the past, during an unenlightened time period, whos to say that some "President Falwell" didn't give the order to eliminate the gene that causes homosexuality, on the theory that homosexuals don't allow for efficient expansion of the species?
Unless the writers were to stack the deck to make that genetic tinkering seem like a good idea (unlikely) why couldn't there be a suitably enlightended Trek backstory to explain that's why there are no "gays in space"?
Yeah, sorta. It depends on who was writing that, but they sort glossed over it.
Either way, I'm not saying that the Federation would have eliminated gays, but that its possbile the "gay gene" was eliminated BEFORE the utopia was realized, for example, during the time of Kahn.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I agree on this wholeheartedly. I want to see a GAY character in Trek..I just don't want a character who is gay MERELY to have a gay character......I want to see a character who just happens to be gay. That is how I see myself. I have many interests. I have my hopes, my dreams, my ups and downs..and I just happen to be gay..much like others here are themselves with their lives. ...only they are straight.
Having any character be believable and real is just good writing.....be they a gay or straight one.... a gay character ought to be filled out and given a history...feelings...likes, dislikes..same as any other character.
The main cast of Next Generation seemed real to us because they were written and performed that way.
That is all I expect in a gay Trek character....or any other Trek personality, for that matter.
If a gay character is to be accepted..it ought to be on his own merit as a personality. Not as a man or woman who pushes his sexuality onscreen and turns it into a big issue. Just have him - her be like anybody else.
Human.
I absolutely agree with your post! I'd also like to point out that you are a great example of this because up until now, this noob did not know that you were gay. I assumed from Jim and Klinton that gay posters on Rob's Boards wore their sexual orientation on their sleeve, but this is obviously not the case. Can you be on Star Trek?
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I agree on this wholeheartedly. I want to see a GAY character in Trek..I just don't want a character who is gay MERELY to have a gay character......I want to see a character who just happens to be gay. That is how I see myself. I have many interests. I have my hopes, my dreams, my ups and downs..and I just happen to be gay..much like others here are themselves with their lives. ...only they are straight.
Having any character be believable and real is just good writing.....be they a gay or straight one.... a gay character ought to be filled out and given a history...feelings...likes, dislikes..same as any other character.
The main cast of Next Generation seemed real to us because they were written and performed that way.
That is all I expect in a gay Trek character....or any other Trek personality, for that matter.
If a gay character is to be accepted..it ought to be on his own merit as a personality. Not as a man or woman who pushes his sexuality onscreen and turns it into a big issue. Just have him - her be like anybody else.
Human.
I absolutely agree with your post! I'd also like to point out that you are a great example of this because up until now, this noob did not know that you were gay. I assumed from Jim and Klinton that gay posters on Rob's Boards wore their sexual orientation on their sleeve, but this is obviously not the case. Can you be on Star Trek?
Thanks! I would not personally want to be a gay character on Star Trek, however, in light of how well he played a drag queen in " Holiday Heart ", I would love to see Ving Rhames play a gay character in a Star Trek show. Not that I would want Ving to portray a drag queen in space, it's that he did a fantastic job of portraying a gay man in a sensitive way..and I am extrapolating that he would be equally good at playing an officer on Star Trek who is not obviously gay....hopefully at least an executive officer..who would just happen to be a gay black man. My boyfriend is black and he, too, would like to see a gay black man on a Star Trek show.
As I recall, there are a number of Trek episodes, both in the original series and beyond, that hint there were some dark eras of human history between "our" time and the time of Trek. For example, the genetic supermen war that Kahn was involved in.
If there was genetic tinkering going on in the past, during an unenlightened time period, whos to say that some "President Falwell" didn't give the order to eliminate the gene that causes homosexuality, on the theory that homosexuals don't allow for efficient expansion of the species?
Unless the writers were to stack the deck to make that genetic tinkering seem like a good idea (unlikely) why couldn't there be a suitably enlightended Trek backstory to explain that's why there are no "gays in space"?
Until I see something canonical that states that the "gay gene" was eliminated, then what you're talking about is really nothing more than a fanfic idea. Like Kirk and Spock slash.
G-Man is silly to propose that in the TREK universe there might ever have been a permanent "cure" or "removal" (however that might be done) of homosexuality. I feel confident in saying that that idea will never see the light of canon.
What about what I said.....about it being a scoialistic utopia. I never really got that feeling. There were people that seemed to have more than others. Piccard however explained it once in First Contact saying we have no need of money anymore.
Quote: PJP said: What about what I said.....about it being a scoialistic utopia. I never really got that feeling. There were people that seemed to have more than others. Piccard however explained it once in First Contact saying we have no need of money anymore.
Acctully they do get paid.
The no money line is in the Starfleet handbook under how to get free pizza from people from the past.
It appeared several times in TNG too. Talk about elemenating poverty, greed, etc. But, in truth, it was really kinda muddled. From what I've seen, if you're in Starfleet, you don't get a paycheck. You get three squares a day, shelter, clothes, whatever you need. But there is definetly some system of trade considering the Ferengi (fuck if I know how to spell it) were a strong capitalists who did trade with individuals in the show. It's basically a Rodenberry "Hey! The future is great with running streams of champagne, gumdrop rainbows, and butterscotch meadows! Just don't ask me how it was done!"
There is no evidence that the character Sulu was gay or straight, just like with the fictional character of Dumbledore, who is from the Harry Potter franchise..we have yet to hear if there was ever a Mrs. Dumbledore..or any little Dumbledore's running about. Perhaps then, it is acceptable to simply draw your own conclusions.
Still, I do yearn for the day when it can be casually mentioned that this character or that character in Star Trek at least had anaffair with a man or woman.
As for the gay gene being eliminated? I'd rather see the Terrorism gene be eradicated, as well as the gene that causes people to perform acts of violence against other humans simply because they are different.
Quote: Jim Jackson said: Or a cure for male pattern baldness.
Picard would not approve....
On the subject of money, I remember reading an interview with Roddenberry back when TNG was just coming out. He said point-blank that there were two things he could never figure out for Trek back when he created it in the 60's:
1) How to land a ship as big as the Enterprise. (Thus why the beaming came into creation)
2) How finances work in a utopian setting.
He always admitted that, and stated it was an on-table challenge to any writer for Trek to figure it out. No one ever did. Thus, they've just kind of left it open for interpretation.
And, as Doc said, Starfleet...as a military/exploration service...do not get paid in the way we understand it. However, there have been indications of some type of credit or points system, as in the pilot episode of TNG Crusher "buys" a spool of fine silk, and says "Have it sent to the ship and charge it to Doctor Beverly Crusher...". This makes me think that every Starfleet officer is given so much credit or points for off-world bartering or purchasing...
Quote: PJP said: but not Romulan Ale......except for in the Undiscovered Country but shhhhh.....It's Illegal!
Bones gave it to him as a birthday present in Wrath of Khan! Old Bones just didn't give a fuck! He was going to drink and smoke whatever the hell he felt like, and FUCK THE MAN!
Quote: thedoctor said: It appeared several times in TNG too. Talk about elemenating poverty, greed, etc. But, in truth, it was really kinda muddled. From what I've seen, if you're in Starfleet, you don't get a paycheck. You get three squares a day, shelter, clothes, whatever you need. But there is definetly some system of trade considering the Ferengi (fuck if I know how to spell it) were a strong capitalists who did trade with individuals in the show. It's basically a Rodenberry "Hey! The future is great with running streams of champagne, gumdrop rainbows, and butterscotch meadows! Just don't ask me how it was done!"
One of the things I disliked about TNG was its constant state of whimsy. The first season had the captain talk down to a whole bunch of races and demonstrating how superior the Federation was since they were able to eliminate poverty, the death penalty, world hunger, etc.--But they wouldn't tell anyone how it was achieved! The most the show had to offer were story solutions that could be thought up by people of our current timeframe with no trouble at all. The series adopted a "What would the Federation do" tune, but the fact of the matter is that they did nothing we couldn't do. They're no more enlightened then I am. I furthermore disliked their sweeping comments about what is and is not silly to fight over. I get what they were trying to say, seeing as how they went out of their way to make it a happy-go-lucky fantasy realm, but it was bloody insensitive if you ask me.
One of the things I disliked about TNG was its constant state of whimsy. The first season had the captain talk down to a whole bunch of races demonstrating how superior they were since they were able to eliminate poverty, the death penalty, world hunger, etc.--But they wouldn't tell anyone how it was achieved!
On-camera: The Prime Directive?
Off-camera: as Pro pointed out, Roddenberry et al. had no clue how to plausibly explain that.
Yeah, it's fucking sc-fi. How does a ship go to warp? How does a TARDIS go back and forward in time? How does Magneto move metal with his mind? It's fiction!
Quote: Prometheus said: Yeah, it's fucking sc-fi. How does a ship go to warp? How does a TARDIS go back and forward in time? How does Magneto move metal with his mind? It's fiction!
I think we can agree that political science and physics don't exactly work the same way.
Maybe we'll develop warp someday, but we'll never get rid of the social issues that plague us everyday.
Quote: Prometheus said: Yeah, it's fucking sc-fi. How does a ship go to warp? How does a TARDIS go back and forward in time? How does Magneto move metal with his mind? It's fiction!
I think we can agree that political science and physics don't exactly work the same way.
Maybe we'll develop warp someday, but we'll never get rid of the social issues that plague us everyday.
Yes, slavery, burning witches, and stoning the mentally handicapp is still pretty rampant....
Quote: Prometheus said: Yeah, it's fucking sc-fi. How does a ship go to warp?
They at least gave bullshit explainations for that.
Well, I gave one in my previous posts. Credits and points. What's the difference if I do it, or if the writers do it? It's still fiction, and amounts to the same. Suspension of disbelief, people! William Shatner got laid every week on the show! Hello!
And last night's 2 am G 4 Sar Trek : TNG ep. was REMEMBER ME. Even after seeing it 8 or 9 times over the years, and knowing how it ends, I could still feel the tension as Dr Crusher has to solve a mystery...before it's too late.
Spoiler space :
The show ended and then the closing credits came up.
That's all I'm gonna say about this excellent episode, and it's surprise ending.
Wesley was ok. Gene Roddenbury said in an interview years ago that Wesley Crusher represented him at that age, as he was a bright kid and did well in school.
Wil Wheaton was brilliant in Stand By Me. I think he made a mistake, just as Denise Crosby ( Tasha Yar. ) made a few years before him in leaving the show. Both actors admitted such a move killed their careers dead. Being typecast in Star Trek :TNG might have been a factor, as well.
I wasn't a big Wesley fan but enjoyed Wheaton's good humor about all the "kill Wesley" fans.
It's not to weird for me not having any new Trek. I missed quite a few episodes from DS9 & Voyager. With Netflix I've been watching through those entire series. While I knew DS9 was good, it's truly great watching all the episodes sequentially. After that I might check out the Enterprise series. Some of the ones I saw though when it was being broadcast though wasn't really enjoyable. I liked the casting but setting the whole series up as a prologue to everything else just didn't work IMHO.
I've always enjoyed picking up any Star Trek paperbacks. The latest Voyager one called String Theory was a treat for all us Kes fans!
Since Trek has been a money maker for years for Paramount I would be surprised if they let the franchise just die. A breather will allow for a chance for a new take in a future series (I hope) Not sure how they would go about resurecting the movies. The classic cast were popular enough where the general population kept going even after they all became senior citizens. The Next Generation cast has Patrick Stewart but the last movie stunk. If they had decent story where they take on the Borg, the Next Generation movies could be back in business.
A strong, well written and brilliantly acted BORG - Next Generation movie might just bring the movies back to where they were with Contact, which was my favorite Next Generation movie. I'd be all for that.
I strongly suggest Enterprise. Alot of the more hardcore Trekkies bitched and moaned that it was, in some bizarre fashion, degrading their holy beliefs about TOS. I couldn't disagree more. In my mind, it cements and highlights that upcoming generation where Jame T. Kirk would lead the 1701 into one its greatest eras of exploration.
Enterprise is a quiet, considerate partner to TOS. It shows the very beginning of the Federation, and gives more details into how and why things became they were did by Kirk and Picard's centuries. It's about realistic exploration. It's not a "meet the alien of the week" format. It goes into the fact that space is vast, dangerous, and very often, lonely.
A lone crew of 188 humans (plus one Vulcan and one Denobulan) set off into, literally, the great unknown. There are no star charts to follow, as outlined by previous ships or explorations. There are other starships to fall back on for support or help. Hell, they don't even have any real defenses or weapons. The "Phaser Particle Pistols" are a brand new technology, and, the "Photonic Torpedo Cannons" aren't even installed and tested until the Second Season.
Enterprise is about struggle and laying the foundation of what we know about The Federation. I can't say enough good things about it.
That said, keep in mind it IS a Trek. Therefore, it doesn't quite find it's perfect footing until the latter half of Season Two. After that, it's all gold.
And fuck Berman and Braga for not putting their support behind it. Burn in hell you ignorant fucks...
As for the movies, I've said it before and I'll say it again. It needs adrenaline. It needs action, and fights, and epic space battles. The tv series are the best platforms for moral and ethical explorations. Movies should always do what Wrath of Khan and First Contact did....and that's kick some damn ass.
Be bold. Be brave. Be exciting, and powerful. THAT will make a Trek movie worth it everytime...
Encounter At Farpoint : The first time I tried to tape it was off of Spike TV..the picture kept freezing for minutes at a time..that was 2 weeks ago. On Wednesday night, I had already taped part one off of G 4....and put the tape in the vcr ..pushed record..two seconds into the episode..the power went out on my entire block.
So I bought the episode on Ebay. Oh well, at least I got it.
So this is what YOU do, Rex....dump your unhappieness, undealt - with issues and self loathing on others, instead of dealing with it?
That's a million times worse than what you accuse me of doing.
Unlike you, I DON'T take my anger out on others for NO good reason. I DO push back when someone pushes at me, though.
I'm not like others here, Rex,..I don't taunt you or make fun of you for the hell of it. I don't make sock jokes, I don't turn you into the butt of crude jokes. I don't go for the obvious in others. That shows a lack of kindness and no imagination. Sadly, that seems to make no difference to you.
I don't treat you like a joke. I don't make hateful or humiliating threads about you. I don't push at you to try and drive you away from here. I respect your right to be here and enjoy yourself. I believe you ought to be treated like a person, not a punching bag. It's a shame you can't show me that same decency, and let me be ME here.
Or maybe you just enjoy going after others whom you think you can injure or ridicule. Those whom you consider to be vulnerable. That makes you no better than the ones who REALLY dump on you here. Worse, maybe,...because you are intelligent and ought to know better.
Ever heard of TACT, Rex? I don't think so. You might have said, " You know, Jerry, I would really appreciate it if you would try to post stuff in threads where it might at least be relevant."
Instead? You chose to be a prick. Another time, I might have simply ignored you, as I usually do....but you caught me at the wrong time.
The sad thing is, these words are written for one who will not listen. I must be stubborn, myself, because I am good to people...I try to see the GOOD in others, Rex..even you. Especially you...because you seem to need that compassion...more than most.
I don't dislike you, Rex... I feel sorry for you.. You sought to make me look the fool..but in making your remark, you only proved yourself to look foolish.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: So this is what YOU do, Rex....dump your unhappieness, undealt - with issues and self loathing on others, instead of dealing with it?
That's a million times worse than what you accuse me of doing.
Unlike you, I DON'T take my anger out on others for NO good reason. I DO push back when someone pushes at me, though.
I'm not like others here, Rex,..I don't taunt you or make fun of you for the hell of it. I don't make sock jokes, I don't turn you into the butt of crude jokes. I don't go for the obvious in others. That shows a lack of kindness and no imagination. Sadly, that seems to make no difference to you.
I don't treat you like a joke. I don't make hateful or humiliating threads about you. I don't push at you to try and drive you away from here. I respect your right to be here and enjoy yourself. I believe you ought to be treated like a person, not a punching bag. It's a shame you can't show me that same decency, and let me be ME here.
Or maybe you just enjoy going after others whom you think you can injure or ridicule. Those whom you consider to be vulnerable. That makes you no better than the ones who REALLY dump on you here. Worse, maybe,...because you are intelligent and ought to know better.
Ever heard of TACT, Rex? I don't think so. You might have said, " You know, Jerry, I would really appreciate it if you would try to post stuff in threads where it might at least be relevant."
Instead? You chose to be a prick. Another time, I might have simply ignored you, as I usually do....but you caught me at the wrong time.
The sad thing is, these words are written for one who will not listen. I must be stubborn, myself, because I am good to people...I try to see the GOOD in others, Rex..even you. Especially you...because you seem to need that compassion...more than most.
I don't dislike you, Rex... I feel sorry for you.. You sought to make me look the fool..but in making your remark, you only proved yourself to look foolish.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: So this is what YOU do, Rex....dump your unhappieness, undealt - with issues and self loathing on others, instead of dealing with it?
That's a million times worse than what you accuse me of doing.
Unlike you, I DON'T take my anger out on others for NO good reason. I DO push back when someone pushes at me, though.
I'm not like others here, Rex,..I don't taunt you or make fun of you for the hell of it. I don't make sock jokes, I don't turn you into the butt of crude jokes. I don't go for the obvious in others. That shows a lack of kindness and no imagination. Sadly, that seems to make no difference to you.
I don't treat you like a joke. I don't make hateful or humiliating threads about you. I don't push at you to try and drive you away from here. I respect your right to be here and enjoy yourself. I believe you ought to be treated like a person, not a punching bag. It's a shame you can't show me that same decency, and let me be ME here.
Or maybe you just enjoy going after others whom you think you can injure or ridicule. Those whom you consider to be vulnerable. That makes you no better than the ones who REALLY dump on you here. Worse, maybe,...because you are intelligent and ought to know better.
Ever heard of TACT, Rex? I don't think so. You might have said, " You know, Jerry, I would really appreciate it if you would try to post stuff in threads where it might at least be relevant."
Instead? You chose to be a prick. Another time, I might have simply ignored you, as I usually do....but you caught me at the wrong time.
The sad thing is, these words are written for one who will not listen. I must be stubborn, myself, because I am good to people...I try to see the GOOD in others, Rex..even you. Especially you...because you seem to need that compassion...more than most.
I don't dislike you, Rex... I feel sorry for you.. You sought to make me look the fool..but in making your remark, you only proved yourself to look foolish.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: So this is what YOU do, Rex....dump your unhappieness, undealt - with issues and self loathing on others, instead of dealing with it?
dude, calm down. Stop projecting your shit on me and get a sense of humor.
Quote: Unlike you, I DON'T take my anger out on others for NO good reason. I DO push back when someone pushes at me, though.
What anger? How do you know when I'm argry or not?
Quote: I'm not like others here, Rex,..I don't taunt you or make fun of you for the hell of it. I don't make sock jokes, I don't turn you into the butt of crude jokes. I don't go for the obvious in others. That shows a lack of kindness and no imagination. Sadly, that seems to make no difference to you.
You want a cookie?
Quote: I don't treat you like a joke. I don't make hateful or humiliating threads about you. I don't push at you to try and drive you away from here. I respect your right to be here and enjoy yourself. I believe you ought to be treated like a person, not a punching bag. It's a shame you can't show me that same decency, and let me be ME here.
See previous comment.
Quote: Or maybe you just enjoy going after others whom you think you can injure or ridicule. Those whom you consider to be vulnerable. That makes you no better than the ones who REALLY dump on you here. Worse, maybe,...because you are intelligent and ought to know better.
There is only one or two posters I go after here, and those posters deserve what they get. Most the time I'm joking around with friends. I leave most people here alone until they mess with me. Try to pay attention.
Quote: Ever heard of TACT, Rex? I don't think so. You might have said, " You know, Jerry, I would really appreciate it if you would try to post stuff in threads where it might at least be relevant."
Or you could not do it in the first place.
Quote: Instead? You chose to be a prick. Another time, I might have simply ignored you, as I usually do....but you caught me at the wrong time.
Thats your fault, not mine.
Quote: The sad thing is, these words are written for one who will not listen. I must be stubborn, myself, because I am good to people...I try to see the GOOD in others, Rex..even you. Especially you...because you seem to need that compassion...more than most.
Stop being so damn gay.
Quote: I don't dislike you, Rex... I feel sorry for you.. You sought to make me look the fool..but in making your remark, you only proved yourself to look foolish.
I don't need your pity. Go pity PCgay, he's the one that needs it.
I stand by what I said, Rex. Maybe I do take things too seriously a lot of the time...but this is part and parcel of who i am.
A sense of humor? I've had to deal with some major shit all through out my life.
It's a miracle I have ANY sense of humor at all.
This is me..I should not have to define or explain me, any more than you should have to define or explain yourself. To anyone in here or in the real world.
We now rejoin our regularly scheduled thread : Star Trek : The Lost Generation....already in progress.....
Ok...what episodes of Next Generation actually MOVED you in some way? Made you sad, happy, angry?
Whenever I watch "All Good Things", I am sad because that was the very LAST episode. It was a wonderful show with a long run, and many excellent episodes. It was goodbye.
I was there for "Encounter at Farpoint" on September 28,
1987. I thought the show was dumb. I watched it with a friend. we laughed at how bad we thought it was. By the end of that first season, we hadseen "Conspiracy", "Skin of Evil", "Hide and Q", "Arsenal Of Freedom", and a few other episodes that were very good. We began to like the show.
The episode that endeared Next Generation to me was "The Dauphin". This was the one where Wesley falls in love with a very special girl. No spoilers in case there are a few here who never saw the show, but I recall saying "Wow" a few times during that episode. There were a few funny lines in that episode, too. It was about first love. Very well done.
"The Offspring. " I cried the very first time I saw that one. VERY moving.
"Relics". Scotty is in this one. As you know, he died a year ago or so. I always liked him. He was a fun character and a good actor. The episode was very good.
It is a bit sad seeing Scotty in this one, knowing that he is gone. It was his next to last appearance in a Trek show or movie. A great way to remember him.
"Who Watches The Watchers". The dialogue is excellent. It is deeply moving, with it's themes of God and worship and beliefs. I am a very spiritual person, and admire the sensitivity with which this subject was dealt with.
Part two : Star Trek : The Next Generation episodes that moved me.
I was at a Next Generation site a day or so ago, and saw what fans there had voted as their favorites.... and found most of the fan voted favs. were mostly action oriented. Sure, I like action Trek episodes too, and maybe it is my age showing, but I like episodes that are character driven with plenty of dialogue and character development.
Spoilers!! Spoilers ahead!!!!
Some of my personal favs that were missing in the list of fan favorites:
The Emmisary : We meet Worf's love interest, Keh'lar, for the first time. We see a totally different, loving, sensitive side to Worf. He may not be human, but he can love. I remember what I thought to myself when I first saw this episode:
"Worf in love? I didn't know he could do that!"
The Samaritan Snare :
Geordi is sent onboard a Pakled ship to make repairs. The Pakleds are a very child - like, under - developed race, who are so impatient for technological advancement that they steal it rather than wait.
What moves me in this episode is not just that Geordi is in big trouble and has to think his was out of a really tough dilemma, but it is also that Captain Picard needs to have his artificial heart replaced. He is not good with children, and makes the many hour journey with 16 year old Wesley Crusher, who is going to the same place as Picard is having thje procedure done, only Wesley is going there for Starfleet testing. The two have an interesting dialogue enroute.
It is rumored that Roddenbury planned to show in an episode that Wesley is the love child of Picard and Dr. Crusher. He died before this could be followed up. Writres soon forgot about or buried the idea. I would have liked to have seen this be revealed and put into an episode.
To Thine Own's Self :
Data is stranded on a backwards alien planet. He has lost his memory due to a shuttle malfunction. He unwittingly brings radioactive material to a medieval type town, and befriends a little girl and her father.
Data must find a cure for radioactive poisoning before the very people whom he has befriended die from it. Upon succeeding, and then subsequently being deactivated by the angry, frightened townspeople, the Enterprise crew send Riker and Dr. Crusher to the planet to find him, and learn that he had had an adventure, and became very special to a little girl. Very cute...
And, meanwhile, Counselor Troi had to wrestle with taking her Command test..and making a difficult choice... to be able to order a crewman to their death in order to save the ship and crew.
A lot of good character development in these three gems. Dialogue was spot on, too.
The Emmisary was just on Spike Tv..it ended just a minute ago..I find the dialogue at the end between Keh'Lar and Worf in the transporter room quite moving.
And I have probably seen it 20 times at this point.
Lower Decks is a FANTASTIC episode!! It has all of my favorite ingredients : A story told from a different angle, wonderful dialogue and excellent character development!
Let's not forget Tapestry, and The Inner Light - both very character driven episodes. I will discuss those, and others en la futura..in the future.
I liked the episode, I think it was called Measure of a Man, where Data's legal status was in question, and Riker had to argue that he was property of the Federation, and Picard argued that Data was entitled to the same rights as anyone else.
All Good Things just ended...I watched parts 1 & 2 on G 4......I always get sad when the episode ends..it is the very last episode.
It was such a wonderful show! Full of fresh ideas, new and original characters..... Each episode cost about a million dollars to produce....several of the cast had to endure sitting for hours each day before shooting began, having make up put on them...
It picked up on and expounded upon ideas that Roddenbury had created in the Original Series... and broke new ground with the Cardassians, the Ferengi, many other new alien species...and of course....The Borg.
Each week, we went off into the unknown with Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Lt. Worf, Commander Data, Counselor Troi, Lt. Geordi LaForge, and Dr. Crusher. They provided us with fascinating stories, superb acting, and the opportunity to go where we otherwise could not go...into the vastness of our galaxy.....
Thank God for reruns.. and thank you, Mr Roddenbury.
The Offspring was on yesterday on Spike TV... it remains one of my very favorite episodes. Surprisingly, it rarely makes fan fav's lists at Trek sites online.. no matter, this one still moves me everytime.
Sins of The Father was just on..a fantastic episode! We discover that Worf has a brother, Kurn..played quite well by Tony Todd...Worf's character began to develope with "Heart of Glory " in season one....and with " The Emmisary " from season two....but with this third season offering, Worf truly shines.
Skin Of Evil was on G4 .... very good episode, very sad ending.
Am currently watching Best Of Both Worlds part 2.... Okay, the Borg easily defeats almost ALL of Starfleet's vessels.....and the Enterprise single handedly blows it up?
I know that they had Data to help...that may have made all the difference...none of the other ships that tackled the Borg at Wolf 359 had an android on board.
Family is on...it's the one after Best Of Both Worlds.. another great episode. We learn about how Picard has to deal with having been used by the Borg to kill thousands of people...his strained relationship with his older brother..his childhood...
Worf and his parents: The scenes were quite good.
This and Best of Both worlds were a fantastic start for the fourth season of the show. This season is viewed by many as the best one. I tend to agree. The main characters had their personas down cold, the stories were never better, and dialogue and action were superb.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Family is on...it's the one after Best Of Both Worlds.. another great episode. We learn about how Picard has to deal with having been used by the Borg to kill thousands of people...his strained relationship with his older brother..his childhood...
Worf and his parents: The scenes were quite good.
This and Best of Both worlds were a fantastic start for the fourth season of the show. This season is viewed by many as the best one. I tend to agree. The main characters had their personas down cold, the stories were never better, and dialogue and action were superb.
Family is a bit slow, but I like it. Its nice to actually have them need to repair and recover from a big episode. Brothers is another great one in year 4 with Data and Lore meeting their "father." I remember how big that was that Brent Spiner was doing 3 characters together for most of the episode.
Yeah, Family was pretty good because of reasons I discussed earlier...and Brent Spiner did an excellent job of playing three characters in Brothers!
I liked how Lore mocked Data when he said , " I am not less perfect than Lore." in that silly tone, That was funny!
I missed the first two Trek eps on Spike today, but did see the third one.... Future Imperfect.... it was a good episode.
I kinda wish they'd do a Next Gen. movie eventually, to show what happened to the main cast years after the continuity of the show ended...that could be amusing.
" The Offspring " was on G 4 tonight. It is still one of my favs, even though I have seen it about 25 times now. It is from this excellent episode that my current signature... Data's speech to his android daughter, Lal..comes from.
" Sins of The Father " is on now... another fantastic episode.
" Captain, I am going to ask you to be Cha' D' ich."
I've been rewatching the first season after not seeing them in years & years. One surprise is that so far the focus hasn't been just on the big three. Nice seeing the scenes with the secondary members. Sulu particulary gets a fair amount of screen time early on.
The Inner Light just ended on Spike TV (Where Picard lives the life of a man in a long dead civilization). It's probably one of my top five favorite episodes.
The Inner Light was just on...it is a beautiful episode. Very moving....
Now, Time's Arrow Part one is on, and will be followed in an hour by Time's Arrow Part two.... An excellent two parter..it ends season 5, and it's conclusion is the first episode, season 6....
Whoa! Glad we agree on that one, NotWedge..I cried The VERY first time I saw The Inner Light... wow....an awesome episode..done very well...superb story.
My top five Star Trek : The Next Generation episodes, in no particular order :
The Offspring
The Inner Light
Q Who?
To Thine's Self
Relics
Let's make it a top ten :
Sins Of The Father
The Emissary
Who Watches The Watchers?
Booby Trap
Starship Mine
I guess I tend to go for the ones where either the crew or a crew member has a big problem and has to solve it, and there is a deadline, or where it is a very moving episode. The action - oriented episodes are cool too!
Quote: NotWedge said: My top 5 (I had to do a little research for the titles)
1. Darmok 2. Deja Q 3. The Most Toys 4. The Inner Light 5. Relics
The ones I highlighted are FANTASTIC! ( Yeah, I highlighted 'em all! )Paul Winfield played the alien guy in DARMOK, he was also in Star Trek II : The Wrath Of Khan. He died in that movie, but at least when the character he portrayed died in Darmok, it was to establish communications with Picard and the Federation.... not a bad cause.
Deja Q : "For what's it's worth, you're a better human than I"
Q said that to Data after Data saved Q after having been stripped of his God - like powers... wow....
The Most Toys was just on a day or so ago.
Did Data fire the Phaser on purpose? Or was it REALLY a transporter glitch?
I like it when I am asked to draw my own conclusions.
The Inner Light, we discussed.
Relics, I reviewed here a page or three ago... Scotty was one of the three members ( 4 if you count Mark Leonard, who played Sarek in TOS and Next Gen. ) to guest star in Next Gen, Dr McCoy was in Farpoint, may he rest in peace, and Spock in the two parter Unification.
James Doohan did a fine job of reprising his role as Scotty. I loved the way he and Geordi interacted! And the way they solved the problem.
I, Borg was just on yesterday..another fav.
" But Geordi would rather DIE than be assimulated."
" Then Geordi will die."
" But he is my friend."
Awesome dialogue between Picard ( Locutis ) and Hugh Borg.
Time's Arrow has concluded. In 2 hours, at 8 pm, est, Best Of Both Words parts 1 & 2 will be on, on G 4..am looking forward to that. Will do house work till then.
Quote: Matter-eater Man said: I figured Data fired intentionally in the "Toys" ep.
I agree...so, Data has no emotions, eh? He was pushed beyond the point where humans would crack with humiliations..his uniform and communicator, destroyed.. He was kept captive...supposed to amuse guests... forced to sit in a chair as though he were a people sized trophy....and watched the only person on Fatjo's ship who treated him with kindness killed before his eyes...
He fired.
Thus, he came one step closer to humanity.
He felt a need to kill a man who clearly demonstrated a lack of humanity on many occasions...whereas, by contrast, Data, an android, has shown a strong sense of kindness, decency, and...humanity..more so than many humanoid life forms he has encountered in his travels.
Oh Shit! I just heard where G 4 is adding a few new shows this fall! I hope they won't take off one or both episodes of Next Generation because of this!!
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.
Thanks again, Ariel. I have had a REALLY bad day. Otherwise, I would have mentioned the shows. True Q was on, it that is another good one..man, imagine having the power of Q!!!
Rascals was also on ..it is another good one....Loved when the "kids" saved the day!
Those are some FINE choices, Pro! I forgot Tapestry in my top ten....love that one!
I could have easily made it a top 20! Or 30!!!
Others I like :
Tapestry ( " Hello, Jean - Luc. You're dead..welcome to the afterlife. " )
Samaritan Snare ( " We look for things that make us go.")
The Naked Now ( I LOVE watching Data put those chips back into their slots at super speed! ) (" This will take slightly more time than we have left!" )
The Enemy ( " The first Federation - Romulan Co - Venture!"
The Pegasus ( " I was stupid..I should have shot you instead of defending you." )
The Next Phase ( " Where is the other one like you...the scientific officer?")
Time's Arrow one and two ( " I know now that I can die..this brings me one step closer to being human." )
A Fistful of Datas - A fun episode! I STILL don't like westerns...UNLESS they have a science fiction motiff, and this one works for me! Worf played the role of straight man quite well, as usual...
Quality of Life - I remember the TV guide ad for this episode from 1992 : " Will Data sacrifice Captain Picard and Geordi for the life of a machine?" I didn't used to care at all for this one, but it kinda grows on you, although I am curious...why did Data not understand that it is the struggle to grow and improve that is most important when Dr Crusher told him this, yet he gave the same speech to LAL in " The Offspring " just two years earlier?
( See my signature for that line. It is an excellent thought, and one of the best pearls of wisdom to come from Next Gen. )
Ship in a Bottle - has not been on yet, will be on at 5 pm, est..... this is "Elementary, Dear Data ", part two, and it is a cute episode. It is also most likely the inspriration for the holographic Doctor on Star Trek : Voyager.
And Keh'Lar was no doubt the character that inspired the half Klingon - half human character of Belanna Torres.
"Chain of Command Part 2" is on right now, it features great performances by Patrick Stewart and David Warner. David Warner is also a great voice actor who just about everyone here would recognize as the voice of Ra's Al Ghul on Batman: TAS.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: and Jelicho did not like Picard's fish being in his office.
Warner played the bad guy in THESE movies:
Time After Time
Tron
Titanic
Also seen in ST V : Final Frontier and ST VI: Undiscovered Country...
He's also done voice work for numerous animated series, including Batman the Animated Series, Freakazoid, and Disney's Gargoyles. And he reprised his role as Sark for the video game Kingdom Hearts II.
Birthright, a two parter was on Spike Tv today. It was cool seeing Dr. Bashir from DS 9 on the show, and the station, too.
Worf is told by this alien dude who is played by the same guy who played Zeprham Cochran in First Contact that his father is still alive..and what he finds instead almost gets him killed!
After that was Lessons, in which Captain Picard falls in love with a woman officer from Astro physics.. and how things work out.
" The Chase " was on today. It is a good one! The old guy who played the headmaster in " The Dead Poet's Society " and also a doctor in " St. Elsewhere " guest stars as Captain Picards' teacher from his academy days.
The build up is good, and I love the ending.
I did not used to like this one much, but it kinda grew on me.
After that was " Frame Of Mind." Another good one! Riker is in a mental facility on a planet with no real government.... He must figure out what's what before it's too late!
Quote: thedoctor said: The Borg were the homosexuals. Going around, trying to convert everyone to their ways.
I always believed the Borg was more of an amalgram for the bulk of our society, and how, in spite of society considering itself unique and fresh, it is actually a collective mind in itself : " Wear these clothes, listen to this music, talk like us, behave as we do, be like us or suffer the stigma of being ostracized."
I thought the Borgs were an allegory of collectivists/communists brainwashing people into their cause.
This is a VERY spiritual episode, meant to not only be a Worf episode, and a good one at that, but also a very good analogy for ALL beliefs.... Love What Kayless said to Worf :
"Which is more important : The words or the man who said them? "
wow....
" Second Chances "..not a big fave of mine, but two Rikers is ..most unusual.
" Timescape " .... A sort of " Cause and Effect " part two.
You get to see the following :
Captain Picard with a set of Lee's press on Nails.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I have nearly all the 178 Next Generation episodes on tape, except for the four that I mentioned earlier because I do not like those four episodes....
Those are lots of tapes! Good thing tapes doesn't have to be in magazine boxes and plastic wrappings, like comics!
I agree, and yes it is a LOT of tapes! I think I used about 60 or so Maxell VHS's to tape the 174 episodes...some are my favs that I taped a few times, like " The Offspring", Q Who?", Deja Q", " Sins Of The Father", " Remember Me", etc.
I taped 'em all back in 1991 - 1992, but that was NOT on digital cable, as ones I taped this year are..they are on regular cable tv.
One of my uncles had all the original and TNG episodes on tape. He told my oldest brother that he could have them, and all his books, when he died. What happened when he passed away? My fucking cousin threw them all away.
I have no idea, probably in his 60s. He was in poor health. I never knew he existed until just before my grandmother died (when I was 16). My dad had kicked him out of the house 30 something years before because he spanked my oldest brother. No mention was ever made of him in front of me until we went to GA for the funeral. I saw him one more time after that, where I met his wife. She's a bitch.
When I met him, I thought he was cooler than any of my uncles on my dad's side. He was big into SciFi and computers etc. Too bad his wife is such a psychotic bitch, and her kids are losers too. I do beleive it wasw one of them that threw everything away.
That is sad, Ariel. Families can be like that.... mine ain't so hot, either...I understand...
" Tin Man " was on G 4..it rocks! Tamm Elbrin, a telepath from Betazet, born with his telepathy switched ON at birth unlike most Betazoids, who mainfest telepathy at puberty ( Sounds like a race of mutants! ) is in telepathic contact with an alien being the size of a large spaceship!
" Hollow Pursuits " Reg Barclays first appearance of several. He is addicted to the holo - deck! Has created versions of the Next Gen bridge crew where HE is in charge.
" The Most Toys " and " Sarek" were on G 4 tonight...
I still think Data pulled the trigger on the Varron T Disruptor. He had had enough. Emotional awareness? I do not know, but it simulated emotion damn near enough!
"Descent parts 1 & 2" was on Spike TV today. We got to see Hugh Borg again, as well as Metaphasic Shielding, Lor, and the Borg!
"Liasons" is on now, the one where three ambassadors from an alien world pick one Enterprise crew member each to learn about a specific emotion from... Picard crash lands on an alien planet and meets a woman who has been stranded there for years....and there is something very wrong about her.....!
" Menage a Troi" and " Transfigurations" are on G 4 tonite; the latter is still on as I type this. I love the former as a comedy episode.
The latter is pretty cool! The Enterprise finds a one man ship with a critcally injured alien guy in it on a planet. He heals remarkably fast! Best line in it:
Yesterday I saw "Best of Two Worlds Part I-II" (on tape), in which Picard become Locutus of Borg. Very exciting. Then came "Family", a more soap-operish tale including Jean-Luc finding his roots in a French vineyard and Worf getting a visit from his human parents. Not too bad. I like Worf episodes.
Today I saw the death of Worf's girlfriend... that was sad. I remember from the 1st time I saw TNG that Worf had a son onboard, but I didn't know why Worf was single back then.
The original Star Trek is being remastered for future high defintion television syndication as well as eventual release on HD-DVD with new high-definition CG effects.
The Digital Bits reported the story in its Rumor Mill column, which reported previously that CBS Video, which now owns the Star Trek DVDs, was planning to retransfer the original series from film to HD-DVD. All of the Star Trek feature films will be rereleased for HD release as well.
Bill Hunt noted that he learned from industry sources that CBS is redoing many of the original series special effects using new CG techniques. "Specifically, they're re-doing all of the spaceship shots," he wrote. "This to me is a very exciting idea...in principle. As anyone who saw the Mirror Universe episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise will tell you, the old TOS ships look awfully damn good in new CG."
However, Hunt added, CBS is doing this CG work in-house and it is not yet known whether any of Star Trek's longtime effects wizards have worked on the new versions of the episodes. "I tried contacting CBS and their DVD distributor, Paramount, on this subject last week, but there was basically no comment," stated Hunt.
I did not watch the episode - "Interface" - where Geordi thinks his mom is on a planet trapped in it's atmosphere onboard her ship as I was busy, it is an ok episode though I hate that they killed his mom!
"Gambit 1 & 2 " - very nicely played! Plenty of action and good dialogue! Captain Picard and Riker are kidnapped by a group that is looking for parts of an old Vulcan artifact!
Gotta shower before "Best of Both Worlds pts 1 & 2" is on!
Ok, so Locutus is born! But WHY'D they put that dumb can opener looking thing on his right arm? He looked like he should say, " I am Locutus of Borg, here, let me open that can of spagetti - O's for you!"
Assistant Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford has become ill while trying to stop a war on Epsilon Canaris III. The shuttlecraft Galileo is assigned to take her to the U.S.S. Enterprise, where she will receive treatment for the otherwise fatal Sakuro's disease.
En route, the shuttlecraft is pulled off course by a mysterious, cloud-like entity. Deposited safely on the planet Gamma Canaris N, Kirk and his party meet Zefram Cochrane, the scientist that discovered warp drive over 100 years before. But Cochrane appears young and vital, despite his age. The cloud-like creature, whom Cochrane calls the "Companion," has kept him young and handsome over the years. The Companion captured the Galileo in order to give Cochrane human companionship.
The Companion prevents Spock from repairing the disabled shuttlecraft and Kirk is worried that Nancy Hedford will die before they can get her to the U.S.S. Enterprise for treatment.
By using a translating device, Kirk discovers that the cloud entity has a female personality and is in love with Cochrane, who doesn't care for that idea at all. He's fallen in love with Nancy Hedford and agrees to help destroy the cloud creature so that they can save Nancy's life. When that attempt fails, the cloud creature enters Nancy's body, saving her life, healing her. In this way, the Companion can know human love with Cochrane and Nancy Hedford's life can be saved. With the Companion no longer holding him on the planet, Cochrane is free to leave, but decides to remain with what is now Nancy/Companion. As the landing party departs, Cochrane and his new mate contemplate children and a normal life span.
I guess I took to calling the episode known as " Metamorphosis" by the name " The Companion" because George loved that episode and that is what he used to call it.
Someone has a LOT of Farscape episodes there! I just have 5 that I taped off of the Sci - Fi Channel one Friday when they did a "Chain Reaction" thing..five episodes in a row!
Now that I finally have a Photo Bucket account, I ought to take and post pics of my collections... maybe during the the weekend, when I have more time.
I bet most of you reading this had the episode figured out after the first 5 minutes...not me..I didn't know what was REALLY going on the very first time I saw this one until ..well, you know when.
Note : I was surprised by the end of " Sixth Sense."
Everyone I know who saw it said they knew right from the beginning, too...damn!
The latest issue of Toyfare had a neat build your own dream crew bit in it. Basically out of all the different series you pick characters to assemble your favorite. (sorry if it's been done before on this thread) Actually they worded it as building a crew that almost beats the original. So they didn't use any in the one they had.
They had a nice mix using all the series (cept the original) They had the holo doc, Worf, Tom Paris, Miles O'brien, Hoshi Sato, Sisko (as first officer???), Troi & Picard as the Captain.
Not bad but I can't see Sisko as a first officer after seeing him as the boss on DS9.
It is not an ultimate crew without Data. Wedge, did you watch Next Gen. today? I fell asleep..only saw part of "Homeward".... an okay episode....the arguing between Worf and his brother seemed fake... other than that, it was a good episode..I hope " To Thine Own's Self" has not been on yet, it is one of the best 7th season episodes!
"Final Mission" was on G 4 tonight at 8 pm. Interesting side note : At one point, Gene Roddenbury was going to reveal that Wesley Crusher was actuially the lovechild of both Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher. He died before thsi could be done. A shame, too, as "Final Mission" would have been the perfect point to do so..that talk between Picard and Wesley in the cave would have been the perfect time and place for just such a revelation.
I have always liked this episode a lot. I missed Wesley after Wil Wheaton had left the show.
Oh dear God! I just had a Klingon moment! I was shaking the Pepto Bismol bottle when I realized it wasn't closed tight and got some on myself and my shirt. I look like one of the Klingons who'd been shot in " Star Trek : The Undiscovered Country."
" Data's Day" and " The Wounded" were on G 4 tonight. They are both fine episodes. It's kinda lonely in here tonight. Holidays get me down sometimes. Wish someone would post in here besides me. Even if it was NowhereMan, telling me that Star Trek sucks.
Ok, so in "Clues", if they had to reset the atomic clock, when they got to a starbase or talked with another ship, would the Enterprise crew not find out that their clock was way off????
Wesley was the mosy annoying thing about Next Generation........which is why they got rid of him.The only episode I liked with him in it was the one where he was on leave from the academy & had attitude problems and eneded up leaving with the Traveler.I think he ate some peyote too.
I slept thru the first Next Gen ep. today. The next one was with Worf's son coming back from the future was on. It was ok.
The next one was where they thought this guy was Picards' son. I did not watch it. Never cared for that one. It would have made MUCH more sense if Wesley had been Picards' son. The force is strong with both of them.
I was there for episode one of the original Star Trek. I remember being 9 years old and I kept going " Wow!" off and on through out the episode, and the many that followed it. There was nothing like it before, and there hasn't been anything like it since!
I would not feel that same sense of awe and wonder until over a decade later, when I saw Star Wars for the very first time.
So last night's G 4 eps were " Night Terrors" and "Identity Crisis."
"Night Terrors" rocks! LOVE the scene with Dr Crusher in the morgue! That was Awesome!!!
"Identity Crisis" is an ok episode. If anything else, it is a chance to spotlight Geordi, and that's a good thing. Of course, "Galaxy's Child'', " The Samaritan Snare", " The Mind's Eye", "Booby Trap", "The Enemy", etc, were much better Geordi episodes, but they can't all be great ones.
"Emergence" was on Spike at 3 pm est. It's kind of a dumb episode, but it was done ok.
After that:
" All Good Things parts 1 and 2."
It's a terrific episode. Done QUITE well! Storyline, acting and dialogue are terrific!
Too bad it is the series' swan song. I remember when it was on in spring 94. After it was over, I took a walk outside. It was a late May evening, and dark. I recall how lost I felt now that my favorite show had ended it's wonderful seven year run.
Yeah, it has been in reruns since 1990, and still is...but it was the end of an era. I doubt there'll be another Star Trek show that I love as much as Next Generation.
"Encounter at Farpoint" was on Spike TV yesterday. It's a trip seeing Q in the VERY first two episodes after having just seen him in the last LAST two episodes. You can clearly see how much the shows and the characters changed in almost 7 years!
Today was " The Naked Now."
It seems a bit too soon for a look into the character's inner desires and how they go about acting on them once they all get this disease that makes 'em all like they are drunk.
Of course, Wesley saves the day, which to me is pretty cool...anyone remember how often Will Robinson saved the day on "Lost In Space", the tv series?
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Of course, Wesley saves the day, which to me is pretty cool...anyone remember how often Will Robinson saved the day on "Lost In Space", the tv series?
Once or twice is okay, but it got to the point where I wondered if the people on the Enterprise were retarded or something for them to not be able to figure shit out without the help of a kid.
Yeah, Doctor, they did kind of over do the " Wesley Saves The Enterprise" thing... But I never hated Wesley as many did. I guess I wanted to be the "WunderKinder" when I was a kid..
On G4 We had Parts One and Two of " Redemption." Part one was aired Monday night, Part two was on Tuesday.
I never really got into the "Conflict of Interest" thing with Worf, but it really made sense this time around..I mean, Worf wanted to use Federation info that his position could get him...so..he quit Starfleet..Nice done two parter.
Data did a fine job as Capatin Data. He got pissed at that one dude who tried to tell him what to do!
"Darmok"...one of my all time favs was on after that one. Not just because I like Paul Winfield...but his character was willing to die to establish communication with Captain Picard... that is awesome.
On Spike : The episode where this guy kidnaps Tasha Yar.
" Just for that, No Vaccine, No Treaty, and No Lieutenant Yar!"
And the one where we first meet the Ferengi, who were laughable. They did not become the big threat to the Federation that they were meant to be. That would have to wait until The Romulans returned, and the next year, when The Borg were first introduced.
I will look up the titles to these episodes tomorrow. Going to bed now, tired. Good night, all.
"Justice" was on Spike TV today. The aliens known as the Edo, a childlike race wanted to kill Wesley because he accidentally killed some plants. Geuss he had to find something to do before he got made an acting ensign...
After that, "The Battle." I find this one a bore and chose to do a more fun task....laundry.
Now playing is " Hide And Q", one of my favs from the first season. Q again confronts Picard but this time it is Riker he is after! He gives Riker Q powers... and can Riker cope with such a responsibility?
A question: Why did Wesley, now that he is an acting ensign, not get a communicator until the second season? Was someone hoping he'd get into a bit of a jam and not be able to call for help?
"Disaster" was on G 4 at 8 pm. One of my favs. Love to see Captain Picard in the "Fish out of water" scenario where he is stranded in an elevator with three frightened children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Crusher and Geordi are trapped in a cargo bay with a plasma fire..and very combustible cargo!
On the bridge, Counselor Troi is in command...and containment integrity in the matter - anti matter pods is dropping.
Very good one!
"The Game" is on now... the one where Riker is vacationing on Ryssa and some woman he's shacked up with gives him this game thingie that fits on your head and is like a mini holo- deck, and you have to put these disks into trumpet shaped thingies.
It's the first episode where Wesley is visiting after he leaves to go to Starfleet Academy.
Those three are all good first season episodes, but they all also really show how much the show and the characters matured by the second and third seasons.
Worf had grown a lot by the second season episode, " The Emissary." Michael Dorn had had a year and a half to work with the character, and he had Worf down cold by this time. This was how Worf would be through the next 5 seasons..the proud warrior who has honor and is a Klingon, yet was raised by humans and so has a human side to him.
Data was ridiculous in the first year, trying so hard to be human by imitating sneezing, and not knowing expressions that his computer mind would have had stored.
He said in other episodes, " I remember every fact I am exposed to." Well, in season one, he behaved as though he did not!
In season two, Brent Spiner began to behave more like an android, and by season three, he was quite believable in his role as Data.
Patrick Stewart was ALWAYS good at being Captain Picard from episode one onwards. He just got better at it with time.
I will write more on the maturation of the other characters
soon.
"Hero Worship" was on last night. I had pizza at my mom's place while it was on. She is not a Star Trek fan, but she admitted it was a cute episode, and that she enjoyed it.
This one has long been in my top ten of Next Gen. episodes.
The Enterprise finds a badly damaged science vessel named The Veco. The sole survivor is a boy of about 10 years old. Data rescues him from the crumbling ship, and the boy, Timothy, begins imitating Data shortly afterwards.
Look for the scene where the boy is sitting in sick bay, being examined by Dr Crusher with Data sitting next to him.
This episode exudes cuteness! It is written and directed brilliantly!
It is up there with "Inner Light", "Darmok", "The Offspring", " Sins Of The Father", " Relics", etc.
"Violations" was on after that, but, as I do not care for that one, I did not bother watching.
Tonight on G4 was " The Masterpiece Society", which I am indifferent to. Troi falls in love with a man who is the leader of a genetically engineered society. ( Riker is way better looking than the other guys Deanna has been involved with.)
"Conundrum" is on as I type this. The Enterprise crew is attacked by an alien who erases their memories of who they are, but not their talents and abilities. They are led to believe they are at war.
Not a bad one, just not a big fav. of mine, though it is a good one to watch.
Ok, today, the following Episodes were on Spike TV:
Skin Of Evil
We'll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
All three are very good latter first season eps.
My fav of the three :
Skin Of Evil...then Conspiracy.
Skin of Evil : An evil, powerful alien kills a member of the crew. At episodes' end is a memorial service for that member. It is very moving.
Conspiracy : High ranking Star Fleet officers begin acting strangely.... and it soon develops into a life or death situation! Easily one of the top 5 of the first season.
We'll Always Have Paris : A pretty cool episode where time begins to go awry, and must be fixed..quickly!
On G 4 : "The Outcast"... a cool episode that is actually a metaphor for being a gay or lesbian person in a homphobic world. Another poster pointed out the inadequacies of this one, but it is better than nothing... and the allusions towards being gay are more powerful than if they had just showed two guys kissing for a few seconds in a corridor of the Enterprise.
A nicely played show about the Enterprise being caught up in a mobius strip...in which a series of events replays itself, over and over again...until the crew can figure out a way to break free.
Kinda reminds me of " The Claws of Axos" ep. of Dr Who, where the Doctor has to deal with a time loop.
"The Inner Light" is on now. It is a fan fav, and one of my top ten faves too!
SPOILER!!
Spoilers ahead!
Imagine living a lifetime inside your mind..everything seems totally real to you...except that it is actually an illusion....and takes only 20 minutes from start to finish in real time. Awesome!
And "Time's Arrow part 2" was just on a while ago. It was very good! Love to see how everything worked out okay!
On Spike Tv earlier today :
" The Dauphin"... Wesley falls in love. Done very well. Wish I had not been so busy today, I only saw the last 10 minutes of it... but the end was excellent, as always.
After that : " Contagion". The Enterprise systems get infected with an alien program that could destroy the ship. Well done. Look for late actor Thalamus Rassula as Captain of the Enterprise's sister ship, the Yamato.
"Hotel Royale." Was busy again and missed most of it. It's not one of my favs, but it is good.
I saw two arse-kicking episodes yesterday, the 1st called "Retribution". Both were about my man Worf, had a Klingon Civil War, conspiring Romulans and on top of it Tascha Yar's daughter, who've growned into a lil' bitch!
I've also read some (translated) ST issues (in the US from Marvel), with the original crew. I like Klingons as villains, but I find it odd that they were conspiring so much. Behaved more like Romulans.
Quote: Captain Sweden said: I saw two arse-kicking episodes yesterday, the 1st called "Retribution". Both were about my man Worf, had a Klingon Civil War, conspiring Romulans and on top of it Tascha Yar's daughter, who've growned into a lil' bitch!
I've also read some (translated) ST issues (in the US from Marvel), with the original crew. I like Klingons as villains, but I find it odd that they were conspiring so much. Behaved more like Romulans.
That is the nature of Klingons. They are warriors, but there are devious Klingons, too. They are like any other species in the galaxy...good, bad, loyal, unfaithful, etc.
Yeah, Klingons are cool.
Tasha's daughter is NOTHING at all like her. Wow! What a cold bitch!
The two part story with Worf to which you are referring to is "Redemption", and yes, they are an arse kicking pair of episodes!
"Q WHO" was on Spike Tv today... I was lying in bed about to take a nap when it came on. I forced myself to stay awake for it, as it is in my top ten fav. Next Gen. episodes!
It has it all! Guinan! Q! And...introducing, The BORG!!!
This is my fav. BORG episode...the VERY first one. We see for the first time what they can do, and learn about their nature.
Q : " It's Micro - brain with the big head! Growl for me, let me know you still care!"
Next up was "Samaritan Snare." Dammit, I couldn't stay awake for it, too bad, as I like this one a LOT!
Picard has to get an operation. He departs for a starbase in a shutlle piloted by Wesley Crusher, who is reporting for testing for Starfleet Academy.
I know, I have seen it maybe 25 times, but wish I had stayed awake for it!
I also slept through " Up The Long Ladder.", which is an ok episode about cloning.
"Schisms" is on now..another VERY good Next Gen. episode!!
Here is Data's poem, which he read in the episode during a poetry reading..it is about his cat, Spot:
"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.
Saw the 2nd ep. with Cardassians, and the 1st with Bajorans. Good but I didn't really liked them when I saw Deep Space 9 years ago. Nothing's like Klingons, Romulans and Borg.
Saw also an ep in which Picard and crew tries to communicate with a "new" species, who were (later discoved) using references to their mythology to describe things.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Always wanted to say that.
When I was in Ukraine at an exchange trip for High School, there was a paryt in the later days and signed our names and greetings on a paper. I wrote "Live Long In Prosper, from Marcus". Guess I'm a geek too.
Quote: Captain Sweden said: Saw the 2nd ep. with Cardassians, and the 1st with Bajorans. Good but I didn't really liked them when I saw Deep Space 9 years ago. Nothing's like Klingons, Romulans and Borg.
Saw also an ep in which Picard and crew tries to communicate with a "new" species, who were (later discoved) using references to their mythology to describe things.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Always wanted to say that.
When I was in Ukraine at an exchange trip for High School, there was a paryt in the later days and signed our names and greetings on a paper. I wrote "Live Long In Prosper, from Marcus". Guess I'm a geek too.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Always wanted to say that.
When I was in Ukraine at an exchange trip for High School, there was a paryt in the later days and signed our names and greetings on a paper. I wrote "Live Long In Prosper, from Marcus". Guess I'm a geek too.
"Ship In a Bottle" was just on again. It is an amusing tale about the return of Professor Morairity, who, in addition to being an intruiging character, is the basis for the Holographic Doctor..the Emergency Medical Program.. who was in the series Star Trek: Voyager.
"Face of the Enemy" was on G4 last night... I never really cared for it much but last night? I really got into it! It was fun seeing Deanna shine in this episode which featurred her.
SPOILERS!!!
She was kidnapped and brought aboard a Romulan ship to facilitate the escape of three Romulans who were Federation informers. She had been surgically altered to pass for Romulan. She was supposed to be a member of the Tal' Shi' Ar, the Romulan equivalent of the KGB.
"Who Watches The Watchers" is on Spike TV right now! It's in my top ten fav. Next Gen. episodes. Picard encounters a non technological race who mistakenly believe him to be a GOD.
"Booby Trap"... a good one! First time we see Leah Brahms, whom we see next season, and hear of in "All Good Things."
"The Enemy".... another good one, and that makes two Geordi episodes in a row. As has been mentioned before, the third season is when the show really begins to come into it's own, and is clearly the worthy successor to TOS it was meant to be.
"The Price"...a Counselor Troi episode. A good one, too, as she falls for a man who is holding back a secret from her.
"Birthright parts 1 &2 " was on G4. It rocks! A great Worf episode, which focused mostly on Data in part one, had a Worf subplot, and then was all about Worf in part two as he goes to see if his father is still alive.
" Starship Mine" is on now... a great Picard episode, as a barrion ray is sweeping the ship..he's trapped onboard with a group of energy stealing thieves for company.
Been watching the live feed from Christie's of New York Auction for some of the Trek props. Some dude just won a phaser rifle for $10,000! Man, can you imagine having enough money to just blow 10-grand on a tv prop?
Wonder if whoever bought 'em will put 'em in the attic in shrink wrap...or in the living room, where the chair would get dog hair, cat hair, beer stains and more on it?
"The High Ground", "Deja Q", and " A Matter Of Perspective were all on Spike TV today, all good ones! "Deja Q" is my fav of the three. There was never a bad episode with Q in it!
On G4 was " "Frame Of Mind" and "Suspicions", the latter being the one I like best of those two. It was so cool back in Spring 1992, and is still a cool episode now!
Quote: Captain Sweden said: First, the return of Wesley, who has to take on a new computer game fad which makes most of the crew addicted...
Second, the return of my man SPOCK! In Romulus! Have to see the 2nd part on Friday!
" The Game" is a fav of mine!
"Unification parts 1 & 2" are good too!
Yesterday on Spike was 3 epiodes, but I only had time to watch " The Defecter", which is just so good!
Love the last ten minutes, especially!
Picard is a clever man!
After that on G 4, I watched " The Chase." Never cared for it much until just this year. It's quite good, actually.
Saw the 2nd part of Unification - a great swan song for Spock - and another ep. in which a dude pops in and claims to be a time traveller from the 26th Century. Or is he?
'Star Trek' Ship Fetches Over $500,000 By Associated Press 3 hours ago
NEW YORK - Star Fleet Capt. Jean-Luc Picard commanded it. Now some Trekkie owns it.
A model of the Starship Enterprise used in the pilot and title sequences of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" sold for $576,000 Saturday at an auction of costumes, sets and props from 40 years of the "Star Trek" sci-fi franchise.
The 78-inch-long miniature of the "Enterprise-D," built by Industrial Light and Magic, debuted in 1987 in the episode "Encounter at Farpoint," and then was used in many subsequent episodes, as well as the film "Star Trek Generations."
More than 1,000 items from the archives of CBS Paramount Television Studios went on the block over three days at Christie's auction house, and by early afternoon on Saturday fans of the series had forked over more than $4.9 million for set furniture, pointy Vulcan ears and other props.
Some Christie's employees taking bids by telephone wore Star Trek uniforms, and a live feed of the auction was carried on the History Channel's Web site.
Other top sellers on Saturday's action included a replica of Capt. James T. Kirk's command chair from the bridge of the spaceship on the original "Star Trek" series.
The painted wood chair was only a re-creation for a 1996 episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" that mixed action from that newer series with old footage, but it still sold for $62,400.
I love how we see Data in the beginning playing poker with Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, and Stephen Hawking in the holodeck. Hawking had always wanted to be on Star Trek.
Soon, there's a RED alert! It's a distress call!
Data get pissed at a Borg and kills him....
And we start learning a whole lot more about the Borg that we did not know before!
"Gambit part 1" was on last night, and "Gambit part 2" was just on. This is a fine 2 parter!
"Phantasms'' is on now. Data has disturbing dreams... dreams that could mean big trouble for the Next Gen. crew if Data cannot figure out why he is having them!
Spike tv did not run Next Gen, yesterday or today because of another show that pre - empted it, but it will be back on tomorrow!
Trivia : In "Phantasms", you can see the ornemental glass object in Data's quarters that Ensign Jenna D'Sora gave Data in the 4 th season episode called "In Theory."
Last night, on G4 was "Dark Page", an episode that featured Lwaxana Troi, and focused on an event from her past that no one saw coming! I used to not like this one much but it did grow on me over the years....
Trivia : A very young Kirsten Dunst played a character named "Hedrill" in this episode.
Next was "Attached", an episode in which Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard were captured during a beam - down to a planet that was divided into two factions..they are both fitted with these thingies on the back of their necks that enable them to hear each other's thoughts.
They soon learn things about the other that may be more than they cared to know!
I was at the dentist until after 3 pm yesterday, and missed Star Trek on Spike TV because I watched coverage of the plane crash into that building in NYC. Very sad, two people including a Yankees pitcher died when the small aircraft they were in crashed into a building.
It was terribly unnerving. Even after it became clear it was not a terrorist attack, this happened one month aftere the 5 th anniversary of 9-11.
"Menage a Troi" - Lwaxana Troi appears again and this is a great episode! I've never seen one with her in it that WASN'T great. She does her usual superb job of portraying Deanna's mom.
"Best Of Both Worlds pts. 1 & 2" followed. A fan favorite, and one of mine, too. This marks the second appearance of the Borg as they make their long awaited return.
Tonight on G4, "Parallels." A cool Worf episode! Worf discovers that he has somehow passed through the boundaries that lead into parallel dimensions. This explores the "Road not traveled" theory, which says that for every choice we make, there is a parallel reality in which we made a different choice which led to a different history....
After that: "Pegasus." An incident from Riker's past rears it's ugly head.
SPOILERS!!!
There's this admiral who was Captain of the Pegasus, which was thought to have been destroyed years ago in an explosion after the crew revolted.
ULTRA SPOILERS!!!
The ship was testing a Federation cloaking device, which overload the ship's systems. The crew staged a mutiny, Riker stood by the Captain and defended him.
Now, The Admiral is aboard the Enterprise, leading a salvage operation. They discover that the Pegasus is inside an asteroid. The Enterprise goes into it through an entrance. Riker and the Admiral beam aboard the ship and find that it is 65% phased into the wall of an asteroid!
A Romulan ship is nearby, searching for the Pegasus, too.
The ship blasts the entrance shut which seals the Enterprise in. Riker comes clean and tells Captain Picard about the cloaking device, which Data and Geordi hook up to the Enterprise's engines. It is switched on and turns the ship invisible and enable it to phase through solid objects. Picard orders the device switched off right in plain site of the Romulan Warbird, and messages them that a communication about this will be sent to the Romulan homeworld.
The Admiral goes to prison and Riker has to answer a lot of questions.
A very good episode!
Trivia : We see a black Romulan for the very first time.
Trivia : This explains the accident on Galandon Core in the third season episode, "The Enemy", where the two man Romulan craft crashes. They were testing a prototype of this device, which their spies had obviously learned of.
Trivia : This is also a follow - up to the fifth season episode " The Next Phase."
Trivia : It is also the second time we learn of a conspiracy in Starfleet; the first one was in the first season episode appropriately entitled, "Conspiracy."
Cool episode. The Enterprise finds an alien who is almost dead. They help him, and he heals in a very short amount of time, and can do all sorts of miraculous things!
Next was " Family." Another very good one! I like this one more every time I see it!
''Brothers." Love this one! Data plays three roles in it!
SPOILERS!
SPOILER SPACE!!
Why did they kill off Picards' brother and nephew in " Generations" ? That was totally lame!
"Genesis" - Picard and Data go off in a shuttle craft in search of a missing photon torpedo, and find that, upon returning to the Enterprise, the entire crew has de-evolved!
It is ok. Sorta like a filler episode, though.
"Journey's End" - Wesley Crusher arrives aboard the Enterprise, apparently dissatisfied about..something. A native American colony is under dispute with the Cardassians. The people do not want to be uprooted after being on the planet for 20 years.
It's a good Wesley episode. It ties together subplots that were left hanging since early on in the first season.
I've seen during the week before this one an ep. about the hunt for the life-munching Crystal Being, "Hero Worship" which Beardguy mentioned and an ep. about an utopian society modeled around gene technology. The latter re-minded me about the one earlier ep. with society of clones.
This week I've seen:
"Ethics": Worf gets completely lame! The title refers to the dilemmas concerning Worf's wish for death aid, the risks for experimental treatment, and a visiting doctor's use of unsafe experiements on sick patients.
?: As usual I don't remember the title, Data, Troi and the Irish transporter guy gets under control of ghosts of sorts...
"The Outcast": Very good allegory about homosexuality: the J'naii have no gender, but a few do get a gender, wich is seen as an perversion. Jonathan Swift and Pierre Boullez would be proud. Oh, and Geordi tries to get a Mr T beard.
"Cause and effect": Interesting use of a "time loop", too bad 'Voyager' would overuse time travel stories later... Kelsey Grammer guest stars in the end, nothing spectacular but good.
Okay, I did not watch Next Gen last night, but have it on now...
"The Naked Now" was just on.
Spoilers!
Spoilers ahead!
This is the first season again!
Okay, so the Enterprise crew catches this disease which makes 'em all drunk. A take on TOS episode, " The Naked Time."
But it is too soon to see the crew lose their inhibitions! We barely know any of them! How can we understand and identify with them when do not know them?
Data should not have caught this disease..it was just a plot device to have him act goofy, have sex with Tasha, etc...
This is the first "Wesley saves the day" episode.
Favorite lines:
Tasha ( to Data) : " It never happened!"
Data (While putting the chips back into their proper slots to reactivate engines.) : " This will take slightly more time than we have, sir."
Data (To Tasha) : " I am skilled in multiple techniques."
"Code Of Honor" is on now. Lutan, a chief on an all black planet, kidnaps Tasha Yar.
Favorite line:
Lutan : " No treaty, no Tasha Yar, and no vaccine!"
Quote: Ultimate Jaburg53 said: I thought both of those episodes were horrible. You couldn't pay me to watch Code of Honor again.
Code Of honor is not my fav. from that season, but it is acceptable.
I feel the BEST from that season are :
The Naked Now
Datalore
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone
The Arsenal of Freedom
Skin Of Evil
To boldly go where no one has gone before
Hide And Q
The big Goodbye
Heart of Glory
Coming Of age
Farpoint sucks! It is the first episode..in 2 parts! But it was dreadful! Thank God the series slowly improved. A friend of mine has a theory.. if a show sucks when it starts, it can only go one of two places : Nowhere, or improve a lot!
By the beginning of the third season, the show had dramatically improved.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Captain Sweden, you are at the 5 th season! We're still into the 4 th season here in the states...
The 5 th season is terrific, over all....
Well the channel which airs it has one "new" ep. and one re-run every day, so I'm not surprised it has reached so far. It's indeed great! I read that you said that the two 1st ep:s were crap but I'm still sore I missed them! I didn't miss the pilot for TOS but I missed the 1st ordinary ep. of that series.
Today I saw an mostly soap-operish ep. about Worf having trouble fostering Alexander and Lwaxana Troi getting married. Not bad for soap-opera.
IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS SHOW YET, DON"T READ THIS!!!!
Yesterday, " Half A Life", "The Host ", & "The Mind's Eye" were on Spike TV. "Half a Life" is where Lxwana Troi falls in love with this dude from a planet where they have to died once they turn 60. Dumb, but it makes you think, I mean, just who ought to decide when older people should die?
"The Host"... Dr Crusher falls in love with a guy who is a Trill, that is, he has a symbiont being joined with him.
This is the idea where Dax was born for DS 9.
"The Mind's Eye."... Geordi is kidnapped by Romulans who turn him into an assassin, to throw the Klingon empire into civil war, to allow the devious Romulans to take it over. A good one.
Today on Spike :
"In Theory".... An ensign falls in love with Data, who creates a program to facilitate romance. It does not work out. The cool part was that the Enterprise was caught in a space with phasing areas, which affected parts of the ship in a negative way.
"Redemption pts. 1 & 2 " was on after that. It's a good one! Worf based episode which features another glimpse of his brother, Kurn, and the KLingon homeworld.
"Hide and Q" was just on! A splendid episode! Q makes his second appearance, and is more like the way he was through out the rest of the series, He is arrogant, pompous, and more like a spoiled child than the God - like being he was in "Farpoint."
I love the scene at the end ..won't give it away, but it is the best 10 minutes of the episode, which was excellent over all!
"Q Who", " Deja Q", " Tapestry" and " All Good Things" are also wonderful Q episodes!!!
..is on now, and my friend is picking me up anytime to watch an all night horror movie show downtown, so I doubt I'll get to see all of it..it's a good one, too!
In Friday I saw an episode in which Enterprise investigates an nebula while an alien pretends to be a girl's imaginary friend. Had a John Wyndham*-feel to it.
*It reminded me about 1) the film The Village of the Damned, based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos, about a town in which kids with pale skin and hynotic powers are born, and behave like Nazis or Commies. 2) the novel Chocky, about a kid who has an imaginary friend who is in fact an alien (who is nicer than the one in the ST:TNG episode).
Quote: Prometheus said: I like the one where the twin alien midgets make Riker's holodeck woman so real he doesn't realize they're stealing the ship.
That was first year, right?
Correct, Pro! And can you tell me the name of the Holo - woman? She was beautiful!
11001001 Episode Number: 15 Season Num: 1 First Aired: Monday February 1, 1988
Stardate: 41365.9
The Enterprise rendezvous with Starbase 74 in order to have its systems checked and upgrades made. While the crew takes some time off, four members from the species known as the Bynar work feverishly on the ship's computer system.
"Heart Of Glory" was just on. This is the very first Worf episode. It's great!
It's easily one of the very best first season episodes.
Love the part in the beginning when Geordi is able to use a link from his visor to allow the Enterprise crew to see things aboard an alien ship as he sees them. This was facinating!
There are three Klingons on the ship.
Are they friend or foe?
I like this early look into Worf's character very much!
Yesterday, "Disaster" was on! This is a very good 5 th season episode. The Enterprise gets hit with a quantum filament, and is bady damaged. Picard is stuck in an elevator with 3 kids, Geordi and Dr. Crusher are stuck in a cargo bay with a plasma fire, Data and Riker try to get to engineering while a pregnant Keiko goes into labor.
Today on Spike Tv : " The Game", an analogy for just saying NO to drugs. Pretty good!
"A Matter of Time".... I still say that having that creepy guy from Max Headroom arrive in a time machine is a piss poor substitute for seeing the TARDIS arrive on the bridge of the Enterprise, and having Tom Baker step out of it and offer Captain Picard a jelly baby.
I forget what the third episode was, as I fell asleep during " A Matter of Time."
There was no Trek on G4 as they showed Horror movies instead. Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!
