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Considering the facts that

• the name SoloTrek looks alot like StarTrek
• the font of their logo is remarkably similar to the font used for TNG
• they obviously are into science fiction

I started writing this post trying to make a joke, but now I have thought some more about it; dunno...

Reminds me of that Star Trek episode The Chase, in which Dr. Galen, Captain Picards old Archaeology professor, found genetic data-blocks from various species around the galaxy stored in the junk portion of each species DNA, including our own. When a sufficient number of these data blocks were put together it completed a stellar map, identifying the precise location of the original origin of life on out planet and countless others. The jury is still out on the Panspermia Theory, but my own hunch is that there is lots of intelligence out there vastly older and greater than we are.

Planet P Blog - Liberty with Technology.

The crew of the Enterprise found out about this a while back. Turns out an ancient alien race encoded a trite message of good will in the combined DNA of Humans, Cardassians, Klingons and Romulans. This was part of an attempt to explain why all the intelligent life forms all over the universe look suspiciously like humans with different forehead wrinkles.

> and the 1000-years-previous holy guy Keh'less (or
> however you spell it) was bumpy ...

According to The Startrek Episode Guide, The Savage Curtain (Production 77, 3/7/1969, Stardate 5906.4):
[...] Kirk, Spock, Lincoln and Surak, founder
of the present Vulcan culture. On the "bad"
side are, Genghis Khan, Colonel Green, Zora,
a vicious killer, and Kahless, father of the
Klingon Empire as it was now known. [...]

In that episode, Kahless was a typical '60s, non-bumpy Klingon.

IMO, a CC is closer to "NCC" than a CV-ish name like "Enterprise." What the heck does the N stand for, anyway?

What does the starship registry prefix "NCC" mean?
The Starfleet starship registry prefix "NCC" doesn't officially mean anything other than it is the standard prefix for starships in service. There have been other prefixes, notably "NX," denoting a prototype, or experimental vessel. The two most famous ships with this prefix would be the U.S.S. Excelsior NX-2000 and the U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205. Once the U.S.S. Excelsior was rendered operational, the prefix changed to the standard NCC.

When Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was asked this question, he replied that there was no significance to the letters and numbers comprising the registry of the U.S.S. Enterprise. At the time Star Trek first aired, airplanes commonly had "NC" on them, and adding the extra "C" updated the look. Original series art director (and avid pilot) Matt Jefferies has commented that he chose the "1701" combination of numbers because it was legible from a distance and the numbers wouldn't be confused. Other numbers, like 3, 2 and 5, were not used for this very reason. Also, the extra "C" in "NCC" was a nod to the Russian abbreviation for the old Soviet Union, "CCCP." According to Jefferies, "If we do anything in space, we (Americans and Russians) have to do it together."

Since you brought up Star Trek, it might be worthy of mention that modern man actually was genetically engineered by aliens in the Star Trek universe, along with many other intelligent species. The common origin is the excuse for all those prosthetic foreheads.

Can you imagine a group of CEOs and CFOs at lunch trying to bullshit about their companies and someone cranks a microwave jammer from the next table. They all look at each other and say "Input error".

and promptly begin to go crazy as their latent personalities and human memories start leaking to the surface.

Dude, that is the most heinous spelling of Chakotay ever. It is, however, much, much more satisfying than the real one.

Here's an idea. Tell the clerk you left it at home and they'll leave you alone. No one is forcing you to get one of these cards. It's not like their going to change the price just for you, and they can already tell what items are popular. Where's the harm?!

Actually, you might want to look at Paramount's ST site. They list the ST animated series along with the live action series and movies. Looks pretty canonical to me...

I really liked almost any scene with Garak. My favorite was from this episode.

After Sisko had bribed Quark to drop the charges against Tolar:

Sisko: "Who's watching Tolar?"
Garak: "I've locked him in his quarters. I've also left him with the distinct impression that if he attempts to force the door open, it may explode."
Sisko: "I hope that's just an impression?!"
Garak: "...It's best not to dwell on such minutiae."

"These bacteriophage (or phage for short) can sometimes be used as treatment for bacterial infection."

Oh no, not The Phage! The Vidiians will harvest our organs; please, not the phage!

"These bacteriophage (or phage for short) can sometimes be used as treatment for bacterial infection."

Oh no, not The Phage! The Vidiians will harvest our organs; please, not the phage!

that was one thing I rather enjoyed about Star Fleet Command 3. The single player mode was quite nice. Then again, any game that let you control Borg cube can't be that bad. :)

I thought this was an article about the Next Generation fans of *Star Trek* and the upcoming movie Nemesis =0D

PROFIT!

