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#495741
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The New Thread Thread
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RedFive said:


Umm, so there might already be this, but I don't feel like checking 94 pages, so I'll let the Frink do his magic.

"Explain Your Username / Avatar / Title / Signature"

Sound good?


http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Where-does-your-screen-name-come-from/topic/6705/

You could do an Avatar/Title/Sig thread since that isn't covered in that thread.

FYI if you change your preferences to "Display up to 100 topics per forum page." Off-topic has 24 pages.


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Gaffer Tape's YouTube Reviews of Awesome Candy-Creating Goodness! (The Facts of Life/Star Trek III Conspiracy!)
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Well even though I am a Star Trek fan I just don't know exactly when everything is supposed to take place in the universe. Also as a kid I simply wasn't interested in the TNG movies becuase, I liked the motion picture better. For some reason I forget the only Star Trek movies I wanted to see was TMP and, the one with the whales. Other Star Trek movies just didn't interest me beyond those two at the time. After Voyager ended I got interested in seeing more Star Trek movies. Hence confusion about exactly when everything is supposed to take place. I supoose that fed into my shock. I mean forgetting the multitude of times that Diana kissed bearded Riker for a joke line in Insurrection is one thing. Forgetting you already destroyed an entire ship would be on another level of continuity fuck up.

TMOTTH um hate is a strong word. I just don't like it. The "TMOTTH um, 0 just, no, NO!" was just for luls.

Yeah, "season 7 jake" being on the bottom list definitely got my imagination going. Thankshttp://img859.imageshack.us/img859/1693/happyx.gif.



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On the subject of 1stBSG I tried to watch it in it's entirety. I just lost interest a few episodes in. I don't know why. I just haven't had the desire to watch another episode.

Gaffer Tape said:

twister111 said:

Watched the finale to DEEP SPACE NINE! For the first time ever.

That means you can finally watch #8 on my list!

Watched and, commented on your thread.



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Gaffer Tape's YouTube Reviews of Awesome Candy-Creating Goodness! (The Facts of Life/Star Trek III Conspiracy!)
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On my watch of Deep Space Nine in it's entirety. Something happened in the story that I thought wouldn't ever happen in it. Something that shocked me. Something I practically yelled at my tv at for. They destroyed the Defiant!!!! WTF!!! That ship's in First Contact!!! How does that make sense!?!? Doesn't that take place after DS9!?? I thought it'd survive all the way!!!! Bastards!!!!! Then a few episodes later it gets replaced... *facepalm* Then I find out via internet First Contact is supposed to take place during DS9... *double facepalm*

Gaffer Tape said:


Oh, yeah.  Terry Farrell's skin is so sensitive that she apparently can't be in direct sunlight for very long, so prosthetic makeup was right out.

Well that explains the blanket over the boxes shading her face in Rocks and, Shoals. FYI Rocks and, Shoals was directed by Michael Vejar who directed a lot of Babylon 5 and, Crusade episodes.

So I watched your entire vid now. Comments on Valiant. Frankly I found "Take me out the holosuite" a worse episode. However, I wouldn't rank Valiant as a good episode either. More like annoying filler with forced acting/drama. I do agree that Profit and, Lace is a better episode. However, I wouldn't say it's that much better. It's a little below average. Like a 4 or, 3. Valiant's a 2. TMOTTH um, 0 just, no, NO!

Re: Season 7 Jake. I gotta admit. My imagination ran with this being on a worst list. I mean I imagined they were going to character assasinate the crap out of Jake. I thought the worst things. That he'd completely be an asshole. That he'd ally himself with the founders. Him and, Dukat would murder and, rape others. That he'd be completely unsympathetic monster who'd become the vile and, contempable. Also, his acting was going to go bad and, forced. Thankfully they didn't... and, his acting was okay. Though thanks to your list I did pay attention to Jake and, kept wondering where the heck he was. Turns out that was your complaint! I think your list though just made me relieved that my imagination was worse then what they did to Jake.

Jadzia and, the finale. I agree and, if I was in their position I'de reshoot the wedding kiss with a body double for Jadzia. Have the camera angle change to be a close up on Worf.


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Watched the finale to DEEP SPACE NINE! For the first time ever.

greenpenguino said:


Anyone notice how Chuck also rhymes with suck....