Today on Spike tv, " Hero Worship" was on. This is in my top ten all time fav. Next Gen. episodes. Data rescues a young boy from a badly damaged ship. The boy begins to imitate Data. Very cute! My fav. part : When the boy, Timothy, and Data are in sick bay. They are both sitting on a medical cot. Dr. Crusher is examining the boy. She says, " Transfer circuits functioning properly." The kid asks her, " Then I am functioning within normal parameters?" Dr. Crusher tells him yes.
Data and the boy look at each other, then at the Doctor, and in unison they say, " Thank you, Doctor!"
After that, " Violations" and " The Masterpiece Society" were both on. Bleh. They are very so - so.
Tonight on G4: " Skin Of Evil", which just ended, and " Symbiosis". which just started.
" Skin of Evil" is easily one of the best first season episodes.
I've found myself more interested in the Deep Space Nine reruns lately than the Next Generation ones. I feel like I've watched every episode of THG a million times. DS9 just seems more interesting to me now.
DS9 is superior in many ways. While TNG is considered the quintessential Trek, DS9 covered all the bases TNG never successfully accomplished. War, life, death, politics, religion, sex. DS9 is the more "mature" of the Trek's. From Season 3 on, the show really took off and carved a substantial niche in the Trek verse. It's my favorite...
I like DS 9 a lot. ST:TNG is my fav., is all. Wish Voyager reruns hadn't gotten taken off. Some episodes were pretty good!
Did you guys like that Baseball episode of DS9, where Sisko had a bet with a Vulcan about which of their teams could win in a game? I like that one a lot!
I'd love to see a movie that ties up all the loose ends from the very LAST DS 9 episode!
Okay, " Conundrum" was on Spike tv today. I was very tired but I watched it. It was ok.
I didn't bother watching whatever two episodes followed it.
I took a nap with the tv set to G4. I woke up at the beginning of " We'll always have Paris." I guess I was in the mood for it because I enjoyed it.
" Conspiracy" is on now. This is the best episode from the first season. It is also the last one. The tone and mood of it are more like a fourth season episode. It's just a very good watch.
And I screwed up! Conspiracy is NOT the last episode of the first season... The Nuetral Zone is.
A fine episode, at that...
Trivia Fact: Professor Manhiem from " We'll Always have Paris" was in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" juts a year after the Next Gen episode he was in was filmed. Both the episode and the movie dealt with time travel, and in BOTH, present selves met their past selves.
I think that is NOT a coincidence.
Trivia Question:
The actor who played Manhiem .. can anyone tell me what historical figure he played in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure?
Quote: Beardguy57 said: And I screwed up! Conspiracy is NOT the last episode of the first season... The Nuetral Zone is.
A fine episode, at that...
Trivia Fact: Professor Manhiem from " We'll Always have Paris" was in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" juts a year after the Next Gen episode he was in was filmed. Both the episode and the movie dealt with time travel, and in BOTH, present selves met their past selves.
I think that is NOT a coincidence.
Trivia Question:
The actor who played Manhiem .. can anyone tell me what historical figure he played in Bill and Ted'sExcellent Adventure?
It was Thomas Riker in DS9. However, I guess I've always counted those two as the same guy in my head.
I saw previews of a Voyager episode where Q appears, and, for some reason, transports Riker aboard as well. Never watched it.
And, the final episode of ENT detailed the signing of the Federation Charter, and the last voyage of the NX-1701 under the command of Jonathan Archer. Riker and Troi were running the events of the episode itself in the holodeck, as a historical simulation. Riker played the part if the ship's chef. Alot of fans didn't like the way they crossed over with TNG as a last episode. But, I thought it rocked.
The ending was really sweet. Take a look...this begins as Riker and Troi are watching the signing of the Federation charter...
Quote: Prometheus said: It was Thomas Riker in DS9. However, I guess I've always counted those two as the same guy in my head.
I saw previews of a Voyager episode where Q appears, and, for some reason, transports Riker aboard as well. Never watched it.
And, the final episode of ENT detailed the signing of the Federation Charter, and the last voyage of the NX-1701 under the command of Jonathan Archer. Riker and Troi were running the events of the episode itself in the holodeck, as a historical simulation. Riker played the part if the ship's chef. Alot of fans didn't like the way they crossed over with TNG as a last episode. But, I thought it rocked.
The ending was really sweet. Take a look...this begins as Riker and Troi are watching the signing of the Federation charter...
Thank you for that video, Pro! If that was just a tiny bit of that episode, than, sometime, I must see all of it.
She often does that, doesn't she? Like now with some dude who... Asch, let me not spoil you! (It's in the 5th season Beardguy.)
Fifth season has some VERY good episodes in it.
Darmok Hero Worship The Inner Light I, Borg The Game The Next Phase Disaster The Outcast Cause and Effect Time's Arrow part 1
Between the 3 rd, 4 th, 5 th and 6 th seasons, that was the best that Next Gen got. Some 2 nd and 7 th season eps were very good, too. 1 st season/ VERY uneven, but with a few gems in it.
I couldn't be bothered to watch Star Trek : TNG on Spike today. I was very tired and took a nap, as there were no episodes I would have wanted to watch.
Yesterday I saw Relics with Scotty's (of TOS fame) swansong. Very good, both Soft and Hard SF elements, the Dyson sphere could've come from an Arthur C Clarke novel.
Today I saw an ep. in which Riker and other crew members get abducted and experimented by aliens, and "True Q" about how the always Machiavellian Q teaches academy student Amanda in how to be a Q (which she recently had - sort of - discovered). The latter reminded me about the Season 1 (?) ep. in which Riker became a Q.
" Cantagion " was on tonight... the Enterprise picked up a "virus" that was re - writing it's computer and playing havoc with it's systems. Good one for the second season
- which is the transitional season between the awful first season and the terrific third season!
After that.. " The Royale", which was kinda dumb. Riker, Worf and Data find themselves stuck in a holographic - type portrayal of a book. Bleh.
"Rascals", where Picard, Ensign Ro, Guinan and Keiko get turned into little kids again! Very cute.
" A Fistful of Datas" was on after that. A good one.
I fell asleep and missed " True Q", which was the first of the three.. it is a good one.. it picked up on the theme of "HIde and Q", where Q had given Riker Q powers, temporarily. An 18 year old girl learns that she is Q, and has all the powers of a Q.
Tonight on G4 was " Pen Pals", a good one, and after that? One of my all time favs: " Q Who". First Borg appearance, with Q in it, too!
"Ship in a Bottle" charming episode in which Professor Moriarity returns.
" Aquiel" a good mystery episode!
" Face Of The Enemy" - Counselor Troi proves how resourceful she is when she finds herself on a Romulan vessel, surgically altered to resemble a Romulan.
"Rascals", where Picard, Ensign Ro, Guinan and Keiko get turned into little kids again! Very cute.
" A Fistful of Datas" was on after that. A good one.
I fell asleep and missed " True Q", which was the first of the three.. it is a good one.. it picked up on the theme of "HIde and Q", where Q had given Riker Q powers, temporarily. An 18 year old girl learns that she is Q, and has all the powers of a Q.
Tonight on G4 was " Pen Pals", a good one, and after that? One of my all time favs: " Q Who". First Borg appearance, with Q in it, too!
I saw Rascals and A Fistful... on Monday, great episodes indeed! I remember them from the 1st time I saw Star Trek!
" The Quality of Life" - Data becomes the advocate for small repair oriented machines called Exo - comps, machines which he has theorized are alive.
Then - the two parter :
" Chain Of Command".
" There .. are... four.. Lights!"
Picard solo episode which shows off Patrick Stewart's acting abilities.
Later, on G4 :
" The Ensigns of Command."
Data must convince a planet with a large colony living on it that the Sheliac are coming to colonize the planet soon!
He shines in this one, having to prove that he can be creative in both his talents and thinking.
I missed the ep. before it as I was watching " Heroes" on NBC, a new show which I am enjoying.
Saw "Quality of Life" yesterday and "Chain of Command" pt 1-2 yesterday and today! Poor Picard got worse torture than James Bond in Ian Fleming's novels!
I missed the first episode on Spike TV, but am watching " Birthright", parts 1 and 2. It is very good. Data discovers he can now have dreams, and Worf goes in search of his father.
James Cromwell, who played Zefram Cochran in " First Contact", played an alien who contacts Worf about his father.
Well, I found out which episode I had missed yesterday - it was " Tapestry." One of my very faves! Oh well....
Today on Spike TV :
" Starship Mine." Another fave!
then - "Lessons". Picard falls for this woman who is an officer aboard the Enterprise. She plays piano, he plays that little flute he got from that probe launched 1,000 years ago from the now dead people of the planet Kaatan, whose sun went supernova.
They fall in love, He sends her on a mission and gets really worried about her.
He oughta realize that those on the job romances are tough to maintain.
After that, " The Chase." The Doctor dude from St. Elsewhere, who was also the asshole Principal in " Dead Poet's Society" plays a dickhead of an ex archaeology teacher of Picards'. Picard goes off on a special mission, diverting the Enterprise from bringing another shipment of dildos or something to some federation planet.
The last 5 minutes were pretty cool.
Today on G 4 :
" Booby Trap" : Enterprise trapped in asteroid field booby trap. Geordi falls in love with a woman propulsion expert who designed the warp engines used by the ship.
A good one.
Now on : " The Enemy."
Geordi is trapped on Galandon Core, a stormy, dangerous planet with a Romulan officer for company.
It never made it as a sitcom, but was a very good watch!
Yeah that was a fun but sad episode. The Daleks chasing them through time. A robot Doctor! Big metal living balls! The Doctor gains a Steven but Ian and Barbra go home. Next episode; "The Time Meddler".
Yeah that was a fun but sad episode. The Daleks chasing them through time. A robot Doctor! Big metal living balls! The Doctor gains a Steven but Ian and Barbra go home. Next episode; "The Time Meddler".
" The High Ground" ... I thought it was a dumb episode back when I first saw it in 1990 or 1991... but, it is an episode about terrorism.. and it seems most relevant to me now.
Now? " Deja Q" is on. Another great Q episode! He loses his powers and shit happens.
Data creates an android daughter and names her "Lal", which means "Beloved" in Hindi.
Jonathan Frakes, who plays Commander Riker in the show directed this.
He did a brilliant job.
My only complaint:
Admiral Haftel comes to take Lal away. He casually disregards Lal's right to choose her destiny. We went through this in the second season in the excellent episode " Measure Of A Man." Data's right to choose his own destiny was established.
He must have been asleep when that occurred!
" Sins Of The Father" is on now. It is the best Worf episode up to that point, and maybe is the best Worf episode, period.
"Birthright pt. 1-2" was good, have to say that the Romulan who had created the blend of utopia and prison was quite sympathetic. He was right that people should learn to get along... but Worf was right too. The story about Data's visions/dreams in pt. 1 and that DS9 was in the ep. was nice too.
Today this afternoon, I saw an episode in which Enterprise is getting a car wash, eh, baryon sweep at Remmler station. Exciting to see Picard fighting gangsters inside Enterprise while the officers are taken hostage on some planet. However, the idea of a baryon sweep is ludicruos: since baryons are protons and neutrons, the whole ship would be destroyed. (Don't thank me, thank Lawrence M. Krauss, author of 'The Physics of Star Trek'.)
Quote: Captain Sweden said: "Birthright pt. 1-2" was good, have to say that the Romulan who had created the blend of utopia and prison was quite sympathetic. He was right that people should learn to get along... but Worf was right too. The story about Data's visions/dreams in pt. 1 and that DS9 was in the ep. was nice too.
Today this afternoon, I saw an episode in which Enterprise is getting a car wash, eh, baryon sweep at Remmler station. Exciting to see Picard fighting gangsters inside Enterprise while the officers are taken hostage on some planet. However, the idea of a baryon sweep is ludicruos: since baryons are protons and neutrons, the whole ship would be destroyed. (Don't thank me, thank Lawrence M. Krauss, author of 'The Physics of Star Trek'.)
This one is called " Starship Mine", and it is a very good episode! (Even with the mistake with the baryon sweep.)
Poor Data! He had to prove he is sentient and has rights in the second season in " The Measure of A Man", and now, in " The Most Toys", some asshole kidnaps him and tells Data that he is now in his collection.
It must suck to be an artificial lifeform sometimes.
Today :" Timescape" was on. It explores the theme of the Mobius loop - time repeating events over and over in a loop - which was already done with the fifth season entry, " Cause and Effect".... but Timescape is a cool ep.
Love seeing Picard drawing a smiley face on the warp core breach!
After that : " Liasons" - Three ambassadors from an alien world play mindgames with Troi, Worf and Picard...
Picard gets kissed by a man in this one!
" Interface" - It is just about over. It explores Geordi and his relationship with his mother. I guess I like it better than I used to.
"Gambit parts 1 & 2" was on today. Very nice two parter!
" Phantasms'' is almost over. Cool episode. We get to see Dr. Sigmund Frued, or at least a holographic representation of him.
I must have missed "Descent parts 1 and 2." Too bad. I like that one a lot. I love the opening scene with Data in the holodeck playing poker with Prof. Stephen Hawking ( It was really him.) and Sir Isaac Newton and Einstein.`
I watched "Data's Day" on G4 tonight. It's a good episode.
Best scene in it is where Data is dancing with a beautiful holographic woman, as he learns to dance.. Dr. Crusher had told him to smile when he is dancing, to appear to be enjoying himself..and he has this very artificial smile!
Yeah, when Data smiles, he either looks silly or like his evil twin brother Lore!
Have on Wednesday and Friday seen:
'The Chase' - great ep., have seen it before but loved to see it again, the chase is after DNA trails that may be a weapon, an energy source... or something completely different. Enterprise teams up (sort-of) with Cardassians and Klingons. Loved the solution and the ending.
'Frame of Mind' - similar to the two ep:s in which Picard gets tortured by a ruthless Cardassian interogator. Riker is in Enterprise and re-hearsing (sp?) a play (same title as the ep.), then suddenly he is in a mental hospital...
'Suspicions' - 1st time I've seen a nice Ferengi. This one is a scientist who has invented a new warp drive which may be a breakthrough... or a complete disaster.
'Rightful Heir' - my man Worf is back again! Has the Klingon Messiah-figure Kahless returned... or is the man claiming to be him a fraud? Remember having seen at least the latter half of it.
Saw an ep. in which Worf, Data and Riker visits an old station and finds... Will Riker!? I don't remember so I guess I haven't seen it, but it was mentioned in "Physics of Star Trek" as an example to the dilemmas caused by the transporter. BTW, I agree with Worf's explanation to why people don't want copies of themselves.
Yes, Captain Sweden, that one with two Rikers is called "Second Chances."
I would not like it if there were two of me! One of me is unique, and ego compels me to say special, too. But two of me would lessen both myself and my double.. unless I had a better script writer than I currently do!
" Sub Rosa" was on it, it is only Meh.
" Lower Decks " is on, it is a very good one!
Too bad they didn't have a "Lower Decks" type episode every couple of seasons.....
Well, while I was watching HEROES on NBC, " Nth Degree" was on G4. It's one of my all time fave 4 th season episodes. It was so cool when Barclay became super intelligent. Great episode!
" Journey's End" was just on. That's the one where Wesley last appears in the series. Well, the series is only a few episodes away from being over at that point, anyway!
" Firstborn" is starting now... a mysterious Klingon insists that Alexander be taught Klingon ways, whether he likes it or not.
Good ones. But soon... we'll be muddling through the first season again.
On Dec 15, G4 will put Next Gen. into that fucked up version, where the show will be on a tiny screen, with all manner of distractions on it. I won't watch it at that point.
There is only one episode on there per day.
I read the G4 site. Most viewers want it off all together, and have it replaced with shows about video games. Aren't there already plenty of shows on G4 about video games already???
Well, Spike Tv is still showing 3 episodes every weekday.
Am thankful for that.....
Glad I finished taping all the episodes in May or early June.
Nicely done, and it may be where the idea for Dax probably came from.
I think the holographic Doctor from Voyager was inspired by the next Gen. episode where the holographic Professor Moriarity was on. He was on twice, as I recall.
7 of 9 probably was inspired by the episode, " I, Borg", where a young, injured Borg is taken aboard the Enterprise.
Quote: On Dec 15, G4 will put Next Gen. into that fucked up version, where the show will be on a tiny screen, with all manner of distractions on it. I won't watch it at that point.
What's up with that? Is it going to be like a Fox News broadcast?
'Descent pt. 1-2' in which Lore manipulates Data into becoming mean. Hugh returns.
That ep. in which three alien (humanoid) diplomats disturbs the Enterprise crew. One ticks of Worf, one eats more sweets than Deanna and another disguises himself as a woman and kisses Picard.
Quote: On Dec 15, G4 will put Next Gen. into that fucked up version, where the show will be on a tiny screen, with all manner of distractions on it. I won't watch it at that point.
What's up with that? Is it going to be like a Fox News broadcast?
They did this with the original Star Trek right before they took it off. The actual show will be in a tiny screen, while they have trivia about the show being shown. It'll be a mess. At least Star Trek : TNG will be on Spike tv 3 x a day, five x a week!
I have " Encounter at Farpoint" on here now, both parts.
I do not like Troi's outfit, the one with the shorts and boots that make her look like a failed go - go dancer from the mid 1960's, but I like her hair in this one. Pity that they made her wear that wierd bun, and that goofy outfit for the rest of the first season. She won't really look good until season 2, episode one!
Quote: On Dec 15, G4 will put Next Gen. into that fucked up version, where the show will be on a tiny screen, with all manner of distractions on it. I won't watch it at that point.
What's up with that? Is it going to be like a Fox News broadcast?
They did this with the original Star Trek right before they took it off. The actual show will be in a tiny screen, while they have trivia about the show being shown. It'll be a mess. At least Star Trek : TNG will be on Spike tv 3 x a day, five x a week!
I wouldn't stand that, better to have a DVD with commentary.
" Hide And Q" was on today. A great one! This is in my top 20!
Q gives Riker the power of Q... need I say more???
" Haven" - First Lowana Troi episode. A good one. Love any episode with her in it. She's a hoot.
" The Big Goodbye " - Another good one. Picard and some of the bridge crew are stuck in the holodeck in a representation of a early 1940's detective novel.
No problemo.. if you have Spike Tv, maybe you might want to check out Star Trek: Voyager on Spike..it's a Voyager Marathon starting each weekday at 9 am!
No.Voyager is a step above Enterprise in my opinion, but that's only a relative position. There were maybe four or five episodes of Voyager I really liked. IMHO, the Trek on TV still doesn't get any better than TNG starting with the 'Best of Both Worlds' cliffhanger, as well as the Dominion War.
And before you say anything about why I'm wrong for liking Enterprise, Pro (or doc, I can't recall), remember that we're looking at it from two different perspectives.
Quote: Captain Sammitch said: No.Voyager is a step above Enterprise in my opinion, but that's only a relative position. There were maybe four or five episodes of Voyager I really liked. IMHO, the Trek on TV still doesn't get any better than TNG starting with the 'Best of Both Worlds' cliffhanger, as well as the Dominion War.
One must remember : Voyager was on a different wavelength than Next Gen or DS9.
It had to create it's own continuity, as it was isolated from the rest of the Trek world. I liked many eps, but Year Of Hell pts one and two and Scorpion one and two are stand outs.
I knew it! Voyager is coming to Spike Tv in January. I missed the exact date but will get that later and post it.
It will be on Spike on weekdays at 5 and 6 pm.
Awesome! I finally get to tape all the ones I missed!
It used to be on weeknights on a local cable channel here up till a year ago, and I have missed it since it was taken off.. I think they replaced it with re - runs of Columbo, ugh!
Today, I was out most of the day and forgot to pop a tape into the machine, but I did see a really cool 2 part Voyager episode called " Basics.'' It was very good!
I'll be out most of tomorrow, too, but already have a six hour tape ready!
Voyager was crap. It could've been great but they never had the balls to do it. Every time an episode brought up an interesting character change or conflict it was forgotten by the next week and they spent loads of time in the first year talking about limited replicator and photon torpedo supplies but then forgot that too.
DS9 was the best because they had the nerve to put the characters into the war and tough situations instead of just having them fly by and preach like TOS and TNG did. Though TNG had a solid cast that knew how to sell the episodic formula weekly and TOS is a 60's acid trip on film.
Enterprise was a show I really wanted to like. I think they just were never sure what to do with it. They tried to not be Star Trek, then they tried a 9/11-themed arc but once they accepted being a prequel series and did the prequel arcs (year 4) it was decent but still too little too late.
as for the movies: 1-sucked. it was too god damned long and boring and had too many scenes that were just "marvelling" at the awe of the 1979 graphics. also the uniforms were pastels and too tight. 2-great the first time, but only good on re-watching. i like that they admitted the cast was old and they stopped trying to make shatner sexy which let everyone put actual acting into their character. 3-meh. its really 2.5 and not its own film. 4-great. the most financially successful trek film for a reason: the crew on modern day earth is funny and non-trek fans can enjoy it. its the only star trek that people who hate star trek can watch. 5-worst of the TOS movies. bad acting, meandering plot, just a complete piece of shit. 6-my personal favorite of the TOS films. its just a good story that serves as a real finale to Kirk's era and also deals with the "old soldier" metaphor nicely and parallels the fall of the USSR. 7-never felt this was a film, more a last episode for TNG with torch-passing bits. overall a good film with nice A and B plots. the Enterprise crashing was cool and really more of a surprise than Kirk dying. 8-the best trek movie. its creepy and funny and just plain cool. its a trek film you can use to justify liking star trek. 9-terrible piece of shit. i was really let down. i wasn't sure if this was supposed to be a comedy or a serious morality drama. either way it failed on both marks. 10-long, boring, pointless, and basically ripped off elements of prior trek films and cut down a lot of really nice character scenes (you can find them on youtube, including an extended ending that was much better than the theatrical one).
Quote: Captain Sammitch said: No.Voyager is a step above Enterprise in my opinion, but that's only a relative position. There were maybe four or five episodes of Voyager I really liked. IMHO, the Trek on TV still doesn't get any better than TNG starting with the 'Best of Both Worlds' cliffhanger, as well as the Dominion War.
Oh PUH-LEEZE! I've never seen worse Tre---
Quote: Captain Sammitch said: And before you say anything about why I'm wrong for liking Enterprise, Pro (or doc, I can't recall), remember that we're looking at it from two different perspectives.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Actually, I kind of would like to see EVERY episode of Enterprise! I hope they bring it to Spike tv before too long!
Worth it! I don't think they really found their feet until the third year, JUST like (Gasp!) every incarnation of Trek. Of course, by then, behind-the-scenes power-shifts at Paramount just killed it. Breaks my heart. That cast deserved better...
Quote: r3x29yz4a said: Voyager was crap. It could've been great but they never had the balls to do it. Every time an episode brought up an interesting character change or conflict it was forgotten by the next week and they spent loads of time in the first year talking about limited replicator and photon torpedo supplies but then forgot that too.
DS9 was the best because they had the nerve to put the characters into the war and tough situations instead of just having them fly by and preach like TOS and TNG did. Though TNG had a solid cast that knew how to sell the episodic formula weekly and TOS is a 60's acid trip on film.
Enterprise was a show I really wanted to like. I think they just were never sure what to do with it. They tried to not be Star Trek, then they tried a 9/11-themed arc but once they accepted being a prequel series and did the prequel arcs (year 4) it was decent but still too little too late.
Quote: r3x29yz4a said: as for the movies: 1-sucked. it was too god damned long and boring and had too many scenes that were just "marvelling" at the awe of the 1979 graphics. also the uniforms were pastels and too tight. 2-great the first time, but only good on re-watching. i like that they admitted the cast was old and they stopped trying to make shatner sexy which let everyone put actual acting into their character. 3-meh. its really 2.5 and not its own film. 4-great. the most financially successful trek film for a reason: the crew on modern day earth is funny and non-trek fans can enjoy it. its the only star trek that people who hate star trek can watch. 5-worst of the TOS movies. bad acting, meandering plot, just a complete piece of shit. 6-my personal favorite of the TOS films. its just a good story that serves as a real finale to Kirk's era and also deals with the "old soldier" metaphor nicely and parallels the fall of the USSR. 7-never felt this was a film, more a last episode for TNG with torch-passing bits. overall a good film with nice A and B plots. the Enterprise crashing was cool and really more of a surprise than Kirk dying. 8-the best trek movie. its creepy and funny and just plain cool. its a trek film you can use to justify liking star trek. 9-terrible piece of shit. i was really let down. i wasn't sure if this was supposed to be a comedy or a serious morality drama. either way it failed on both marks. 10-long, boring, pointless, and basically ripped off elements of prior trek films and cut down a lot of really nice character scenes (you can find them on youtube, including an extended ending that was much better than the theatrical one).
YES!!!
Nemesis was beautiful in an aesthetic/visual way....and, the idea was solid. But, having all the clones and the like was pointless. And, yeah...cutting out all the good-bye character moments? Talk about raping the point of the movie...
Quote: Prometheus said: Nemesis was beautiful in an aesthetic/visual way....and, the idea was solid. But, having all the clones and the like was pointless. And, yeah...cutting out all the good-bye character moments? Talk about raping the point of the movie...
someone cut together the deleted scenes to make a much better ending. Some real nice moments and better sense of closure than what we got.
Oh yeah, between those I've seen on YouTube and the Deleted scenes on the DVD, you can see the scipt actually gave a true sense of closure. And I fucking LOVE Riker getting in a final prank. That's fucking perfect!!
... 'cause I've seen several episodes since I last posted. Yesterday I saw "Force of Nature" in which Data tries to train his cat Spot and in which it's discovered that the warp drive causes environmental damages. Today I saw "Inheritance" in which Data meets an elder woman who claims to be his mother... is she?
"Phantasms", an earlier ep, was great. Data gets nuts because of invisible aliens eating the crew. Picard and LaForge teams up with Dr Freud!
Quote: Captain Sweden said: ... 'cause I've seen several episodes since I last posted. Yesterday I saw "Force of Nature" in which Data tries to train his cat Spot and in which it's discovered that the warp drive causes environmental damages. Today I saw "Inheritance" in which Data meets an elder woman who claims to be his mother... is she?
"Phantasms", an earlier ep, was great. Data gets nuts because of invisible aliens eating the crew. Picard and LaForge teams up with Dr Freud!
Scorpion part 2 is on, 7 of 9 has just made her very first appearance!
This two parter is Voyager at it's VERY best; The Voyager crew and the Borg must unite to defeat a common enemy.. species 8472!
I remember.. it was either May 96 or May 97.. when Scorpion part 1 aired.. and I spent many free moments wondering just HOW they were gonna get out of that one!
At one point, George got sick of me talking about it, and said, : " I hate to wish the summer away, but I wish it was the fall so that you could see Part 2 already! "
Those are awesome, Phil! Endgame was bittersweet.. I mean, you just ached for Janeway and crew to make it home... and when they do... it is goodbye..wish they had shown them all on Earth.. Ensign Kim seeing his family again... Tom seeing his father and introducing his wife and child to him.. it could have made for a few moving scenes, like when Nemesis ended.
Remember - Voyager will be on Spike TV starting on Jan. 2 nd at 5 & 6 pm weekdays, eastern time, check local listings.
I hated Endgame. I actually just watched it the other day. It would've been great if Voyager had gotten home halfway through part two instead of 10 seconds before the episode ended. The reason I loved DS9's last episode is the second hour of it was people saying goodbye and moving on. And that's what Endgame was lacking. I do give points though for showing the alternate future and what they were doing. And for reusing the future uniforms from All Good Things...
Read my post directly above yours, Ray... I, too, wish they had shown a goodbye scene in Endgame, and then had shown the bridge crew being reunited with their families again, at last.
Voyager just pissed me off, but I still watched every episode. There was no attention to any of the little things. Harry was an ensign for SEVEN YEARS, I know its a small thing but the details like rank matter. Other than Tom/B'lanna there was no real development of the relationships. They were just instant friends from the second year on. Compare it to the growing bond of friendship between O'Brien and Bashir. Or the Worf/Dax relationship.
There is absolutely NOTHING on tv tonight, and since I was very busy all week, and did not see all of each episode I taped, I have Scorpion on now... great 2 part episode!
Quote: Beardguy57 said: You are correct. The characters.. with the exception of 7of 9... were not allowed to evolve. ( And then, 7 was only allowed to evolve so far.. )
I, too, wondered why Harry was an ensign for 7 years.
After all, Tom Paris was demoted in that time... to ensign.. and subsequently, returned to the rank of Leutenant.
Maybe Janeway felt that any promotions ought to wait till Voyager got back to the Alpha quadrant?
But still, Ray, you raise a good point.
Perhaps the show's creators wanted something so different with Voyager, that they neglected the obvious.
well the Producers take the brunt of the blame for Enterprise and Voyager. Enterprise pretty much neglected everyone but the main 3. Travis went through most of the show as a glorified extra. The little details were overlooked by this crew. Ronald D. Moore, a great writer who did incredible work on TNG and DS9 (and currently runs Battlestar Galactica), went to Voyager when DS9 ended and was let down by how little the producers cared about stories and logic. They wanted big episodes but to have things back to status quo at the end. this provides some of his complaints, and they're valid: http://www.mania.com/18741.html
Voyager had a great premise but sadly failed to respect the fan's own sense of reason and logic. I actually watched Voyager every week for its entire run, hoping for it kick in and become a great show.
Sorry to ramble on, I have a lot to say about Voyager after seven years of being let down.
I watched a few of the episodes. my favorite of gthe ones I watched was "Basics part 2". Suder was a cool character and the path to his redemption was really moving. It's too bad the character wasn't used more.
"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your death bring you the peace you never found in life."
Quote: Beardguy57 said: The actor who played Mr. Suder was Brad Dourif, who did the voice for Chucky in the Child's Play movies. He was also in Alien Resurrection.
He was also in LOTR. Ten jazillion bars of gold-pressed latinum for anyone who can name his character.
Was the guy who played Paris in Voyager also the one who played the ambitious cadet, who got Wesley Crusher into a conspiracy to cover up an illegal shuttle manuever, which had killed another student?
Did I mention "The Pegasus"? That was a good one, though I think the Federation should've developed a cloaking device. IRL, the Soviet Union didn't honor agreements about not testing new atom bombs (which made Robert A. Heinlein write his controversial classic "Starship Troopers").
Quote: Captain Sweden said: Was the guy who played Paris in Voyager also the one who played the ambitious cadet, who got Wesley Crusher into a conspiracy to cover up an illegal shuttle manuever, which had killed another student?
yes. in fact they originally were going to recycle that character into Voyager, but they ultimately decided that because he never expressed remorse he wasn't redeemable. So they wrote Tom Paris to basically be a clone of him and looked for a similar actor. When they didn't find anyone they liked as well as Robert Duncan Mcneil, they just hired him to play Paris.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: The actor who played Mr. Suder was Brad Dourif, who did the voice for Chucky in the Child's Play movies. He was also in Alien Resurrection.
He was also in LOTR. Ten jazillion bars of gold-pressed latinum for anyone who can name his character.
Quote: Captain Sweden said: Was the guy who played Paris in Voyager also the one who played the ambitious cadet, who got Wesley Crusher into a conspiracy to cover up an illegal shuttle manuever, which had killed another student?
yes. in fact they originally were going to recycle that character into Voyager, but they ultimately decided that because he never expressed remorse he wasn't redeemable. So they wrote Tom Paris to basically be a clone of him and looked for a similar actor. When they didn't find anyone they liked as well as Robert Duncan Mcneil, they just hired him to play Paris.
Thanks r3x29yz4a!
I thought "irredeemable" wasn't in the Star Trek vocubulary. He could've changed his mind after all those years of force labor and therapy sessions. I think I'm going to think that the guy changed his name while being in the penal/rehab colony.
i would've thought so too, and it would have been a nice nod to TNG. I think another major obstacle is that Tom Paris technically had graduated and been given a commission by the point of his disgrace and joining the maquis (and subsequent arrest), whereas Locarno had been expelled for covering up the death of a fellow cadet. So Janeway would have to overlook his actions AND grant him a field commission. This puts the writers in the place of either having to explain all of that or not explaining it and having fans bitch about the lack of continuity. Easier to create Tom Paris in a similar mold and then craft a background more tailored to what the show required.
I wonder what would have happened to Lacarno had he told the truth right from the start after his fellow cadet had died during the failed colvert starburst maneuver?
Attempting the fobidden maneuver itself at all was bad enough; could he have salvaged his startfleet career by telling the truth right from the start? What do you think, r3x? Captain Sweden? Anybody?
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I wonder what would have happened to Lacarno had he told the truth right from the start after his fellow cadet had died during the failed colvert starburst maneuver?
the episode wouldn't have been nearly as interesting.
Quote: Attempting the fobidden maneuver itself at all was bad enough; could he have salvaged his startfleet career by telling the truth right from the start? What do you think, r3x? Captain Sweden? Anybody?
I actually think it was like Watergate where the coverup was what killed him. Picard's whole speech to Wesley wasn't about never making mistakes, it was about honesty. And the fact that he lied was the real disgrace to Starfleet that they wouldn't stand. From what I've seen in that episode plus others I imagine he (like Wesley) would have had his credits for the year voided and would need to repeat his year as a shamed student. There would also have been a major blackmark on his record that would have his assignments be rather shitty and minor (patrol on science vessels) for years until he could work his way to re-earning Starfleet's full trust and respect. I think the sad thing is he probably would've been given a chance at a second start if he had just shown the honor that Wesley did. Remember, Sito Jaxa (the Bajoran cadet) was posted to the Enterprise specifically because Picard believed in second chances. That's just my theory on it anyway.
There are some people who speculate that the creation of the new-but-very-similar character of Tom Paris was because they'd have to pay the writers who created Lacarno each time he appeared in an episode.
this is the original Janeway. She quit after the first day of shooting saying the TV schedule of shooting was too much. Its a good thing too. She was flat, unattractive, and boring.
this is the original Janeway. She quit after the first day of shooting saying the TV schedule of shooting was too much. Its a good thing too. She was flat, unattractive, and boring.
this is the original Janeway. She quit after the first day of shooting saying the TV schedule of shooting was too much. Its a good thing too. She was flat, unattractive, and boring.
And I watched and taped the two parter called " Caretaker", which tells you exactly how and why Voyager came to be in the Delta Quadrant. It was okay, no great shakes. Glad I have it now, though.
Before that were two Next Gen episodes :
The one where the old guy makes himself young again.
DUMB.
After that, " When The Bough Breaks."
It was okay.
Before that, DS9... it was during the Cardasian occupation of the station. VERY good epsiode!
Quote: Beardguy57 said: And I watched and taped the two parter called " Caretaker", which tells you exactly how and why Voyager came to be in the Delta Quadrant. It was okay, no great shakes. Glad I have it now, though.
Before that were two Next Gen episodes :
The one where the old guy makes himself young again.
DUMB.
After that, " When The Bough Breaks."
It was okay.
Before that, DS9... it was during the Cardasian occupation of the station. VERY good epsiode!
I actually rewatched Caretaker myself this morning. I can enjoy Voyager a bit better now because I know exactly what to expect and don't expect it to be anything more than it was. I liked the Seska/traitor storyline and the Maquis tensions of the first two years.
Caretaker is a good one, but I was writing a story to post here and I guess I just didn't give it the time I could have! I will re-watch it as soon as the tape is full.
Can't wait for "Basics" to come up... that is one of my fave two part Voyager episodes!
I bought 20 blank tapes to get all the ones I really like, which is about 8 out of every 10 episodes!
Okay, I watched DS9 today, I do not know the name of the one I saw, but it was the conclusion of the Cardassian - Dominion War.. and it was an excellent episode!
After that : Next Generation - " Home Soil."
Ecch!
" Coming of Age "... Pretty good one, and we see Remick again... under less friendly circumstances.
Voyager :
" Parallax " Ship stuck in a singularity. Good early episode.
" Time and Again " - Tom Paris and Capt. Janeway stuck a day in the past, and a mystery they must solve.. their fate and the planet they are on is in the balance.
Okay, I slept late today, and on Cinemax was a movie, Police Academy 5 : Miami Beach.
What does this have to do with Star Trek?
A lot!
The villain in the movie was played by Rene Auberjonois, who played " Odo" on DS9.
One of the cops was played by Matt McCoy, who played Devinoni Ral in the third season Next Generation episode called " The Price ", which aired on 11/13/1989. He was the negotiator whom Counselor Troi had fallen in love with.
This Police Academy movie was released in 1988, which was during the first year of Next Generation.
Quote: r3x29yz4a said: i would've thought so too, and it would have been a nice nod to TNG. I think another major obstacle is that Tom Paris technically had graduated and been given a commission by the point of his disgrace and joining the maquis (and subsequent arrest), whereas Locarno had been expelled for covering up the death of a fellow cadet. So Janeway would have to overlook his actions AND grant him a field commission. This puts the writers in the place of either having to explain all of that or not explaining it and having fans bitch about the lack of continuity. Easier to create Tom Paris in a similar mold and then craft a background more tailored to what the show required.
Didn't know that, thanks!
Maybe Locarno/Paris had worked for Starfleet Intelligence (who seems to take delight in cover-ups) who created a fake ID for him, with equally fake background?
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I wonder what would have happened to Lacarno had he told the truth right from the start after his fellow cadet had died during the failed colvert starburst maneuver?
Attempting the fobidden maneuver itself at all was bad enough; could he have salvaged his startfleet career by telling the truth right from the start? What do you think, r3x? Captain Sweden? Anybody?
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Yeah, that is about the order I would rank those episodes, Captain Sweden.
BTW," Thine Own Self '' is one of my favorite Data episodes, right up there with " The Offspring ", " Measure Of A Man ", and " Hero Worship. "
And the one where Data meets his " mother. "
I don't remember "Measure Of A Man", but otherwise I like all the episodes you mentioned.
Today I saw "Journey's End" and "First Born". I like the 2nd one better... Worf ep:s are more in my taste than Wesley ep:s, especially after the cover-up at the academy. But I guess the writers did what they could to make Wesley interesting as well believable, after making him a fan-hated miracle worker during Season 1. I remember both ep:s, but from the 1st one I only remembered the Native North Americans. (It was years since I 1st saw ST:TNG, and not only did I miss the 1st 2-3 seasons, I mixed up ST with Babylon 5 which aired right before ST!")
BTW, I hope the channel that airs TNG now will air DS9; that show never got a proper chance here.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I think the Khan and Gene War episodes from TOS were inspired from events and characters indirectly told in Robert A Heinlein's Utopian novel "Beyond This Horizon", which is about the wonders of applied genetics/eugenics and Social Credit. In the novel, dictators from the past "Second Genetic War" (briefly mentioned as part of the World's history) are called "The Great Khans". Those Khans used, unlike the good side in the war, genetics in order to create supersoldiers, as well specific workers for different tasks (similar to Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World").
The TNG episode "Conspiracy" must have, at least indirectly, been inspired by Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters", the invasion story about alien slugs taking over people's bodies.
Quote: Captain Sweden said: Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I think the Khan and Gene War episodes from TOS were inspired from events and characters indirectly told in Robert A Heinlein's Utopian novel "Beyond This Horizon", which is about the wonders of applied genetics/eugenics and Social Credit. In the novel, dictators from the past "Second Genetic War" (briefly mentioned as part of the World's history) are called "The Great Khans". Those Khans used, unlike the good side in the war, genetics in order to create supersoldiers, as well specific workers for different tasks (similar to Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World").
This is very likely!
Quote: The TNG episode "Conspiracy" must have, at least indirectly, been inspired by Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters", the invasion story about alien slugs taking over people's bodies.
I read that book, too, it's one of my fave Heinlein reads.. and yes, it does sound like this book inspired the episode, which is on very soon! " Conspiracy" is one of my favorite first season Next Gen episodes.
Next Gen : " Heart Of Glory " - FIRST real Worf episode; it was very good, and they'd improve starting next season, as Worf's character develops in the 2 nd season, as did the rest of the bridge crew.
" Arsenal Of Freedom " - Pretty good one, the late Vincent Schiavelli guest stars in this as a weapons salesman.
Voyager : I didn't tape either of today's episodes, but they were good.. the one was where aliens steal Neelix's lungs, and then, Voyager has to help a nebula sized living organism.
Quote: r3x29yz4a said: Just finished Tuvix. A good episode. I like when the end is morally questionable and difficult.
This is one of my fave Voyager episodes, r3x! I look forward to taping it.
Today : The episode on DS 9 where an alternate world guy comes into Kira's life. It was a good one.
Next Generation:
" Symbiosis " - A so so message about the dangers of drug abuse. " The Game " , a fifth season epsiode, got that message across much better, IMO.
" Skin Of Evil " - One of the BEST first season episodes. Tasha dies. The scene with the memorial service at the end is very moving.
Voyager - First one was where Voyager finds a wormhole and they make contact with a man in the Alpa quadrant. This one is quite good.
Second one : Tom Paris is punished for a murder he did not commit by having to relive the man he supposedly murder's last minutes of life. Pretty good episode.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Today : The episode on DS 9 where an alternate world guy comes into Kira's life. It was a good one.
one of my least favorite DS9 episodes. I liked the other mirror universe episodes much better.
Quote: Next Generation: " Symbiosis " - A so so message about the dangers of drug abuse. " The Game " , a fifth season epsiode, got that message across much better, IMO.
is that the episode with the guy who played Kirk's son in the movies? Not a fan of that episode, the Game is great though.
Quote: " Skin Of Evil " - One of the BEST first season episodes. Tasha dies. The scene with the memorial service at the end is very moving.
the giant tar monster was actually pretty creepy at the time, but now looks a bit silly.
Quote: Voyager - First one was where Voyager finds a wormhole and they make contact with a man in the Alpa quadrant. This one is quite good.
the one with the Romulan captain? I did like that one. Clever idea of the micro-wormhole.
Yeah, that's the one, r3x.. Symbiosis is the one with the guy who played Kirk's son in Wrath Of Kahn. His name was Merrick Buttrick. He died in the late 1980's.
Some of my action figure collection; From left to right, The Fourth Doctor, K-9, Lost in Space Robot, Captain Sisko, Harry Potter, Astroboy, Mr. Spock, and Captain Janeway.
Enterprise was a great concept but poorly executed. i really liked the idea of pre-Federation Starfleet and the lower level of technology after the constant advancements seen in TNG-DS9-Voyager.
But the producers fucked up most of it. The last year was pretty good though, especially for longterm Trek fans who get to see prequel stories to a lot of unanswered concepts and stories.
But in the end it was like the Star Wars episodes 1-3, it couldn't ever stand on its own, it was always a prequel that required an appreciation of the other series.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I might as well watch Enterprise; I only saw 3 or 4 episodes, so, it'll almost all be brand new to me.
I agree, it wasn't such a hot show, but, there it is again, on tv, for free.
the 4th season is really pretty good for Trek fans. Brent Spiner plays Noonien Soong's ancestor and is involved with Eugenics (ala Khan) and they explain why the Klingons looked different in TOS but had ridges before and after. They show the founding of the Federation and you get to see Troi and Riker. Its a good year for Trek fans.
Quote: r3x29yz4a said: Enterprise was a great concept but poorly executed. i really liked the idea of pre-Federation Starfleet and the lower level of technology after the constant advancements seen in TNG-DS9-Voyager. But the producers fucked up most of it. The last year was pretty good though, especially for longterm Trek fans who get to see prequel stories to a lot of unanswered concepts and stories. But in the end it was like the Star Wars episodes 1-3, it couldn't ever stand on its own, it was always a prequel that required an appreciation of the other series.
I liked Enterprise for the same reasons. And it got back to the concept of man exploring space and how it affects him. Lot of weird writing that hurt some of the first season. Not top notch stuff, but show me anything better from the first three seasons of TNG. I think that when they finally found their niche, Paramount pulled the plug. Trek fans were too anal about things to let it be a success. I think Enterprise paid off on a lot of promises that Voyager didn't. You had a ship that got fucked up and stayed fucked up from episode to episode, and the captain had to bargain with those he met out in space to stay alive or finish a mission. Could have been the best Trek in a while had they let it alone.
Quote: r3x29yz4a said: Enterprise was a great concept but poorly executed. i really liked the idea of pre-Federation Starfleet and the lower level of technology after the constant advancements seen in TNG-DS9-Voyager. But the producers fucked up most of it. The last year was pretty good though, especially for longterm Trek fans who get to see prequel stories to a lot of unanswered concepts and stories. But in the end it was like the Star Wars episodes 1-3, it couldn't ever stand on its own, it was always a prequel that required an appreciation of the other series.
I liked Enterprise for the same reasons. And it got back to the concept of man exploring space and how it affects him. Lot of weird writing that hurt some of the first season. Not top notch stuff, but show me anything better from the first three seasons of TNG. I think that when they finally found their niche, Paramount pulled the plug. Trek fans were too anal about things to let it be a success. I think Enterprise paid off on a lot of promises that Voyager didn't. You had a ship that got fucked up and stayed fucked up from episode to episode, and the captain had to bargain with those he met out in space to stay alive or finish a mission. Could have been the best Trek in a while had they let it alone.
yeah, I think Voyager really damaged Enterprise before it even premiered. It had terrible ratings by its last year and the producers created a lot of bad feelings amongst fans that probably scared them off of Enterprise. I think the last season of Enterprise had some very creative and enjoyable storylines. If you look at the timetable for Star Trek then the 5th and 6th years would've been the Earth-Romulan war which would've been incredible.
DS9 - The one with the group of " Enhanced Beings" who are screwed up as a result of the DNA splicing, which Dr Bashir had also had, but turned out normal.
The group predicts doom by a Dominoin invasion, and take drastic measures to be heard.
Next Generation : " We'll Always Have Paris." This one is pretty good, as a time distburnce which is centered on one man threatens many worlds.
" Conspiracy ", which was talked about recently. I do so love this one! Easily the best one from the first season...
Voyager : Ensign Kim gets caught in this world where the dead are sent to an asteroid, where they are then supposed to go to the afterlife. A good one which makes one think about what one believes .. and how one must not let those beliefs be easily shaken.
Next, Voyager encounters a world where they have a transport that could put the ship and crew 40,000 light years closer to Earth. The people of that world are reluctant to share. Seeing as how the show lasted another 6 years, you already know the outcome. It was an ok episode. I taped both. Can't wait till we get to the second season, as this was where we started getting some of my fave stories.
On DS9, a VERY good episode : Quark, Rom, Nog, and other Ferengi attempt to trade a captured Dominion leader for Quark and Rom's mother.
Hilarity ensues as the Ferengi screw up continually!
I liked!
Next Generation :
" The Neutral Zone " - Frozen Earth people from 400 years ago are found in a cryogenics ship and revived; this is during a dangerous mission to the Neutral Zone. The Romulans are back! But they really have poor taste in uniforms... they all look like they are wearing chair covers!
That was the FINAL episode of season one! Thank God!
Now, season two starts!
" The Child . " Well, it was ok, with the writer's strike going on in fall 1988, Roddenbury dug out old scripts from a failed project for the 70's called " Star Trek 2. " No big deal. The second season is still trying to imitate TOS.
Enter : Dr Polaski. All I can say about her is, I am glad she only lasted ONE season. I missed Dr. Crusher that year. Not a Polaski fan...and did NOT like the attempt to resurrect the Spock - McCoy dynamics using Data and Dr. Polaski. At least Wesley got a better outfit this year, gone was his " Rainbow Boy " outfit.
Voyager : State of Flux - The one where Seska's secret is revealed...
Heroes And Demons : The Holo - Doc gets to go on a mission.. in the Holodeck. Nice episode. I like!
Quote: Beardguy57 said: RKMBs crashes aside, it was a good Star Trek day!
On DS9, a VERY good episode : Quark, Rom, Nog, and other Ferengi attempt to trade a captured Dominion leader for Quark and Rom's mother.
The Magnificent Ferengi has a special place with me. I was 16 and having a really lousy fight with my parents. I didn't even know DS9 was new that night and then I got that wonderful episode to cheer me up.
Quote: Next Generation :
" The Neutral Zone " - Frozen Earth people from 400 years ago are found in a cryogenics ship and revived; this is during a dangerous mission to the Neutral Zone. The Romulans are back! But they really have poor taste in uniforms... they all look like they are wearing chair covers!
The original plan was that the bugs in the previous episode Conspiracy sent a message to their bosses who started the invasion in this episode and would play a more direct and major role in the first episode of season two. These villains were of course the Borg. But, as you mentioned, the writer's strike stalled the first few scripts so they decided to retool the Borg and introduce them later. The scooped up colonies were directly mentioned when the Borg did show up in Q-Who but the bugs were forgotten. Finally when Best of Both Worlds came along they dropped the whole Neutral Zone assimiliations and it was never mentioned again.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: " The Neutral Zone " - Frozen Earth people from 400 years ago are found in a cryogenics ship and revived; this is during a dangerous mission to the Neutral Zone.
The Romulans are back! But they really have poor taste in uniforms... they all look like they are wearing chair covers!
That was the FINAL episode of season one! Thank God!
One significant part of this episode was that it featured the first Star Trek appearance of actor Marc Alaimo playing the first Romulan to appear on TNG. Not only would he later have the role of Gul Macet, the first Cardassian, he would also play one of the most persistent enemies on DS9, the great, multilayered Gul Dukat.
Alaimo has an unusually long neck and it's because of this that the Cardassians were given their distinctive "neck ridges".
Oh, and the Ferengi episode of DS9 is one of my favorites.
When the show (TNG) was first conceived, the Ferengi were supposed to be the big threat to the Federation, replacing the Klingons and Romulans from the original series. It was later decided that they weren't all that believable as a major threat so the Romulans were brought back and the Borg and Cardassians were introduced.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: " The Neutral Zone " - Frozen Earth people from 400 years ago are found in a cryogenics ship and revived; this is during a dangerous mission to the Neutral Zone. The Romulans are back! But they really have poor taste in uniforms... they all look like they are wearing chair covers!
That was the FINAL episode of season one! Thank God!
One significant part of this episode was that it featured the first Star Trek appearance of actor Marc Alaimo playing the first Romulan to appear on TNG. Not only would he later have the role of Gul Macet, the first Cardassian, he would also play one of the most persistent enemies on DS9, the great, multilayered Gul Dukat.
Alaimo has an unusually long neck and it's because of this that the Cardassians were given their distinctive "neck ridges".
Oh, and the Ferengi episode of DS9 is one of my favorites.
When the show (TNG) was first conceived, the Ferengi were supposed to be the big threat to the Federation, replacing the Klingons and Romulans from the original series. It was later decided that they weren't all that believable as a major threat so the Romulans were brought back and the Borg and Cardassians were introduced.
Yes, I was aware of Marc Alaimo in that one, too. I forgot to make a note of that in my post.
The Ferengi were indeed meant as a major threat, but they later found their TRUE niche..... as comic relief! They do a splendid job of it, too! I will tape that episode when it comes around again; I am going to tape DS9 from the beginning, which will be on in a while.
I did not know that Alaimo's long neck was the reason for the neck ridges.. thanks for that, NotWedge!
You know what a fanatic I am about Star Trek trivia.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: RKMBs crashes aside, it was a good Star Trek day!
On DS9, a VERY good episode : Quark, Rom, Nog, and other Ferengi attempt to trade a captured Dominion leader for Quark and Rom's mother.
The Magnificent Ferengi has a special place with me. I was 16 and having a really lousy fight with my parents. I didn't even know DS9 was new that night and then I got that wonderful episode to cheer me up.
Quote: Next Generation :
" The Neutral Zone " - Frozen Earth people from 400 years ago are found in a cryogenics ship and revived; this is during a dangerous mission to the Neutral Zone. The Romulans are back! But they really have poor taste in uniforms... they all look like they are wearing chair covers!
The original plan was that the bugs in the previous episode Conspiracy sent a message to their bosses who started the invasion in this episode and would play a more direct and major role in the first episode of season two. These villains were of course the Borg. But, as you mentioned, the writer's strike stalled the first few scripts so they decided to retool the Borg and introduce them later. The scooped up colonies were directly mentioned when the Borg did show up in Q-Who but the bugs were forgotten. Finally when Best of Both Worlds came along they dropped the whole Neutral Zone assimiliations and it was never mentioned again.
I did not know that the bugs were supposed to be back, I always thought of that as an unresolved, forgotten plotline.
It always "Bugged" me that the Bugs never came back... and, later, that the Borg came so close to Federation territory, then backed off. but what you said cleared that all up for me. Thanks, Karl!
Oh, and since the Borg have mastered time and space... my guess is that they might have been busy with species 8472, ( Or another very strong species. ) which caused the delay between their Nuetral Zone activities, and Best Of Both Worlds, where they head into sector 001.
DS9 - " Waltz. " This episode is a gem! An injured Sisko is stranded on a small planet with a deranged Dukat. Their ship crashed landed while Sisko was taking Dukat to stand trial for his crimes.
It's sorta like that awesome movie starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr. - " Enemy, Mine. "
Except that Dukat and Sisko didn't become friends.
Sisko is a terrific character played by Shakespearan actor, Avery Brooks. Dukat is played by Marc Alaimo, who is a very good actor.
The two played off of each other quite well.
Yes, the last few seasons of DS9 were awesome.
Star Trek : The Next Generation :
" Where Silence Has Lease " - It was okay. Wesley Crusher discovers a strange part of space. The Enterprise gets pulled into it. There they meet an intergalactic creature called " Nagillum". It was called that because it was supposed to be voiced by the late, great actor Richard Mulligan.
I would have enjoyed Mulligan voicing the creature.
The episode was okay. I'm sure many would have preferred it if Wesley had been at the helm when Nagillum killed Haskell. That woulda been bye bye Wesley!
Next :
" Elementary, Dear Data. " This one was okay, too. Not the best, but certainly not the worst. Geordi creates an adversary on the holodeck to defeat Data in a Sherlock Holmes holo - scenario.
Professor Moriarity is given awareness. He is the template for the Holo - Doctor on Voyager.
Star Trek : Voyager -
" Cathexix " - Blah blah blah, crew is taken over by an entity that can leap from host body to host body and do what it needs to do to accomplish it's agenda.
Didn't we see this on Next Generation? " Lonely Among Us. " It's like Deja Vu all over again!
" Faces " - Yes, it was kinda cool seeing B'Elanna seperated into an all human B'Elanna and an all Klingon B'Elanna. This episode was pretty good, but I liked " Tuvix " better... it covered the other end of the spectrum : two seperate beings, merged into one.
great episode. i like how they keep you in the dark about dukat being crazy, you really think the Dominion is there and working with him until Kira shows up. Dukat was the villain who they kept changing so that he was as complex as any of the heroes.
Quote: " Where Silence Has Lease "
this one left no real impression on me.
Quote: " Elementary, Dear Data. "
a decent episode, especially for year 2. I really liked the sequel they did in year 6 much better.
I missed DS9, except for the last two minutes. I think it was the one where everyone thought Morn (spell? ) was dead. I recall that was a good one.
Next Generation : " The Outrageous Okona " Never cared for this one.
" Loud as a Whisper " - not bad. It had it's moments, best scene was where Riva ( A deaf mute who is a peacemaker for warring planets ) and Troi are alone in her quarters, trying to communicate without his "chorus ", three telepathic individuals who comminucate from different aspects of Riva's personality.
Voyager : " Jettral " - This is an evil Doctor who wiped out most of Neelix's race. He arrives on Voyager claiming to be able to cure Neelix of a disease he did not know that he had... and then, Dr. Jettral plans to bring back everyone he'd killed.
It was pretty good.
" Learning Curve " - Tuvok has to mold several former Maqui officers into Star Fleet Material. A good one, which I did enjoy; taped it and Jettral, too.
" Learning Curve " is very much like " Lower Decks " from Next Gen., an excellent episode from that show's final season.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I missed DS9, except for the last two minutes. I think it was the one where everyone thought Morn (spell? ) was dead. I recall that was a good one.
Who Mourns for Morn (a parody of a TOS episode title). A very funny episode.
Quote: Next Generation : " The Outrageous Okona " Never cared for this one.
Quote: " Learning Curve " - Tuvok has to mold several former Maqui officers into Star Fleet Material. A good one, which I did enjoy; taped it and Jettral, too.
I did like Chakotay punching the guy who asked for Maquis rules.
I just had to write about todays' Star Trek: DS9 episode, while it is all so fresh in my mind.
First of all, I've only seen a very few minutes of it before, thus, it was essentially brand new for me.
" Beyond The Stars " - Benjamin Sisko lies unconscious in sickbay.. but his mind is in early 1950's America. It looks like NYC. He is a struggling sci - fi writer. His name is Bennie Russell. He works for a sci - fi magazine. He proposes a story about a space station with a black main character - Captain Benjamin Sisko.
He fights with his boss. He is harrassed by police and beaten up. He is ahead of his time, as it is only about 1953 - 1954 ( A reference to Stalin dying - and that was 1953. )
This is a wonderfully written story about prejudice. It's very real and it hit me hard. It was both sad, and very poignant. It also knocks the shit out of any Next Generation episode, making it look rather cartoony by comparison! That sums of ALL of DS9, which dared to tackle the real issues - prejudice, faith, love, hate, war, and much more.
great episode. i liked how DS9 had such a diverse class both in terms of the actor's ethnicity and the character's various races. This episode is well done and very honest (and sad at the end)
great episode. i liked how DS9 had such a diverse class both in terms of the actor's ethnicity and the character's various races. This episode is well done and very honest (and sad at the end)
Yes.. it was a very sad ending. Bennie Russell got screwed over.. He was not allowed to get a story about a black space Captain published, simply because he was a black man living at a time before the civil rights movement. .. before a black writer was truly accepted in the general public, and before black main characters like Captain Benjamin Sisko could have ever been much more than a dream....
Avery Brooks is a superb actor! He was splendid in that episode, and many others, too. He has most likely experienced prejudiced in his lifetime. He was able to draw on that and thus made Bennie Russell so fucking real to me....
This, and the Next Gen. ep, " The Offspring ", are the only two Star Trek episodes that made me shed a tear.
Next Generation - " The Schizoid Man " - It was good, though I am annoyed at how long the bridge crew took to figure out that Ira Graves' soul was now inside Data's body. Data is their friend. If YOU had a friend that acted like a totally different person, wouldn't you be aware of it almost instantly?
The actor who played Ira Graves - W. Morgan Sheppard - was also in " Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country. " He played a Klingon commander. He was also in a Babylon 5 episode.
" Unnatural Selection " - Too much Polaski in it for my liking. It was a take on a TOS ep where Kirk and others were exposed to an aging virus. It has it's merits, but after seeing " Beyond The Stars " on DS9, " Selection " seems very stiff and cartoon - ish.
Now I wish I'd started taping DS9 before, when it was two eps a day, 5 X a week.
I have about 40 episodes of DS9, but the quality of picture is not as good, now that I have digital cable.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Yes.. it was a very sad ending. Bennie Russell got screwed over.. He was not allowed to get a story about a black space Captain published, simply because he was a black man living at a time before the civil rights movement. .. before a black writer was truly accepted in the general public, and before black main characters like Captain Benjamin Sisko could have ever been much more than a dream....
Avery Brooks is a superb actor! He was splendid in that episode, and many others, too. He has most likely experienced prejudiced in his lifetime. He was able to draw on that and thus made Bennie Russell so fucking real to me....
This, and the Next Gen. ep, " The Offspring ", are the only two Star Trek episodes that made me shed a tear.
TNG had a great cast, but DS9 will always be my favorite. They had incredible fun (Our Man Bashir, Take Me out to the Holosuite) and they had incredible drama (too many to mention). Though the Inner Light episode of TNG was particularly moving, moreso for me than Offspring. Also Darmok was another favorite, despite being a clear ripoff of Enemy Mine.
I like those Next Gen eps. Darmok and Inner Light moved me, too!
Voyager :
" The 37's " - Finally into the somewhat better second season, as this one tackles the mystery of " Whatever happened to Amelia Earhart? "
It was pretty decent, actually. One good, moving scene at the end, too.
" Initiation " - Chakotay does a rememberance ceremony on a shuttle for his father - He is attacked, saves a young kazon played by Aron Eisenberg, who played Nog on DS9...and the Kazon capture him.
It is a good episode about honor, sort of.
" Basics " is my fave Kazon ep, and it's a 2 parter, to boot!
Quote: Beardguy57 said: " Basics " is my fave Kazon ep, and it's a 2 parter, to boot!
Investigations was my favorite Kazon story. I liked how they built up to it with several earlier episode showing Tom being an ass and pissing off Chakotay and the traitor giving information to Seska. All building towards Investigations with Neelix actually being useful.
Not hard to believe. ENT is a damn good show. It started slow like all Treks. But, by the third and fourth year, it was rocking steady. Of course, that's when Paramount pulled the plug...
What I like about Enterprise is how problems don't go away at the end of each episode. The Vulcans are being assholes, and this is carrying over from episode to episode.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: What I like about Enterprise is how problems don't go away at the end of each episode. The Vulcans are being assholes, and this is carrying over from episode to episode.
Enterprise had its moments. Wait till year 4, that year is great. They explain why the Vulcans are such dicks here and how they got to be better and nicer in TOS. It has to do with Surrak's writings.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: What I like about Enterprise is how problems don't go away at the end of each episode. The Vulcans are being assholes, and this is carrying over from episode to episode.
Enterprise had its moments. Wait till year 4, that year is great. They explain why the Vulcans are such dicks here and how they got to be better and nicer in TOS. It has to do with Surrak's writings.
I'm looking forward to that!
I liked the episode last night when two crewmen were trapped on that comet and Captain Archer had to swallow his pride and ask the Vulcan guy for help rescuing them.
And the other one, where the Andorians take over that Vulcan temple.
Paris was shite. He was rebellious for about 2 episodes then fell in line like a good little bitch! Was there a decent character on that show other than the Doctor? Nope!
" One Little Ship " was just on, fantastic episode with Dax, Bashir and O'Brien being shrunk to tiny size in a runabout. They find they are able to help save the Defiant and her crew from The Dominion. Nicely done!
Love the bit of humor at the end by Odo, who claims not to have a sense of humor!
Quote: Beardguy57 said: " One Little Ship " was just on, fantastic episode with Dax, Bashir and O'Brien being shrunk to tiny size in a runabout. They find they are able to help save the Defiant and her crew from The Dominion. Nicely done!
Love the bit of humor at the end by Odo, who claims not to have a sense of humor!
I loved the mini futuristic circuit board. And seeing the tiny torpedos blow the Jemhader apart.
After that was Next Generation - " A Matter Of Honor. " - good episode! We see more about Klingons and how they eat, behave on their ships, and stuff.
" THe Measure Of A Man " - a great one! Data is on trial - is he alive? Is he the property of Starfleet? - Though I feel that this ought to have been a given and not had to be established.. it was done quite well.
I would have preferred THAT opening theme to the one they used, Doctor.
" The Dauphin " - Easily one of the BEST second season Next Gen eps! Only one better is " Q Who. "
After that, " Contagion " - Sick sister ship to Enterprise gives it a contagious disease which it got from downloading info from planet Iconia. Not bad.
DS 9 - " Change Of Heart " was just on... Worf and Dax are on a mission to save millions of people; Dax is seriously injured and Worf must choose : Save her, or save the millions of people... VERY good episode!
Now : Next Generation : " The Royale " is on... not a good one, but good if you want to kill an hour.....
After that : " Time Squared " - Picard meets his twin. who survived the destruction of "his " Enterprise.
It would have been a lot better if they'd let us know who set the trap... say, Q for instance?
Okay, so I just finished watching " Time Squared ", and I really enjoyed it. I watched it with a friend on my couch instead of sitting at the computer and looking up at it every few minutes. He liked the episode, too. More fun when you are not watching the show by yourself.
This episode was followed up in three seasons later by " Cause and Effect ", another good "time loop " episode.
I saw DS9, with the epsiode where Kira goes back in time to see if her mother was a traitor as she suspected. Great show where the lesson is to accept your parents as they are.
Next Gen : " Icarus Factor " - Riker sees his father again. They don't get along so well. Riker is offered a command on a ship destined for a dangerous sector.
Will makes peace with his father. ( Sort of )
This is a good issue to work on. Many have problems with their fathers, so it's something people can relate to.
" Pen Pals " - Data discovers an alien child on a stressed planet , asking for help. This brings up the Prime Directive, and a debate : Should the Enterprise help the girls' planet?
Since there have been bugs in this website I haven't been able to post, and I've discovered that I have to use Firefox to be able to log in and post without getting error messages.
Anyway, ST:TNG has ended and re-started. Have so far seen:
All Good Things pt. 1-2. That was a great series finale, I remember that I've seen about half of the 2nd part some years earlier.
Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek (The Next Generation?). A documentary with Jonathan Frakes A.K.A. Will Riker as host, several behind-the-scenes shots, and more. Frakes was quite self-deprecating and funny! And Brent Spiner looks like "one of us" when he's not wearing make-up! I guess he used contact lenses when he played Data. One interesting fact is that the man who played Quark in DS9 also played one of the first four Ferengis in Season 1! He was the one who talked the most.
And thus begins the re-run of Season 1:
Encounter at Farpoint pt 1-2. Missed both earlier. Had low expectations but they're not THAT bad, a pity how the editing was made (triumphant score when the Enterprise is in perile, which takes away the excitement), and Wesley got a bad start. Decent mystery, good first appearence of Q.
The Naked Now. I've seen it so I only missed 'Encounter...'.
Code of Honor. This episode, if anyone, reminds me how similar Season 1 is to The Original Series.
'The first Ferengi episode'. Didn't catch the title I'm afraid. I quite liked it, the sleazyness of the Ferengis and the long, lost Empire bit.
Captain Sweden, the first season of Next Generation is my least favorite, but " The Naked Now " is one of my faves from that season.
What I like about it :
The scene where Tasha asks Data if he is fully functional.
The scene where Wesley takes over the ship. ( Very much like when Ensign O'Rielly took over the ship in the TOS ep. : " The Naked Time. " )
The scene where Data replaces the control chips at super speed and says, " This will take slightly more time than we have left, sir. " to Commander Riker when he asks if Data can finish the task in time to save the ship.
The scenes with Picard and Dr. Crusher.
When Wesley figures out how to save the ship while still under the influence of the virus.
I like the part when Data and Tasha (probably) has sex, since it will mean more after the tragic events in "The Skin of Evil".
The Season 1 ep:s I like the most are "The Skin of Evil" and "Conspiracy", and the build-up for it. The Q ep:s are OK.
I guess I like Season 1 "for what it is", as people say. At least the series got better and better... Unlike, lets say "Voyager" which was good and even IMO but so even it didn't evolve, or "Smallville" which like the typical ST series is so-so during its 1st season and like too many TV-series gets crappy due to lack of ideas in its last season(s). Just don't get me started over "Lois and Clark"...
Quote: Captain Sweden said: One thing I like with TNG is that in the lesser episodes, there is some detail that will build up into a story-line later on.
I hear that!
My fave season one Next Gen. eps:
Conspiracy Skin Of Evil The Neutral Zone Datalore The Naked Now We'll Always have Paris
There is no Star Trek on Spike tv today and Sunday, but I did not watch Voyager all week, but did tape the episodes, so, I'll go over them as soon as I watch them.
And there are about 6 I need to watch this weekend....
[quote="Battlefield"]You know, I've seen both the G1 and G3 cartoons, and thier are some things bothering me. First off, If the Ponyland in G3 is the same Ponyland in G1, than where are all the ponies from G1? Second, if the Spike in G3 is the same from G1, how did he come about sleeping for 1,000 years like in Princess Promenade?
[quote="PensivePine"]I think it's pretty much accepted that the Ponyville of G3 isn't related to the G1 Dream Valley/Paradise Estate. There are those who consider G3 Spike to be a relative of G1 Spike, but personally I think that Spike is just a common name for dragons. It's short and businesslike. *considers rewriting a song from The Fantasticks*
[quote="MistyMoonlight"][quote="Battlefield"]First off, If the Ponyland in G3 is the same Ponyland in G1, than where are all the ponies from G1?
EXACTLY! *pounds fist on her desk* Hehe, that's pretty much the entire basis of my fanfic. I cover that stuff...not Spike though. Yet... :lookround:
(Wow, that was a pretty nerdy post of me. I hope SomethingAwful never visits this place.)
[quote="Battlefield"]Thanks. I can now breath a sigh of relief.
[quote="KalahariMeerkat"][quote="Battlefield"]You know, I've seen both the G1 and G3 cartoons, and thier are some things bothering me. First off, If the Ponyland in G3 is the same Ponyland in G1, than where are all the ponies from G1? Second, if the Spike in G3 is the same from G1, how did he come about sleeping for 1,000 years like in Princess Promenade?
Probably the timelines in the movies are not supposed to be in a spefic human timeline. Such as 1800's, 1900's, 1970's, 1980's 1990's 2000's. and such.
[quote="Fyregryphoness"]The biggest mystery to me that I can't figure out is...if Hasbro has released so many baby ponies...how come they never show up in the cartoon? :huh: I guess Rarity was sort of a "baby" pony...but where are all the other little ones? Maybe they're off in daycare/school or something during the daytime? lol.
But I think this particular deep thinker really expresses it best:
[quote="SpikeTheDragon"]Firefly's lively pose matches her adventurous personality perfectly, but it wasn't as good for the more calm Medley (but then again it was the only pegasus pose at the time)
And of course...we need more images in here (I promise one for every fucking post entered about fucking Shit Trek), so here's an image of the ever lovely Firefly so you can see just how 'lively and adventurous' she really is:
And some important backstory for those of you who aren't up on the latest pony doings. Please, feel free to discuss this important little bit of literature. (I'll start with the episode by episode reviews next week).
Quote: Pig Iron said: Klint, what is the difference between carded and boxed versions of the ponies???
Nothing...just different ponies. There were both carded as well as boxed ponies in all three generations. It really just depends on the pony and the particular wave she appears in. G3 has added the exciting packaging alternative of sending some of the girls to market in plastic purses, such as Royalette here:
Today's DS9 episode - Dr. Bashir is interrogated by Section 31, a secret group of Star Fleet operatives who investigate people that they think are spies. Bashir is accused of being a Dominion spy. It was pretty well done. I liked!
Next Gen. : " Q Who " was on! First encounter with the Borg. Guinan and Q both guest starred. It is the best second season episode, and one one my all time faves.
" Samaritan Snare " - another good one. Picard needs to have his artificial heart replaced, and Geordi is captured by a group of .., well.. for lack of a better term.. stupid aliens.
I taped Voyager, but fell asleep shortly after it came on, as I was very tired. I will watch it tomorrow, though.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: " Samaritan Snare " - another good one. Picard needs to have his artificial heart replaced, and Geordi is captured by a group of .., well.. for lack of a better term.. stupid aliens.
My Little Pony, My Little Pony What will today's adventure be? My Little Pony, My Little Pony Will there be exciting sights to see? Where will you wander? Hither and yonder Letting your heart be your guide! My Little Pony, My Little Pony I'll be there right by your side I'll be there right by your side
10. Noisy doors. You can't walk three feet in a starship without some door whooshing or screeching at you. My office building has automatic sliding doors. They're dead silent. If those doors went "wheet!" every time a person walked through them, about once a month some guy in accounting would snap and go on a shooting rampage. Sorry Scotty, the IEEE has revoked your membership until you learn to master WD-40
9. The Federation. This organization creeps me out. A planet-wide government that runs everything, and that has abolished money. A veritable planetary DMV. Oh sure, it looks like a cool place when you're rocketing around in a Federation Starship, but I wonder how the guy driving a Federation dump truck feels about it?
And everyone has to wear those spandex uniforms. Here's an important fact: Most people, you don't want to see them in spandex. You'd pay good money to not have to see them. If money hadn't been abolished, that is. So you're screwed.
