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There was a point in time when you could only use the startrek.com website if you were on a specific ISP. I don't remember which ISP it was; this was *EONS* ago, probably in the 90s. I vaguely remember getting angry about it and writing a ranty post on Usenet, though I can't find it now in Google Groups.

This is the kind of crap we might see again if Net Neutrality is tossed to the wind.

Whoah! I just remembered. It was the Star Trek Continuum site, and it only worked on MSN. Here's a link:

http://www.trektoday.com/colum...

The idea of this crap happening again really bothers me.

In the original series you had an Asian as the helmsman. In interviews,Takei has talked about how revolutionary that was for the time. You had a Russian handling weapons systems, during the cold war just a few years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. And you had Uhura, with an interracial kiss with Kirk, the first interracial kiss in television history, while the Civil Rights movement was still being fought. The producers were ready for a firestorem of controversy, but IIRC just one redneck called in, and said since it was Kirk the kiss was OK. Uhura was praised by Martin Luther King Jr, who was soon to be assassinated.

I think you don't realize the atmosphere in the 60's, and how revolutionary it really was. And that's not talking about the episode where the half white half black aliens fight each other because one is black on the left side and the other is black on the right.

faithfulness to Trek canon (Spock and Uhura? Spock is mated to T'Pring)

Who, it's fair to assume, is now dead.

Also, there are plenty of Spock & Uhura moments in the original series. Nichelle Nichols had this to say:

The attraction between the characters was in the original series, says Nichols. “Now, go back to my participation in Star Trek as Uhura and Leonard (Nimoy) as Spock,” she explained. “There was always a connection between Uhura and Spock. It was the early 60s, so you couldn’t do what you can do now, but if you will remember, Uhura related to Spock. When she saw the captain lost in space out there in her mirror, it was Spock who consoled her when she went screaming out of her room. When Spock needed an expert to help save the ship, you remember that Uhura put something together and related back to him the famous words, ‘I don’t know if I can do this. I’m afraid.’ And Uhura was the only one who could do a spoof on Spock. Remember the song (in Charlie X)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.”

I do think this Spock is a bit more emotional. Some of it may come from Spock Prime...

what about andromeda?

That's a slightly different story. I started watching Andromeda early on, based on rumors of a five-year arc. Unfortunately, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Andromeda's jms, was cut loose in the middle of season two so the show could be NEW AND IMPROVED, NOW WITH MORE SORBO POWER!

I think of this as a Tribune thing, but I'm kind of vague on that. Earth: Final Conflict, the other posthumous Gene Roddenberry project, also came from Tribune Entertainment. EFC ran for five seasons, like Andromeda, and lost what seemed to be a long-term arc early on, like Andromeda. The last few episodes of season one of EFC were changes and setup for season two. All the subtlety and beauty of the first season was slowly removed. It's no wonder the end result was poorly structured.

The relationship between Boone and Da'an was just stunning to watch, and Kevin Kilner and Leni Parker, the actors who played them, were tremendous. What was going on there was part romance, part friendship, part spiritual, and completely without words. They played characters in a world of politics and manipulation who couldn't speak freely, and most of the profound connection between them happened on-screen in silence. They were beautiful to watch.

I wish I'd seen their whole story.

NOoooooooo! Why not Brendan Gleeson? Both Him and Gary where born in 1955, so they're the same age. And Brendan looks and TALKS much more like what I would settle for a Scotty. I could see Sinise as McCoy, hell he even looks a bit like him. Ohhh wait.. submitter got it wrong. Sinise will be McCoy and James McAvoy is going to be Scotty. James McAvoy?!?!?!? He's a slight and frail little man! He's not close to passable as the boisterous and strapping chief engineer before his more plump years. He better start gorging on meat pies.

Grumble, grumble. Next you'll be complaining about how the Enterprise-D has no bathrooms.

Not necessarily. It seems that there is a movie scheduled to come out in 2008 that is a Star Trek Prequel. Also, I think that Star Trek: Enterprise was (is?) set before all the rest of the TV series'. I guess it could go either way.

It has lived long...and it has prospered.

And even after death, it's katra lives on!

Here's hoping they don't follow Lucas' tracks and ruin the originals; however, this could be pretty nice if done right. A friend and I were talking and thought it would be very cool if for Trouble with Tribbles they insert the DS9 cast into the background so it matches up with the DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations (where DS9 cast were superimposed into TOS footage). Very cool, but probably too much to ask :)

Fair enough. I remember it being listed as B-9 as it was a play on "benign". Just confirmed his name as "B-4" on the DVD, though.

http://www.trektoday.com/news/160701_05.shtml

Not at all. By "treatment" I meant the necessity of untold numbers of fans having to spend untold amounts of time and dollars to get the show a proper ending.

