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Star Trek: Enterprise Premieres Tonight
Ankou writes: "'Enterprise' premieres tonight on UPN. Scott Backula, you may remember him in as the lead role of 'Quantum Leap', plays Jon Archer the captain of the NX-01 which is the Enterprise predating the NCC-1701 and Captain Kirk by almost 150 years. It even takes place before the whole United Federation of Planets came about! This series will prove to be a more rougher, blue-collared version of star travel than the picture portrayed by Kirk and Picard, i.e. crew wear baseball caps and their captain is a regular 'Joe' kind of guy (possibly why they chose Scott Backula as the lead role). Only time will tell if this series will last, be the judge for yourself and see it tonight, Sep 26, on UPN at 8/7 central." I discovered last weekend that I stopped getting UPN. Who knows when, since I've never needed it before. So I will be missing it, and crying in chair, while mumbling curses directed at my cable provider.
Are the ceiling lights really bright or something? Why would they wear baseball hats?
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That means more useless argument between nerds.
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there is a 1 in 10 chance this show won't survive because the hordes of Trekkies have nothing new to watch. It won't even matter if it's good.
I only watch Voyager for an obvious reason, in fact for two very big obvious reasons...
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Then why didn't they get Tom Arnold?
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What was Star Trek's secret?
Short skirts and explosions.
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You almost had me, until I read this:
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"Shatner is a skilled actor"
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> Shatner is a skilled actor, and the storylines
> remain as fresh as ever.
WTF? Did we watch the same show? You're a Euro aren't you? I bet you think that David Hasslehoff is a "skilled singer" and "his ballads remain as fresh as ever".
If anything, Star Trek succeeded in spite of Shatner chewing the scenery.
"lets the series tank a couple of years, and then finally rescues the show by increasing the powers of the characters"
I predict thay Paramount will eventually retool Scott Blackula's character back to his previous role as a 70's blaxploitation vampire. As seen in:
Blackula
Blackula Returns
Blackula Meets Superfly
Blackula II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
What you experienced was UPN feeding it down to the local affiliates via satellite, but with the solar flair with an X rating on Monday, it reflected off the northern lights causing it to shift to a frequency that was able to be received by your TV while decoding the digital signal as well. Either that or a reverse Tachion pulse caused the signal to travel back in time by 24 earth hours.
Who wants Pork Chops?
With all due respect, I have to disagree. The episode where Jadzia Dax has a tryst with Kurzon Dax's ex-wife was a deep and significant exploration of my need to watch hot alien chicks making out.
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"Captain, the enemy vessel is firing again! Shields buckling!"
"Captain, the enemy commander is hailing us. He demands our immediate surrender."
"Captain?"
"Captain?!"
"...Oh boy."
or to watch Superman shrug off bullets or never get hurt
And then to watch him duck when the throw they gun at him. Why was that?
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I'm really willing to give this series a chance. I don't think Voyager was "horrible" like a lot of people do, though it certainly wasn't as great as Next Gen or even DS9. Does anybody beleive that if this show gets canceled, there will be a massive fan mail campain like there was when the orginal series was on the chopping board? I don't think there will be.
The inheiriters to Gene's vision get two more chances to save Star Trek from destruction. The first is the "Enterprise" series, and the second is the new upcoming movie. Fortunatly for them, the next movie is an even-numbered one (odd-numbered trek movies have been cursed since the first one, while even numbered ones are great).
One bad omen: Some of the promotional ads for "Enterprise" are using some pop crap for background music. Star Trek has a perfectly good composer, Jerry Goldsmith, who is as good as Star War's John Williams. They really ought to USE HIM! When "Enterprise" comes on, and I hear the opening credits being sung by N'Sync, I will shut off the TV, rip the tape out of the VCR, and burn it (the tape, not the VCR . . . on second thought, the VCR goes, too).
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He's an even better singer. His version of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" leaves me speechless.
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OK, but based on Voyager precedent, it'll be an honest misunderstanding that Archer will work tirelessly and earnestly to avoid and then repair.
Compare with DS9, "Way of the Warrior" (paraphrasing slightly for effect...)
Just once I'd have liked to have seen Voyager show that kind of panache.
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Star Trek is about breats. Big honking borg implanted globes of love!
Remember, too, the other series currently under development -- Star Trek: People Hut.
My group is working with the Paramount trek development group -- so some of this is subject to change -- but we're aiming 'People Hut' at folks who (unlike the original poster) believes that Star Trek is about people crammed in a small, metallic space -- a space within "deep space," you might say. We do, at any rate.
Anyway, we're also currently brainstorming and working with the Roddenberry tech-dev wing at Paramount, but People Hut -- tentatively -- is set to premier in 2004. We're thinking about taking a group of unemployed air traffic controllers -- the ones fired by Reagan about 20 years ago -- who have all sorts of dreams and longings for deep space.
People Hut, literally, would start in the living room of one the unemployed controllers and would focus in on the lives of these folks as they get closer to building their own little ship. (Sort of like 'Salvage One' from a long time ago -- you remember that? With Andy Griffith? And the girl that was in 'Escape from Witch Mountain'? They built a ship that looked like a thimble with a balloon on it and then zoomed off for various missions.)
Anyway, our 'ST:PH' would chronicle the lives of these dreamers. The ups and the downs of family life -- what it would mean, in other words, to be a dreamer in the era of the Reaganomics -- and how those dreams impact everyone emotionally.
Eventually they would christen their Sunday evening meeting the 'People Hut' where anyone -- not just unemployed air traffic controllers -- would come and chat about hopes, dreams, and deep space.
One guy -- we're not sure who -- wins the lottery in Michigan (this is pre-Power Ball, remember) and then realizes that, at long last, his dreams have a bit of financial backing behind them.
(We're thinking the lottery pay out would be around 12-15 million -- enough to build a ship and possibly hire some then-hot-shot Soviet scientists to defect and investigate various means of plasma transport -- the stuff that the Soviets were rumored to be working on before the break-up of the USSR.)
Probably midway through the first season they'll launch the People Hut -- PH001 -- and go on a few adventures. Maybe check out the moon a little bit more -- pick up some of the trash left behind by the previous lunar missions -- and really try to clean things up. ST:PH -- if all goes according to plan -- will have a strong socio-economic context.
If anyone is interested, I can detail a couple more advantures. Remember, lots of this is still under development. No green lights yet. Robert Downey, Jr is tentatively slated to play Captain O'Malley -- a grizzed Irish guy who invested his entire life in air-traffic control.
Does it begin with Scott Bakula "leaping" into the body of a starship captain, only to be confronted by a screaming Klingon and sighing "Oh boy"?
DAMN IT!
Mod this down if you will, but this is *NOT* the FIFTH Trek series.. this is the *SIXTH* trek series.
You can see the episode guide of Star Trek: The Animated Series here.
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Hmmm... this gives ideas for the next big net pool...
- Odds on Berman inviting Wheaton to be a guest star?
- Odds that that guest star is a villain?
- Odds that it's not even the leader-villain, but some kind of flunky-villain who hangs around and follows the leader?
- Odds that the flunky-villain dies a particularly horrible death? (Say, explosive decompression?)
Hmmm... from my probability courses, the odds on that first one make the rest almost sure bets... once the first comes to pass.
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I love vegetarians - some of my favorite foods are vegetarians.
Can someone tell me why this did not get picked up by a more respectful network?
The demographic of 30-45 year old male virgins isn't a big money maker?
...Roddenberry penned lyrics for the original them, although they were not used.
For good reason.
The lyrics are as follows:
The Vogons may have something to worry about.
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