8. Reversing the Polarity. For cripes sake Giordi, stop reversing the polarity of everything! It might work once in a while, but usually it just screws things up. I have it on good authority that the technicians at Starbase 12 HATE that. Every time the Enterprise comes in for its 10,000 hour checkup, they've gotta go through the whole damned ship fixing stuff. "What happened to the toilet in Stateroom 3?" "Well, the plumbing backed up, and Giordi thought he could fix it by reversing the polarity."
Between Scotty's poor lubrication habits and Geordi's damned polarity reversing trick, it's a wonder the Enterprise doesn't just spontaneously explode whenever they put the juice to it.
7. Seatbelts. Yeah, I know this one is overdone, but you'd think that the first time an explosion caused the guy at the nav station to fly over the captain's head with a good 8 feet of clearance, someone would say, "You know, we might think of inventing some furutistic restraining device to prevent that from happening." So of course, they did make something like that for the second Enterprise (the first one blew up due to poor lubrication), but what was it? A hard plastic thing that's locked over your thighs. Oh, I'll bet THAT feels good in the corners. "Hey look! The leg-bars worked as advertised! There goes Kirk's torso!"
6. No fuses. Every time there's a power surge on the Enterprise the various stations and consoles explode in a shower of sparks and throw their seatbelt-less operators over Picard's head. If we could get Giordi to stop reversing the polarity for a minute, we could get him to go shopping at the nearest Starship parts store and pick up a few fuses. And while he's shopping, he could stop at an intergalactic IKEA and pick up a few chairs for the bridge personnel. If you're going to put me in front of a fuseless exploding console all day, the least you could do is let me sit down.
5. Rule by committee. Here's the difference between Star Trek and the best SF show on TV last year:
Star Trek:
Picard: "Arm photon torpedoes!" Riker: "Captain! Are you sure that's wise?" Troi: "Captain! I'm picking up conflicting feelings about this! And, it appears that you're a 'fraidy cat." Wesley: "Captain, I'm just an annoying punk, but I thought I should say something." Worf: "Captain, can I push the button? This is giving me a big Klingon warrior chubby." Giordi: "Captain, I think we should reverse the polarity on them first." Picard: "I'm so confused. I'm going to go to my stateroom and look pensive."
Firefly:
Captain: "Let's shoot them." Crewman: "Are you sure that's wise?" Captain: "Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I'll BEAT YOU WITH until you realize who's in command." Crewman: "Aye Aye, sir!"
4. A Star Trek quiz: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and 'Ensign Gomez' beam down to a planet. Which one isn't coming back?
3. Technobabble. The other night, I couldn't get my car to start. I solved the problem by reversing the polarity of the car battery, and routing the power through my satellite dish. The resulting subspace plasma caused a rift in the space-time continuum, which created a quantum tunnelling effect that charged the protons in the engine core, thus starting my car. Child's play, really. As a happy side-effect, I also now get the Spice Channel for free.
2. The Holodeck. I mean, it's cool and all. But do you really believe that people would use it to re-create Sherlock Holmes mysteries and old-west saloons? Come on, we all know what the holodeck would be used for. And we also know what the worst job on the Enterprise would be: Having to squeegie the holodeck clean.
1. The Prime Directive. How stupid is this? Remember when Marvin the Martian was going to blow up the Earth, because it obstructed his view of Venus? And how Bugs Bunny stopped him by stealing the Illudium Q36 Space Modulator? Well, in the Star Trek universe, Bugs would be doing time. Probably in a room filled with Roseanne lookalikes wearing spandex uniforms, walking through doors going WHEET! all day. It would be hell. At least until the Kaboom. The Earth-shattering Kaboom.
10. Noisy doors. You can't walk three feet in a starship without some door whooshing or screeching at you. My office building has automatic sliding doors. They're dead silent. If those doors went "wheet!" every time a person walked through them, about once a month some guy in accounting would snap and go on a shooting rampage. Sorry Scotty, the IEEE has revoked your membership until you learn to master WD-40
9. The Federation. This organization creeps me out. A planet-wide government that runs everything, and that has abolished money. A veritable planetary DMV. Oh sure, it looks like a cool place when you're rocketing around in a Federation Starship, but I wonder how the guy driving a Federation dump truck feels about it?
And everyone has to wear those spandex uniforms. Here's an important fact: Most people, you don't want to see them in spandex. You'd pay good money to not have to see them. If money hadn't been abolished, that is. So you're screwed.
8. Reversing the Polarity. For cripes sake Giordi, stop reversing the polarity of everything! It might work once in a while, but usually it just screws things up. I have it on good authority that the technicians at Starbase 12 HATE that. Every time the Enterprise comes in for its 10,000 hour checkup, they've gotta go through the whole damned ship fixing stuff. "What happened to the toilet in Stateroom 3?" "Well, the plumbing backed up, and Giordi thought he could fix it by reversing the polarity."
Between Scotty's poor lubrication habits and Geordi's damned polarity reversing trick, it's a wonder the Enterprise doesn't just spontaneously explode whenever they put the juice to it.
7. Seatbelts. Yeah, I know this one is overdone, but you'd think that the first time an explosion caused the guy at the nav station to fly over the captain's head with a good 8 feet of clearance, someone would say, "You know, we might think of inventing some furutistic restraining device to prevent that from happening." So of course, they did make something like that for the second Enterprise (the first one blew up due to poor lubrication), but what was it? A hard plastic thing that's locked over your thighs. Oh, I'll bet THAT feels good in the corners. "Hey look! The leg-bars worked as advertised! There goes Kirk's torso!"
6. No fuses. Every time there's a power surge on the Enterprise the various stations and consoles explode in a shower of sparks and throw their seatbelt-less operators over Picard's head. If we could get Giordi to stop reversing the polarity for a minute, we could get him to go shopping at the nearest Starship parts store and pick up a few fuses. And while he's shopping, he could stop at an intergalactic IKEA and pick up a few chairs for the bridge personnel. If you're going to put me in front of a fuseless exploding console all day, the least you could do is let me sit down.
5. Rule by committee. Here's the difference between Star Trek and the best SF show on TV last year:
Star Trek:
Picard: "Arm photon torpedoes!" Riker: "Captain! Are you sure that's wise?" Troi: "Captain! I'm picking up conflicting feelings about this! And, it appears that you're a 'fraidy cat." Wesley: "Captain, I'm just an annoying punk, but I thought I should say something." Worf: "Captain, can I push the button? This is giving me a big Klingon warrior chubby." Giordi: "Captain, I think we should reverse the polarity on them first." Picard: "I'm so confused. I'm going to go to my stateroom and look pensive."
Firefly:
Captain: "Let's shoot them." Crewman: "Are you sure that's wise?" Captain: "Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I'll BEAT YOU WITH until you realize who's in command." Crewman: "Aye Aye, sir!"
4. A Star Trek quiz: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and 'Ensign Gomez' beam down to a planet. Which one isn't coming back?
3. Technobabble. The other night, I couldn't get my car to start. I solved the problem by reversing the polarity of the car battery, and routing the power through my satellite dish. The resulting subspace plasma caused a rift in the space-time continuum, which created a quantum tunnelling effect that charged the protons in the engine core, thus starting my car. Child's play, really. As a happy side-effect, I also now get the Spice Channel for free.
2. The Holodeck. I mean, it's cool and all. But do you really believe that people would use it to re-create Sherlock Holmes mysteries and old-west saloons? Come on, we all know what the holodeck would be used for. And we also know what the worst job on the Enterprise would be: Having to squeegie the holodeck clean.
1. The Prime Directive. How stupid is this? Remember when Marvin the Martian was going to blow up the Earth, because it obstructed his view of Venus? And how Bugs Bunny stopped him by stealing the Illudium Q36 Space Modulator? Well, in the Star Trek universe, Bugs would be doing time. Probably in a room filled with Roseanne lookalikes wearing spandex uniforms, walking through doors going WHEET! all day. It would be hell. At least until the Kaboom. The Earth-shattering Kaboom.
'' Prototype " - A robot is found floating in space. B'Elanna repairs it, and it kidnaps her and forces her to make a prototype of a unit that can be mass - assembled and used for war with other enemy robots. She does create a successful prototype but destroys in when she learns it is meant to gain a numerical advantage in war.
Well...it seems that everyone can't get enough pictures of ponies, so I'll oblidge thier requests (Beardy, I never realized just how much you loved the gals!):
Quote: Prometheus said: Speaking of the Captains, here's the lineage of the Enterprise as we know it:
Jonathan Archer
UNKNOWN Robert April
Christopher Pike
James T. Kirk
Matthew Decker
Spock, of Vulcan
John Harriman
Rachel Garret / Richard Castille
Jean-Luc Picard
technically Riker was Captain of the Enterprise in Best of Both Worlds. It wasn't just taking command, he was promoted and given formal command. So he should be pictured. And Robert April was in an animated episode.
Quote: Prometheus said: Speaking of the Captains, here's the lineage of the Enterprise as we know it:
Jonathan Archer
UNKNOWN Robert April
Christopher Pike
James T. Kirk
Matthew Decker
Spock, of Vulcan
John Harriman
Rachel Garret / Richard Castille
Jean-Luc Picard
technically Riker was Captain of the Enterprise in Best of Both Worlds. It wasn't just taking command, he was promoted and given formal command. So he should be pictured. And Robert April was in an animated episode.
Nicely done, Ray. I never watched any of the animated episodes, so I had no idea they ever pictured April.
And, I always forget Riker, really, as he only had command for...what...three days? I guess he could be considered one of the lineup...
Again, as with Riker, I don't normally count the temporary Captains. Just the ones that have put at least a little time in. I guess you could count them, if you like...
Klinton, if you're going to hijack the thread, why not find some more Star-Trek themed ponies, if only for the heavy irony? I bet Dakota's left nut there's bound to be a few on the internet.
Quote: "Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I'll BEAT YOU WITH until you realize who's in command."
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why this man is a space stud.
Quote: Cowgirl Jack said: Klinton, if you're going to hijack the thread, why not find some more Star-Trek themed ponies, if only for the heavy irony? I bet Dakota's left nut there's bound to be a few on the internet.
I gave you all two already.
But why'd you have to be a Treckie, CJ? I come here ready to post a slew of new images and see that you of all people are into this conversation...
Paris travels at Warp 10 in a shuttle. He mutates. He clobbers Janeway and takes her at warp 10 in the shuttle. She mutates. They go to an unihabited planet and make fuck. There are babies.
Crew finds them and changes 'em back. Whoopee!
The next episode is better.. Brad Dourif guest stars. You might remember him from such films as all the Child's Play movies. He voiced Chucky.
His Character, Suder, is mentioned in my signature.
Suder likes to kill. He kills a crewman. Tuvok proposes a mind - meld, which goes awry due to Suder's being at least half Betazoid.
Suder gains peace of mind, at least temporarily, but Tuvok experiences intense anger.
He takes himself off active duty. He erects a force field around his room. Janeway arranges to have him sedated and transported to sickbay, where the Doctor uses a device that removes Tuvok's supession of his emotions for minutes at a time, to help him regain control.
Tuvok escapes and nearly kills Suder, but stops himself.
At episodes' end, he is enroute to a complete recovery.
This was a VERY good episode. It explores the Vulcan mind. Dourif was terrific as Suder.
Quote: Cowgirl Jack said: Klinton, if you're going to hijack the thread, why not find some more Star-Trek themed ponies, if only for the heavy irony? I bet Dakota's left nut there's bound to be a few on the internet.
I gave you all two already.
But why'd you have to be a Treckie, CJ? I come here ready to post a slew of new images and see that you of all people are into this conversation...
It's no fun now.
I forgot to mention, Dakota doesn't have a left nut anymore. The vet took care of that little problem.
I don't know if I qualify as a Trekkie. I know Kirk from Picard (thank you, Weird Al). But the only reason I know any of that stuff is because my parents watch the first two series on a regular basis.
And really, I was just annoyed the flippin' Frenchie never hooked up with that redhead doctor. I liked her.
Quote: Cowgirl Jack said: I forgot to mention, Dakota doesn't have a left nut anymore. The vet took care of that little problem.
I don't know if I qualify as a Trekkie. I know Kirk from Picard (thank you, Weird Al). But the only reason I know any of that stuff is because my parents watch the first two series on a regular basis.
And really, I was just annoyed the flippin' Frenchie never hooked up with that redhead doctor. I liked her.
So...do you, or do you not have a vested interest in the future of this thread? Can I have it as my pony playground or not?
Paris travels at Warp 10 in a shuttle. He mutates. He clobbers Janeway and takes her at warp 10 in the shuttle. She mutates. They go to an unihabited planet and make fuck. There are babies.
Crew finds them and changes 'em back. Whoopee!
Fuckawful episode. A prime example of the wonderful things Voyager did for the franchise.
Paris travels at Warp 10 in a shuttle. He mutates. He clobbers Janeway and takes her at warp 10 in the shuttle. She mutates. They go to an unihabited planet and make fuck. There are babies.
Crew finds them and changes 'em back. Whoopee!
Fuckawful episode. A prime example of the wonderful things Voyager did for the franchise.
I agree! Couldn't ya tell, I was making fun of the damn episode.
Paris travels at Warp 10 in a shuttle. He mutates. He clobbers Janeway and takes her at warp 10 in the shuttle. She mutates. They go to an unihabited planet and make fuck. There are babies.
Crew finds them and changes 'em back. Whoopee!
Fuckawful episode. A prime example of the wonderful things Voyager did for the franchise.
The writer of the episode admitted as much about the episode on the DVD.
The unfortunate thing is that Berman chose to work with this guy instead of listening to Ronald D. Moore's ideas. Moore, for those of you who don't know, started on TNG in his 20's and wrote some of the best episodes. Then he went on to be one of the best writers on DS9, he co-wrote First Contact (Braga worked without him on Insurrection and Nemesis) and tried working on Voyager until he saw that the producers and other writers had no concern for really writing stories that mattered, just individual episodes. Moore then went on to be one of the main creators of the new Galactica.
While Starfleet personnel of the 24th century view Klingons as their allies, in the Star Trek universe of Captain Kirk’s time, the Klingons were always viewed as being on the wrong side of their struggles with the United Federation of Planets. As a species, they were allegedly responsible for some reprehensible acts (resulting in some classic TV episodes and movies), but were they really in the wrong? Or did they just not have a fair chance to present their side of the story?
Starting in April, they’ll get their chance. Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell is a new, five-part miniseries that will finally give the Klingons their due. In this special miniseries, we will see five historic Federation-Klingon incidents revisited through the eyes of the Klingon people. After this miniseries, you may never be able to look at episodes like “A Private Little War” or “The Trouble with Tribbles” in the same way again. These stories, viewed from the Klingon perspective, will explain much more of why the Klingon Empire functions the way it does.
Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell features the pairing of the Angel: Auld Lang Syne creative team of writer Scott Tipton (here aided by his brother, David Tipton) and artist David Messina. The first issue centers on an unsteady peace that breaks into full-scale war after a Klingon cruiser is destroyed by the Federation Starship Enterprise. And issue two will, at long last, examine the result of Montgomery Scott’s beaming of thousands of tribbles onto a Klingon cruiser. Artist Joe Corroney (24: Nightfall) will join Messina in providing variant covers for this series.
To herald this special event a bit more, the first issue of Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell will be offered with a unique variant—the issue will be available in a standard edition or in a special 40-page Klingon Language Edition, accompanied by the original script in English to aid translation.
Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell #1 (item code FEB07 3520) debuts in April as a 32-page comic book or a special 40-page Klingon language edition.
Quote: Pig Iron said: I would rather braid My Little Pony hair than watch Voyager.
Can't you do both? I often find myself plaiting Rainbow Dash's hair while watching a movie. It's a very unobtrusive activity that requires really no attention...and beats snacking or smoking.
Quote: Pig Iron said: IDW publishes Klingon Language Comic...
While Starfleet personnel of the 24th century view Klingons as their allies, in the Star Trek universe of Captain Kirk’s time, the Klingons were always viewed as being on the wrong side of their struggles with the United Federation of Planets. As a species, they were allegedly responsible for some reprehensible acts (resulting in some classic TV episodes and movies), but were they really in the wrong? Or did they just not have a fair chance to present their side of the story?
Starting in April, they’ll get their chance. Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell is a new, five-part miniseries that will finally give the Klingons their due. In this special miniseries, we will see five historic Federation-Klingon incidents revisited through the eyes of the Klingon people. After this miniseries, you may never be able to look at episodes like “A Private Little War” or “The Trouble with Tribbles” in the same way again. These stories, viewed from the Klingon perspective, will explain much more of why the Klingon Empire functions the way it does.
Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell features the pairing of the Angel: Auld Lang Syne creative team of writer Scott Tipton (here aided by his brother, David Tipton) and artist David Messina. The first issue centers on an unsteady peace that breaks into full-scale war after a Klingon cruiser is destroyed by the Federation Starship Enterprise. And issue two will, at long last, examine the result of Montgomery Scott’s beaming of thousands of tribbles onto a Klingon cruiser. Artist Joe Corroney (24: Nightfall) will join Messina in providing variant covers for this series.
To herald this special event a bit more, the first issue of Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell will be offered with a unique variant—the issue will be available in a standard edition or in a special 40-page Klingon Language Edition, accompanied by the original script in English to aid translation.
Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell #1 (item code FEB07 3520) debuts in April as a 32-page comic book or a special 40-page Klingon language edition.
Quote: Captain Sweden said: One thing I like with TNG is that in the lesser episodes, there is some detail that will build up into a story-line later on.
I hear that!
My fave season one Next Gen. eps:
Conspiracy Skin Of Evil The Neutral Zone Datalore The Naked Now We'll Always have Paris
Those are great ep:s!
How many episodes had Season 1? I wonder if I have enough cassettes, if not for the whole season, at least for getting those you mentioned.
I recorded the 1st story with Daimon Bok. In a way, he's the most human Ferengi, in the sense that he nurtures a very human vice (revenge), to the point that other Ferengis thinks he's a liability.
Captain SWeden : I believe there are 26 first season episodes for Next Gen.
Today : DS9 - " The Reckoning " - This was a superb episode, where Sisko is taken to a relic on Bajor. He has a vision and faints. This prompts him to take the relic to DS9 for analysis.
Kai Winn objects strongly, but this is due to jealousy on her part because the Prophets will not speak to her.
Sisko smashes the relic in frustration, though he admits later to Dax that he felt the Prophets wanted him to do so.
A red and a blue energy were both released; these turn out to be a Prophet and a Pa Wraith, who later take over Kira and Jake Sisko's bodies.. Jake has the evil Pa Wraith inside him, and Kira, the Prophet.
A battle ensues, just as the station is being evacuated.
A way to use chronoton energy to make the spirits leave their host bodies is set up, but Sisko wants to let the battle play out.. he is willing to sacrifice his own son for his beliefs, a decision he did not make lightly.
Kai Winn goes and activates the Chronoton energy, which forces the spirits out of Kira and Jake.
At episodes' end, Sisko is talking with Jake in sickbay.
This was a superb episode about one's faith. I fucking loved it!
Next Gen : " Shades Of Gray " Riker gets poked by an alien thorn which is paralyzing him. They show clips from previous episodes. Boring boring boring. It would even bore Waybe Boring!
" Evolution " At last!! We are into the third season of Next Generation! This is where the show improved dramatically!
New gaberdeen uniforms replaced the skin tight deals the cast had to endure for the first two seasons. They had admitted those uniforms had been tight and uncomfortable.
Data behaved more like an android and less like Pincochio. He was not anxious to imitate humans, or be like them. He moved his head in a mechanical fashion.
Worf's character is delved into more than ever before. We get to fionally see the Klingon homeworld! We learn that Worf has a brother.
Friendships evolve.
Troi, Worf, Geordi, Dr. Crusher, Data, Riker, Picard.. they are all spotlighted and grow as characters.
The trend of excellent shows began with the third season, and would continue through the next four seasons.
We would get : The Most Toys, The Offspring, The Survivors, Who Watches The Watchers, Best Of Both Worlds part 1, Sarek, Menage a Troi, Deja Q, Tin Man, Hollow Pursuits, The Bonding, Booby Trap, The Enemy,
The High Ground, The Ensigns Of Command, and Yesterday's Enterprise, which are ALL excellent episodes!
Quote: Pig Iron said: IDW publishes Klingon Language Comic...
While Starfleet personnel of the 24th century view Klingons as their allies, in the Star Trek universe of Captain Kirk’s time, the Klingons were always viewed as being on the wrong side of their struggles with the United Federation of Planets. As a species, they were allegedly responsible for some reprehensible acts (resulting in some classic TV episodes and movies), but were they really in the wrong? Or did they just not have a fair chance to present their side of the story?
Starting in April, they’ll get their chance. Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell is a new, five-part miniseries that will finally give the Klingons their due. In this special miniseries, we will see five historic Federation-Klingon incidents revisited through the eyes of the Klingon people. After this miniseries, you may never be able to look at episodes like “A Private Little War” or “The Trouble with Tribbles” in the same way again. These stories, viewed from the Klingon perspective, will explain much more of why the Klingon Empire functions the way it does.
Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell features the pairing of the Angel: Auld Lang Syne creative team of writer Scott Tipton (here aided by his brother, David Tipton) and artist David Messina. The first issue centers on an unsteady peace that breaks into full-scale war after a Klingon cruiser is destroyed by the Federation Starship Enterprise. And issue two will, at long last, examine the result of Montgomery Scott’s beaming of thousands of tribbles onto a Klingon cruiser. Artist Joe Corroney (24: Nightfall) will join Messina in providing variant covers for this series.
To herald this special event a bit more, the first issue of Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell will be offered with a unique variant—the issue will be available in a standard edition or in a special 40-page Klingon Language Edition, accompanied by the original script in English to aid translation.
Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell #1 (item code FEB07 3520) debuts in April as a 32-page comic book or a special 40-page Klingon language edition.
Quote: Pig Iron said: Voyager was a complete piece of shit, and why do people remember episode names???
because they had simple titles that were often one word long.
Quote: Beardguy57 said:
Voyager : I like the show. Can't tell you why. I just do.
I understand. Its terrible compared to the others, but there was a good charm to the characters that makes it enjoyable even if its not satisfying.
That sums up how I feel, exactly!
Voyager : " Dreadnaught" - B'Elanna has to stop a huge robot missle she helped program back in the Alpa quadrant, which was also pulled with Voyager and the Maqui ship into the Delta Quadrant...
Janeway swears to save a planet of whom it's 2 million inhabitants had been warned by the Kazon that Voyager was hostile; she tells the planet's leader that she will ram Voyager into the robot missle if she has to in order to stop it, thus gaining the planet's trust.. and she is about to do so until a quick thinking B'Elanna saves the day.
It was a good, though not great episode.
" Deathwish " - This was a great one! A Q is beamed aboard Voyager when Voyager is curious about the contents hidden in a comet.
He wants to die, but all his attempts to use his power to do so inevitibly fail.
Q played by John DeLancie guest stars. He tries to dissuade Q from wanting to die.
Tuvok is the suicidal Q's lawyer; if Q wins his case, he will be granted mortality, and thus, the right to die. Janeway is the judge.
Q takes Q, Janeway and Tuvok to the continuum, which looks like a single house on a long, lonely stretch of desert highway. Q points out how the Continum offers no stimulation; no one talks as everyone there has already seen and done it all!
Q tries to bribe Janeway : Rule against the right to die, and he'll send Voyager back to Earth!
Jonathan Frakes guest stars. It is good to see Commander Riker again!
This is a great episode in that it discusses the right to die by suicide, which the Vulcans believe in when an individual is terminally ill.
DS9 : Was excellent! " Valiant " - a Defiant class ship with high school age Star Fleet " Best of The Best " kids.
Nog and Jake Sisko are in a runabout enroute to Ferenganar when attacked by a Dominoin ship; they are rescued by the USS Valiant. All the adult officers were killed. The ship has been 8 months into Dominoin territory, looking for a huge batle cruiser. When they find it, it's teenage Captain is over confident and attacks the ship against Jake's protests.
All except Jake, Nog, and one 17 year old girl officer are killed.. they alone escaped in a pod.
A painful yet excellently done lesson about not taking on more than you can handle.
Next Generation : " The Ensigns Of Command " - Data must convince a 15,000 strong colony that they must leave their planet, or be destroyed by the Shelliac.
" The Survivors " - Two elderly people are the sole survivors of an alien attack on a colony of 11, 000.
Both episodes are very good!
Voyager : The Doctor falls in love with a Vidian woman. A tale of real love and acceptance of people in spite of their appearance.
After that, Tom Paris leaves Voyager. A spy is found on Voyager. Neelix catches him and is a Hero.
" Deathwish " - This was a great one! A Q is beamed aboard Voyager when Voyager is curious about the contents hidden in a comet.
He wants to die, but all his attempts to use his power to do so inevitibly fail.
Q played by John DeLancie guest stars. He tries to dissuade Q from wanting to die.
Tuvok is the suicidal Q's lawyer; if Q wins his case, he will be granted mortality, and thus, the right to die. Janeway is the judge.
Q takes Q, Janeway and Tuvok to the continuum, which looks like a single house on a long, lonely stretch of desert highway. Q points out how the Continum offers no stimulation; no one talks as everyone there has already seen and done it all!
Q tries to bribe Janeway : Rule against the right to die, and he'll send Voyager back to Earth!
Jonathan Frakes guest stars. It is good to see Commander Riker again!
This is a great episode in that it discusses the right to die by suicide, which the Vulcans believe in when an individual is terminally ill.
Would someone explain warp drive to me? Is it the number times the speed of light? It probably been explained in the series several times,but I don't watch enough Trek to get all that info.
Quote: Good Question said: Would someone explain warp drive to me? Is it the number times the speed of light? It probably been explained in the series several times,but I don't watch enough Trek to get all that info.
It's a plot device that allows the shows characters to travel great distances in space in much less time than it actually would take them.
Quote: Good Question said: Would someone explain warp drive to me? Is it the number times the speed of light? It probably been explained in the series several times,but I don't watch enough Trek to get all that info.
It's a plot device that allows the shows characters to travel great distances in space in much less time than it actually would take them.
I'm not into the original series, G Man.... but I do have a question :
Why, in " Q Who" , when Q threw the ship 7,000 light years away from the Alpha Quadrant, was it said that it would take 2.5 years at high warp to return home....
While, in Voyager, Janeway says in the first episode :
" It will take just over 70 years to travel the 75,000 light years back to Earth."
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I'm not into the original series
Quote: but I do have a question :
Why, in " Q Who" , when Q threw the ship 7,000 light years away from the Alpha Quadrant, was it said that it would take 2.5 years at high warp to return home....
While, in Voyager, Janeway says in the first episode :
" It will take just over 70 years to travel the 75,000 light years back to Earth."
As noted above, the writers played fast and loose with the mathmatics of warp speed. We just have to accept it or else someone will be forced to post a Youtube clip of Shatner telling us to "get a life."
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I'm not into the original series
Quote: but I do have a question :
Why, in " Q Who" , when Q threw the ship 7,000 light years away from the Alpha Quadrant, was it said that it would take 2.5 years at high warp to return home....
While, in Voyager, Janeway says in the first episode :
" It will take just over 70 years to travel the 75,000 light years back to Earth."
As noted above, the writers played fast and loose with the mathmatics of warp speed. We just have to accept it or else someone will be forced to post a Youtube clip of Shatner telling us to "get a life."
Quote: Good Question said: Would someone explain warp drive to me? Is it the number times the speed of light? It probably been explained in the series several times,but I don't watch enough Trek to get all that info.
It's a plot device that allows the shows characters to travel great distances in space in much less time than it actually would take them.
Looking at the clips they used. I noticed that "flying barf" monsters clinging to the walls. If there's a special effect I look foward to seeing redone in the "remastered" versions that's right up there.
Even as a little kid I thought that one was incredibly lame.
Looking at the clips they used. I noticed that "flying barf" monsters clinging to the walls. If there's a special effect I look foward to seeing redone in the "remastered" versions that's right up there.
Even as a little kid I thought that one was incredibly lame.
As a kid when I first saw that episode, " Plastic flying barf monsters " is exactly what I thought of, too.
The episode was good... a take off on Robert Heinlein's novel, " The Puppet Masters."
Sigh.. I guess sometime, I'll have to go back and watch TOS... I grew up with it.. and, it is where Trek all began.
DS9 was boring for a change. Quark got dressed in drag.
Yawn.
Next Generation : Two of my faves from the third season:
" Who Watches The Watchers " - Picard is mistaken for a God by a proto - Vulcan race on Mintaka 3. This episode deals with life, death, deism, and how a superior but still human race can seem God - like to a far less advanced race. Excellent episode!
" The Bonding " - A young boy's mother - her name is Lt. Marla Astor - is killed on an away mission to a planet no longer inhabited by corporeal life forms. Thier are also energy life forms.. and one of them leaves the planet and takes on the appearance of the boy's mother!
The energy being attempts to take the boy, who is convinced at least at first that she is his mother come back for him, until Captain Picard is able to convince the creature that death and loss of a loved one is something that humans must deal with, not run from.
I'm watching and taping Star Trek : Enterprise on Sci Fi channel.
" Dear Doctor " was on first. It was ok. The Doctor has a dilemma... ought he to help a sick race of aliens? This is a pre - prime directive episode.
" Sleeping Dogs." - 3 crewmen from Enterprise take a shuttle pod into the upper atmosphere of a gas giant planet to find an alien ship they detected... and the ship has Klingons on board!
The Klingons are all unconscious.
A female Klingon awakens and takes the shuttle pod. Enterprise catches it with their grappler.
DS 9 was cool. It was a take off on Illyana Rasputin's life; that is, Molly, daughter of Kieko and Miles O'Brien was with her parents on a picnic on a planet. She walks through a small dimensional portal... and reappears through it... at least a decade or more older!
Unlike Illyana, Molly had not learned the dark arts... or anything at all..her older self barely spoke at all.. she had been alone for many years in a cave!
She is out of time. She is Molly, but not the Molly they once knew. Kieko and Miles are understandably upset.
She goes back through the portal... encourages her younger slef who has only been there for a few days to go through it again.. and all is well.
A very good episode.
Next Generation : " Booby Trap " - a great one! The Enterprise is trapped in a minefield which is the debris from an interplanetary war. There are asceston assimilators in many of the larger debris... they drain the Enterprise, which was there visiting a ship that had been trapped in the same trap 1,000 years ago.
Many huge boulders contain radiation producing machines.. which slowly killed the ship's crew.
The same machines will kill the Enterprise crew in 26 minutes.. after their shields are drained of power.
Geordi meets a holo version of a beautiful woman propulsion expert named Lea Brahms. He enlists her aid in figuring out a way to escape the deadly debris field. He falls in love with her in the process. She advocates giving the ship's computer control to get out... but..
Picard figures out that the only way to get out is to use just enough impulse power .. engines on for a few seconds, then off again..to glide through, and using a large aasteroid's gravity, to gain enough monentum to escape.
Nicely done!
Next : " The Enemy " - Geordi, while on the surface of a very stormy planet with Riker and Worf, while investigating the wreckage of a small Romulan craft, is left behind.
He falls into a deep pit. Unharmed, he uses his phaser to cut a metal pic out of some elements he sees with his visor.
He climbs out and sees that Wesley Crusher has sent down a probe which emits a stationary nuetrino pulse. All Geordi has to do is go to it, and modify the pulse, letting the Enterprise know he is there and can thus be beamed aboard. Another Romulan survivor on the planet, who is ill from the planet's deadly environment clobbers Geordi from behind, takes his weapons and drags him to a cave.
A Rolulan survivor who was badly injured was beamed aboard Enterprise,.. Worf could help him with his bone marrow, but his hatred of Romulans ( From them killing his parents at Kitomer ) prevents him from doing so.. and the Romulan dies.. and Romulan Commander Tomalak is on his way to pick up the survivor!
Geordi finally convinces the ailing Romulan to let him go to the nuetrino pulse to modify it when his visor cuts out... the stormy atmosphere is bad for lifeforms!
With the Romulan warbird approaching, Picard braces for an incident that could lead to a war between The Romulans and the Federation.
There is a window of opportunity to beam Geordi back up.. and it is coming in a very few minutes.
Geordi, though he is now blind, is able to instruct the Romulan on how to connect the visor to his tricorder to get it to become a " Nuetrino gieger counter. "
The two find the probe and alter the nuetrino pulse.
Picard is now confronting the Romulan warbird; Tomalak knows his man is dead, ceases communications, and powers up disruptors.
Wesley reports that the nuetrino beacon is now modulating; the window to beam Geordi up will close in minutes.
Picard messages the Warbird of his intentions. He drops shields and beams up Geordi and the Romulan.
Tomalak answers, and beams the crewman aboard. The two ships depart the Neutral Zone.
Voyager picks up an automated message from the Kohl settlement, whose members survived an environmental catastrophe by going into artificial hibernation. The crew beams their hibernation pods on board and finds two humanoids dead and three in deep stasis, their minds connected to a sensory system controlled by a computer. The Doctor reveals that the two victims died from heart failure, brought on by mental stress — or extreme fear.
Hoping to learn how to revive the survivors, Kim and Torres enter two pods and are attached to the computer, which allows them to enter the colonists' dream state. They're thrown into an environment that resembles a bizarre carnival run by a malevolent Clown, whose followers quickly drag Kim to a guillotine.
Although the Clown spares Kim, the pair suddenly understand how the Kohl could literally be frightened to death. Because the Clown's survival depends on the colonists' minds remaining linked to the sensory system, the Kohl — and now Kim and Torres — can't awaken because the Clown won't allow it. The computer has manifested the worst fears of their subconscious minds into the persona of the Clown; they are now prisoners to that fear.
The Clown allows Torres to leave so she can warn the Captain that if the hibernation pods are deactivated, everyone will die. While Janeway contemplates how to negotiate, the Clown torments Kim mercilessly. The Doctor is sent to discuss the release of the hostages but the Clown refuses to cooperate, so Janeway decides to mount a rescue mission to free Kim and the Kohl settlers.
Her first plan fails when the Clown catches on to Torres' attempts to disable his program. Infuriated, he puts a colonist in the guillotine, where the frightened man succumbs to heart failure. To prevent more deaths, Janeway orders Torres to stop.
The Captain comes up with a final offer for the Clown: trade the current captives for Janeway herself. The Clown agrees, only to discover that his prize is only a holographic image. With no one alive left to torment, "Fear" is conquered and he disappears forever.
On an away mission to locate nutritional supplements, Tuvok and Neelix find a promising native orchid. Later, when the crew beams them back to Voyager with samples of the flowers, the pair never arrive. Instead, a single entity appears on the transporter platform. The Doctor confirms that this strange but oddly familiar alien is actually a fusion of Tuvok and Neelix. With all the memories and abilities of the pair, the new crewmember decides to name himself "Tuvix."
The senior officers meet and conclude that the symbiogenetic properties of the orchids the pair carried during transport caused the "merger" that created Tuvix. After the meeting, Tuvix attempts to adjust to his new identity, and Kes tries to adjust to Tuvix. Although she's drawn to him, she is unsettled by the amalgam's affection for her.
After Paris and Torres gather more samples of the alien orchid, they manage to confirm the method of Tuvix's creation by beaming together new plant hybrids, but are unsuccessful in their attempts to reverse the process. The Doctor admits he's not optimistic about bringing Tuvok and Neelix back as separate individuals. On hearing this, Kes mourns the loss of two men: her lover and her mentor.
Kes tells Janeway that despite Tuvix's wonderful qualities, she's not ready to let go of Neelix. Several weeks pass, and Tuvix settles into life aboard the ship. In time, Kes reaches out to him and apologizes for being distant. Just as it looks as if everyone has adjusted to Voyager's new crewmember, the Doctor announces that he's devised a way to restore him to his two original components. There's just one problem: Tuvix doesn't want to die, even if it means allowing the other two men to live.
Tuvix argues that he has a right to survive, and that restoring Tuvok and Neelix's lives amounts to his execution. The Doctor refuses to take Tuvix's life against his will, so in the end, Janeway is forced to take responsibility for performing the procedure. Tuvok and Neelix are fully restored, but Janeway's relief is tempered by the weight of her decision to end Tuvix's life.
This episode is easily of the BEST Voyager eps.
It was sad when Tuvix didn't want to die.. but, for Tuvok and Neelix to live again, it had to be that way.
DS 9 was very good! A distress call from a woman marooned on a planet reaches the crew of the Defiant; crew members take turns talking with her and get to know her a bit.
The woman, a starship Captain, is on a planet with a high carbon dioxide level in it's atmosphere. In spite of injections to help, she is slowly dying.
The Defiant arrives at the planet after a six day trip at high warp, only to find that the planet's bizzare atmosphere caused a time differential or rift.. her messages were three years old, even though the Defiant was able to converse with her.
They took her body back to DS 9 and gave her a wake.
An excellent episode.
Next Gen : " The Price " and " The Vengenace Factor .''
NOT two of my favorites. " The Price was kind od ok, though.
Voyager : The one I've been waiting to tape!
" Basics " parts 1 & 2.
Kazon take over Voyager, and strand the crew on a dangerous, primitive planet, complete with angry cavemen, erupting volcanos and hungry, giant monsters!
Seka in on Voyager with a bay she thinks is Chakotay's from his DNA, but Holo Doc tells her it is NOT Chakotay's baby.. it has half Cardassian and half Kazon DNA!
The crew have to find food, water, build weapons and fight off the pissed of primitives who are indigeous to that planet.
Meanwhile, Tom Paris manges to escape in a shutle before the takeover. He recruits Talaxian help.
The Doctor and Suder are left on Voyager; they do their best to mess up the ship so that the Kazon cannot use warp speed.
Crew on planet lose Logan to the hungry monster.
Cavemen capture Neelix and Kes, but Chakotay saves 'em, with a bit of help from Tuvok and others.
They are attcaked by the cave dudes and must hide in a cave... the monster's cave!
Cavemen start a fire to smoke out the Voyager members in the cave, Janeway and a few others create a distraction and stop the fire.
The monster attacks, but Chakotay and Tuvok cause a cave - in, sealing the monster in.
On Voyager, Suder kills a Kazon and gains a weapon. He is upset that, after gaining control over his killer's instinct, he now has to kill again.
Paris messages the Holo - Doc to disable the back up Phaser power, while he luanches an attack on the primary phaser power with his shuttle.
Seska interrogates the Doc, and, unhappy with his being devious, disables his program.
Suder arrives back in sickbay, and tries to access the Doc's program, but without success.
An automated message the Doc made explains the situation to Suder: He knows it is all up to him now.
On the planet, baby Naomi Wildman is sick, but the cavemen help her get better - after Chakotay saves one of the cave woman from a lava flow and certain death.
Suder kills all the Kazon in engineering, but only wounds one, who fires a fatal shot at him. Suder manages to shut down back up Phaser control before dying. He had wanted to do something for the ship, and he did - he saved it. ( This is where my signature comes from. )
Seska dies from a power feedback. Her baby is ok, and a Kazon guy escapes with it, as all the Kazon abandon ship.
Tom and a Talaxian guy take control of Voyager and pilot
the ship back to where nearly all the crew was stranded.
" The Defector " and " The Hunted " were on Spike today.
" The Defector " is very good, especially the last 10 minutes. A Romulan Commander defects to the Enterprise and leads them on to chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause, due to his having been giving misinformation by his superiors, most likely as a test of his dubious loyalty.
" The Hunted " is a heavy handed metaphor for the vets who served in Vietnam. Vets from a planet that is applying for membership to the Federation have been chemically and psychologically altered to be stronger, faster, and better than the average man don't like being contained on a moon in a sort of penal colony. Several escape and one finds his way on board Enterprise.
It is meant to discuss how Vietnam vets are not being treated well in many ways, that is, forgotten by the country they had fought to protect.
When Captain Janeway and Chakotay contract an incurable virus they are left on a planet which shields them from its effects. While Janeway searches for a cure, she begins to form a deeper relationship with her first officer. Onboard Voyager, Tuvok, who is now in command, faces a near mutiny.
A cure is found only through a chance ( And almost tragic ) encounter with the Vidians, in which the girl who the Holo Doc helped is able to beam the cure to Voyager.
Janeway and Chakotay are able to return to Voyager.
This one was okay. It was from near the end of the second season, but Spike must have wanted to air both parts of " Basics " the same day ( yesterday. ) which I can go along with.
" Flashback "
After falling ill to what appears to be a repressed memory Tuvok must perform a mind-meld with Captain Janeway in order to survive. The meld takes them back to when Tuvok was a junior science officer aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu.
It turns out that Tuvok has a virus which piggy backed itself onto this specific memory. Everthing is ok by episode's end.
A bore, basically, except you get to see the bridge of the U.S.S. Excelsior, with Sulu as Captain.
Just to kill time: The ships of star trek Phoenix Warp 1 Colony Ship Warp 2 prototype NX Class Daedalus Class (first class launched after the Federation was founded) Constitution Class Constitution Class Refit Miranda Class Excelsior Class Oberth Class Ambassador Class Galaxy Class Nebula Class Defiant Class New Orleans Class (seen only at Wolf 359) Danube Class Runabout Intrepid Class Akira Class Steamrunner Class Sovereign Class Nova Class Prometheus Class (one ship that could split into three for a multi-vector assault). Unknown Class. Enterprise-J seen only on computer monitor during time travel episode.
Quote: Karl Hungus said: Just to kill time: The ships of star trek Phoenix Warp 1 Colony Ship Warp 2 prototype NX Class Daedalus Class (first class launched after the Federation was founded) Constitution Class Constitution Class Refit Miranda Class Excelsior Class Oberth Class Ambassador Class Galaxy Class Nebula Class Defiant Class New Orleans Class (seen only at Wolf 359) Danube Class Runabout Intrepid Class Akira Class Steamrunner Class Sovereign Class Nova Class Prometheus Class (one ship that could split into three for a multi-vector assault). Unknown Class. Enterprise-J seen only on computer monitor during time travel episode.
There is a comprehensive index of Federation starship classes here.
Today on DS9 : Sisko on a planet with the new Dax, his father, and Jake, looking for a sign from the prophets. It was sort of a continuation of " Far Beyond The Stars ", which I stated earlier is easily the BEST DS9 episode, ever! ( the fact that I cannot find it anywhere online in VHS for an American vcr will attest to it's popularity! )
They skipped an episode when Star Trek was not aired last Friday, so, all of a sudden, we have a new Dax.
It was a good episode.
Next Generation : The one where Riker is accused of murdering a scientist who was working on Krieger waves.
It was so so.
" Yesterday's Enterprise " - A fantastic episode!
The Enterprise C appears from out of a space - time rift. When it does, Worf is no longer on the Enterprise 1701 - D, and Tasha Yar is once again alive. Guinan, who is a being whose perception goesbeyond linear time, is the only one aboad the Enterprise D who realizes this new timeline is not right.
She tells Picard her misgivings, and he is skeptical at first, but believes her.
The Enterprise C was meant to defend a Klingon post from Romulans. This ended the war with the Klingons, but that never happened now in this skewed timeline.
The Enterprise C is repaired, and with a minimum crew including Tasha Yar, re-enters the rift, and normal time is once again restored.
A magnificent episode!
Voyager : " Swarm " - strange aliens are menacing Voyager. The Holo Doc starts losing his memory due to degradation of his program.
The aliens are backed off at the last minute; the Doctor is given a fix by grafting the memory pattern of a holgram of his creator, Dr Zimmerman.
Lame!
Next episode : The missing Ferengi from " The Price " who went through the Barzan wormhole meet the Voyager crew. Hilarity ensues!
Kinda boring, but watchable if you are a rabid Trek fan.. such as myself.
DS 9 : Garak has claustrophobia, and Ezri Dax is all emo because she doesn't feel she has what it takes to be on DS9.
By episodes' end, Dax decides she will stay and she finds out why Garak is having problems.
It was a good one, but I am waiting for " Take Me Out To The Holo- Suite", one of my faves!
Next Generation :
" The Offspring " and " Sins Of The Father. "
These are both excellent episodes!
Voyager : Both episodes were good. In the first, B'Elanna is having bad dreams while a race of telepathic aliens is on Voyager.. it seems a mass extermination was being covered up on her planet. B'Elanna tells the aliens who deny it; one belives her only after a mind link with B'Elanna.
Second one - Kes gets messed up by an alien temple. Janeway volunteers to go through a ritual in the hopes she will learn what is needed to help Kes.
She does all manner of strange things, from drawing to getting bitten by a creature.
Finally, she realizes that faith will enable her to save Kes.. and so, she takes Kes through the Temple, and Kes is all better.
I can't believe you didn't delve into TNG: The Offspring. Probably THE best pre-3/4 cliffhanger episode, and very possibly one of the best TNG episodes, period.
Quote: Captain Sammitch said: I can't believe you didn't delve into TNG: The Offspring. Probably THE best pre-3/4 cliffhanger episode, and very possibly one of the best TNG episodes, period.
Phil!
I've reviewed " The Offspring "a billion times! I love this one best of all the Next Gen. episodes!
Best Quotes :
" I do not wish to be different. "
" So, without understanding humor, I have somehow mastered it. "
" What are your intention towards my daughter? "
And Data's speech to Lal about how " We must strive to be more than we are - the fact that we never reach our goal is not as important as the struggle itself. The effort yields its' own rewards. " was my sig for about 5 months!
Data creates an android daughter, Lal, whose programming actually exceeds his own, as she can use contractions..she can feel love but emotions overload her positronic net, and she suffers a cascade failure and must be deactivated.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: " What are your intention towards my daughter? "
Perhaps one of the most hilarious moments in all of TNG. The fact that it involves Riker is a no-brainer. The fact that Riker has been OFF THE SHIP the entire episode and has no clue what is going on makes it even funnier than it already would have been.
DS-9 : " Take Me Out To The Holo - Suite " - EXCELLENT episode!! Sisko tries to shape the DS 9 bridge crew into a baseball team capable of defeating a rival Vulcan guy's team.
Sisko learns to lighten up a bit on being so competitive, and his team comes to respect his dream and become more competitive.
You bet I taped it!
Next Gen : " Allegiance " Not a bad one. Aliens kidnap Picard and 3 others, putting them into a room with food an anarchist cannot eat. They are pitted against one another, and Picard must figure this one out.. meanwhile, a duplicate Picard is on the Enterprise and takes it very close to a Pulsar, which deadly radiations could kill the entire crew. I like!
" Captain's Holiday " Picard goes to Ryssa on holiday and meets : Vash, a devious, beautiful thief.
Time traveling aliens from the future, looking for a powerful weapon.
And a greedy Ferengi.
It was good.
Voyager " Future's End. " A terrific two parter. A temporal Federation " Cop" tries to destroy Voyager, and the two ships end up right near Earth in the latter part of the 20 th century; the time ship and it's lone occupant end up in 1967, and Voyager in 1996.
The time cop ends up homeless and without his ship because a man stole it and using it's secrets to advance computers ( He is Bill Gates without being called Bill Gates. )
The man wants to test the time ship, which could destroy the Earth and the solar system if the controls are not set properly... and he does NOT know how to do this.
He kidnaps the holo doc and gives him a mobile emitter, enabling him to join away missions and leave sickbay as he pleases.
After a few interesting chases and the man being captured, everything is ok in the end, except the time cop sends Voyager back excatly when and where they were in space, meaning they still have many thousands of light years to travel to get home again.
DS9 was excellent today! One of the 4 other genetically altered mutants Bashir knows was brought to DS9 by her 3 friends; Bashir does some medical procedure to her, and she is OUT of her non communicative state!
She proves to be quite intelligent. Bashir falls in love with her.
She reverts back to her previous state. This due to Bashir pushing things. She opens up again, and tells him she is confused by his feelings towards her.
Bashir agrees that she ought to go away on her own to live and work with a Scientist and his family.
He lets go 'cause he loves her.
Next Generation : " Tin Man " - one of my faves - Tam Elbrin, a powerful Betazoid telepath is recruited to communicate with a large, starship sized alien life form.
Tam has trouble being around people - he can't block out the thoughts of others, as he was born with his ability switched on, a rarity, as Betazoids usually don't get their abilities until puberty.
Romulans are also seeking the creature; their goal - It will join them or die.
The creature's name is Gumbtu. It is orbiting a star, Beta Strongrin, which is soon to explode. The creature is old and lonely and wants to die. It is the last of it's kind.
Elbrin warns the creature about the Romulans' intentions; it destroys their ship and nearly cripples Enterprise.
Another Romulan ship has arrived and claims right of vengeance.
Data and Tam beam over to the creature; Tam and the creature relate immediately.
The star is exploding. The Enterprise and Romulan ship are thrown clear by the creature; Data is returned to the Enterprise.
Tam is happy at last, and so is the creature.
" Hollow Pursuits " - Another great one! Lt. Barclay has created a Holo program of various crew members. He has trouble with people and is painfully shy.
The bridge crew go to the holodeck to find him, and see their counterparts.. Deanna is mortified at her " Goddess Of Empathy " holo self!
Meanwhile, a contaminant was brought accidentally aboard! It messes up the Warp engines, which WON'T turn off.
Just before the ship is destroyed from high acceleration, Barclay saves the day by figuring out a key to the problem.
An injured alien named Tieran transfers his consciousness into Kes' mind moments before he dies. He then gains control over her and uses her abilities to steal a shuttlecraft and return to his home world to attempt a political coup.
" The Q and The Grey " - Voyager encounters several supernova in a small region of space. It is soon revealed that they are the after-effects of a civil war within the Q-Continuum. Q appears and believes that the solution to the problem is for him to produce a child, and his mate of choice is Captain Kathryn Janeway. Matters are complicated when a jealous female Q appears claiming that Q was her boyfriend.
Both were pretty good, though I like " The Q and The Grey " better.
For fun, the most Useless cast members: George Takei bugs me. He spends all his time bitching about how Shatner upstaged him and how great Sulu was as a captain when Shatner was the star and he was basically hired to be Asian (to show all races working together). The Original series was really the Kirk/Spock Adventure Hour. They were the stars, Sulu had no development because he was a glorified extra (along with the rest of the cast) and, unlike Shatner, he has never shown himself capable of playing any other character. She was hot (and still is) but her character just stated the obvious and cried a lot (seriously, how many times was she mentally attacked and broke down crying). I did like her more after "Disaster" when she started taking command roles and wore a real uniform. But still, ultimately useless. Of everyone I'm listing, Jake is the one I like the most. He had some good episodes, I liked him and Nog together, but after the Dominion stories started Jake stopped being necessary and faded into the background. Aside from a few (albeit great) episodes that focused on him in years 4-7 he was useless. I hate Neelix. He dragged the show into "cutesy." Good actor, nothing really wrong with the character, they just never had anything real for him to do other than set a course and say "aye sir." Hoshi also got screwed on screentime, but as the only translator on board, she had an interesting function.
I tend to agree with you on those choices, Karl. Several of those listed were "Obligatory Minority Characters" at best, with personalities that were fundamentally undeveloped.
" Kirk/Spock Adventure Hour " is a very appropriate title for TOS.
Neelix was enough to make a diabetic ill, but I kinda like him.
Jake is indeed the best of the lot that you mentioned.
Enterprise is on tomorrow, I plan to tape it.
Is that MXC show on Spike just for February, or is it to be on every Friday? That will slow down my taping of DS9 dramatically if it is a permanent show.
If it is not permanent, then I can have all the DS9 episodes by Thanksgiving, according to my calculations.
I bought the book version of " Far Beyond The Stars", as I cannot find the episode on VHS anywhere.. this fact attests to what a fantastic episode it is!
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I bought the book version of " Far Beyond The Stars", as I cannot find the episode on VHS anywhere.. this fact attests to what a fantastic episode it is!
they stopped the tapes around the 5th season as I recall, because that was when they started issuing the DVD sets. They did the tapes so slowly that they were only up to year 5 in 2003.
I'm not sure if you noticed, but they did show an episode of Voyager on Friday. It was the one where Voyager is infected by a "macrovirus". Basically, big floaty things go around the ship stabbing people with stingers and making them sick. Janeway and, of course, the Doctor are the only ones not infected. It's a pretty good episode and for some reason it always stood out to me that the story didn't need to be on a Star Trek show to work. It could have been an episode of the Outer Limits and worked pretty much just as well. To this day, I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
I want to do a quick Enterprise review for you, Beardguy. I've been rewatching the show lately (a lot, like 70 episodes over the past month).
It's a good show. Better than most people say. Not great, but enjoyable enough and fun. The sense of exploration and adventure is fresh in this show. You see the first contact with so many races, you get humans who are inexperienced and a nice bridge between the present and the "perfect" starfleet of the other shows. There's good humor and a sense that they're learning as they go. I've read the Star Trek boards and the main complaint seems to be that Enterprise contradicted a line of dialogue here and there from later shows or that they seemed more advanced than TOS (of course they were 35 years later in terms of FX) or that they treated women differently (you can't have miniskirts on a starship post-1970's). Other than that, the continuity lines up perfectly with Star Trek post-TOS (even Roddenberry dismissed TOS when he did TNG). You grow to like the characters and the rustic feel of the ship once you give it a few episodes. It's far from perfect, DS9 is still better, but it's better than Voyager. And it's better than TOS, and it's better than DS9 or TNG were in their first few years. A better production team and a clearer plan from the start (Temporal Cold War fizzled quickly) would've been made the show great, but as it was it was still pretty good.
Keep an eye on the Andorians, by year 4 you see that their overall arc of meeting new races and befriending them is the foundation of the Federation.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I bought the book version of " Far Beyond The Stars", as I cannot find the episode on VHS anywhere.. this fact attests to what a fantastic episode it is!
they stopped the tapes around the 5th season as I recall, because that was when they started issuing the DVD sets. They did the tapes so slowly that they were only up to year 5 in 2003.
Is cool, I'll tape " Far Beyond The Stars " when it comes up again on Spike tv later this year.. and thanks.
Quote: notwedge said: I'm not sure if you noticed, but they did show an episode of Voyager on Friday. It was the one where Voyager is infected by a "macrovirus". Basically, big floaty things go around the ship stabbing people with stingers and making them sick. Janeway and, of course, the Doctor are the only ones not infected. It's a pretty good episode and for some reason it always stood out to me that the story didn't need to be on a Star Trek show to work. It could have been an episode of the Outer Limits and worked pretty much just as well. To this day, I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
Damn! Missed that one.. but, it will be on again.. and thanks! I remember seeing it years ago when it first aired.
Quote: Karl Hungus said: I want to do a quick Enterprise review for you, Beardguy. I've been rewatching the show lately (a lot, like 70 episodes over the past month).
It's a good show. Better than most people say. Not great, but enjoyable enough and fun. The sense of exploration and adventure is fresh in this show. You see the first contact with so many races, you get humans who are inexperienced and a nice bridge between the present and the "perfect" starfleet of the other shows. There's good humor and a sense that they're learning as they go. I've read the Star Trek boards and the main complaint seems to be that Enterprise contradicted a line of dialogue here and there from later shows or that they seemed more advanced than TOS (of course they were 35 years later in terms of FX) or that they treated women differently (you can't have miniskirts on a starship post-1970's). Other than that, the continuity lines up perfectly with Star Trek post-TOS (even Roddenberry dismissed TOS when he did TNG). You grow to like the characters and the rustic feel of the ship once you give it a few episodes. It's far from perfect, DS9 is still better, but it's better than Voyager. And it's better than TOS, and it's better than DS9 or TNG were in their first few years. A better production team and a clearer plan from the start (Temporal Cold War fizzled quickly) would've been made the show great, but as it was it was still pretty good.
Keep an eye on the Andorians, by year 4 you see that their overall arc of meeting new races and befriending them is the foundation of the Federation.
That's a terrific review of Enterprise, Karl, thanks! I will be watching ( And taping ) the show tomorrow night!
DS9 - it was some episode with an aging Klingon, I think he had Alzhiemer's or something? I was on the phone and missed most of it...
Next Generation : " Menage A Troi " - This is a VERY good one!
Ethan Philips, who played Neelix on Voyager guest Stars as a Ferengi.... His Ferengi boss is in love with Deanna's mother, and wants to use her telepathic abilities for profit.
Picard must profess his undying love for Loxwana Troi to save her.. that part is funny as hell!
" Transfigurations " is next, I love this one! Enterprise crew finds a lone survivor of a crash; the man heals at a remarkable rate, but is suffering " energy pulses " and this is the harbinger of an amazing transformation to come!
I agree pretty much exactly with what Ray said. The tragedy is, ENT's Season 3 & 4 really showed exactly where this show could go if they had just been willing to give it more time.
I wonder if, like TOS, Enterprise could experience a return within about a decade? It's the only other Trek to get canned so early...
Quote: Prometheus said: I agree pretty much exactly with what Ray said. The tragedy is, ENT's Season 3 & 4 really showed exactly where this show could go if they had just been willing to give it more time.
I wonder if, like TOS, Enterprise could experience a return within about a decade? It's the only other Trek to get canned so early...
I'm rather hoping for a return of Enterprise, myself!
A true shame they cancelled it. I guess they weren't able to sell enough Tampons and Three Musketeers bars at commercial time due to low ratings....
Quote: Prometheus said: I wonder if, like TOS, Enterprise could experience a return within about a decade? It's the only other Trek to get canned so early...
Only is anal Star Trek fans can get over their offense at someone before Kirk and show support that TOS fans did in the 1970's then it could gain a new audience and come back. But fans have been so divided on it, no one watches and no one wants to go near watching it.
I caught a couple of minutes of TOS Trek with the redone SFX. The episode was "The Doomsday Machine" and I wanted to hang on long enough to see how they redid the giant space turd with a shiny center.Now they did do a good job on making the "Constellation" look pretty beat up with more than a crooked nacelle like the original FX had it,but when the turd showed up,it was still a turd.I turned the channel.
Yeah, sometimes nostalgia and historical respect can go a little extreme. Sometimes, it's okay to make a turd look completely unlike a turd. That would be cool.
And, until one of those Spock-ear-wearing virgins can point out to me the exact line that stated that James T. Kirk was the first man in space, fuck them all. In many places, Enterprise outshined TOS by leaps and bounds...
First one was dumb; Neelix got into trouble. Yawn.
Second one was good : A holo-character appears to be out of control.. she is created to be Ensign Kim's girlfriend, but she becomes obssessed with Tuvok instead.
Voyager crew figure out that it is actually a woman from a nearby ship who is very lonely. After demanding that Tuvok stay with her or Voyager will be destroyed, he convinces her that love is not about forcing people to do what you want.. that may sound very simple to you, but many can't seem to grasp that one.
Captain Janeway repeatedly dies after she and Chakotay crash into a planet in what appears to be a time loop. Soon, her deceased father appears and tells her that she is dead and must accept her situation and move on.
'' BLOOD FEVER ''
Ensign Vorik expresses his desire to mate with B'Elanna during his Pon-Farr. After they get in a brawl over the matter, Torres begins showing signs of the Pon-Farr herself.
I saw only a few minutes of "Family" before I had to go out on an errand, and only saw the last 15 minutes of " Brothers."
Both are excellent 4 th season episodes.
Voyager :
" Unity " is on now..this is one of my all time Voyager faves. Chakotay discovers a planet of Ex Borgs. Chakotay is given something more to do for a change than to bark orders on the bridge during cosmic storms.
This is, of course, the prelude to " Scorpion".
Great DS9 today. Dukat started a Pah Wraith cult on Empok Nor. He tried to get Kira to join (with, of course, no success). It becomes clear that he fathered a child with a married woman so he tries to get the cult members to commit suicide and they figure out he wasn't going to do it himself when the suicide pills get mixed up (the one he was going to take was a fake). But even in the end if Dukat was really trying to manipulate people, if he really believed what he was preaching or if he's just gone crazy (of course, more than one could be true at the same time). A whole episode that featured a "villain" and only one member of the main cast (and she was basically in a supporting role). Shows just how strong the supporting cast was on the show.
Saw "Skin of Evil" yesterday and will see "We'll always have Paris" in about one hour.
Apart from ST:TNG I've started to watch Stargate: SG1. It's quite good, Richard Dean Anderson ("MacGyver") plays the leader of the team, and the ethos is similar to Star Trek. The science is pretty believable, which makes it good SF IMHO. One problem is that seems that at least one series as taken place before this one, which sucks 'cause I haven't seen it.
Quote: Captain Sweden said: Saw "Skin of Evil" yesterday and will see "We'll always have Paris" in about one hour.
Apart from ST:TNG I've started to watch Stargate: SG1. It's quite good, Richard Dean Anderson ("MacGyver") plays the leader of the team, and the ethos is similar to Star Trek. The science is pretty believable, which makes it good SF IMHO. One problem is that seems that at least one series as taken place before this one, which sucks 'cause I haven't seen it.
I love Stargate SG-1. It gets better as it goes on, they really strive to keep it fresh, and it still is even in year 10.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I do not know.. I am not into Battlestar Gallactica.
It's like a mix of Star Trek, Lost in Space, Terminator and Bladerunner. Not as good as either of those, but okay. Some people like it better than ST, maybe because it's darker (the new version that is, haven't seen the one from the 70's).
Quote: notwedge said: Great DS9 today. Dukat started a Pah Wraith cult on Empok Nor. He tried to get Kira to join (with, of course, no success). It becomes clear that he fathered a child with a married woman so he tries to get the cult members to commit suicide and they figure out he wasn't going to do it himself when the suicide pills get mixed up (the one he was going to take was a fake). But even in the end if Dukat was really trying to manipulate people, if he really believed what he was preaching or if he's just gone crazy (of course, more than one could be true at the same time). A whole episode that featured a "villain" and only one member of the main cast (and she was basically in a supporting role). Shows just how strong the supporting cast was on the show.
Thanks, NotWedge. I've been way busier than usual lately and wasn't able to watch that one. Fortunately, I taped it and will watch it later. It sounds like a great episode, too!
Quote: Captain Sweden said: Yup it looks that way.
Stargate Atlantis will begin this Mars. I don't think Anderson will be in it but I'll give it a try.
They've actually aired all of season 3 and most of season 10 in canada and england so you can get them on bittorrent. Without spoiling Anderson is in the conclusion to the cliffhanger, and he gets to have some action. Anderson is also in a pretty good episode of SG-1 that revolves around Daniel and the Ori.
Nog isolates himself in the holodeck, with that night club program running 26 hours a day.
I forget the name of the holo - singer, he finally kick Nog out of the holo - program after Nog picks a fight with Jake Sisko, his best friend while the singer is in the middle of a performance.
Nog gets the singer back, who then tells Nog he just can't come back and stay...and Nog then confesses that he's frightened of going back to active duty... where he might be hurt again... or killed.
Nog decides to confront his fear and is soon back to active duty, albiet only a few hoursa day at first.
EXCELLENT episode!
Next Generation : " Suddenly Human " was on, but I missed most of it.. I really don't care for the episode.
"Remember Me " - This is one of my favorites from season Four. Dr. Crusher is on the Enterprise, and crew members keep disappearing.
She soon realizes it is due to her being trapped in Wesley's experiment - a static warp bubble.
Wesley enlists the aid of the Traveler, who makes his second of what is to be 3 appearances in the series.
Dr. Crusher is saved by Wesley, who again proves that there is much more to him than previously thought.
" Rise " - this is in the Voyager top twenty best episodes.
A planet faces a meteor bombardment. Voyager tries to help but the meteors are ultra dense and do not shatter completely, even after being hit with a photon torpedo.
Tuvok and Neelix go down to help evacuate survivors - They get 4 people into an elevator that rises on a many mile high teather, capable of rising over the planet's ionsphere, which is what is keeping Voyager from beaming them to safety.
Tuvok keeps riding Neelix, being sarcastic and all, and then, when one of the 4 passengers with them dies from a poisonous substance in his drinking water, Neelix hears the man as he is dying say that there is something on the roof of the elevator that he needs.. on a hunch, he asks Tuvok to stop the elevator... Tuvok says NO... so, since Neelix is the only one who knows how to operate the elevator, he stops it... Tuvok finally agrees to go up on top and investigate.. he finds tactical info on an enemy space ship..the ship that is causing the meteors to hit the planet on purpose.
The bad guy.. an ambassador..who is really a spy.. goes on top of the elevator and knocks Tuvok, who is waek from the very thin atmosphere off it...
He goes back in and knocks Neelix off a ladder as he is trying to rescue Tuvok; Neelix is unconscious and badly hurt.
Neelix comes to and manages to open the airlock, allowing Tuvok to re - enter. A fight ensues; the spy is kocked towards the open hatch and sucked out back onto the planet.... several miles below!
Voyager is able to beam the survivors onto the ship, Neelix is healed.
Tuvok later thanks Neelix for saving him, and they have an argument, albiet a friendly one.
This is an excellent episode.
The one after : " Favorite Son. "
Ensign Kim is tricked into believing he is actually from a planet the ship encounters. It is really a trick to get his life essence and dna so that the all woman race can breed.
This one was so bad, it would have been bad if it was a sci fi movie released in 1953!
Well, that MXC show wiped out almost all of Star Trek today, except one of the BEST ever Voyager episodes:
" Before and After " -
Kes begins traveling backwards through time from the moment of her death. With each shift, she comes closer to a solution but she also grows months and years younger at a time.
This is perhaps THE best Kes episode.. not that there were many of those.
It is the precursor to " Year Of Hell ", a fantastic 2 parter which is mentioned in " Before and After ", and will air soon, as it is in the 4 th season. This is one of the best Voyager eps, as well.
Quote: Captain Sweden said: Yup it looks that way.
Stargate Atlantis will begin this Mars. I don't think Anderson will be in it but I'll give it a try.
They've actually aired all of season 3 and most of season 10 in canada and england so you can get them on bittorrent. Without spoiling Anderson is in the conclusion to the cliffhanger, and he gets to have some action. Anderson is also in a pretty good episode of SG-1 that revolves around Daniel and the Ori.
Oh, than I must follow Atlantis then!
I checked Wikipedia and saw that the 1st Stargate adventure was in feature film, guess I'll have to find the DVD!
Quote: Captain Sweden said: Yup it looks that way.
Stargate Atlantis will begin this Mars. I don't think Anderson will be in it but I'll give it a try.
They've actually aired all of season 3 and most of season 10 in canada and england so you can get them on bittorrent. Without spoiling Anderson is in the conclusion to the cliffhanger, and he gets to have some action. Anderson is also in a pretty good episode of SG-1 that revolves around Daniel and the Ori.
Oh, than I must follow Atlantis then!
I checked Wikipedia and saw that the 1st Stargate adventure was in feature film, guess I'll have to find the DVD!
Yeah the film is decent, but not as good as the show. but still worth a watch. the tv show picks up a year later with recast actors and continues the story (slightly altering it to be a show rather than a one time finite movie).
Saw 'Conspiracy' this Friday, will see 'The Neutral Zone' next Monday, ending Season 1. Then I won't continue to tape ST:TNG, since I'll need the tapes when the same channel will start showing Bruce Lee movies.
Quote: Captain Sweden said: Saw 'Conspiracy' this Friday, will see 'The Neutral Zone' next Monday, ending Season 1. Then I won't continue to tape ST:TNG, since I'll need the tapes when the same channel will start showing Bruce Lee movies.
Do you have all 178 episodes of Next Generation, Captain Sweden? I have 'em, and am taping Voyager, DS9, and Enterprise, currently.
Thanks for the You Tube videos, Karl! The second one where Shatner takes the Al Hischfeld caricature of the Enterprise crew down from Nimoy's wall, well that drawing is worth a lot these days, as Hirschfeld died a few years ago. I think he was 94. I saw a PBS special on him around 1999 - 2000 or so. He was a very talented artist. I think he did portraits like that of all the Trek show casts.
Only caught the last 20 minutes of today's episode, but it looked good... another " Parallel World " show.
Next Generation : " Future Imperfect " - Riker's birthday finds him on an away team to a planet which is the key to his life turning upside down, as he awakens years into the future with a deceased wife whom he does not remember, and a son he does not know. Ships' systems. Data, and the crew do not behave as they should, and Riker figures out that it is all an illusion, creted by his " son", a teenage alien who was alone on the planet Riker investigated, with only machines for company.
The machine gave him food, water, and any illusion the boy wanted. but it could not give him human company.
Riker takes the kid with him to the Enterprise at episode's end, not shocked by his now alien appearance, once he dropped the illusion of looking like an Earthboy.
It's Wesley's last, as he is about to go to Starfleet Academy. Picard takes him on this man named Durgo's shuttlecraft to settle a mining dispute when the ship has a malfunction, putting the three onto a dessert moon.
They trek across the dry, hot, barren land and find a cave.. with a water fountain!
However, it is protected by a force field that is impenetrable by a phaser... and a being of energy knocks out the phaser and causes a rockslide, which seriously injures Picard.
Durgo has a plan to get to the water which involves Wesley's and Durgo's phasers, but the plan backfires and Durgo is killed.
Wesley tells Picard that al he has done, his work, preparing for Starfleet - has been to make the Captain proud of him.
Wesley uses a tricorder to eliminate the force field around the water, enabling him to keep the Captain alive until Enterprise arrives.
The Doctor decides he should create a holographic family in order to expand himself. When B'Elanna is disgusted by its unrealistic perfectionism, she alters the program to include random events and outcomes with interesting and devastating results.
This is an excellent episode!
" Distant Origin "
An alien paleontologist discovers a common ancestral link between his people and humans. He believes that this proves that his people (the Voth) evolved on Earth and migrated to the Delta Quadrant millions of years ago, but his government is not as willing to believe his interpretation of the evidence.
Quote: Captain Sweden said: Saw 'Conspiracy' this Friday, will see 'The Neutral Zone' next Monday, ending Season 1. Then I won't continue to tape ST:TNG, since I'll need the tapes when the same channel will start showing Bruce Lee movies.
Do you have all 178 episodes of Next Generation, Captain Sweden? I have 'em, and am taping Voyager, DS9, and Enterprise, currently.
Have just taped Season 1... but I've seen almost all ep:s on TV. Maybe I'll buy the DVD's some day.
Have taped so much over my life: Various Disney cartoons, Batman 66-68, 1st season of The Incredible Hulk, several movies, etc etc.
DS 9 - Ezri Dax taps into Curan, her past life who was an assassin, to catch an assassin. VERY good episode.
Star Trek: TNG :
" The Loss " A wierd lifeform surrounds Enterprise, Troi loses her empathic powers. She gets them back. Yawn.
" Data's Day " - Data makes an "email " to that asshole scientist from season two who wanted to take Data apart to be able to create an arny of Datas. Chief O'Brien and Kieko get married, and there is a Romulan spay on ship. Pretty good one, actually.
STar Trek : Voyager -
" Worst Case Scenario "
A holo-novel is discovered in the computer banks, in which Chakotay raises a Maquis mutiny on Voyager. Then, when Paris and Tuvok discover that the program has been altered, they and the Voyager crew must race to stay one step ahead of a holographic Seska.
" Displaced "
One by one, the crew of Voyager go missing and are replaced by strangers who claim they have no idea how they arrived. Soon, nearly the whole crew is gone, and there is no way of stopping the strangers from appearing and overrunning the ship.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: DS 9 - Ezri Dax taps into Curan, her past life who was an assassin, to catch an assassin. VERY good episode.
This episode was great, but seriously bugged me. Joran (you're mixing Curzon and Joran Dax) was originally introduced as essentially a man with a violent temper who lost control and killed someone. Now he's shown as being a sociopathic serial killer who is an expert in murder. Still, an incredible episode. The gun was scary if you think about how easy it would be to use.
Quote: " The Loss " A wierd lifeform surrounds Enterprise, Troi loses her empathic powers. She gets them back. Yawn.
this is the episode where Troi cried and sensed something?
Quote: " Data's Day " - Data makes an "email " to that asshole scientist from season two who wanted to take Data apart to be able to create an arny of Datas. Chief O'Brien and Kieko get married, and there is a Romulan spay on ship. Pretty good one, actually.
good episode. Was this the one where he danced with Crusher ( she's pretty)?
