Engineers have a proven track record of survival.Johnny Ringo said:
If you wore a red shirt and lived to tell us about it then you did it wrong.
"I HATE, I HATE, I HATE PETER PAN!"
Someone wanted me to fix their daughter's computer, so last night was my first extended time with Windows 8. You know what, after the 20 minute learning curve, I kind of like it. You have to think of it like booting into a giant start menu, which you can then close to get back to normal. I search for all of my programs in my Win7 start bar, so searching for everything in Win8 was just a matter of going to the opposite side of the screen.
People give MS crap all the time, but at least they have the balls to try different things. Everyone decried the Ribbon interface in Office, I was happy that MS wasn't just changing fonts and calling it a day. It's hard to change the way people work, even if it is more efficient. MS tries, and sure they end up going back on a lot of their ideas, but they tried.
Right. Putting all of the bonus features in one timeline does not a documentary make. Just adding deleted scenes doesn't make a documentary either.TMBTM said:
A good documentary is also not just a compilation of rare videos. It should provide new little behind the scene stories no one knows, or at least a new point of view on well known stories. You can also make a good documentary without anything really new if you have some interesting, personal thoughts about the movies, their creation, the people who worked on it. Watching a documentary is a bit like reading a book: the audience needs the feel to have learned something or to understand a point of view in the end.
I think I've seen that. All I can remember is that I thought it could REALLY use an update on the special effects, really bring it into the 90's.FanFiltration said:
"Star Wars"
An enjoyable little film. Not much can be said about it other then good characters, well done special effects for the time it was original made, and a fine tribute to the action serials of the 1930's.
There's a deleted scene somewhere where he's just stopping Geordi's heart for the hell of it. Which makes the line "His heart just wasn't in it" actually make sense.darth_ender said:
Glad we're all in agreement. :)
What is a bit of a bummer is that the movie had lots of potential. There was resolution for the Duras conflict, resolution for the Lore conflict (in Data finally using the emotion chip), Kirk and Picard getting together like everyone wanted, the Enterprise-B, the death of the Enterprise-D, nice special effects, and in my opinion some good humor. But sadly, the nexus gimmick and the otherwise rather thin plot failed to carry the story sufficiently.
Oh, and something that has always bugged me: what on earth happened during Geordi's interrogation? I mean, why is it that really the only bit we see shows Soren questioning Geordi about trilithium, when clearly he knows little about it and Soren himself is the most knowledgeable fellow on the subject around? What was he trying to gain? My understanding is that there was some lovely torture to go along with this, but since most of it was cut, the whole scene serves literally absolutely no purpose in the end.
I was his Transporter Accident / Time Travelling Clone. Technically, I was cosplaying as "Year 1 & 2 Andy Fark", as they bought ANOVOS uniforms this year in preparation for their Year 3 album.TV's Frink said:
You got photobombed.
Yep, pretty much.darth_ender said:
Obviously there are folks who are not exactly fans of Generations. It's not my favorite of the bunch, but I do enjoy it. I admit, my enjoyment has deteriorated over time. I probably would have rather watched a movie following the Enterprise-B. Ah well, it's still fun, but still I want to gripe about it since I watched it recently.
Why didn't the Enterprise change their shield frequency? It seems pretty obvious that such was the Duras sisters' trick, as all weapons went right through. You'd think that would have been their first action.
If shields are so easy to penetrate once the frequency is known, why didn't the Borg try that trick when they first encountered the Enterprise in Q Who and hacked their computers?
Why did Picard have to pick up Kirk and fight Soren on Viridian III? It seems it would have been far easier to interrupt his plans by returning to when he first met him in Ten Forward and Soren stated he needed to get back to the station to complete his work. If he had delayed him for even a few minutes, it would have stopped Soren's plans right there. He then could have helped deduce Soren's involvement in blowing up stars and stealing trilithium research and could have locked him up for a long time.
Usually Star Trek has some sort of technobabble to explain the unexplainable, so why is there some "nexus" that escapes the meaning of time and gives everyone lasting happiness? Unless this is like a little crack in space that leads to heaven, it's just too contrived for me.
So there's my rant. And yet I still like it :)
I went to GenCon this past weekend. It was great fun, but we nerds certainly fit the "smelly and lacking social skills" stereotype.