How else do you expect Chuck to drink from a straw?

Also Chuck rhymes with fuck and, Duck as well.

TV's Frink said:


Johnny Ringo said:

TV's Frink said:

Johnny Ringo said:

I gotta admit i've been getting bored with Chuck lately...
EVERYONE CLEAR THE THREAD!!!!

*flees*
you defile my context.
twister will be the judge of that...

Context is key! Regaurdless of that though everyone's entitled to their oppinon on tv/movies.




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Should I make a Thread asking Peoples if I should make a thread about things being IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE!
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xhonzi said:


I can't remember if I ever made the IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE thread, or just this one leading into an IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE thread.

Should I try to find the IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE thread?  Or should I create a new one?

Is there a different thread where I should be asking these questions?


http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-IN-SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE-Thread/topic/12151/

greenpenguino said:


STAR WARS IS SET IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSPPPPPPPPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Watched CHUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a repeat but still... CHUCK WAS ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

greenpenguino said:

twister111 said:
Thanks to this episode though I'm actually looking forward to watching Valiant...

*Shunned*
and, Profit and Lace.

Even though I like that episode... *Double Shunned*

You can't shun me in my own thread! If you want to shun me you must make your own thread titled "I shun twister111" or, else it is futile and, void!!!! :P

Monolithium said:

twister111 said:

Watched DS9 episode far beyond the stars. Eh, I didn't like it. Kind of a boring episode...

I take it you did not like Avery Brooks amazing level of overacting?

It's not about the acting. That's okay in that episode. I actually enjoyed the episode itself when it first aired. It's just that I've seen the themes in the episode tackled better since then. That episode in particular it just simply hasn't aged well in my oppinion. Also having only seen it once before nostalgia wasn't going to blind me.


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Gaffer Tape's YouTube Reviews of Awesome Candy-Creating Goodness! (The Facts of Life/Star Trek III Conspiracy!)
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Gaffer Tape said:


Oh, yeah.  Crap.  I didn't realize you hadn't seen it at all.  I hope I didn't spoil anything for you.  But, honestly, though, the one about the finale, assuming you know what happens to Jadzia in season 6, and you already know what happens to Worf, doesn't really contain any spoilers.  But, yeah, you should definitely stay away from "Season 7 Jake."
It's okay. The parts that I watched I didn't get spoilers from.

Holy crap!  I didn't even think about that TNG episode!  You're right.  This is a little bit off topic, but I'm sure you know that the altered the Trill makeup for DS9 due to Terry Farrell's sensitive skin.  But I think it would have been nice if they'd included some Trill who resembled the one we saw in TNG.  It would help explain away some of the inconsistencies if it was just said that there are different races of Trill who look different and react to the symbiont in different ways.

And, yeah, I always thought it was hypocritical that she couldn't "rejoin" with Lenara, but it was perfectly fine that she could keep her best friend.  I thought about mentioning that, but I figured the video was long enough already. =P

I guess I should say that I really do enjoy the episode overall.  In fact, most of the moments I mention come from episodes that are otherwise pretty competent.
Actually no, I didn't know the makeup change was due to sensitive skin. I just assumed it was just a makeup change due to time. That definitely would've been interesting if there were different Trill races. Thanks for the info!

It's hard for me to say, honestly.  Not that I really have my finger on the pulse of general DS9 opinion, but it does seem that my opinion on the matter is somewhat aberrant to the norm.  Profit and Lace almost always seems to top worst DS9 episodes lists, but I've never seen Valiant on one.  I don't think I can explain why I dislike Valiant more than I already have.  As for Profit and Lace, I suppose part of it will come in how much you enjoy/appreciate the Ferengi episodes to begin with.  If you already don't care for them, I don't see Profit and Lace being the one that's going to win you over, and you'll probably hate it even more than the other Ferengi episodes.  But I do like those episodes, and I do like that it helps tie up the Moogie sexual revolution plot line.  I probably agree with the makers of the episode that it goes a little bit too far into the camp, gender-bender slapstick routine and maybe deserved to be a little more serious.  But I'm honestly a fan of gender-bending plotlines to begin with, so I found it a really funny piece of fluff.  Had the entire Moogie subplot been nothing but that, I probably wouldn't have liked it.  But as just a silly episode of Quark as a woman fending off amorous advances with just a hint of family issue subtext, I think it works okay.
Hm, I guess I'm stuck with just watching the episodes and, forming my own oppinion... I mean I do like the gender change cliche. Yet, I dislike the Ferengi episodes...