Quote: STar Trek : Voyager - " Worst Case Scenario "
good episode.
Quote: " Displaced "
I saw this when it first aired, barely remember it.
Yes, Karl.. Dr. Crusher taught Data to dance in " Data's Day."
DS-9 - " Chimera "
O'Brien and Odo encounter a changeling.. one of " The Hundred " sent out across the galaxy by the Founders, a race of changelings.
His name is Laas, and he kills a Klingon in self defense. Sisko puts him in the brig to await extradition. Kiera helps Laas to escape, and she and Odo talk about how Odo should go after Laas.. and never come back, as she senses Odo is unhappy with how Laas was treated. She tells Odo to go because she loves him enough to let him go... something which Laas does not understand.
Odo finds Laas and does not go away with him. Odo returns to DS9.. and to Keira.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Yes, Karl.. Dr. Crusher taught Data to dance in " Data's Day."
One of my favorite Data scenes. I love how Spiner would do Data's body language. Always robotic, but emulating humans. Not an easy task for an actor, but he really pulled it off.
Quote: DS-9 - " Chimera "
I enjoyed this episode but not when it first aired. Because then there was all the tension of the final arcs and how things were going to wrap up and this episode was basically filler that really frustrated me. Rewatching it, I rather enjoy it (knowing that Bada-Bing, Bada-Bang and the 10 part finale is coming). A bit of trivia, the actor who played Laas was the same guy who played Martok. DS9 (and other Trek shows) would call back actors who got on well with the main cast to play different characters and with all the make up it can be hard to tell (Weyoun and the Ferengi Brunt were also the same actor).
Thanks, Karl. I did not know that was the actor who played Martok!
As for Weyoun being Brunt, that is a surprise, too!
Next Generation : " The Wounded " and " Devil's Due."
In " The Wounded ", we meet the Cardassians for the very first time. Marc Alaimo, who played Dukat in DS9 was Gomer Set (spell? ) in this one. A starfleet captain is continuing the war against the Cardassians, killing them off, ship by ship. He has hated them for so long, he just cannot let go of the hate.
O'brien beams over and talks to him, getting him to surrender.
Very good episode!
" Devil's Due " Meh. A woman comes to a planet, prentending to be thier Goddess.
Right Now : Star Trek : Votager - " Scorpion - prts 1 & 2. "
This is :
Where we see the Borg ( for the second time - " Unity " was the first, which was on several episodes ago. ) and how they are being massacred by Species 8472, a bio - organic oriented species who are telepathic and dangerous. It was actually the Borg who attacked them, not vice versa, though Janeway and crew don't know this till later. Kes keeps seeing events before they happen, and senses the feelings and thoughts of Species 8472.
Janeway proposes an alliance with the Borg, after the Holo - Dr. figures out a way to cure Harry of a Species 8472 infection from a blow to the chest by one of them. The Borg agree for the time being, albiet reluctantly.
Janeway is injured and Chakotay, who agreed to her plan though reluctantly, follows a plan of his own : Ending the alliance.
All but one of the Borg on Voyager - There are several who were rescued from an exploding Borg cube ( Which Janeway and Tuvok were on. ) after an attack by Species 8472 - resist, and are flushed out into space.. except one : Seven Of Nine, who is kept on board, and her link to the collective is severed.
Janeway recovers, and is pissed at Chakotay, and then she finds a way to take Voyager into Fluidic Space, home of Species 8472.. and destroys several of their ships before they agree to leave the Delta Quadrant.
Seven Of Nine is kept on board, and must deal with her new found individuality.
This is just about the BEST Voyager episode, peroid, and it is one of the best two parters, along with " Year Of Hell " and " Basics. "
I think this is the last Friday that MXC will cancel Star Trek shows... but, " The Gift " will be on in less than an hour here, at 6 pm, est. This is a pretty good Voyager episode, as 7 of 9 goes from looking like a Borg to being the ex - Borg babe we all know.
It is not an easy transition, as she clobbers Harry Kim in an attempt to rejoin the Collective. Janeway perseveres, and 7 is able to become an individual again.. or she will be, with help from Janeway.
Kes begins to transform into an energy form.. and barely escapes in time from Voyager before turning into an energy being, similar to the one in Star Trek : TNG's " Transfigurations" episode, where a man with amnesia is found unconscious and bady injured on a planet. He recovers astonishingly fast, and then transforms into an energy being.
Trouble with Kes' transformation is, in a few seasons, she comes back to Voyager, back in corporeal form, and angry at having been abandoned.
But in " The Gift ", she left VOLUNTARILY, and her gift to Voyager is that she threw the ship 9,000 light years ahead towards the Alpha Quadrant, and safely out of Borg Space.
So, just how and why does Kes De-evolve back into a physical state again?
I call it bad writing.
" The Gift " , however, is a terrific episode!
Still, for an uneven series, as Karl Hungus and I, myself have said.. Voyager has many enjoyable moments. It is worth watching.
Well, Spike changed he time on DS9 today, so I missed it... it is now on at 10 am weekdays, EST. Oh well, I'l tape it tomorrow.
Next Generation :
" Galaxie's Child " - Geordi meets the real Lea Brahms, after having met her hologram in the third season's " Boobytrap." This was a very good episode. Geordi must work with the real Leah Brahms when she arrives on the Enterprise when a space-born alien life form thinks the ship is its mother. Tensions rise when she learns that Geordi created a holographic version of her several months before in order to save the ship from danger.
"Night Terrors "
Troi faces a recurring nightmare when the Enterprise is caught in a rift in space. The crew soon begins to slip into insanity through dream deprivation.
I like " Night Terrors " a lot! Coolest scene :
When Dr. Crusher is in the morgue, and all the bodies sit up.
While Seven of Nine struggles with her humanity, Captain Janeway tries to help a group of aliens whose species was almost entirely assimilated by the Borg. Meanwhile, the Klingon "Day of Honour" turns into a string of bad luck for B'Elanna.
This is pretty good. Tom and B'Elana are stuck in space with a rapidly dwindling air supply. They had gone after the warp core in a shuttle, after havimg had to eject it after a failed attempt to open a trans - warp conduit.
Voyager is almost helpless against an alien attack, when 7 of 9 comes up with a solution that avoids the ship being damaged or destroyed.
It is also a Klingon " Day of Honor ", so B'Elana tells Tom that she loves him.
Excellent episode!
" Nemesis "
Chakotay is stranded on a planet where two races are trying to wipe each other out in a massive, planet-wide war.
A distress call from a mentally imbalanced hologram on a small craft elicits a visit from B'Elana and The Doctor, who encounter a hologram who soon behaves erratically and dangerously.
Kim and Seven have a talk, their first since Seven clobbered him. She makes " An indecent Proposal " but it is far too straight forward for him.
This is an excellent episode!
Voyager today :
" Year Of Hell " - one of my favorite Voyager episodes : a time ship, run by a 24 th century " Ahab ", trying to bring back his dead wife by eliminating entire species.
Janeway adopts a new hairdo for this 2 parter, which she keeps throughout the series. I like this better than the " Janeway Bun. "
Let's not ignore the inconsistancies :
After the weapon ship is destroyed, Annorax is shown at his home with his wife, implying that the damage done with the temporal weapon has been undone, and history has been restored. This is shown after the scene in which Voyager is shown fully restored, back at the beginning of the year. However, it was said several times that Annorax and his crew had been on their mission for over 200 years. As such, if the weapon ship's destruction, undid everything that it had done, both Annorax and his wife should have died over 100 years earlier.
Voyager initially encounters the Krenim ship after having made their course correction as suggested by 7 of 9, using the new Astrometrics lab. However, after the Krenim ship is destroyed and the year starts over, everyone is on the bridge, only discussing that the Astrometrics lab is complete, when they encounter the Krenim ship. (edit) It is stated that Annorax has been attempting to restore the Krenim Empire for 200 years. However, when the temporal ship is destroyed Voyager is restored to the point it was at before it first encountered the Krenim. It is unlikely that after 200 years of wiping out other races that none of the newly restored races would have impacted the history of Voyager. Annorax says that he's collected thousands of artifacts from species that never existed. They seem to exist on his ship without "disappearing", presumably because of the state his ship exists in. So, why does he need a special box to prevent the lock of his wife's hair from disappearing?
On ST : TNG was that Trill guy, Odom. His host body died and Dr. Crusher couldn't keep up with the changes because they gave him a female host body; thus, no hot woman -on - woman action for the fanboys today.
Voyager sucked. Even with me being sick with the flu, it sucked.. an episode where invisible aliens started fucking with the crew's dna. That has been done to death.
No Trek tomorrow because of MXC.. does anybody actually watch that shit?
When pirates steal some of Voyager's technology, Janeway and Tuvok search their home world and discover her holographic Leonardo Da Vinci who helps them in their search.
This is a good one. Kinda strange, but a likable episode.
Last night,Enterprise was interesting.. I taped all 4 episodes.
Voyager : The Dr goes to the Alpha Quadrant through a deep space network. He meets another Holo Doc who is onbaord an experimental ship called Prometheus. It has been taken over by Romulans. He and the other holo Doc save the ship, and the Doc lets Starfleet know that Voyager is still alive and well in the Delta Quadrant.
This one was excellent.
The one after that was pretty good.The Voyager crew get
communications from home, and are attacked by an agressive hunter species called The Hirogen.
I did see part of DS9, where Bashir and O' Brien enter a guy's head because he is a member of Section 31 and knows how to cure Odo of that disease he has which is affecting all changlings.
It was pretty damn good!
After that was "Disaster "on Next Gen, one of my favorite episodes.
A natural disaster leaves Troi in command of the Enterprise, Picard stuck in a turbo lift with three small children, and Keiko O'Brien stuck in Ten-Forward giving birth with the help of an anxious Worf.
When the Hirogen capture and board Voyager they discover that the holodeck can be used to improve the hunt by putting the prey through different situations and locations. In one situation, Captain Janeway, Torres, Tuvok and Seven of Nine are members of the French resistance in occupied France with the Hirogen in roles as Nazi SS Officers. Since the crew was implanted with subdermal transmitters, they have no idea that this is on the holodeck, and they think it's real. It is up to the Doctor in sickbay who is forced to heal the injured to disable the devices and help the crew escape.
On Next Gen : "The Game." Good one! Of course Wesley, back from Starfleet Academy helps save the day.
Voyager - An episode where Chakotay falls in love with a girl whom he forgets after she leaves the ship due to her unique pherimones. She comes back, they fall in love again, but a member of her race fires a beam at her which causes her to forget Chakotay.... and then she goes back to her homeworld. Pretty good one.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: On Next Gen : "The Game." Good one! Of course Wesley, back from Starfleet Academy helps save the day.
I've been reading Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier series. Robin Lefler is one of the characters in it. The books are great and Peter David writes some of the best Star Trek dialog ever.
Dukat and Kia Winnick have unleashed the evil Pa Wraiths!
This is nearly the end of the series... and a great way to end it. A true shame a DS9 follow up movie was never made. I would still enjoy seeing that!
Next Gen : I saw part two of Unification.Not the best, but not the worst Next Gen. Seeing Spock on Next Gen was pretty cool.
Voyager : The episode where it is 700 years in the future, and Voyager was thought to have been a warship. Re - activation of the Doctor changes that perception, however.
"New Ground " Alexander, Worf's son comes to live with Worf on Enterprise. Kid causes trouble. It was an ok episode.
"Hero Worship" - Data rescues a kid on a wrecked Federation science ship. This is a VERY cute episode. The kid starts acting like Data, pretending to be an android like Data.
In one scene, Dr. Crusher is examining the kid in sickbay. She uses terms to describe Data if it were he that she was examining... when she turns to the boy and says," All systems functioning within established parameters.",both Data and the boy look at each other,then look at the Doctor and Say,"Thank you,Doctor. " in unison. I always laugh at that scene!
Voyager : the episode first on was excellent! 7 of 9 had to run the ship all by herself when the ship enters a nebula which is harmful to the crew physically. She is immune, but suffers from hallucinations.Ship's systems start to fail, and so she must reroute and stay contantly vigilant. The Dr. is unable to remain activated after trouble with EPS conduits happens.
7 saves the crew when the engines are able to failonly minutes before the ship is out of the nebula.
Well, Part one of " THE EMMISARY " was on DS-9 today. I slept thru it, but taped it!
I missed Next Gen. entirely, as I was out food shopping.
Got home well into Voyager, but DID see the 5 pm episode :
"DRONE "
A transporter accident merges some of Seven Of Nine's Borg nanoprobes with the Doctor's 29th Century holo-emitter and a lieutenant's DNA to create a 29th Century half-human super-Borg.
This one is EXCELLENT!! I like ANYTHING to do with the Borg. This one was written quite well!
Apparently, MXC is now a permanent feature on Fridays on Spike TV. I tried watching it once. VERY dumb show.
Voyager will be on today for just one episode at 5 pm EST today. After that, it'll be Monday till more Trek on Spike Tv, and then, Enterprise will be on SCI - FI channel from 7 to 11 pm, EST.
Voyager - "Extreme Risk " was just on. Great episode!
In order to retrieve a probe stuck in a hazardous atmosphere, Tom Paris designs a new type of shuttlecraft named the 'Delta Flyer'. Torres begins to exhibit reckless behaviour by engaging in dangerous holodeck programs.
Next Gen - I only saw part of the one where Troi, Data and O'Brien were taken over by aliens. Yawn.
Voyager - First one was about a place where Species 8472 had used something to morph themselves into human appearance. They planned to invade Earth. Chakotay infiltrated the place,and then Janeway managed to make peace with Species 8472. Kinda dumb but ok.
Second Voyager - "Once Upon a Time "... one of my favorite episodes.
Neelix is caring for Naomi Wildman while her mother is on an away mission. When the Delta Flyer is forced to make an emergency landing, and it isn't known whether Tuvok, Paris, or Ensign Wildman survived, Neelix struggles with how to shelter Naomi from the bad news.
The holo program Naomi Wildman had activated was cute.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Next Gen - I only saw part of the one where Troi, Data and O'Brien were taken over by aliens. Yawn.
Power Play. I actually liked this episode.
Quote: Voyager - First one was about a place where Species 8472 had used something to morph themselves into human appearance. They planned to invade Earth. Chakotay infiltrated the place,and then Janeway managed to make peace with Species 8472. Kinda dumb but ok.
meh. it was ok.
Quote: Second Voyager - "Once Upon a Time "... one of my favorite episodes.
Neelix is caring for Naomi Wildman while her mother is on an away mission. When the Delta Flyer is forced to make an emergency landing, and it isn't known whether Tuvok, Paris, or Ensign Wildman survived, Neelix struggles with how to shelter Naomi from the bad news.
The holo program Naomi Wildman had activated was cute.
i actually hated this episode when it was first on, and that's the only time i ever bothered to watch it. neelix dragged that show down into cutesy. so neelix and a bunch of cute kids...ugh. I did enjoy the similar episode "the haunting of deck 12" where he's telling a ghost story to the borg children and they keep correcting him on the science.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: Enterprise was very good last night. I watched and taped the 4 episodes.
One had Andorians and Vulcans in it, negotiating a treaty.
Another had these no - corporeal beings trying to take ove the ship.
Another episode had a ship from the future being found by Enterprise.
Enterprise did had some really good episodes. The Andorian/Vulcan story that ran here and there from years 1-4 and lead to the founding of the federation through their built alliance was great.
Next Generation : Ethics..a good Worf episode. He gets hurt and cannot walk anymore. A Doctor proposes a contoversial, untried procedure. At first Worf wants to die, but successfully undergoes the procedure instead.
Next : The Outcast. A very good episode. This is known as the "Gay " episode. The Enterprise encounters a race where they have no gender.... except sometimes,a member of this species..the G'Nai... are born male or female.
One is female, named Sorann, and she takes a liking to Riker, who falls in love with her as they are on a mission to rescue two G'Nai who were trapped in a pocket of Null Space.
Her superior officer finds out, and has Sorann arrested and to undergo treatments to make her " Normal. " Sorann makes an impassioned speech at her trial, which Riker has invaded in an attempt to help her.
She says that she has the same fears, hopes and dreams as everyone else....and just wants to be free to live her life like anyone else, which is what gays have been saying for many years now.. The word gay is never mentioned but the episode is a metaphor for being gay.
Sorann is taken away and "Fixed " so that she is like everyone else.
A heartbroken Riker tries to rescue her and finds that she has been changed, and she says that she was sick but is now cured.
Excellent episode!
Voyager : TIMELESS -
Voyager uses new quantum slipstream technology in an attempt to get home, but a miscalculation causes the ship to crash into an ice planet. Fifteen years later, the sole survivors, Chakotay and Kim, steal the Delta Flyer in an attempt to send a message back in time and avert the disaster, however, Captain Geordi LaForge is determined to stop them at all costs.
Kim is able to send both a message to7 of 9 that willend the slipstream before it can harm the ship,and a message to his younger self. He saves both Voyager and the timeline is restored.
This is an excellent episode and is one of my all time favorite Voyager episodes! I enjoy watching it.
Right now : INFINITE REGRESS
After encountering a piece of Borg technology known as a Vinculum which connects drone's minds together, Seven of Nine begins exhibiting the personalities of people that she assimilated as a member of the collective. Soon, they become so strong that they may overwhelm Seven's own personality.
A mind meld initiated by Tuvok helps save 7 of 9 from being lost to the overwhelming wave of personality. The vinculum is deactivated.
P.I., hope you remember what happened to the O'Doyles!
DS9: Odo is the suspect in a murder case...and it turns out that the guy who was killed was actually a clone.. killed by the man who'd been cloned!
It turned out that he'd allowed himslef to be cloned specifically to frame Odo.
Good episode.
Next Gen. : Cause And Effect - The Enterprise keeps colliding with another star ship, which emerges from a rift in time... the Enterprise crew must figure out how to escape this deadly repaeting series of events!
And they do, thanks to some clever strategy by Data, who figures out how to send himself a signal from one time loop to the next. Great episode!
The First Duty : Wesley is at Starfleet Academy,a member of Nova Squad. There's a crash during a flight.. and a cadet dies. There's a cover up.. and Wesley finally realizes his first duty is to tell the truth.. and he does.
Interesting Note: Robert Duncan McNeill ( who played Lt. Thomas "Tom" Paris on Voyager. ) played Nova Squad leader LaCarno. When casting Lt. Tom Paris for Voyager, they were looking for someone who looked a lot like McNeill, but,since they could not find someone who looked enough like him, they hired him!
Ray Walston, who played gardener Boothby in this episode was recently on an episode of Voyager, the one where Species 8472 were impersonating actual Starfleet members in an attempt to infiltrate and destroy Starfleet and Earth.
Um,Voyager : I fell asleep when it came on. I was tired. I saw like, the first 10 minutes of Thirty Days, where Tom Paris is busted down to Ensign and put in the brig for thirty days... here is the synopsis, though :
When Voyager encounters a planet covered entirely in water they discover that the forcefield maintaining its integrity is breaking down. Tom Paris directly disobeys orders in an attempt to save the planet, which results in him being demoted to Ensign and placed in the brig for thirty days.
I'll have to watch this one over the weekend after the tape I recorded it on is full.
I saw bits and pieces of Nothing Human, where an alien life form that looks like a ginormous insect latches onto B'Elanna Torres, in order to stay alive... and the Holo Doc summons up a holo version of a Cardassian Doctor ( to help with exo- biology ) who'd experimented with Bajoran prisoners of war during the occupation of Bajor.. a Bajoran crewman sees him. B'Elanna realizes who the doctor is, and refuses to be saved by him.
The Doctor saves her, anyway, and then the alien is beamed back safely onto it's ship.
Next Generation : Cost Of Living -A cute episode where Alexander is having trouble getting along with Worf, his father, and Loxwana Troi arrives on ship because she is to be married... they escape their troubles in a holodeck program,as the ship begins to have trouble with system failures...
Alexander gets Loxwana to realize she doesn't really love the guy she is to marry, and she finds a way out of it- just by being herself.
THen there was the episode where Picard falls in love with a beautiful empath woman who is going to marry a man who looks and acts like an obnoxious queen. Picard loves the woman, too. Very sad but very good episode.
VOYAGER : The Doctor realizes something is wrong when he takes Holo pics of the crew and sees that Harry Kim has had an operation that neither he nor Harry remembers.. then he ( The Doc ) uncovers a conspiracy to keep him from remembering that he had to choose between Harry and Ensign Jetal, who were both seriously wounded by a hostile alien dude.
He then had a nervous breakdown, so,Janeway had his memory wiped... a talk with 7 of 9 convinces Janeway to let the Dr. dealwith his memory instead of erasing it every time he came close to the truth... the Dr. does fall apart again,but Janeway and crew help him get his act together again by having someone be with him night and day until he can recover.
After that, an episode where the ship's telepaths have to be hidden in a transporter cycle froma nearby race who hate telepaths and keep inspecting the ship.
One of the inspectors pretends to defect and romances Janeway, who did not completely trust himand came up with a plan to get a dozen telepaths to a wormhole and safety... but you can see at episode's end she had feelings for the guy and is hurt by his betrayal.
Voyager: All that was on today was one episode... and it was a good one.
BRIDE OF CHAOTICA -
Photonic energy life forms mistake the characters in Tom's holonovel for real people. The holodeck characters interpret this as an attack, and soon Dr. Chaotica tries to wipe them out. The only person that can stop him is Captain Janeway in the role of Queen Arachnia of the Spider People.
DS 9 was good today - it was the one where this " Tusk " guy shows up on the station. He's kinda likeable, but the guy is hiding something.. turns out he was the target of a hunt being conducted by a bunch of armed and dangerous aliens who arrive at DS 9 and start shooting at him.
Chief O'Brien helps Tusk escape.
Next Generation : Imaginary Friend -A little girls' imaginary friend turns out to be real..and deadly ... as the ship is trapped in a strange dark cloud. This one is ok.
I,Borg.. this one is excellent... Enterprise rescues and treats a young Borg.. he is given a name by Geordi... Hugh....Hugh becomes an individual... Picard had planned to send Hugh back to the collective with an unsolvable puzzle in his memor bank,but cannot do it.. Hugh has to return to the collective or the Borg will keep searching for him til they find him.
He is put back on the planet where he was found,as the Borg return to take him back.
This was the idea for 7 of 9.
Voyager :
Gravity -
When Tuvok, Paris and the Doctor are pulled into a planet by its intense gravity and crash, they wait to be rescued. From their perspective, many weeks have passed with no contact from Voyager, while on board, only a few hours have passed as they plan a rescue attempt. A woman on the planet falls for Tuvok,who cannot reciprocate the feelings.
THis episode is fucking excellent!
Bliss -
The discovery of a wormhole leading directly to Earth elates the crew beyond belief and leads them to act impulsively. Only Seven Of Nine remains unconvinced that it is real, and has to work against the rest of the crew with the help of Naomi Wildman to save them from what she feels is a trap.
I taped all 4 ENTERPRISE episodes and missed the first two..I watched the second two episodes, and then ran the tape back and watched the two I'd missed. They were all pretty good. One featured Klingons and it was good.
I really enjoyed the bloodthirsty and vastly more powerful Klingons on Enterprise. It really set some good foundation for the relations of the later series.
DS 9 - Q and Vash payed the station a visit. A pretty good episode. It was Fun seeing Sisko punch Q!
Next Gen - THE NEXT PHASE - I like this one.. Roe and Geordi are accidentally turned intangible and invisible while beaming back from a Romulan space ship that was experimenting with phasing cloaking technology. It was like they were dead, but not really, and they had to get changed back to normal in order to warn Picard that the Enterprise was rigged to explode by the Romulans the minute they engaged the warp drive.
after that,one of my VERY favorite Next Gen eps..
THE INNER LIGHT
Picard is struck by an energy beam from an alien probe, which renders him unconscious and places him in the life of a citizen on the planet Kataan, with his memory of the Enterprise intact.
This is one of the VERY Best Next Gen episodes.
Voyager :
DARK FRONTIER - parts 1 & 2.
After defeating a Borg ship, Captain Janeway decides to launch an attack on another damaged Sphere to steal a trans-warp coil. However, as the crew prepare for their heist, the Borg Queen is secretly aware of the entire plan.
The Borg Queen welcomes Seven of Nine back to the Collective, not as a drone, but as an individual, in hopes that her new-found individuality and knowledge of humanity will help the Borg assimilate Earth. Meanwhile, back on Voyager, the crew races to integrate the transwarp coil into their systems and devise a plan to rescue Seven. They save her in an exciting rescue.
I like that one. DS9 was still getting its footing and figuring out what the show was going to be, and this is a really great early episode. Punching Q was great. Q: Picard never hit me. Sisko: I'm not Picard.
just great.
Quote: Next Gen - THE NEXT PHASE - I like this one.. Roe and Geordi
It's "Ro," not "Roe." Let's show some respect for Bajoran culture, you anti-Bajorite. But yeah a good episode, lots of fun.
Quote: THE INNER LIGHT
I really enjoyed this episode a lot.
Quote: DARK FRONTIER - parts 1 & 2.
Yawn. Voyager meets the Borg and manages to survive the encounter with no real damage and they come out ahead in the end.
DS - 9 - A Dax episode today. This time, Judzea is accused of treason and murder..but of a crime Curzon is alledged to have commited.
Curzon had an affair with a married man's wife.
Dax does not wish to talk about it,even to defend herself in court. At the last minute, the dead man's wife tells that Curzon was not the one who commited the crime, as he was in her bed at the time. The dead man was a hero. Guess that kinda tarnishes his reputation.
A good episode.
Yeah, Karl, the Q episode was great! I have yet to see a boring Q episode!
Data's head is uncovered in an archaeological dig on Earth, where evidence is also found that aliens may have been on Earth as early as the 19th Century. Using modified technology, an away team follows Data into the late 1890s to investigate.
The away team's investigations are hampered by a nosy Samuel Clemens. Picard discovers that he originally met Guinan in the 1890s on Earth.
I like this episode. It is interesting, and I enjoy time travelstories.
VOYAGER :
THE DISEASE
Without medical clearance, Kim becomes involved in a love affair with a member of the Varo species. Problems arise when they become biochemically interdependent after the incident.
This one is very good. Love hurts. Then you get over it.
Eventually.
COURSE : OBLIVION
After Paris and Torres tie the knot, the ship and its crew start to disintegrate on the molecular level.
This one is excellent. It shows the Voyager crew as they face death, yet it is NOT them ...it is the duplicated crew from the episode DEMON. They know they are not the real Voyager crew, yet they have the same traits as the real crew.. courage, determination, and resourcefulness.
I opted for a much needed nap while Next Generation was on...
Don't care much for the two that were on :
REALM OF FEAR
Lt. Barclay's fear of using transporters is eerily justified when he sees bizarre aliens within the transporter beam.
MAN OF THE PEOPLE
Deanna becomes attracted to an alien ambassador. Shortly thereafter, she starts aging rapidly and becoming violent.
These two are boring boring boring!
VOYAGER :
Voyager becomes trapped in an area of "chaotic space", where the laws of physics are in constant flux. Meanwhile, Chakotay suffers from hallucinations related to his holodeck boxing program. Although he is afraid he is losing his mind, Chakotay's hallucinations may be Voyager's only hope of learning how to escape from chaotic space.
This one was fair. Ray Walston guest starred in this one as Chakotay's manager. It is the last time he appears in Voyager.
THINK TANK
Voyager is ambushed by a race known as the Hazari with no way of escape. Soon, an alien 'Think Tank' arrives with an answer to the ship's problem and all they ask in return is Seven of Nine.
This episode was pretty good! I loved how Janeway turned things around on the Think Tank. Jason Alexander from Seinfeld guest stars as the main baddie. He was rather convincing as a devious asshole.
VOYAGER : Well, SPIKE Tv quit showing MQC or whatever the fuck that stupid show was... but, now?They are showing police videos all day Fridays.....
The ONE Voyager episode that was on today was EXCELLENT!
It was called JUGGERNAUT.
After encountering a damaged Malon freighter, a repair crew from Voyager tries to contain a toxic chemical leak that threatens a nearby inhabited planet. Before they embark on the mission, two crewmen from the ship warn them about the 'Angel of Decay' that wreaks havoc on board the ship.
BE'Lanna is trying to learn to control her temper. While aboard the Malon freighter, along with Neelix, Chakotay, and the two Malon crewmen, they encounter a "Monster ", which is in reality a Malon crewman who is very radioactive.
B'ELanna does manage to control her temper long enough to stop the freighter from exploding untilit can be manuevered into a nearby star.
You know how when you are very engrossed in a show, which is done very well and it moves fast because it is directed and acted superbly? THIS is one of those episodes. It flew by! Glad I am taping them all. I was in a semi crappy mood before it came on,and now my mood is much improved.
No Star Trek until Monday, and then, Enterprise will be on Sci - Fi channel from 7 to 11 pm EST.
Forgot to mention : Ron Canada was in the JUGGERNAUT episode.He was also in THE MASTERPIECE SOCIETY episode of Next Generation. That episode was in Next Gen's 5 th season.
The Enterprise runs into a mysterious energy field of a type that it has encountered several times before.
The Enterprise goes to check up on a remote outpost of scientists, who are all perfectly all right.
The Enterprise comes across a Garden-of-Eden-like planet called Paradise, where everyone is happy all the time. However, everything is soon revealed to be exactly as it seems.
The crew of the Enterprise discover a totally new lifeform, which later turns out to be a rather well-known old lifeform, wearing a silly hat.
The crew of the Enterprise are struck by a strange alien plague, for which the cure is found in the well-stocked sick-bay.
An enigmatic being composed of pure energy attempts to interface to the Enterprise's computer, only to find out that it has forgotten to bring the right leads.
A power surge on the Bridge is rapidly and correctly diagnosed as a faulty capacitor by the highly-trained and competent engineering staff.
A power surge on the Bridge fails to electrocute the user of a computer panel, due to a highly sophisticated 24th century surge protection feature called a "fuse".
The Enterprise ferries an alien VIP from one place to another without serious incident.
The Enterprise is captured by a vastly superior alien intelligence which does not put them on trial.
The Enterprise separates as soon as there is any danger.
The Enterprise gets involved in an enigmatic, strange, and dangerous situation, and there are no pesky aliens they can blame it on in the end.
The Enterprise is captured by a vastly inferior alien intelligence which they easily pacify by offering it some candy.
The Enterprise is involved in a bizarre time-warp phenomenon, which is not connected with the 20th century in some way.
Somebody takes out a shuttle and it doesn't explode or crash. A major Starfleet emergency breaks out near the Enterprise, but fortunately some other ships in the area are able to deal with it to everyone's satisfaction.
The shields on the Enterprise stay up during a battle.
The Enterprise visits the Klingon Home World on a bright, sunny day . An attempt at undermining the Klingon-Federation alliance is discovered without anyone noting that such an attempt, if successful, "would represent a fundamental shift of power throughout the quadrant."
A major character spends the entire episode in the Holodeck without a single malfunction trapping him/her there.
Picard hears the door chime and doesn't bother to say "Come".
Picard doesn't answer a suggestion with "Make it so!"
Picard walks up to the replicator and says, "Coke on ice."
Counselor Troi states something other than the blindingly obvious.
Mood rings come back in style, jeopardizing Counselor Troi's position.
Worf and Troi finally decide to get married, only to have Kate Pulaski show up and disrupt the wedding by shouting, "Did he read you love poetry?! Did he serve you poisonous tea?! He's MINE!"
When Word tells the bridge officers that something is entering visual range no one says "on screen".
Worf actually gives another vessel more than 2 seconds to respond to one of the Enterprise's hails.
Worf kills Wesley by mistake in the holodeck (pity this wasn't done in "Deja Vu" - then we could have seen it 5 times without rewinding the tape).
Wesley Crusher gets beaten up by his classmates for being a know-it-all, and consequently has to try to make some friends that are his own age for a change.
Wesley saves the ship, the Federation, and the universe as we know it, and EVERYONE is grateful.
The warp engines start playing up a bit, but seem to sort themselves out after a while without any intervention from boy genius Wesley Crusher.
Wesley Crusher tries to upgrade the warp drive and they work better than ever.
Beverly Crusher manages to go through a whole episode without having a hot flush and getting breathless every time Picard is in the room.
Guinan forgets herself, and breaks into a stand up comedy routine.
36. Data falls in love with the replicator.
37. Kirk (or Riker) falls in love with a women on a planet he visits, and isn't tragically separated from her at the end of the episode.
The Captain has to make a difficult decision about a less advanced people which is made a great deal easier by the Starfleet Prime Directive.
An unknown ensign beams down as part of an away team and lives to tell the tale.
Spock or Data is fired from his high-ranking position for not being able to understand the most basic nuances of about one in three sentences that anyone says to him.
Kirk's hair remains consistent for more than 1 consecutive episode.
Kirk gets into a fistfight and doesn't rip his shirt (or even, Kirk doesn't get into a fistfight).
Kirk doesn't end up kissing the troubled guest-female before she doesn't sacrifice herself for him.
Scotty doesn't mention the laws of physics.
Spock isn't the only crew member not affected by a new weapon/attack by an alien race due to his "darn green blood" or "bizarre Vulcan physiology" and thus he cannot save the day.
The episode ends without Bones & Kirk laughing at Spock's inability to understand the joke, and he doesn't raise his eyebrow.
Quark's attempt at deception toward a newly-encountered alien race places the space station's senior officers in a labrinth of danger, when they force Quark to play a game where the senior officers are the playing pieces.
Doohan's Ashes to Be Blasted Into Space By Associated Press 2 hours ago
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The ashes of James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original "Star Trek" TV series, have been loaded into a rocket that is set to launch in New Mexico later this month.
The remains of Doohan, Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper and some 200 others were loaded into the rocket Friday by Charles Chafer, chief executive of Celestis, a Texas company that contracts with rocket firms to send cremated remains into space.
"And we're ready to go," Chafer said after inserting the silver canister.
Jerry Larson, president of Connecticut-based UP Aerospace Inc., said the rocket will be launched April 28.
Families paid $495 to have a few grams of their loved one's ashes placed on the rocket.
Chafer said he's aware of the dedication of "Star Trek" fans.
"There's no doubt that we'll find a way to accommodate fans who travel here and want to be part of that experience," he said.
Doohan died in July 2005 at age 85.
The remains of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry were blasted into space in 1997.
By a huge coincidence, RELICS - the episode guest starring James Doohan is on right now, after I'd posted that news article about Doohan's ashes being sent into space.
This is an excellent episode. Doohan reprised his role as Scotty beautifully. I would rather remember him as he was in this episode: fat and healthy looking, than as he looked later in life... thin, pale, and ill, which he was.
RELICS :
Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott is discovered suspended in a transporter beam 75 years after he disappeared. After the Enterprise crew re-materialise him, he has a hard time adjusting to the new future.
"Relics" was my favorite episode of TNG that featured a character from TOS. The others were all like "HEY! SPOCK'S HERE! LOOK! IT'S SPOCK! OOOOOOOO! SPOCK! HEY EVERYBODY! SPOCK! SPOCK! SPOOOOOOOOOCK!" While "Relics" had a good story that would have worked without Scotty. His presence just enhanced it.
Quote: notwedge said: "Relics" was my favorite episode of TNG that featured a character from TOS. The others were all like "HEY! SPOCK'S HERE! LOOK! IT'S SPOCK! OOOOOOOO! SPOCK! HEY EVERYBODY! SPOCK! SPOCK! SPOOOOOOOOOCK!" While "Relics" had a good story that would have worked without Scotty. His presence just enhanced it.
Yeah, they DID do that with " Unification ", the fifth season Next Gen episode that brought Spock back. It was a big turn off. Thankfully, the writers learned a lesson from that and just brought Scotty back in a believable, realistic manner.
Next Generation :
Schisms -
Members of the Enterprise crew start suffering from a strange form of tiredness and no recollection of having slept well the night before.
Aliens are abducting and experimenting with the crew. Riker is given a homing devoce and a stimulant and he helps defeat the aliens.
This episode has the "Notorious " reading of Data's poem,"Ode To Spot. "
That was priceless!
VOYAGER :
Someone To Watch Over Me -
The Doctor tries to introduce Seven of Nine to the concept of dating. After a disastrous first date the Doctor personally guides her, but he soon realises that he is falling in love with her.
I really like this one a lot. It was done very sensitively. I liked the interactions between the Doctor and 7 of 9. The dates 7 of 9 had were funny, too. She was Borg all the way! "Our Date is concluded. Goodbye. "
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Captain Janeway relates the story of her distant ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, and her involvement in the construction of Earth's "Millennium Gate". She meets and falls in love with Henry Janeway - the one man standing in the way of the Gate's construction.
This one is underrated. It was not exciting, but was interesting.
This is an early ( Perhaps the very FIRST ? ) encounter with the Borg. It was Fantastic! The name BORG was never mentioned once.. the aliens never actually identified themselves as Borg... so, continuity was kept intact... even if Captain April was NOT the first captain of Enterprise, as he ought to have been...
The remnants of an alien ship and two frozen cybernetic bodies are uncovered in the arctic by a research team. These aliens soon thaw out and flee Earth, taking the research team with them. Starfleet orders Enterprise to find them, but the crew aren't prepared for just how dangerous these aliens really are.
So far, it is easily my favorite episode of Enterprise!
[Note: While the Borg in this Recap will be referred to as "Borg," they are never identified as such in the show]
Researchers within Earth's Arctic Circle find the debris field of an alien ship, as well as a couple of bodies. (It's a fair assumption to think that these are the remains of the Borg escape sphere that was destroyed about a century before in the events of the movie Star Trek: First Contact.) Now thawed, the Borg reanimate and repair themselves and assimilate the researches before modifying the researcher's transport to allow for increased warp capabilities. Enterprise is ordered to intercept them.
A Tarkalean freighter sends out a distress signal. Enterprise responds to find that the transport is increasingly advanced and escapes at a higher warp than it should. Instead of pursuit, Archer stays to rescue the two Tarkaleans still on board the freighter. They two survivors are being assimilated by nanoprobes, and Phlox does his best to treat them. Using the subterfuge of being uncomfortable, the Tarkalean Borg inject Phlox with nanoprobes, and subdue the human guard, before escaping into the ship. As the Borg start modifying Enterprise, Phlox deals with the beginnings of assimilation. While Denobulan physiology slows down the process, it's clear that it's a losing battle.
The Tarkalean Borg are spaced by Archer when it's clear their modifications, and shielding from phase pistols, brands them a threat. An even bigger threat arrives in the still increasingly altered transport. They send a signal to the Borg technology on Enterprise, and disable the ship. "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
Archer and Reed beam over to the Borg vessel and plant explosives while a squad of Borg transports to Enterprise. As the transport is crippled, the Enterprise Borg return to their ship. Archer then shoots the works at the transport, destroying it. In the interim, Phlox has discovered that omicron radiation will likely destroy the nanoprobes, though unpleasant side-effects will result. His treatment works. He tells Archer about his brief experience with the collective consciousness and gives the captain a sequence of numbers. Archer analyses them and find that they are coordinates for Earth and have been sent to the delta quadrant. Because of the time for a subspace signal to reach that far, they likely have only put off the problem until sometime in the 24th century.
Sorry, Jaburg, I have not seen any of the remastered TOS eps.
I DID see :
NEXT GENERATION :
True Q
A young intern visiting the Enterprise captures the interest of Q when she starts displaying Q-like powers.
This one is pretty good. It really WOULD be an enormous responsibility if one had Q powers. Along with great power comes great responsibility.
Rascals
A transporter accident transforms Picard, Ro Laren, Guinan and Keiko O'Brien into small children who appear to be about 12 years old. Matters become complicated when the Ferengi seize the Enterprise.
Now,I don't care at all for kids, but this one was cute. I like it. It would have been funny if the bridge crew had all been turned into kids.
Kid Picard : " Ensign Crusher... warp 7 to the Geurnica system....Make it so!"
Ensign Crusher : " Not right now, I gotta go potty!"
Little Riker : " Ro put a whoopee cushion on my seat!"
Ro the brat : " You're a rat, Riker!"
VOYAGER :
Relativity
When Voyager is destroyed, Captain Braxton of the 29th Century Timeship Relativity contacts Seven of Nine to travel back in time and discover who planted the 'temporal disruptor.' However, she must do this without being discovered by the past Janeway.
I do like time travel episodes. This one was pretty good, especially after Janeway gets recruited to help fix the timelime. She was pretty funny.
Warhead
After Kim beams an alien missile onboard Voyager it links up to the Doctor's systems and requests that it is allowed to complete its mission of mass destruction.
Okay,I have made it very clear that I don't like episodes where a crew man is taken over by an alien lifeform,but this one was very good. Robert Picardo did an excellent job of acting when he had to act as though the alien.. an intelligent missle.. had taken over his program. The ending was kind of sad when this missle blew upall the other missles like it that had found it, but it died a hero by exploding them all far away from any life.
Ensign Kim shined in this one, though he screwed up by taking the missle onto Voyager, he did get it realize that it had gotten a signal to stop.. that the war was over and it need not kill any people. Yeah, I like this one.
Wow, I just watched that episode of Enterprise where T'Pol is crawling around the decon tank like a cat on all fours in complete, sweaty heat wanting to fuck anyone in eyesight-that, my friends, was cool.
An alien criminal from the other side of the wormhole tempts Odo by telling the shape-shifter he can put the changeling in contact with others like himself. After an unproductive contact with the Alien's race, Sisko reluctantly agrees to return him without holding a trial for the murder he committed on the station. Assigned to transport the criminal back to his homeworld, Odo discovers that his case is not as clearcut as it appeared, and that the brother of the murdered man is in hot pursuit.
Odo takes the criminal to a planet where he finds his daughter, the only surviving member of his family left. A cave in causes a rock to hit Odo, knocking him out. The criminal saves Odo by taking him back to the runabout. They escape the brother of the murdered man. Odo has a change of heart and lets the man and his daughter go to the planet Vulcan.
I remember when I first saw this one, years ago, and thinking it was the BEST episode of DS- 9 up to that point. I still feel the same way. It's an excellent episode. We learn a bit more about Odo in this one.
Worf and his son, Alexander, become trapped in the holodeck when their Wild West program malfunctions. However, they must find a way to defeat the holographic bandits who have Data's appearance and abilities.
I like this episode a lot! It's fun and, although I don't care for westerns, I do like them when they have a sci - fi theme.
QUALITY OF LIFE
Stardate: 46315.2 Data discovers that the maintance robots built by Dr. Farallon may have become sentient.
This one is good, not the best, but I like it.
STAR TREK: VOYAGER
EQUINOX
Voyager comes to the aid of the Equinox, another Federation starship - also abducted by the Caretaker - now under attack by mysterious aliens from another dimension. As the two crews begin to work together to protect both ships, a dark secret lies hidden aboard the Equinox.
Janeway becomes obsessed with trying to capture captain Ransom, no matter what the cost, while Voyager is under the attack of the aliens and the Doctor and Seven Of Nine are held as hostages on the Equinox.
This one is totally awesome! I like!
What I like about EQUINOX was how Janeway maintained discipline and protocol on her ship - and we see how on the Equinox, Captain Ranson, violated a billion federation rules, not to mention human ethics and morals when he used the aliens dead bodies to fuel the ship .... the holo doc is kidnapped and his ethical sub routines deleted and we see him performing a procedure to remove 7 of 9's cortical implant to be used in the Equinox.
Chakotay disobeys Janeway by releasing an Equinox crewman before an alien can appear ...she is playing a hunch that the crewman will crack and give her info.. Chakotay runs into the room and kills the alien before the man can be hurt or talk.
Janeway relieves him of command and puts Chakotay in the brig!
In the end, Equinox crew members revolt, reinstating the holo Doc's ethical sub routines, returning him and 7 of 9 to Voyager, the Equinox blows up from battle damage, Captain Ransom dies with the ship, the aliens stop messing around with Voyager, and 5 or 6 Equinox crew members stay on Voyagers, albiet with their ranks taken away, and to be watched closely at first.
After Sisko agrees to show Opaka the wormhole, they receive some strange signals while on the Gamma Quadrant side. Investigating, the shuttlecraft is attacked by a satelite and crash lands on a moon. In the crash Opaka dies and Sisko, Kira, and Bashir find that they are stranded on a war-torn prison colony where it is impossible for the combatants to die.
Opaka comes back to life. Bashir discovers that it is microbes native to the moon bring the dead back to life.
Opaka and all the people there would die if they were removed.
Opaka realizes it is her destiny to stay when O'Brien and Dax come to rescue them, so she stays to become a spiritual advisor.
This episode was well done. Great script and superb acting! The show is beginning to find it's voice here.
NEXT GENERATION :
CHAIN OF COMMAND pts 1 & 2
You know this one: Picard :"There.... are..four ... lights!"
Great two parter. Focus is on Picard as a prisoner of the Cardassians.
Picard is pulled from his post as captain of the Enterprise to lead a top-secret espionage mission into Cardassia with Worf and Dr. Crusher. Picard is captured and tortured by the Cardassians, while Riker tries to prevent a Federation attack on Cardassia.
VOYAGER :
SURVIVAL INSTINCT
While Voyager is docked at a space station, Seven of Nine is approached by three former Borg drones from her former unimatrix, who, despite being free from the Collective, are neurally linked to each other. Tracing the origin of this link to an accident eight years before, in which they and Seven were the only survivors, the three former drones believe Seven is the only one who can help them sever the link and achieve true individuality.
Only problem is, severing the link will kill the three ex Borg within a month.They choose a month of being individuals over a lifetime of being " Nothing "as they call it, as none of them knows where they end and the others begin.... they can hear each other's thoughts...
After 7 of 9 volunteers to link upwith the other 3, they are able to figure out how and why they became linked to each other...
The three were assimulated as adults... they had years of memories of being human and being individuals... 7 was assimulated at age 7... all she could recall was being a frightened child.. when the group bean to become individuals after seperation from the link,7 freaked and linked them back up as a mini collective... but upon the three returning to the Borg, they heard the Borg collective in their heads.. and the three of them, as well.
The three are angry at 7...with good reason. They began to become individuals again.. and she took it all away from them.
7 and the Dr discuss what to do. They decide to grant the three ex drones individuality. The Dr does not want to do this at first, citing that it will soon kill them, until 7 reminds the Dr how both he and her have in comon the fact that they became individuals... more than what they originally were.
One of the three forgives 7.... another cannot, but understands why she did what she did.
A VERY powerful episode... and one of VOYAGER'S best!
BARGE OF THE DEAD
During a near-death experience, B'Elanna finds herself aboard the Klingon Death Barge, a spectral vessel which transports dishonoured souls to Grethnor. After seeing her mother there, B'Elanna risks her life to go back and save her mother's soul from this fate, even at the cost of her own.
BE'lanna takes her mother's place to go to Grethnor, so that her Mom can go to the GOOD place... Stovacor.
This is a great BE'lanna episode. She begins to learn to stop hating being a Klingon. It is a small step she takes when, confronted by spirit forms of her VOYAGER crew mates, they help her to realize that her anger is really at herself.
This .. and SURVIVAL INSTINCT... are why I watch VOYAGER.
The episodes today were about guilt, self hate, love, and giving others what they truly want.
The Doctor programs himself with the ability to daydream. When an alien spy gains access to the Doctor's visions he mistakes them for reality.
This one is excellent! I laughed out loud a lot during it.
The Doctor starts having harmless daydreams,like where all the women on Voyager have the hots for him, and where he becomes an EMERGENCY COMMAND HOLOGRAM, and saves the ship!
Due to the alien spy accessing his program, he becomes stuck in his daydreams. Captain Janeway makes it so that she and a few others can observe his fantasies.... which, for TV are all G Rated... and he is seducing all the women - including Janeway herself!
He also sees himself in command of the ship and defeating a Borg vessel.
The problem is soon fixed by BE'lanna Torres.
The Alien spy, who, like the rest of his species look like failed Sontarans...sends a projection into his holo matrix
to warn him of an imminent attack by his ship.
Holo -Doc is able to convince Janeway that this is NOT another daydream by making the sensors able to detect their cloaked ships.
The Doctor then has to assume commnad of VOYAGER
as the aliens have observed his fantasies and think HE is in charge.
Janeway helps prompt him on what to say.
When VOYAGER'S phasers are damaged and offline, the Doctor improvises and says he'll fire THE PHOTONIC CANNON if the aliens do not break off the attack. This is a device he used to destroy the Borg Vessel in his daydreams.
The aliens cannot detect such a weapon on VOYAGER.
The Doctor tells them that it is un - dectectable by sensors and he will fire if they do not leave.
The aliens, who can only act if their heirarchy approves - are told to break off the attack.
Later, the Doctor thinks his daydream program is malfunctioning again when he is summoned to a ceremony in which he recieves a commendation for his quick thinking during the alien attack.
Janeway agrees to do research into his becoming an EMERGENCY COMMAND HOLOGRAM.
This is a terrific episode!!
No Star Trek till Monday,and then ENTERPRISE is on Monday night on Sci fi!
A disappointing episode where Chief O'Brien unwillingly gets the job of being a tribal Shaman.
Boring....
Next Generation :
Ship in a Bottle:
Moriarity returns, not having been seen or heard from since Season two. He demands that Picard keep his promise to give him mobility outside of the confines of the holodeck.
The Doctor programs himself with the ability to daydream. When an alien spy gains access to the Doctor's visions he mistakes them for reality.
This one is excellent! I laughed out loud a lot during it.
The Doctor starts having harmless daydreams,like where all the women on Voyager have the hots for him, and where he becomes an EMERGENCY COMMAND HOLOGRAM, and saves the ship!
Due to the alien spy accessing his program, he becomes stuck in his daydreams. Captain Janeway makes it so that she and a few others can observe his fantasies.... which, for TV are all G Rated... and he is seducing all the women - including Janeway herself!
He also sees himself in command of the ship and defeating a Borg vessel.
The problem is soon fixed by BE'lanna Torres.
The Alien spy, who, like the rest of his species look like failed Sontarans...sends a projection into his holo matrix to warn him of an imminent attack by his ship.
Holo -Doc is able to convince Janeway that this is NOT another daydream by making the sensors able to detect their cloaked ships.
The Doctor then has to assume commnad of VOYAGER as the aliens have observed his fantasies and think HE is in charge.
Janeway helps prompt him on what to say.
When VOYAGER'S phasers are damaged and offline, the Doctor improvises and says he'll fire THE PHOTONIC CANNON if the aliens do not break off the attack. This is a device he used to destroy the Borg Vessel in his daydreams.
The aliens cannot detect such a weapon on VOYAGER. The Doctor tells them that it is un - dectectable by sensors and he will fire if they do not leave.
The aliens, who can only act if their heirarchy approves - are told to break off the attack.
Later, the Doctor thinks his daydream program is malfunctioning again when he is summoned to a ceremony in which he recieves a commendation for his quick thinking during the alien attack.
Janeway agrees to do research into his becoming an EMERGENCY COMMAND HOLOGRAM.
This is a terrific episode!!
No Star Trek till Monday,and then ENTERPRISE is on Monday night on Sci fi!
seven gets naked in that episode. that makes it classic...
Tom Paris persuades Chakotay to allow him to buy a shuttle from a junkyard. While repairing it, the shuttle, named 'Alice', begins to gain control over Tom's mind.
This episode was stupid! It was a take off on the book - movie by Stephen King called " Christine."
Riddles -
Tuvok is attacked by an energy source, which leaves him exposed and vulnerable. He soon starts experiencing emotions he never had before.
This one was pretty good. Just before he is to have his mind put back to the way it was before, Tuvok asks Neelix, " But without emotions, how will you know that I like you? "
Neelix : " You just did. And I will know."
It was fun seeing Tuvok have emotions, if only for a little while.. and only for a little while. I like him as he normally is.... Vulcan.
During a mission to evacute a moon, Kira discovers a stubborn old Bajoran farmer who refuses to leave. When he is wounded by one of the Barjoan guards, Kira is forced to examine how much she has changed since she became the Bajoran adminstrator with the Federation team on the station. In the end she must decide between her desire to protect the underdog and the needs of her people as a whole.
In the end, Kira burns the old man's house down after he says that he'll never leave as long as his house is still standing. She just want shim to survive, even though he says he'll die if he has to live elsewhere... I can understand this, having had to leave places I very much liked being at several times in my life.
The old man and Kira then beam away.
A nice subplot involving Nog and Jake trying to make a profit... they finally manage to do they as they keep trading, and finally trade for some land...land on that same moon the old settler had to leave. Bingo! They make their profit.
Picard is mortally wounded, and arrives in the afterlife, only to be welcomed by Q. Picard regrets decisions he had made earlier in his life that led to his eventual death, and Q offers him a second chance.
This is an excellent episode. It's in my top 20 favorite Next Gen. episodes.
Voyager :
One Small Step
An unidentified object closely follows Voyager. Seven of Nine identifies the phenomenon as a huge mass of subspace energy that is attracted to objects that emit electromagnetic energy. In order to avert the graviton ellipse, which travels through subspace, Voyager must cut power and reverse their shield polarity.
After a successful aversion, Chakotay and Paris remind Captain Janeway of a similar phenomenon back in 2032, in which a command module from one of the early Mars missions was consumed by a rolling ball of deadly energy.
Captain Janeway decides to launch a search for the missing U.S. spacecraft trapped inside the energy field. She instructs Seven to join both Chakotay and Paris, as they hunt for the legendary Ares IV, the command module from the first manned mission to Mars. Janeway hopes that Seven will develop an appreciation for studying the past.
Before they leave on the Delta Flyer, Chakotay and Paris view NASA's footage, which recorded the last seconds of Lieutenant John Kelly's life within Ares IV. The Delta Flyer finally enters the mass of energy, but not before encountering excessive turbulence. Once inside, asteroid fragments and pieces of captured vessels come into its view.
The exploratory crew has approximately five hours before the energy ball heads to another subspace. However, back on Voyager, Torres discovers that a dark matter asteroid is heading straight for the mass of energy. With only minutes to spare, Captain Janeway immediately instructs the Delta Flyer to break out. Chakotay goes against the Captain's orders and decides to try to bring the module back with them. Unfortunately, the weight of the Ares IV inhibits their swift escape, and the Delta Flyer is unable to make it out in time without being affected by the meteroid's impact.
Chakotay has been knocked unconscious and the Delta Flyer is badly damaged. With their engines down and their shields off-line, Chakotay, Seven, and Paris now only have two hours before the mass of energy returns to subspace.
Finally, Voyager is able to re-establish contact with the Delta Flyer. Seven is clearly dissatisfied with Chakotay and his decision to disobey the Captain's orders. After discussion with the Voyager crew, their only hope is to beam Seven over to the Ares IV to obtain its ion distributor in order to supply power for the Delta Flyer. Before Seven is beamed over to Ares IV, Chakotay asks her to download whatever she can from the module's database.
Once inside the Ares IV, Seven enters the cockpit where she sees the body of John Kelly still strapped in his chair. Seven brings the main computer online, and a monitor immediately comes on which contains an active datafile. Chakotay asks Seven if she could playback the video log entries for them.
The video entries reveal that John Kelly was not killed on impact with the mass of energy. Instead, he lived for many more days until his life support system ran out. Due to power failure, the module was unable to escape. John Kelly saw other spacecraft within the mass and discovered before his death that the human race was not alone.
Seven is successfully able to obtain the distributor. She also decides that she will beam John Kelly's body with her back to the Delta Flyer. With only minutes to spare, the power conversion is activated. Voyager gets as close as it can to the mass to help rescue the Delta Flyer as the ball begins to retreat into subspace.
Luckily, the Delta Flyer makes it out just in time. Back on Voyager, Captain Janeway and the rest of the crew pay their respects to Lt. John Kelly and they release his body into space. Seven is able to acknowledge that John Kelly's contribution helped secure humanity's future.
This is a SUPERB episode! It's a fine example of why I love Star Trek. The episode was well written, did not drag, and the ending was quite moving as the Voyager crew are able to give John Kelly the hero's funeral he has deserved for a few centuries.
An obsessed Barclay tries to find a way to communicate with the starship Voyager with the use of an artificially generated micro-wormhole. He becomes so involved that he needs the help of Counsellor Troi to keep his grip on reality.
This is a fantastic episode!
Lt Barclay is transferred off the Enterprise back to Earth.
He misses Enterprise and his friends so badly, that he creates a holodeck program of the Voyager crew.
He has a working theory that the ship can be contacted if a subspace signal is sent through a mini wormhole, using a communications array.
He spends most of his time with his holo- Voyager friends, as he is lonely and has not made any new friends.
He has a cat whom he has named Neelix.
His superior officer tells him that his time is up and his plan won't work.
Barclay waits outside Admiral Paris' office until the Admiral agrees to meet with him, but when Barclay tells him of his plan, he tells him that he'll think on it.
Barclay's superior tells Barclay to abandon his work and the Voyager holo- program, and then locks him out of it.
Barclay later breaks into it, and, with security officers chasing him, actually manages to contact and get a response from Voyager.
Marina Sirtis guest stars as Counselor Troi.
This is another one I'd put into my top 20 best Voyager episodes.
While an alien entity wreaks havoc with the station's computer, the irrepressible Lwaxana Troi sets her sights for romance -- with Odo!
This one is good!
The turbo lift fails with Lwaxana Troi and Odo stuck in it. Odo had been avoiding her and her amorous advances, but now, unable to morph into a shape and get out, he is trapped!
Odo confides that it is getting near when he must turn into a puddle. He is not anxious to do this in front of her, because for him, it is a very personal thing.
She takes off her wig and tells Odo that she never allows anyone to see her like that, as she feels she looks too plain without a wig on.
The two talk, and Odo sees that he really did not know Lwaxana as much as he thought he did.
Finally, he reverts to a puddle and Troi holds him in her dress.
O'Brien fixes the systems and the turbo lift is back online.
Meanwhile, Dr. Bashir must contend with three obnoxious diplomats. During the systems meltdown, there is an explosion and a plasma fire. His quick thinking and remaining calm during the emergency impresses the three, and when rescued, they are so grateful they recommend him for a commodation!
A good episode!
VOYAGER :
Fairhaven -
As the crew enjoys time off in a holo-program created by Tom Paris, and set in an Irish village named 'Fair Haven,' Captain Janeway falls for a handsome holo-character specifically designed for her. A deadly neutrino wave approaching Voyager shortly brings the festivities to a halt as this wave may prove to be more dangerous than they first imagined.
This is a very good episode. Janeway alters the Holo - dude so that he is very much the kind of man that she could really go for, but she backs off from him after a while, saying that he is not real.
She talks with the Doctor about this and he reminds her that he is real as far as he is concerned, and that it may be a long time before she can be with a man, as she refuses to date any crew members.
The Fair Haven program is damaged during the Neutrino Wave,and she is told by Ensin Kim that only 10 % of the program can be saved .... she thinks about it, and decides that she wants her holo man saved.. but, first, she locks out herself from altering his program any further.
She sees him on more time..to say goodbye... but, he tells Janeway that he loves her....this convinces her to see him again in 5 - 6 weeks when the repairs to Fairhaven can be completed.
I'm glad Capt. Janeway kept an open mind... after all, how many "fake " real people have you met? A holo - person can seem quite real.....
Richard Riehle also guest stars as a towns person.
Besides his recent appearance in the Enterprise 3 parter, Richard Riehle is best known to Trek fans as Picard's best friend Batai in the episode, "The Inner Light".
Blink Of An Eye -
When Voyager is trapped in orbit of a unique planet, they learn that time moves far faster on that planet than in the rest of the galaxy. Although Voyager is stuck in orbit only for a matter of days, from the perspective of the planet, the "Skyship" has been watching them for centuries, and becomes a guiding force for the development of their civilization.
Another excellent episode!!
We see the people on this planet go from a pre - historic,superstition laden people, to a " Time of Jesus " society, then to the middle ages and then to a modern and finally, a warp capable, advanced civilization... in les than an hour!
The Doctor beams down to the planet's surface for what is supposed to be a few hours of observation... 3 seconds in Voyager time... but, instead, is trapped there for 3 years. He is brought back, glad to see Voyager and her crew again.
Two astronauts go up to investiage what the planet has called "The Skyship "for centuries...They see the crew as frozen in time...one, a woman, dies shortly after they enter Voyager...the second, a man, is able to make the transition..he talks with Janeway, and, inspite of being out of time ( everyone he knew on the planet below is now long dead. ) adjusts quite well..
Seven notices anti matter explosions on the planet's surface... the civilization is experimenting with warp travel... and they launch anti matter bombs at the ship, which increase in intensity every minute or two, as the civilization advances! ( Voyager's presence has caused earthquakes on the planet, and the people there know it is due to Voyager being there. )
The man takes his shipback and tells his world not to fire on Voyager. A few minutes later, we see two large ships take off from the planet, put tractor beams on Voyager, and free it from the planet's wierd gravitational force.
We see the man who had been on Voyager as an old man, sitting outside, watching as Voyager finally leaves his world.
When the Doctor's singing talents are discovered by a technologically superior race, his new found popularity makes him consider resigning his commission to stay on the alien world with his millions of adoring fans.
This one was good. The Doctor then finds that a scientist has created a duplicate hologram of him with superior voice range.
He goes back to Voyager, and asks Janeway for his old job back. He volunteers to erase his singing program.
Janeway orders him not to.... and to return to duty at once.
At the end, Seven hands himone last fan mail... he does not want to read it.. She reads it to him, anyway.
It is beautifully written. He asks who it is from.
Picard's old archaeology professor is found murdered, the crew try to complete his research. Soon, the crew must compete with Romulans and Klingons and Cardassians to uncover the truth behind his discoveries.
Norman Lloyd plays Professor Galen, Picard's old academy archaeology teacher. He was also in St Elsewhere, and played the principal in " Dead Poet's Society. "
FRAME OF MIND
Riker questions his sanity when his reality seems to shift between an alien psychiatric hospital and a play he is performing with other members of the crew.
These were both good epsiodes.
VOYAGER :
MEMORIAL
The crew of Voyager experience vivid memories and dreams of a battle they don't remember having, with an enemy they have never encountered.
This is an anti - war statement. It was good.
TSUNKATSE
Seven of Nine is forced into a competition for her life known as 'Tsunkatse,' when she and Tuvok are abducted from a shuttle. If she refuses to fight, Tuvok will be refused the medical aid he needs to keep him from dying from the injuries he sustained from an explosive device that was beamed to their shuttle during their abduction.
This episode features an appearance by the WWF's The Rock, who gives his signature "People's Eyebrow." He also finished off Seven of Nine with his main finisher, the Rock Bottom.
One of the best line from the show... BE'lanna to Seven :
Torres: The Borg wouldn't know fun if they assimilated an amusement park.
This one was very good!
ENTERPRISE :
E² The Council Countdown Zero Hour
These were all on tonight; they compriseed the end of the Xindi story, which was pretty damn good.
#305 Impulse #306 Exile #307 The Shipment #308 Twilight
these were the episodes I watched?
It had one of my favorite episodes..twilight. It was before they abandoned the Archer/T'Pol romance flirtation in favor of the Trip stuff which I hated...
Hmmm, since I am NOT very familar with the show, I must have screwed upon which episodes were on last night, P.I.... One of them had a ship full of Vulcans trapped in an asteroid field. Something in the asteroids themselves made them nuts. They looked and behaved like zombies and it was pretty cool!
T'Pol was affected but she was cured because it was not too late for her, as it it was for the 164 Vulcans on the ship.
In another of last night's episodes, Archer had parasites in his brain that took away his long term memory.
Okay, I see where I screwed up! I went to later in the third season in the Enterprise episode guide... Northstar ought to be the first of the four episodes on next Monday night...
DEEP SPACE NINE :
Duet
Kira discovers that a Cardassian visiting the station could actually be a notorious war criminal. However all is not as it seems when information supplied by Gul Dukat reveals that the Cardassian they are holding cannot be who he claims to be.
Kira is so sure that this is the man who had killed millions... until irrefutable evidence is found to indicate that this man had his face altered to resemble the war criminal... the man broke down and told Kira he was actually the criminals' filing clerk.. and how he was deeply troubled by hearing the screams of the man who had tortured them.
The real criminal had died 6 years ago. This man , the ex fling clerk had wanted to confess and be excuted for his crimes to both atone for his guilt at not being able to stop the killing, and to make an example of the criminal.
As the man is set free and beinf escorted by Kira, an angry Bajoran stabs the man aznd he dies.
This one is excellent!
VOYAGER :
Collective
Borg children who were rejected by the Borg as unworthy drones abduct Chakotay, Kim, Neelix and Paris.
Seven beams aboard to negotiate with the Borg kids, whowant Voyager's Deflector array. Without it,Voyager cannot go to warp or travel at all.
Janeway meets with the Kid Borgs, and finds that they are led by an unstable and unsure leader.
Icheb, the next oldest male takes over after the Borg leader ( Their are only 7 kids, and one is a newborn baby, and the baby is never seen or mentioned after this episode. ) dies while trying to fight Voyager.
Icheb cooperates with Janeway. They aboandon the Borg cube. The five children are de - Borged, as Seven had been.
An ambitious and unscrupulous Bajoran spititual leader (Vedek Wynn) comes to the station and objects to Keiko's secular teachings. The situation rapidly escalates, and could even destroy the alliance between Bajor and the Federation. Can Keiko keep running the school?
This is a great episode. I watched it as I taped it this morning.
The school gets blown up. Luckily, no one was in it at the time.
Chief O'Brien has a new Bajoran assistant girl. We later find out that she is working secretly for Vedek Wynn, who conspires to have a Bajoran monk killed. O'Brien figures things out and warns Sisko, who is able to stop the girl before she can kill the monk.
Kira knows it is Vedek Wynn who was behind this, but cannot prove it.
Press Release: The crew must fight for Jadzia's life when a desperate Trill takes the group hostage and steals the Dax symbiont with the intent of transplanting it into himself.
This episode was shown out of order.
It is a fantastic episode!
I forget his name, but the actor who plays Lionel Luthor on Smallville played the Trill who took Jadzia's Dax symbiont.
The Trill had a Klingon and a couple other aliens helping him.
Only through a few clever deceptions are the DS 9 crew able to over power the aliens and get Dax back into Jadzia safely.
I enjoyed watching this one immensly!
It will take till sometime late in September 2007 before I have all these episodes on tape, but it will be worth it, as DS 9 is an excellent, interesting and well crafted show.
Casting is perfect,and writing and scripting were spot on.
A mysterious female alien contacts Voyager, claiming to be Ensign Lyndsay Ballard, who had been killed on an away mission years earlier.
The aliens... the Kobali.. find her lifeless body in a hollowed out photon torpedo, having been launched into space.
They bring her back to life, but, as her dna and body are badly damaged, she is changed and now is mostly Kobali.
She escapes after two years and finds Voyager. She is able to convince them it is really her.
The Doctor is unable to change her dna back to human, but is able to make her look as she used to.
Harry and Ensign Lyndsay Ballard become lovers. Harry was unable to pursue a relationship with her before she "died ", and sees this as a second chance.
Ensign Ballard begins to regress and change back into a Kobali. The Doctor tells her that she will have to have treatments twice a day to look like her former self.
She also sees where she no longer fits in on Voyager.
The Kobali who had been pursuing her find her, and fire on Voyager. With shields almost gone, Ensign Ballard voluntarily goes back to the Kobali homeworld.
Harry and her get a chance to say goodbye, unlike before when she "died. "
The Borg return to threaten the Federation. However, they are now exhibiting all indications that they function as individuals and not as a collective mind. Also, Data experiences a disturbing facet of human emotions, including anger at being attacked by a Borg drone and feeling pleasure after killing it.
Data abducts Picard, Troi and Geordi and holds them prisoners of the Borg, while he derives pleasure from being evil. Dr. Crusher is left in command of the Enterprise as it comes under attack from a Borg vessel.
This is a terrific two parter!
Love any Borg episode!
James Horan played Barnaby.
James Horan previously appeared on TNG as Dr. Jo'Bril in "Suspicions." He portrayed Ikat'ika in two DS9 episodes, "In Purgatory's Shadow" and "By Inferno's Light." Horan was Tosin in the Voyager episode "Fair Trade," and appeared in six Enterprise episodes as a mysterious figure from the future.
This episode marks the final appearances of Lore (Brent Spiner) and Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco).
The Meta-phasic Shielding used in the 6 th season episode "Suspicions " was used to elude the Borg as the Enterprise employed the program to withstand close proximity to a star.
When an efficiency report reveals that three of Voyager's crew members are failing to meet expectations and integrate into the rest of the crew, Janeway decides to take them on their first away mission. However, what awaits the Delta Flyer on that mission will present a formidable test for them all.
Jay Underwood who plays Crewman Harren in this episode is probably best known for his portrayal of Chip, an android created by a scientist who longed for a son in the Not Quite Human movies. Underwood was also in "The Boy Who Could Fly" and Uncle Buck."
Tom Morello, the guitarist for the band Rage Against The Machine and, more recently, Audioslave, makes a cameo appearance here as Crewman Mitchell.
This is pretty similar to the 1st season finale, "Learning Curve", in which Tuvok takes Maquis crew members who are falling behind and gives them special attention.
This is a great episode!
Okay, so, all three of the crewmember's problems were solved by the shows' end.... not like that in real life..
But it was done so well!!
LIVE FAST AND PROSPER
A group of con artists impersonate Captain Janeway and the crew of Voyager. The crew must find the imposters soon, or they, themselves will be punished for the con artists' crimes.
This one had me laughing out loud several times!
It was very funy at times! And the way that Janeway resolved everything with one of her "Making it up as I go along " plans was superb!
A poet discovers an unconscious B'Elanna Torres in the damaged Delta Flyer, after it crash landed on his planet. In need of inspiration, this poet intends on using B'Elanna and the stories of Voyager in his plays, to win favour with his warlord patron.
This was on just an hour or so ago. It was very good!
Harry was in the Flyer, too, until B'ELanna ordered him into an ejection pod. B'ELAnna is relieved when Harry finds her on the planet, telling her that he followed her down.. and has rations, a phaser, and a gizmo that enables them to finally contact Voyager.
B'ELanna is inspired for how the poet should end his play, and she says : "Now I return, in a flash of light to Voyager. "
And then she beams back to the ship.
Cool!
The audience is astounded and love the way the play ended.
Kes returns to Voyager in a state of rage, blaming Captain Janeway for taking her away from her homeworld when she was too young. Using telekinetic powers in a fit of revenge, she travels through time to deliver the crew to the Vidiians and "save" her younger self.
Thsi one gave me a bit of a problem. Kes turned into an energy form and diasppeared into a higher realm of conscioussness in " The Gift" , second episode, 4 th season. Now she's back in human form and pissed off at Janeway and Voyager for abandoning her.
In "Transfigurations", Next Generation 3 rd season episode, a man mutates into a powerful energy being and leaves Enterprise to tell all his people what a joyful destiny awaits them all.
Kes says she hated where she was, and that she could not control her abilities.
Maybe she was the first of her race to make such s a transition, and had no one else there for support?
Maybe she was just bad at being a higher form of life?
I don't know..
"Life Line "
News reaches Voyager through the up-and-running Pathfinder project that the Doctor's creator, Lewis Zimmerman, is critically ill. In an attempt to save his life, the Doctor's program is transmitted to the Alpha Quadrant, but once there, he finds Zimmerman does not want to be examined by an 'obsolete' EMH program.
Counselor Troi and Barclay guest star in this one, as these two have to be clever and think up a plan to make Zimmerman allow The Doctor to operate on and save him.
The two argue! It's fun!
Barclay sabotages the Doc's program; Zimmerman repairs it and is about to change the Doctor dramatically - ie; make him friendlier, more outgoing.. when the Doc convinces him that he is fine the way he is.
