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Can Star Trek Be Saved? (lighter topic alert)
TV Guide ^ | 2/03 | Nollinger

Posted on 02/25/2003 11:14:23 AM PST by pabianice

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To: demosthenes the elder
Sci Fi bump. Don't know if you watch the show or not.
81 posted on 02/25/2003 12:05:44 PM PST by dyed_in_the_wool (I am Jack's smirking revenge.)
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To: RayBob
There goes the timeline.....
82 posted on 02/25/2003 12:06:26 PM PST by Bogey78O (check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
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To: fish70
Oh and B-5 was the best science fiction show on T.V. period.
83 posted on 02/25/2003 12:06:28 PM PST by fish70
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To: RayBob
You're kidding about that Borg story, right? (Please say yes).
84 posted on 02/25/2003 12:06:29 PM PST by mg39
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To: Bogey78O
Also notice how the show went from FX limited to FX overload? That's what weak scripts rely on.

Exactly. TOS episodes like Spectre of the Gun and the The Empath had no elaborate sets yet they entertained. Voyager had quite a bit of eye candy, yet I could not force myself to watch it... it was that horrible.

85 posted on 02/25/2003 12:06:36 PM PST by VetoBill (Who is the actor that plays Dan Rather?)
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To: wirestripper
So ol' Capt Archer is a rump ranger. Didn't know. Well ... that basically ruins "Enterprise" for this Capt Kirk/Spock loving old trekkie
86 posted on 02/25/2003 12:07:03 PM PST by clamper1797 (Credo Quia Absurdum)
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To: fish70
Oh please. Space Above and Beyond sucked so bad that I actually did dishes rather than watch that piece of tripe. Aviators sent on GI missions?! Ain't happenin'. That show, along with a few others, proved that Carter was a one hit wonder.
87 posted on 02/25/2003 12:07:51 PM PST by discostu (This tag intentionally left blank)
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To: The Toad
Thanks for the Gorn pic--one of my favorite episodes from the original series.

To be fair, the short story "Arena" was written by someone else (Sturgeon?) at least ten years before Gene Roddenberry invented 'Star Trek.'

88 posted on 02/25/2003 12:08:07 PM PST by pabianice
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To: clamper1797
Bwahahahaha!
89 posted on 02/25/2003 12:08:25 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Hodar
6) Pick an enemy, and tell the story. Borg destroy and absorb. Hence the term "Resistance is Futile...you will be Assimulated". There is not a 'Good Borg', making "Hugh, the friendly Borg" destroyed the entire Borg premise. In a rationale Borg society, Hugh would have been found defective, and either destroyed, or re-programmed.

Or worse, pirate borgs led by Data's evil twin brother, that say "Arr!"

90 posted on 02/25/2003 12:08:34 PM PST by Liberal Classic (Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
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To: VetoBill
If you'll look at the top ten TOS episodes you'll see they had some of the worst or cheapest FX.
91 posted on 02/25/2003 12:08:50 PM PST by Bogey78O (check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
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To: Bogey78O
James Wong and Glen Morgan, the two guys behind Space Above and Beyond were also the people who made Millenium which was another excellent show.
92 posted on 02/25/2003 12:08:56 PM PST by fish70
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To: clamper1797
Ugh, he's gay?!--I didn't know that either. Sort of ruins it doesn't it?
93 posted on 02/25/2003 12:09:28 PM PST by The Toad
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To: strela
David Gerrold too.

He left Trek after a Trek script of his featuring two gay lovers was refused by Paramount. In fact. Gerrold disappeared, period, about ten years ago after the fourth, disappointing book in his "Matter for Men" series.

94 posted on 02/25/2003 12:10:29 PM PST by pabianice
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To: pabianice
According to Trek Today, they're bringing back the Borg:
http://www.trektoday.com/news/200203_03.shtml
95 posted on 02/25/2003 12:11:22 PM PST by Hellmouth
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To: Bogey78O
IMHO there is some good episodes of Stargate out there. And they actually have guns and shoot people. If wonders ever cease. However to be PC they always break out the eye shields whenever they take out their weapons.

Ever had a hot shell casing in your eye? I have. It SUCKS, even if you're shooting blanks.

96 posted on 02/25/2003 12:11:57 PM PST by pabianice
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To: pabianice
Well if ever you search for fanfic on the internet you'll find there's a ton of gay stories out there. I won't even go into any more detail.
97 posted on 02/25/2003 12:12:25 PM PST by Bogey78O (check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
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To: pabianice
The first mistake they made was to blow off Trek continuity.
98 posted on 02/25/2003 12:13:08 PM PST by Poohbah (Beware the fury of a patient man -- John Dryden)
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To: wirestripper
Tell me it ain't true. Is this common knowledge ... that Archer goes where no man ... should
99 posted on 02/25/2003 12:13:44 PM PST by clamper1797 (Credo Quia Absurdum)
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To: fish70
I loved Millenium. I always wished that the producers and the network had the guts to keep the series going under its original concept (Millenial Upheavals and the possible secret causes) instead of making it into 'Weird Serial Murderer of the Week'. They did come back to their original premise a bit more towards the end, but it was too late by then. And as for S:AAB - the network didn't even give that show a chance. Real similar to the way Fox killed Firefly; almost no advertising, bury it on Friday or Saturday night when the target audience is not watching TV, then move it around to a new time slot weekly until it finally dies.
100 posted on 02/25/2003 12:14:28 PM PST by AzSteven
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