Yes, well, don't be so sure. Jolene Blalock (T'Pol) called the series finale appalling. Being that it was written by Brannon & Braga, I'm sure it will at least live up to my expectations, if not exceed them. Yes, I'll Tivo it anyway.

A lot of people still go out on Friday nights.

A lot of people still go out on Friday nights.

Well, with Manny Coto (who was responsible for this season) leaving for 24, it was probably a good idea to end it now. Unless you wanted a repeat of the two first seasons of Enterprise. And that's what you would have gotten, with Berman and Bragga in charge. Can you say, Temporal Cold War?

Its time to let it go people..

Look at the farscape fans.. We got a 'finale' and let it die a dignified death.

They've redone Battlestar Galactica, Kojak and War of the Worlds. Give it a few years and they will cash-in on the nostalgia and release a new film.

The cancellation of official Trek is IMO a good thing. It will motivate fans to create their own interpretations, such as the excellent New Voyages

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, hundreds of fans gathered at the gates of Paramount studios for the main rally of the day, led by Tim Brazeal, founder of the SaveEnterprise and TrekUnited campaigns.

It's funny/sad just how inflated that number is.

I was there on Friday morning for about ten minutes as a photographer, and there were only about a hundred fans. Hell, StarTrek.com puts the number at about 120-150 fans.

A friend of mine stayed and documented the Enterprise rally with his videocamera, taping several hours worth of footage. He says that it picked up a little more after I left, but there were about 150 protesters at best, and that the stuff he captured rivals Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's roasting of Star Wars fans waiting in line for Episode I (speaking of which, some Star Wars fans crashed the rally by showing up in costume dressed as Stormtroopers and Darth Vader).

Still, I suppose the number of fans at Friday's rally easily beat the Captain Sulu rally five years ago that drew maybe 15 fans, many of whom showed up in costume(!).

Here is the Feb 2nd trektoday article about the cancellation.
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Enterprise is starting to look really good. I previously submitted a story - that was rejected :-( - about the next half of Star Trek: Enterprise. Trektoday reported that it will feature some exciting plots involving "Andoria, a Klingon moon, Romulan outposts, Romulan Marauders, Orion Privateers, Earth's Moon, Mars, a Constitution-class Federation starship and more. You'll see a live Tholian... and a Gorn." according to the show runner Manny Coto. Leaked mild spoilers also indicate that the Constitution-class ship is the U.S.S. Defiant, which re-appears in the two-parter episode titled, In a Mirror, Darkly. There have been beautiful pictures of the reconstructed set just recently posted too. As a hardcore Trekkie, I find it fascinating.

http://www.trektoday.com/news/180105_02.shtml

If you actually go to the web site Trek Today, it states that Manny Coto denied the rumor stating they are already building sets for the episodes that will occur after the sopposed cancellation date. Read for yourself-- http://www.trektoday.com/news/180105_02.shtml/

And I'm sorry, but Sorbo wanted it to be "Hercules...in space!"

Which is sad. Sorbo said that the plots were "too complicated and too clever for the rest of us to understand". That's true in comparison to a lot of television shows, but you didn't need a degree in rocket science to follow along. I also suspect that Sorbo wanted Dylan to be a less ambiguous, more straightforward character. (Mr. T also only wanted to play overt good guys. Smooth move, Sorbo. Good luck with that "acting" career.)

The real tragedy of this is that Robert Hewitt Wolfe was making a gem of a show that I would still be watching and pitching to this day. As it was, I stopped watching when RHW left. I won't waste any time on shows with Sorbo or shows from Tribune anymore.

when I was growing up, ST:TNG was the only Trek on TV other than reruns of TOS.

It was great, I (and other fans) anticipated each week for a new episode, and it was always a good time.

Then DS9 came along, and it was OK, I mean, everyone knew TNG was ending, and most of us were bummed, we thought we'd have to wait till DS9's 7th season for another series.

But no, someone was like "oh, theres money here" and along comes Voyager (which I liked better than DS9, but most people didn't) and then a few years later, the shitpile they call Enterprise.

Now DS9 is over, as is Voyager (and what a shitty ending too), and we're stuck with this piece of shit Enterprise. As much as I'd like a new, quality, series, I think its time to shitcan it all, ditch the Romulan Wars, and let it ferment for a while, get people fired up again.

Plus, maybe we'll get some new talent next time instead of recycled Quantum Leap...

The only thing I can find is their April Fools article.

