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Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars?
Tycoon Guy writes "TrekToday reports that the next Star Trek movie will deal with the war between Earth and the Romulans that led to the founding of the Federation. According to Rick Berman, the film will be 'set before the time of Kirk, but will not be connected with Enterprise.' So how will they make this fit with the Classic Trek episode Balance of Terror, in which we learned that no human ever saw the face of a Romulan during the Romulan Wars?"
Actually, the War was supposedly fought entirely in space. The treaty was handled over audio COMMs only, so the Federation never managed to find out what the Romulans looked like.
Of course, they could just do like Space: Above and Beyond and goo the bad guys every time someone tries to peek inside their suit.
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XI - that would make it another odd numbered star trek movie. I hold no hope for it....
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So they killed Data, but didn't he upload himself to 'Before' first? Data may be dead, but Brent Spiner'll be back as a dumber version of the same....
Actually this was explained. The TOS Kingons were Kingon/Human hybrids that were created to help the klingons better understand the humans so as to conquer them. During the TOS series the Federation only had contact with these hybrids. The Hybrids were treated as secondary citizens in Klingon culture, and finally deemed unnecessary.
This comes from the novels.
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We DID eventually get to see what the Chigs looked like in S:AAB though. I think it was the last two episodes (23: "And if they lay us down to rest..." and 24: "...Tell our moms we done our best") where they landed on the Chig moon and ran around in the swamp chasing the nursery-chig. Kinda reminded me of a predator, but without the dreads or funky jaw. Deep eye sockets, low snout, kind of a droopy mouth. They had gill-like things too (I think you got to see that in one of the very first episodes when they capture a chig). And of course, like all good Chigs they made them incessant clicking noises non-stop.
;)
Course, then the heroes screwwed things up by warning the nursery-chig of the attack... the diplo chig goes suicide bomber, and all hell breaks loose while the 58th are out exchanging prisoners. I wont ruin the ending... but damn. What a way to end a show. It's almost been a decade and I still miss it (luckilly I have all 24 eps on CD).
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Bring back whoever the hell played Kira in DS9. We need aggresive people who dont mind kicking ass.
Nana Visitor is the actress that played Kira on DS9. I agree that her personality would help drive plotlines on future Star Trek offering.
Gates McFadden, irish? news to me... i thought she was from scottish heritage. but hey... bring her back; she does rock!
The original Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror" was actually inspired by the submarine movie "Run Silent, Run Deep", playing off the dramatic effect you describe.
You do know that Berman was involved in the franchise right from the start of TNG, don't you?
Alien Resurrection 1) wasn't really Joss' story as written (though MORE of it was his than X-Men, from which they kept only 2 lines and the actress butchered 1 of them... the other was one of the best lines in the movie) and 2) was a fairly decent story that I think was somewhat poorly directed (if I had READ that story, I think I would have liked it a lot more than I did) and 3) mostly failed in the box-office because Cameron had done such a good job of transforming the series into a testosterone-fest that anything less was going to be a dissapointment.
... judge for yourself where I belong in that spectrum).
As director of the Firefly movie, we're more likely to get a solid Joss story told and translated well onto the screen. Perhaps that will suck, but I doubt it.
That said, no Joss is not perfect. Fan-boys (and girls) who say he is are... well, fan-boys, so what can you expect (by fan-boy I mean the gushing, "my hero can do no wrong" sorts of fans, not the run-of-the-mill enthusiast
On the other hand, his work is often far more compelling than 90% of what we see on television (so much so that after swearing off the entire vampire genre and with a title that made me groan, B:TVS pulled me in and made me enough a fan to buy and watch the seasons that I had missed).
If you want to know Joss' highs and lows look at the first two seasons of Buffy and then look a the last season (7). There it is in a nutshell, and while I found the seventh season to be far below the level of what he did in the first two, I'd still rank it well above most of what's on TV.
As for movies... the bar is higher. Science Fiction has seen some real winners (Forbidden Planet, 2001, Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner, Empire, The Matrix)... and living up to that standard is a lot harder than living up to the standard of American TV (which has a few major winners like Twilight Zone, Star Trek: TOS and Babylon 5 and a handfull of fast-from-the-gate shows that couldn't hold it together or got cancelled like Andromeda, Firefly, Jerrimiah).
In the end, I'll go see the Firefly movie and just try to enjoy it and judge it on its own merits. We shall see....
They got lucky with TNG, somewhat, but completly destroyed Voyager, DS9, and now Enterprise with unimaginative story lines and a reliance on tight-costumed bimbos
Which is completely different from TOS, which... relied on... unimaginative story lines... tight-costumed bimbos... and... William Shatner!
Pretty recently, JMS said that it was still going ahead and was way past just talk. Money has changed hands, JMS has scheduled around it, and a couple drafts have been gone through. It apparently will be called B5: The Movement of Shadows, though it is unclear if that is to be the final name of the film, or just a working title.
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I think you can safely replace one of the "techno speak thingies" with the main deflector dish.
... just emit a verteron pulse and they'll disintegrate on-the-spot. I admit, however, that generally it is the deflector dish that is used to generate this pulse. Not that I have any idea what a verteron is, mind you (presumably it is some heretofore-discovered subatomic particle.)
Yes, although I've noticed that a "verteron pulse" is frequently used as a catch-all solution to thorny problems. Alien parasites infesting your ship's gel-paks? No problem
The deflector dish is used when traveling at high sublight velocities to deflect anything that might otherwise impact the ship (micrometeoroids and the like.) At least that's how it was described in the original "The Making of Star Trek" book that I read back in 1971 or thereabouts. Essentially it's a reverse tractor beam (commonly referred to as a "pressor" in sci-fi parlance.) The dish can also be used to make a really powerful one-shot weapon which we almost got to see in action in the ST:TNG Borg cliffhanger "Best of Both Worlds."
In a later episode, if I recall correctly, another starship did use their dish in that manner and wasted a Borg cube. Kind of cool, but it only works once and then your dish is scrap.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Another thing is StarFleet itself. The 60s show had a mostly all white, crew-cut, "Right Stuff", NASA with bigger ships ethic. Women went around in mini-skirts bringing coffee.
TOS was one of the first TV shows with a multiracial cast playing international characters. One of the more important characters, Uhura, was a black woman, while Sulu was Asian. Martin Luther King himself told Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Uhura, how important her presence on the show was to the civil rights movement. For its day, TOS was pioneering. And Roddenberry's original idea (which was rejected by NBC) was to have the First Officer be an emotionless woman played by Majel Barrett. This character was later merged into Spock.
and an unavoidable problem without out making actors playing aliens have to emit nonsense phrases with sub-titles
That's what the Klingons in Star Trek do. Except they went an invented an actual Klingon language later on. It was just the first movie where they used made-up phrases.
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There it is "Final Frontier" by Diane Carey.
Used copy ordered. (Such a geek!)
Actually, to quote Spock, "stations. Constucted on asteroids, they monitor the Neutral Zone established by treaty after the Earth-Romulan conflic over a centruy ago. As you may recall from your histories, this conflict was fought, by our standards today, with primative atomic weapons an in primitive space vessels, which allowed no quarter, no captives, re ws there evn ship to ship visual communication. Therefore, no human, Romulan, or allie has ever seen the other."
There was a war and they did not see eachother.
-Lauren
"Most interesting how often you humans seem to obtain that which you do not want" -Spock