CP3S

doubleKO said:

TV's Frink said:

I'm shocked that skyjedi didn't start this silly thread.

Boo! Leave skyguy alone! So he hates everything, at least he knows exactly why and who is to blame. He is often right, and I would rather hear it a dozen times than not at all. I will concede to being in the minority, but I'm sure there are others who miss skyjedi.

Right there along side you, doubleKO. I loved that guy's rants. They were often extremely entertaining. Many times I felt the exact same way he did.

I am not even sure if we are in the minority. I remember hearing plenty of others say they felt the same way about him as I did. I think we have only a small yet VERY vocal group that can't stand him. Fink and DJ are the only two I've seen rip into him regularly and consistently.

He really captured the spirit of this place and the way many of us have felt over the last decade or so. When people started treating him like a troll kind of felt like the day this place lost its purpose. A bit melodramatic of me? Sure. But this place isn't what it once was. (When I was a newb I remember Dayv, Sean, and others saying the same thing, and thinking they were total queens for it, so it is funny to me that I've felt this way the last few years).

OT.com used to be this great sanctuary of nerd angst. We were all frustrated and nobody cared, which added to our frustration. In the grand scheme of things, alterations to films are not a big deal, no lives are being lost because of this, the world isn't changed in even some tiny way by it, it simply doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that Indy is now flying in lead lined refrigerators or that Darth Vader build C3PO. Nobody gives a crap. It doesn't matter. They are just dumb movies.

OT.com was the place you went to where it matter, where people cared, and where you could talk about it. Here, these things were the end of the world, were matters of life and death, and we were allowed to be overly concerned about them, and to each go about our own ways of helping each other come to terms.

Like fight club for anal retentive nerds.

If she looked a little more like that on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, maybe she would have been a little more bearable. Maybe, but probably not.

The line "This isn't a car" reminds me how very grating the Batman voice is too me.

Gaffer Tape said:

Okay, let me try this again.  Ahem...

Damn!  When did we have this discussion?  When did you move to Tennessee?

The subject of where do you live came up several months back and about half the forum said they live in TN (exaggeration, but there were a surprising number) which brought on jokes about this being the place to do an OT.com convention. I thought you were in on that conversation. Maybe I just made that association because I knew you lived in the state, or at least had at one point.

Anyway, I've been here for well over six months now. Feels a lot longer, time has kind of drug on here. Not really my scene by any stretch of the imagination, but fate has decided I'm here to stay, for a while anyway.

Sucks we missed each other.

The mentioning of Kurge and the Klingons for some reason reminded me of that really silly band, Spock and the Humpbacks.

timdiggerm said:

The funny thing about KatS is that their comeback album was waaaaay better than any of their older stuff. You don't often see that with bands.

So true! I didn't really think much of them back in the day, but their comeback album is one of my all time favorites.

Remember that nineties band Dr. Soran and the Duras Sisters?

Nah, Nero and the Romulans are totally unoriginal, from their name on down. Just listening to their music, you can tell they are trying to cheaply mimic Shinzon and the Remans (who themselves were very heavily inspired by Khan and the Supermen).

;)

SilverWook said:

timdiggerm said:

SilverWook said:

Shinzon

You keep using that name...

Sorry about that. It was too soon for another evil bald guy in a Trek movie anyway! Not to mention a big creepy all black spaceship right out of a Disaster Area concert. ;)

I may be responsible, I've been calling Nero and the Romulans Shinzon and the Remans just for kicks on account of their similarities.

Bingowings said:

The ladies could rub each other's fingers and pick up a donation from the Vulcanian Sperm Bank.

If I were a Vulcan male in your alternate Trek-verse, that sort of behavior would really make me wish I could have my balls back.

Bingowings said:

Vulcans.

If they were truly logical they would chemically castrate themselves after collecting sperm samples and reproduce in a test tube.

That'd leave their women in a lot of trouble when they hit pon farr.

Warbler said:

SilverWook said:

Spock seemed kind of emotional, and even smiled in "The Cage".

at that time, they were still developing the character.  

       ^This

In fact, I agree with Warb on all points, this was just the one point I was going to post myself.

Pon farr. Wooooo!

They should make a spin-off Jersey Shore-esque soap Trek series that takes place on Vulcan and features young Vulcans constantly fighting with their emotional sides. Star Trek: Pon Farr. I see a winner.

greencapt said:

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Right, well, they won't let me install shit, so I guess it's postal time...

What version did you ask about? I wonder because I tried to install Shit 1.4 but the office system was already way beyond that version. I checked the website and found Shit 2.1 had been released and that one worked well here. Its a constant battle to keep up with the Shit in my office! 

(^In a conversation about replacing IE with Firefox)

Hehehehehehe!

I miss greencapt. :(

This was such a great thread. I miss the days when so many of the conversations were like this.