Berman and Braga are a plague on the Trek franchise that needs to be removed.

Fortunate, then, that they finally have moved the hell out of the way, huh?

"Brannon and Rick [Berman] have a couple of other projects that they've had in development, in their heads at least," Keating said, admitting that he had heard "that they might be taking something of a sojourn or a sabbatical in some respects on this season."

Trektoday.com reported that they shortened this season, and will have a similar 24-episode season next year to reach the magic 100 episode count for syndication.

If they believe they can sell it to syndication, they'll keep going, by all means. If they don't think they'll sell it, it probably won't last out the season.

How can they keep it alive? Half-dressed Vulcans don't seem to be enough.

However, I found this link.

And this site says that just 1000 copies worldwide would be released. :-/ Hope they got their facts wrong.

now that said, i'm disappointed by all these people - the NSA and these mental cases... i mean, if you're going to chose a language, why the heck not chose tolkiens elvish!?

Oh, and they assimilate an earth transport and [RUMOR!!] Phlox. [/RUMOR!!] Archer and Reed get aboard the borgified transport, where they come in contact with more drones (presumably assimilated somebodies) - but, like the Ferengi earlier in the season, never bother to ask them their name.

In case you think i'm bs'ing, read the following link for a spoiler-filled synopsis:

http://www.trektoday.com/news/200203_03.shtml

You'd feel different if the movie was released aarround the world a few months before you got to see it. For example, I like reading and posting on TrekToday. I'll have to avoid it over christmas if I dont want to be spoiled. Nemesis comes out in the U.S. on 13-Dec. It hits the UK on 3-Jan.

Same applies to TV. I want to talk about the latest episode of 24 - which I can do so if I wait until MARCH for it to air in the UK. However I dont want to find out what happens in the last episode. I got "Lone Gunmanned" on 24 series 1 - There was a story on slashdot saying something like "Dells are evil". I read it, halfway down it said "The mole used a dell". Didnt mention 24, but it was obvious. Of course after that I went looking for who was using a Dell. It was arround noon, and Alberta greene was using one - but she didnt last. I knew nina was the mole at arround 4PM.

Hence this series I download the VCD's, watch them in at least VHS quality, on my widescreen TV, with my girlfriend. No danger of spoilers on slashdot either.

I am with you man, Deep Space 9 was the pinnacle of star trek. TNN will be getting DS9 in 2004.

The growing sexual tension between T'Pal [sic] and the Archer is kind of interesting, though often overdone.

I think you must mean Trip (Commander Charles Tucker III) the Chief Engineer. I can't recall more than one or two scenes all season where there was any sexual tension between Captain Archer and T'pol. The infamous decontamination scene was between T'pol and Trip, for example.

Forgot to add that trailer screenshots are already up right... here.

"Hopefully it'll get placed in front of some of the movies coming in the next few weeks (maybe MiB2?)" According to this post, it will indeed air in front of Men in Black II. And there's already a shot-by-shot breakdown online.

"Hopefully it'll get placed in front of some of the movies coming in the next few weeks (maybe MiB2?)" According to this post, it will indeed air in front of Men in Black II. And there's already a shot-by-shot breakdown online.

Even John Katz knows enough to put spoiler notices on his articles and hides the meat in the BODY, not the bloody header (never mind putting it in a completely unthoughtful, unoriginal title). For crying out loud Chrisd, thanks for ruining the episode for me.

Just about every other news site out there that deals with TV/movie info knows what spoiler warnings are and how to use them. May I politely suggest that the editors of Slashdot take a peek at Dark Horizons or Trek Today and get a clue.

Not everyone in this world lives by the schedule of the US East coast. Twit.

See this link: http://www.trektoday.com/news/301101_01.shtml

As a child, just as Empire Strikes Back was released, I remember sitting down with a ton of graph paper and a ruler, and figuring out sizes for vehicles in Empire Strikes Back with respect to figures I had from the first movie. I even went as far as sending them into Kenner. Anxiously I awaited a response from them only to get a form letter stating that they had plenty of artists and designers creating things for us that would be slowly released to the market.

Being a kid, I couldn't understand why some toys were not released for quite some time after the movie and not all at once. I also couldn't understand licensing and why they hadn't used my designs! Or even understanding that they wanted to protect themselves from lawsuits. Somewhere in all my belongings I have a letter from Kenner that I just have to scan. I wonder how many other industries have to tolerate dopey kids randomly sending in ideas to compete with in-house employees.

Rick Berman says the concept hasn't reached the internet yet: http://www.trektoday.com/news/130201_01.shtml