Posted on 05/01/2005 9:58:15 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Take care, young ladies, and value your wine.
Be watchful of young men in their velvet prime.
Deeply they'll swallow from your finest kegs,
Then swiftly be gone, leaving bitter dregs.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah, bitter dregs."
"With smiling words and tender touch,
Man offers little and asks for so much.
He loves in the breathless excitement of night,
Then leaves with your treasure in cold morning light.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah, in cold morning light."
Ah, heck. The trekkies finally took Captain Kirk's advice and "got a life."
Sums up my feeling also. I watched 2 season of DS9 then gave up. Voyager was unwatchable, and Enterprise was boring.
DS9 is dull at the start, but gets pretty good toward the end, i would give it a chance. Big war, Dukat and Weyoun take the station with a fleet, season 6 is very entertaining.
"Firefly" was quite original. Not everyone who was raised watching the perfectly-running "utopia" of "Star Trek" can identify with the dysfunctional but interesting characters in "Firefly." I was relieved that there were no weird space aliens in "Firefly" -- just humans behaving, for good and for ill (mostly for ill), much like we do now. There was minimal technobabble -- so the stories were good rather than just being a showcase for special effects. There will be a movie based on "Firefly" out later this year and I can't wait to see it.
Brannon and Braga took Roddenberry's vision and ran it into the ground. The failure to stick with the timeline was a cardinal sin, and they went downhill from there. Also, my local station moved "Enterprise" around so much you didn't know when it was on.
I do agree though, that the new "Battlestar Galactica" is excellent.
I think that was Robert Wolfe.. It was a good show with a good concept that fell flat big time!
Geez, tell us how you really feel! ;^)
:)
Agreed. Terry Farrell as Jadzia Dax is just gorgeous, and Garek was the most fascinating character in all of ST. And let's not forget Quark and the good Constable....
Thank God. Let this series die already.
I stopped watching "Voyager" after a few seasons ... it had a good premise, but didn't live up to it. They were supposedly alone on the wrong side of the galaxy, shorthanded, no way to resupply, and dealing with a crew made up of Starfleet officers and Maquis terrorists, but somehow the show settled into extremely conventional patterns in no time at all. There was no sense of danger to the crew and the ship, so the whole thing became a bland "Next Generation" rehash.
Babylon 5 a ripoff of "Space Above and Beyond" ? Hardly. A series where fighter pilots one week were groundpounders the next with the usual Chris Carter "sinister government conspiracies" never attained a tenth of the sophistication of Babylon 5. Where else but in Babylon 5 did you have in Sheridan's visit to the Shadow homeworld an erudite, reasonable case made for the necessity of evil ?
It well deserved to be called "Melrose Space".
Well, if they were going to do the stupid temporal cold war they should have just entered that Mirror, Mirror universe and done a series on battles between the good and evil Starfleets.
Next to the two parter "The Best of Both Worlds" on TNG where the Borg take Picard, I think the best, most action-packed episode in all of Trek(outside the movies) would have to be "The Way of the Warrior" on DS9, where the Klingons invade Cardassian territory and then attack the space station. It also has a hilarious scene with Garek and Gul Ducat yelling insults at each other as they try to hold off a Klingon boarding crew.
http://www.newvoyages.com/news.html
that sounds right... Robert Wolfe. Pity 'actors' who think they are intelligent.
I know... This season they are spending most of the time on a planet..
For true Trekkers (not Trekkies!) there are The New Voyages:
http://www.newvoyages.com/news.html
These are really fun!
I like them too.
Trekker...trekkie..., how about just Star Trek fan and not question if someone is true or not.
If someone likes just one show or all of them. I think its great.
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