The Star Treks

[Deleted member 165050]

Watching Discovery S4E1. About 2/3rds through. It be dreadful so far. Very very dreadful.

Edit: Ok, nice ending. 5 out of 10 is the best I can give it though because it was just mostly boring for me.

I liked Discovery with Michelle Yeo but tbh it is so not classic Star Trek, it's just a generic modern scifi series using the name.

 

[murphy]

I liked Discovery with Michelle Yeo but tbh it is so not classic Star Trek, it's just a generic modern scifi series using the name.

I just LOVE Michelle Yeoh....especially In Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.....(and as a Bond Girl)

 

[Gorn]

Michelle Yeoh plays the character well. Since she’s a cruel, psychotic, megalomaniacal, genocidal monster, and everyone knows it, I’m not sure why they keep her around, but the acting chops are there.

 

[Gorn]

I just LOVE Michelle Yeoh....especially In Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.....(and as a Bond Girl)

When I was a teenager my dad came home one day with a brand new flat screen tv to replace our 500 pound tube tv and it came with the DVD player. It either came with Crouching Tiger or my dad intentionally bought it. I don’t remember, but it was I was blown away. The visuals were amazing but I clearly remember how good the sound was, relative to what we had before.

 

[Deleted member 165050]

When I was a teenager my dad came home one day with a brand new flat screen tv to replace our 500 pound tube tv and it came with the DVD player. It either came with Crouching Tiger or my dad intentionally bought it. I don’t remember, but it was I was blown away. The visuals were amazing but I clearly remember how good the sound was, relative to what we had before.

Love that film. In similar(ish) genre currently watching The Legend of the White Snake on Netflix.

 

[danesdad]

I LOVE this scene! The way Spocks facial expression changes as he breaks the bad news to Alice 230. Because she is exactly like Alice 27, he hates her. "Is there some significance to this action?" Classic.

 

[consectaneus]

"Your logic was impeccable, Captain. We are in grave danger".

I just want to hear Spock call my logic "impeccable".

That scene from The Changeling is one of my favorites.

 

[bassicmike]

Found this the other day going through a box of stuff. Official Paramount issue for ST3 Search for Spock.

Anyone have any idea if it's worth anything?

 

[charlie ford]

Woo! A Star Trek thread! I love em all, even Enterprise (once you get past that straight to the heart theme song).

Discovery is great. I even enjoyed the new kids show, prodigy. I haven't seen any of the new season yet, though.

 

[murphy]

Woo! A Star Trek thread! I love em all, even Enterprise (once you get past that straight to the heart theme song).

Discovery is great. I even enjoyed the new kids show, prodigy. I haven't seen any of the new season yet, though.

Oh boy...Here we go!

 

[Atonalmodal]

 

[Gorn]

 

[Alkali Ike]

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I can’t literally name every character in that but I don’t see Sarek or Amanda. That seems like serious omissions.

 

[Gorn]

I’m gonna try (not cheating/honor system)
Spock
McCoy
Scotty
Uhura
Sulu
Chekov
Rand
Chapel
Don’t know
Ilea
Can’t remember
Can’t remember
Riker
Troi
Crusher
Data
Geordi
Worf
O’Brien
Tasha
Ro
Barclay
Pulaski
Ogawa
Guinan
Lwaxana
Kira
Odo
Jadzia
Bashir
Jake
Quark
Keiko
Morn
Chakotay
Tuvok
Torres
Alexander
Paris
Kim
Doctor
Seven
Neelix
Kes
Tucker
T’pol
Malcolm
Hoshi
Travis
Phlox
Spot
Molly
Kirk
Sisko
Archer
Picard
Janeway
Porthos

 

[Winslow]

 

[murphy]

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Perhaps there are Clones?

 

[Gorn]

 

[hbarcat]

Found this the other day going through a box of stuff. Official Paramount issue for ST3 Search for Spock.

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Anyone have any idea if it's worth anything?

Appatently, 35,000 credits.

 

[Gorn]

My secret Santa gift at work.

This is the first year it wasn’t an Amazon gift card.

 

[BarqsBitMe]

Discovery is the only bad one...mostly because Klingons inexplicably look like demons/monsters instead of Klingons. In Enterprise they look like Klingons. Then, 100 or so years later, they apparently morphed into demons in Discovery. Then, 100 or so years later they looked like Klingons again in TNG. Why? Why fundamentally change the appearance of a well known and characteristic race like the Klingons? Shot themselves in the foot with that one because otherwise Discovery has some good story lines and awesome special effects.

DS9 > TNG > VOY/ENT > Picard > ... > ... > ... > Discovery. I've never been able to get into TOS so I left that out on purpose.

 

[BarqsBitMe]

Voyager was basically Gilligans Island in space. Every week they tried to get off the island, and every week their efforts proved fruitless.

Come to think of it, House was basically Gilligans Island in a hospital....

Sherwood Schwartz was way ahead of the curve!

That is probably my biggest complaint about VOY...that it is very formulaic. Almost every single episode goes something like this:

1) Things are more or less normal.
2) Some sort of threat presents itself.
3) Janeway and the senior officers completely underestimate the threat and take no sort of rational action to protect the crew even though they have been in the same situation countless times before. They don't even bother raising shields because when have they ever been attacked without provocation right?
4) BOOM! Voyager is attacked.
5) A command is given to raise shields and fire back.
6) BOOM! Whatever system the bridge crew was about to use gets "knocked out".
7) The enemy does something completely incompetent, giving the bridge crew the opportunity to take control of the ship back.
8) The bridge crew gets the ship back, after a number of no-name crew members are killed due to the ineptitude of the command structure.
**) Sometimes they will think they found a way home but of course didn't.
***) Occasionally Chakotay will phone in some Native American anecdote about the situation, Paris will make some corny comment, Torres will be angry, and Kim will remain an Ensign always and forever.