Random Star Trek discussion

Is Jack Quaid wearing a purple hairpiece in that pic? That's awesome.

Interesting thread.

"Journey's End"
Originally I liked the Traveler episodes, but looking back, It kind of went nowhere.

"Timescape" was just on BBCAmerica.

They ruined it!
The very end where Data is boiling water to see if " a watched pot never boils" and Riker tells him to turn off his internal chronometer, and Data goes "thank you sir, I will try that"?
The whole point is, Riker leaves, and then the pot boils when Data isn't looking, and he gives it a funny look.
BBC cut it so it goes to the Enterprise and credits right after "thank you sir, I will try that".
WTF, BBC??

I've seen a lot of film clips on Youtube where the clip ends on or just before some important line or payoff to the scene, and everytime I wonder: is the person editing these clips just fucking with us?

They were fucking with you specifically.

I've been rewatching season 3 of TNG in no particular order, and every episode is a banger. Who Watches the Watchers, Yesterday's Enterprise, Offspring. Holy shit.

(Part of this may have to do with listening to the Newbie Trek podcast, which finally arrived at season 3)

Season three and most of season four is the panicle of TNG.

Panicles:


Pinnacles:

Season 3 was great, but Season 2 still doesn't get the love it rightly deserves.

Yeah, there were a lot of shit episodes (including the first and last episodes of the season), but IMO some of the best TNG stuff was in Season 2.

"The Measure of a Man" and "Q Who" are easily in the top five episodes of the entire series. And "Q Who" is arguably the best Borg episode, hands down. Yes, even better than BOBW.

I'd also argue it's the best Q episode as well.

"But it's not for the timid."

The one thing I always hated about TNG era is that we learned so much about Klingon culture, but not a whole lot about Romulan culture. There a bunch of TNG episodes where they teased us with something and it never really lead to much. The movies never did anything either. Enterprise had a chance to give us something and they got cut off right as things were going in the right direction. Then the JJ movies came along and they gave us a Romulan villain that was so stupid. Then they tried to do something with Picard in season one and that fell flat. I really wish someone would do something worthwhile with the Romulans.

Garamet's "Catalyst Of Sorrows" gives you enough Romulans to choke a horse.
Just sayin.

Plus all the DC Fontana Rihannsu stuff.

Ever wonder where the inspiration for the Borg might come from? Check out this video, it came out in 1984, "Q Who" came out in 1989. If you're impatient, go to 1:05 and 3:10 in the video. I'm not saying the creators of the makeup did but it's uncanny.

Here's the villains from the Mantech line of figures, also from 1984.
That look on cyborgs was floating around the zeitgeist.

And a Duran Duran video from the same year.

I mean, the whole cast is alive, and there was an 8th year of the mission before the Ent-D was smashed in "Generations".
I'm just sayin..

Okay, that was some really good mimicking of the TAS aesthetic. Not just the weird eyes-whose-whites-are-the-same-color-as-the-character's-skin thing, but everything about it.

Diane Duane Rihannsu stuff.

This came up in my YouTube suggested videos and I was about to post it in the Fan Film thread, but you beat me to it, bastard. I haven’t gotten around to seeing it yet.

James Doohan (left) visiting NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center with pilot Bruce Peterson April 13, 1967 in front of the Northrop M2-F2.

And that M2 F2 would later show up in the opening of another SF TV series.

ugh... I TRIED to read one of her books a bunch of years ago.
it was garbage.

Then I tried to read one of her swords and sorcery novels.
It too, left me saddened for the state of literature.

It's no Rocket Robin Hood, but...

So, in poking around the cast list for Galaxy Quest, it seems that only two people have appeared in both GQ and post-GQ Trek: Missi Pyle and Rainn Wilson. And nobody, AFAIK, has been in both Galaxy Quest and The Orville.