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I got cable again! for 3 years I have been without, watching a maximum of 3 hours of TV a week, and look at me now, I am watching Star Trek in the middle of the afternoon.

Life is happy!

Being stuck in the house until the end of time doesn't seem so bleak now..........

So, what good has happened to you today?

So, what good has happened to you today?

Never mind that... What episode are you watching? :p

yayy star trek!

Never mind that... What episode are you watching? :p

That one where Data, and Worf, and Ryker get stuck in that Bar/Casino over and over and it's really out of a book.

I got cable again! for 3 years I have been without, watching a maximum of 3 hours of TV a week, and look at me now, I am watching Star Trek in the middle of the afternoon.

Life is happy!

Being stuck in the house until the end of time doesn't seem so bleak now..........

So, what good has happened to you today?

Ah. I remember when TV Land started showing reruns of the original Star Trek. I'd forgotten just how bad it sucked in comparison to the newer series. Those guys just didn't know how to tell a story, especially in the first season. It really didn't age well. When I watch them now--and I still do, thanks to the DVR--I'm often amazed that the show lasted three seasons, and that the memories of it were fond enough to drive the first two films, after which it took off again on its own.

I got cable again! for 3 years I have been without, watching a maximum of 3 hours of TV a week, and look at me now, I am watching Star Trek in the middle of the afternoon.

Life is happy!

Being stuck in the house until the end of time doesn't seem so bleak now..........

So, what good has happened to you today?

Yay, congrats! Now just don't get addicted to those judge shows...

Something good. Hmm. I'm all by myself in the office today, which explains why I'm hanging out on NS so much. :D

Never mind that... What episode are you watching? :p

And what series, for that matter!:D

That one where Data, and Worf, and Ryker get stuck in that Bar/Casino over and over and it's really out of a book.

Ah, I saw that one quite recently. Not bad.


Not today, but two years after moving into my current apartment, I found I had free cable. (The Cable Company never disconnected the previous owner's line and never sent me, or him, the bill.)

Now THAT's what I call a nice surprise.

Why has it never happened to me? :p

Ah, I saw that one quite recently. Not bad.



Now THAT's what I call a nice surprise.

Why has it never happened to me? :p

Not today, but two years after moving into my current apartment, I found I had free cable. (The Cable Company never disconnected the previous owner's line and never sent me, or him, the bill.)

Time warp again, I see. I've had that happen too, but it never lasted more than a couple of months.

Edit: Wow--that's one crazier than normal time warp.

I got cable again! for 3 years I have been without, watching a maximum of 3 hours of TV a week, and look at me now, I am watching Star Trek in the middle of the afternoon.

Life is happy!

Being stuck in the house until the end of time doesn't seem so bleak now..........

So, what good has happened to you today?Not today, but two years after moving into my current apartment, I found I had free cable. (The Cable Company never disconnected the previous owner's line and never sent me, or him, the bill.)

yayy star trek!

:D :D :D :D :D :D

*gets video camera*

So, what good has happened to you today?

I'm getting drunk!

So, what good has happened to you today?
Not much, really. :(

Had a fun time watching a neighbour's bin repeatedly slam into their car because of the wind. People going past kept righting it, only for it to get knocked over again. Then some killjoy put it in the alley. :( :p

I'm getting drunk!

thats what you all ways do :p


what happen to me today not one thing yet it's Friday morning an i got a long way to till tonight cames

Ah. I remember when TV Land started showing reruns of the original Star Trek. I'd forgotten just how bad it sucked in comparison to the newer series. Those guys just didn't know how to tell a story, especially in the first season. It really didn't age well. When I watch them now--and I still do, thanks to the DVR--I'm often amazed that the show lasted three seasons, and that the memories of it were fond enough to drive the first two films, after which it took off again on its own.

Mate...not a chance. Its a great show and compared to the modern stuff much much funnier and frankly...better.

:D :D :D :D :D :D

*gets video camera*


quiet, you!:D

quiet, you!:D

*stops moaning*

:(

Ah. Not this episode, by any chance?

VOICE: Captain's logs, stardate 471283.6: We are escorting a transport ship across a dangerous area of Federation space known for occasional attacks by Klingons, Romulans, Borg, Ferengi, Q, Kardassians, and other such aliens. You'd think a galaxy-spanning Federation would have better security, but still.