Sorry, someone had to say it.

I beg to differ.


Just because you don't watch South Park you motherfuckin' ignoramous, doesn't mean this post0r was not funny to those of us who do.

Why don't you go stick your salad-tossin' head up some truck driver's ass at the truck stop for a pack of smokes like you normally do on a Wednesday afternoon before Enterprise comes on and let those who have phunn33 po5ts |*05T!!!!!

2)How would we tansmit (speeds, reliability, etc) from Mars to Earth?

C'mon. We'd use Subspace communicators. Anyone that's watched Star Trek knows that.

2)How would we tansmit (speeds, reliability, etc) from Mars to Earth?

C'mon. We'd use Subspace communicators. Anyone that's watched Star Trek knows that.

Forgive me, but i must.

The core idea was almost certainly plagiarized in the Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye"

I don't know about the decontamination room, but if you watch the 30 second promotional clip it looks like Hoshi gets to show a LOT more skin than we've seen so far :)

She's way hotter than the silly Vulcan anyhow...

Tomorrow is Yesterday

We may lose Farscape but Enterprise resumes on Sept 18 on UPN.
UPN will be airing the two-hour series premiere "Broken Bow" on Sept 11 at 8 p.m.
The week after, they will air the last episode from the 1st season "Shockwave, Part I" on Tuesday, September 17 at 9 p.m. The next day, Wednesday, September 18, they will show the 2nd season premiere, "Shockwave, Part II" at 8 p.m. This episode picks up where the show left off last season, with Archer stuck in the 31st century. He and Daniels must work together in order for him to return to Enterprise." You can read more about the Enterprise schedule here

I'm surprised that nobody yet has mentioned that Star Trek TNG episode "The Quality of Life" . (*) Was an issue like this predicted by Star Trek writers back in 1992?

(*) Warning, this site loads strangely for me in Mozilla 1.1. It's better but not totally un-strange in Opera 6.05.

(For the forgetful, it's the robot where Data thinks that those little 'exocomp' robots a scientist is using to help work on a space mining station are sentient so he sets up a little experiment. He sends the robot to work to fix a problem, and also generates a simulated problem where the robot would have been destroyed if it stayed to finish the test. Later, he discovered that the exocomp 'saw right through the test' and it not only fixed the problem, but it also turned off the false emergency signal. He eventually risks the lives of human scientists in an order to protect the exocomps from destruction because he is the only one who believes in their rights as sentient beings.)

I mean, Microsoft has a jumping apeshit monkeyman CEO hawking their wares, what does Netscape have?

Heh, I can't help but laugh at all the people saying "I can't believe how well Netscape's site is taking the slashdot effect.

Are you people nuts? Don't you realize that the reason Netscape hasn't been slashdotted is because NO ONE FROM SLASHDOT CARES

Nope, nobody... Not even a Beowolf Cluster of machines running Netscape turns anyone on around here.

Netscape 6 was kicking a dead horse. 7 is grinding its testicles up and putting it in soup Enterprise style.

Back when TNG was winding down, I read a lot of the same stuff. Sniping and nitpicking about how bad the series had gotten, how the endings seemed rushed, etc. To a point, some of it was true. Remember that episode where almost everyone devolved? Unfortunately, I do. Now I read posts holding TNG up as the standard for the others in the franchise. I have to disagree.

TNG was just like any other Trek spin-off. It started out crappy, found its legs then ran its course and ended just shy of wearing out its welcome. The first season reeked. Remember the male crew members in skirts in the background? How about the rehashes of old original series plots? TNG didn't get truly good until the third season. Same goes for DS9 and to a lesser extent Voyager.

As for the continuity, anyone read the "Nitpickers Guide To ...." series? Those books showed that every one of the series have had more holes in them than Bonnie and Clydes death car. Plot holes, continuity errors, production screwups, etc. I dare say Babylon 5, Farscape, et al have the same problems; no one has taken the time to catalog them fully yet. No series is perfect, Trek or otherwise. But even at it's worst, Trek is still entertaining.

Maybe it's time for the franchise to call it quits. Who knows? Personally, I'd just fire Berman and Braga and hire the folks who write the novels to do the show. Regardless, I'm going to continue to watch, let my opionions be known over at StarTrek.com and not worry about it much.

You didn't see the season finale, did you? Aside from Enterprise killing 3800 people, being destroyed and Archer being stranded in the 31st centry, not much has happened as a result of the war.

Here's a summary:

http://www.startrek.com/library/ent_episodes/episo des_ent_detail_124540.asp

Although I was skeptical, Enterprise didn't start out as badly as I would have expected.

