Random Star Trek discussion

Hey, when it's your ass on the line ...

"The 37's"

Ah, an alert color I forgot!
Landing the ship is blue alert.

Yellow alert = maybe/some danger.
Red alert = full danger.
Blue alert = we're landing.
Black alert = spore jump.

Any others?

I’m sure it’s somewhere on the Interwebz, but in the mid 90s MJ Kelli a/k/a Todd Schnitt interviewed Shatner and told him he had the best hairpiece he had ever seen. Shatner was completely caught off guard and responded quite angrily. Great stuff.

"The Next Phase"

Susannah Thompson, the future Borg Queen #2 is a Romulan in this one.

Ro Laren episode. Coincidence? Depends on what you’re watching it on.

Patch Adams was on last night on Starz.

How in the fuck did the Patch Adams song become the Enterprise song?
I still don't get it.


It wasn't even like they were separated by a decade for the Patch Adams association to cool down, they're only separated by 3 fucking years.

I don't hate "faith of the heart" but the logic of why that of all songs was picked has always eluded me.
Why not make a brand new song that wasn't already in Patch Adams?
Something with...I dunno...Star Trek lyrics?

I’d be willing to bet that if you dug into the rights to the song, you’d find out that whoever owns them either had some kind of connection to the show’s producers or was willing to sell the rights cheap.

$600 was probably an entire episode worth of costuming and effects.

For all I was present for the complaining about "Faith of the Heart" I somehow missed it wasn't even original to the show?? They pulled it out of the clown doctor movie?? And expected anyone to take the show seriously after that?!

I've heard ENT wanted to use U2's "Beautiful Day" but couldn't afford or couldn't secure the rights.

I still can't decide if that would've been better or worse, to be honest.

I watched ENT's premiere cold turkey and even as a 15 year old who wasn't overly invested in what "real Trek was supposed to look and sound like, hearing that song as the theme was like a mental record scratch.

I didn't find out until after the show ended that it was used for another mediocre movie before that.

Somehow, it leaked to TrekBBS.
This was pre-Youtube, so I had to pirate the Patch Adams version off whatever the Napster substitute at the time was.
So, I'd heard it, and had gotten used to it by the time the show came on.

"Spock's Brain".

They absolutely had to use the girl's bracelet to shut the agony belts off.

If it were written now, the tricorders would totally be able to clone the bracelet signal, and shut the belts down.
Matter of fact, I think control spoofing was a trick they did on ENT.

60's writers didn't know what our computers would be capable of, obviously.
Still, they nailed some of it.
Trek predicted the tech future better than most sci-fi.

I've never seen Patch Adams, but one day back when ENT was still on the air, I fell asleep while reading and woke up during the closing credits for the movie.

When I woke up, I heard the song before I opened my eyes and remember thinking, "What the fuck is Enterprise doing running on a Sunday afternoon? "

I only recently really got back into Trek fandom in the last year or so and I continue to be astonished that "Faith of the Heart" has become a meme for the fandom that the much, much younger fanbase (many of who were born after ENT ended!) are embracing unironically.

And I can vibe with a lot of what the new generation are laying down--ie, VOY wasn't the worst series (that's easily Picard, no contest), DS9 wasn't that much better with women than the other shows, Riker is definitely being pegged by Troi, stuff like that--but this being a good theme? Nope. I hear that and I go full Tevye from "Fiddler on the Roof" where his third daughter wants to marry outside of the faith and after the other two daughters he can't compromise anything else.

That song sucks, the end.

My youngest daughter wants it played at her wedding reception. That and "Take On Me."

Not because she likes those songs, but because her mother hates them.

Here's my fan-fiction fix that the Lower Decks writers can go ahead and steal.

1. We see in LD that holo-movies can have themes and credits.
2. Riker says "they had a long road getting from there to here".

So, my theory? Riker put the theme on the Archer/NX-01 sim.
Why? In the 24th century "Patch Adams" is considered the best movie of the 20th century.

I was let down, as I rather enjoyed the one hit wonder they'd used in the promos.
Probably not as a theme for the show though... the end credit theme would've been good.

The Klingon’s teeth are too normal. I like the Andorian one the best.

What scares me is how much Picard looks like Walter White in some of those pics.