I did some light cosplay. Friday I wore my homemade BSG jacket and undershirts (I couldn't fit into the pants). Saturday morning I wore a white shirt and red tie to cosplay as Cole from www.pvponline.com (my wife wore a black t-shirt to go as Jade from the same comic). We met the creator, who was overjoyed that we made the effort. Saturday night I wore a TOS Redshirt and my old thick rimmed glasses, not to be a Redshirt, but to cosplay as the drummer for Five Year Mission (www.fiveyearmission.net), which he appreciated.
Ah yes, the ultimatium.Bingowings said:
That seems to be where all the mock ups he took down from here ended up (including some earlier versions of Ady's stuff by the looks of things..ironically).
So this guy wants to recreate SWB in HD without any of the sources or editing experience.TV's Frink said:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/STAR-WARS-behind-the-eye/post/655217/#TopicPost655217
As they're approaching the DS, after Wedge comments about the size of that tower, Ric's Ghost voice comes over the comm, to which Red Leader replies to cut the chatter.Bingowings said:
You could have Ric explain to Ben that the whole of the Death Star is one big city.
He could explain it to Luke too when they attack it.
Or a Three Stooges short. Literally anything at all would be funny.
The real question is does he want the 2011 SE, just color corrected? Adywan's version is the 2004 SE. Or does he want a Despecialized, or a half-specialized, or whatever.
I use this:TV's Frink said:
SilverWook said:
TV's Frink said:
Don't own it.
Perhaps you could whip up a list of movies you do own?
I suppose I could...
I can't say I care for it. It kind of stops the movie cold for a short joke.
Yes. Different points in the timeline, but they're not reboots/mirror universes.timdiggerm said:
Those are all in one timeline, though.
The selection of Bond movies on Netflix US are back. Hooray!
I think Dorn's "Captain Worf" idea as a miniseries would be cool. And if it worked like BSG's miniseries did, then take it to series. But you're also right in that the casual viewer might be confused by having a series taking place in a different timeline than the movies coming out at the same time.SilverWook said:
If it was done right. Whether it could get ratings in the current splintered tv landscape is another matter. (Does Nielsen even factor in online viewing?) The conditions that allowed TNG to thrive no longer exist.
Maybe a miniseries, or a series of direct to video movies? The studio may be leery of ever having a Trek show on the air at the same time a feature film is in theaters again.
"Great shot, kid, that was one in a million!"oh_riginal said:
Wedge could keep asking about the tower throughtout the Death Star battle, even as he is forced to flee and then after the Death Star has exploded.
I play PC games, but I'd rather play a game designed to work on my system rather than trying to upgrade my system to play a game.
Thirded. I need to rebuy that thing.Tobar said:
I second the recommendation for Red Dead Redemption. Fantastic game.
Let's not sully our Trek thread with intolerance.
Speaking of intolerance, I'm currently reading Harlan Ellison's "City On The Edge of Forever" for an upcoming Commentary: Trek Stars podcast. That man is a crazy person. He spends over a quarter of the book on the introduction, which reads like a person resprenting himself in court while pleading insanity. It's mostly a "this person said this in his book, that's not true, everyone knows that" over and over again, while insulting everyone including the reader.
I'm in the third draft of his treatments, not into the script itself. Thankfully someone told him that the Federation probably wouldn't sentence a murdering drug dealer to death and take him to the nearest uninhabited planet to shoot him and leave his body behind. Also, it might be more dramatic of the old men "Guardians of Forever" guarding a time portal didn't flat out tell Kirk & Spock that Edith Keeler must die by being hit by a van in exactly 1 week BEFORE they go back in time and Kirk falls in love with her. And that it might be more dramatic if McCoy is the one who tries to save her, instead of the drug dealer who's been trying to kill them since coming back in time.
Like I said, I haven't gotten to the actual script draft that was deemed "unfilmable", so I'll probably end up saving most of my thoughts for the podcast.
I made an explanation post on the WordPress for those who don't understand why this is necessary:
http://swrevisited.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/han-in-carbonite-shirt-fix/
Oh jeez, the mushroom joke! Is he just going to speak like Cliegg Lars?