It was different enough of a show that I continued to watch, at least up until the episode entitled "Dear Doctor", in which the ship's doctor got morally fixated on the wrong problem and convinced the Captain to ignore the tens of thousands that were dying every day, along with the strong possibility that the entire race would soon follow.

My reaction was along the lines of: "Wait, so this race can't fly through space faster than warp one, and therefore you're going to knowingly kill them off? Fsck you, Federation!"

Since that episode I gave up on the series for falling into the sad attempts at ignoring a good plot in an attempt to "present a moral lesson".

The Enterprise on the show was never featured in Star Trek 1 as "One of the ships that had the name Enterprise"

There's an episode with the Ferengi in Enterprise. They hardly knew anything about the Ferengi on the first season of "The Next Generation". One of the ferengi (I believe played by Armin Shimmerman at the time) comments on how ugly the humans really are. Yet one of the Ferengi seem to obsess over a Vulcan.

This show has equipment far more elaborate than the original series. The consoles on the original show were dials and knobs.

Whatever happened to the Eugenics War of the 1990's? The one where Khan ruled 1/4 of the Earth, and ends up being ejected into space.

And my personal favorite, The Royale from Star Trek:TNG, where Picard goes off for 2 minutes on how Fermat's Last Theorem goes unsolved. Yes, Star Trek could be in a universe where Fermat's Last Theorem is unsolved, but then in Star Trek DS9, Dax was commenting on how she created another proof for it.

When I think of Star Trek, I always think of it as being in an alternate future, kind of like Command And Conquer: Red Alert where World War 2 never happened. Just I wish they'd keep things straight, and everything in the same universe. :)

Then again, maybe Star Trek TNG, Star Trek Original and Star Trek: Enterprise belong in different Quantum Realities :)

For their sake, I hope black holes do exist. It would suck if they had to go over all of the TNG/DS9 episodes and dub the word "Black Hole" with "Gravastar".

The Enterprise on the show was never featured in Star Trek 1 as "One of the ships that had the name Enterprise"

There's an episode with the Ferengi in Enterprise. They hardly knew anything about the Ferengi on the first season of "The Next Generation". One of the ferengi (I believe played by Armin Shimmerman at the time) comments on how ugly the humans really are. Yet one of the Ferengi seem to obsess over a Vulcan.

This show has equipment far more elaborate than the original series. The consoles on the original show were dials and knobs.

Whatever happened to the Eugenics War of the 1990's? The one where Khan ruled 1/4 of the Earth, and ends up being ejected into space.

And my personal favorite, The Royale from Star Trek:TNG, where Picard goes off for 2 minutes on how Fermat's Last Theorem goes unsolved. Yes, Star Trek could be in a universe where Fermat's Last Theorem is unsolved, but then in Star Trek DS9, Dax was commenting on how she created another proof for it.

When I think of Star Trek, I always think of it as being in an alternate future, kind of like Command And Conquer: Red Alert where World War 2 never happened. Just I wish they'd keep things straight, and everything in the same universe. :)

Then again, maybe Star Trek TNG, Star Trek Original and Star Trek: Enterprise belong in different Quantum Realities :)

For their sake, I hope black holes do exist. It would suck if they had to go over all of the TNG/DS9 episodes and dub the word "Black Hole" with "Gravastar".

The Enterprise on the show was never featured in Star Trek 1 as "One of the ships that had the name Enterprise"

There's an episode with the Ferengi in Enterprise. They hardly knew anything about the Ferengi on the first season of "The Next Generation". One of the ferengi (I believe played by Armin Shimmerman at the time) comments on how ugly the humans really are. Yet one of the Ferengi seem to obsess over a Vulcan.

This show has equipment far more elaborate than the original series. The consoles on the original show were dials and knobs.

Whatever happened to the Eugenics War of the 1990's? The one where Khan ruled 1/4 of the Earth, and ends up being ejected into space.

And my personal favorite, The Royale from Star Trek:TNG, where Picard goes off for 2 minutes on how Fermat's Last Theorem goes unsolved. Yes, Star Trek could be in a universe where Fermat's Last Theorem is unsolved, but then in Star Trek DS9, Dax was commenting on how she created another proof for it.

When I think of Star Trek, I always think of it as being in an alternate future, kind of like Command And Conquer: Red Alert where World War 2 never happened. Just I wish they'd keep things straight, and everything in the same universe. :)

Then again, maybe Star Trek TNG, Star Trek Original and Star Trek: Enterprise belong in different Quantum Realities :)

For their sake, I hope black holes do exist. It would suck if they had to go over all of the TNG/DS9 episodes and dub the word "Black Hole" with "Gravastar".

