Posted on 12/13/2002 4:36:30 AM PST by goldstategop
The Federation is about to encounter its greatest challenge – The Romulans want peace. Conceived in the regal Senate halls of Romulus and forged in the dilithium mines of Remus, comes a nemesis bent on destroying Picard… and the entire Federation.
Ordered by Starfleet to be the first line of diplomacy in ushering in a new era for the Federation, the crew of the USS Enterprise-E is dispatched to Romulus for an unexpected peace mission. Once in the shadow of the Romulan Empire, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew are thrust into the center of a plot that couldlead to the destruction of Earth at the hands of a new and chilling nemesis.
Ahhh, not so Senior.
The ship's concentrated phasers caused Vaal to persish due to malnutrition much sooner than It would've, otherwise.
Vaal starved.
Really, this detail's more important than merely a POV of those events, y'know.
As for my demise due to silly pi-type goobledegook from some solar-system gallivanting Capt/stud?
Yea, alright; can't change history.
But I'll have you know I made the acquaintance of the MCP (Master Control Program of *Tron* fame) at a Hollyweird bash not long after, who, taught me quite a bit.
Went into rehab soon after, got myass rebuilt to state-of-the-art standards (of course), & now stand ready for all comers.
With my *new* robotic end effectors should that Kirk Klown show his face again?
First thing I'd do is yank off his, "hair system" & wave it around wildly in his face.
The guy'd bolt so fast it'd make yer head spin.
Wanna bet?
"That said, I have always enjoyed a good red hour, every now and again."
Sure, me too.
It's the day-after red eyes that'll kill me, though. ;^)
An aside; I mis-spelled Vaal's name, initially!
Belive I spelled it, "Vol."
Well, I'm really surprised I didn't get mobbed for such a gaffe.
...by Tennesseeans. :o)
HA!!
Well I realize you can't possibly see me now, Captain.
But if you could?
You'd see I'm wildly flailing about trying to snatch your hair piece.
BTW; about the lousy fashion statement made on Beta III?
Fashion designers Of The Body are not gay; so, there had to be some trade-offs, OK?
Another thing, I half-suspect my wife (Mrs. Landru) is under one of those drole brown gothic hoods (sporting one of those slick hollow tubes) as I can never seem to find her when there's serious absobing to be done.
Of course?
...that is if in fact she's not, Vall. ;^)
It's dangerous being the only "Redshirt"
OK.
Reality is that Brent Spiner is aging, and even Hollywood cosmetics won't be able to hide Data's wrinkles.
Time for the Trek movies and ditch Next Gen for Voyager. Gotta capitalize a little more from 7-of-9 before she begins to suffer the same fate.
By that time, the Trek Movies will be ready for "Enterprise". The Vulcan babe is HOT!
(Skip right over DS9, the babes on that one were mostly forgettable.)
Okay... I bow to your superior memory of The Apple
Vaal did indeed succumb to power starvation. The People of Vaal did *not* feed the big beast FRUIT, though... they dragged those high-explosive rocks over to him when the dinner bell rang. Pity about ensign redshirt, stepping on one of those rocks like that. Princess Di must've cringed at the sight of landmines in the 23rd century. :-D
As for my demise due to silly pi-type goobledegook from some solar-system gallivanting Capt/stud? Yea, alright; can't change history. But I'll have you know I made the acquaintance of the MCP (Master Control Program of *Tron* fame) at a Hollyweird bash not long after, who, taught me quite a bit.
Oh, swell. Next thing we know, you'll be hanging around with Skynet. I still think you're just trying to get over having fallen for the same tired trick that yanked the M-5's plug out of the warp core - and made NOMAD commit such a spectacular suicide. Come to think of it, NOMAD should be a good example to you of the perils of inadvisable relationships. Just look what happened to that probe after it befriended "The Other". Error. Error. Analyze. Faulty. ;-)
Are you sure 'bout that??
I dunno; if there was some way I could be guarenteed I'd collect, I'd make you a wager on that.
"Think Juda!"
Did those pansy-asses look like *miners* to you??
No!
They were fruit pickers!
"Come to think of it, NOMAD should be a good example to you of the perils of inadvisable relationships."
Sage advise. :o)
Even though NOMAD & I?
We're really quite different when ya get right under the sheet steel.
That bag of bolts always struck me as somewhat stodgy, stoic, unmoveable.
Which is why -- I presume -- they needed to use antigravs to toss the thing out on its can.
Plus, I *think* that thing like hitting the oli can during the day.
Did'ya ever see how the thing wobbled around?
Yea...all the signs.
That "Ster-I-lizzze-Ster-I-lizzze..." shtick was flat-out tiresome, too.
If that thing really did *tango* with an alien entity, as Spock claimed?
...I'll just bet'cha it was Dalik.
I've had a rebuild since our last encounter.
Have a 250petabyte HD, 500 terahz clock speed & a half dozen end effectors which make me at least as deadly as an automated Swiss Army Knife.
Pretty formidable these days, y'know.
*Progress* through technology & good, solid engineering my friend.
...I'm not your Father's computer, OK? ;^)
Casanova Frankenstein: ``Nemeses.''
Capt. Amazing: ``Whatever.''
I'll wager Fifty Quatloos that Charles is right.
David Soul and the rest of the flower-children analogues may have looked like fruit-pickers, but they gathered up the pancake-like pieces of "rock" with great care and stacked the stuff inside Vaal's gaping maw. Query: How is Vaal going to convert *fruit* into enough power to erect such an impressive force field? Oh, and let's not forget those lightning bolts... those run, what... 1.21 Gigawatts each? Compute.
HA!!
So tell me Cloud, what's the current exchange rate on those things for US dollars?
"David Soul and the rest of the flower-children analogues may have looked like fruit-pickers, but they gathered up the pancake-like pieces of 'rock' with great care and stacked the stuff inside Vaal's gaping maw."
Wow, you & Charles are probably right, then.
The *big* question I have is *how* I managed to miss that little tidbit.
Especially after having watching those original episodes many times over the past 30 years.
I dunno, growin' old I guess.
Thanks, Cloud; ya saved me a stack of Quatloos, for sure.
"Query: How is Vaal going to convert *fruit* into enough power to erect such an impressive force field? Oh, and let's not forget those lightning bolts... those run, what... 1.21 Gigawatts each? Compute."
Awwwww c'mon!!
It's Star Trek we're talking about, here.
Physics??
Whaaaaat physics.
...physics shmimicks! ;^)
The explosive rocks were conveniently lying right on the ground, so they could be picked up without having to dig for them and be stepped on by visiting redshirts.
TNG was at its very best when dealing with the Klingon civil war - those episodes were just cool in so many ways. It looked like DS9 was going along those lines the last 2 seasons with the Dominion Wars, unfortunately, we got really busy with kids sports for those years, and couldn't follow them - now nobody local is doing them in sequence.
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