Hmm, I don't know if I'd call it "executive meddling" other than the writers sorta backing themselves into a corner.  Particularly with the Quark example.  You can't NOT have him on the show, so... I guess just sweep it under the rug and hope no one notices.  And once again, I did like this episode.  I pretty much like anything that explores the Trills.
I like the Trill episodes too! Well like I said it was just a gut feeling. I'm prepared to be wrong about it.

As for Worf, I'd probably have to just chalk it up to not having enough time to deal with it while wrapping up the series, and the whole issue of them having multiple writers working on this long story arc.  That's why I would have given it a pass probably if not for the Klingon fans jumping all over me for me daring to question their laws. =P
RE: Worf deadbeat dad. I'm a bit ambivalant about this myself.
In a way, I am too.  They certainly earn big points for EVENTUALLY bringing Alexander back and acknowledging that Worf had screwed up.  Those episodes were good.  And if Worf had never been a character on TNG, and this was the first we'd seen of him, I also probably wouldn't have called it a stupid idea--just an interesting character flaw.  I guess I just objected to building all this up over on TNG only to completely flip-flop Worf when he got to DS9.
Ah, I see.

Heh, what makes you think I wasn't aware of that already?  You assume too much.  I know about all the controversy.  But I don't really know anything about Babylon 5 enough to make that judgment for myself.  I've never even seen Babylon 5.  So I don't think it would be fair of me to comment on it.  If I was a Babylon 5 fan, and the theft is true, I probably would be pissed.  But I don't really have a suitable frame of reference, other than just the general knowledge and statements from JMS.
Oh well I'm a bigger Babylon 5 fan then Chuck fan. So my bias towards B5 makes it more likely for me to believe that DS9 did rip it off. I did assume but, I assumed you knew. I just assumed you didn't think of it as a low point for DS9 or, were just talking about in show content. Either way I just felt like finding that podcast again and, posting that info. I also just wanted to give my own personal view on the lowest point. Babylon 5 is well worth checking out by the way.

So that's my response. Hope it's comment worthy enough for you!


Oh, of course!  This is fun!  Thanks for taking the time to respond!

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Gaffer Tape's YouTube Reviews of Awesome Candy-Creating Goodness! (The Facts of Life/Star Trek III Conspiracy!)
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Watched review. Skipped the ones mentioning the finale and, season 7 Jake. I watched most of DS9 when it first aired but, was kind of off and, on during it's last season. Also, completely missed the finale. I'm watching DS9 now becuase, I got all of it as a gift. I remembered/found out what happened with Worf though. Since, he's my favourite TNG character. I just don't want spoilers on stuff I either don't remember well/haven't seen.

That aside. I wholeheartedly agree about the treatment of Riker transporter-clone. Thomas has the worst luck in life. I would've liked it if in Death Wish eppy Q instead brought Thomas there and, he stayed there on Voyager. I mean Harry was the one most crap got piled on there. He'd act as a buffer for Thomas I'm sure. Janeway wouldn't off him since, she seemed to respect Riker.

Also, during my rewatch of that Cardassian science officer eppy I kind of got distracted via the fact that it's Captain Lockley from Babylon 5 under that makeup. I was getting a snack during the credits so I was like "That's LOCKLEY! No it isn't Lockley." In my head all throughout rewatching it. After the eppy I confirmed my suspicions. That said, even distracted, I thought that it was a really bad move to turn it into an alien mating ritual thingy. Essentially I agree with you.

Re: Trill Punishment it's also contradictory to the earlier TNG Trill eppy. Where Dr. Crusher was all ready and, willing to continue on the relationship through three hosts IIRC. Only thing that stopped it was Dr. Crusher couldn't see past the new woman host to the person she lusted over. No mention of possible death. None of that. It's also hypocritical that Dax's friendships like Sisko are okay to be carried over but, not romantic entanglements. I mean c'mon the society's going to sentence them to death for falling in love, again, in brand new hosts, looking completely beyond the physical. However, you want your casual friends to stay by you. Oh sure go right ahead! He can even visit the sacred pool area thingy. Kind of puts the whole Trill-symbiont institution in a new light. I mean they say "we don't have enough symbionts for the population that are compatible." Then, "Yeah, we death sentence the Trill symbionts who retain their previous lovers... What? Why you looking at me like that?"

