Star Trek Enterprise Tidbits

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 5, 2001 @05:53AM from the only-a-few-weeks-away dept.

Carlo di Bonk writes: "I found a good article about the new Star Trek Enterprise television evil forces. These evil villains are from the future and the mirror universe. It seems to be an interesting chance that it is a different mirror universe though, to one seen in Star Trek The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and other Star Trek television." Lots of little plot bits too, like the fact that they will have transporters, but they won't be trusted because they randomly kill people (like the first movie!) With Farscape running start to finish, my copy of Lexx Season 1 on DVD en route, and the new Star Trek a few weeks away, I think I need to take a week off ... a scifi sabbatical ;)

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Not enough silicon-based life forms on Star Trek? by tenzig_112 · 2001-09-05 06:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Silicon-based life forms protest the Star Trek premiere for its aparent xenophobia.

"There are simply not television shows featuring silicon-based characters on your earth television. Sure, there is the occasional silicon-based token character- usually just a humanoid who claims to be made of silicon. But it very often dies in the first ten minutes of an episode. That is wrong and we wish to see that rectified."

"... In truth the science fiction industry has done a lousy job of representing non-human species. A glob of putty on the nose here, a pointed ear there and presto- an alien. Even the shows that strive for some level of originality stick human-centric arms and legs on them."

full story:
http://www.ridiculopathy.com/news_detail.php?displ ay=20010829
Question by schnitzi · 2001-09-05 06:04 · Score: 3, Funny

How many times can people from a parallel universe visit ours before we start considering this parallel universe part of our own? Sheesh, these parallel universe people are starting to outnumber Klingons.

The only way Trek could be any worse would be if it was sung.

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1. Re:Question by tb3 · 2001-09-05 06:29 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Not sure if this is what you had in mind but this tidbit comes from the scifi wire website:
  Paramount has chosen English opera star Russell Watson to cover the Rod Stewart tune Faith of the Heart as the opening theme music of UPN's upcoming Enterprise series.
  
  Is that close enough to a Star Trek musical?
  
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Anyone ready to place bets... by Masem · 2001-09-05 06:08 · Score: 5, Funny

on how long into the series until Bakula's character has to say "Oh, boy!"?

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Transporters that Kill: by AMuse · 2001-09-05 06:09 · Score: 5, Funny

they will have transporters, but they won't be trusted because they randomly kill people

Cool! Just like the Muni buses in San Francisco. :>
Re:Did I miss an episode of TNG? by tb3 · 2001-09-05 06:12 · Score: 3, Funny

The article refers to it as a a side-line mirror universe

Is that like a vanity-mirror universe?

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Hortas! by wiredog · 2001-09-05 06:15 · Score: 4, Funny

They were silicon based, turned out to be good guys, and had no manipulative digits. Looked like dog vomit, from a large dog, though.

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Re:still nothing as good as .... by Mike+Buddha · 2001-09-05 06:15 · Score: 5, Funny

the original ST series .... all the chicks in those mini-dresses, yowzaa!

I like the alternate universe from Deep Space 9 where ALL the hot chicks are lesbians! Woot! Set phasers for XXX Action!

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Re:Peace and Love? by jayhawk88 · 2001-09-05 06:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, but at least Kirk *pretended* to be peaceful.

"Alien..general we.......meanyounoharm (Sulu ready phasers)....Our culture is.......one of peace and........tranquility (Spock get a lock on).......We can settle......our differences.....peacefully....FIRE!"
Tired of pinko liberal Trek! by Robber+Baron · 2001-09-05 07:06 · Score: 3, Funny

These human supremacists don't want the soft liberal peace and love Federation of Kirk and the Next Generation's universe coming into fruition, and are planning to push it down a route which will leave the Earth absolute master of a million worlds.

I'm tired of all this pinko-liberal, bleeding-heart, self-abasing BS! What's wrong with being a human? It's like they're taking this whole myth that white, hetro males are responsible for all the evils in the world and are extending it into a multi-species universe where humans can only "redeem" themselves by engaging in some twisted form of self-abasement! So humans want to be in charge?? So what! Bring it on! I wish this parallel universe really did exist and I could get to it because I'm real sick of the snivelling, bleeding-heart pathetic excuses for humans we have in this one!

Signed, a disgusted, white, hetro, male!

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The transporter keeps killing people, so... by Ruger · 2001-09-05 07:12 · Score: 3, Funny

...I'm guessing they're using Microsoft Heisenburg Compensators and the damn things are actually still in beta!

What would be seriously funny though is to see a few corporate logos pop up in the show. Like if they walked into engineering and there were a bunch of boxes stacked up in the corner with cow spots on them. Or maybe an Intel Pentium XXVI logo on the side of all the bridge stations.

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