The Gamesters of Triskelion

Or maybe the Providers will start selling their collars in the US market.

that TNG
episode
where flying around at warp speeds was going to destroy the universe.

Check nemesis.startrek.com for the trailer. I'm so pumped about this movie (especially since it's a even numbered one). From what I've read, it could very well be the last one too. Although I wouldn't mind a DS9 movie (my favorite Star Trek series). Something involving the Dominion would be good (maybe bring the Dominion Wars books to the big screen). Hrm..

I don't think so!

What's worse is that Star Trek (Ahh, it's spreading!) gets listed in the related links box. A fairly tenuous relation at best.

:-)

"Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll be on apple's quicktime site. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/)"

Looks like it will: 'The "Star Trek: Nemesis' trailer will then launch online in conjunction with the official movie Web site. Both will go live at 7:30 p.m. PDT/10:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, with the trailer in the QuickTime format (Courtesy of Apple -- please see link below [it just points to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/]). The trailer will be available in small, large and full-screen sizes (QuickTime Pro 5 required for full-screen viewing). Additional streaming formats will also be available soon. The movie Web site will be accessible via STARTREK.COM."

Well the actual "press release" information about the trailer mentions that it was originally shown at the convention in Tulsa.

http://www.startrek.com/news/news.asp?ID=124934

The "Star Trek: Nemesis" trailer will then launch online ... in the QuickTime format ... additional streaming formats will also be available soon.

A source of harm or ruin: Uncritical trust is my nemesis.
Sounds like the Slashdot effect

Retributive justice in its execution or outcome: To follow the proposed course of action is to invite nemesis.
i.e., clicking the link at the launch time is inviting Nemesis...

An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.
The unconscious attitude that rests, all the same, with Slashdot readers... that they will get to see the page even though thousands of others are all trying at the same time.

One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.
It will be in Quicktime no doubt and everyone will be seeking their Wine, so maybe that should be re-distribution (changing distro?) so that they have better Quicktime support in friendly RPM format (yes I'm getting tenuous now)

Nemesis Greek Mythology. The goddess of retributive justice or vengeance.
Godesses... Rather than cite any myself (OK, I always fancied a bit of Deanna Troi actually) I invite you to comment...

The Star Trek Website say the office release will be at 7:30PM PDT not 7:30EDT.

Anybody have more than four local UHF stations?

Last time I checked, Las Vegas had more than a dozen. Only three or four of them are carried by the local cable system; you get to break out the rabbit ears if you want to tune in the rest. (When UPN moved to a different station a few years ago, Cox didn't bother carrying the new channel for a year or two after the move. If you wanted to watch Voyager, you had an antenna.)

Well, anything's better than having to wear a woman's hairpiece over your eyes.

ugly bags of mostly water.

<Troll>ST??? What is ST???</Troll>
Good thing I came across a trivia question with this as the answer. NoMoreNicksLeft refers to the Startrek The Next Generation episode called Home Soil where a group of microbrains declared war on the human race.

Seriously? How many of them are aware that the show Star Trek: Voyager is one of the most glorious pieces of fucking shitto ever grace the small screen?

What? Don't like borg and time travel episodes? Too bad! you get a dyke captain and a drunk indian first officer with a gambling problem. All in the name of providing the retard audience its daily dose of pseudo-intellectual moralizing, with a sprinkling of cliches and technobabble. who needs Dr. Phil on Oprah, when we can just watch an episode of Voyager to find out the solutions to our moral dilemmas?

You'll soon find out that the answer to all humanity's woes is as simple as restabilizing the dynotherm couplings and initializing the reverse-chrono-equalizer.

Boy, they could have really used this on the Enterprise when Wesley stupidly let his Nanites get loose in the Evolution Episode.

Specifically, get Voyager off the video screen in my fucking living room. I'm sick of watching those whiny faggots meander from place to place in the fucking Delta quadrant, each episode encountering another lamely-written, half-baked excuse for a plot.

Jesus fucking Christ. Half the time they don't even leave the fucking ship, and we get a feel-good episode about how that human-sized pussy otherwise known as the doctor has some sort of personal growth, or learns some bullshit about what it means to be human.

I don't want to learn some pseudo-philosophical shit about the inner workings of humanity, I want naked lesbian alien chicks fucking each other with a three foot long double-headed dildo, while Seven of Nine gets her teeth fucked out by WWF's the Rock.

I think this qualifies as a good use for an android head. It's a good thing slashdot has given us the data on the subject.

Why build an android head when there's already one in a mine shaft around San Francisco

Oh, really? What fucking planet do you live on?