It is more like a relationship between father and son!
The Doctor is finally able to save Zimmerman,after he tells the man that he will make him proud of him.. if he'll only give him the chance.
Zimmerman needs more treatments, but will live.
This episode is EXCELLENT!
ENTERPRISE :
" North Star "
Archer, Trip and T'Pol head down to a planet where humans are living in a wild west-like society. Archer learns that aliens named Skagarans brought humans from three hundred years ago there for slave labor, but the humans resisted and turned the tables on them. Now the humans' descendants are in charge and the Skagarans are forced to endure prejudice and unfair laws. The crew have to decide what to do with the humans and the prejudice will lead to a showdown.
This one rocked!
" Similitude "
Something goes wrong during an attempt to improve the warp engines, causing Trip to be severely injured and leaving Enterprise crippled in a dangerous polaric field. Archer allows Phlox to create a simbiot of Trip, which will only live for fifteen days and provide neural tissue needed for a vital transplant. The simbiot is named Sim and, aging years in a matter of days, actually thinks of a plan to free Enterprise from the field. However, a difficult decision must be made after it's learned Sim will be prematurely killed by the transplant, even though there is a chance to exceed his lifespan.
This is the first time that we see a photon torpedo casing be used as a coffin and the body of a deceased crew member being shot out into space.
This episode was chosen as the Viewer's Choice 3rd Best Enterprise episode. So it was reaired on March 25, 2005.
Sim: It's not that I'm scared of dyin', It's just that, I can't imagine not bein' here tomorrow.
(Sim goes to leave, but turns and stops)
Sim: Ya wanna know what really stopped me? (from leaving on the shuttlepod)
Archer: What?
Sim: My sister... And she was my sister as much as Trip's.
Archer: I believe that.
Sim: I don't want what happened to her to happen to anyone else.
Archer: That's why I gave the order to create you.
Sim: Do me a favor when this is over. If Commander Tucker decides to do any more modifications to the engines, tell him to watch his ass.
Archer: I don't have to tell you what's at stake. I must complete this mission and to do that I need Trip. Trip! I'll take whatever steps necessary to save him.
Sim: Even if it means killing me?
Archer: Even if it means killing you.
Sim: You're not a murderer.
Archer: Don't make me one.
T'Pol: Symbiotes are living, conscious entities. We'll be growing a sentient being for the sole purpose of harvesting tissue.
Archer: I'm aware of the ethical implications. If we weren't in the Expanse, maybe my decision would be different, but... we've got to complete this mission. Earth needs Enterprise. Enterprise needs Trip. It's as simple as that.
Archer: The most difficult test facing any captain, any crew, is the loss of a shipmate. We've come here to honor one of our own. In the time we knew him, he showed us just how much one life can truly matter. We will never forget what he did for us and for the ship he loved so much. We will go forward with renewed determination to complete this mission, so that his sacrifice won't just have been for the people on this ship, but for all the citizens of Earth. (edit) Sim: You said to me once that commanding a starship is what you were meant to do. I guess this is what I was meant to do. Good luck, Captain.
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Trivia
add » When towing the Enterprise out of the debris field, the shuttles have to generate an enormous amount of force before the ship even begins to move, as though they were towing a heavy object across land. In reality, as there is virtually no friction in space, even the slightest force applied to the ship would cause it to begin moving. To reach the desired speed they would simply have to keep the shuttles towing at a lower power for a longer period of time.
In fact, since the Enterprise's engines were only shut down and not reversed, the ship should never have stopped in the first place - it should have coasted straight through the field on its own.
Goof: Even if memories were genetic as Phlox claims they are (and, as stated before, they most certainly are not) other clones in the Star Trek universe, most notibly Picard's clone, Shinzon from Star Trek: Nemesis, do not retain memories of the person they were cloned from. (edit) There's a remarkable similarity between this episode - and in particular Sim and Archer's conversation - and the Voyager episode "Tuvix".
If Phlox can grow a clone of Trip to help save his life, why couldn't he do the same to save Archer in "Twilight" or any other time someone got/gets hurt. He could have even have used the Xindi DNA sample they have to create a living Xindi to study which would help on their mission, but he doesn't. (edit) In this episode you can see again Archer's boyhood remote control spaceship from "Broken Bow."
I did not mean to use so much from this episode, I normally write my onw notes on these shows.. but it is most likely one of the VERY best Enterprise episodes.
The clone of Trip was very likable.
And this episode reminded me very much of "Tuvix. "
It was sad at the end when Sim gave his brain tissue to save Trip, and then died. This episode was sad, and yet was damn good!
" Chosen Realm. "
Enterprise saves a Triannon crew, a race that worship the creators of the spheres in the Delphic Expanse. However, it was all a set up as D'Jamat and his followers seize control, threatening to destroy the ship unless Archer cooperates. D'Jamat wants to destroy those opposed to his beliefs and orders the ship to the Triannon homeworld. D'Jamat is also not happy after learning Enterprise has explored the spheres before and tells Archer one of the crew must die as punishment.
Archer: These people you're fighting, what makes them heretics?
Yarrick: We believe the Makers created the Chosen Realm in nine days. They believe it took ten.
Archer: For that you've been at war for over a century?
The terrorists that take over Enterprise have the ability to blow themsleves up and do a lot of damage. Sound familar? Can you say " Muslim Extremists? "
One of them blows up and kills a crewman, and damages Enterprise.
A way is found to nuetralize the enzyme that allows the people to do this :
Archer: We've also neutralized your organic explosives.
D'Jamat: You're lying!
Archer: Go ahead. Try to blow yourself up. I'll wait.
Archer chooses to be the one who must die, but T'Pol only transports him elsewhere in the ship. Wow, these alien terrorists are dumb!
Seven of Nine is led to a place known as Unimatrix Zero; a place where Borg drones are individuals for a short period of time during their regeneration. However, once their regeneration is complete, all recollection of the event is erased. Captain Janeway uses this to form a plan of attack that would create a mutiny from within the Collective.
The away team must infiltrate the Borg Collective and execute their plan to undermine them, even though it may destroy Unimatrix Zero forever.
Seven has had a romantic relationship in Unimatrix Zero with a Borg who is actually far away on a mission. All Borg look as they did before they were assimulated while in Unimatrix Zero.
The Borg Queen captures Janeway, Tuvok, and Torres, and they are partially turned into Borg drones, though they can still think for themselves.
The Borg queen cuts off the heads of two Borg who were among the 1 in a million Borg that had the ability to go to Unimatrix Zero and dsicerns the wavelength and frequency of Unimatrix Zero, and sends drones to attack those in Unimatrix Zero.
Those on Voyager release a virus to make those who go to Unimatrix Zero be able to remember the experience; several awaken from regeneration and escape into a Borg sphere and fight the Borg Queen.
They Help Voyager defeat the Queen, who was wiping out all Cubes and Spheres that had Drones who could access Unimatrix Zero.
After Borg Queen's ship is fatally hit, the shields drop,and Voyager beams the three crewmen back, to be de - Borged.
Quote: Pig Iran said: Huh, what TV are you watching for Enterprise???
#305 Impulse #306 Exile #307 The Shipment #308 Twilight
these were the episodes I watched?
It had one of my favorite episodes..twilight. It was before they abandoned the Archer/T'Pol romance flirtation in favor of the Trip stuff which I hated...
I actually have 2 Star Trek episodes permanently Tivoed and saved. One is "Whom Gods Destroy" and "Twilight". The first one you should be able to see the obvious reasons for.
Quote: notwedge said: Kirstin Dunst is on TNG right now. She's like 8 years old.
That episode is called "Dark Page", NotWedge.
Lwaxana Troi collapses with a repressed memory related illness. Her only chance for survival is if Deanna can probe her subconscious and find out what is killing her. However, the secret Lwaxana holds is deeper than Deanna imagined.
Members of a race of telepathic aliens are on Enterprise.
One of them helps Deanna to enter her mother's mind.
There, she discovers that she once had an older sister, who had drowned while the Troi family was on a picnic.
This memory has been hurting Lwaxana until she collapsed.
Deanna tells her mother she must let go of her daughter. Not mourn her death, but celebrate her life.
Lwaxana hugs her deceased daughter's image and tell her goodbye.
Lwaxana and Deanna hold hands, and then awaken back in sickbay.
This is a fantastic episode. Anyone who has lost someone special can relate to this. If you have not lost someone, then all you need is a heart to relate to it.
When Voyager shuts down main power and interupts the regeneration cycle of the Borg children, Neelix keeps them entertained by telling the story of why a certain section of Deck 12 is off-limits, and how the space-dwelling creature that lives there came aboard and "haunted" the ship.
This one is very good. I like how the story is told from a different point of view. It is Neelix, telling the 4 ex Borg kids a story when there are no lights or power in the cargo bay where the kids all regenerate.
It's a great story of how an electromagnetic life form enters Voyager accidentally when the ship enters a nebula.
It takes control of ship's systems, one by one. Janeway figures out what is going on,and is able to convince it to let Voyager manufacture an artificial environment for it on one section of Deck 12.
They find a nebula for it and release it there.
" Imperfection. "
Seven's life is at risk when her cortical implant - essential for regulating her implants and balancing them with her human physiology - starts to degrade. As Captain Janeway and the Doctor try to come up with a way to help her, Icheb realises he may have to take matters into his own hands.
An attempt to utilize a dead drone's cortical node from a destroyed cube ( Perhaps from a destroyed ship in the recent " Unimatrix Zero " episode? ) fails, as it must be from a drone who is still alive.
Seven is convinced that she will die soon, and so won't volunteer to help Icheb transmit an application to starfleet
asking that he be able to train for the academy while still on Voyager.
Icheb volunteers his node, as he is certain that he will survive without it as he was awakened from his maturation chamber before he could become fully assimulated, and also because he is young.
After much soul searching, Icheb programs his regeneration chamber to disconnect his cortical node. He alerts the Doc to come to the cargo bay. He and Janeway beam Icheb to sickbay; Seven is dying and refuses to accept the node, and Icheb refuses to allow it to be reconnected to himself.
Finally,Seven agrees to the transplant. The operation is a success!
Seven regenerates for 6 days, and is awakened by the Doctor. They both go to sickbay and talk with a still recovering Icheb. Seven informs him to get well soon, so she can teach him about Astrometrics for his starfleet entrance exam.
This is a very good episode!
This is the final appearance for three of the Borg kids : the young girl and the twin boys. The boy's parents take them home,and they take the Borg girl, too.
I always felt that the Borg kids were superfluous, as Naomi Wildman was already on ship, having been born during the second season.
Naomi is very cute, she is smart, brave and resourceful. I like her.
Like most tv kids since Family Ties, Naomi suffers from " Short infancy Syndrome " - she was an infant one season, and about 7 years old the next season!
But that makes sense - as young children are a bit more interesting than infants in relation to television shows.
I think the girl who played Tabitha on Bewitched and Michelle on Full House are the exceptions, as they grew up on their respective shows naturally.
I just now bought a 7" Captain Archer figure online, he was half price. Now I will have all 5 captains of all five Trek shows.
Star Trek's Scotty's Ashes Fly to Space By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer 2 hours ago
UPHAM, N.M. - The cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer "Scotty" on "Star Trek," and of Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket.
It was the first successful launch from Spaceport America, a commercial spaceport being developed in the southern New Mexico desert.
Suzan Cooper and Wende Doohan fired the rocket carrying small amounts of their husbands' ashes at 8:56 a.m. local time.
"Go baby, go baby," said Eric Knight of the commercial launch company, UP Aerospace Inc. of Farmington, Conn.
Since it was a suborbital flight, the rocket soon plummeted back to Earth, coming down at the White Sands Missile Range.
"We nailed it. We stuck the landing," said Knight.
UP Aerospace launched the first rocket from the desert site in September, but that Spaceloft XL rocket crashed into the desert after spiraling out of control about nine seconds after liftoff. Company officials blamed the failure on a faulty fin design.
Family members paid $495 to place a few grams of their relatives' ashes on the rocket. Celestis, a Houston company, contracted with UP to send the cremated remains into space.
Charles Chafer, chief executive of Celestis, said last month that a CD with more than 11,000 condolences and fan notes was placed on the rocket with Doohan's remains.
Doohan died in July 2005 at age 85. The remains of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry were sent into space in 1997.
The launch from the fledgling spaceport _ currently a 100-foot by 25-foot concrete slab in a patch of desert more than 50 miles north of Las Cruces _ keeps the New Mexico project ahead of its nearest competitor, in West Texas.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, is said to be developing the spaceport north of Van Horn, Texas. Bezos' Blue Origin is working to develop tourist space flights.
British billionaire Richard Branson also has announced plans to launch a space tourism company, which is expected to have its headquarters at the New Mexico spaceport.
Worf returns from a Klingon competition to find that he is shifting through different realities.
This is a favorite. It's cool how different things are every time Worf shifts through alternate realities.
Star Trek : Voyager -
" Inside Man "
A hologram of Reginald Barclay arrives in a data stream with plans to get Voyager home within three days, by travelling through a 'geodesic fold.' However, the Doctor soon becomes suspicious of the holographic Barclay's behaviour.
The Evil holo - Barclay was reprogrammed by some Ferengi to cpature and or kill Seven and take nano - probes from her. They have a wide variety of uses, and can bring in a lot of Latinum.
Just as Evil Holo - Barclay is about to destroy Voyager and steal Seven of Nine, the Good REAL Barclay saves the day by impersonating the Evil Holo - Barclay on a holo - Voyager and telling the Ferengi that he was discovered and his mission is a failure.
This ruse works. Voyager's crew realizes that the Holo - Barclay is evil and he is shut down.
I never saw this episode before. It is one of the few I missed. It was pretty good.
" Body and Soul. "
Seven is forced to hide The Doctor's program by downloading him into her implants, when the Delta Flyer comes under attack from the Lokirrim. Meanwhile, on Voyager, Tuvok enters Pon Farr.
The Doctor/Seven: I know Seven's senses were more acute than the average humanoid but, I had no idea. What is that? Kim: What? The Doctor/Seven: That smell. Kim: I don't smell anything. The Doctor/Seven: It could be an airborne toxin. Do you think they're trying to poison us? (suddenly realises) It's you. Kim: It's been a busy day. I guess I'm perspiring a little.
I had not seen this one before, either.
I liked it! It was funny seeing The Doctor in Seven's body react to such stimuli as food, getting drunk, etc.
The Captain of the alien ship took a fancy to Seven-Doctor, not knowing it was actually the Doctor in control of Seven's body.
There was a brief pseudo - lesbian scene where Seven - Doctor gets a message from a female crewman.
Journeying to Azati Prime becomes more difficult when Enterprise encounters a trans-dimensional disturbance that would take two weeks to go around. Archer allows Phlox to put the human crew members into comas to protect them from the disturbance so the ship can move across it at impulse. However, the disturbance has unforeseen effects on Phlox as time goes on and he begins experiencing hallucinations. Even worse, the disturbance is expanding and could leave Enterprise trapped inside for weeks if Phlox doesn't take a drastic course of action.
Phlox is alone with only T'Pol and Porthos, Archer's dog, for company...
Phlox has to activate warp engines by himself when he realizes that the expanse is growing, and he succeeds.
It is only after he wakes the crew up that you find out that T'Pol was only one of his hallucination!
Fantastic episode!!
My 7" Captain Archer figure arrived today. He looks great with all my other Star Trek figures. I might get 7" Tucker and T'Pol, too.
I want to purchase that first Enterprise ship, but cannot seem to find it...
A ferengi woman disguises herself as a male to do business. She falls for Quark.
Hilarity does not ensue.
I have seen much better Quark episodes, like the one where he, his brother and Nog are trapped on 1946 Earth. That one was damn good! Am looking forward to taping that one....
While searching for dilithium, the Delta Flyer, under Harry's command, comes to the aid of a ship under attack. Believing them to be on a humanitarian mission, Harry convinces Janeway to allow him to captain the medical transport to its homeworld.
Harry messed up during a battle, then the crew of the ship took over. One of their crew died because Harry ordered her to engineering.
He realized that he had to do better, and he did.
And that Captains make decisions that sometimes result in the death of a crewman. It is part of the job.
It was a good but not great epsiode.
Shattered
After Voyager passes near a spatial rift, Chakotay is injured in Engineering, leaving his body in a state of temporal flux. After receiving treatment in sickbay, he inadvertently gains the ability to pass through rifts in time that are scattered throughout the ship, enabling him to walk into different stages of Voyager's history over the past seven years.
This was basically a filler episode, but it was pretty good.
Voyager receives a distress call from a Hirogen training facility, where their holographic prey have become too cunning and dangerous for the hunters. Voyager establishes a tentative alliance with the Hirogen in order to disable the holograms, while the Doctor finds himself becoming sympathetic to their cause.
The renegade holograms abduct B'Elanna in hopes that she will be able to make their field generators fully functional. Meanwhile, Voyager secretly trails two Hirogen ships as they attempt to track and hunt down the holograms, in order to rescue B'Elanna.
This one was pretty good. The Doctor joins the holograms, who hate all flesh and blood beings because of their horrendous experiences with being hunted by the Hirogen.
To the Doctor's horror, their leader, a holographic Bajoran kills humans to liberate three holograms, who turn out to have such simply written programs that they can only do the most menial of chores.
The Doctor and B'ELanna find an ally in a Cardassian hologram, and she aids them in taking over the Hologram populated ship.
The Doctor has to destroy the Bajoran Hologram after he took the Doc's mobile emitter to go kill more Hirogens.
At the episode's end, Janeway appears in sickbay. The Doctor surrenders his mobile emitter to her, and volunteers to lose all his privelages for having allied himself with the holograms who had become as bad if not worse than their Hirogen masters.
No punishment, she tells him. She won't penalize him for making a bad choice.
Janeway explains that what he did only proves just how he has grown in 7 years and become more human.
It was pretty good. I taped it and will watch it again this later this week.
Only 16 more episodes until the show goes back to the first season again.
Press Release: Sisko falls in love for the first time since his wife's death, but the object of his affections may not be all that she seems.
Richard Kiley ( you might remember him from his narrating the movie on Dino DNA in " Jurrassic Park. " guest stars as a scientist who claims to be able to re-ignite dead suns.
His wife has a secret.
She is a telepath who can project a psi - image of herself while unconscious. The image looks and sounds like her, but the wife has no memory of anything it does.
She is not very happy with her husband, who is quite difficult to live with.
Her psi - projection has the hots for Sisko. He is into her, as well.
Sisko is certain it is actually the man's wife, until he sees her disappear a few times.
The scientist is confronted with this, and when his wife does not awaken, he meets her psi - projection self.
He understands what is going on, and saves his wife who may die if she is not soon re-united with her psi - self by taking a runabout with his device aboard it and smashing it into a dead sun...he dies and the sun re-ignites.
The woman's psi self is re-united with her body, and she tells Sisko she will go home to her planet of origin.
Voyager encounters a group of nomadic Klingons aboard a generational ship. These Klingons left the Alpha Quadrant over 80 years earlier, in search of a saviour who would one day lead them to a new homeworld, and their leader believes that Tom and B'Elanna's unborn child is this saviour.
The Klingon ship fires on Voyager until Janeway is able to convince them that Klingons and the Federation are currently at peace with one another.
The Klingon who beamed aboard to discuss this with Janeway sees B'ELanna and is convinced that her unborn child is their saviour.
The Klingon ship will soon have a warp core breach and so all 200 of them must beam aboard Voyager. It is discovered that the breach happened on purpose for the Klingons to be near their savior.
Doubts fall on whether the child truly is their savior when the Klingons learn that B'ELanna is only half Klingon.. and the other half of her is human, and that the father, Tom Paris is a human, himself.
An older Klingon challenges Tom to a death match with Bat'leths, and Tom accepts.
Janeway learns of this and convinces the Klingon to change it into a non - lethal match, using blumted tips on the weapons.
Tom is fighting the Klingon when he ( the Klingon ) collapses.
It is discovered that he and all the other Klingons are carriers for a disease that, while it does not affect humans, does affect Klingons - yes, that means B'ELanna and her unborn baby.
A planet is found for the Klingons to live on when the KLingons attempt and nearly succeed at taking over Voyager. They beam many of the Voyager crew there, but Janeway learns of this in time to put a stop to it.
The Doctor finds a cure for the disease, using the unborn
child's blood to synthesize this.
The Klingons leave Voyager and move to the planet.
So - B'ELanna's unborn child does indeed become their savoir.
Sherman Howard (T'Greth), Wren T. Brown (Kohlar), who play the two main Klingons, have guest starred on other Star Trek shows.
This is an awesome episode!! It was quite enjoyable to watch.
Tom and B'Elanna are overjoyed to learn that they are going to have a baby. However, after learning that the child will have dominant Klingon features, B'Elanna begins to experience upsetting flashbacks of her own difficult childhood.
I had taped this episode on Thursday. I was out looking for a new dryer and did not see it. I watched it last night.
It was very good.
B'Elanna had the Doctor show her a hologram of what the baby would look like at birth, extrapolating it's appearance based on it's present development.
She was not at all happy to see that it would have the same pronounced forehead ridges that she had.
She had been made fun of badly as a child because she was part Klingon, by kids at school and her own cousins.
She did not want her daughter to have to endure the same humiliations she did.
She asks the Doctor to delete some sequences from her dna in order to eliminate her Klingon features and even any Klingon behavior in the unborn child.
He refuses.
Tom gets upset with her and sleeps on Harry's couch.
They meet the next morning and niether will budge on this issue.
B'Elanna reprograms the Doctor to believe that resequencing the dna is for the baby's survival.
Tom and others are able to remove the force field B'Elanna had erected around the surgical bay in time to stop it.
Tom and B'Elanna talk and she tells Tom that she blames herself for her father leaving home because she told him to, and he did so 12 days later.
Tom reassures her that, tells her he won't leave her, and, unlike her father, he can handle a 2, 3, or even 4 Klingon household.
I like this episode a lot. It was sensitive and done very well.
Voyager is forced to evaluate their ethical beliefs, as well as those of an alien criminal justice system, when they rescue a Nygean prison warden, and his prisoners scheduled to be executed.
This episode is a clear response to the modern-day societal debates regarding capital punishment, rehabilitation of criminals, and racial profiling within the justice system.
I didn't like this episode at first, but it grew on me as I watched it.
One of the prisoners is quite violent. A guard nearly beats him to death. The Doctor asks Seven for some of her nano probes to save him. He lives, and then it is discovered that the nano probes have cured him of a condition that had made him prone to violent behavior.
A request for leniency is made to the family of the man he murdered before he was cured, but they deny his plea.
Seven feels badly afterwards. She had grown close to the man, and freeing him would have been as though she were absolved of her own crimes while a Borg.
Janeway tells her that she had lost 20 years of her life while she was Borg, and that was punishment enough.
It was a very good episode, and one that I had not seen before.
Voyager is pulled into an empty layer of subspace where ships are forced to attack each other and steal supplies for survival. Voyager's only hope for survival lies in forming alliances with other ships who wish to escape 'the Void'.
This was on yesterday. It was okay.
HUMAN ERROR
When Seven tries to perfect her social skills on the holodeck, her hobby quickly becomes an obsession, leading her to neglect her duties.
Seven lets her hair down, literally, in the holo - programs she creates. She is more relaxed in them. She even has a romance with Chakotay in one program.
Her cortical node fails when she begins to have feelings for Chakotay.
She calls the Doctor before she falls unconscious to the floor.
He tells her in sickbay that it was designed to shut down when she had strong feelings. The Node interpreted this as her individuality reasserting itself.
She refuses to let the Doctor disable this aspect of her Cortical Node, saying that such deep feelings are not for her.
The four episodes that were on last night were damn good!
The Xindi story continues, as it has for the entire third season.
The ship is badly damaged in a fight with the reptile dudes.
We see crew men sucked out into space, hull ruptures and plenty of serious damage. The ship stays damaged and is not magically repaired by the start of the next episode.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: The four episodes that were on last night were damn good!
The Xindi story continues, as it has for the entire third season.
The ship is badly damaged in a fight with the reptile dudes.
We see crew men sucked out into space, hull ruptures and plenty of serious damage. The ship stays damaged and is not magically repaired by the start of the next episode.
I'm really enjoying this show!
The Xindi arc had it's moments. I think it went on for too long, but when they stopped stalling for sweeps and really got into it, it was exciting. The fourth year is the best, most episodes serve as direct prequels to other Trek stories (Khan and the supermen, why the Vulcans are so different on Enterprise).
An episode where a man brings in gambling machines that, instead of just changing luck for the one operating it, the machine changes the actual luck for people through out the station. It was ok.
When Chakotay, Kim and Neelix return from an away mission, they find Voyager abandoned, with only the Doctor on board. Meanwhile, the crew have unwittingly become part of an alien workforce, while their memories of Voyager have been erased.
Chakotay must convince Janeway and the other crew members of their past lives on Voyager. Matters are complicated when Chakotay is exposed and taken for interrogation.
I saw this two parter back in 2001 when it first aired and did not like it.
I saw it today and loved it!
The Doctor finally got to command Voyager.
We see Janeway not even remembering being Captain of Voyager.
Tom and B'Elanna find each other, not knowing that they are actually married.
Chakotay is captured and forced to lure Voyager into a death trap by the man who illegally captured and reprogrammed them all to forget their past lives and become workers for his company.
Tuvok kept remembering who he really was.
Chakotay finds Janeway and enlists her help. He is recaptured because Janeway told someone about him.
A man who is in love with Janeway has a friend who investigates and uncovers the illegal mindwiping going on.
Just as Voyager is going to be destroyed by 3 ships from the company, Janeway, her boyfriend and the investigator shut the powergrid down. This deactivates the planet's defensive shield, enabling Voyager to beam up and reprogram it's crew.
Janeway cannot allow her bf to join Voyager's crew cause of some "Non fratenizing " rule.
I will watch it again this weekend. It was a great episode.
Odo's mentor arrives on Deep Space Nine intent on resuming his search for Odo's true origin. After an accident in the gamma quadrant, they return to the station with a dangerous organism which soon breaks free.
It turns out that an unknown alien gas has made Odo in a Jekyll and Hyde type monster!
The episode, while not a favorite, was good. It is the foerunner of many great Odo episodes to come.
When Q's son becomes reckless and uncontrollable, Q places him in Captain Janeway's care for a week.
Predictable but fun episode. They already did this episode in Next Generation. Q's kid is out of control and must be taught a lesson in responsibility.
Q takes away Jr's Q powers. Q 2 takes the Delta flyer without permission to another sector, as he knews he is failing at humanity and wants to hide and have fun, too. Icheb is seriously injured when an alien attacks.
Janeway tell Junior that the only way to help Icheb is go back, apologize to the alien, and accept punishment and try to persuade the alen to tell Voyager's Doctor how to cure Icheb.
Turns out it was Q pretending to be the alien. He just wanted to see if his son had learned a lesson, and became more than he was. Q2 gets his powers back and Q takes a few years off Voyager's trip home.
I like!
Q2: (to Janeway) I like you, Aunt Kathy. You've got gumption.
Q2: Scan, scan, scan... that's all you people ever do! I've been through every deck on this ship and do you know what I've seen? Bipeds pushing buttons, bipeds running diagnostics, bipeds replacing relays. When are you going to do something interesting?!
Janeway: I'm not a parent. Q: Maybe not in the biological sense, but you're certainly a mommy to this crew. Just look how quickly you housebroke that Borg drone!
When Q2 seals Neelix's mouth shut, it's similar to what Charlie did in the Original Series episode >Charlie X to the woman in the corridor.
Keegan de Lancie (Q2) is the real life son of John de Lancie (Q).
Author, Author
A means of direct communication is established with Voyager allowing each crew member to speak with family and friends. The Doctor sends a holo-novel for publication based on a lost starship with a doctor who is treated like a slave, which causes controversy among the members of the ship.
The book is called Photons Be Free.
The Voyager crew see it and are upset because it makes them look evil.
The Doctor soon realizes he made a mistake writing and getting it published.
The publisher releases it without permission from the Doctor, citing that he is a hologram and not a real person, thus has no rights.
Hearings are conducted and the Doctor is not granted human status... yet. However, he is given the right over his artistic creation. All copies of the book are recalled.
At show's end we see several Doctor look - a likes working in a mine, and one makes an allusion to the book.
I guess someone forget the Next Gen episode, " Measure Of A Man " ?
I forgot to mention that regular ultra long distance communication with Earth has been established, and that crewmen can see and talk live with friends and family. We see Harry's mom and dad. Seven's aunt, etc.
It was nice seeing this aspect of the crew.
This was how the hearing was done, over the comm system.
Crew members testified how the Doctor was one of them, and things he'd taught them, helped them learn, etc.
Quote: Beardguy57 said: I forgot to mention that regular ultra long distance communication with Earth has been established...
No you didn't.
Sounds like a good ep.
It was really good!
It started out with the Doctor writing a really bad holo - novel, and then it turned into the beginnings of a civil rights movement for holographic beings.
With regular communications to the Alpha Quadrant established, Starfleet sends a mission to Voyager: retrieve a 21st Century probe sent from Earth called 'Friendship One'.
Once the probe is located on a nearby planet the away team is shocked to learn of the impact it has made.
Yeah, the probe made the planet radioactive. It left the inhabitants full of anti matter radiation, and most babies died at birth because of this.
A crew member - Carey - an engineer - is killed by a deranged leader.
Janeway is pissed and realizes she must use force; otherwise, it will take a few years to evacuate the planet, as the leader has demanded, and he MIGHT return the hostages , Neelix and Tom Paris.
She sends a team in the Delta Flyer to rescue the two. They are successful. Tom saves a woman's new born from dying and promises to bring him back to her once he's made sure he'll be ok with facilities on Voyager.
A scientist who was captured in the Flyer figures out a way to remove the planet's radiation and save the people.
It was pretty good.
Natural Law
A strange energy barrier causes Chakotay and Seven's shuttle to crash on a planet inhabited by extremely primitive aliens.
The primitives are friendly and help Chakotay and Seven to find their badly damaged shuttle and use parts of it to eliminate the barrier ( Temporarily ) so that they may contact Voyager.
A more advanced race wants to bring the primitives into their state of advancement, but Janeway figures out a way to put the barrier back up.
This was a great metaphor for how, here on Earth, more modern cultures have destroyed a primitive one with their "help."
When Voyager discovers a settlement of opressed Talaxians living on an asteroid, Neelix feels compelled to help them. As he spends time with his people and starts to forge relationships with them, he faces a very difficult decision.
This ought to have been called " Goodbye, Neelix."
Neelix decides to stay with his fellow Talaxians.
He has befriended a widow and her young son.
He helped set up a force field around the asteroid, to keep alien miners from mining and thus destroying the Talaxians' home.
One cute aside :
The episode starts out with Neelix holding a party to commemorate the 315 anniversary of Vulcan's first contact with Earth. He urges Tuvok to enjoy himself and dance as others are doing. Tuvok refuses.
At the epiosde's end, when Neelix is about to leave Voyager, everyone is lined up on the way to the shuttlebay - including the Captain and Naomi Wildman, whom Neelix had practially raised.
Tuvok says to Neelix : " Mr. Neelix.. " and then, Tuvok moves his right foot as though dancing.
Neelix say " Thank you, Mr Vulcan."
I like Neelix, though many don't. He was friendly and always helpful.
A good episode.
Next Monday : " Endgame." The two parter series finale.
But then we get to see the show from episode one all over again!
Miles O'Brien thinks that everyone in the station is acting strangely - but, it's him that is different!
He goes through a bunch of problems and it is only in the last 2 minutes of the show that you find out that he is a clone, who was created so well that he actually thought he was the real Miles O'Brien.
The Doctor must impersonate various crew members when Captain Janeway is abducted and held hostage for Voyager's warp core.
This was a great one!
Here is the Doctor's confession when he thinks his matrix is about to be decompiled due to too ,uch information going into it at once:
The Doctor: ("deathbed" confession) ...When you reach Earth, I want you to donate my emitter to the Daystrom Institute. They may be able to replicate it someday, so that other holograms can know the freedom I've enjoyed.
(to Janeway) I've had something on my conscience for a long time. After I was first activated, I kept a record of what I considered to be your most questionable command decisions. It's in my personal database. I hope you'll delete the file without reading it.
Mister Tuvok, I violated the most sacred trust between a physician and his patient. I told Mister Neelix about the cutaneous eruption you developed on your... (pause) ...that was most indiscreet. I hope you can forgive me.
(To Kim) Ensign, at your recital last month, I told Lieutenant Torres that your saxophone playing reminded me of a wounded targ. I should have put it more delicately. I'm sorry.
(To Seven Of Nine) Seven... you have no idea how difficult it's been hiding my true feelings all these years, averting my eyes during your regular maintenance exams. I know you could never have the same feelings for me, but I want you to know the truth. I love you, Seven Of Nine.
We see the return of the aliens from " Tinker, Tailor, Doctor, Spy."
The aliens that reminded me of failed Sontarans!
No Trek tomorrow because of PA state elections.
I guess the series finale, " Endgame " will be aired on Wednesday.
Sisko and O'Brien are stranded on a planet inhabited by humans who have rejected any form of technology. But is it really such a paradise?
A woman runs the human colony with an iron fist. O'Brien tries to get some technology to work to help save a sick woman but is caught and brought before the woman, who punishes Sisko because he is O'Brien's commanding officer.
Sisko is put into a box and locked up for a day. It is very hot in the box.
He is taken out the next day, and is in bad shape, but refuses to cooperate with the woman and is put back into the box.
O'Brien discovers a gizmo in the woods that inhibits the use of all technology, and turns it off.
He comes back and uses his phaser to free Sisko.
The woman is still adamant that a life without any technology is better than a life with it.
Sisko is able to make contact with Dax and Kiera, who are in a runabout, close to the planet, having tracked them there from their ship's warp signature.
A couple of the colony, a young man and woman go with Sisko and O'Brien, back to DS - 9.
The colony must now decide whether to keep the technology dampening gizmo on or off.
I never liked Voyager's "moral" episodes because they always ended with Janeway avoiding the hard decision and just flying away. DS9 had some great episodes that really tackled the "what's right isn't always what's in the rulebook" angle and they had to actually handle the tough choices. Data learned that lesson when he decided that he needed to destroy decades worth of work in a colony to convince the colonists to leave.
It is the 10th anniversary of the U.S.S. Voyager's triumphant return to Earth after 23 years in the Delta Quadrant. Kathryn Janeway is an admiral, Harry Kim is a starship captain, Tom Paris is a full-time holonovelist, and the Doctor is married to a human woman and has named himself "Joe." At a reunion party, Admiral Janeway talks with B'Elanna Torres, who is now Federation Liaison to the Klingon High Council, about arranging a political favor for a Klingon named Korath. Later, the admiral serves as guest lecturer in Commander Reginald Barclay's Starfleet Academy class about the Borg, but when a cadet asks a question about Seven of Nine, Janeway evades the subject. She's pulled away from class to receive a message from Ensign Miral Paris, the daughter of Torres and Paris, who is on a secret mission to arrange some sort of exchange between the admiral and Korath.
Admiral Janeway stops to say goodbye to Tuvok at his hospital room where he is suffering a neurological disorder that has destroyed his mind, telling him she may never come back. She then has the Doctor over to her apartment and asks him to procure for her a supply of Chronexaline, an experimental drug that can protect biomatter from tachyon radiation, for "classified" reasons. She arranges to get some downloaded information and a shuttle from Commander Barclay, and finally she visits Chakotay's gravesite, promising that when she's through things will be better for everyone.
Twenty-six years earlier, when Voyager is still in the Delta Quadrant, the pregnant Torres is having repeated occurrences of false labor, and Seven of Nine is developing a serious romance with Chakotay. Tuvok is concerned when he is defeated by Icheb in Kal-toh, so he visits the Doctor and learns his neurological condition is slowly deteriorating. Seven is playing Kadis-Kot with Neelix by remote when she is interrupted by the detection of high neutrino emissions indicative of a wormhole. Seven later tells the crew that the center of a nearby nebula may contain hundreds of wormholes, any of which could lead to the Alpha Quadrant.
Back in the future, the Doctor visits Tuvok, who has become increasingly agitated about the "disappearance" of Admiral Janeway, and blurts out that she's never coming back. Curious, the Doctor visits Commander Barclay to get in touch with Janeway, and Barclay says simply that she's out of town. But when Barclay starts stammering, which he hasn't done in years, the Doctor knows he's hiding something. Meanwhile Admiral Janeway has taken the shuttle to a moon where she meets up with Miral Paris, who introduces her to the House of Koroth. After dismissing the Ensign, Janeway meets with Koroth, who has something for her but demands information on her shuttle's shield modifications. The admiral won't go beyond the original terms of their agreement, so she is shown out.
In the present time, Voyager enters the murky nebula and barely misses colliding with a Borg Cube. Captain Janeway orders the ship out of the nebula, refusing to go back despite Ensign Kim's appeal to not give up on those wormholes. Later, Seven asks the Doctor to perform a procedure he devised to remove a failsafe device in her cortical node, so she can pursue more intimate relationships — specifically, with Chakotay.
Admiral Janeway tells Koroth she's "reconsidered" his offer — she'll give him the shield emitter, but first she has to inspect the device he's offering. Korath allows her to scan the device, whereupon Janeway attaches a transport enhancer to the device and beams it and herself to the shuttle. The enraged Klingons send one of their futuristic ships to fire upon her, but Janeway deploys a new armor technology around the shuttle that absorbs the phaser blasts. She jumps to warp and escapes, but when she arrives at her destination, she is met with the Federation starship Rhode Island, commanded by Captain Kim, who orders her to stand down. Kim has learned of her plan from the Doctor, who coaxed it out of Barclay, but Janeway insists the consequences are too great if she doesn't follow through, and asks him to trust her judgment one last time. Kim helps her prepare Korath's device — a chrono-deflector which is now affixed on top of the shuttle — and realizes it will burn itself out with one use. Janeway already assumed this would be a one-way trip. Unable to talk her out of the scheme, Kim beams back to his ship, and Janeway activates the chrono-deflector. Two Klingon ships decloak and begin firing, and Janeway is unable to deploy the ablative armor. The Rhode Island comes back and distracts the Klingons while Janeway activates a tachyon pulse.
Meanwhile on the present-day Voyager, Seven of Nine and Chakotay are having their first kiss when they are summoned to the Bridge. Some sort of temporal rift is forming in front of the ship, and Klingon weapons fire is being detected. But then a Federation vessel comes through the rift and hails Voyager. Captain Janeway sees the older version of herself on the viewscreen, ordering her to emit an anti-tachyon pulse from the deflector to close the rift before the Klingons come through. Startled, the Captain hesitantly fulfills that order and seals the rift, then asks what the hell is going on. Admiral Janeway says she's come to bring Voyager home. What she doesn't realize is that the Borg Queen is monitoring her transmission...
Admiral Janeway beams aboard Voyager and meets her younger self, and is moved to see a healthy Tuvok and Chakotay again. In Janeway's Ready Room, the Admiral reveals to the Captain that Voyager did eventually make it back to Earth after another 16 years, and the ship became a museum on the grounds of the Presidio. But the Admiral came to tell Captain Janeway to take Voyager back to the nebula as a shortcut home, using technology she brought to get past the Borg. The Captain wonders why she would want to tamper with the time-line, but the Admiral asks for her trust. In Sickbay, the Doctor confirms that the Admiral is genetically identical to the Captain, but 26 years older. He has also detected an implant in her brain, which the Admiral reveals the Doctor himself invented in the future to allow her to pilot a vessel with a neural interface. Seven of Nine enters — to an emotional greeting from the Admiral — reporting that the armor and weapons technology on the shuttle can be adapted for Voyager, and the Captain orders it done.
The crew busily upgrades the ship with the futuristic technology, and feels optimistic they might actually make it home this time. When Seven takes a break to regenerate, she is visited in her mind by the Borg Queen, who warns her not to let Voyager return to the nebula or it will be destroyed. Seven wakes up violently in her sparking alcove, and upon being cared for by the Doctor, reports the Queen's warning to the two Janeways. The Admiral insists the Borg are 30 years behind compared to the technology and tactics she's brought, so the Captain maintains course for the nebula.
When Voyager approaches the murky nebula, Captain Janeway orders the armor deployed, and the ship's hull is completely covered. Three Borg Cubes engage the starship, but their weapons fire is repelled. They scan the ship, then focus their fire on a specific section of the armor which weakens it. Voyager responds with the launch of transphasic torpedoes, which completely obliterate the Cubes with one or two shots each. Voyager then finds the center of the nebula, where the crew sees a massive Borg structure. Admiral Janeway orders Paris to enter an aperture in the structure, but Captain Janeway belays that order until she gets an explanation. Seven of Nine reveals the structure is a transwarp hub, one of only six in the galaxy. Angered that the Admiral didn't tell her about this, she orders the ship out of the nebula.
The crew learns the hub connects thousands of transwarp conduits to endpoints in every quadrant of the galaxy, perhaps the most significant tactical advantage the Borg have. Captain Janeway wants to know how to destroy it. But Admiral Janeway strongly objects to any such attempt, and insists on taking the ship home before the Collective can counteract the armor and weapons. The Captain pulls the Admiral aside and wonders how she got so cynical, arguing that they have a chance to save millions of lives. The Admiral reminds her of the decision that got her ship stranded in the first place, putting the lives of strangers ahead of her own crew. The Captain is willing to make the same kind of decision, but then the Admiral tells her that Seven of Nine is going to die. And her husband, Chakotay, will never be the same, and neither will Janeway. Along with 22 other casualties, Tuvok will succumb to a degenerative neurological condition that he hasn't told her about. She can prevent all that and get home today safe and sound.
Captain Janeway approaches Tuvok about his condition, and learns he can only be cured by mind-melding with members of his own family. But she also learns that Tuvok would rather destroy the hub than save himself. Even Seven of Nine refuses to listen to the Admiral's argument. In fact, the entire crew agrees that they'll allow their journey to take longer if they can accomplish something they believe in. The Admiral had forgotten how much the crew loved being together, and admits she was wrong to talk the Captain out of something she had set her mind to. But then the Captain proposes that there might be a way to "have their cake and eat it too."
The Admiral boards the shuttle, and the Captain injects her with a hypospray. The Admiral takes the shuttle through one of the hub's apertures and enters the Unicomplex where the Borg Queen resides. Using her neural interface, she enters the mind of the Borg Queen and tries to make a deal with her, in order to save the Voyager crew from themselves. She wants the Queen to send a Cube to tractor Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant, in exchange for telling her how to adapt to the transphasic torpedoes. But the Queen detects the Admiral's shuttle, beams her over and injects her with assimilation tubules. Meanwhile Voyager deploys its armor and enters one of the transwarp hub's apertures. While the Admiral is being assimilated, the Queen orders vessels to intercept Voyager. But she realizes she no longer has control over the Collective. She realizes that when Admiral Janeway was assimilated, she released a neurolytic pathogen into the Collective, designed to bring "chaos to order." While in a transwarp corridor, Voyager launches its transphasic weapons and begins to collapse the transwarp hub. The Borg Queen, meanwhile, begins to literally lose parts of her own body as her Unicomplex begins to crumble in an array of explosions.
In the Alpha Quadrant, Admiral Paris and the present-day Barclay detect a transwarp aperture opening up less than a light-year from Earth, and every ship in range is ordered to converge there. In the collapsing transwarp corridor, a Borg Sphere bears down on Voyager as its armor begins to fail. Captain Janeway orders Lt. Paris to adjust course. The Borg Sphere emerges into the Alpha Quadrant and Starfleet vessels begin firing upon it. But then it explodes in a spectacular fireball, and Voyager emerges from within the debris intact. Admiral Paris welcomes Janeway back home, and she promises him a full report. Meanwhile, a baby is being born in Sickbay — Tom and B'Elanna's daughter. Paris is dismissed from his duties so that he can meet his new child and Captain Janeway orders Chakotay to take the helm and set a course for home. The Starfleet armada then escorts the long-lost Voyager back to Earth.
Okay, that is the Star Trek : Voyager site recap.
Here is mine:
This two parter was originally aired as a 2 hour special.
Okay, I am glad for the characters that they finally made it home - but, they could have made this a three parter, which would have given time to show crew members with family and friends on Earth.
I feel cheated that they did not do that.
It was still a superb episode.
I am sad that the series had to end, as I still enjoy it, 6 years almost to the day since it ended.
The crew were one big family. They looked out for each other. They argued, but you could tell that, even when they were pissed with each other, they still cared.
I'm mixed on Endgame. I liked the idea of a future Janeway coming back to get them home 9 years earlier to avoid personal tragedy is interesting. Then having the crew reflect on their journey, and then get home and have reunions and say goodbye would've been a great ending. Instead they threw in the Borg crap to increase the action and there was no resolution to the series, no getting home sense.
I did like the Borg in this one, but it all seemed rushed.
My idea for a three parter:
Have them get back, but then discover it was all a Borg trap - an illusion. They figure it out and are able to get home - for REAL this time - and 20 minutes is left in the episode to show the crew interacting with loved ones back on Earth.
I wanted to see that so bad!
After 7 years, I wanted to see Harry's parents hug him. I wanted to see Admiral Paris tell his son that he was proud of him, and was happy Tom married B'Elanna, and pleased that his son is being responsible now - and to hold his grandaughter.
I wanted to know that B'Elanna and Chakotay would not be put in prison for being former Maqui.
I wanted to see B'Elanna be told she could join Starfleet... and Chakotay, too.
I wanted to see Janeway pet her dog.
I wanted to see Seven and Chakotay on an assignment that would keep them together.
I wanted to see Tuvok and his wife and children reunited, and cured of his problem.
Odo and Dax try to solve the mystery of a alien planet whose inhabitants are disappearing without explanation.
A little girl's mother is one of those who has disappeared.
Odo befriends her. She is fascinated with the fact that he is a changeling. She does not believe he can change shape because he does not like to do it unless it is nessecary.
Dax and Odo discover that everyone is really a hologram.
Dax can repair the faulty photonic projector, but has to turn it off first. That is when they also discover that this one old guy is really human. He wants to leave the planet, but Dax and Odo convince him that the holographic people are real enough to them, and that they ought to be real to him.
The little girl is his grandaughter.
He agrees to stay but asks that niether Dax nor Odo tell the townspeople that he is human and thus, not one of them.
Dax fixes the projector and switches it back on; all the people plus the ones who vanished earlier return.
As he is leaving, Odo turns into a top to show the girl that he is really a changeling.
Superb episode! I remember seeing it when it first aired early in 1994 and this is the one that got me into being a big fan of the show.
When a Maquis ship inexplicably dissapears during plasma storms in the badlands, U.S.S. Voyager is assigned to investigate. To assist the mission, Captain Kathyrn Janeway recruits a reluctant, cashiered Starfleet officer who has also acted as a mercenary for the Maquis.
Whilst exploring the renegade ship's last know position, Voyager is mysteriously propelled 70,000 light years from home, by an overwhelming force. Searching the uncharted quadrant of the galaxy, they become embroiled in a centuries old enviromental problem on a nearby inhabited world.
En route to the fifth planet of a neighboring system, Voyager's crew encounters Neelix, a Talaxian scavenger. He explains that the Array has been bringing ships into the region for many months. Neelix guesses that the "Caretaker," who controls the Array, may have sent the missing crewmembers to the Ocampa, a race that lives two miles below the surface of the fifth planet. Neelix volunteers to be their guide and they accept.
Meanwhile, Kim and Torres are being cared for in the Ocampa medical facility. Although they now live in a subterranean society, the Ocampa inhabited the planet's surface until it was struck by an environmental disaster 500 years ago. Since that time, they have lived underground, with all their needs provided by the man they refer to as the Caretaker.
Beaming down to the planet's surface, Neelix introduces Janeway to the Kazon, a savage alien species that has taken possession of the arid Ocampan world. Janeway asks Jabin, the Kazon leader, if he can help them, but he refuses.
Neelix is hoping Jabin will trade Kes, an Ocampan woman he is holding captive, for some of Voyager's precious water. But the Kazon are more interested in obtaining all of Voyager's technology — forcibly. When Jabin tries to take the crew hostage, Neelix helps them escape and beam back to the ship, along with Kes.
Kim and Torres persuade an Ocampan nurse to show them a route that could lead to the surface. On Voyager, Kes agrees to lead Janeway and the others through the tunnels to her underground city to search for the pair.
As the Array increases the rate of the energy pulses that power the city, Kim and Torres begin their journey, narrowly missing the search party from Voyager. Tuvok theorizes that the increased activity of the Array may indicate that the Caretaker is dying; he is clearly attempting to give them a surplus of power that will sustain the Ocampa after he is gone.
The search is complicated by a new turn of events. The Array is now firing a weapon at the planet to seal up all of the energy conduits, the tunnels that provide the only access to the city. This will protect the Ocampans, but prevent the others from escaping. Splitting up, Paris, Neelix and Kes find Kim and Torres, and send them up to Voyager. Then Paris and Neelix go back for Janeway, Tuvok and Chakotay. Chakotay's skepticism towards Paris' loyalty is erased when Paris saves his life.
Returning to the Array, Janeway again encounters the old man, whom she realizes is the Caretaker. He explains that he was bringing beings from across the galaxy to the Array in the hopes of finding a compatible species with which he could procreate, thus providing the Ocampa with someone to care for them after he dies. But no species has been a match so far.
Janeway tries to convince the Caretaker to send Voyager and the Maquis ship back home, but he refuses. Apparently, the Caretaker wants to destroy the Array so that it won't fall into the invading Kazon's hands. But he dies before he can carry out his plan, and Janeway is left to decide whether to use the Array to get home — which would leave it intact for the Kazon — or to destroy it and save the Ocampa. She chooses what seems to be the only moral option and makes a mortal enemy of the Kazon.
With Chakotay's ship destroyed in the battle with the Kazon, Janeway asks the Maquis to become part of Voyager's crew. She also allows Neelix and Kes to stay aboard. With Chakotay her First Officer, Tom Paris reinstated as a Starfleet lieutenant, and Torres and Kim cured by the Emergency Medical Hologram, Janeway and her new crew set course for the long trip home, 70,000 light-years away.
This is the first two episodes of Voyager. It was excellent!
A trill initiate, Argen, a hopeful for 'The Joining' comes to work with Jadzia in order to learn more about being joined. At the same time, the station faces a deadly threat from a new universe which is expanding at an alarming rate.
I was at Bethany Beach, Delaware from early Friday until yesterday (Monday ) afternoon.. it was a great time!
A friend whom I roomed with at the guest house there watched this episode with me Friday morning on Spike Tv there. ( I was quick to find out which chanel was Spike! )
This is a great episode. We learn what the joining is really about.
A powerful entity disables the Enterprise and a Ferengi ship. Their only means of escape is if they can correctly answer the riddles he asks.
This was an okay one.
The Ferengi were first introduced. They were meant to be a big threat like the Romoulans and the Klingons were meant to be in TOS, but it was clear from day one that they had more value as comic relief.
In this episode, the Ferengi looked more like spastic monkeys than a threat.
The Borg were then introduced a season later as the big threat. They succeeded at it.
Bigtime.
Where No One has gone before.
The Enterprise is flung across space into a distant galaxy over 2,700,000 light years away when a propulsion engineer, and his mysterious companion, attempt to re-design the ship's engine systems.
Ahhh... an excellent first season episode!!
This introduces The Traveler. He's a pretty cool interdimensional character who uses the propulsion engineer to exchange his abilities for passage on Starships.
He becomes distracted by Wesley Crusher, in whom he sees great potential. Because of this, The Traveler takes the Enterprise 2.5 million light years from Earth, where they say on the bridge that it will take 300 years at high warp to travel back to Earth.
Continuity error : Voyager was 75 thousand light years from Earth and it was a fact that it would take 70 years to get home.
It ought to have taken Enterprise over 2 million years to get home at high warp.
Never mind though, the traveler, who nearly died from the strain of the trip is able to take them all back in only a few minutes, & had told Picard that Wesley had a gift that must be encouraged - hence Wesley's being made an acting ensign.
Great episode. Love it when the crew begin to see illusions of what they want/fear.
After being hit by the shockwave of a devastating planet-wide explosion, Voyager investigates. While on the surface, Janeway and Paris are accidentally 'shifted' one day into the past.
Yeah, and then the two of them are captured and realize in time that a rescue attempt by Voyager is what caused the explosion. They prevent it.
Q places the senior crew of the Enterprise in a war game that pits them against a boar-faced, Napoleonic enemy. Q tries to get Riker to join the Q when he grants him the power of the Q.
This is an outstanding episode!!!
Q seeks to corrupt Riker with the gift of absolute power, but Riker learns a bitter lesson - that no one wants gifts he offers to the bridge crew : normal vision to Geordi, being ten years older for Wesley, being human for Data, etc.
The Q are worried that we humans will evolve and eventually surpass the Q, due to our potential.
Love any and all Q episodes. This is one of the best of his twelve appearances on Next Gen, DS - 9, and Voyager.
While investigating an asteroid belt containing a new element, Harry Kim is pulled into a 'subspace vacuole' and switched with a dead body. Soon after the body is revived the crew learn that the asteroid belt is the graveyard of an alien culture that transports its dead in the belief that they evolve into a higher state of consciousness. Harry's appearance on the homeworld begins to raise questions about the existence of their afterlife.
This one is very good.
I like thinking about the afterlife. It is fascinating to think about.
As Janeway says at the end of this one, " No one knows for sure just what the afterlife is really like. It could be very different from anything we can imagine. "
Lwaxana pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise and announces the pre-arranged marriage of Deanna to the son of her late husband's best friend.
Arranged marriages are stupid. It was a good episode, though. It's the first time we meet Loxwana Troi, played by Majel Barrett.
The Big Goodbye
Picard, Dr. Crusher, and Data are placed in great danger when the holodeck malfunctions while they are running a Dixon Hill private detective program, which pits them against 1940s mobsters.
This one is good! It's the first Holo - deck driven episode, not counting the little bit of time spent in there during Farpoint.
The dectective who interrogates Picard is the voice of McGruff, the crime dog.
When Voyager is offered shore leave by the Sikarans, Harry Kim discovers advanced technology that would send Voyager 40,000 light years closer to home. However, the Sikaran's 'Canon of Laws' forbids them from sharing their technology with anyone.
Kinda dumb episode. It does move the plot with Seska further along.
State Of Flux
When stolen Federation technology is found on a severely damaged Kazon Nistrim ship, Seska becomes the prime suspect. The evidence is further re-enforced when questions arise over her true heritage.
And Seska shows her true colors!
This sets up the stage for Basics part one and Part two. These are Season 2 cliffhanger, and season 3, first episode.
wait was prime factors the episode with the race that focuses on "pleasure" cause i liked that episode. I liked how everyone was talking amongst themselves about just how badly they wanted to get back and how far they would go to get there. I thought it was cool when Tuvok of all people was the one who was gonna make the deal with the Sikarans
Quote: Knutreturns said: wait was prime factors the episode with the race that focuses on "pleasure" cause i liked that episode. I liked how everyone was talking amongst themselves about just how badly they wanted to get back and how far they would go to get there. I thought it was cool when Tuvok of all people was the one who was gonna make the deal with the Sikarans
That is the episode Knut.
It was cool that Tuvok was the one who made the decision. He was untroubled by emotions and thus was the logical one to do that.
As he said himself, " My logic was flawless, but it was I who had erred. "
I had taped Enterprise on Monday but did not have time to watch it all at once. I just now finished watching all 4 episodes.
They were awesome!
Stormfront (1)
The Temporal Cold War takes a new twist as Archer and the Enterprise are thrown back in time to 1944, where they find a new temporal faction has changed the course of WWII in an attempt to change Earth's future.
Stormfront (2)
Vosk attempts to forge an alliance with Archer in order to expedite his return to his own century. Archer however opts to carry out his mission from Daniels - to destroy Vosk's time travel portal, and prevent the Temporal War from ever happening.
Home
With both the Xindi and the Temporal Cold War behind them, the crew of Enterprise finally return to Earth. The crew receives a heroic welcome complete with parades, news broadcasts, and schools renamed in their honor. But the troubled captain is having trouble putting the experiences of the past year behind him. As Enterprise undergoes repairs and refitting, Archer is debriefed by Admiral Forest, Ambassador Soval and others and is reunited with former girlfriend, Erika Hernandez, who is now captain. Archer loses his temper with Ambassador Soval and is ordered to take a vacation. Meanwhile, T'Pol who has been invited to accept a Starfleet commission, invites Trip to visit her mother T'Les on Vulcan since he no longer has a home or a family. T'Pol learns her mother resigned from the Vulcan Science Academy as indirect punishment for T'Pol exposing a secret monitoring station at the P'Jem sanctuary used to spy on Andorian activity. To restore her mother's position and honor she is forced to marry. Also, Travis, Mayweather, and Phlox learn firsthand the extent of the xenophobia that has plagued Earth since the Xindi attack.
Borderland (1)
Criminal Arik Soong is brought aboard the Enterprise to assist in finding some genetically enhanced humans he created after stealing some altered DNA left over from the Eugenics Wars.
I assume that this is Noonian Soong's grandafther.
He's a cunt! He made it possible for 9 crewmembers of Enterprise to be captured by the Orion Syndicate.
This included T'Pol and Hoshi.
Big Show guest starred as a big Orion dude. He had a pretty cool part in this!
In this, the fourth and final season of Enterprise, we see the seeds layed down for the original series.
Genetic Wars.
Trouble with Klingons.
Dancing green girls!
This episode was excellent!
I loved the other three, too.
The third season, with it's Xindi maxi series, was spectacular.
Am looking forward to seeing parts 2 and 3 of the Soong - Gentically augmented beings saga.
I love the way that elements of Next Gen. and DS-9 are in this, too, as Soong played a part of Next Gen., and Dr. Bashir of DS - 9 was discovered to have been genetically augmented.
I can't say enough good things about Enterprise!
Sad that, had it been allowed to continue, we'd have just seen the season 6 cliffhanger.
A superb show.
More comments : T'Pol got married to some Vulcan bozo in the episode called " Home." Tucker realized he loved her and he never told her. I am looking forward to how this subplot resolves itself.
The crew of the Enterprise finds android parts that are identical to Data's while they are exploring his homeworld. A team of engineers and technicians reassemble the android, and Data's twin, Lore, is reactivated.
This is one of the better 1 st season offereings.
Lore turns out to be evil. He has allied himself with the Crystaline enitity, whom he had summoned to kill the colonists on his homeworld.
He wants to give the Enterprise crew to it, but Wesley realizes that Data is actually Lore, pretending to be Data.
Yeah, ok, Wesley helps save the day again... It was still a pretty cool episode.
Harry Kim disappears from the holodeck during his holo-novel, "Beowulf". According to the characters, he died at the hands of a mystical beast known as Grendel. When Chakotay and Tuvok also disappear, the Doctor is transferred to the holodeck to investigate.
I like this one! The Doctor gets his first " away mission. " I like the focus on him. A bittersweet ending, as the holo -woman who falls for him dies, but the missing crew men are found safe and sound.
Vidians capture BE'lanna and split her into 2 seperate BE'Lannas - one completely human, the other, fully Klingon.
Tom Paris has also been captured.
He is meant to be harvested for organs, while BE'lanna the Klingon is meant to be used to cure the phage, a terrible disease which kills those with it slowly.
She escapes with her human self, who is afraid and no longer brave. The two versions of BE'lanna argue.
Of course they are freed, but not before the Klingon BE'lanna sacrifices herself to save the human BE'lanna.
Back aboard Voyager and BE'lanna will have dna from her Klingon self re-integrated into her so that she will live. She thinks on how she will be fighting her KLingon half again - for life.
Cold Station 12 (2) Soong, who has been freed by his Augment children, intends to reclaim the remaining Augment embryos being stored at Cold Station 12. Soong plans to incubate the embryos, and start an Augment army to take over the known worlds. They head to Cold Station 12 in the Bird of Prey that the Augments have stolen from the Klingons. Archer must stop Soong and the Augments, and try to prevent a looming war with the Klingons at the same time.
The Augments (3)
After turning on their creator the Augments try to start a war between Humans and Klingons.
At the end of the episode, Soong - disillusioned now with the thought of 'perfecting' humans - ponders cybernetics as a viable way to create a perfect being, which of course is a legacy that eventually begat Data, Lore, B-4, Datas 'mother' Juliana Tainer (TNG, "Inheritance") and Datas 'daughter' Lal (TNG, "The Offspring").
A reference to a Governor Klag is made. Klag was the Pagh's Second Officer in the Star Trek The Next Generation episode "A Matter of Honor." This could be an ancestor.
Kahn, his fellow Augments, and their ship are brought up in this episode, but dismissed as a myth by Soong. This was a nice little tie-in to the original series.
Archer's method for getting out of the access tube unscathed from the pathogens is actually plausible. The human body can survive for a few seconds in a vacumn. The only potential goof to this is Archer is shown looking rather frostbitten on the transporter pad, he should have had some capillaries burst as well.
The Forge (1)
When Earth's embassy on Vulcan is bombed evidence points to a religious faction known as "Syrrannites," a group following a revolutionary interpretation of the teachings of Surak, the father of Vulcan logic. After T'Pol receives a clandestine lead, she and Archer embark upon a treacherous journey through the Vulcan desert looking for them.
Awakening (2)
The Earth embassy on Vulcan has been bombed. The Vulcans blame Syrrannite terrorists. Acher and T'Pol must get to the bottom of the bombing and bring those responsible to justice. However, unbeknownst to Archer and T'Pol, more is going on than just a simple act of terrorism.
All 4 are outstanding epsiodes! Parts 2 and 3 with Soong and his augmented "children " were fast paced, with plenty of great action sequences, terrific dialogue, and fantastic direction!
As good if not better than many other Trek episodes I have seen ....
The second two episodes have T'Pol and Archer on Vulcan, trekking across a dangerous dessert frought with electrical storms, deadly beasts, and scorching temperatures.
Also, no technology is able to function there - save for the universal translator, which magically seemed immune to this effect.
Loved seeing Vulcan.
It was fascinating when Surak, the Vulcan who finds the two dies and then he puts his Katra into Archer - it is what Spock did to McCoy in Wrath Of Khan.
Archer finds a Vulcan artifact, thought to have long been Myth.
Archer has an 1,800 year old Katra in him.It shows him visions of Vulcan's violent past and urgers him to prevent the past from occuring again, as the Vulcan Gov't bombs the crap out of the Syrrannite terrorists' hidden base.
I am very much looking forward to the final part of this 3 part story next Monday!
The Enterprise rendezvous with Starbase 74 in order to have its systems checked and upgrades made. While the crew takes some time off, four members from the species known as the Bynar work feverishly on the ship's computer system.
Riker visits the newly upgraded holodeck and meets Minuet, a hologram who seems to be everything he would want in a woman, unaware that she was constructed by the Bynars to keep him in the holodeck while the rest of the crew ( except Picard, who also visits the holodeck ) is evacuated due to a fake warp core breach.
The two realize that something is amiss when Minuet is adamant about them staying in the holodeck. They leave to find that :
They are the only 2 left on board, save for the Bynars, who are slumped over unconscious in the bridge.
The ship is at high warp and headed for the Bynar's homeworld.
They ( Riker and Picard ) abort a self destruct sequence after they realize the takeover was not hostile.
They find a message in the bridge that helps them to save the Bynar's homeworld, after an eruption on their planet's sun renders their computer run society inert.
They program the Enterprises' computer to send a signal that reactivates their planet's computers.
The Bynars are saved and submit themselves for disciplinary action from the Federation for taking the ship without permission.
This is a pretty good first season ep!
Too Short a Season
The aging and terminally ill Starfleet Admiral Mark Jameson, who is negotiating the release of hostages, suddenly begins growing younger through an unexplained phenomenon.
This one does nothing for me.
Sad that the Admiral got young and then died from the strain, though.
The man who designed the weapon that destroyed all life on the moon of Neelix's homeworld, including that of his family, diagnoses Neelix with a fatal illness.
Here we learn of Neelix's family: his mother and father, 3 brothers, and 3 sisters. Neelix' family lived on Rinax, the moon of the planet Talax, and were killed by the Metreon Cascade in 2355.
James Sloyan, who plays Jetrel here, also played Dr. Mora Pol, the Bajoran scientist who discovered Odo's shape changing abilities and instructed him in human behavior on Deep Space Nine. He also played K'Mtar, Alexander's future adult self, in the Next Generation episode, Firstborn, as well as Romulan Admiral Jerok in The Defector, from that series as well.
Jetrel lies to Neelix about his being terminally ill. This is a ploy to do what he has worked on for years : Bring back the dead by using dna to recover their patterns via use of the ship's transporters.
The plan does not work, however, as the being who is materializing loses molecular cohesion.
Heartbroken, as he had so desperately wanted to atone for his crime of contructing the bomb which his government had unleashed, Jetrel collapses and is taken to sickbay : He had disclosed that he himself is dying.
Neelix and Jetrel talk in sickbay. Neelix forgives Jetrel for creating the bomb that had killed his family and millions of others, as he has seen how remorse has eaten the man up since the bombing.
When Quark is reunited with the love of his life, a Cardassian who is now a fugitive, he is ready to sacrifice everything to win her back.
This one was kinda dumb, but kinda fun. Let's face it, ANY Ferengi episode on DS 9 is gonna be silly, LoL!
DS 9 has been moved from 10 am here to 3 am, and is now on only 3 times a week. At that rate, with me still needing 4 seasons of the series, it will take till Feb. 2008 to record them all!
So, I have decided to buy those seasons on dvd for my 50 th birthday - and, since I do not have a dvd player, I will make a bold move into the 1990's and get a dvd - vcr combo for the living room.
After discovering a 1936 Ford truck floating in space, Voyager follows an AM-band SOS call to a nearby planet. There, they discover a series of cryo-stasis chambers containing humans abducted from Earth during the 1930's, including Amelia Earhart and her navigator.
This is the first time on any Star Trek series that a Federation ship is shown landing on a planet and then returning to space.
It is a good episode. It is also the first episode of the second season.
Initiations
Janeway gives Chakotay permission to borrow a shuttlecraft so he can perform a solitary ritual commemorating his father's death. His vessel inadvertently drifts into Kazon-Ogla space and Chakotay is targeted by Kar, a Kazon youth attempting to earn his warrior name by killing the Federation trespasser. Instead, Chakotay destroys Kar's ship, but beams the boy aboard before it explodes. When Chakotay tries to return Kar to his people, he's taken hostage.
The Kazon view Kar with contempt, and Kar blames Chakotay for his fate. Dying in battle would have been more honorable and far preferable to his dismal future. Now, Kar may never win his warrior name. The Kazon leader, Razik, ominously informs Chakotay that "the execution is tonight." But later Razik tells Chakotay that he will free him, but only if he agrees to kill Kar. Chakotay refuses, overpowers Razik and demands the return of his shuttlecraft. Facing certain death himself, Kar leaves with Chakotay. Damaged by Kazon fire, they're forced to beam down to a nearby moon, which Kar says serves as a training base for the Kazon-Ogla. Back on Voyager, the crew, which has been looking for its missing first officer, finds traces of Chakotay's shuttlecraft and continues their search.
Kar helps Chakotay negotiate safely around the surface of the moon, which is riddled with booby traps as part of the Ogla training. Taking shelter in a cave, Kar waits until Chakotay falls asleep and then raises his weapon. But he finds himself unable to murder him.
Arriving at the moon, the Away Team runs into Razik and his henchmen, who offer to lead them to Chakotay and Kar. Razik hopes to trap the crew, but he isn't successful. Chakotay comes up with a plan to help Kar win his name, but Kar comes up with an alternative. Chakotay is not his enemy, Razik is. He kills the Ogla leader, and then Razik's second in command — now the First Maje — pronounces Kar a warrior. Before the crew beams back to Voyager, Kar warns Chakotay that the next time they meet, he won't hesitate to kill him.
This episode is where we get to know Chakotay a bit better.
Aron Eisenberg plays Kar.
Aron Eisenberg is better known as Nog from Deep Space Nine.
When Troi's shuttle crashes on an alien planet, a new being is discovered: an entity that thrives on the suffering of others. The rescue attempt results in the death of Lt. Tasha Yar.
Troi learns that the cruel, evil creature is vulnerable when it talks about itself.
It plays little mindfuck games with Dr Crusher, Geordi, Data, and Riker.
Picard beams down and makes it talk about it's onw feelings, making it weak and vulnerable.
Worf is able to then transport Pircard and the others back onto Enterprise.
The shuttle is destroyed to prevent the malevolant entity from using it to escape the planet.
A very touching memorial service is held for Tasha Yar in the holodeck:
Yar: Hello, my friends. You are here now watching this image of me because I have died. It probably happened while I was on duty, and quickly, which is what I expected. Never forget I died doing exactly what I wanted to do. What I want you to know is how much I loved my life, and those of you who shared it with me. You are my family. You all know where I came from and what my life was like before. But Starfleet took that frightened, angry young girl and tempered her. I have been blessed with your friendship, and your love.
Yar: Ah, Worf. We are so much alike, you and I. Both warriors, orphans who found ourselves this family. I hope I met death with my eyes wide open.
Yar: My friend Data, you see things with the wonder of a child. And that makes you more human than any of us.
Yar: Captain Jean-Luc Picard, I wish I could say you've been like a father to me, but I've never had one so I don't know what it feels like. But if there was one person in this universe who I would choose to be like, someone who I would want to make proud of me, it's you. You who have the heart of an explorer and the soul of a poet. So you'll understand when I say, 'Death is that state in which one exists only in the memory of others,' which is why it is not an end. No goodbyes, just good memories. Hailing frequencies closed, sir.
This is easily one of the best offerings from the first season.
The guy who played the Flash in the early 1990's live action show guest stars as a transporter operator.
Archer, T'Pol, and T'Pau attempt to take a sacred, but controversial artifact back to the Vulcan High Council, in hopes of settling an internal struggle going on among the Vulcan people. Meanwhile, Trip and Soval take Enterprise to Andoria to convince Shran to help them stop a war.
Part 3 of the Vulcan episodes. It was excellent!
The crap that happened in the first two is resolved; the traitor who blew up that building was the laeder of the high command.
From this point on, there is less interference from the Vulcans - and we learn just why they futzed around and controlled things on Earth so much.
It was their corrupt leadership.
I enjoyed the scenes on Vulcan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daedalus
The inventor of the current transporter system claims he has found a way to transport people over great distances, possibly even making star ships obsolete. The Dr. and the Enterprise set out to verify the claim in a remote part of the star system. But the Dr. has other plans for Enterprise's transporter system.
Yeah, what Dr. Emory Erickson, ( Played brilliantly by black character actor, Bill Cobbs. ) inventor of the current transporter system has not told anyone is that his own son, Quinn got trapped in one of his experiments some 15 years ago, and is in a section of space where there are no stars for many light years.
Quinn reappears on Enterprise and accidentally kills a crewman. Later, he destroys a bulkhead on Enterprise.
Dr. Emory Erickson finally tells Archer that this mission is really about saving his son. He is able to catch his son in a confinement beam on the transporter pad, but the signal degrades - his son materializes, finally, and dies moments later.
Dr. Erickson explains that he was fairly certain the experiment would not work from the beginning, but said himself : Where do you go after you've already invented one of the world's most important inventions?
The first time on Star Trek that the inventor of the transporter has been mentioned.
This is a really good episode. -----------------------------------------------------------------
The Observer Effect
Trip and Hoshi return from an away mission having contracted a deadly virus. While Phlox works on a cure, two non-corporeal aliens possess members of the crew to study humanity and the humans' reactions to the unexpected.
The two non corporeals are from the planet Organia, a planet whose occupants long abandoned their physical bodies.
These poeple and their planet were mentioned in the TOS episode called " Treaty Of Organia."