ENSIGN: Captain, we're picking up a faint distress call!

CAPTAIN: On speakers.

VOICE ON SPEAKERS: *Static* help *static* federation starship blablabla *static static* attacked *static* *goes dead*

CAPTAIN: Helmsman, set course to intercept.

HELMSMAN: Changing course twelve degrees to 213 mark 70.

LIEUTENANT: Captain, we're picking up signals consistent with a quantum subspace distortion polar singularity.

CAPTAIN: Onscreen. Don't I have any more interesting lines?

*Screen displays a weird moving electricity thing.*

ENSIGN: Captain, the ship is getting pulled in. Hull integrity is compromised and it will explode in twenty seconds.

*The ship starts rocking violently and people fall all over the place while those stupid sparks fly out of the control panels.*

CAPTAIN: Bridge to engineering, report.

ENGINEERING: We appear to have been sucked into a gravitational-electromagnetic anomaly.

CAPTAIN: What do you suggest we do about it?

ENGINEERING: Well, if we engage in random technobabble while pressing lots of shiny buttons and LCD screens, we'll be able to break all of the laws of physics at once and invent a new fundamental particle at the same time.

CAPTAIN: Let's try it.

*The bridge is suffused with a blue light for some reason.*

CAPTAIN: Was that... whatever you were going to do?

ENGINEERING: No, Captain, the SFX people goofed up again. See, I just turned into a klingon. KILL STUFF! BLOW THINGS UP!!!

<and so on, and so forth>

Ah. Not this episode, by any chance?

VOICE: Captain's logs, stardate 471283.6: We are escorting a transport ship across a dangerous area of Federation space known for occasional attacks by Klingons, Romulans, Borg, Ferengi, Q, Kardassians, and other such aliens. You'd think a galaxy-spanning Federation would have better security, but still.

ENSIGN: Captain, we're picking up a faint distress call!

CAPTAIN: On speakers.

VOICE ON SPEAKERS: *Static* help *static* federation starship blablabla *static static* attacked *static* *goes dead*

CAPTAIN: Helmsman, set course to intercept.

HELMSMAN: Changing course twelve degrees to 213 mark 70.

LIEUTENANT: Captain, we're picking up signals consistent with a quantum subspace distortion polar singularity.

CAPTAIN: Onscreen. Don't I have any more interesting lines?

*Screen displays a weird moving electricity thing.*

ENSIGN: Captain, the ship is getting pulled in. Hull integrity is compromised and it will explode in twenty seconds.

*The ship starts rocking violently and people fall all over the place while those stupid sparks fly out of the control panels.*

CAPTAIN: Bridge to engineering, report.

ENGINEERING: We appear to have been sucked into a gravitational-electromagnetic anomaly.

CAPTAIN: What do you suggest we do about it?

ENGINEERING: Well, if we engage in random technobabble while pressing lots of shiny buttons and LCD screens, we'll be able to break all of the laws of physics at once and invent a new fundamental particle at the same time.

CAPTAIN: Let's try it.

*The bridge is suffused with a blue light for some reason.*

CAPTAIN: Was that... whatever you were going to do?

ENGINEERING: No, Captain, the SFX people goofed up again. See, I just turned into a klingon. KILL STUFF! BLOW THINGS UP!!!

<and so on, and so forth>

oh, Czardas, how I love thee. :p

its a mistake to watch too much star trek.

ive seen them so many times that i start to rant about how stupid they are, how THIS time the prime directive is of paramount importance but the one just before it, it didnt seem to apply, how i wish there were an episode where riker "accidentally" screwed a male alien, all sorts of things.

oh, Czardas, how I love thee. :p

You can't deny that pretty much every star trek episode follows a similar outline. Yeah, occasionally there's time travel and the odd moral dilemma, or the robot who wants to be human etc. But really, that's the basic form.

I got cable again! for 3 years I have been without, watching a maximum of 3 hours of TV a week, and look at me now, I am watching Star Trek in the middle of the afternoon.

Life is happy!

Being stuck in the house until the end of time doesn't seem so bleak now..........

So, what good has happened to you today?

Well, I'm all packed and ready to leave to go back to Japan, which is a good thing as I'm usually last minute on these things.