Sinzon should have been called Dracip Cul-Naej. What a missed opportunity.

But dude, Shinzon and the Remans went back in time and killed Kirk's dad, so it makes sense that Spock's character is now completely different. Didn't you watch the movie?

;)

doubleofive said:

Dude! Those shoes are badass!

Anchorhead said:

All this time and I never realized you were a rider.

Hey, I'm a rider too!

Erm... wait... horses don't count, do they?

I just moved here not to long ago. I think we've had this discussion before, right? You were near Nashville, and I am near Knox. Not that far really. We should have made it a point to meet up. Having met the lovely Gaffer Tape in real life would be some serious bragging rights on this site.

Any chance you'll be visiting the area in the future? You should move to Knoxville. I desperately need a room mate. :D

Akwat Kbrana said:

Any remake is going to run into problems pleasing the purists (though this particular self-styled purist was pleased). But I think the key is to avoid trampling on the spirit of the original, rather than trying to adhere rigidly to its every intricate detail (which would've been impossible in this case, anyway).

That is actually the part of it that bugged me the most. I am in no way a Star Trek purist, and to date there is no series of the show I have seen every episode of. But I feel like they kind of did trample the spirit of the original. Honestly, what is the bigger kick in the teeth to a franchise? Rebooting it to resell it to a new generation of fans? Or making events take place in the story that make everything you watched before cease to have happened, in order to resell it to a new generation of fans?

I feel like a straight reboot would have been perfectly appropriate, and a bit less messy. Nobody ever felt the need to tie Burton's Batman in with Nolan's, because it wasn't necessary. Both films co-exist happily with one another, adaptions made for different generations.

This poor perfectly titled and purposed thread never gets any love... Since I can't think of anywhere else to post this, bump time.

So, I woke up this morning, rolled on my back, opened my eyes, and there was a very sizable spider repelling directly down toward my face! I quickly rolled to the side, sat up, grabbed a tissue, turned back around, and now it sat on my pillow right in the center of where my head had been mere seconds before.

Phew! Talk about good timing. Had I woken or opened my eyes just a few moments later, I would have had a spider crawling on my head. Not the most awesome start to a morning ever.

?

Of course he was serious.

I wonder if there is a monthly beekeeper's meeting where I live? With the number of hives I see around, I bet there is. Maybe should look into something like that.

Jay said:

CP3S said:

Scotty was a comic relief character, and Pegg's Scotty definitely tried to play the comic relief role, but I feel the relation ends there. To me the character felt like Simon Pegg on screen doing an extended Scotty impression, while not even managing to be that much like Scotty.

Scotty had his moments as comic relief, but in TOS, he was frequently in the hot seat during life-and-death situations and was often left in command (and portrayed as very decisive and capable) while Kirk, Spock, and Bones went off to do whatever.

Also keep in mind that the latest film's Enterprise is a ship commanded and manned by recent grads. These are kids, not seasoned veterans. Some goofy antics and shenanigans should be expected.

Poor wording on my part saying, "Scotty was a comic relief character". I didn't mean to suggest that was all he was there for in TOS, just that he was often the source of some of the more humorous lines in the series.

I live in TN. They are my friend's hives, so I am not a regular part of their upkeep, but I try to make it out to help him with them (so I can learn a few things and because I find it all ridiculously fascinating) every time my schedule lines up with his hive maintenance times.

I've been busy so it has been about a week since I talked to him, I am not sure if he has had anymore problems or if he figured out the cause yet.

Both days it was when the weather made unusual rapid mid-day change from hot, sunny, and calm to cloudy, rainy, and extremely windy. I can't help but wonder if that is a non-causal coincidence, or if the rapid weather change somehow threw them off.

corellian77 said:

I'm always amazed when a self-professed Star Trek fan says he/she liked the last movie.  It's so far removed from what I think made the original and Next Generation Trek good (i.e., characters with depth, thought-provoking storylines that explored the human condition, etc.) that I can't fathom how any fan could have enjoyed this version, which was nothing but action-driven drivel with two dimensional characters.

I feel as though I should watch it again in order to give it a fair shake, but I can't help but feel I'll just come to the same conclusion.

Reading this thread, those are pretty much the exact same thoughts I had. All the way down to feeling like I ought to watch it again.

I especially disagreed with the thoughts on Simon Pegg's Scotty. I love Pegg, but I don't feel like he even remotely captured Scotty. Scotty was a comic relief character, and Pegg's Scotty definitely tried to play the comic relief role, but I feel the relation ends there. To me the character felt like Simon Pegg on screen doing an extended Scotty impression, while not even managing to be that much like Scotty.

The bees I work with keep swarming on us. We've had to go recapture two different hives two weeks ago. Both times it was during extreme rapid weather changes. They have plenty of room in the hives and we haven't found any queen cells, so it is puzzling.