It was very good! I like the tie - in with TOS. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Babel One (1)
Enterprise is escorting a Tellarite delegation to a peace conference with the Andorians when they respond to a distress call from Shran whose ship has been destroyed, apparently by Tellarites. When Enterprise is then mysteriously attacked by what seems to be an Andorian ship, Archer realizes that someone is out to prevent peace between the two feuding species.
The Tellarites are those obnoxious pig - like dudes from the TOS episode called " Journey To Babel."
We learn that it is the Romulans who are seeking to cause war.
Upon discovering a cultural symbol drawn in the ground on a planet that was used by his ancestors to 'heal the land', Chakotay tries to contact the beings his tribe called the 'Sky Spirits.'
I did not like this one when I saw it before but for some reason, I like it now.
It is a good Chakotay episode.
He is able to find and make contact with the aliens, who are able to cloak their life signs and themselves.
Tuvok and B'Elanna are captured and imprisoned after an away mission goes wrong. Janeway is knocked unconscious and is rescued by a man who believes that she is his daughter.
The guy who thinks Janeway is his daughter is kinda mental, but you end up feeling sorry for him and respecting him at episode's end, when he sacrifices himself to save Janeway.
Bashir fights to save his Cardassian friend Garak, who is slowly being killed by a brain implant to which he is addicted. In order to find out enough about it to help Garak, Bashir has to dig deep into Garak's mysterious past and uncovers some surprising secrets.
I like this one a lot. Garak episodes are always good!
A mishap in the wormhole sends Kira and Bashir into an alternate universe where Bajor is a tyrannical power and humans are slaves. Can Kira stop her ruthless double from killing Bashir?
This one was pretty good. I couldn't sleep last night so I watched it as I taped it.
A mishap in the wormhole sends Kira and Bashir into an alternate universe where Bajor is a tyrannical power and humans are slaves. Can Kira stop her ruthless double from killing Bashir?
This one was pretty good. I couldn't sleep last night so I watched it as I taped it.
Quote: Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: how come you didn't list Trials and Tribble-ations or Star Trek IV? two of the best time travel stories in my opinion.
Tom Paris begins evolving into a higher organism after achieving warp 10 in an experimental shuttle.
This one is pretty cool.
Tom mutates into an advanced human and takes Janeway into the shuttle on another warp 10 trip; she mutates, as well, and they mate and have babies together.
Then Chakotay and Voyager find 'em and they get changed back.
It appears the first trip evolved Tom; the second one de-evolved him and Janeway. Why did she de- evolve with him when it was only her first warp10 trip?
Despite the side effects of Warp 10 travel, like the evolution, what was stopping Voyager from using it to get home anyway? The ship could be set to automatic for the flight and the Doctor could obviously reverse the evolution, so there should have been no problems.
Janeway and Paris discuss their experience and Janeway suggests it might have been her idea for them to mate while they were mutated.
This episode was different and I like it a lot!
Raphael Sbarge guest stars as Michael Jonas. He was also in movies such as Risky Business and My Science Project.
Firstborn was on tonite. It's the episode where Alexander's future self from 40 years in the future. ) travels back to meet Worf and Alexander.
He wants Alexander ( the child ) to go to a Klingon school and become a warrior.
Later, as future Alexander realizes his child self just doesn't want to become a warrior, he pulls a gun on the kid while he is sleeping and Worf arrives just in time to stop Future Alexander from killing kid Alexander.
Future Alexander tells Worf that he is from the future and proves he is Alexander by telling Worf about the day Ke'h'Lar was killed.
Alexander tell Worf that he will be killed on the steps of the Klingon senate building.
Worf tells him that, now that he has told him of this, everything might be different, though Alexander has not changed, this encounter with his son from the future has changed Worf.
When Ensign Lon Suder kills a crewmate, Tuvok performs a mind meld to help repress Suder's violent tendencies. However, soon after, Tuvok begins showing violent tendencies himself.
The Doctor finds a way to help Tuvok. This is a great episode!
Lon Suder is played by Brad Dourif, a character actor well-known for playing intense and usually twisted or downright deranged roles. He has played a serial killer in episodes of Babylon 5 and The X-Files.
On the big screen, he is noted for playing Grima Wormtongue in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, evil mentat Piter de Vries in Dune and the murderous doll Chucky (and his human counterpart, Charles Lee Ray) in the Child's Play series of movies. His acting trademarks are his intense stare and habit of punctuating his speech with gestures.
Additionally, he played the villain Saavedro in the video game Myst III: Exile.
Early in the episode, Tuvok and the Doctor engage in a dialogue during which the Doctor repeatedly challenges Tuvok's need to understand Suder's motive (and implicitly expresses a mild disdain for the signature stoic logic of Vulcan culture). This exchange, with the contrast between the Doctor's glib condescension and Tuvok's cool Vulcan reserve, is reminiscent of the legendary verbal duels between Dr. McCoy and Spock.
The Doctor: " All of us have violent instincts, we have evolved from predators. Well, not me of course, I've just been programmed by you predators. "
Dreadnought
Voyager encounters a Cardassian missile ship, which Torres re-programmed while working for the Maquis. Now, B'Elanna must outsmart her own programming to disarm Dreadnought, before it destroys a planet and kills millions of innocent people.
Another great one!
B'Elanna has to deactivate the ship - bomb before it reaches the planet.
She does so.
As a last-ditch effort, Janeway orders her crew to abandon ship; she plans to use Voyager to ram the missile and detonate the warhead before it hits Rakosa.
Not a moment too soon, Torres manages to initiate an old Cardassian program in Dreadnought's systems. The two programs immediately begin to "quarrel" about the missile's target, distracting it from her attempts to breach Dreadnought's containment field and detonate the warhead. When Voyager's sensors convey Torres' success, Tuvok beams Torres back to the starship just as Dreadnought explodes.
Janeway cancels the auto - destruct order with only one minute to go.
Archer is able to work a fragile alliance between the Andorians, Tellarites, and Vulcans to try and capture the marauding ship that is attacking each of the group's ships. The task is made more difficult due to the marauders ability to mask its appearance as several other types of ships. Their chance comes after the marauder is temporarily knocked out of action, but then things go horribly wrong.
This is the first episode to air after UPN's announcement to cancel the series after season 4.
This is a fantastic episode!
Sad that, just as the show was becoming as good, if not better than some of the other Trek shows, it is announced that the show will not be renewed for a 5 th season.
The Aenar
Archer visits Shran's icy homeworld to find an Andorian subspecies called the Aenar, to determine their connection to the marauder destroying ships in the region.
This is the conclusion of a 3 part episode. It was awesome!!!
I like that we get to see Shran's homeworld. Now, the Andorians are more than just " Funny looking blue guys with anteannae " as they were potrayed in TOS.
The Andorians have a homeworld, which we finally see, they have lovers and they have rituals for vengeance.
Splendid!!!!
Affliction (1)
While Enterprise visits Earth for the launch of Columbia, Phlox is kidnapped and forced to help the Klingons deal with a grave threat to their species.
Yeah, and the grave threat is the virus that made Klingons look human, as they did in TOS, and that DS9 episode where Sisko and crew go back to the era of Kirk and Spock.
In DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations," when trying to figure out why the Klingons of the TOS era have smooth heads, O'Brien suggests genetic engineering and Bashir assumes a viral mutation. As we learn in this episode, both are correct.
Section 31 is first mentioned in this one. This group played a part in a few DS 9 episodes.
This episode features the first on-screen mind meld since the practice became permissable in Vulcan society. Mind melds would become far more common in later Trek series.
James Avery guest stars as General K'Vagh.
Columbia, the identical sister ship to Enterprise is launched. It has a woman Captain. I like her.
This is in reference to the space shuttle, Columbia, which exploded upon re - entry about two years earlier.
This is another superb episode! I get mad when I think of the three seasons of this outstanding show that we'll never see.
Divergence (2)
With Columbia's help, the Enterprise crew grapples with sabotage to their ship as they pursue the truth behind the kidnapping of Phlox.
The first time that Enterprise is called USS Enterprise. [Shown on the screen that shows Enterprise's and Columbia's warp fields merging] The two ships merge warp fields because Klingons had beamed aboard Enterprise and sabotaging the Warp engines.
Tucker, who had transferred to Columbia in the preiviosu episode, is needed to save Enterprise, which cannot go slower than warp 5.2, or it will blow up. Think " Speed 1 ", only at warp 5.2.....
He is transferred by a rope. The scene was pretty cool, too.
Phlox needs a human volunteer to test a inti - viral agent that could save the Klingons from dying. He does so,and even developes a bity of a forehead ridge.
The friendly Klingon Doctor who had been helping Phlox looks very human now because of the virus, and he says he might study how to rebuild cranial ridges on Klingons.
He is played quite well by actor John Schuck,who had also played a Klingon in " Star trek 4 : The Voyage Home."
Antaak says the virus is the worst threat to the Klingon Empire since the Hurq invasion. This is a reference to the DS9 episode "The Sword of Kahless," in which we learn the Hurq were a galactic power that conquered the Klingon homeworld about 1,000 years ago, plundering its treasures, including the sacred sword. The Klingons, true to their warrior nature, rebelled and cast away the Hurq, which is the Klingon word for "outsider." The Klingons probably stole the Hurq's technology, thereby acquiring warp drive and becoming a spacefaring empire (their lack of scientific initiative might explain why Klingon technology doesn't advance much in the 200 years between ENT and TNG, and likely hasn't changed much in the previous 500 to 1000 years, either).
I like this two part very much, and the fact that we get more insight into the nature of the Klingons.
i loved the episodes where he brings together two enemies in an alliance against the Romulans. It shows for the first times how humans built the federation.
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" A Matter Of Honor " was on yesterday, fantastic episode! Riker is on a Klingon ship as part of an exchange program. Klingons are so cool...
Today : " The Measure Of A Man " and " The Dauphin."
Data's right to chose and his very life are at stake. A great episode, as Picard must defend Data from being forced to be taken apart so that a scientist can duplicate him.
Second episode : Wesley falls in love with a girl who is actually a shapeshifter. I like this one a lot. This is where the idea for Odo might have come from.
A suicidal Q threatens the future of the Q-Continuum when he requests asylum aboard Voyager.
He is granted this right after a trial which Q holds.
When Q/Quinn ended his own life, he did so by ingesting hemlock. This is noteworthy and of interest, as Q was a philosopher, and the famous Greek philosopher Socrates was forced to end his own life by imbibing hemlock.
As of this episode, John de Lancie has played the same character (Q) on three different Star Trek series. The only other actors to do so are Armin Shimerman (Quark), Michael Ansara (Kang), Richard Poe (Gul Evek), Jonathan Frakes (Commander William T. Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Counsellor Deanna Troi).
This episode is excellent. An immortal is stripped of his powers and given the right to die.
Lifesigns
After receiving a Vidiian patient who is about to die from the Phage, The Doctor transfers her consciousness into the ship's computer and creates a holographic body, and soon begins to develop romantic feelings for her.
This one was very sensitively done and I enjoyed it.
Investigations
After weeks of erratic behavior, Tom Paris leaves Voyager and joins a Talaxian convoy.
This is a ploy for Tom to find out who the spy on Voyager is.
Neelix decides to do some investigating on his own, and uncovers the traitor aboard Voyager, nearly getting killed in the process. A very good show!
Deadlock
An accident in a plasma cloud creates a duplicate Voyager after they are attacked by the Vidiians.
Ensign Samantha Wildman, who has been pregnant since the first season, finally gives birth in this episode to the first child born on Voyager.
Harry Kim dies in this episode when he is sucked out into space.
It is never completely confirmed which ship was the original Voyager and which was the duplicate. However, from this episode on, both Harry Kim and Naomi Wildman are from an alternate Voyager than the rest of the crew.
This episode was a bit far fetched, but I enjoyed it anyway, as it was done well.
While on a camping trip to the gamma quadrant, Sisko and Quark are captured by the Jem'Hadar, the feared foot soldiers of the Dominion. Jake and Nog find where they are being held and then attempt to return to the station for help. After a warning from The Jem'Hadar not to enter the gamma quadrant, starfleet sends a Galaxy Class starship through the wormhole to confront the Jem'Hadar.
This is a terrific episode, and it was a fine way to end the second season.
We meet the Jem'Hadar for the first time, and see just how determined they are, when, after Sisko, Quark and an alien are rescued, a Jem'Hadar ship makes a suicide run into the federation starhip, thus destroying it.
The alien rescued with Sisko is a member of the Dominion, and warns Sisko that her people will not tolerate further incursions into their territory. She then teleports away.
I liked how they blew up the Galaxy Class ship (this episode aired a week or so after All Good Things....)
A great episode, I liked Quark's speech on humanity being worse than the Ferengi because, while the Ferengi are greedy, they never had wars or slavery or genocides like we did. It was an interesting point of view instead of the standard Star Trek line of "humans are perfect." And it raises the idea that humans are kind of racist on Star Trek with their judgement of Ferengis and other races. I think Sisko took this to heart as the following season he was open to the idea of Nog joining Starfleet.
When Tuvok crashes on a moon, he discovers three small children who believe they are about to die.
The kids actually are quite old, as people age backwards on their homeworld.
Tuvok takes the last child, a little girl, into the cave at episodes' end, so that she may go into the afterlife, once he learns that this is why the kids were taken to the planet in the first place.
I like this episode a lot.
The Thaw
The crew of Voyager encounters a planet that has recently entered an ice age. They discover a series of stasis chambers where a small group of people are mentally connected to an artificial environment that turned horribly wrong.
Michael McKean guest stars as Fear in this one, and he does a fine job. Janeway is able to free the hostages and beat Fear.
Seska lures Chakotay and Voyager to her, claiming that Maj Cullah is going to kill the baby she created using Chakotay's DNA, once he learns that it isn't his. Chakotay feels compelled to rescue his child, while all the time, he fears it could be a trap.
With the crew stranded on a barren planet, and the ship controlled by the Kazon, it's up to Tom Paris, Lon Suder, and The Doctor to retake Voyager and rescue their crewmates.
This two parter is outstanding, and easily one of the best Voyager episodes.
As a gift for negotiating with the Orion Syndicate, Captain Archer receives three Orion Slave Girls. Soon, their seductive powers begin to affect everyone on board except for Trip and T'Pol.
So we see more of the Orion slave girls, who debutted in TOS.
This episode wasn't exciting but it was pretty good.
In a Mirror, Darkly (1) & (2)
In the mirror universe, Commander Archer mutinies against Captain Forrest in order to capture a future Earth ship found in Tholian space.
In the mirror universe, Archer commandeers the 23rd-century Defiant from the Tholians and uses it in a nefarious power grab.
This is a remarkable episode!!!
It expounds upon the TOS episode, " Mirror, Mirror." It is best written, best directed and best acted alternate universe story that I have seen to date.
Archer is a power hungry commander who imprisons his captain to become a captain.
Lotta murder & mayhem.
We get to see a CGI Tholian, who looks as evil as Species 8472, and we see a beautifully done CGI version of a Gorn, instead of that awful " guy in the reptile suit " Gorn from TOS. It looked like a Velociraptor here, and quite deadly!
Best scene : In the beginning, when Zephram Cochrane meets the Vulcan in the final scene of First Contact... and kills him with a phase pistol.
Demons (1)
A xenophobic faction of humanity threatens to undermine talks to form a new coalition of planets.
T'Pol and Trip go to a mining colony on the moon and encounter a group of alien haters who want all aliens off of Earth!
THe two are taken to Mars, where the anti - comet array is used by the bad guy, played by Peter Weller. ( Robocop, Buckaroo Bonzai ) Now I gotta wait a week to find out how they escape!
As a gift for negotiating with the Orion Syndicate, Captain Archer receives three Orion Slave Girls. Soon, their seductive powers begin to affect everyone on board except for Trip and T'Pol.
So we see more of the Orion slave girls, who debutted in TOS.
This episode wasn't exciting but it was pretty good.
In a Mirror, Darkly (1) & (2)
In the mirror universe, Commander Archer mutinies against Captain Forrest in order to capture a future Earth ship found in Tholian space.
In the mirror universe, Archer commandeers the 23rd-century Defiant from the Tholians and uses it in a nefarious power grab.
This is a remarkable episode!!!
It expounds upon the TOS episode, " Mirror, Mirror." It is best written, best directed and best acted alternate universe story that I have seen to date.
Archer is a power hungry commander who imprisons his captain to become a captain.
Lotta murder & mayhem.
We get to see a CGI Tholian, who looks as evil as Species 8472, and we see a beautifully done CGI version of a Gorn, instead of that awful " guy in the reptile suit " Gorn from TOS. It looked like a Velociraptor here, and quite deadly!
Best scene : In the beginning, when Zephram Cochrane meets the Vulcan in the final scene of First Contact... and kills him with a phase pistol.
Demons (1)
A xenophobic faction of humanity threatens to undermine talks to form a new coalition of planets.
T'Pol and Trip go to a mining colony on the moon and encounter a group of alien haters who want all aliens off of Earth!
THe two are taken to Mars, where the anti - comet array is used by the bad guy, played by Peter Weller. ( Robocop, Buckaroo Bonzai ) Now I gotta wait a week to find out how they escape!
Great episode!!
I liked this stuff because they were expounding upon concepts from the first Trek that could have used some more work or reworking. The Gorn and Tholian Web for example. Good stuff.
I really like the Mirror Universe eps. because they really went all out with it to the point of even making a new intro that depicted war instead of the innovations into flight and space travel (also, none of that usual gay intro music) as well as creating scenes of the Human Empire at war with Klingons and other aliens. A really good story where they just cut loose and made a damn good story. Also, Jerry, it was a shotgun and not a phase gun that he used to kill the Vulcan.
As a gift for negotiating with the Orion Syndicate, Captain Archer receives three Orion Slave Girls. Soon, their seductive powers begin to affect everyone on board except for Trip and T'Pol.
So we see more of the Orion slave girls, who debutted in TOS.
This episode wasn't exciting but it was pretty good.
In a Mirror, Darkly (1) & (2)
In the mirror universe, Commander Archer mutinies against Captain Forrest in order to capture a future Earth ship found in Tholian space.
In the mirror universe, Archer commandeers the 23rd-century Defiant from the Tholians and uses it in a nefarious power grab.
This is a remarkable episode!!!
It expounds upon the TOS episode, " Mirror, Mirror." It is best written, best directed and best acted alternate universe story that I have seen to date.
Archer is a power hungry commander who imprisons his captain to become a captain.
Lotta murder & mayhem.
We get to see a CGI Tholian, who looks as evil as Species 8472, and we see a beautifully done CGI version of a Gorn, instead of that awful " guy in the reptile suit " Gorn from TOS. It looked like a Velociraptor here, and quite deadly!
Best scene : In the beginning, when Zephram Cochrane meets the Vulcan in the final scene of First Contact... and kills him with a phase pistol.
Demons (1)
A xenophobic faction of humanity threatens to undermine talks to form a new coalition of planets.
T'Pol and Trip go to a mining colony on the moon and encounter a group of alien haters who want all aliens off of Earth!
THe two are taken to Mars, where the anti - comet array is used by the bad guy, played by Peter Weller. ( Robocop, Buckaroo Bonzai ) Now I gotta wait a week to find out how they escape!
Great episode!!
I liked this stuff because they were expounding upon concepts from the first Trek that could have used some more work or reworking. The Gorn and Tholian Web for example. Good stuff.
I really like the Mirror Universe eps. because they really went all out with it to the point of even making a new intro that depicted war instead of the innovations into flight and space travel (also, none of that usual gay intro music) as well as creating scenes of the Human Empire at war with Klingons and other aliens. A really good story where they just cut loose and made a damn good story. Also, Jerry, it was a shotgun and not a phase gun that he used to kill the Vulcan.
Yeah, Doc, I like the episodes a lot because of all the links and continuity with TOS.
Well, the only part that didn't make any sense was that the Vulcans made first contact at all--being that the Earth was very warlike or dictator/fascist-like. I would assume the Vulcans would have continued to just watch the Earth.
Well, the only part that didn't make any sense was that the Vulcans made first contact at all--being that the Earth was very warlike or dictator/fascist-like. I would assume the Vulcans would have continued to just watch the Earth.
Thus did the Vulcans become a plot device.
Notice how the Vulcan dude had a goatee,just like mirror universe Spock did.
Yes, a shotgun. That's why it went boom and had smoke pouring out the barrel.
my boyfriend and I were on the couch and he said something to me, maybe it was, " Watch this! " and I missed exactly the point where Cochrane shot the Vulcan dude. I assumed it was a phaser.
Well, the only part that didn't make any sense was that the Vulcans made first contact at all--being that the Earth was very warlike or dictator/fascist-like. I would assume the Vulcans would have continued to just watch the Earth.
They were apparently at the same point that the regular Trek universe Earth was at. So the Vulcans landed under the same conditions.
Well, the only part that didn't make any sense was that the Vulcans made first contact at all--being that the Earth was very warlike or dictator/fascist-like. I would assume the Vulcans would have continued to just watch the Earth.
They were apparently at the same point that the regular Trek universe Earth was at. So the Vulcans landed under the same conditions.
Well, the only part that didn't make any sense was that the Vulcans made first contact at all--being that the Earth was very warlike or dictator/fascist-like. I would assume the Vulcans would have continued to just watch the Earth.
They were apparently at the same point that the regular Trek universe Earth was at. So the Vulcans landed under the same conditions.
Actually, the intro you were talking about made me think the Earth was already a much more violent place. If the Earth guys just stole one cruiser the Vulcans would have dealt them a nasty blow, and took back their shit or blew it up.
Well, the only part that didn't make any sense was that the Vulcans made first contact at all--being that the Earth was very warlike or dictator/fascist-like. I would assume the Vulcans would have continued to just watch the Earth.
They were apparently at the same point that the regular Trek universe Earth was at. So the Vulcans landed under the same conditions.
Actually, the intro you were talking about made me think the Earth was already a much more violent place. If the Earth guys just stole one cruiser the Vulcans would have dealt them a nasty blow, and took back their shit or blew it up.
Yes, more violent, but still blown to hell when the Vulcans came in. And maybe they were able to adapt the technology from that first Vulcan ship to build an armada before going head to head against the Vulcans.
When Captain Janeway and Chakotay contract an incurable virus they are left on a planet which shields them from its effects. While Janeway searches for a cure, she begins to form a deeper relationship with her first officer. Onboard Voyager, Tuvok, who is now in command, faces a near mutiny.
This episode was pretty good. Janeway and Chakotay got some off camera nukie with each other.
Flashback
After falling ill to what appears to be a repressed memory Tuvok must perform a mind-meld with Captain Janeway in order to survive. The meld takes them back to when Tuvok was a junior science officer aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu.
Of course a cure is found.
This episode wasn't so hot, but it's saving grace is that Sulu and his bridge crew are in it.
Well, Pen Pals and Samaritan Snare were on today - they are both very good episodes, but Q Who was supposed to be on in between them. That one is the best Season 2 episode, and the first appearance of the Borg.
I liked the episode where one of the captains had sex with an amphibious alien. I forget which captain it was, I was looking at the hot black lizard man.
The first was about two groups of human colonists; one, a rather simple and hedonistic people - and the other, a group of sexually abstinent intellectuals who propagte themsleves via cloning.
Pretty amusing episode.
Manhunt - Loxwana Troi is in heat! She comes to the Enterprise in search of a husband. An inadvertant visit to Picard's Dixon Hill program sees her falling for a holographic bartendar.
Paris and Kim are sent to an Akritian prison after being accused of a terrorist bombing, where they are thrown in among hardened killers. When the crew of Voyager finds out that Paris and Kim have already been tried, convicted and sentenced, they set off in search of the true perpetrators of the crime.
A good one. Ensign Kim finds a hunk of pipe and clobbers people with it, including Tom Paris.
The latter is because of an implant on all prisoners, which makes them more aggressive... towards each other.
The Swarm
Voyager must find a way to cross a region of space owned by a mysterious race of hostile aliens without being detected. Meanwhile, Torres and Kes must work quickly to save The Doctor when a malfunction in his program causes him to lose his memory.
Torres and Kes consult a program on the holodeck of the Doctor's creator. They use his holo matrix to fix the Doctor's.
He tells him before this that he will cease to exist once they use him to fix the Doctor.
Why didn't someone think to make a copy of the program that can save the Doctor?
Still, I like this one. Especially how Voyager defeated the Swarm by disconnecting them from all the others, thus severly reducing their powers and causing them to retreat.
Voyager discovers a pair of Ferengi, who arrived in the Delta Quadrant via the Barzan Wormhole, masquerading as gods to a primitive culture. The crew must find a way to put an end to this exploitation, while trying to use the same wormhole to get them home.
Yes, these two Ferengi are the same ones from the Next Gen ep. called " The Price."
It was funny. I like.
Remember
After Voyager encounter a telepathic species, B'Elanna starts having powerful dreams that depict the life of a woman and her lover in a time of great political and social upheaval.
These telepathically induced dreams are a woman's way of getting someone to know and remember the genocide of a race that happened on her planet. A good, moving episode.
Kes accidentally intrudes on a religious shrine and is almost killed by a strange energy beam. Told there is nothing that can medically be done to save her, Captain Janeway undergoes a spiritual quest to ask the 'spirits' to spare Kes's life.
This one is very good. Janeway and the Voyager crew keep looking to science to heal Kes...
But, in the end? It is faith that saves her.
Faith that Janeway found when she undertook a spiritual path.
Both Voyager and a 29th century Federation Timeship, the Aeon, are pulled back in time to Earth in the late 20th century. The Timeship Aeon crashes in Arizona during the 1960's, while Voyager appears in orbit around Earth during 1996.
Voyager must find a way to stop Starling, before his attempted use of the timeship destroys Earth's Solar System. Meanwhile, while trying to rescue Paris and Tuvok, Torres and Chakotay are captured by a militia cell who believe that they are from the government.
This is a great one. Ed Bagely Jr. plays Starling.
One must assume that, at episode's end,it becomes Bill Gates who creates the computer revolution which Starling had created, by using technology from the time machine he stole.
This is where the Doctor first gets his mobile emitter.
A human isolationist leader threatens to destroy Starfleet Command unless all aliens leave Earth immediately.
Well, the dickhead who wants to destroy Starfleet headquarters to enforce his rule that aliens must leave Earth was stopped.
The baby that is T'Pols' and Trip's turns out to be a clone from their DNA. T'Pol names it Elizabeth. It dies; not due to being a human - Vulcan hybrid, but due to a flaw in the cloning process.
Tucker tells T'Pol while she is mourning the child that the loss gets better with time.
Great episode... but, it leads to:
These Are The Voyages
Commander William Riker of the Enterprise-D is torn between his loyalty to Captain Picard and his duty to a former captain. To shed some light on his predicament, Riker visits a holodeck recreation of the final mission of the NX-01 and signing of the Federation Charter.
This is the FINAL Enterprise episode. It made me sad to see the show end.
Tucker is killed while trying to stop aliens who are out to get Shran and his daughter. He blows them up and fatally wounds himself in the process.
Shran and his daughter are saved. I grew to like Shran.
We don't get to hear Archer's speech at the end.
Tucker did tell T'Pol that the loss gets better with time. She tells him it does not.
He informs her that abscence makes the heart grow fonder.
I wish he had not died.
My boyfriend wtached this with me. He said this:
"If they had made the first two seasons as great as the last two,the show wouldn't have been cancelled."
Good point.
But!
Next was Boken Bow prts 1 & 2.
After decades of being held back from deep space exploration by the Vulcans, the human race makes its first venture into interstellar travel with Captain Jonathan Archer at the helm of the Enterprise NX-01. The Enterprise crew's mission is to return an injured Klingon, the first the human race has ever encountered, to his people. But when a villainous race of aliens called the Suliban kidnap the Klingon, Archer and his crew must make an unexpected detour to another planet to retrieve their precious cargo... and stave off a dangerous interstellar diplomatic crisis.
They take the Klingon to Chronos to deliver info that the Suliban are trying to make civil war between the Klingons, to prevent them from being a threat to them.
We first meet Silik the Suliban. He becomes an interesting recurring character.
I am still seeing episodes I have never seen before.
Enterprise lasted longer than TOS.....it was the best since...the only problem I have with Enterprise is Ryker and Troi fucking up the last episode...pussies.
You can't have pussy Trek fucking up bad ass Trek...
Enterprise lasted longer than TOS.....it was the best since...the only problem I have with Enterprise is Ryker and Troi fucking up the last episode...pussies.
You can't have pussy Trek fucking up bad ass Trek...
Yeah, I didn't care for the Riker - Troi infestation, either.
Frakes just wanted to appear in another Trek show.. he was in all of them save for TOS..
and I did love when Archer - Kirk - and Picard said " These are the voyages.. " at episodes end...
Dammit! I want another Trek series, but only if it can be a great show like Enterprise was in it's last two seasons.. but fans don't want to wait, they want it to be magnificent all at once, instantly.
Both Voyager and a 29th century Federation Timeship, the Aeon, are pulled back in time to Earth in the late 20th century. The Timeship Aeon crashes in Arizona during the 1960's, while Voyager appears in orbit around Earth during 1996.
Voyager must find a way to stop Starling, before his attempted use of the timeship destroys Earth's Solar System. Meanwhile, while trying to rescue Paris and Tuvok, Torres and Chakotay are captured by a militia cell who believe that they are from the government.
This is a great one. Ed Bagely Jr. plays Starling.
One must assume that, at episode's end,it becomes Bill Gates who creates the computer revolution which Starling had created, by using technology from the time machine he stole.
This is where the Doctor first gets his mobile emitter.
this is just a little bit right before i started really getting into the show...
An away team inadvertently breaks the Prime Directive and reveals themselves to a primitive culture on Mintaka III, leading the inhabitants to believe that Captain Picard is a god.
This one is in my top ten Next Gen. episodes.
Favorite line at the end:
Nuria: ( To Picard ) " Have safe journeys, Picard ... and please, remember us."
The Bonding
Worf and Wesley must help a 12 year old boy cope with the death of his mother; an archaeologist killed during an away mission to a deserted planet.
Another great one. It's sad, yes, but the loss of a parent is a terrible thing. It happens. This tale of loss was told quite well.
Beardguy, this thread is actually kinda like your blog only other people can post in it and stuff.
This thread is about how I feel about one of my major passions - Star Trek.
There's too much unhappy shit in my life that I try not to think about. Star Trek is a terrific escape for me. Through out all my life, there was always sci - fi, comics, and my own creative endeavors.
An actual blog in here would be.. too awkward, and too personal. I started an online blog, but turned it into a place to post my stories instead. That feels right to me.
While investigating an ancient ship left adrift in space, the Enterprise accidentally trips the ancient booby trap that disabled the old vessel over 1000 years ago.
I freakin' love this one!
Geordi goes into the holodeck, back to the design place for Enterprise 1701 - D, and consults with a holo - Leah Brahms, who is a propulsion expert.
Geordi falls in love with her as they work to free Enterprise from the deadly trap, which will kill the crew with fatal radiation in 26 minutes.
The ship's computer tries through Leah to get the ship out, and Geordi makes this proposal to the Captain, who decides to lead the ship out of the asteroid field himself, and does so quite brilliantly.
The Enemy
A blind Geordi is trapped on a hazardous planet with a paranoid and severely injured Romulan. In orbit, a Romulan Warbird prevents the Enterprise from attempting a rescue mission.
Another superb episode!
Geordi and the Romulan must co-operate to get to the staionary nuetrino pulse thingie that Enterprise put nearby, and change it's signal to let Enterprise know where they are.
Romulan Commander Tomalak is taking his warbird into the nuretal zone to recsue his men.
He lies, telling Picard it was a one man craft, and the Romulan who was rescued on the plaqnet dies because Worf would not help him with a bone marrow transplant. It was Romulans who killed Worf's parents.
There is a bit of a confrontation that almost leads to a war, but Picard beams Geordi and the surviving Romulan to the Enterprise, sends the Romulan back to his own ship.
This ship was part of an experiment with phased cloaking technology. ( See " The Next Phase" and " The Pegasus " for more on that. )
Captain Janeway repeatedly dies after she and Chakotay crash into a planet in what appears to be a time loop. Soon, her deceased father appears and tells her that she is dead and must accept her situation and move on.
Janeway resists and awakens.
I like this one a lot. It shows us just how strong a person Captain Janeway is. I admire strength.
I would say that most of my heroes are fictional, and Captain Janeway is one of them. Fictional heroes rarely let you down.
Ensign Vorik expresses his desire to mate with B'Elanna during his Pon-Farr. After they get in a brawl over the matter, Torres begins showing signs of the Pon-Farr herself.
B'Elanna, Neelix and Paris beam down to a seemingly deserted planet to get the much needed element, galacite.
B'Elanna begins to show the early signs of Pon - farr. She bites Tom on the face, which means she wants to make fuck with him.
Meanwhile, on Voyager, Vorik seeks treatment for his condition. The Doctor suggests he go to Holodeck 1 and he programs a Vulcan woman for Vorik.
The Doctor returns to the holodeck much later to find a relaxed, now calm Vorik.
Back on the planet, Neelix and Torres have fallen off a cliff but are ok. Tom gets down there. Without their ropes, which broke, they cannot get back up, so they search the caves for galacite, when Chakotay & Tuvok beam down to help. That is when natives confront the group,and tell them that they had hid in the caves to escape deadly alien invaders, who destroyed everything.
A cave in traps Tom and Torres, who are rescued by Chakotay. B'Elanna admits to herself and Tom that she finds him attractive, but he cannot bring himself to mate with her as he does not want to take advantage of her condition.
They tell thye aliens that they will help them to stay undectectable to others in exchange for some galacite.
They try to contact Voyager, but to no avail. Vorik beams down, and informs them that he sabotaged Voyager's comm, transporter and shuttles.
He wants to mate with B'Elanna, who refuses. Tom offers to fight Vorik, but Torres, knowing he is not as strong as Vorik, chooses to fight Vorik herself - and wins. All trace of her Pon - Farr is gone. The fight took it out of Vorik, too.
Voyager is fixed soon and beams them back, but not before Chakotay and Janeway find the body of one of the alien invaders who destroyed the planet - a Borg.
A very good episode. It marks the first appearance of the Borg in this show.
Captain Janeway repeatedly dies after she and Chakotay crash into a planet in what appears to be a time loop. Soon, her deceased father appears and tells her that she is dead and must accept her situation and move on.
Janeway resists and awakens.
I like this one a lot. It shows us just how strong a person Captain Janeway is. I admire strength.
I would say that most of my heroes are fictional, and Captain Janeway is one of them. Fictional heroes rarely let you down.
They're written far better than we are!
yeah i love janeway too. shes my favorite captain though i know im in the minority there...
Enterprise was on last night. Since Spike is running Kung foo movies all week, it is the only Trek on this week...
Fight Or Flight
Two weeks into their mission, the Enterprise crew is anxious to encounter other intelligent life. However, they soon make a horrifying discovery aboard another starship.
Yeah, they find a ship full of dead aliens. At first, Hoshi freaks out and then the away team gets back to Enterprise.. but, Archer thinks about it and they go back and try to summon others from the ship's race to come, that is when a big, bad, mean looking alien ship arrives, fires on Enterprise, and is about to board Enterprise when a ship from the dead alien's homeworld shows up.. Hoshi is able to overcome her self doubts about her being helpful on the mission, translates what the aliens in the second ship ( They are the ones who killed the aliens in the ship Enterprise found. ) are saying and gets them to understand that they are friends...
and their new friends destroy the ship that was attacking Enterprise.. cool episode!
Strange New World
Crew members begin to experience hallucinations and paranoia while investigating an uninhabited planet.
This one was kinda wierd. 4 crew members, including T'Pol and Tucker stay on the planet for the night..there's a bad storm and they take shelter in a cave.
It is here that they begin to have halluniactions of seeing "rock people."
This is due to the influencing of the spores of hallunigenic plants blwoing around.
The Doctor is able to beam down something to stop these delusions, but not before everyone except T'POl freaks out.
It was good, but I'd have preferred the rovk people to be real. They looked pretty cool.
Unexpected
When Trip is dispatched to assist a Xyrillian ship with its power source problems, he is delighted to have a friendly encounter with one of the ship's female engineers. However, shortly after returning to Enterprise, he discovers that their special moment has resulted in his becoming pregnant. Now Enterprise must try to track down the Xyrillians in the hope of transferring the rapidly growing embryo to another host.
There was a terrific scene where we see the holodeck that the aliens have, the likes of which we won't see on Enterprise till 200 years later.
This was a very good episode!
Terra Nova
The Enterprise crew alters course to investigate the mystery of Terra Nova, a legendary Earth colony whose inhabitants mysteriously disappeared decades ago. However, when they arrive, they are confronted by descendants of the colonists, who have become more alien than anyone could ever have imagined.
The people in the caves won't accept that they are really humans.
They get over it.
It was an okay episode
and there you have a review of this week's Enterprise episodes!
I forgot to mention this fact from the episode called " Strange New World."
This episode introduces the concept of Minshara class planets - those capable of supporting humanoid life. Throughout the other Star Trek series, these planets are referred to simply as "M Class."
I forgot to mention this fact from the episode called " Strange New World."
This episode introduces the concept of Minshara class planets - those capable of supporting humanoid life. Throughout the other Star Trek series, these planets are referred to simply as "M Class."
good episode. I liked the explanation of M Class and planetary ratings being based on Vulcan standards. I always figured humans would call them "A Class." I also liked the idea that Enterprise being the first Warp 5 vessel is such a radical expansion of human travel ability. And how that jump in speed turned 2 year voyages in about a week. They had a similar thing in year 2 with a freighter that ran a two month route between worlds and how the captain felt faster ships were going to kill the adventure and peace of slow space travel.
Captain Janeway repeatedly dies after she and Chakotay crash into a planet in what appears to be a time loop. Soon, her deceased father appears and tells her that she is dead and must accept her situation and move on.
Janeway resists and awakens.
I like this one a lot. It shows us just how strong a person Captain Janeway is. I admire strength.
I would say that most of my heroes are fictional, and Captain Janeway is one of them. Fictional heroes rarely let you down.
They're written far better than we are!
yeah i love janeway too. shes my favorite captain though i know im in the minority there...
Chakotay responds to a distress call, and discovers a group of different species, many of which originate from the Alpha Quadrant, living on a planet stricken by conflict. After Chakotay learns that they are all de-assimilated Borg, a group of colonists make a very unorthodox and dangerous request of Voyager.
The request: To activate the generator on the badly damaged Borg cube that will link all the ex BOrg as a collective.
Chakotay has to become linked to the ex Borg, to allow them to heal him from injuries sustained in a fight on the planet.
They later use the link to control him to turn on the generator in the Borg cube; this unifies the ex Borg, who then command the cube to self destruct, once Chakotay and the away team are safely on board Voyager.
This is one of my all time favorite Voyager episodes.
It represents a first encounter with the Borg for Voyager, unless you count when they saw a dead Borg on a planet a few episodes ago.
A Vulcan starship interferes with Archer's probe of an oversized comet.
Archer invites the Vulcan Captain aboard for dinner, who is a typically Vulcan cold fish - and does not eat the meal.. and leaves shortly after.
Archer decides the invitation was a mistake.
Reed and Mayweather take a shuttle pod to the comet. They collect a core sample. Archer tells them that explosives they had used to drill into the comet have caused the comet to rotate a bit faster than normal, and the two must be off the comet before the side they are on faces a star, which will cause the temperature on the comet to rise by a few hundred degrees, and causes cave ins and melting of the ice.
They almost make it but the shuttle pod falls about 18 meters below the comet's surface.. they are trapped!
Archer tries the grappler to free them, but minerals prevent the magnetic grapplers from being effective enough.
The Vulcan captain volunteers to help with his ship's tractor beam.
Archer swallows his pride and accepts the help; Mayweather and Reed are saved.
Captain Archer and the crew discover a fully inhabited, pre-industrial, Minshara class planet. However, upon further investigation, they discover what appears to be advanced technology being used secretly, which may responsible for a terrible illness.
Archer, T'POl, Hoshi and Tucker take a shuttle pod to an M class planet that is pre - industrial age... except...
.. That scans have revealed an anti matter energy source, located under a curio shop. A woman named Riann, who is a physician who is the Jonas Salk of her planet - ahead of most physicians there- investigates and discovers the away team in the shop.
Archer stuns her with his phase pistol.
He sends the rest of the away team back to Enterprise.
The woman awakens; she is very intelligent and does noy accept Archer's explanations as to why he is there.
He meets an alien who uses the shop to send out huge crates of unknown substance out from there.
After a shoot out with aliens from the samne race as the first alien, while their ship is using a tractor beam to take the crates into it's cargo hold, Archer decides to tell Riann the truth.. that he is from another planet and has come from far away in a starship on a peacful mission of exploration.
Riann has an open mind and accepts this from Archer. There is a cute scene where his universal translator begins to fail, and he cannot understand her, so he kisses her, and behind her back is able to reprogram the device to function properly. ( This action is not lost on Riann, who, when Archer kisses her again before he departs the planet, asks if his translator device is broken again. )
They get into the basement of the shop and find the source of the anti matter energy.. a machine which is powering drilling and mining machines! It is also poisoning the water table in the village.
Archer and Riann debate which button to push on the machine - the bluye or yellow one...Archer goes with the blue button, which sets off an alarm which brings the first alien back to the machine. He demans that Archer step outside.
Enterprise is being attacked by a larger and more powerful ship, which belongs to the aliens. Archer has already talked with his ship, and they beam the anti matter device into space, and fire a photon torpedo at it at close ranne to the alien vessel, which destroys their shields, thus enabling the Enterprise to fire at their weapons array.
Archer talks with Riann, and gives her a cure for the poisoning. He kisses her goodby and leaves.
The Enterprise crew is dispatched by Starfleet Command to assist Fortunate, a human freight vessel that has been attacked by Nausicaan pirates. On arriving, they are surprised to find that Fortunate's crew is resistant to Archer's efforts to help them and determined to seek revenge against their attackers, no matter what the repercussions.
The captain of the freighter is badly injured and must remain on Enterprise to be treated by the Doctor.
The second in command is now in charge. He talks with Mayweather, who was raised on a freighter. He is disappointed with Mayweather for not being more sympathetic to wanted revenge on the Nausicaans.
Second in command guy takes the freighter, which has been repaired by Enterprise and goes off to destroy Nausicaans.
Meanwhile, they have a Nausicaan hostage.
Enterprise's long range scanners were damaged by the freighter, and thus, they are unable to pursue them.. until they decide to simply find a Nausicaan ship, as that is where the freighter is headed.
The frieghter finds 3 Nausicaan ships and is getting clobbered badly when Enterprise finds them, finally.
Archer convinces the second in command to surrender his hostage; Mayweather was instramental in achieving this, as he had talked to him during the hopeless battle.
The Defector was on yesterday.. a high ranking Romulan defects and is taken aboard Enterprise... The dialogue is excellent in this one, and the last 10 minutes of the episode are awesome!
The Hunted.. a metaphor about how the Vietnam vets were basically abandoned after the war ended by their own government and by the American people, as that had been a very unpopular war.
The episode itself was done quite well. A man escapes a lunar colony where former soldiers of a war who had been specially conditioned to be the perfect killing machine were unable to cope in peace time.
While on an away mission to help a planet being bombarded with asteroids, Neelix comes up with a dangerous plan to re-establish communication with Voyager. However, he is pushed to the limit when Tuvok's negative attitude toward him becomes too much to bear.
This is a superb episode!
After their shuttke crashes and is badly damaged, Neelix and Tuvok find an elevator that can take them above an ionsphere which is preventing contact with Voyager.. they take 4 aliens who live on the planet with them.
One alien is poisoned and dies.
His last words were, " Must go on the roof and get it.. "
Tuvok does not want to listen to Neelix, whom he breates, until Neelix stops the elevator and says he will not restart it until someone goes above and finds the "it" to which the dying alien was referring.. and, since only Neelix knwos how to operate the elevator, Tuvok reluctantly agrees and does so. He finds tactical info on a ship belonging to a race of aliens who is responsible for the asteroid bombardment.
Another alien badly injures Neelix, apparently throws Tuvok to his death, and then closes the door so that Tuvok, who is still alive, cannot re- enter the elevator.
Neelix has a concussion but manages to open the door to re - admit Tuvok,who fights with the evil alien, who gets thrown out the door.
After closing the door, Tuvok inspires Neelix to hlep get the remaining 4 of them to safety by telling him that Neelix's sister, Ilixia, ( Whom Neelix had named the elrvator after. ) would have been proud of him.
Neelix gets up and re - starts the elevator, which gets above the planet's ionosphere, and the contact Voyager, who has by now encountered the evil aliens who luanched the asteroid attack on the planet, in order to drive away the colonists and claim the planet as their own...
Tuvok uses the info he has on the alien ship to destroy their shields and weapons array; the aliens are licked and they leave.
Tuvok and Neelix have a typicalk debate at episode's end.
Tuvok likes to have the last word!
A really great episode!
Very much like one of those submarine movies made about WW2.
The sense of fear and claustrophobia represented is quite real.
Kes begins traveling backwards through time from the moment of her death. With each shift, she comes closer to a solution but she also grows months and years younger at a time.
This is a great episode, and one of the too few that focused on Kes. Her character was never used or explored properly.
Real Life
The Doctor decides he should create a holographic family in order to expand himself. When B'Elanna is disgusted by its unrealistic perfectionism, she alters the program to include random events and outcomes with interesting and devastating results.
The end is very sad. The Doctor has a wife, a teenage son, and a preteen girl. The girl is fatally injured while playing Paresi Squares.
The son wants to be a Klingon.
But that is life in a family....
This is one of my very favorites. It was written well. Loved the sub plot with Tom Paris stuck in subspace in a shuttle.
An alien paleontologist discovers a common ancestral link between his people and humans. He believes that this proves that his people, the Voth, evolved on Earth and migrated to the Delta Quadrant millions of years ago, but his government is not as willing to believe his interpretation of the evidence.
The aliens are descended from Earth's dinosaurs, and vaguely resemble Hadrosuars.
The paleontologist suggests to his Gov't his theory, and the leader, a very bitchy older Hadrosaurid, captures Voyager and it's crew in her city sized ship and threatens to put both he and and they in prison if he does not recant his claim. He does so, only to avoid seeing Janeway and her crew suffer.
He is not unlike Galileo, in his time, being imprisoned in his home by the catholic church, for daring to say that the Earth revolved around the sun, and not vice versa.
Excellent show!
Worst Case Scenario
A holo-novel is discovered in the computer banks, in which Chakotay raises a Maquis mutiny on Voyager. Then, when Paris and Tuvok discover that the program has been altered, they and the Voyager crew must race to stay one step ahead of a holographic Seska.
Voyager crew members begin to disappear, and aliens take their place.
Voyager;s crew are transported to a holding area, where they are resourceful and find a way to sabotage the alien's systems until they are released and returned back to Voyager.
I like this one a lot.
I liked how the crew built a couple of crude phasers. And how they managed to smuggle the Doctor to the confinement place by use of his mobile emitter.
In case anyone is taping these shows, Star Trek: Voyager - episode called Scorpion parts one and two are on Spike tv today at 4 pm to 6 pm, eastern time.
This one introduces 7 of 9, and Species 8472.
The Borg guest star in this and this time, they are not dead things in a wrecked cube!
Data creates an android daughter, whom he names Lal, which means "Beloved" in Hindi.
Lal is brilliantly portrayed by Hallie Todd.
Admiral Haftel comes aboard Enterprise and decides after talking with Lal that she must be taken away to a Starfleet facility, to be educated.
Lal suffers a cascade failure after talking with Haftel; it is far too soon to seperate Lal from Data, and fear of this may be what caused her positronic net to fail.
Flaw : Haftel ought NOT to have had the power to take Lal away. Android rights were established in the second season, with the episode, " Measure Of A Man. "
It was still a fantastic episode, though.
The part where Lal and Data say goodby was quite moving.
Sins Of The Father
Worf is reunited with his long-lost brother when their father is charged with treason for helping the Romulans. Together they make an appeal to the Klingon High Council to challenge the charges, and have them revoked.
It is really Durass's father who was the traitor that helped the Romulans, but this knowledge of such a respected Klingon family could cause civil war, so, poor old Worf chooses to become the scape gaot, and, in lieu of being executed, accepts discommodation from the Kilngo Empire.
His brother, Kurn, is played very well by Tony Todd, who also starred in the Candyman movies.
While on vacation on Risa, Captain Picard encounters two Vorgons from the 27th Century who claim they are searching for a powerful weapon hidden somewhere on the planet.
A woman named Vash ( Played beautifully by Jennifer Hetrick. ) has a stolen data disc on this weapon, which can stop all nuclear fusion in a sun.
A Ferengi harrasses Picard and Vash about the disc.
Picard finally finds and has the weapon destroyed so that no one can use such a terrible weapon.
The inevitable finally happens, as Voyager enters Borg space. However, they soon encounter a new threat, in a species even more powerful and dangerous than the Borg.
Captain Janeway forges an unlikely alliance with the Borg. In exchange for safe passage through Borg space, Voyager will provide the Borg with the medical technology necessary to defeat Species 8472.
This is by far one of my favorite Voyager episodes.
Seven of Nine joins the Voyager crew. She helped save the show. Her boobs gave the series a huge ratings boost!
Archer invites a group of stargazers aboard, not realizing that Silik, a Suliban enemy, is among them.
This episode marks the introduction of the temporal agent, Daniels. This is the first time Daniels dies, after being shot by Silik.
Larry Niven wrote an interesting non-fiction essay on time-travel. Assuming that it is true "time travel" (i.e., producing reconfiguration of a single linear sequence of events, rather than simply creating a new branch-point in a multiverse of probability branch-sequences), he makes the case that all time-travel inventions will inevitably result in pinching themselves off and destroying the sequence of events which produced the time-travel invention, hence even if time travel is possible, it will never exist.
This one, like so many other Enterprise episodes, is quite good!
Loved the special effect where Time agent Daniels shows Archer the future in a holgraphic time line...
Silent Enemy
When Enterprise is attacked by an unidentified enemy ship, the crew must work frantically to get their new phase canons to operate. Meanwhile, the captain charges Hoshi with finding out Malcolm's favourite food in time for a surprise birthday dinner.
The music for this episode was composed by Velton Ray Bunch, who worked on Scott Bakula's previous series, Quantum Leap.
It is said several times that they need to find our Malcolm's favourite food for his birthday dinner. However, once they finally figure it out, there is no dinner - only an impromptu get-together of a couple of officers with a cake.
His favorite food? Pineapple!
Malcom and Tucker try the phase canons out, and destroy a mountain top on a lifeless world, but the plasma relays overload in the process.
They get it all fixed, and fire on the enemy ship, with negligible effects, until they decide to cause the overload again, and are able to prevent the phase canon from causing as much damage as before. The shots destroy the ships' deflector shields; a few well aimed torpedoes cause a lot of damage to the ship, which limps off into the direction it came, venting drive plasma as it does so.
Love this one! The fight scenes were great fun, and the sub plot with Malcom's birthday was a nice touch.
Dear Doctor
The crew visits a planet that is home to two distinct humanoid species. When it is discovered that one of the two might be headed toward extinction, Archer and Phlox have to make a difficult decision whether or not to become involved.
I was on the phone during most of this one. It looked okay..
Sleeping Dogs
While investigating a gas giant, Enterprise comes across a damaged vessel hovering in the atmosphere, and T'Pol, Hoshi and Malcolm go aboard to investigate. However, once aboard, they are ambushed by a hostile female Klingon who hijacks their shuttlepod, and strands them on the Klingon ship, which threatens to implode under the pressure of the planet's atmosphere.
This one is very good! We get to observe what was for the Enterprise crew their first first glimpse of Klingon food.
This episode introduces photon torpedoes.
Every now and then, Klingons in the Star Trek Universe mention a Targ, mostly as a pet, and in this episode we get another rare view of one.
There were a few goofs, like, why did Hoshi, Malcom, and T'Pol have to undergo decontamination, but not Archer? They were all on board the Klingon vessel.
Seven Of Nine, the Borg drone that Voyager severed from the collective, tries to resist as her natural human physiology tries to regenerate. It's up to Captain Janeway to convince her to embrace her humanity and join the Voyager crew. Meanwhile, Kes' telekinetic powers grow to such a point that she can no longer control them.
This is an excellent episode.
Kes rapidly begins to drift further away from the realm of the physical, even as Seven of Nine must deal with having been part of a larger thing - the Borg collective - and must now learn to cope with being "small" - an individual.
Kes takes a shuttle and disappears into another reality.. and throws Voyager almost 10,000 light years closer to Earth in the process!
Wow...
Last Kes episode, until that other one later in the series where she comes back pissed at Janeway for "abandoning her."
Day of Honor
While Seven of Nine struggles with her humanity, Captain Janeway tries to help a group of aliens whose species was almost entirely assimilated by the Borg. Meanwhile, the Klingon "Day of Honor" turns into a string of bad luck for B'Elanna.
This one is superb!
B'Elanna tries to do the KLingon Day Of Honor ritual ( In The holodeck. ), but she cannot handle the pain sticks. She fights off three KLingon warriors and flees the holodeck.
Later, in an attempt to take Voyager into a trans warp conduit, which Seven of Nine helps, the warp core begins to breach and must be ejected.
It is later determined that the breach was accidental, and that Seven had not purposely caused it.
Voyager had earlier given supplies to a race of aliens whose planet had been devastated by The Borg.
The aliens seize the warp core, which Tom and B'Elanna had taken a shuttle to bring back. The shuttle attempts to break the alien tractor beam, but an anti matter pulse is fed back to them through their own ray, and Tom and B'Elanna must don space suits and beam safely away from the shuttle before it explodes.
An ion wave reduces their oxygen supply from 24 hours to one half hour.
B'Elanna sees this as a time to admit to Tom something she has been afraid to tell him.... that she loves him.
Voyager arrives just in time to beam the two on board, take back the warp core and resume a course for home... Earth.
I have been taping extra copies of my favorite episodes, and will retape it when it is on again on Spike late tonight.
year of hell is comming up right? keep me posted jerry. DO NOT fail me...
Year Of Hell is probably my VERY favorite Voyager episode, K - Nut.
I looked up tomorrow's Voyager episodes on Spike but for some reason, they did not show up... but, according to my calculations, based on the Voyager episode guide, Year Of Hell ought to be on NEXT Monday, July 23,at 4 pm eastern time.
Check your local listings.
The episode has everything that good sci - fi ought to have:
A sense of purpose. Major problems to be overcome. A determined character ( Janeway ) who won't be swayed from her goal. Great script Excellent storyline. Awesome time travel premise. and Seven Of Nine...
I will update this when Spike TV shows what episodes are on tomorrow.
The Enterprise encounters a "living" ship in the Neutral Zone, and risks breaking the Romulan Federation alliance in order to bring it into contact with a Betazoid emissary.
Harry Groener plays the betazoid telepath Tam Elbran. Groener was also in an Enterprise episode.
Tin Man is a huge, living ship that looks like a ginormous pine cone.
Tam Elbran and the ship, whose name is Gumptu, are in telepathic contact from light years away... impossible for Elbran, but not for Tin Man.
A Romulan ship follows Enterprise : It's mission : Make contact with the alien, or destroy it.
Elbran warns the alien, who destroys the Romulan ship and damages Enterprise badly.
Another Romulan ship arrives.
Elbran and Data transport aboard the alien; it has an area where a crew once lived, until radiation killed them. The ship was lonely and wanted to die, and was in orbit around Beta Strongrin, a star that was about to go nova.
The ship and Elbran bonded. The ship sent Data back to Enterprise and threw Enterprise and the Romulan ship 3.8 billion miles away from the star, which explodes.
Now Elbran, a telepath born with his powers switched on at birth can relax.. he is away from all the choatic minds of humans. ( He never could shut out the thoughts of others )
A very good episode!!
I slept through Hollow Pursuits, as I was very tired. It's a good one. Wish I had seen it.
B'Elanna and The Doctor respond to a distress call and come to the aid of a malfunctioning hologram.
Yeah, and the hologram is mental and had killed all the humans aboard it's ship.
It is named Dejaren, and is played by leland Orser,who was also in the fourth ALien movie, Alien Ressurection. He was kinda metal in that one, as well...
Anyway, Harry and Seven of Nine work together on projects on Voyager. Harry begins to fall for her. At one point, she tells him she knows he digs and her, and comes on to him VERY strongly. This freaks Harry out! It was funny to watch.
The crazy hologram begins to speak of his revulsion towards humans. Apparently, the humans were cruel to him, which is sad, but does not excuse his killing of the humans.. well, they weren't from Earth, but they looked a lot like us humans.
He scares B'Elanna with his anti human talk, and she decides to shut him off, but he attacks and nearly kills her, after he has disabled the Doctor's program.
She uses a live wire to destroy the crazy hologram, then, though injured, reactivates the Doctor.
They return to Voyager, and the Doctor heals B'Elanna.
Tom Paris had been filling in for the Doctor. He left sickbay a mess.. the Doctor begins to talk like the sicko hologram about humans and their oily fingerprints, etc, then says, " Just Kidding. "
And says he'll loosen up and be a bit more relaxed and not quite so fastideous.
I laughed out loud several times during this one; it is a favorite and it is simply awesome.
Chakotay's shuttle crash lands on a planet where a war is being waged between two species. He is drafted, brainwashed and trained to hate and kill the enemy.
The one species is contacted by Voyager, and helps find the missing first officer.
Tuvok goes with the aliens to rescue Chakotay, who sees him as an enemy alien until Tuvok is able to convince him it is he.
At episode's end, Chakotay is confronted in sickbay by one of the aliens, who look kinda like Nausicans.
He is unable to relate to the alien and leaves sickbay.
He later tells Capatin Janeway that he wishes it were as easy to stop hating as it was to start hating.
This episode was kinda preachy, but it made a good point:
Being brainwashed to hate is bad.
I used to not like this one, but, after seeing it a few times now, it is pretty good.
Mr Spock's father is in this one. He has the early stages of a disease which takes away his control over his emotions. He comes aboard the ship for an important talk with aliens.
The crew of Enterprise become increasingly angry, and fights break out!
His illness is discovered. Captain Picard bravely suggests a mind meld, so that Sarek will have his shit together enough for his important dimplomatic mission.
Picard suffers the intense and unrestrained Vulcan emotions, while Sarek has Picard's strength and focus.
After the meeting is over, the meld is reversed.
Sarek and Pircard got to know each other rather well from this.
The Most Toys
Data is kidnapped by an obssessed collector. The Enterprise believe Data to have been killed in a shuttle accident, but they grow suspicious when certain facts don't add up.
Data is forced to wear other clothes and sit in a chair.
Varia, the collector's assistant, decides to help free Data, because the collector threatened to kill her to make Data sit in that chair.
The escape attempt fails, and the Collector, named Fasho, kills Varia horribly with a varron T Disruptor.
Data has a disruptor and is about to kill Fasho with it when Enterprsie beams him aboard. Fasho is arrested.
For a non feeling android, Data felt something akin to emotion, considering he almost killed Fasho!
Seven goes nuts, becomes more Borg, and clobbers crew members of Voyager. She takes a shuttle to a planet and finds the ship her parents and her were in called The Raven.
She finds that an alarm got her back there.
A race of aliens wants to kill her, due to her being an ex Borg.
Tuvok goes to bring her back but ends up being taken along to the planet.
Seven has flashbacks.
The aliens fire on the ship.
Voyager beams the two away from the ship as it is falling apart.
This one was better than it sounds. Not a favorite, but I like Seven Of Nine.
The next one dealt with Tom and B'Elanna's budding romance, and with a bunch of invisible aliens who are doing DNA altering and other experiments on the Voyager crew.
The Doctor has to hide in a holodeck because the aliens tried to sabotage his program. They did not want him ruining their fun!
He summons Seven and tells her of this, and fixes her occular implant so that she can see the aliens. The Doctor hatches a plan where Seven will knock out the crew and then render the aliens visible, but Tuvok stops her.
She does use a phaser to make one alien visible. Alien is taken to Janeway. Janeway takes Voyager to a double Pulsar, which could destroy the ship.
Aliens leave, and one of their ships is blwon up by the pulsar.
Voyager emerges safely on the other side of the pulsars.
The Doctor is free to restore all crew members to their normal state before they were experimented on.
B'ELanna is taking R&R on a planet of telepaths. Some guy bumps into her, and she has a momentary violent thought about kicking the guy's ass.
Another guy who touched her to help her goes off and kills someone.
A law enforcement official wants to purge B'ELanna of her violent thought. This would be an invasive procedure.
Tuvok goes to the planet to investigate. He discovers that violent thoughts are being bought and sold. He encounters a man who is part of such a ring. He performs a mind meld, and renders the man unconscious.
He takes the man to Voyager, where he is able to contact the Law Enforcement official and stop the procedure on B'Elanna before it is completed.
Seven of Nine rebukes Janeway for stopping at planets where they can get into trouble such as in this episode, but Janeway says never stopping anywhere to explore would be boring.
Seven just walks out of Janeway's quarters.
I like this one a lot.
Imagine.. a world with very little crime.. where just THINKING a violent thought is a crime!
A race called the Krenum creates and uses a huge, powerful vessel, capable of eliminating an entire species at a time by making it as that species had never existed.
Annorax is the man who both created and commands this time ship.
A Vral ship meets Voyager; a representive from the ship beams over.
A Krenum ship approaches Voyager as it is about to enter Krenum space.
It is a small, relatively harmless ship.. but, the commander on it is pissed because he believes Janeway and the Vral have formed an alliance against the Krenum.
Until the time ship - which exists outside of normal space - eliminates all the intelligent life on the Vral planet which had defeated the Krenum in battle.
That is when the small Krenum ship, affected by the time change, becomes bigger and meaner looking -and both the Vral ship disappear. No one on Voyager even remembers the Vral!
Voyager is hit by Chronoton Torpedos, which are temporal ( time ) projectiles that phase through time and space to penetrate an opponent ship's deflector shields.
The torpedos wreak havoc on Voyager, it's systems and her crew.
Think of the damage to Enterprise during the Xindi War - only about 20 times WORSE.
Tuvok is blinded while Seven gets the phase variance of an undetonated chronoton torpedo, which explodes.
Many decks are destroyed or rendered uninhabitable.
Warp drive is offline. Replicators are damaged badly. Sickbay is destroyed.
Chakotay and Paris are abducted by the time ship.
Part one ends with Janeway telling the crew to do the one thing she wanted least to do - to abandon ship in the escape pods, and to do their best to find allies that will help against the Krenum.
Part two opens with a now blinded Tuvok shaving and cutting himself.
Seven of Nine comes to his quarters, and, after chastizing him for not letting her do his grooming for him, they go out to inspect Voyager's crew and systems.
The bridge crew and Neelix have remained.
The ship is hiding out in a pinkish nebula.
There is extensive enough damage to the ship's hull that the nebula seeps inside.
Janeway and Harry fix the ship's ventilation system so that the nebula won't come inside Voyager.
Meanwhile, Paris and Chakotay do their best to learn about Annorax's timeship, gain his trust, and gain allies on the ship - crewman who have been there for 200 years, while Annorax attempts in vain to restore the Krenum colony called Keanu Prime ( Is that one known as the Excellent colony? )as it was where hsi wife died during an attack by a neighboring warlike species.
Paris is able to send a coded message to Janeway that he is working to disable the timeship's shields.
Two alien races are now going to help Voyager.
Janeway sends the remaining crew to the ships that are helping, and, after a touching scene where she says goodbye to Tuvok, is on her own in Voyager, which she says needs one of them to stay with her. Tuvok cannot understand why humans refer to inanimate objects as living things.
Janeway explains how Voyager has protected and helped them; she cannot desert the ship now.
Using Paris's signal, they can trace the time ship - which is 50 light years from Voyager, which rendezvous with it's new allies and attacks the time ship.
Tom Paris,with the aid of a timeship crewman who is tired of the never ending mission, is able to disable the timeship's defensive shields. The ship destroys two ally ships, and a third ships collides with Voyager, damaging it further.
Having no weapons online, Janeway rams Voyager into the timeship, which sets it's temporal core into a breach.
It explodes.
And then - everything is back to the way it was before Voyager was damaged and the crew is okay now.
A small Krenum ship encounters Voyager, and tells Janeway to steer clear of Krenum space as it is in dispute.
Janeway does so.
On the Keanu Prime colony, Annorax is with his wife, who encourages him to go on a picnic instead of working on his plan for a timeship.
I love this episode. It is the best one.
Janeway is the strong mother figure who holds the ship and crew together during times of great stress.
She does an incredible job of inspiring her crew.
Annorax is an Ahab type, motivated by love for his dead wife, whom he loves and wants to bring back, and his drive to restore his civilzation back to it's former glory.
This one was written and directed brilliantly.
And, as this is only the 4 th season, there are plenty more excellent episodes to come.
Archer and T'Pol are caught between warring factions on Coridan shortly after T'Pol has been ordered to return to Vulcan.
They are held hostage until a guilt ridden Shran comes to their rescue, very motivated to free himself from Archer's debt when he found the Vulcan base that the Andorians were looking for.
The Vulcans are their and almost muck up the rescue.
A good one!
Shuttlepod One
Trip and Malcolm discover wreckage from Enterprise, and mistakenly come to believe that the ship was destroyed. Travelling at impulse without functioning sensors or communication, and with only a few days air supply, the two struggle to survive together aboard Shuttlepod One.
Malcom is certain they're both gonna die; Tucker is much more optimistic.
That is why I like this one very much - it's the contrast between the two men's attitudes that makes this an interesting and fun episode!
The two are found by Enterprise with only 2 or 3 hours of air left.
They'd jetiisoned and exploded their impulse drive to get Enterprise's attention, and speed up to meet them in time, which of course, they did.
Fusion
The Enterprise encounters a group of Vulcan civilians who have split off from the normal way of Vulcan life in an effort to explore their emotions. T'Pol is disturbed by the new visitors and warns the Captain that all attempts in the past to integrate Vulcan emotions into their lives has proven disastrous. Meanwhile a message from Admiral Forrest leaves the Captain with the difficult task of trying to convince one of the visiting Vulcans to call home to speak with his dying father.
T'Pol listens to the one Vulcan and does not meditate before going to bed that night. She has disturbing, erotic dreams that disturb her.
THe Vulcan attacks her after she tries to break a mind meld with him. She winds up in sick bay.
Archer confronts the Vulcan, who throws him across the room. REpairs to the Vulcan ship are completed, and the one Vulcan does communicate with his father.
Good one! I like the way Vulcans act like humans, but not the violence they use when angry.
Rogue Planet
While exploring an uncharted planet, Enterprise crew members encounter a group of aliens who are hunting down indigenous creatures for recreation. During their exploration, Archer is mesmerized by visions of an elusive, yet familiar woman who needs his help.
The creature is actually a sentient shape shifter. She tyakes the form of a woman from Archer's childhood fairy tales to enlist his aid in saving her race from the hunters.
He finds a way to mask their detectable fear scent, thus reendering them impossible to find by the hunters when they are changing shape.
The hunters agree that it is not fun to hunt them anymore.
Neelix dies in a shuttle accident while traveling through a nebula with Tom and Chakotay in search of an energy source.
He is brought back to Voyager and dead for almost 19 hours when Seven of Nine tries her idea to bring him back by use of Borg nanoprobes.
It works.
But Neelix is not happy to be alive.
He did not go to be with his family or see his sister, Ilixea again in a lovely wooded forest with a giant tree, as in his people's tradition.
His entire belief system is shaken.
Chakotay tries to help by putting Neelix on a vision quest, but Neelix hears and sees the Voyager crew and his sister tell him that he ought to kill himself, which he almost does, except Chakotay and Ensign Wildman talk him out of it at the last minute.
I like this one a lot because I, myself, believe in an afterlife where I'll see those I've loved and lost.
Neelix came back from the dead, and my theory is that, since he came back, he was not meant to see or recall seeing any afterlife as it was not yet his time.
Neelix might come to that same conclusion, too, after he has time to take in what happened to him.
Stardate: 51471.3 The crew is 'attacked' by a species of alien that live in the human dream state. It is up to Chakotay, with extensive knowledge about the dream state, to save the ship and its crew.
This is a great one which features Chakotay in a good role, which he did not get often enough.
He is able to enter and re - enter the dream state, with the Doctor's help while the rest of the Voyager Crew is trapped in their sleep.
He finds where the aliens planet is and tells the alien in the dream state that he'll blow up their sleeping bodies unless he frees the crew from their sleep.
Message In A Bottle
When Voyager discovers an ancient communications relay that extends to the Alpha Quadrant, they are able to send The Doctor to an experimental Federation ship, the Prometheus. However, unbeknownst to the Voyager crew, the Prometheus has been commandeered by Romulans.
Voyager sends the Doctor in a holographic data stream to the Prometheus, where he discovers that the ship has been taken over by Romulans.
The Doctor enlists the aid of that ship's holographic Doctor and they retake the ship.
The Doctor tells Starfleet about Voyager being in the Delta Quadrant.
Finally, it is known that the ship is ok!
These two are both great episodes.
Message in a Bottle is the very last episode of Voyager that George and I watched together - I had taped it earlier on the week that George died, and we watched it together just a few hours before he died.
He watched a lot of Star Trek episodes with me over the years. That is a good memory!
The Voyager crew is excited to begin receiving messages from Starfleet using the newly discovered communications array. However, they soon face a new threat from a violent species of hunters called the Hirogen.
Tuvok and Seven of Nine were captured by the Hirogen in a shuttle craft, but Voyager rescues them, as the communications array is destoyed, taking out the 3 Hirogen ships with it.
Some crew members get bad news from their loved ones back on Earth.
Marc, to whom Captain Janeway was engaged, moved on and got married.
Chakotay finds out that all the Maqui are dead.
Tuvok is now a grandfather.
It was a very good episode that focused on the crew and their reactions to news from home.
Prey
When Voyager beams aboard a wounded Hirogen aboard, they inadvertently allow aboard his prey, a Species 8472.
Seven of nine disobeys Janeway and beams the Hirogen hunter and species 8472 to one of the six Hirhen ships that is attacking them.
This saves Voyager.
But Janeway is pissed and tells Seven that she now once again has limited access to the ship and it's systems.
Seven asks Janeway why she is being punished when Janeway wanted her to become an individual. Janeway tells her that there are limitations to how much a person can be an individual.
transporter accident sends Dax, Sisko and Bashir back in time to the year 2024, when San Fransisco was plagued with riots and social upheaval. Bashir and Sisko are taken to a homeless compound while Dax is taken care of by a wealthy businessman. Sisko and Bashir's interventions in an altercation alters the future time line.
In order to restore the timeline, Sisko must pose as Gabriel Bell, a hero of Earth's history.
This one is great!
I loved seeing Earth in 2054, and how events led up to the beginnings of socal change.
Heart Of Stone
While chasing a lone Maquis member to a deserted moon, Kira becomes trapped by a crystalline formation that rapidly grows over time, threatening her life. However, something is amiss during the entire situation.
Odo confesses to Kira that he loves her.
Surprise! It is not Kira, it is really another of Odo's race.
Fantastic one where Odo has to admit to himself that he loves Kira.
Dr. Crusher begins to question her sanity when members of the crew start disappearing one by one, and all evidence of their existence is erased.
No, actually, Dr Crusher is caught in a static warp buble and it is based on a reality where she had been thinking about how people she loves are disppearing.
The Traveler arrives and tells Wesley that he has the ability to bring her back.. and, with a bit of help from the Traveler, save her he does.
While re-fitting Voyager's systems with newly traded weapons, Seven of Nine claims to have been assaulted by Kovin, the weapons dealer.
But then, the Doctor and Janeway aren't so sure, though they have persued the matter... Kovin takes off in his ship.