I also got in the last part of the Lost Room that was on the DVR, had lunch with my brother, SIL, and Nephew, and walked the dogs for the last time this go around. :D (The dogs always seem to miss me more than my parents do. ;)) All good.

its a mistake to watch too much star trek.

ive seen them so many times that i start to rant about how stupid they are, how THIS time the prime directive is of paramount importance but the one just before it, it didnt seem to apply, how i wish there were an episode where riker "accidentally" screwed a male alien, all sorts of things.

I passed that line long ago.


You can't deny that pretty much every star trek episode follows a similar outline. Yeah, occasionally there's time travel and the odd moral dilemma, or the robot who wants to be human etc. But really, that's the basic form.

well, yeah, but...........yeah. :p

You can't deny that pretty much every star trek episode follows a similar outline. Yeah, occasionally there's time travel and the odd moral dilemma, or the robot who wants to be human etc. But really, that's the basic form.

yeah by "law" nobody ever changed, no one was every really affected permanently by anything that happened in an episode. the few times that what happened in the past was remembered, it was special enough that it really stood out.

and whenever there was a crisis the stupid pie-in-the-sky, never-been-tried-before solution ALWAYS worked.

not that it makes me rant or anything.

Plus the character shields... they burn. it's always the expendables who die. The Redshirts. They rarely ever kill off an actually important character. :rolleyes:

Then again, they do that everywhere else, too.

That one where Data, and Worf, and Ryker get stuck in that Bar/Casino over and over and it's really out of a book.

...It's Riker, Smunkee.

Also, that episode, and most in the first and second season, sucked. Didn't get decent until the third season. I should know: I literally grew up watching that show.

i've never watched star trek before.

i didn't do anything interesting today (eating 5 ferero rochers in a row was cool though, it was like a month ago i had chocolate)

:(

Plus the character shields... they burn. it's always the expendables who die. The Redshirts. They rarely ever kill off an actually important character. :rolleyes:

Then again, they do that everywhere else, too.

oh and the ONE time they did (tasha yar) she was killed in one of the most stupid episodes ever, killed by a blob of tar, THEN they brought her back later and gave her a half romulan daughter -- who was a cool character but STILL... *pffffft*

...It's Riker, Smunkee.

Also, that episode, and most in the first and second season, sucked. Didn't get decent until the third season. I should know: I literally grew up watching that show.

I spell it with a "y" in rebellion.

i miss watching deep space nine :(

I spell it with a "y" in rebellion.

Oh okay.

Ashmoria: Usually, when a character dies like that, it's because the actor or actress no longer wishes to remain with the show, for one reason or another. In that instance, Denise Crosby was just being an idiot, since she kept guest-starring in later episodes for various reasons, though mainly as Sela, as you noted.

Another fine example of an actress leaving a Trek show would be Jadzia Dax's death at the end of DS9's sixth season. That one was more understandable, however, since the actress had an opportunity to sign up for five seasons of the show "Becker"--which as I recall only lasted for, what, three?--and there was only one season left to DS9, so it was a nice little break. Plus, Dax had the advantage of being able to die without the character disappearing.

i miss watching deep space nine :(

I am watching Voyager now :cool:

Oh okay.

Ashmoria: Usually, when a character dies like that, it's because the actor or actress no longer wishes to remain with the show, for one reason or another. In that instance, Denise Crosby was just being an idiot, since she kept guest-starring in later episodes for various reasons, though mainly as Sela, as you noted.

Another fine example of an actress leaving a Trek show would be Jadzia Dax's death at the end of DS9's sixth season. That one was more understandable, however, since the actress had an opportunity to sign up for five seasons of the show "Becker"--which as I recall only lasted for, what, three?--and there was only one season left to DS9, so it was a nice little break. Plus, Dax had the advantage of being able to die without the character disappearing.

yeah i know thats why they decided to kill the character but it was an excessively stupid episode.

the dax one was better but then they decided to replace her with that pootinky little girl instead of someone cool.

deep space 9 is by far the best star trek.

I am watching Voyager now :cool:

Voyager sucked almost as much as TNG. DS9 was sort of ok because it was mildly more original. And can't the Federation think of more interesting names for its starships than "Enterprise-letter"?

I am watching Voyager now :cool:

:( i miss that one too

Voyager sucked almost as much as TNG. DS9 was sort of ok because it was mildly more original. And can't the Federation think of more interesting names for its starships than "Enterprise-letter"?