Yes the Kai thing was poorely handled. At the time of initial airing I just excepted it though... I was a kid... Yes that's my excuse er, reason!


Valiant um, no comment. I simply haven't watched that episode in full yet. I missed it's initial airing and, only watched your review of it. I also missed profit and, lace... Um, will I see two bad episodes at the same time or, will I just skip them again? That is the question...
I'de seriously like your oppinion on this matter.

Worf and, Quark escaping punishment. I kind of get the feeling of executive meddling there. I don't know why but, I do... Gut feeling is all.

RE: Worf deadbeat dad. I'm a bit ambivalant about this myself.

As for what I personally feel is the lowest DS9 moment. I disagree with you only because I know more about the behind the scenes. I feel DS9's lowest moment is what started it in the first place. They essentially ripped off JMS's Babylon 5 pitch and, shoehorned it into the Star Trek universe. JMS comments on why he didn't sue paramount:

(Interviewers in bold)
Well, in the process of shopping the series(B5). Everybody knows the story about you(JMS) approaching Paramount. Knowing that they had Star Trek, why go to Paramount? Why bring them another space opera type story?

"Well the thought at the time was, because they had that corner of science fiction universe covered. That they might be the best place to go. Also they were trying to put together their own network at the time. Uh, and they had a good block(?) of syndication. They were the big guns. You always go to the big guns first. They were doing other shows beyond Star Trek. You know for syndication and, they seemed like the likely choice. And we gave them the material um, everything. The treatment, the pilot script, the artwork, all that stuff. There were executives(?) in the back. That mentioned that the 2 guys that had 'a new show' was gonna be up at a big exhibition thing in san francisco. They were gonna look at some of this themselves to get some suggestions. Just look at it in general and, they first came back very interested. Suddenly out of nowhere 'uh, no! We're gonna pass!' Which surprised me because, we knew they were interested. Very interested in pursuing it and, well we figured that's, that. Went off elsewhere and, um we're kind of surprised another show comes up. On a spacestation, with a um gambling area, casinos, and a bar, ambassadors, and trade going on. Um there'd never been a show like that preceeding 16 years of television 2 suddenly come out the same time. Seemed curious to us."

So given that how much credence to you put to the fan urban legend that Paramount wholly ripped off B5? Just kept the property enough to make their own notes and, then said "no." Then made stuff from your notes.

"Well, I put it in two terms *sigh*. First off again if you look at the two starting points side by side. Male captian, female second in command, a big casino-like area, a bar, ambassadors, trading, on a spacestation. Which had a shapeshifter in it's pilot. Um it's kind of hard not to see a corrilary there. I was in my office one day and, Peter Jurasik came in and, said 'do you know?' Mentioned one of the cast members from Deep Space Nine. I said 'I'm familiar with him I don't know him personally but, I know this person.' Said 'Well, I saw him at a party last night. He wanted me to give you a message.' I said 'Okay, other then "screw you" what's the message?' He said 'we know that our show came from your show. We wish you all the luck.'"

Really?!
-Wow

"Uh-huh and, um those are the only two points I think are worth making."

Wow

"I will say that I discussed a big lawsuit with Warner Bros. but, they were concerned. That if I did that both shows would end up in litigation and, neither show would get anywhere. So they overruled that and, I could not pursue without them. So that was the end of that."

Source podcast part 1 Part 2

***Possible B5 spoilers in podcast***

So essentially the credits should read "Based upon Babylon 5 created by J. Michael Straczynski". So yeah I do think this beats out a bad episode. The fact that it's a rip-off of B5. That said I still like both shows and, JMS himself is also a Star Trek fan. In fact in 2004 he approached Paramount again proposing a prequel tv show. That showed how Kirk and, his crew met. That certainly turned out alright now didn't it?


FYI: The main reason I saved this as a draft is because, I had to find that podcast again and, type the relevant parts up... So now I test this draft thingy to see if it works.



So that's my response. Hope it's comment worthy enough for you!

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