There is a fight, and his ship explodes because it's energy matrix overloads.
Seven thought for sure she had been assaulted; some nanoprobes taken. The doctor had hypnotized her and she relived what she swore were real memories..
but they were memories of her Borg past, mixed in with what she thought was reality.
Seven and the Doctor, as well as Jaenway would have to live with the guilt over this.
A good one, about whether repressed memories are always what they appear to be..
This one re-unites Worf and Keh'Lar, whom we first met in the second season episode," The Emmissary. "
She is back because Kem'Pec, who has been leader of the Klingon Empire for longer than anyone else before him is dying. He has been poisoned.
Kemp'Pec talks with Picard before he dies, appointing him to choose his successor: Either Durass - or Gow'Ron.
Kem'Pec dies. Keh'Lar leads a ceremony where Durass and Gow'Ron hit him with painsticks, to prove to themselves that he is really dead.
Meanwhile, Keh'Lar has not arrived .. she brough Worf's son, who was concieved on the Holodeck in " The Emmissary."
Worf is shocked at this turn of events, but is friendly to the kid, whose name is Alexandar. Worf will not marry Keh'Lar because he was dishonored in " Sins Of The Father "
Durass kills Keh'Lar when she starts digging around in the Klingon computer data base about Worf's discommodation - you see, Worf's father was accused of being in cahoots with the Romulans when it was actually Durass' father who betrayed the colony and nearly all were killed in a Romulan attack.
Durass did this to keep his dirty little secret a secret.. though the entire Klingon knew this. It was made hush - hush because it was feared that Civil War would break out if this fact were common knowledge.
Worf and Alexandar return to Worf's quarters and find Keh'Lar, who is nearly dead.
She tells Worf that it was Durass who attacked her. She dies. Worf howls, to let those in the next life know that Keh'Lar is arriving there. He tell Alexandar that he must always remember this moment, and we see that he did, in the seventh season episode, " Firstborn. "
Worf goes to the Klingon vessel and kills Durass, claiming right of vengeance.
He gets a permanent reprimand on his Starfleet record. Alexandar asks Worf if he is his father. Worf tells him " Yes."
He sends the boy to live with his (Worf's ) parents.
This is easily the best 4 th season episode.
I always hate it when Keh'Lar died. I liked her a lot.
A part of her survives in the character of BE'Lanna Torres, from Voyager.
This two parter was on yesterday. The Hirogen have taken over Voyager, program the Voyager crew to think they are whatever Holodeck characters they wish them to be, as they hunt them down.
The injured are taken to sickbay, where the Doctor heals them.
The bridge crew are then put in a holodeck version of Nazi occupied France in 1944.
The Doctor is able to decativate the neural transplants which make the Voyager crew think they are merely characters on the holodeck.
They stage a resistance and begin to win their freedom.
Janeway confronts the head Hirogen, and tells him they can give them Holo - technology and they can hunt the holograms.
The number 2 in commnad kills the Hirgen leader.
The resistance in the holodeck win the fight.
Janeway gives holotechnology to the Hirogen and they leave.
When the Ferengi, a group of intergalactic thieves, stun the Enterprise crew and try to rob the ship, it's up to Trip to work covertly to stop them.
Trip wakes up T'Pol with a hypospray.
The Ferengi wake up Archer and ask him where he keeps his gold.
At first, Archer denies that there is any gold, but then says there is.
Trip was in decontamination and escaped the nerve gas that knocked the crew out. He awakens T'Pol. The Ferengi plan to take all the women. They loot the ship of it's armemants, food and medical supplies.
Between Archer, Trip, and T'Pol, they manage to subdue the Ferengi, and make them put all the stolen stuff back, including Porthos, Archer's dog.
Jeffrey Combs, who plays Shran was a Ferengi. So did Clint Howard, Ron Howard's brother, as well as Ethan Philips. Trek fans will best know Ethan Phillps (Ulis) as Neelix on Voyager.
It is supposed to be the very first human ( Or Hu - man ) encounter with the Ferengi.
This one was pretty good.
Clint Howard has the distinction of having played the first alien (other than Spock) to be filmed in a regular episode of Star Trek. He played Balok in "The Corbomite Maneuver".
Oasis
While searching for components to repair Enterprise, crew members encounter ghostly beings aboard a crashed vessel.
The crashed vessel turns out to have 2 living humanoids, and about 20 holographic people. The crew died in a bad crash, leaving only a father and his daughter. The father is the engineer and he blames himself because, during the nasty storm which hit the ship, he left his post to save his daughter, thus enabling the ship to crash.
The girl's father is played by Rene Auberjonois, who played Odo in Deep Space Nine.
This one reminds me of that DS 9 episode where they encounter a holographic town, where all the people are holograms except for one man.
Detained
While exploring a planet, Archer and Mayweather enter a "military zone" and are detained in an internment prison by an alien race called Tandarans, who are at war with the Suliban. While the Enterprise crew's previous encounters with the Suliban have been disastrous, Archer and Mayweather find themselves sharing a cell with some Suliban detainees who they believe may be wrongfully imprisoned.
This is where we learn that not all Suliban are NOT genetically enhanced, and that not all Suliban are warlike. We get to see these Suliban simply as people, trying to get through each day in a miserable place.
By episode's end, the Suliban are freed. Archer could have simply left with Mayweather, once Enterprise had found and communicated with them; however, he rescued the captive Suliban and then left.
That's a pretty cool thing to do.
Vox Sola
A strange, symbiotic alien creature boards the Enterprise capturing a few of the crew members, including Archer and Trip, and cocooning them in its web while feeding off their bodies to survive. With the captured crewmembers' lives in jeopardy, Hoshi, under T'Pol's command, faces her biggest challenge by trying to find a way to communicate with the lifeform in order to return it to its home planet.
This one was great! It was like an old 50's horror movie, the kiond I grew up watching!
Loved it!
And that's Enterprise for this week... I will add that I had not previously seen these episodes, and am very impressed.
Hope And Fear A mysterious alien with a knack for languages is able to repair a damaged message from Starfleet. The crew is elated when the message reveals that a new ship is waiting for them, that has the ability to bring them home in three months. However, Janeway suspects that this turn of luck is too good to be true.
The alien turns out to be pissed at Janeway for defeating the attack by Species 8472, as they would have wiped out the Borg.
As a result, the Borg assimulated ALL the alien guy's race except him.
He wants revenge on Janeway and Voyager.
Janeway and Seven end up trapped in the ship, which has slipstream technoology, which is damn fast and heading back into Borg Space when Voyager was able to use splip stream technology to intercept the ship and rescue Janeway and Seven.
Well, " Drone " was on .. the episode where the Doctor's mobile emitter, some of Seven of Nine's nano probes merge with human dna to form a 29 th century, highly advanced Borg.
This is one of my all time favorites.
The Borg grows to adult hood rapidly in a makeshift Borg maturation chamber; after much debate, it is decided to allow it to live.
Seven of Nine instructs the Borg... whose designation is "One."
His Borg transceiver is disabled, but it adapts and repairs itself. It alerts a Borg sphere which attacks Voyager.
One teleports himself over to and destroys it from the inside, but is badly injured. Voyager beams him back, but while in sickbay he tells Seven that, as long as he lives, the collective will keep hunting him down.
This would make the Borg stronger once he were to be assimulated, and his presence on Voyager would constantly put the ship and crew in danger.
He terminates his own life.
Seven had grown to like him and misses him.
" Once Upon A time "
Ensign Wildman, Tom Paris and Tuvok are trapped on a planetoid and running slowly out of air after a bad landing in the Delta Flyer during an ion storm.
Naomi Wildman is being cared for by her godfather, Neelix. He hides the fact that the Flyer is missing.
Noami loves to visit a rather charming holodeck child's program, " Treevis and Flaughter. "
She becomes suspicious when Neelix is evasive about why her mother has not communicated with her for a few days, and goes to the bridge and overhears Neelix and Janeway talking about her mother being missing.
She runs into the holodeck to escape into her program. Neelix finds her and tells her about his family who died, and how he only wanted to protect her from the truth, not lie to her. She understands and forgives him.
Naomi's mom was injured. The three on the Flyer record messages for their loved ones, thinking they will die, but drilling teams with phasers rescue them before they run out of oxygen.
Ensign Wildman is healed and there is a happy reunion betwen her and Naomi; the two visit the Trevis and Flaughter program, and Janeway visits there, too.
Some hate this one but I think it is very cute.
" Timeless "
Another bigtime favorite.
Voyager adapts " slipstream " technology which can get them home in days or a week or so, but it malfunctions, sending Voyager to an icy grave on a frozen planet on;y a few parsecs away from the Alpha quadrant. Everyone onboard is killed except Chakotay and Ensign Kim, who later find the ship, retrieve the Doctor's program and Seven of Nine's body.
Harry is wrackede with survivor's guilt and uses Seven's Borg cranial implant and a Borg temporal message device to feed Seven of Nine incorrect adjustments in the past to knock Voyager out of the slipstream before the accident can occur, thus saving everyone.
A message from future HArry to past Harry is sent and Janeway and he learn that his future self came through and saved them all.
I love this episode; time travel is my favorite plot device.
These were all on tonight. They were all quite good. I like the time travel aspect of Shockwave, the WW2 feel of Minefield, and the robotic repair station with it's own agenda in Dead Stop.
David Ogden Steirs, formerly of M*A*S*H guest starred on this one as a scientist who is trying to save his planet's dying sun.
He does not succeed.
He puts off Loxwana Troi's advances. She wants to know why. He tells her that he will soon be 60 and on his world, you have to die on your 60 th birthday.
She is furious! She has fallen for the scientist, and he for her as well.
The scientist seeks asylum on Enterprise but changes his mind after a visit from his distraught daughter.
TRoi goes to the planet to be with him to the end.
Okay, I am 50. I watched this one with my mom who is 75.
We both agreed that it is dumb putting 60 year olds to death, although it was explained that adult children in that world ought NOT to have to care for sick or otherwise incapacitated parents.
We talked about it more and she really would not want to go to a retirement home, she wants to keep her own home. I don't blame her, but someday, hopefully not for several years yet, she might not be able to stay home alone.
Many of you here are not old enough to have to worry about such decisions yet, but trust me - that day will come.
This was an excellent episode. It makes one think. Thinking is good.
A traitorous KLingon ambassador uses Geordi once he has been captured and brainwashed to kill a Klingon ambassador.
The plan is discovered by Data and foiled.
I like how Geordi was so sure of things that were implanted in his memories. This episode is great and it was different, as we see things through Geordi's visor part of the time.
In Theory
An ensign falls in love with Data, who is unable to return the feelings of romance.
Meanwhile, Enterprise is going through a flied of space which phases things in the ship. A crewman dies before they figure out what happened and can escape without the warp core blowing up.
Another great one. At episode's end, the ensign breaks up with Data, who deletes the relationship program he created to be with her. Data blows out the candles from the romantic dinner that did not happen. Spot, his cat jumps into his lap. He pets Spot and talks to him. Apparently, it is far easier for Data to show a pet love than a human at this point in his development.
But he is capable of love, he just does not know or believe it.
This was a silly episode. Photonic ( holographic ) beings enter the holodeck while Tom Paris is running his " Captain Proton " program. They don't recognise humans as actual life forms and attack.
One photonic being is killed by Chaotica's henchmen. In retaliation, the holodeck is bombarded with photonic blasts. War begins in the holodeck.
The Doctor, being a photonic being himself tries to intervene, but Chaotica must be stopped before there can be peace.
Janeway has to play at being Chaotica's lover to stop Chaotica from fighting the photonic beings. She succeeds, " Kills" Chaotica ( who cannot be killed, actually,as he keeps back like any good comic book villain would! ) and the photonic beings leave in peace.
When an intense gravity well causes Tuvok, Paris and The Doctor's shuttle crash on a barren planet, they befriend a female alien who had also crashed there years earlier. As the months pass, they give up hope of being rescued. However, aboard Voyager, only a few hours have elapsed.
The female alien is played by Lori Petty.. I like her. She voiced the character of "Livewire "on the 1993 Superman WB cartoon. She has alots of peronality and it comes through in whatever character she plays.
The female alien falls in love with Tuvok, who cannot and won't reciprocate her feelings. Very sad for her. Tom yells at Tuvok to at least let her down gently and not be so blunt as he had been.
Voyager rescues the 4.. two months passed for them while only two days passed for the Voyager crew.
A really good episode. I like shows about love and poeple's feelings.
This was a silly episode. Photonic ( holographic ) beings enter the holodeck while Tom Paris is running his " Captain Proton " program. They don't recognise humans as actual life forms and attack.
One photonic being is killed by Chaotica's henchmen. In retaliation, the holodeck is bombarded with photonic blasts. War begins in the holodeck.
The Doctor, being a photonic being himself tries to intervene, but Chaotica must be stopped before there can be peace.
Janeway has to play at being Chaotica's lover to stop Chaotica from fighting the photonic beings. She succeeds, " Kills" Chaotica ( who cannot be killed, actually,as he keeps back like any good comic book villain would! ) and the photonic beings leave in peace.
I like the sillieness factor in this.
i remember that one. yeah it was pretty goofy. janeway made it funny though...
Tom & BE'lanna get married.. and Voyager begins to come apart slowly, a system at a time.
This problem begins to affect the crew - BE'Lanna is the first to die, leaving a grieving Tom and others to figure out why this is occurring.
It is discovered that the crew and Voyager are really the copies from that planet that asked for samples of the crew's dna.
Still, knowing she is not the real Janeway, she is adamant about going to Earth, until Chakotay dies after telling her they need to return to the real planet of their origin - the demon planet.
Janeway decides to change course for the planet. Ensign Kim takes over as Captain and, with Seven's help, gets the ship almost within hailing range of the real Voyager.. but the demon planet Voyager dissolves into it's constituent elements just before Voyager arrives.
I admired the demon planet Janeway for her determination to get her ship back to Earth, and later realizing that she had to go back to their real planet of origin.. She and the rest did not want to be forgotten by time and history..
Sad that they were not remembered, but so noble was their desire to be like the real Voyager crew inspite of knowing they were not the real thing, that you could not help but admire their courage.
A very good episode, and quite different from the normal Voyager formula.
This is a very good episode. The ship is hit with a naturally occurring energy and is crippled; the crew must cope with stopping a warp core breach, among other things.
Heh, I haven't watched TOS in years. I can't sleep and I am kinda glad it is on now.
This is a pretty good one.
A year later, there was a Fantastic Four issue where the THing was captured, taken to another planet, and forced to do battle with other super powerful opponents while gangsters bet on the outcome.
Another Federation starship from the delta quadrant sends an sos to Voyager. The ship has taken heavy damage from strange creatures. Turns out the creatures are pissed off at the crew of the Equinox because they are using the aliens' dead bodies for fuel.
Janeway finds out the secret. The creatures begin to attack Voyager; the Equinox departs and blows up. The creatures cease their attacks on Voyager.
While Harry Kim has the comm, a distress call is recieved. He, the Doctor and a crewman beam down to a planet to find a form of articial intelligence in the shape of a missle, just over 1 meter in length.
It can communicate with the Doctor in a binary language.
They beam it aboard Voyager.
It is friendly at first until a repair activates part of it's missing memory - it is a weapon of mass destruction, on a mission to destroy an enemy planet.
It takes over the Docor's holographic matrix and demands to be taken to it's target.
Several attempts by Voyager crew fail to stop it.
Harry is able to discover a missing file which tells the weapon that the war is over.
At first, it refuses to listen, but Harry is finally able to get the weapon to become more than it is.. and to see past the limitations of it's programming.
Another 32 weapons fly in and surround Voyager. The weapon tells Harry to trust him to stop the other weapons.
Harry tells Janeway to beam the weapon outside the ship, where it's friends put a tractor beam on it to take it to their destination.
The weapon detonates, destroying the other 32 missles, far from anyone or anything that can be harmed.
This is an excellent episode. We get to see another side to Harry Kim, where he shines and shows that he can handle an extremely stressful situation.
The dialogue between Harry and the weapon is flawless and very real.
While Voyager is docked at a space station, Seven of Nine is approached by three former Borg drones from her former unimatrix, who, despite being free from the Collective, are neurally linked to each other. Tracing the origin of this link to an accident eight years before, in which they and Seven were the only survivors, the three former drones believe Seven is the only one who can help them sever the link and achieve true individuality.
This one is excellent!
Loved how the three got their wish.. to have the link severed and truly become individuals again.. even though they would die within a month because of it.
I guess most of us would have wanted individuality, no matter what the cost.. I know I would...
Barge Of The Dead
Stardate: Unknown During a near-death experience, B'Elanna finds herself aboard the Klingon Death Barge, a spectral vessel which transports dishonoured souls to Grethnor. After seeing her mother there, B'Elanna risks her life to go back and save her mother's soul from this fate, even at the cost of her own.
Another great one.
B'Elanna shines here, and begins to appreciate her Klingon culture.
While Enterprise is surveying a black hole in a ternary star system, the stellar phenomenon causes strange effects on the crew.
The effect is that it makes them all act like paranoid idiots. T'Pol is kinda immune to it and helps Archer to get the ship away from the Steller phenomanon.
Very good one.
Vanishing Point
Hoshi experiences her first transporter experience and strange after-effects lead her to believe she wasn't reassembled correctly.
She becomes transparent at times. The Doctor tells her everything is fine.
Then she disappears altogether, and is immaterial and invisible, like in the Next Generation episode, " The Next Phase. "
Archer and crew believe her to bed dead. She tries in vain to communicate with him but to no avail.
She sees aliens that no one else can see, rigging the Enterprise engines to explode. They cannot see her, and she tries to deactivate the bombs but fails. She observes the aliens go onto a pad and transport away - she gets on the pad to pursue them and is back on Enterprise.
The whole experience occurred during the 7 or 8 seconds of her transport!
Awesome episode! I like Hoshi and this was a great one.
Stardate: Unknown The Doctor programs himself with the ability to daydream. When an alien spy gains access to the Doctor's visions he mistakes them for reality.
The Doctor gets lost in his daydreams which are both romantic and of being a hero and being honored for his bravery during battle.
A problem with his algarythyms is corrected, but then the alien spy has second thoughts and alerts the Doctor that his ship will attack soon. Janeway gives the Doctor the command, as the aliens think him to be in charge. He threatens to destroy them with a fictitious "Photonic cannon " and the aliens back off.
This one was damn funny and quite amusing. I love it.
Stardate: 49011.4 The Klingons attack Cardassia in an attempt to overthrow the planet's newly installed civilian government. When the crew of Deep Space Nine saves the members of the new government, they fall under attack from the Klingons as well. Worf is transferred to Deep Space Nine.
Stardate: 49011.4 The Klingons attack Cardassia in an attempt to overthrow the planet's newly installed civilian government. When the crew of Deep Space Nine saves the members of the new government, they fall under attack from the Klingons as well.
I normally am not up this late but I am restless and so I saw part two of this magnificent 2 parter.
Way of the Warrior is the episode that got me into watching DS9 weekly, before that I had only watched it sporadically. Excellent battle sequence. There's a line of dialogue where the Klingons speculate that DS9's weapons compliment is just an illusion created by radiation shadows and sensor tricks. This was reference to the first episode when O'Brien uses those tricks to make the cardasians think the station can defend itself. So seeing the station now really was that powerful was a nice nod to O'Brien's work on beefing the place up. And it just looked cool.
Tuvok is hit by a ray weapon from a cloaked alien; he is unconcious for a time and when he wakes up, he is like a different person: He hates logic, loves to make delicious new deserts.
He is able to remember the cloaking code and then Voyager crew are able to detect the cloaked aliens.
Tuvok loves to smile and be nice to Neelix; when a deal is struck with the aliens,they agree to help Tuvok by explaining exactly what their weapon did to him.
He is sad now because he won't be able to tell Neelix that he likes him, but Neelix convinces him that brain surgery is the only option, as Voyager needs it's tactical officer.
Neelix is sad to lose this Tuvok, but now he knows that beneath the indifference, Tuvok does really like him.
This one is as close to a gay episode as Star Trek will ever get: Two aliens from a race that has no gender have disappeared in a shuttle into what is referred to as Null Space.
Several of the aliens are on Enterprise; one works with Will Riker in the shutle to find them. While enroute, she tells him that she is really female. She is living on a world where the people evolved into no gender from what was formally two genders, male and female.
People like her live secretive lives, afraid of being discovered, and she knew she was different all her life. This is how I grew up, too, being gay, and I can totally relate!
Anyway, they find the missing aliens. A romance begins between Riker and the alien female. Her boss discovers this and the poor woman is arrested. Riker beams down and enters the court room.. he tries to accept the blame for what happened between them, but the woman he loves - Soran - won't let him lie for her. She tells the cort that she is like evryone else but just different in the partner she seeks... the judge won't hear it, and Soran is taken to later be changed into a non gender person..
Riker and Worf later find her and take her into the woods - but it is too late!
She has been changed into a no gender person...
Riker returns to Enterprise, broken hearted.
Excellent episode.
If they wouldn't actually show gay people on Star Trek,at least they could make an allusion towards gays.. and, we gays have been "translating " hetero love stories on movies, in books and on tv into gay love all our lives, anyway.
My mom watched this episode with me and she got the connection. She liked it a lot.
Stardate: 49037.7 An accident on the U.S.S. Defiant traps Ben Sisko in subspace. Jake spends the rest of his adult life trying to free him, when his father returns to normal space for a few seconds every several years.
Jake figures out that he is the link that his father is tethered to. Ben Sisko only ages a few minutes while Jake becomes an old man. Benjamin is sad that Jake can't let go of him and has spent most of his adult life trying to find a way to bring Ben back permantly.
Jakes finally realizes that the only way to bring his father back is for Jake to die while his father is back in our reality for the minute or so that he is back.
He does so; before he dies, he tells his father to duck, as he will now be brought back to the moment before the accident occurred.
Benjamin goes back to that moment, and ducks, and moves Jake out of the way, as well.He hugs Jake and they both cry - Jake does not know what his father knows - that in a skewed, alternate reality that will now never happen, Jake gave his life to save his father.
I did cry a little at the end of this one. It is a beautiful episode.
Crew members are awestruck, and try to help Seven to appreciate the value of history, when a dangerous anomaly emerges from subspace, and the Voyager crew discovers it contains the remains of a 21st Century manned Mars probe.
A lone crewman died on that command capsule; Chakotay, Seven and Tom take the Delta Flyer into the anomaly. They get stuck there for a bit when the ship is hit by the shockwave from a dark matter asteroid collision. Most systems on the Flyer are down, including propulsion.
They have only an hour or so till the anomaly disappears back into subspace.
Seven of Nine beams over to the capsule to retrieve a plasma relay needed to jumpstart the Flyer's engines.
She sees the man's body at the helm and plays the man's logs for the Flyer and Voyager as she attempts to obtain the plasma relay.
Everyone is touch to hear the man talk about how he was in orbit around Mars wiuth tow other astonauts exploring the Martian surface when the anomaly trapped him in it; he sees space ships from other worlds in it.
Seven gets the plasma relay and beams aboard the Flyer, it is quickly installed and the Flyer flys out as the anomaly disappears into subspace.
The crew have a memorial service. Seven is moved by the man's experience after being indeifferent to being assigned to the mission into the anomaly.
I like this one a lot. It was sensitively done and very moving.
Back on Earth, Lieutenant Barclay becomes obsessed with finding a way to communicate with Voyager.
He is ordered off project: Voyager. He finds a way to break into a facility and manages to use a micro - black hole to communicate with Voyager.
You only see holodeck images of the Voyager crew throughout most of the episode. It is not until the very last few minutes of the episode that we see the actual crew aboard Voyager.
Stardate: Unknown When Voyager is trapped in orbit of a unique planet, they learn that time moves far faster on that planet than in the rest of the galaxy. Although Voyager is stuck in orbit only for a matter of days, from the perspective of the planet, the "Skyship" has been watching them for centuries, and becomes a guiding force for the development of their civilization.
A favorite of mine. Voyager becomes a legend for this civilization, who evolves in weeks during just one Voyager minute.
At first they try to destroy Voyager, but an astronaut who reaches Voyager goes back and tells them that Voyager is a friendly ship which is stuck in orbit around their world, which suffers earthquakes through proximity to Voyager: Two ships appear and tractor Voyager out of orbit. The astronaut appears on the ship to say goodbye.
Later, as an old man, he watches Voyager break orbit and warp away from there.
Very good episode. This is how sci - fi ought to be.
Trip boards an alien cargo vessel to help repair a stasis pod, which holds a beautiful woman in suspended animation. When the woman accidentally wakes up, she reveals she's not a passenger, but a prisoner.
Trip and her leave the ship in an escape pod, then land on a Degobah - like jungle world. One of the baddies atacks them but TRip and the woman clobber the guy..
Archer and an away team find Trip and the woman.
This one was good.
The Catwalk
When a lethal neutronic storm approaches faster than Enterprise can escape, the crew take shelter in the maintenance shafts inside the warp nacelles. They also provide refuge to a group of aliens, who aren't exactly honest about themselves.
The aliens are immune to the storm and simply want refuge from the bad gusy of the week, who try totake over the ship, but Archer takes Enterprise towards a deadly eddy of energy, causing the invaders to leave.
A pretty good episode.
Dawn
During a solo test mission on Shuttlepod One, Trip is attacked by a territorial alien and forced to land on the night side of a moon. As he tries contacting Enterprise, he discovers his alien foe has made an emergency landing nearby. The two contend with each other as an extremely hot sun rises and threatens both their lives.
They learn to work together. Trip won't leave the alien alone after Enterprise finds them, until they can rescue both of them.
The aliens adapt their ship so it won't lose power; both are taken to Enterprise where Doctor Phlox heals them.
The alien tells trip that he is glad he did not destroy his ship.
This is my favorite of the 4 eps. that were on last night. I like how Trip and the alien learn to communicate and work together.
Stigma
Enterprise visits a planet where an Interspecies Medical Exchange conference is being held. Dr. Phlox tries to obtain research on a terminal disease from the Vulcan contingency, without revealing T'Pol has been infected by it.
But Vulcan official s do learn she is infected, and, though she did not want them to learn that it was through a forced meld, they find out.
I like.. but T'Pol is a bit too stoic in this one. She does lighten up a biut in later episodes.
Voyager encounters an alien race who is in awe of the Doctor, who songs while treating a patient - they have never heard singing before.
He gives several performances for them.. and becomes an instant star!
He gets many fan mails. He falls for a woman on the planet - who, after the Doctor has asked Janeway, who reluctantly agrees that he can stay on the planet, creates a better holo - Doctor who can sing notes he cannot reach.
The Doctor is heartbroken and asks for his old job as Doctor back. He tells Janeway that he wants all his singing sub routines deleted; she tells him that she wants him as he is.
He is happy again.
Seven comes to sickbay and reads him a fan mail - It praises him highly.
A little girl has an imaginary friend who is actually an alien life form who threatens to destroy the ship and crew - until Picartd gets her to see that the girl she befriended is not allowed to do things on Enterprise because adults impose rules on children to keep them safe from real and imagined harm.
Very cute episodse.
" I, Borg "
A lone Borg survivor of 5 Borgs is rescued and saved after being beamed to Enterprise; Picard agreed to this only reluctantly.
Geordi and Crusher come to befriend the Borg, whom they have named " Hugh."
Picard wants to plant an invasive program into Hugh that, once he is back with the collective, will become an unsolvable problem that will act like a virus and destroy the Borg.
Picard finally meets with the Borg, who says " I " instead of " We."
The virus plan is abandoned and Hugh decides to go back to the Borg - they would hunt him down and destroy Enterprise if he were to stay.
It is realized that the bit of individuality he gained while aboard Enterprise could be as bad if not worse than the virus, once the Borg upload his experiences into the collective.
Okay, why did Hugh not go through heavy "Collective Withdrawal " as 7 of 9 had when she was cut off from the Borg? And why didn't his personality from before he was Borg simply reassert itself?
Maybe he was assimulated as a baby and grown in a Borg maturation chamber - thus, no memories of who he was.
And maybe the writers didn't want to deal with his withdrawal symptoms? Or perhaps each Borg reacts differently when disconnected from the Borg?
Whatever the case, this is a great one and one of my favorites.
The Delta Flyer is attacked by a Borg cube.. manned only by 5 Borg children.. and a Borg baby.
The oldest kid Borg has Tom, Chakotay and Neelix captured.
Harry was trying to make repairs and so was in an access tunnel in the Flyer and is not captured.
Voyager enters the fray.
The kid Borg wants Voyager's deflector array. He needs it to repair the Borg cube.
Seven beams aboard; she attempts to repair the cube.
Harry establishes communication with Voyager and goes into the cube to put explosive charges in it; his plan is foiled when a Borg girl finds him.
They attempt to assimulate Harry and fail; Harry needs immediate medical attention or he will die.
The Doctor and Janeway find out why nearly all Borg on the cube died.. a virus hit them. Janeway has the Doctor replicate the virus and hopes she won't have to use it against the Borg kids.. especially since Seven in on the Cube.
The Borg had abandoned the Borg kids as they had failed to make good drones due to being let out of their maturation chambers too early.
The Borg baby becomes ill and is beamed to Voyager by Seven. We don't see the baby again after that.. maybe a kind alien family adopts it off screen?
The head Borg kid gets pissed at Seven and Janeway when he realizes they were just stalling for time. He tries to rip off the deflector array right off of Voyager!
Janeway orders a feedback pulse to be used through the Borg cube's tractor beam. It overloads the Borg cube. Head Borg Kid is electrocuted. Good riddance Head Borg kid!
The next in line, named Icheb takes over and beams to Voyager with Seven and Harry.
Harry is cured and the kids are de - Borged as Seven was.
Enterprise visits a planet where an Interspecies Medical Exchange conference is being held. Dr. Phlox tries to obtain research on a terminal disease from the Vulcan contingency, without revealing T'Pol has been infected by it.
But Vulcan official s do learn she is infected, and, though she did not want them to learn that it was through a forced meld, they find out.
I like.. but T'Pol is a bit too stoic in this one. She does lighten up a biut in later episodes.
I figured this one would have been your preferred of the four considering the nature of propoganda involved.
This is the cliff hanger to season five, and part two was the first episode of season six.
Data's head is found in a mineshaft in San Francisco on Earth.
The head has been there since the late 19 th century.
On a planet are discoverd to be time traveling aliens.
Data goes to the planet and is whisked away to 19 th century Earth.
Picard beams down, too, as Guinan has told him that if he does not join the away mission, he and her will never meet.
Most of the main characters follow him through a rift in time to discover the aliens are draining away the life force of humans - to feed on as food.
Guinan is at a party.. and so is Mark Twain!
Data talks to Guinan but it is her from the past.. she has centuries to go before she joins the Enterprise, and she does not know Data.
Data and Mark Twain talk in private but Twain has overheard them talk of "Starships."
Part two is where the five bridge crew ( Geordi, Crusher, Picard,Riker and Troi ) find and are rescued by Data.
A confrontation in the mine leaves Guinan injured and Data with his head blown off.
All but Picard, Guinan and Twain stay behind; the others go back to Dividia ( the planet ) and back to the 24 th century..Twain follows them at the last second.
Data's body and Twain go back to the Enterprise where Twain is in awe of the starship and it's inhabitants.
Data's head is attached to his body and finally reactivates, but with a message from Picard about what type photon torpedos to use on Dividia.
Twain goes back to send Picard into the future by use of a snake shaped stick in use with a phaser... Picard says his goodbyes to TWain and goes back to Dividia in the 24 th century where he is beamed away from the planet just as the alien's hideout is being bombed.
Last scene : You see Twain get medical help for Guinan, and leave his pocket watch in the mine near Data's head.. history fulfills itself.
The holographic townspeople of Fair Haven realize that Tom and the other Voyager crew are not what they appear to be.. and, after Tom, Harry and The Doctor are taken hostage, Janeway goes there and smooths things out..
Afterwards, the towns folk know that the Voyager crew are from space but regard them as friends anyway.
A cute episode!
Ashes to Ashes
An ensign believed to be dead comes back looking like an alien; It is really her and the Doctor is able to make her look like her old self.. but she is now alien to the crew... the Kabali,the race who found her dead body and brought her back as one of them comes to take her back.. she refuses to go, but after a brief romance with Harry, and trying to fit in, realizes that she no longer is human.. and leaves on her own to save Voyager from being attacked.
When an efficiency report reveals that three of Voyager's crew members are failing to meet expectations and integrate into the rest of the crew, Janeway decides to take them on their first away mission. However, what awaits the Delta Flyer on that mission will present a formidable test for them all.
This is a great one. The three learn to work together in a group, and to become more than they are when it is called for.
A peace treaty is to be negotiated between the Vulcans and Andorians. Shran calls for Archer to help. He brings T'Pol and some Vulcan guy.
Their shuttle pod gets shot down. They are attacked by an Andorian woman who does not want piece.
This one was pretty good.
Future Tense
This one is the best of the four eps last night. A space ship is found. It appears to be bigger on the inside than on the outside.. it's not a TARDIS, but it is a time ship. There's a body inside it.. 900 year old mixed DNA is found in it of several races.
The Suliban want the ship and attack Enterprise. The Tholians attack the Suliban because they, too, want the ship.
Archer lets the Tholians - who have several ships - have the timeship and they use a tractor beam to take it. He rigs it to explode but the Tholians are clever and disarm the bomb by remote control.
That is when the Time ship disappears.. Archer had used a "black box" on the ship to send an sos. The other people from the future had taken the ship.
I like this one a lot. Time travel is simply awesome.
Canamar
Archer and Trip are in the shuttle pod when they are captured by paranoid aliens who suspect them of being smugglers.
They are taken to a prison and are to be transferred to a facility on Kitomer when they are caught up in a prison break..prisoners take over a ship and then Archer and TRip are found by Enterprise. An ok episode.
The Crossing
Another episode of a Star Trek show where aliens take over the bodies of the crew. Yawn.
Aliens impersonate Janeway and Tuvok and rip off people.
Janeway and crew find out. They are accused of being the thieves until they can track down the real culprits.
It was an ok episode.
Muse
BE'lanna crashes onto a planet where the people are at about ancient Greece development circa 500 Bc on Earth.
A playwright uses stories BE'lanna gives him to please his patron.
BE'lanna is not pleased with his perfotmances as they are about Voyager and the Borg, etc, and are not true in spirit to what actually happened to Voyager and her crew.
Harry, who BE'lanna had ordered to eject from the Delta Flyer in an escape pod shows up safe and sound with a phaser and a sub space radio, which they adapt to replace the broken radio in the damged Flyer.
BE'lanna delivers the final scene in the play.. by ascending to the heavens. ( Beaming back to Voyager. )
An aged Kess comes back to the past Voyager when they have only been in the Delta quadrant a month or two and betrays them all to the Vidians, to take their organs.
Fun seeing how the future Janeway had prepared to prevent this happening again.
Though I still can't see how Kes could evolve into a higher form of life and then de- evolve. Maybe Ocompans have a bizarre evolutionary cycle?
Lifeline
The Doctor gets sent back 30,000 light years to the Alpha Quadrant.. his creator, Prof. Zimmerman is fatally ill.
Reg Barclay is there and sets it up so that the two will get along and learn to trust each other.
It was on late last night. I taped but was not awake to watch, but I have seen it before - Quark, Rom and Nog arrive back on Earth in 1947 and are captured by the army and thought to be from Mars.. escpecially when their universal translators are on the fritz!
Seven discovers a place where Borgs are individuals. It is accessable to Borgs only while they are regenerating. The Borg Queen is working to destroy this place.
Seven tells Captain Janeway, who cooks up a plan to help the Borg who visit Unimatrix Zero - however, it is quite risky as it involves Torres, Janeway and Tuvok entering the Borg cube where the Queen is.. and being assimiluated! ( The Doctor has given them nueral suppressants that help the 3 retain their individuality. Tuvok succumbs to the collective, though. )
Voyager is badly damaged in a fight with the Borg cube.
Janeway injects a virus into the collective that enables the drones who go to Unimatrix Zero to retain their individuality even while not regenerating.
The Borg Queen captures Janeway and makes her watch cube after cube be destroyed as she demands that Janeway give her the cure for this virus; Janeway tells her there is none.
Just as a badly damaged but somewhat repaired Voyager is going to confront a Borg sphere, it turns out to have been commandered by liberated Borg.
Chakotay arranges with these free Borg to destroy Unimatrix Zero and all Borg in there are urged to leave. They lose that lovely place which is wooded with beautiful shores, but they have gained their independance for real.
Janeway, Tuvok and Torres are beamed aboard just as the Queen orders the cube they are in to self destruct.
In Sickbay, a healing Janeway and Seven talk; Janeway has gained a new respect for Seven now that she knows what it is like to have to have Borg hardware removed from her body, and Seven, who had had a romance with a man in Unimatrix Zero and who rekindled it only to lose the man as he is in the Beta Quadrant.
Seven asks Janeway to remind her that the encounter was indeed worthwhile whenever she tells Janeway that it was not.
This is an excellent two part episode.
The pace was good, dialogue believable and story was quite interesting.
Imperfection Seven's life is at risk when her cortical implant - essential for regulating her implants and balancing them with her human physiology - starts to degrade. As Captain Janeway and the Doctor try to come up with a way to help her, Icheb realises he may have to take matters into his own hands by disconnecting his own cortical node so that it can be donated to Seven.
Both live after the procedure. I like this one. Not every episode has to have a fight or a chase scene to keep me happy.
Drive
Paris and Kim enter a race that symbolises a peace treaty between four warring races. Meanwhile, B'Elanna fears that she and Tom aren't meant to be together.
They fly the race together. After Harry warns them by morse code that their ship will explode ( Due to sabotage ) and they must eject the warp core, thet two get married and go off in the Flyer for their honeymoon.
Archer is put on trial for crimes against the Klingon Empire.
Horizon
Travis's visit home to the ECS Horizon becomes rather turbulent, as he clashes with his brother, the ship's new captain, and as the ship is attacked by pirates.
The Breach
When militants take over a world, the Enterprise crew move to evacuate Denobulan geologists that are deep underground. Meanwhile, Phlox has to save a dying Antaran that refuses treatment due to the history of their races.
Cogenitor
The Enterprise crew makes first contact with the Vissians, a species with three genders. When Trip meets one of the species' third gender, known as Cogenitor, he is disturbed to learn that all cogenitors are treated extremely poorly.
This one was the best of the lot. Trip tries to help the Cogenitor by teaching her to read and about the galaxy, but causes trouble instead.
The Cogenitor commits suicide later. Trip is devastated.
That is a tough way to learn, but that is how the non interference clause came to be..
This one I like. A shape shifting monster is discovered to be on board a space station. Geordi falls for a girl who is suspected of being this monster.
The Doctor is kidnapped and forced to tend to patients onboard an alien ship where only the rich and important recieve proper medical care, while the poor are often allowed to die.
Seven is forced to hide The Doctor's program by downloading him into her implants, when the Delta Flyer comes under attack from the Lokirrim. Meanwhile, on Voyager, Tuvok enters Pon Farr.
This one had it's moments. Love the dialogue between Seven and the Doctor at the end.
ALONG with all the movies they know so well, fans will see something new at the four-day "Star Trek" marathon that begins tonight at the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills: a freshly made episode of the legendary sci-fi series, featuring some of the original cast members.
Directed by sci-fi writer Marc Scott Zicree, "World Enough and Time" is an hourlong homage to the 1966-69 TV show, based on a story that Michael Reaves had come up with in 1976 when Paramount was thinking of reviving the series. It features George Takei, Grace Lee Whitney and Majel Barrett Rodenberry from the original "Star Trek," with new actors in the roles of Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy.
I'll have to watch the episodes another time when I don't have to be up so early the next day, but I liked what I did watch for about ten minutes or so.
B'Elanna is pregnant; she is afraid that her daughter will be made fun of and rejected because, being part KLingon, she will look and behave differently.
Tom assures her that he will not leave her as her father had, and he will be there for B'Elanna and their daughter and any other future children they might have.
I like. It was good to see an episode about love and acceptance.
This is technically the first Borg encounter, although we never hear the name " Borg" mentioned.
It was excellent! Loved seeing how the Borg from the sphere which blew up during " First Contact " crashed in the cold of one of the poles and the scientists who found them became Borg themselves after the Borg they found repaired themselves by use of nano technology.
And how Dr. Phlox fought off and won against becoming Borg.
The first historical Borg enounter.. or, second, if you count the one in " First Contact."
First Flight
Archer tells T'Pol the story of when he and a rival named A.G. Robinson were in competition for breaking the warp 2 barrier.
This was interesting - I liked seing how the warp 2 barrier was broken.
Sometimes ya gotta take a chance...
Bounty
Archer learns the Klingons have put a price on his head when he is captured by a Tellarite bounty hunter. As Enterprise pursues, a virus causes T'Pol to go into premature Pon Farr.
I was watching Heroes while taping this one, darn it. Gotta watch the tape later this week.
Expanse
An alien race known as the Xindi launch an attack on Earth, causing great casualties and massive damage. As Enterprise heads back home, an unlikely source informs Archer about the Xindi and that their next attack will destroy Earth.
On now. T'Pol wants to resign, and Trip's sister was killed in the Xindi attack.
Never saw this one before - it is quite good.
Sad that Trip's sister had to die, and all the other 7 million others..
Riker is being mindfucked by aliens who are keeping him captive on a planet where the government has recently collapsed.
It's pretty weird.
It was good though..
Lessons
Picard's old acedemy archeaology teacher is killed for searching for an artifact; The Romulans, Klingons and Cardassians are after it too.
They are angry when they reach a planet and all they find is a message from a long dead alien woman telling them that her race was the first and so they sewed the seeds for other races - including all theirs.
They reject the idea that they each have some of her, and some of each other in them.
Pretty cool episode, especially the last 5 minutes.
Voyager is forced to evaluate their ethical beliefs, as well as those of an alien criminal justice system, when they rescue a Nygean prison warden, and his prisoners scheduled to be executed.
One of the prisoners is cured by an injection of Seven's nano probes. They fall for each other.
The family of the man he killed does not grant him his request for leniency and he is excecuted.
Kinda sad but well done. You knew the guy just had to die, though he was not wearing a red shirt..
He had a flaw in his brain that had made him violent and Seven's nano probes fixed it when he was injected with them.
A cool " Who dunnit " episode, with the focus on Dr. Crusher, as she tries to find out who killed a Ferengi scientist who had created "Metaphasic shielding " which can protect a ship from the heat of the sun when up close to it.
The Metaphasic Shielding will be used again in the first episode, 7 th season.
One of the actors in this episode reappears in that episode.
" The Heir "
Worf begins to doubt his beliefs in Kah'less and Stovacor. He goes to a Klingon world to seek a vision of Kah'less when Kah'less seemingly appears to all.
It is discovered that this Kah'less is actually a clone.
It is decided to let him serve as an inspiration to all Klingons.
Love the final dialogue between Worf and the Kah'less clone.
Clone: " I sense you are still troubled."
Worf: " Yes, before you reappeared, I doubted my faith. I still do now."
Clone: " Does it matter so much that I am not the real Kah'less? Kah'less was a good man who taught Klingons how to be good Klingons. What matters more, the words or the man?"
On old theme done again: Q's teenage son, Q, arrives on Voyager and causes trouble, and invokes an encounter with the Borg.
His father, Q arrives and puts it right, sending the Borg away and fixing the damage from their attack.
Q leaves Junior with Janeway minus his powers, to learn to be more.. human.
Junoir screws up and gets Icheb hurt when he steals a shuttle and has a run - in with aliens; Junior learns a lesson in humility when he must go back to the aliens and apologize to save his friend, Icheb - and the alien turns out to be Q.
Junior passed the test - he gets to be human and not be punished - but has his powers taken away, anyway.
He stays with Voyager without powers and actually behaves and learns.. untilQ arrives and takes him back to the Continum after begging them to give the kid another chance.. and the kid gets his powers back .. but one stipulation: Q must not let Junior out of his site!
The kid who played Junior is actually Q's ( John DeLancie ) son in real life.
The episode was done before on Next Generation before with Q losing his powers in the ep. called " Deja Q. "
Well, yesterday, " Author, Author " was on. The Doctor was writing a holo - novel about a holographic Doctor on a starship called Vortex that is trapped in the Delta quadrant and the crew are treating him like crap.
The Voyager crew view his holo novel and are hurt and insulted.
They urge him to edit it and he refuses. He sends it to a publisher in the Alpha quadrant, as Voyager is able to communicate with home now.
The publisher publishes the program, even after the Doctor finally realizes he must change it and had wanted to revise it but was denied that.
Thus, a hearing ensues with the rights of a hologram being the topic. Can you say " The Measure Of A Man " ?
It was an ok show, and the Doctor is at least granted control of his art as an artist, and Hologram rights will be explored.
Nice bit at the end with the hologram miners who look like the Doctor talking about his holo novel while working in a mine.
The Xindi, Anomaly, Extinction and Rajiin were on. I liked them except Extinction was kinda dumb. It was the old " Captain and bridge crew get turned into aliens " thing again. Ugh!
Voyager tried to seem edgy but still stay the same, which often resulted in the characters having big life changing events that don't effect them whatsoever. DS9 on the other hand was great with character progression.
well i went into great detail earlier on this thread about my views on Voyager. and am too tired to write it out again, but i understand watching it. it's like a guilty pleasure of star trek, not great but you can enjoy watching it. i know i hated it when it was on because i would watch each week hoping for a good episode to compare to the DS9 that had just aired a few days earlier and being let down, but now that i know what to expect i can enjoy it.
Captain Janeway is captured by aliens while on a mission in the Delta Flyer with The Doctor, who returns to Voyager and impersonates various crew members in order to take the Flyer and bring the warp core to the same aliens who tried to capture Voyager through the Doctor's daydreams in a previous episode.
He does so, in a rather clever fashion, and is betrayed by the aliens who want to keep him to do spy missions... they download too much info into him and his holo matrix begins to destabilize.
Meanwhile, Tuvok and Paris mount a rescue mission... the aliens surrender the warp core, but the Doctor has to prevent them from blowing it up! He succeeds and all are back on Voyager and the warp core put back where it belongs.
THe Doctor thinks he is going to die and tells the bridge crew his inner most secrets, like that he love Seven and told Neelix about a sore on Tuvok's butt, and tehn Be'Lanna and Seven save him.
Embarrassed, he stays in sickbay for a week.
Captain Janeway comes to see
him and tells him that his punishment for disobeying orders and taking the warp core when she told him not to is no mobile emitter for a week, but since he didn't use it for seven days and puts it back on him.
I like!
Caretaker 1 and 2 was on,but some idiot added a third episode of Voyager so I had to miss part 2 so's I could watch Stargate SG 1.
It was strange to see how things were in the beginning, as the characters had evolved so much since then.
And I miss seeing Seven.. she will not appear until " Scorpion " at the end of season 3.
And I miss seeing Seven.. she will not appear until " Scorpion " at the end of season 3.
Seven didn't appear until Scorpion part 2, the season 4 premiere. I think Voyager's best years were the first 2, then they played the "we're in dangerous territory with finite resources" more honestly.
Enterprise finds a Vulcan ship where all 140 crew members act and even look like vicious zombies from hell.
It was pretty cool watching Archer, T'Pol and a few others fight them off until They could be rescued by a shuttle pod from Enterprise.
It turns out that the crew of Impulse had gone cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs because of an element that occured naturally in nearby asteriods; they could not be cured, but when T'Pol got the same disease, Dr. Phlox was able to make her well again because she had not been exposed to the element as long as the other Vulcans had.
Twilight
Archer is hurt by an anomaly that passes through the ship; his memory is affected. Every day he wakes up and thinks it is the day after he got hurt again.
The Zindi blow up Earth; he and the last 6,000 surviving humans settle on a planet until the Zindi find and begin to exterminate them.
Archer is taken by Dr Phlox to Enterprise where a cure for his problem is discovered... radiation from the ship's warp engines can cure him.
Before the treatments are done, the Zindi attack Enterprise. Archer over loads three fusion reactors, which explode and cause a sub space breach, and he is cured.. and thrown back in time to just after he was first injured... only this time, his injury is not permanent.
Archer is hurt by an anomaly that passes through the ship; his memory is affected. Every day he wakes up and thinks it is the day after he got hurt again.
The Zindi blow up Earth; he and the last 6,000 surviving humans settle on a planet until the Zindi find and begin to exterminate them.
Archer is taken by Dr Phlox to Enterprise where a cure for his problem is discovered... radiation from the ship's warp engines can cure him.
Before the treatments are done, the Zindi attack Enterprise. Archer over loads three fusion reactors, which explode and cause a sub space breach, and he is cured.. and thrown back in time to just after he was first injured... only this time, his injury is not permanent.
Love this one, too.
i liked that one too. i liked seeing Earth wiped out. Here's some trivia for you: did you notice that the planet the humans settled on was Ceti Alpha V, the same planet Kirk put Khan on.
Originally Posted By: Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man
Originally Posted By: Beardguy57
Twilight
Archer is hurt by an anomaly that passes through the ship; his memory is affected. Every day he wakes up and thinks it is the day after he got hurt again.
The Zindi blow up Earth; he and the last 6,000 surviving humans settle on a planet until the Zindi find and begin to exterminate them.
Archer is taken by Dr Phlox to Enterprise where a cure for his problem is discovered... radiation from the ship's warp engines can cure him.
Before the treatments are done, the Zindi attack Enterprise. Archer over loads three fusion reactors, which explode and cause a sub space breach, and he is cured.. and thrown back in time to just after he was first injured... only this time, his injury is not permanent.
Love this one, too.
i liked that one too. i liked seeing Earth wiped out. Here's some trivia for you: did you notice that the planet the humans settled on was Ceti Alpha V, the same planet Kirk put Khan on.
Yeah, I noticed that, Ray.. and recall I thought " Ironic." when they settled there.
This is one of my all time episodes of ANY Trek show.
Archer couldn't even be killed until he got the 3 reactors to explode. I think he knew that doing so would put right what had gone wrong.
Well, there are FOUR Voyager episodes on per weekday now.. this is nuts, as it will only take 2 and a half months to go through all 7 seasons, instead of five as before.
Today, Harry Kim was whisked away to a planet where people are beamed out to an asteroid field when they die.
An alien woman is revived when her body appears on Voyager, as many bodies start arriving on the ship now.
The woman is sad - she misses her family. She later dies when Janeway attempts to swap her for Harry on a gambit which fails.
Harry tells the aliens on their homeworld that they wind up on an asteroid. They begin to question whether there really is an afterlife.
Harry is rescued but dies, but they bring him back.
Janeway gives him two days off to reflect on his experience.
I like this one... How do we know there really is an afterlife or not?
Because we choose to believe...
IN the next episode, Tom Paris is convicted of a murder he did not commit, and is sentenced to relive the murder once a day, which causes brain damage.
Tuvok saves the day by melding with Paris and figuring out who really killed the man.. it was his wife.
So, yes, the problem was all fixed at the end.. but, it would have caused Paris permanent brain damage to not have this fixed.
I am very unfond of Voyager's first season - that is whjy I did not care to remember the episode's names.
I like this one; BE'Lanna is split into 2 seperate beings. One is all Klingon,the other, all human.
They escape from a scientist's trap by working together.
One of the best early BE'Lanna episodes.
after that, an alien entity took over Tuvok.
Chakotay was injured and his soul is out of his body - he is instrumental in saving Voyager from being completely taken over by aliens.
Jetrel
The man who designed the weapon that destroyed all life on the moon of Neelix's homeworld, including that of his family, diagnoses Neelix with a fatal illness.
The man tries to bring back Neelix's people but fails. One of better early Neelix episodes.
Things go awry with Harry Kim's holodeck program based on the novel " Beowolf", and the Doctor goes to the holodeck to save Harry, Tuvok and Chakotay, who have disappeared into it.
He falls in love with a holodeck character, who dies.
This is the first real solo Doctor episode; it is also the first time he falls in love.
The channel that airs TNG does it again for the 3rd time now. A bit tiresome, especially when it's season 1, but nobody forces me to watch it. If there wasn't so much sci-fi on TV already, I'd write the channel an e-mail and ask to show TOS, DS-9, or something that's not ST, like Space 99, Blake 7, Twiligt Zone or whatnot.
The channel that airs TNG does it again for the 3rd time now. A bit tiresome, especially when it's season 1, but nobody forces me to watch it. If there wasn't so much sci-fi on TV already, I'd write the channel an e-mail and ask to show TOS, DS-9, or something that's not ST, like Space 99, Blake 7, Twiligt Zone or whatnot.
They show four Voyager episodes a day here! that is too much.
I'd rather they show only two a day, and then have an extra DS-9, and one Next Gen. per day...
Sisko's deceased wife, Jennifer, has a parallel world counterpart who comes to the station..
She kidnaps Jake, forcing Sisko to go to her world.
She wants Benjamin to fix their version of the Defiant, which he does. They attack a huge enemy ship and make it retreat.
Jake sees this Jennifer as his mother, even though she never had a child.
The Regent ( played with relish by Nana Visitor ) mortally wounds Jennifer, who saved Jake by taking the shot meant for him.
Bejamin returns just in time be there when Jennifer dies.
So, they lost her a second time.. damn, that is rough.
Love the episode.
The Muse
A pregnant Lwaxana Troi arrives on Deep Space Nine, distressed over the prospect of having her child taken away by its Tavnian father. In order to assist her in keeping her child in accordance with Tavnian law, Odo offers to marry her. Meanwhile, Jake finds inspiration in Onaya, an alien woman with sinister motives.
Onaya inspires paasionate creativity in artists and writer, but drains their life essence in the process.
Benjamin stops her before Jake dies; she turns into an energy form and flies away.
Too bad that energy guy from the Next Generation episode called " Transfigurations " wasn't there! The two energy beings could have fought! It would have been like that two part FF issue where the Hulk and The Thing slugged it out in New York!
Odo marries Lwaxana to keep her from having to give the Tavnian guy her child, as per Tavnian customs.
Odo asks her to stay before she goes back to Betazet, but she tells him she might be able to make Odo love her in time, but that she would resent him if he did not fall in love with her.
In order to bring some rebellious former Maquis crew members into line, Tuvok gives them a crash course in Starfleet discipline and protocol.
This one was pretty good.
The 37's
After discovering a 1936 Ford truck floating in space, Voyager follows an AM-band SOS call to a nearby planet. There, they discover a series of cryo-stasis chambers containing humans abducted from Earth during the 1930s, including Amelia Earhart and her navigator.
Second season begins... this is the best of today's epiosdes.
Initiations
A young Kazon trying to earn his name and place among his people kidnaps and tries to kill Chakotay.
Aaron Eisenberg, who played Nog on DS - 9 guest stars. He was good and obnoxious in this episode.
Projections
When the Doctor is activated during a Red Alert, he learns that the ship has been abandoned, and that only B'Elanna Torres and an injured Captain Janeway are left on board. Soon afterwards, evidence starts to suggest that he is not, in fact, the EMH on Voyager, but actually its creator, Dr Zimmerman, stuck in a malfunctioning holodeck on Jupiter Station.
I never saw this one before! Wow.
Too bad it wasn't very good. I have seen many other Doctor episodes that were way more amusing.
Now Star trek is commerial entertainment and needs viewers to sate advertisers and their dollars. So generally, you need to appeal to a wide base and not just Trekkers.
At what point did Star Trek as a franchise lose the masses? It certainly was a safe enough bet that Paramount decided to launch an entire network on it's back. At some point after that, it lost those masses. Both in film and TV.
I recall some of the arguments being that it got too lost in it's own techno-babble and geekiness and it no longer was relatable to average viewers.
Where do you see it losing the millions? And this is not necessarily a question of when did YOU not like it.
TNG and DS9 set the bar high. Whatever followed had to be as good or better. Poor Voyager just did not reach those levels.
on all counts. Except substitute "the Dominion War" for DS9 in Lothar's post.
TNG remains the high-water mark for me and many fans in terms of consistently good Trek. After Roddenberry died, we started seeing some deviation from his original singular vision for Trek. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing - hippie morality plays in OUTER SPACE tend to bore me after the second or third nearly identical one. But as DS9 progressed, there seems as I look back to be a 'buckshot' effect where the unity of the ongoing storyline (not to be confused with the continuity; one's conceptual and the other's structural) starts to dissolve and the focus of the show fans out so much it's barely impacting anything after a while.
Dominion War brought it all back together for a kickass wild ride - a decidedly less placid Trek universe that more adequately satisfied a different generation of viewers. But Voyager went right back to the trend of every creative entity having a completely different direction in mind for the show (if not the franchise), a trend that's killed many a promising franchise within and beyond sci-fi. For almost the entire damn series, they were all over the map, not just in the structural (continuity) aspect of the show but the conceptual (unity) aspect of the show as well. For a while, the most you can say to address the artistic unity of the show is "well, they're still on the way back to the Alpha Quadrant at least".
I'm not going to discuss Enterprise at this time because I don't feel like dealing with the Wrath of Pro™.
The franchise does need a rest with a, what, fifteen or so year run of always having a Trek on TV? Let the dust settle. In ten or so years, I think fans will probably be a little more willing to accept a revised Trek that does more than tread the same ole ground episode after episode.
Originally Posted By: the G-man
I think the problem for "Trek" ultimately came down to, as the article hints, too much of it going on the air.
There was almost a 20 year gap between the original series and TNG. That gave the writers of the show 20 years of cultural change-and 20 years of new technology-to work with.
Since, TNG, however, the producers kept one version of Trek after another coming out, each mining the same themes over and over.
A ginormous space monster is holding the ship captive because it wants to mate with the ship; proximity to it is making Kes go into a mating cycyle prematurely.
Neelix is reluctant to mate with Kes as it means he'd actually have to raise and be responsible for a kid.... but Ocompans can only have a child once. Same goes for men - they can only mate once. So, how does their species survive?
Chakotay figures out that, instead of the ship fighting back, it needs to adopt a passive nature with the monster... which lets it go after it does.
Kes decides not to mate.. she will wait till her cycle occurs naturally.
Sisko discovers that Kasidy is smuggling medical supplies to the Maquis. However, the motives of the security officer conducting the investigation are less than honourable.
Kasidy is caught, and put in jail.
Eddington lures Sisko away from DS - 9 so that he can help the Maqui, and then leaves the station.
Pretty good episode.
For some stupid reason, I am unable to post the title at the top, but it is " For THe Cause."
Enterprise discovers a planet in the Expanse, whose society is identical to the "wild west", and is surprisingly inhabited by humans, who are oppressing another species.
This one is ok...
Similitude
Trip is injured during an attempt to improve the warp engines. Archer allows Phlox to create a symbiote of Trip, which will only live for fifteen days and provide neural tissue needed for a vital transplant.
They already covered this ground on a few other Trek shows, but it was a good one.
Carpenter Street
Daniels sends Archer and T'Pol to 2004 Detroit to follow three Xindi-Reptilians who are creating a biological weapon.
Never saw it before; It was pretty good. The guy who was betraying and capturing humans was in Voyager and Alien " Ressurection ". He's good at playing assholes. I saw him on CSI once, too.
Chosen Realm
Enterprise comes to the aid of the Triannon, a species that worships the Spheres and their Builders. Once aboard Enterprise, their leader D'Jamat commandeers the ship in order to fight a holy war, and wipe out the heretics on his homeworld.
This one mirrors the idiotic fanatical stance of present day Earth terrorists.
Janeway is rescued by an old guy who thinks she is his daughter; Tuvok and B'Ellana are captured on this same planet while all plus Neelix ( Who got away successfully. ) where looking for badly needed Tellarium for the ship's power systems.
The ship is brought back to full power thanks to Neelix and the tellarium he escaped with, but Tuvok is being beaten and interrogated in prison.
Voyager comes upwith a plan and beams everyone out, but not before the old guy sacrifices himslef to save Janeway, whom he believed was his daughter.
A good one.
Prototype
Voyager finds a robot and B'Elanna fixes it; then it kidnaps her when it's ship is near.
The Robo - ship attacks Voyager until BE'Lannna promises to build a prototype so that this group of robots will a millions year old war with robots from another planet where the robots killed all the people ( this happened on both sides. ) because the people wanted to end the war.
All the robots know is fighting....
So she builds the prototype but is appalled to learn she has just shifted the balance of power in this war.
She destroys the prototype,and is beamed back to Voyager in the proverbial nick of time.
Janeway talks to her and BE'Lanna tells her it was not easy to kill her creation.
This is the first of a trend I like where Janway talks to a crew person at episode's end. I like the talks, always did.
So in todays' ep, Tom Paris does the first trans - Warp flight and later on, mutates into a stupid looking reptile thing, then he clobbers Janeway and takes her back into the shuttle for a trans - warp flight which changes them both into even stupider looking reptile things.
They land the shuttle on a planet, de - evolve, fuck, and Janeway has babies.
Voyager finds 'em and the two are changed back.
Janeway to Paris: " We won't ever speak of this again. "
Thank you!
The end.
Dreadnaught was on later, but I missed it because I had to go food shopping at a crowded, smelly market filled with people who didn't know where they wanted to go and kept stopping in front of me.. then, I had to clean litterboxes after the food was put away. Oh boy.
Dreadnaught is a good one where BE'Lanna has to disarm a bomb - ship that she programmed in the Alpha quadrant against Cardassians when she was a Maqui.
Isn't it funny how everything winds up in the Delta quadrant??
The channel that airs TNG does it again for the 3rd time now. A bit tiresome, especially when it's season 1, but nobody forces me to watch it. If there wasn't so much sci-fi on TV already, I'd write the channel an e-mail and ask to show TOS, DS-9, or something that's not ST, like Space 99, Blake 7, Twiligt Zone or whatnot.
They show four Voyager episodes a day here! that is too much.
I'd rather they show only two a day, and then have an extra DS-9, and one Next Gen. per day...
Spike TV is playing fast and loose with Deep Space Nine.. I only need one and a half seasons till I have 'em all on tape.. but, DS-9 is on a different time each day... tomorrow - Monday, Oct. 22, it will be on at 11:00 am eastern time.
The 5 th season will start again soon.. I only need to tape it and half of season six.. I started taping the show in Jan. of this year.. at the rate of only 3 episodes a week, or about 12 - 13 episodes a month, it seems like it is taking forever!
Voyager is now back to three episodes a day, but I'd rather it be only two a day as it was before.
Starship Mine is the one with Tim Russ where the thieves loot the Enterprise during a routine cleaning? I like that one, especially great is Data's attempts at small talk.
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Starship Mine is the one with Tim Russ where the thieves loot the Enterprise during a routine cleaning? I like that one, especially great is Data's attempts at small talk.
Yup, Tim Russ was in this one.
I like him a lot better as Tuvok, than as a greedy ass crook.
Bashir and Dax answer a distress call in the Gamma Quadrant; people on a planet have a disease and Bashir tries hard to find a cure. The people call the disease " The Quickening", and are very harsh with Bashir because they don't want to get false hope that he can cure them.
He sends Dax back to DS - 9, and is caring for a pregnant woman when she has ehr baby... great news! The baby has antibodies against the Quickening, so, while he has yet to find a cure, he did discover how to make a vaccine from the newborn's blood. The children of these people will be disease free.
This is a wonderful episode. One of the best DS - 9's I have seen.
Enterprise detects a signal leading to a testing ground for the Xindi weapon prototype, but they have to move through a field of anomalies in order to get there faster. Enterprise takes heavy damage in the process, but is ultimately saved by an Andorian ship under Shran's command. Shran offers Archer assistance in the battle against the Xindi.
This is a great episode!
Loved it the first time I saw it.
Stratagem
After capturing Degra, the creator of the Xindi weapon, Archer and the Enterprise crew conduct a carefully orchestrated deception in order to convince him to reveal the location of the weapon.
I didn't care much for this one.
Harbinger
Enterprise crew discover a mysterious alien adrift in a small pod within a field of anomalies. Meanwhile, emotions run high as Reed feels threatened by Major Hayes, and T'Pol learns that Trip has been giving neuro-pressure to a female MACO.
This one is pretty cool. Some good fight scenes between Malcolm and Major Hayes.
The alien on ship can walk through walls and shit like that.
Doctor's Orders
When a transdimensional disturbance is altering the space between Enterprise and Azati Prime, Phlox must put the entire crew into a comatose state, and run the ship alone, in order to cross the region safely.
Very cool episode. Similar to the Voyager one where Seven of Nine has to remain awake while the crew was in stasis as they crossed a nebula.
Loved how the Doctor hallucinated T'Pol, helping him.
An accident in a plasma cloud creates a duplicate Voyager after they are attacked by the Vidiians.
Kinda lame. I see duplication episodes as being about as lame as " Alien takes over the crew "episodes.
This means that, since one Janeway blew up the ship, and one Voyager survived, and since Harry Kim and one newborn Naomi Wildman died, we'll never know who was the duplicate and who was the original. This one is best left forgotten..
Innocence
When Tuvok crashes on a moon, he discovers three small children who believe they are about to die.
And later, the adults of that race tell Janeway that their people age in reverse, so, the younger they get, the closer they are to dying.
Does that mean they are born being 82 year old infants? Weird...
Tuvok stayed with the last child who was to die soon, a little girl. As I said before, a weird episode, but it did make for a cute story.
The Thaw
The crew of Voyager encounters a planet that has recently entered an ice age. They discover a series of stasis chambers where a small group of people are mentally connected to an artificial environment that turned horribly wrong.
Michael McKean plays Fear, a being who lives in a computer matrix. He does a splendid performance as fear, too.
He scares one hostage to death. He demands Janeway visit him in this matrix.. she volunteers to stay if he'll let all the hostages go.. Fear agrees, but discovers he has been tricked, as this Janeway is a hologram.
A personal favorite. Tuvok and Neelix are accidentally combined into one person, Tuvix.. who is both of them,yet neither.. as he refers to himself as a seperate entity from the two.
He refers to the two as being his " parents ", yet, when a cure is found after a few weeks to seperate and bring back Neelix and Tuvok, Tuvix balks at what would turn out to be his death, though it would restore the two.
Captain Janeway orders Tuvix to submit to the procedure, which involves tagging one set of DNA in Tuvix and utilizing the medical transporter in sickbay to seperate Tuvix and bring back Tuvok and Neelix.
The Doctor refuses to do this, citing that it is due to Tuvix not complying of his own free will.
So Janeway does the procedure herself..looking a silent Tuvix in the eye, as he says he forgives them for this..
She activates the transporter, and Tuvok and Neelix are back.. and Tuvix is gone.
This is the most contoversial and thought provoking Voyager episode of all, and, as Ray Adler has stated - Deep Space Nine had episodes like that almost every time, where very few Voyager episodes went that route.
But I love Voyager for what it is.. not for what it wasn't.
Basics
Seska lures Chakotay and Voyager to her, claiming that Maj Cullah is going to kill the baby she created using Chakotay's DNA, once he learns that it isn't his. Chakotay feels compelled to rescue his child, while all the time, he fears it could be a trap.
With the crew stranded on a barren planet, and the ship controlled by the Kazon, it's up to Tom Paris, Lon Suder, and The Doctor to retake Voyager and rescue their crewmates.
Suder has to forget all the training from Tuvok on keeping himself calm, and must go back to his killer's nature if he is to save the ship.
Meanwhile, on the planet where nearly all the crew has been left by the Kazon, Captain Janeway and the rest must deal with hostile primitives, giant cave dwelling monsters, and erupting volcanoes...
Suder kills a Kazon and the Doctor hides the body in a stasis chamber; Seska confronts the Doctor ( Who has already been contacted by Tom Paris with a plan to re-take Voyager. ) who shows her the body and does his best to give Seska as much mis-information as possible. Seska leaves but damages the holo - emitter in sickbay.. the Doctor is now offline.
Paris and a few Talaxian ships attack Voyager's main phaser banks! Suder goes to where he needs in the ship to damage the back up phaser couplings! He kills all the Kazons, and does the sabotage... but is shot by a dying Kazon, and, mortally wounded, Suder finishes his task, then dies..
The phasers over load! Seska is killed! Her baby lives though. A surviving Kazon guy gives the order to abandon Voyager. He takes the baby, who turns out to be his, and not Chakotay's.
Paris and a few Talaxians beam aboard. They repair the ship! They go back to the planet, where Janeway and Company have helped rescue a woman from the primitive tried who'd been trapped by a lava flow!
The woman helps save Ensign Wildman's baby, who was very ill, with a homemade remedy.
Just then, Voyager returns!
The crew is saved!
At episode's end, Seska and Suder's bodies are in sick bay.
Tuvok say that awesome line to the now dead hero, Suder:
"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your
death bring you the peace you never found in
life." - Tuvok.
This is my signature here, as you all can see. It is a fantastic line, one of the very best from this show, and it sums up my thoughts about life and death and the afterlife perfectly.
I watched this terrific two parter and Tuvix with my Mom today; I'd just been to the dentist and had yet another perfect check up.
It was her 76 th birthday yesterday. I am quite fortunate to still have her, as I am 50 now. I enjoy sharing my shows with her, and she enjoys them, too.
Basics is an exciting episode from start to finish; it remains a favorite of mine, and is still fun to watch, even several years after it first aired in 1996.
When Odo contracts a mysterious illness, the Defiant crew bring him to the Gamma Quadrant to find the Founders. There, Odo learns that this illness was the Founders' way of forcing him home to the Great Link to stand trial for killing another Changeling.
Another awesome Star Trek episode.
Sisko gets a crew and takes Odo in search of the founders. They come and board the ship.. the female founder takes the Defiant to the Founder planet... Where Odo is judged, found guilty.. healed of the disease he has.. and turned into a solid. He is no longer a changeling!
This is his punishment for being the very first and only changeling to kill another.
Now, back at DS - 9, he must confront eating and other human issues.
This is episode 98.. and, it is the final episode of season 4.
Jerry did you know The Enterprise computer system is controlled by three primary main processing cores cross linked with a redundant melacortz ramistat and fourteen kiloquad interface modules? The core elements are based on FTL nanoprocessor units arranged into twenty-five bilateral kelilactirals with twenty of those units being slaved to the central heisenfram terminal. . . . Now this is the isopalavial interface which controls the main firomactal drive unit. . . . The ramistat kiloquad capacity is a function of the square root of the intermix ratio times the sum of the plasma injector quotient.
Jerry did you know The Enterprise computer system is controlled by three primary main processing cores cross linked with a redundant melacortz ramistat and fourteen kiloquad interface modules? The core elements are based on FTL nanoprocessor units arranged into twenty-five bilateral kelilactirals with twenty of those units being slaved to the central heisenfram terminal. . . . Now this is the isopalavial interface which controls the main firomactal drive unit. . . . The ramistat kiloquad capacity is a function of the square root of the intermix ratio times the sum of the plasma injector quotient.
Very good, Lothar.. you accurately quoted Commander Riker's little speech to one of the Ferengi who had taken over the Enterprise in this episode:
Rascals
A transporter accident transforms Picard, Ro Laren, Guinan and Keiko O'Brien into small children who appear to be about 12 years old. Matters become complicated when the Ferengi seize the Enterprise.
Captain Sisko and his crew embark on a mission to expose Gowron as a Changeling who wants to engage a war between the Federation and the Klingon empire. By disguising themselves as Klingons, Captain Sisko and the Defiant crew infiltrate the Klingon homeworld.
And it turns out that General Martok was the changelings. When he is discovered, he tries to kill Odo,who realized it was he, but the Klingons blast the shit out of the changeling with their disruptors.
This one was pretty good. I remember when I first saw it, over 11 years ago.
Yeah, DS - 9 is back on mornings at 11 am.. not sure for how long, though, and they played 4 episodes this week!