I loathe DS9, I blame my affinity for Voyager on being pregnant during the last season and getting way too emotionally attached to the show due to hormones.

*hates the entire Star Trek universe, except TNG...*

Why are you stuck in the house until the end of time, Smunkee?

I loathe DS9, I blame my affinity for Voyager on being pregnant during the last season and getting way too emotionally attached to the show due to hormones.

ds9 is the best because it exists in an imperfect federation. on ds9 there is money, conflict, religion, weird shit happening all the time. on TNG they are from some kind of utopian earth where no one has conflicts and there is no need for money, every is self actualized. bleck

voyager was OK but i got tired of it before the last season.

*hates the entire Star Trek universe, except TNG...*

Why are you stuck in the house until the end of time, Smunkee?

Well, I have been here since the 9th, my husband has my Jeep due to horrible ice storms and sundry. I was supposed to be able to break out this weekend, but there is another storm coming in and according to the local weather guy it probably won't let up until February.

Being someone who has 3 jobs (down from 8 mid last year) and used to working 60+ hours a week, who has been stuck literally in the house with nothing to do for more than a week with no end in sight (everyone loves my negative attitude today) I am ................what was I talking about?:confused:

ds9 is the best because it exists in an imperfect federation. on ds9 there is money, conflict, religion, weird shit happening all the time. on TNG they are from some kind of utopian earth where no one has conflicts and there is no need for money, every is self actualized. bleck

voyager was OK but i got tired of it before the last season.

I got bored with DS9, my daughter loves it though because it has kids on it.

Well, I have been here since the 9th, my husband has my Jeep due to horrible ice storms and sundry. I was supposed to be able to break out this weekend, but there is another storm coming in and according to the local weather guy it probably won't let up until February.

Being someone who has 3 jobs (down from 8 mid last year) and used to working 60+ hours a week, who has been stuck literally in the house with nothing to do for more than a week with no end in sight (everyone loves my negative attitude today) I am ................what was I talking about?:confused:

Holy crap... you dropped 5 of your jobs? ...which ones are left?
*bets on teaching and showbizness*

Holy crap... you dropped 5 of your jobs? ...which ones are left?
*bets on teaching and showbizness*

teaching, clowning, and financial planning.

teaching, clowning, and financial planning.

...clowning. Huh. That's mildly frightening...

*thinks of Poltergeist*

[H]ow i wish there were an episode where riker "accidentally" screwed a male alien, all sorts of things.

There was. (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Outcast) Well, about as close as you are going to get with the homphobic Brannon Braga in charge.

...clowning. Huh. That's mildly frightening...

*thinks of Poltergeist*

it pays pretty well, I will be able to quit another job soon.

I am a pretty terrifying clown though.......anyone under 5 or over 10 is in absolute terror around me apparently :p

There was. (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Outcast) Well, about as close as you are going to get with the homphobic Brannon Braga in charge.

if only the part had been played by a man.

that episode makes me rant too, she is happily cured of her perverse desire to be female.

if only the part had been played by a man.

that episode makes me rant too, she is happily cured of her perverse desire to be female.

See, that was actually an episode about homosexuality, in that it was meant to give heterosexuals a feeling of what it was like for homosexuals to be persecuted all the time for their sexual orientation and whatnot. Of course, it fell far short of what Star Trek needed when it came to homosexuality--would it have hurt to have an occasional guest or extra hug/kiss/whatever another person of the same sex in the backround as part of an overall scene as a nod to them? Jesus Christ, it's supposed to be a future where everyone is accepted. Where are the homosexuals? Where are the gays?

See, that was actually an episode about homosexuality, in that it was meant to give heterosexuals a feeling of what it was like for homosexuals to be persecuted all the time for their sexual orientation and whatnot. Of course, it fell far short of what Star Trek needed when it came to homosexuality--would it have hurt to have an occasional guest or extra hug/kiss/whatever another person of the same sex in the backround as part of an overall scene as a nod to them? Jesus Christ, it's supposed to be a future where everyone is accepted. Where are the homosexuals? Where are the gays?

no kidding are they suggesting that we will grow out of gayness the same way we outgrow materialisticness? i would have liked to see a great variety of sexuality choices not just pairing up different species.