Jerry did you know The Enterprise computer system is controlled by three primary main processing cores cross linked with a redundant melacortz ramistat and fourteen kiloquad interface modules? The core elements are based on FTL nanoprocessor units arranged into twenty-five bilateral kelilactirals with twenty of those units being slaved to the central heisenfram terminal. . . . Now this is the isopalavial interface which controls the main firomactal drive unit. . . . The ramistat kiloquad capacity is a function of the square root of the intermix ratio times the sum of the plasma injector quotient.
Ahh...
One of the reasons I listed as to why people grew tired of Trek.
And yes, my eyes did just glaze over slightly after having had read that.
LOS ANGELES - The original Capt. Kirk is disheartened he won't get to boldly go anywhere with his old pal Spock in the new "Star Trek" movie. While Leonard Nimoy is reprising his role as the pointy-eared Vulcan in next year's science-fiction flick, William Shatner is not on board as Kirk.
"I couldn't believe it. I'm not in the movie at all. Leonard, God bless his heart, is in, but not me," Shatner, 76, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "I thought, what a decision to make, since it obviously is a decision not to make use of the popularity I have to ensure the movie has good box office. It didn't seem to be a wise business decision."
Director J.J. Abrams announced last summer that Nimoy would reprise the role he originated opposite Shatner in the 1960s television show and played again in six big-screen adventures.
Abrams said Shatner probably would have a part in the film, which is due in theaters in December 2008. But while Shatner said he had a couple of meetings with Abrams, nothing came of it.
Abrams' "Trek" film, whose plot is being kept under wraps by distributor Paramount, recounts an early adventure for the crew of the starship Enterprise, with Chris Pines as the young Kirk and Zachary Quinto as the young Spock.
The cast includes Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy, Simon Pegg as engineer Scott, John Cho as helmsman Sulu, Zoe Saldana as communications officer Uhura and Anton Yelchin as navigator Chekov, roles respectively originated by DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig.
Past "Trek" films presented an obstacle to the revival of Shatner's Kirk, who died at the end of 1994's "Star Trek: Generations."
But in science fiction, you can never truly say die. Spock was killed off in 1982's "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" then resurrected in 1984's "Star Trek: The Search for Spock," with Nimoy's Vulcan living on to co-star in three more films, two episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and now Abrams' new movie.
"I've got a lot to do," said Shatner, whose current work includes the TV show "Boston Legal," narration for the Christmas spoof "Stalking Santa" due on DVD on Nov. 6, and the prequel "Star Trek: Academy Collision Course," a novel chronicling Kirk and Spock's first meeting.
Shatner says of "Star Trek": "Having been in on the creation of it, I was hoping to be in on the re-creation."
What???!!
Is he a moron??
Or did he just forget that he died in "Generations"?
After Voyager encounters a telepathic species, B'Elanna starts having powerful dreams that depict the life of a woman and her lover in a time of great political and social upheaval.
B'Elanna sees how the woman's lover, who is a member of a group of poeple different from her own,is killed, along with his people, by the woman's people in a holocaust equal to the one here on Earth in Germany in the 1940's.
The woman is killed for doing this. BE'lanna is able to convince at least one woman that it was real, by getting her to read her memories from the woman who died.
I am impressed with this one.
It was sad but done quite well... a tale of how the truth can be covered up.
His shuttle craft has been up on blocks for over a month He paints flames and a NRA sticker on the warp nacelles He refers to Klingons as "Critters" He refers to Photon Torpedoes as "Popguns" He has the sensor array repaired with a bent coat hanger and aluminum foil He installs a set of bullhorns on the front of the saucer section He says "Got your ears on, good buddy" instead of "open hailing frequencies" He hangs fuzzy dice over the view screen He rewires his communicator into his belt buckle He keeps a six-pack under his command chair and a gun rack above it He says "Yee-Ha!" instead of "Engage" He has a hand-tooled holster for his phaser He insists on calling his executive officer "Bubba" He sets the foreword view screen to reruns of "Bassmaster" He programs the food replicator for beer, ribs, and turnip greens He refers to a Pulsar as a "Blue Light Special" His moonshine is stronger than Romulan Ale His idea of a dress uniform is CLEAN bib overalls He wears mirrored shades on the Bridge He sets his phaser to "Cajun"
Future's End Both Voyager and a 29th century Federation Timeship, the Aeon, are pulled back in time to Earth in the late 20th century. The Timeship Aeon crashes in Arizona during the 1960's, while Voyager appears in orbit around Earth during 1996.
Voyager must find a way to stop Starling, before his attempted use of the timeship destroys Earth's Solar System. Meanwhile, while trying to rescue Paris and Tuvok, Torres and Chakotay are captured by a militia cell who believe that they are from the government.
I like this one. The Doctor gets his mobile emitter.
Then, he gets to be a bigger pain in the ass!
He can travel all over,the same as any other crew member.
Voyager encounters several supernova in a small region of space. Q soon appears and reveals that they are the after-effects of a civil war within the Q-Continuum. He believes that the solution is for him to produce a child, and he has chosen Captain Janeway as his mate.
But they don't, because, after a showdown in the Q Continuum,Mrs. Q arrives with the crew of Voyager, who rescue Q and Janeway from a fining squad.
Janeway tells Q and Mrs. Q that they ought to mate.. and they do, by just touching fingers for the briefest of moments...
a while later, Q arrives on Voyager to show Janeway his baby boy, who already has Q powers.
It is a pretty cool episode.
Macrocosm
Janeway and Neelix return from an away mission to find Voyager adrift in space and the crew barely alive. They soon learn that the ship has been overrun by viral life forms that are rapidly growing in size.
I didn't used to like this one,but I watched it today and really got into it.. it makes for a good Halloween tale!
Worf falls in love with Quark's ex-wife, Grilka. However, Quark is also still interested.
Quark has to fight a Klingon warrior with a Bat'Leth.. and wins.. but only because Worf is in another room, with a control device that enables Quark to mimic automatically his moves.
The woman rejects Quark.
Dax and Worf fight with Bat'Leths afterwards.. and then, they mate.
Begin cool romance between Dax and Worf.
A good one.. but, then again, most DS- 9 episodes are!
Jake Sisko and Julian Bashir are caught in the middle of a battle between a Federation colony and a Klingon army.
This one was depressing, but, it is a good show about the horrors of war.. whick Jake experiences personally. He gets to do a few brave things, inspite of his fear.
Captain Janeway repeatedly dies after she and Chakotay crash into a planet in what appears to be a time loop. Soon, her deceased father appears and tells her that she is dead and must accept her situation and move on.
her father turns out to be an alien dude who just wants to trick Janeway into going into some wierd dimension he runs. She tells him to fuck off and gets back to the world of the living.
This is why I like Captain Janeway. She is a very strong willed, determined woman.
Blood Fever
Ensign Vorik expresses his desire to mate with B'Elanna during his Pon-Farr. After they get in a brawl over the matter, Torres begins showing signs of the Pon-Farr herself.
and the best part of this episode:
The final minute... where Janeway and Chakotay discover a dead Borg in the jungle.
Chakotay responds to a distress call, and discovers a group of different species, many of which originate from the Alpha Quadrant, living on a planet stricken by conflict. After Chakotay learns that they are all de-assimilated Borg, a group of colonists make a very unorthodox and dangerous request of Voyager.
I have been waiting for this one.
In a word: Awesome.
This is Voyager's first real encounter with the Borg.
A Borg cube is found. All 11,000 occupants on it are dead.
The Ex Borg on the nearby planet want to use the cube's systems to re-establish a collective on the planet. This is because many of these Ex Borg were assimulated at Wolf 359, so we have : Romulans, Klingons, etc, all living on the same planet. Yeah, that spells trouble.
Meanwhile, a dead Borg is beamed to sickbay; the Doctor inadvertantly activates it, though it is dead. He deactivates it before it can do anything. That was a cool scene.
A few of 'em heal an injured Chakotay after forming a temporary link with him.
Voyager finds him and beams him and the Ex Borg woman Chakotay has grown close to, mainly due to the memories they both experienced from the other during that link.
She explains her plan to Captain Janeway, who says she needs to think on it.
The ex Borg take control of Chakotay, thanks to the after effects of the link with him; he takes a shuttle to the Borg cube to initiate their plan.
Janeway sees what he is doing and beams an away team to Voyager to stop him.
He manages to do it anyway, activating the Borg collective device.
The dead Borg on the cube are re-activated! They attack the away team. The team are beamed back to the ship just in time.
The ex Borg initiate an auto destruct sequence on the cube; it blows up and Voyager moves away just in time.
Janeway understands how Chakotay was an unwilling particpant in this, and the two ponder how long before the now unified ex Borg become malevolant.
This is one of my very favorite of any Star Trek episodes.
Maybe soon, I'll compile a list of my twenty favorite episodes of all the Trek episodes.
Nine more episodes to go until Scorpion part 1.
I have missed Seven of Nine; it will be great to see her again in Scorpion, part 2.
Keiko returns from Bajor.. possessed by a Pa Wraith, who is intent on forcing her husband, Miles O'Brien, to fix DS- 9 so that it emits a beam at the wormhole that would kill the Bajoran Prophets who inhabit the wormhole.
The alien threatens to kill Keiko unless O'Brien complies.
It is Rom who realizes what the alterations to DS-9's systems will do; after he tells O'Brien, Miles pulls a fast one on the alien, who makes O'Brien take her in a shuttle towatch her enemies who forbade her and her kind from gaining access to the celestial temple, and uses the beam from DS-9 to kill the alein who has possessed Keiko, instead of the Prophets.
Keiko, who was aware the whole time while being a captive in her own body, is now free.
While on an away mission to help a planet being bombarded with asteroids, Neelix comes up with a dangerous plan to re-establish communication with Voyager. However, he is pushed to the limit when Tuvok's negative attitude toward him becomes too much to bear.
Neelix saves the day by getting this elevator gizmo to rise above the planet's ionosphere and be able to contact Voyager to be rescued.
Love the interaction between Tuvok and Neelix.
I like this episode a lot; there is a certain sense of tension, fear and paranoia in it, like in a Hitchcock movie.
Hatchery, Azati Prime, Damage, and The Forgotten were all on last night.
Azati Prime
After getting to Azati Prime, the crew discover the almost complete Xindi weapon is on an ocean planet. Their plan to destroy it calls for someone to pilot the recently acquired Insectoid shuttle on a suicide mission and Archer decides that he will do it. However, Daniels brings Archer to the future to tell him that he must instead make peace with the Xindi and convince them that they have been manipulated by the Sphere-Builders.
This one was very good. Archer is captured and interrogated by the Xindi but he remains his cool, strong self and does not crack.
Damage
A badly damaged Enterprise responds to a distress call from an Illyrian ship that's been damaged by anomalies. Desperate to make the rendezvous with Degra, Archer's ethics are put to the test when he realises that the Illyrians' warp coil is the only way to make it in time.
A moral dilemma. To accomplish the mission and save Earth by stopping the Xindi, Archer and crew must take the warp coil from the Illyrians, and thus it would take that ship three years to return to their homeworld.
And you could see it made Archer feel like King of the Rat Boys doing it.. but he did it to save Earth.
A moral dilemma. To accomplish the mission and save Earth by stopping the Xindi, Archer and crew must take the warp coil from the Illyrians, and thus it would take that ship three years to return to their homeworld.
i always wondered about this. did he send another Earth ship to give them a replacement coil once the Xindi threat was over? They mentioned him marooning the ship during the "Home" episode but the person he's talking to merely replies that he did what he had to do not that the ship was eventually saved.
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Originally Posted By: Beardguy57
A moral dilemma. To accomplish the mission and save Earth by stopping the Xindi, Archer and crew must take the warp coil from the Illyrians, and thus it would take that ship three years to return to their homeworld.
i always wondered about this. did he send another Earth ship to give them a replacement coil once the Xindi threat was over? They mentioned him marooning the ship during the "Home" episode but the person he's talking to merely replies that he did what he had to do not that the ship was eventually saved.
I am certain Archer's conscience would compel him to send another ship to replace the warp coil he stole from the Illyrians' ship.
At least, I am certain this was done in between episodes.. and, it would not be very prudent to make an enemy out of the Illyrians.
The Doctor decides he should create a holographic family in order to expand himself. When B'Elanna is disgusted by its unrealistic perfectionism, she alters the program to include random events and outcomes with interesting and devastating results.
This is a great one. I cry at the end every time when the Doctor's holographic daughter dies from injuries suffered while playing Paresi squares.
The inevitable finally happens, as Voyager enters Borg space. However, they soon encounter a new threat, in a species even more powerful and dangerous than the Borg.
Captain Janeway forges an unlikely alliance with the Borg. In exchange for safe passage through Borg space, Voyager will provide the Borg with the medical technology necessary to defeat Species 8472.
Ahhhh... I have been waiting for this splendid two parter since Voyager started over again with Caretaker 1 & 2.
Thsi one is excellent. I still remember how, after part one left us all hanging as to what would happen, and the summer seemed to go on forever as I wanted to see the second part of Scorpion in the fall, but was in no hurry for summer 1997 to end..
Now, Seven of Nine is aboard Voyager.. and she is disconnexted from the Borg, but not yet quite an indivdual.. and we get to watch her achieve individuality all over again.
I am glad she has arrived again. I have missed her.
While returning to Deep Space Nine with the Bajoran Orb of Time, the crew is thrown back to the 23rd Century. They must infiltrate the original Starship Enterprise in order to stop an undercover Klingon from assassinating the legenday Captain James T. Kirk.
This is one of the fun ones.
Love how they integrated the original Trek episode, " The Trouble Withy Tribbles " with a DS-9 episode.
Worf, Dax, Leeta, Quark and Bashir pay a visit to Risa. Things go bad when a band of rebels gains control of the planet's weather regulator to scare the visitors in an attempt to show them how unprepared the Federation is for the Dominion invasion.
The band of rebels are a bunch of religious fundamentalists. You know them - the ones who love to fuck up things for the rest of us.
Worf reveals that he used to be wild until he accidentally killed a kid in High School during a soccer game.. this finally explains Worf's reserved nature.. and why he helped sabotage the weather control machine on Risa.
Everything is fixed on the last day of their vacation, and the rebels are arrested because they turned violent.
Sisko, Odo, Dax and Garak are shifted into the past, when DS9 was known as Terok Nor. To each other, they appear normal, but to others they appear as Bajoran slaves. Soon they are accused of planting a bomb, and are sentenced to death.
It turns out that they are in the past ( thier minds only ) because this is an incident Odo lived through 7 years ago.. when he was in charge of Security on Cardassian occupied Terak' Nor.
The people they represented were innocent of the crime they were accused of having committed... but, Odo had fingered them for the crime and they were executed anyway, as Odo watched.
After the vision played itself out, Odo admitted he was wrong and the innocent people died needlessly. He had to live with this memory, and with knowing that others - including Kira know about it now.
This is a good one. Love how the great link - when Odo was forced to become a solid - is what brought this out.
They played four episodes this week, not just three. I am a bit closer to having all Deep Space Nine episodes.
I did buy season six on vhs this week.. just in case the show gets taken off the air before I reach my goal..and, if they do all play as scheduled, I'll have back up copies.. The sixth season is the best, IMO.
One by one, the crew of Voyager go missing and are replaced by strangers who claim they have no idea how they arrived. Soon, nearly the whole crew is gone, and there is no way of stopping the strangers from appearing and overrunning the ship.
The crew are held in a pre-prepared environment where they do work at and succeed at freeing themselves.
Pretty good one. I like the " Arctic" environment the characters were in for a short time.
The Gift
Seven Of Nine, the Borg drone that Voyager severed from the collective, tries to resist as her natural human physiology tries to regenerate. It's up to Captain Janeway to convince her to embrace her humanity and join the Voyager crew. Meanwhile, Kes' telekinetic powers grow to such a point that she can no longer control them.
Kes leaves the show; goodbye Kes, hello again, Seven!
It was cool when Kes became super, then left to enter another reality.
Still don't know why she came back to this reality in a later episode to take revenge on Janeway.. Unless her race can de-evolve.. but that makes no sense.
I prefer to pretend she never came back.. or, maybe it was just a part of Kes that had come back...
Day Of Honor
While Seven of Nine struggles with her humanity, Captain Janeway tries to help a group of aliens whose species was almost entirely assimilated by the Borg. Meanwhile, the Klingon "Day of Honor" turns into a string of bad luck for B'Elanna.
The warp core has to be ejected during a botched attempt at gaining trans - warp cabability.
Tom and B'Elanna go after it in a shuttle. A race of aliens whom Voyager just helped because the race had been decimated by the Borg take the warp core, and later send 27 ships after a now badly underpowered Voyager.
The aliens cause the shuttle to explode, forcing Tom and B'Elanna to abandon ship wearing space suits.
B'Elanna believes she and Tom are about to die, as their air is almost out, and summons all her courage to tell Tom that she loves him.
When Chakotay is stranded on a planet that is in the middle of a major war, he violates the Prime Directive by helping the soldiers that discover him.
But this is because he was subjected to drugs and brainwashing.
Chakotay is taught to hate the enemy by use of a simulation involving his "comrades at arms", an innocent town, and the enemy.
It turns out that the people he is helping are the bad guys, and the aliens they seek to kill are actually the good guys.
The bad ones employ unethical methods to gain new recruits to their cause.
The good guys send Tuvok and a team of their men in to rescue Chakotay; Tuvok has a tough time convincing Chakotay it is he, as Chakotay sees only the enemy when he looks at him.
This episode is a great anti - war message.
Love the last line in the episode:
Chakotay: " I wish it were as easy to stop hating as it is to start."
Seven Of Nine, the Borg drone that Voyager severed from the collective, tries to resist as her natural human physiology tries to regenerate. It's up to Captain Janeway to convince her to embrace her humanity and join the Voyager crew. Meanwhile, Kes' telekinetic powers grow to such a point that she can no longer control them.
Kes leaves the show; goodbye Kes, hello again, Seven!
It was cool when Kes became super, then left to enter another reality.
Still don't know why she came back to this reality in a later episode to take revenge on Janeway.. Unless her race can de-evolve.. but that makes no sense.
I prefer to pretend she never came back.. or, maybe it was just a part of Kes that had come back...
I didn't understand why Kes returned as vindictive and hateful... IIRC I missed the first quarter or 30 minutes of that episode too. Wasn't there some weird time travelling with two Kes, a young and an old one, in that episode?
Romulans from the future, most likely TNG time frame lead by a Romulan named Nero, played by Eric Bana, finds the City on the Edge of Forever and uses the Guardian of Forever to go back in time and kill the person who has been the biggest thorn in the Romulan’s side and is crucial to the success of the Federation and Starfleet, James T. Kirk.
Mr. Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy in the original timeline, becomes aware of Nero’s plan (not clear on the details of how he knows) and also goes back in time to protect his best friend, James Kirk. This is where the Old Spock (Nimoy) and Young Spock (Quinto) meet.
Old Spock warns young Spock about Nero’s plans and it’s up to them to protect the future Captain Kirk and also help try to protect the timeline and the future of the Federation and Starfleet.
This happens before Kirk and Spock form their life long friendship and bond. We have been told that there is a very cool scene where Old Spock tells the Young Spock about his friendship with Kirk, so while this may sound “illogical” (pun intended) it’s been described as very emotional.
Hmm…does Old Spock die in this film? I honestly don’t know but I am finally getting excited about this film (despite the casting mishaps).
Ok, so when do we see Kirk for the very first time? The first time the audience is introduced to James T. Kirk is while he is taking a certain test that Starfleet cadets are required to take, the Kobayashi Maru.
The Kobayashi Maru scenario was an infamous no-win scenario that was part of the curriculum for command-track cadets at Starfleet Academy in the 23rd century. It was primarily used to assess a cadet's discipline, character, and command capabilities when facing an impossible situation.
In the scenario, a cadet was placed in command of a starship on patrol near the Klingon Neutral Zone. The starship would receive a distress signal from the SS Kobayashi Maru, a civilian freighter that had been disabled in the zone after having struck a gravitic mine. If the cadet chose to enter the neutral zone in violation of treaties, the starship would be confronted by three Klingon K't'inga-class battlecruisers.
The test was considered a no-win scenario because it was impossible for the cadet to simultaneously save the Kobayashi Maru, avoid a fight with the Klingons, and escape from the neutral zone with the starship intact.
In the 2250s, James T. Kirk became the first (and only known) cadet to ever beat the no-win scenario. After taking the test and failing twice, Kirk took the test a third time after surreptitiously reprogramming the computer to make it possible to win the scenario.
Kirk got a commendation for "original thinking", and later commented wistfully that his stunt "had the virtue of never having been tried." Kirk would later defend his "cheating" by arguing that he didn't believe in the no-win scenario. Ironically, Kirk also defended the test itself by suggesting "how we face death is at least as important as how we face life.”
B'Elanna and The Doctor respond to a distress call and come to the aid of a malfunctioning hologram.
The hologram, who is mentally unbalanced, has killed all the human crew on his ship... he tries to kill B'Elanna, but she destroys him.
Leland Orser played the nutty hologram.. he was in the movie Alien Resurrection. He played a crazy guy in that movie.. I have seen him play crazy guys in other shows, too.. You think that, back in the second grade, when his teacher asked the class what they wanted to be when they grew up, that he said, "I want to be an actor and play crazy guys when I grow up. " ??
As Enterprise prepares to enter the subspace corridor that will get them to their rendezvous with Degra, they encounter a duplicate Enterprise manned by the original crew's descendants. The duplicate Enterprise's crew explain that entering the subspace corridor caused them to be thrown over 100 years into the past, they offer a new plan to get Archer to Degra and the Xindi Council.
The Council
While T'Pol leads a mission to retrieve the memory core from a Sphere, Archer appears before the Xindi Council to attempt to convince them that Humanity is not their enemy. As his evidence begins to sway some of the Council members, the Sphere-builders continue to manipulate the Reptilians, in order to ensure the deployment of the weapon.
Countdown
With time running out and the Reptilians about to arm the weapon, Archer has to convince the Aquatics to help the Humanoids, Arboreals and Enterprise intercept it.
Zero Hour
Archer leads a team to stop the Xindi weapon before it reaches Earth. Meanwhile, Enterprise attempts to destroy a key Sphere, despite deadly interference from the Sphere Builders.
THe final four episodes of the Xindi War.. and they were all awesome!
I'm sorry to see the third season end.. it was magnificent!
The Krenim Imperium is attempting to return to its former glory by using a temporal weapon ship that can erase entire species of their enemies from existence. When the Krenim leader learns that Voyager's presence in the quadrant has thrown a wrench into his plans, Voyager becomes his next target.
Working with only a skeleton crew, Captain Janeway desperately attempts to repair Voyager in order to stop Annorax. Meanwhile, aboard the Krenim weapon-ship, Paris and Chakotay clash over the best way to save Voyager.
If I ever put together a list of what I consider to be the best 25 episodes of ALL the five Star Trek shows, this epic two - parter would be near the top of that list!
Although all the changes to the crew and damage to the ship were all undone by episode's end, ( unlike in Enterprise during the Xindi saga, when the ship suffered heavy damage and it was permanent.. until they got back to Earth and could get the ship repaired.. ) it is still a fantastic episode even now, a decade later.
It is sort of like an " Ultimate " reality.. and damn fun, too.
Note: Kurtwood Smith, from " That 70's Show ", and who also portayed the domineering father in the movie, Dead Poet's Society " guest stars. He does a splendid job as the man who is desperately trying to bring back his wife.
When Voyager discovers an ancient communications relay that extends to the Alpha Quadrant, they are able to send The Doctor to an experimental Federation ship, the Prometheus. However, unbeknownst to the Voyager crew, the Prometheus has been commandeered by Romulans.
A special episode.. Andy Dick guest stars, and man, is he obnoxious here!
Starfleet learns that Voyager is still surviving in the Delta Quadrant.
It is also the very last episode of Voyager that George watched with me.
I had taped it that Wednesday, late in January 1998.
He had taped a show about a Mounty in Canada, but I forget what that show was called now.
We watched both shows together Saturday morning, Jan. 31, 1998.. at about 5 or 6 am when, when we both had been unable to sleep.
He agreed that it was a very good Voyager episode.
He died less than 12 hours later.
Hunters
The Voyager crew is excited to begin receiving messages from Starfleet using the newly discovered communications array. However, they soon face a new threat from a violent species of hunters called the Hirogen.
Another good one! Although we first see a Hirogen in " Message In A Bottle " , this is Voyager's first encounter with them.
Prey
When Voyager beams aboard a wounded Hirogen aboard, they inadvertently allow aboard his prey, a Species 8472.
And Seven of Nine disobeys Captain Janeway and beams the wounded 8472 to a Hirigen ship, thus saving voyager from being destroyed by several Hirogen ships.
She is punished for this.
Seven remarks to Janeway that she thought Janeway wanted her to become an individual, but Janeway tells her she just crossed the line.
Archer and the NX-01 find themselves in 1944 and discover the outcome of World War II was altered by the Temporal Cold War.
Storm Front part two
With Silik's help, Archer searches for the temporal operative who altered Earth's past and threatens to destroy all of time.
This two parter was pretty good.
Archer is found, other crewmen get captured and freed.
Silik dies a hero, while helping to save Earth. You kinda wish he had not died..
Archer saves the timeline by preventing the alien Nazi guy from going back to his time.
We also learn that the time agents tried to destroy the Suliban homeworld.
Home
Enterprise returns to Earth to a hero's welcome, Archer is haunted by his experiences and actions in the Expanse. Meanwhile, realising that his home has been destroyed, Trip travels to Vulcan with T'Pol, where she faces a difficult situation.
Very good. We see planet Vulcan again. Trip confesses to T'Pol's mother that he loves T'Pol, but he refuses to tell her and lets her marry a man she does not love.
Borderland part one
Criminal Arik Soong is brought aboard the Enterprise to assist in finding some genetically enhanced humans he created after stealing altered DNA left over from the Eugenics Wars.
Yes, Brent Spiner reprises his role as Soong.. a much younger Soong. It is he who created the genetically enhanced beings such as Khan, who almost killed Captain Kirk on two seperate occasions.
Paul Wight ( the Big Show ) guest stars as a green skinned giant Orion guy.
J.G. Hertzler guest stars as a Klingon Captain; he also played General Martok on Deep Space Nine.
Well, there's a Enterprise marathon on Sci Fi channel now till 1 am!!
This helps make up for the fact that Spike tv ran James Bond movies all week long and took off DS-9 and Voyager. Augments conclusion was on, it was great!
Loved at the end where Soong said that he was through trying to perfect humans, and that he would instead turn towards creating artificial life.
Reed is contacted by the same order that used to occasionally get DS- 9 crew people to do their dirty work; he slows down Enterprsie so that Klingons can board and attack. They sabotage the warp engines, so that if theydrop below warp 5, the ship explodes. Can you say " Speed " ?
Reed gets put into the brig, along with a captured Klingon.
Avery Brooks ( Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince ) guest stars as the captured Klingon's father.
He does look good since he lost the weight.
Some cool formation flying with the Columbia and Enterprise flying tightly together to enable Tripp to go aboard Enterprise and fix the engines, which he does.
Three Klingon vessels approach the facility where Phlox strives to find a cure for the disease, and inform he and the Klingon Doctor there that the facility will be destroyed, in order to contain and stop the disease, which is from the genetic codes of Soong's augmented humans.
Phlox does find a cure, but millions of Klingons now look very.. human, including the Klingon Doctor who helped Phlox find a cure. No other Klingons will get the disease.
EXCELLENT!
Now on: THrough A Mirror, Darkly part one
This is the first of several episodes that will span TOS and Deep SpaceNine episodes with tales of the parallel universe where Zepram Cochrane killed the Vulcans who made first contact on Earth and they stole their more advanced technology and established a war - like empire.
This episode explains why Klingons looked so.. human in the Kirk era Star Trek.
The virus makes 'em look like us, though they are still fundamentally Klingon in all the ways that count.
What? They went through and gave it an in-continuity explanation, instead of just explaining that they didn't have the resources on make-up and masks back then?
Thinking about the Klingons in ST:TOS, I'm more concerned on how Mongolic they looked. East is east, and west is west...
Sisko encounters Eddington, his former security chief turned Maquis traitor, and he is more desperate to capture him than ever.
And Sisko forces Eddington to surrender by threatening to poison the atmosphere of all the Maqui hide outs after he poisons one hideout, forcing all Maqui to leave that place.
The Hirogen take over Voyager and hypmotize the crew so that they believe they are whoever they are in whatever holodeck scenario they've been put into.
The crew eventually frees themselves.
Best part: Seeing Seven Of Nine sing.
Vis - A- Vis
Voyager encounters an alien asshole who trades bodies with Tom Paris, and sneds Tom on a trip in the alien asshole's ship.
( Tom had told the asshole he envied him,being able to travel in a faster than warp ship to anywhere he chose. )
Tom meets up with another whose body was stolen by the alien asshole; they get asshole's ship back to Voyager.
Alien asshole has done the same thing to Janeway.
Tom has to persuade the crew it is really him.
Everyone gets their respective bodies back. Yay!
The alien who helped Tom takes asshole boy back to where she hopes she can help others who have their bodies stolen by him.
And Tom realizes he has it good on Voyager.
But why didn't Janeway try to use the faster than warp tech in Voyager???
An mysterious but comely female alien claims to be in love with Chakotay, and requests asylum aboard Voyager. However, Chakotay has no memory of ever having met her.
He falls in love with her again, but one of her alien race boards Voyager and zaps her with a ray that makes her forget Chakotay.
Then she leaves.
Since the ship's records were wiped so as to not leave any trace of that race's existance, Chakotay hand writes a record of her, before he forgets her.
Outsiders are unable to remember her people after they part company for a few days.
Kinda like " 50 First Dates ", but on a planet wide scale.
Worf and Garak respond to a distress call in the Gamma Quadrant, and become captives of the Dominion.
Garak's father is a captive there. He dies while talking with Garak.
Sisko, fearing a Dominion invasion, tries to close down the wormhole, but it does not work..and a Dominion invasion fleet comes through it.
This is an excellent episode!
Can't wait for part two tomorrow.
By Inferno's Light part two
Heh, the two titles together sound like a Green Lantern's oath.. I bet someone did that on purpose, too.
Anyway, Garak battles his claustrophobia to arrange it so that they will all be atransported back to their runabout.
Worf must fight an endless series of battles in a ring. It wears him down, but he does not surrender, saying , " Today is a good day to die."
Back on the station, we learn that the Bashir their is a phony who intends to make the sun go nova, thus wiping out the Klingon fleet, DS - 9, and Bajor.
The Dominion assholes come to execute Garak and instaed discover the tool the prisoners had been using to open an access port in the cell, where Garak slips into it to be able to make contact with their empty runabout to escape.
Just as all are to die, the Breen guy takes a weapon from a Dominion dude and kills him, but is killed as he kills another Dominion creep.
Bashir kills a third Dominion creep.
And Garak makes the final conection in the circuits that enable the runabout to beam them aboard.
Bashir warns the station about the Bashir imposter, and the plot to wipe out DS-9 and Bajor is thwarted.
Worf and Garak respond to a distress call in the Gamma Quadrant, and become captives of the Dominion.
Garak's father is a captive there. He dies while talking with Garak.
Sisko, fearing a Dominion invasion, tries to close down the wormhole, but it does not work..and a Dominion invasion fleet comes through it.
This is an excellent episode!
Can't wait for part two tomorrow.
By Inferno's Light part two
Heh, the two titles together sound like a Green Lantern's oath.. I bet someone did that on purpose, too.
Anyway, Garak battles his claustrophobia to arrange it so that they will all be atransported back to their runabout.
Worf must fight an endless series of battles in a ring. It wears him down, but he does not surrender, saying , " Today is a good day to die."
Back on the station, we learn that the Bashir their is a phony who intends to make the sun go nova, thus wiping out the Klingon fleet, DS - 9, and Bajor.
The Dominion assholes come to execute Garak and instaed discover the tool the prisoners had been using to open an access port in the cell, where Garak slips into it to be able to make contact with their empty runabout to escape.
Just as all are to die, the Breen guy takes a weapon from a Dominion dude and kills him, but is killed as he kills another Dominion creep.
Bashir kills a third Dominion creep.
And Garak makes the final conection in the circuits that enable the runabout to beam them aboard.
Bashir warns the station about the Bashir imposter, and the plot to wipe out DS-9 and Bajor is thwarted.
A terrific episode!
It's ones like these that got me into DS-9.
my favorite DS9 two parter (and they had some great ones). Bashir has been a changeling for a month, Dukat goes from rogue to emperor of the new big power in the Alpha Quadrant, Worf fighting arena-style, a total shake up of the show's setting on a galactic level with effects lasting for years. just great.
Originally Posted By: Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man
Originally Posted By: Beardguy57
Originally Posted By: Beardguy57
In Purgatory's Shadow part one
Worf and Garak respond to a distress call in the Gamma Quadrant, and become captives of the Dominion.
Garak's father is a captive there. He dies while talking with Garak.
Sisko, fearing a Dominion invasion, tries to close down the wormhole, but it does not work..and a Dominion invasion fleet comes through it.
This is an excellent episode!
Can't wait for part two tomorrow.
By Inferno's Light part two
Heh, the two titles together sound like a Green Lantern's oath.. I bet someone did that on purpose, too.
Anyway, Garak battles his claustrophobia to arrange it so that they will all be atransported back to their runabout.
Worf must fight an endless series of battles in a ring. It wears him down, but he does not surrender, saying , " Today is a good day to die."
Back on the station, we learn that the Bashir their is a phony who intends to make the sun go nova, thus wiping out the Klingon fleet, DS - 9, and Bajor.
The Dominion assholes come to execute Garak and instaed discover the tool the prisoners had been using to open an access port in the cell, where Garak slips into it to be able to make contact with their empty runabout to escape.
Just as all are to die, the Breen guy takes a weapon from a Dominion dude and kills him, but is killed as he kills another Dominion creep.
Bashir kills a third Dominion creep.
And Garak makes the final conection in the circuits that enable the runabout to beam them aboard.
Bashir warns the station about the Bashir imposter, and the plot to wipe out DS-9 and Bajor is thwarted.
A terrific episode!
It's ones like these that got me into DS-9.
my favorite DS9 two parter (and they had some great ones). Bashir has been a changeling for a month, Dukat goes from rogue to emperor of the new big power in the Alpha Quadrant, Worf fighting arena-style, a total shake up of the show's setting on a galactic level with effects lasting for years. just great.
Yeah, that truly is a great two part episode!
They packed a lot into it.
Star Trek: Voyager for November 28, 2007
Demon
Voyager is nearly out of deuterium. Seven manages to find a demon class planet ( Temps high enough to cook you, and has a noxious atmosphere.. rather like Venus. ) thazt is rich with deuterium.
Tom and Harry take a shuttle there to obtain samples, but are changed instaed.
Later, we find out that they were not changed, but that the planet had made duplicates of them.
With Voyager having landed on the planet's surface, the ship sinking and with time running out, Janeway strikes a deal with the planet's inhabitants to let them duplicate them all.
Voyager takes off, leaving the duplicate crew there.
We will see them again in " Course: Obilivion."
One
In order to go through a huge nebula, instead of around it, the crew - except for the Doctor and Seven of Nine ( who appears to be immune to it's ill effects. ) to pilot the ship through it.
Seeven hallucinates due to her never having been truly alone like this before.. but,with the Doctor offline, and ship's systems failing, still manages to get the ship through the nebula.
I caught some ST:Enterprise over Thanksgiving weekend.Never really watched the show too much but there was little else on sooooo.....I must've lucked out,'cuz the ones I watched dealt with Klingons and why they had no ridges in the original series.That was kinda cool.Then I caught the two-part "Mirror Mirror" episodes.Verrrrry nice.The beginning with Cochrane shooting the Vulcan was pretty damn interesting,and it was all good from there.Not too sure I liked Scott Bakula in the Kirk-style clothing though.Just didn't look right.T'Pol in the mini-skirt and black hose though.......rrrrow!!.Anywho that was it.I ain't a convert but it was decent watching.
I caught some ST:Enterprise over Thanksgiving weekend.Never really watched the show too much but there was little else on sooooo.....I must've lucked out,'cuz the ones I watched dealt with Klingons and why they had no ridges in the original series.That was kinda cool.Then I caught the two-part "Mirror Mirror" episodes.Verrrrry nice.The beginning with Cochrane shooting the Vulcan was pretty damn interesting,and it was all good from there.Not too sure I liked Scott Bakula in the Kirk-style clothing though.Just didn't look right.T'Pol in the mini-skirt and black hose though.......rrrrow!!.Anywho that was it.I ain't a convert but it was decent watching.
Glad you enjoyed the Enterprise eps, Al.
I'm very fond of the show, myself.
Star Trek: Voyager episodes for November 29, 2007.
Night
Crew morale hits an all-time low when Voyager must spend two years crossing an expanse devoid of any stars or signs of life. As Captain Janeway is forced to reflect on the choice she made stranding her crew in the Delta Quadrant, little does she know, she will face a similar decision when Voyager ends up in the middle of a serious conflict.
Drone
A transporter accident merges Seven's Borg nanoprobes with The Doctor's mobile emitter and a lieutenant's DNA to create a 29th Century Borg drone.
Extreme Risk In order to retrieve a probe stuck in a hazardous atmosphere, Tom Paris designs a new type of shuttlecraft. Meanwhile, Torres begins to exhibit reckless behaviour, engaging in dangerous holodeck programs without safety protocols.
All of these eps were good, but " Drone " is the best of the three.. Seven is assigned to help the new drone, who prefers to be called " One", as he is one of a kind.. and he lives up to his name by blowing up a Borg cube and then letting himself die so that Voyager won't be at risk as long as he lived among the crew.
Voyager discvovers a planet where Species 8472 have transformed themselves into copies of Star Fleet personel in order to take over Earth.
Janeway infiltrates their little club, sending Chakotay, but he is discovered and then their is almost a ear, but Janeway negotiats her way out of it and makes the first step towards peace with the 8472's.
Ray Walston guest stars. He was in the 1960's show, " MyFavorite Martian. "
Neelix is caring for Naomi Wildman while her mother is on an away mission. When the Delta Flyer is forced to make an emergency landing, and it isn't known whether Tuvok, Paris, or Ensign Wildman survived, Neelix struggles with how to shelter Naomi from the bad news.
This one always seems to get poor reviews at Star Trek sites, but I like it a lot.
Good dialogue, and Naomi Wildman is a pretty cool character.
Timeless
When Voyager uses new quantum slipstream technology in an attempt to get home, a miscalculation causes the ship to crash into an ice planet. Fifteen years later, the sole survivors, Chakotay and Kim, steal the Delta Flyer in an attempt to send a message back in time and avert the disaster.
This one is in my top 20 favorite episodes. It's just awesome! Levar Burton guest stars. He directed the episode, too. Superb!
Infinite Regress
After encountering a piece of Borg technology known as a Vinculum which connects drone's minds together, Seven of Nine begins exhibiting the personalities of people that she assimilated as a member of the collective. Soon, they become so strong that they may overwhelm Seven's own personality.
Not as strong an episode as the above, but like it!
Jeri Ryan ( Seven of Nine ) does a great job of behaving like a Ferengi, a Klingon, etc. Very talented actress. And yeah, she is hot.
Originally Posted By: Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man
that wasa good episode. though the idea of Odo having sex is disturbing.
If he can simulate a humanoid body, then he can simulate being aroused and having an orgasm, too...
He can love.. alien beings can do that.
You saw how sad he was when she told him she was married.
Remember that if you ever date a Klingon woman!
no, i mean the physical logistics of him having sex are very disturbing. does he keep the genitals on his normal form or does he grow them when he's going to sex? does he also grow the right nerve endings just for the act? since normal changeling sex seems to be link-related, then he must. and does he fully utilize his abilities or just keep in a humanoid form? i was 15 when this episode was first on. as a horny teenager i couldn't help but imagine the logistics and it's left an unsettling mark in my brain everytime Odo had sex.
When The Doctor discovers that his short-term memory has been tampered with, he launches an investigation. However, when the culprit is caught, he is shocked to learn who is responsible, and why.
Janeway was the one who tampered with his program; beautiful Ensign Jettal, who, along with Ensign Kim, were seriously injured in a shuttle on an away mission.
Back on Voyager, and he could only save one... so, he chose his friend - Ensign Kim.
He developed a feedback loop in his program, and had the equivalent of a nervous breakdown. This led Janeway to delete the memories of the incident.
After much soul searching, and a talk with Seven, Janeway decides to allow the Doctor to be allowed to have and deal with own memories, same as human people have to.. and, he falls apart again.
Janeway decides to have someone with him around the clock. She leaves a book with him and he reads it.. this appears to be where he begins to calm down, as the words within are stirring and thoughtful.
A powerful episode.
A Doctor must choose who will live.. and who will die sometimes.
That's heavy.
Nancy Bell played Ensign Jettal.
Her character was quite likable.
Bride Of Chaotica
Photonic life forms mistake the characters in Tom's holonovel for real people, which leads to a war with the holodeck characters.
Captain Janeway has to participate.
She was great in this one, very funny!
Gravity
When an intense gravity well causes Tuvok, Paris and The Doctor's shuttle crash on a barren planet, they befriend a female alien who had also crashed there years earlier. As the months pass, they give up hope of being rescued. However, aboard Voyager, only a few hours have elapsed.
A great one.
Noss, played by Lori Petty, who has voiced " Livewire" on the Superman cartoon of the 90's, falls in love with Tuvok.. who cannot return her affections.
The 4 of them are rescued by a last minute beam out before aliens can close the sinkhole in space.
Touching ending scene between Noss and Tuvok.. she is angry with him and his logic.. he melds with her, and then she smiles and tells him " I understand."
A Cardassian dissident opposed to the Cardassian/Dominion alliance asks Kira to help him so that he may reveal his secrets to use against his enemies as is customary in his culture. Kira must overcome painful memories of her own father's death, as well as the Cardassian's own war crimes, before she can face him and gain the information.
Great episode. I saw it a few times before. I only saw a little of it late last night before I fell asleep.
Spike tv, in it's infinite regress, has done away with the 11:00 am DS-9 showing.
But from this point on, I only need 21 episodes until I have 'em all.
And, when in late January or early Feb of 2008, when I do finally tape " FarBeyond The Stars", which is one of my all time favorite of ALL The Trek shows, I'll record it on all my vcr's. It is the one I could stand seeing once every few months.
The crew is elated to discover a wormhole that appears to lead directly to Earth. As they begin to act impulsively, Seven works with Naomi Wildman to save everyone from what she fears is a trap.
It was okay. I like how it was all up to Seven, Naomi Wildman, the Doctor and an alien guy to get Voyager out of what is actually a giant alien that wants to digest the ship and crew. It lured them into it by making it think that it was a wormhole that would take them home to Earth.
Seven and Naomi were immune to it as neither one wanted to go to Earth, a place they had never been to.
Dark Frontier
After defeating a Borg ship, Captain Janeway decides to launch an attack on another damaged Sphere to steal a trans-warp coil. However, as the crew prepare for their heist, the Borg Queen is secretly aware of the entire plan.
The Borg Queen welcomes Seven of Nine back to the Collective, not as a drone, but as an individual, in hopes that her new-found individuality and knowledge of humanity will help the Borg assimilate Earth. Meanwhile, back on Voyager, the crew races to integrate the transwarp coil into their systems and devise a plan to rescue Seven.
A good one. Love the Borg Queen. She's a bitch, but Seven of Nine outwits her.
Just as the Borg Queen knew what Seven was thinking, Seven knew what she was thinking due to the link to the collective.
Harry Kim falls in love with an alien woman who is on a huge generational ship.
He did not follow Star Fleet regulations, and ask his superior officer or the Doctor beforehand.
It turns out that doing so bonded the two, and makes seperation painful for Harry both physically and emotionally.
He sees her again, inspite of getting caught and being told not to by Capatin Janeway. Ahe puts a reprimand on his permanent record.
The generational ship has been sabotaged; it turns out that the woman Harry has fallen in love with is part of a movement to seperate the ship into smaller ships so that they can go where they want, as the ship has been traveling for over 400 years.
Voyager cannot help stop the seperation. The ship becomes many smaller ships.
Back on Voyager, Harry refuses treatment for his condition.
A good one. Perfect little Harry is human after all.
Soong returns to Cold Station 12 with the Augments, a medical facility where he once worked, where there are hundreds of genetically engineered human embryos stored.
The Augments (3)
After turning on their creator, the Augments attempt to start a war between Humans and Klingons.
This is parts 2 and 3 of the Soong - augments saga, which is excellent!
Love how Soong talks about how, since trying to improve humans failed, maybe he should explore cybernetics...
The Forge (1)
Earth's embassy on Vulcan is bombed and the evidence points to a religious faction known as "Syrrannites", a group following a revolutionary interpretation of the teachings of Surak, the father of Vulcan logic. After T'Pol receives a clandestine lead, she and Archer embark upon a treacherous journey through the Vulcan desert looking for them.
Awakening (2)
Archer and T'Pol locate the Syrrannites. However, unbeknownst to Archer and T'Pol, more is going on than just a simple act of terrorism.
two more excellent eps!
Archer has Surak's Katra stuck in his head.
This makes it retroactively the first time a human gets a Vulcan soul put into him, as we first saw this in Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan and The Search For Spock.
Originally Posted By: Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man
the 4th season was really the best from Enterprise. I loved all the prequel episodes.
Me too. The 4 th and final season was great! And very intense.
Soldiers of the Empire
Worf and Dax join a Klingon ship captained by General Martok on his first mission since being freed from the Dominion prison. However, the crew is in such a low state of morale that when they encounter a Jem'Hadar warship, they enter a battle for their lives.
Another great one. The Klingon episodes are always cool.
Only a few more episodes until the Dominion War, which, IMO, is DS-9's finest hour...
Yeah, the Dominion War will start soon.. it would have started next week...but Spike TV is running another James Bond marathon all next week instead, ugh!
Didn't they just do that 2 weeks ago for Thanksgiving???
anyway, today on Voyager:
Someone To Watch Over Me
This is one of my faves.
Seven observes Tom and B'Elanna's romance, and wants to go on dates and find a boyfriend, too.
The Doctor volunteers to coach her in dating and romance lessons.
He falls for her during this time.
She does not reciprocate his feelings.
She terminates the lessons, feeling that there is no point to it, as no one appears interested.
The Doctor is hearbroken, and goes to the holodeck, sits at the piano and sings the song from the title of this episode.
I love Jeri Ryan as Seven Of Nine. We learned in " The Killing Game " that she can sing, and she sings a few duets with the Doctor in this one, too.
The Defiant enters a barrier surrounding a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, only to find its inhabitants are the crew's descendants from 200 years in the past.
One of my faves from season 5.
There is an Odo with the colonists.
Kiera will die from an injury if she does not get back to DS-9, where Dr. Bashir can treat her.
This other Odo, who looks very human ( " I've had plenty of time to master looking human." ) sabotages the Defiant so that it does not let them go through this time anomaly to make that future happen.. this is after all the Defiant's crew voted to go through it and allow the accident to happen, because they did not want the 8,000 people there to have never existed.
O'Brien, who was against staying, and wanted to get back to his family, did change his mind once he and the Defiant crew helped these people with their " planting day."
He did it because he loves Keira.. he also tells her what his other self could not.. that he loves her.
Sisko receives a message from one of the few surviving Maquis members saying that they will launch undetectable missiles at the Cardassians, which will provoke an all out war. Sisko enlists the help of Eddington to aid him in deactivating them, however, all is not as Sisko had been informed.
Eddington and Sisko have to work together to survive against Dominion ships.
Eddington sacrifices himself so that his wife, Sisko, and Eddington's Maqui buddies can escape a G'em H'adar attack.
Great episode!
Eddington is an asshole, but he's a dedicated asshole.. You can't help but like him.
Two more episodes left : Empok Nor and In The Cards.. and then, Call To Arms prt 1.. and then we'll be right into the Dominion war!
An alien missile with artificial intelligence takes over The Doctor's systems, and insists that it be allowed to complete its mission of mass destruction.
This is the best of the 3 episodes that were on yesterday.
It was a poke at how dumb and how much like robots terrorists, war hawks, and extremists are about war and not wanting to let go of their hate at the enemy.
Great episode, and I liked Kim and the Doctor's performances a lot.
Voyager comes to the aid of the Equinox - another Federation starship also abducted by the Caretaker - now under attack by mysterious aliens from another dimension. As the two crews begin to work together to protect both ships, a dark secret lies hidden aboard the Equinox.
Equinox 2
Janeway becomes obsessed with trying to capture Captain Ransom, no matter what the cost.
Ransom and crew are the other Federation ship that got abducted by the caretaker into the Delta Quadrant. They encountered a race of aliens and killed one, then they discovered the alien corpses made good fuel.
That is their big secret.
It is a great two parter, though my one complaint is that if Equinox was there, why didn't they run into at least one alien species that had met Voyager, and told Janeway?
It seems too obvious a plot device that no one told Janeway of the Equinox's presence in the Delta Quadrant.
Still, me rikey!
Barge Of The Dead
During a near-death experience, B'Elanna finds herself aboard the Klingon Death Barge, a spectral vessel which transports dishonoured souls to Grethnor. After seeing her mother there, B'Elanna risks her life to go back and save her mother's soul from this fate, even at the cost of her own.
This is a splendid episode!
B'Elanna explores her Klingon heritage a bit. She gets permission to be put back into the same near death state, and actually does save her mother's soul.
Survival Instinct
While Voyager is docked at a space station, Seven of Nine is approached by three former Borg drones from her former unimatrix, who, despite being free from the Collective, are neurally linked to each other. Tracing the origin of this link to an accident eight years before, in which they and Seven were the only survivors, the three former drones believe Seven is the only one who can help them sever the link and achieve true individuality.
Very good episode. Great dialogue and script.
This was actually on yesterday, but ought to have been on today, and thus, was shown out of synch.
Loved the flashbacks with Seven and her 3 Borg pals while shipwrecked on a planet.
The three begin to re-discover their individuality again.
Seven freaks, as her only memories are of being a frightened child, so she links the three to each other.
The Doctor is able to un-link the three ex Borgs, who know they have a month at most to live now... but prefer to live that time remaining to them as individuals.
After being attacked and later revived, Tuvok develops new interests, displays emotion, and befriends Neelix.
This is one of my favorite Voyager episodes!
Tuvok is totally out of character; He hates logic, he loves to smile, and he likes to whip up fancy, tasty desserts in the mess hall.
And he and Neelix are really friends.
Tuvok is actually sad that a cure for his memory loss has been found, and expresses regret that he will not be able to show Neelix how much he likes him.
" You just did." Neelix says.
After the procedure, Tuvok answers Neelix's riddle: " How could a lone ensign survive being shipwrecked on a planet with only a calendar?"
Tuvok's reply:
" He ate all the dates.. and, he ate the Sundays. "( Sundaes )
Neelix: " That's not very logical."
Tuvok: " No, it isn't, is it?"
Great epsiode!
One Small Step
Crew members are awestruck, and try to help Seven to appreciate the value of history, when a dangerous anomaly emerges from subspace, and the Voyager crew discovers it contains the remains of a 21st Century manned Mars probe.
Very moving episode which includes the stranded Lieutenant's log entries up till the ship runs out of power.
Seven is assigned to the away mission inside the anomaly to find the ship, which sensors had detected. She is indifferent at first, saying that sentimentality is an inefiecent use of time and energy, but, as she is on the derelict, ill fated Mars mission command Module, she listens to the man's log entries.. and understands.
She is visibly moved at the funeral onboard Voyager for the man later, after the Delta Flyer has been rescued from the anomaly.
Archer, T'Pol and T'Pau attempt to take a sacred, but controversial artefact back to the Vulcan High Council, in hopes of settling an internal struggle going on among the Vulcan people. Meanwhile, Trip and Soval take Enterprise to Andoria to convince Shran to help them stop a war.
Terrific end to a great three parter!
This is the most we've ever seen of Vulcan.
Fantastic!
Daedalus
The inventor of the transporter, Emory Erickson, comes aboard Enterprise for a risky experiment. Bill Cobbs guest stars as the man who invented the transporter.
He has a secret..His son was trapped in a transporter accident.
Great one! Always liked Bill Cobbs. He was also in The Hudsucker Proxy, That Thing You Do, and Night at The Musuem.
Observer Effect
Non-corporeal aliens study the Enterprise crew as they respond to a fatal viral infection brought on board from an away mission.
Trip and Hoshi are going to die. The two aliens just watch as they take over bodies of the crew. One doesn't like that they don't save thesick ones and they "come out" to Archer, and they cure him, Trip, and Hoshi, and make them forget who they were and that they were there.
The name of the aliens?
Organians.
Yes, the same Organians that were in the Original Series.
Babel (1)
Enterprise journeys to Babel with a Tellarite ambassador on board for peace talks with the Andorians, when a distress call from Shran is received.
Good one.. it is on now.. love how the fourth season is a set up for TOS, by way of Retroactive Continuity.
In order to repair the damaged Deep Space Nine, O'Brien assembles a team to salvage parts from the disbanded Empok Nor. However, their presence sets off an old booby trap that put all their lives in danger.
This is a good one!
O'Brien and a team go to Emok Nor. What starts out as a simple salvage mission turns into a life and death struggle as their are two Cardassian assassins on board.
After this is the episode where Jake and Nog try to find a baseball card for Captain Sisko, and then Call to Arms, part 1.. the War with the Dominion begins!
I loved Empok Nor. And it was a clever way to save money for the big finale. They just redress the sets they already have and dim the lights. very creepy episode, especially once Garak becomes the villain.
In the Cards is a lot of fun.
Call to Arms is also incredible. loved the ending when they gutted the station.
When Voyager is trapped in orbit of a unique planet, they learn that time moves far faster on that planet than in the rest of the galaxy. Although Voyager is stuck in orbit only for a matter of days, from the perspective of the planet, the "Skyship" has been watching them for centuries, and becomes a guiding force for the development of their civilization.
This is one of my very favorite Voyager episodes.
It's very cool seeing the planet as it rapidly evolves from being about 2,000 BC ( on Earth ) to just about having Warp drive!
First aired: 2/9/2000 Production Code: 232 Stardate: 53447.2 While on shore leave, several crew members take in matches of a popular bloodsport called Tsunkatse. However, the vacation comes to an abrupt end when Seven and Tuvok are abducted, and Seven is forced to compete in the Tsunkatse to the death.
Writer: Robert Doherty Director: Mike Vejar Guest star: Dwayne Johnson (The Champion), Jeffrey Combs (Penk), J.G. Hertzler (Hirogen Hunter)
A good one, and fans of DS-9 will spot Jeffrey Combs as Penk, and J.G. Hertzler as the Hirogen Hunter. Combs played Wayoon and Hertzler played General Martok in DS - 9.
The Rock also guest stars! He gives Seven of Nine the people's elbow.
Collective
First aired: 2/16/2000 Production Code: 235 Stardate: Unknown Borg children who were rejected by the Borg as unworthy drones abduct Chakotay, Kim, Neelix and Paris.
Writer: Michael Taylor Director: Allison Liddi Guest star: Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Marley McClean (Mezoti), Kurt Wetherill (Azan), Cody Wetherill (Rebi) , Ryan Spahn (Teenage Drone Leader)
The Borg kids take on Voyager! Not a bad episode, although there was a baby Borg onboard.It got sick and was beamed to Voyager, where Doctor Hologram saved her.
Then we never see or hear about it again.
Did she die? Did Janeway take her to a Delta quadrant orphanage?
The mysteries of life..
Spirit Folk
First aired: 2/23/2000 Production Code: 237 Stardate: Unknown The inhabitants of the holo-city of Fair Haven suspect the Voyager crew of having mystical powers when they witness the use of their futuristic technology.
Writer: Bryan Fuller Director: David Livingston Guest star: Majel Barrett (Computer Voice) , Hariette Ivanans (Maggie O'Halloran), Richard Riehle (Seamus McGinty), Ian Abercrombie (Milo), Fintan McKeown (Michael Sullivan), Ian Patrick Williams (Doctor Fitzgerald), Bairbe Dowling (Edith), Duffie McIntire (Grace)
Kinda dumb but cute episode. Paris drives a 1904 Oldsmobile Curved Dash in the early part of the episode. He turns Harry's holo - girlfriend into a cow.
Richard Riehle, a 60 - ish guy who is cute, was in it. He has been on Roseanne, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
First aired: 3/15/2000 Stardate: 53753.2 When an efficiency report reveals that three of Voyager's crew members are failing to meet expectations and integrate into the rest of the crew, Janeway decides to take them on their first away mission. However, what awaits the Delta Flyer on that mission will present a formidable test for them all.
Writer: Dianna Gitto, Joe Menosky Director: Winrich Kolbe Guest star: Jay Underwood (Crewman Mortimer Harren), Michael Reisz (Crewman William Telfer), Zoe McLellan (Tal Celes), Kimble Jemison (Engineer), Tom Morello (Junction Operator)
This one is very good.
Janeway has faith in all 3 crew members, and they don't disappoint her.
Jay Underwood ( The Boy Who Could Fly) does a great job of being the anti social loner, who ends up almost sacrificing himself to save Janeway and the others.
Zoe McLellan (Tal Celes) does a great of of being insecure and unsure of herself, and hates technology because she doesn't undertstand it.
Michael Reisz (Crewman William Telfer)portrays the hypocondriac who constantly thinks he is dying from one malady or another.
The away mission ends up changing all the trio's lives for the better,as they each do a bit of soul searching and face their fears.
This episode reminds me of the Next Generation ep. called Lower Decks, and it is about as good!
Leeta and Rom get married. Sisko decides to mine the wormhole, which will likely start the war. When their plan is detected, Sisko is forced to evacuate the station and endorse the non-aggression pact between Bajor and the Dominion. While patrolling the border, General Martok detects the first wave of Dominion ships headed for Deep Space Nine. All remaining Starfleet personnel are ordered to leave the station. Kira, Odo, Quark, Rom, Morn and Jake stay behind on the station and disable it as it is handed over to the Dominion.
Stardate: Unknown Several months after Deep Space Nine was handed over to the Dominion, the Federation is losing the war. Being relieved of command of the Defiant, Sisko is placed in command of a salvaged Jem'Hadar warship they discovered several months earlier, and must destroy the main Ketracel White production facility in the Alpha Quadrant. The mission is a success but it leaves the ship without warp engines and stranded 17 years from the nearest Federation Starbase.
Writer: Ron Surma, Ira Steven Behr, Hans Beimler Director: Allan Kroeker Guest star: Brock Peters (Joseph Sisko), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Andrew Robinson (Garak), Casey Biggs (Damar), Barry Jenner (Admiral Ross), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun), J.G. Hertzler (Martok)
Fuckin' Awesome!
Dominion war continues! We are into the sixth season, which is splendid!
First aired: 10/6/1997 Stardate: 51107.2 The damaged Jem'Hadar ship captained by Sisko crashes on a planet. Dax is seriously injured, but kept alive by Dr. Bashir. A group of Jem'Hadar who also crashed on the ship finds them, and takes them to their injured Vorta leader, who has a proposition for Sisko he may not be able to refuse.
The Doctor must hide himself in Seven of Nine's body while he, Seven, and Harry have been captured by aliens who hunt down and destroy photonic beings.
This one was funny.
Seven cannot handle liquor, and the Doctor drinks while in control of her body.
There is a worn out Gay - joke of one of his -her captors wanting to introduce Seven to her brother.
Entertaining episode, though, as the Doctor discovers what it is like to eat, drink, etc.
B'ELanna learns that she is pregnant and a routine medical scan determines that the baby is a girl and will look part Klingon, like her mother.
B'ELanna becomes very upset because she doesn't want her child to be treated badly for being different as she had been as a child, and out of fear that Tom will leave her because of her and her daughter being different, as her own father had done to her and her mother, so she tries to alter the child's dna so that it will be born looking human.
The crew stop this,after she'd altered the Doctor's holo - matrix so that he'd do whatever she wanted him to do.
Tom tells her he would never leave her and she opens up to him.
Voyager meets a Klingon vessel from the Alpha quadrant; after convincing them that the war is over, the crew and B'ELanna must deal with how the Klingons believe that her unborn child is their savior.
This is a good one, the second episode centering on B'Elanna's pregnancy.
Seven is running romantic holo - programs involving herself and Chakotay.
Her cortical node malfunctions; apparently, it is pre-programmed to shut down when she has developed a certain level of individuality.
The Doctor informs her that the programming cannot be changed.
She ceases using the holodeck programs.
A great episode, and a splendid metaphor for how people have to deal with their own limitations.
Q2
Q's son appears on the ship; hilarity ensues.
He has his powers taken away and has to prove himself worthy of gaining them back; he does, by offering to be punished by aliens in order to save Icheb, who was wounded when the aliens attacked the two in the Delta Flyer.
The alien turned out to be Q, his father.
His powers are soon restored and he departs Voyager, having (hopefully ) learned a lesson.
This is very much like the Next Gen. ep where the Continum takes Q's powers away and he winds up on Enterprise and has to prove himself.
Archer tries to unify the Andorians, Tellarites and Vulcans in a plan to capture a marauder ship threatening to destabilize the region.
The Aenar (3)
Archer visits Shran's icy homeworld to find an Andorian subspecies called the Aenar, to determine their connection to the marauder destroying ships in the region.
Affliction (1)
While Enterprise visits Earth for the launch of Columbia, Phlox is kidnapped and forced to help the Klingons deal with a grave threat to their species.
Divergence (2)
The first two are a continuation of Babel One. This was a great 3 parter. Always liked Shran, who played Wayoon on DS-9.
Second two explain why the Klingons of Kirk's era looked so different from The Next Generation Klingons.
Awesome two parter. James Avery ( Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince ) played a Klingon and he was great in the role. I read where he likes to act in Shakespeare's plays.
Voyager encounters a gcolony of Talaxians in an asteroid who are being harrassed by aliens to leave so that the asteroid can be mined; the Talaxians don't want to leave their home.
Neelix befriends a woman and her child; her husband was killed in an attack.
He and Voyager help them by setting up a force field around the asteroid.
Voyager departs; Neelix talks with Captain Janeway and she asks him if he wants to return to the Talaxian colony and stay on as the ambassador to the Delta Quadrant.
He returns to the colony: many of the crew are lined up to see him off.
Mr. Tuvok, whom Neelix had chided earlier for not dancing at a party for the anniversary of the first contact between Vulcans and Earth, moves his one foot in a dance step or three. Neelix thanks him.
Pretty good one.
I like Neelix - sad to see him go, but tomorrow is the last episode anyway:
Stardate: 54890.7 The Doctor must impersonate various crew members when Captain Janeway is abducted and held hostage for Voyager's warp core.
This one is funny as hell at times, and was directed superbly!
Love the Doctor's confession to the bridge crew when he thought his program was about to decompile from too much new info being put into it.
" Seven, I love you!"
" Mr Tuvok, I'm sorry, but I told Mr. Paris about that lesion you had on your... "
I liked that one. Though it was a little scary how easily the Doctor pulled it off. Data could mimic voices and command codes, Odo could hide himself as objects or do a tentacle attack, and Spock could beat the shit out of the humans, but the Doctor showed here that he can be anyone at anytime and was nearly unstoppable. My favorite bit though was how excellent the other actors copied the Doctor's inflection. Especially when Torres isn't pregnant and in a snippy tone tells the computer to update the holo-file (adding the belly). She just captured his tone perfectly. Mulgrew also did a good job switching between Janeway and the Doctor-as-Janeway.
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Renaissance Man
Stardate: 54890.7 The Doctor must impersonate various crew members when Captain Janeway is abducted and held hostage for Voyager's warp core.
This one is funny as hell at times, and was directed superbly!
Love the Doctor's confession to the bridge crew when he thought his program was about to decompile from too much new info being put into it.
" Seven, I love you!"
" Mr Tuvok, I'm sorry, but I told Mr. Paris about that lesion you had on your... "
I liked that one. Though it was a little scary how easily the Doctor pulled it off. Data could mimic voices and command codes, Odo could hide himself as objects or do a tentacle attack, and Spock could beat the shit out of the humans, but the Doctor showed here that he can be anyone at anytime and was nearly unstoppable. My favorite bit though was how excellent the other actors copied the Doctor's inflection. Especially when Torres isn't pregnant and in a snippy tone tells the computer to update the holo-file (adding the belly). She just captured his tone perfectly. Mulgrew also did a good job switching between Janeway and the Doctor-as-Janeway.
Yes! It was a great epsisode!
The other actors were able to prove their versatility; and the Doctor, his, as well.
Caretaker 1 & 2 was on again today, as the show began again. The first season is not my fave, but there are a few gems in it.
Sooooo no one's talked about the upcoming movie yet?
We have indeed! Pro made a seperate thread in Media about it.
It looks like it could be good.
I really wish they'd make a follow up to the series finale of Deep Space Nine, as in, what happened to everybody? They left a lot hanging and infinished at series' end.
Spike showed this one out of synch! It ought to have been on last week.
Anyway, Odo appears smitten with the female Founder who is on DS-9.
He fails to help Rom and the others when they want to disable a plan to do away with the mine field that is the only thing keeping a large Dominion fleet from joining the war in the Alpha Quadrant!
Spike showed this one out of synch! It ought to have been on last week.
Anyway, Odo appears smitten with the female Founder who is on DS-9.
He fails to help Rom and the others when they want to disable a plan to do away with the mine field that is the only thing keeping a large Dominion fleet from joining the war in the Alpha Quadrant!
Very good ep.
Tomorrow night: Dax and Worf get married.
This episode changed my opinion of Odo and Quark. Quark comes through blasting those Jem Hadar while Odo stays in his room fucking. And the big battle and Sisko taking on the whole fleet and the station in just the Defiant was great. I always loved that little ship. Even though he survived by sheer luck and the Prophets/Kira/Rom's actions he still showed real guts and it was a very exciting moment. I also loved the tragedy of Ziyal. Dukat was a bad guy, but they made him complex. He truly loved his daughter more than anything else and the horror on his face when she's shot by his own second in command was heartbreaking. Superb acting...as always.
But then came the whole cult leader/possession plot and that was always shaky in my opinion...
I liked the crazy Dukat, not as much as the original military guy granted, but he was still interested and the acting was so top notch. The episode with him and Sisko on the planet with Dukat talking to hallucinations and trying to convince Sisko that he was just misunderstood was brilliant. The cult on Empok Nor was weird, but still interesting. Especially when we learn that he was basically sleeping with all the women. I did think Pah-wraith Dukat was weird, but they played that out well so it was still ultimately Dukat. Either way i loved him posing as a Bajoran and bedding Kai Winn during the final episodes.
THAT was pretty fucking slick. Pah Wraith Dukat was meh, but at least Jadzia's death didn't seemed too forced out of the storyline once she wanted to leave.
Dukat was the most dynamic character on DS9 I'd say, amazingly so since he was so self-serving and one-dimensional in scope. Everything he did was for his own benefit... supposedly treating Bajorans under his control during the Occupation "fairly", gaining influence and political power during the Klingon/Fed and Dominion Wars, becoming a cult leader and Emissary of the Pah Wraiths... all acts to preen and satisfy his overinflated ego. It was some great television.
He may have cared solely for Ziyal, but I think he was more concerned about her being a living testament of HIS achievements.
He may have cared solely for Ziyal, but I think he was more concerned about her being a living testament of HIS achievements.
of course. I remember they said that he had a whole family on Cardasia. And when he first found Ziyal he planned to kill her to hide the shame of having a half-Bajoran offspring. But then he changed his mind and took the risk and was pretty much ruined for awhile. I think Ziyal was the family he loved. He implied his marriage and children were based on societal needs. But with Ziyal, he had seduced her mother (a woman under his power) and she had a fighter's spirit that made him see her (as you said) as his legacy.
I wouldn't say he did it all for his ego though. I think it was more that he believed the universe should be one orderly way. Remember with Cardassians (as they greatly examined via Garrak) they are drilled to be patriots. And I think Dukat may have been a good person, by Cardassian standards, and when he saw the chaos of the Occupation of Bajor he couldn't allow himself to see it as an evil act by his people. So he decided that the Bajorans were just people who needed order. And I think he really did believe that if he killed a million Bajorans, ran slave camps, and kept most of the planet starving, that it was worth it to maintain order. I really think he was in some way selfless. He was giving the whole of himself to make the universe into the way he believed it should be. At least that's my view based on his actions and some of his insane rants.
I agree and have felt much the same way about Dukat.
His character evolved - as people do in real life - and the changes were great.
He became far more interesting after becoming deranged.
Two early Voyager episodes were on today: Parallax and Time And Again. Both were ok; the first deals with the first of what will became a series of space anomalies.. but, what made this ep. interesting was how the Maqui, Voyager's crew, and Tom Paris all interact at first. There is some friction at first and it is reminiscent of Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine, where the characters fight, disagree, fuck up, etc.. but, all too quickly, Voyager settles into a routine of unrealistic harmony.
One might argue that they had to, because they were now a single crew united in that they were the only humans in the Alpha Quadrant, and had to co-operate to survive.. but, still, it remained so very.. Starfleet.
The only ones who never totally settled down were: B'ELanna, The Doctor, and Seven of Nine. The kept the show from being totally mired in medicrocity.
What also helps is that the bridge crew becomes a pretty good surrogate family.
Time and Again is a nice little time travel/must change the outcome story, as Janway and Paris are thrown back a day in the past on a planet where all life had been destroyed.. and they must figure out how to prevent it from ocurring all over again.
I have not been moved by the first season of Voyager much. It is not until season two that the show begins to get interesting.
Today was Heroes and Demons, an ep. where the Doctor has to go on his first away mission intothe holodeck because a photonic being has taken it over and kidnapped Kim, Tuvok and Chakotay. He succeeds and the three are brought back. It was pretty good for a first season outting.
No Enterprise tonight; Happy MLK day!
Later tonight: DS-9 : " Statistical Probabilities", in which Bashir meets a group of genetically enhanced beings like him ( only far less stable than he )who predict the fall of the Federation.
The scientist invented the Metreon CAscade, which killed Neelix's family - and 300,000 other Talaxians tries to bring them all back and fails.
At first, Neelix hates the guy.. then, as the man lay dying before him of metreon poisoning, he forgives him.
Good episode. A lesson about forgiveness.
Learning Curve
Tuvok takes it upon himself to train 4 former Maqui crew members to make them into better officers... and learns a lesson in being able to bend and be a tad more flexible about Starfleet rules.
A good one.. the first season finally begins to improve a bit.
Voyager finds a planet with humans.. and several people who'd been abducted from 1937, including Emilia Aerhardt, and her c0 - pilot, Fred Noonan.
The abducted ones chose to stay on the planet.. and, Capatin Janeway is pleased when she gives the choice to her crew to stay on the planet... or stay on Voyager.. and no one leaves the ship.
The second season is when things begin to improve.
At season's end will be the show's first cliffhanger: Basics.
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But then came the whole cult leader/possession plot and that was always shaky in my opinion...
I liked the crazy Dukat, not as much as the original military guy granted, but he was still interested and the acting was so top notch. The episode with him and Sisko on the planet with Dukat talking to hallucinations and trying to convince Sisko that he was just misunderstood was brilliant. The cult on Empok Nor was weird, but still interesting. Especially when we learn that he was basically sleeping with all the women. I did think Pah-wraith Dukat was weird, but they played that out well so it was still ultimately Dukat. Either way i loved him posing as a Bajoran and bedding Kai Winn during the final episodes.
Waltz was on last night, speaking of a crazy Dukat. Excellent episode, which shows off Marc Alaimo's (Dukat) versitility as an actor.
.....he called you a 'poof'...... 
Jerry. Just 
Thanks Jim.
she's pretty)?
on all counts. Except substitute "the Dominion War" for DS9 in Lothar's post.
