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Could TNG Stunt Casting Save 'Enterprise'?
Tycoon Guy writes "It seems Star Trek: Enterprise isn't about to go down without a fight. TrekToday is reporting that Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis will guest-star on the season finale of Star Trek: Enterprise, to reprise their Next Generation roles of William T. Riker and Deanna Troi. Hello stunt casting! The news has been confirmed on Sirtis' official fan site."
How about they just do it the old fashioned way and revive the series by reversing polarity and firing anion thrusters to create a temporary wormhole that can act as a gateway to the ratings.
No... That didn't work at all for Voyager...
I find your sig offensive.
BSD..er...Enterprise is dead.
Deanna will travel back in time to set an insidious series of events in place that will ripple through the very fabric of space-time...and make sure she doesn't marry that slut poindexter with a beard Riker! All she has to do is jetison some drive plasma, reverse polarity on the intake valve and say three times "He is an ass, what was I thinking?"
Apparently, the last scene in this episode is a shot of 'The Fonze' donning water skiis.
What should be done with Star Trek, TNG, DS9, EP?
1. Kill It
2. Get Michael Moore to add fiction
3. Send it to the hollow-plot-deck
4. Reincarnate it as a musical
5. Zap
6. Read Cowboy Neal's Nanotech Martini
Stardate 209323.30934
We have entered a region of unknown and dangerous space. We have full sensors recording any possible signs of threat
(intercom) This is your captain speaking. We are under direct financial attack, and are being threatened with the possiblity of being taken offline! How dare they treat us like scum! Prepare for all out defensive manuvers! Hold on folks!
Are you implying the dodo deserved it?
...DeForest Kelley, and I'll be impressed.
-- Even if a god did exist, why the fsck should I worship it?
Maybe they'll come through the same wormhole that allows Geordi to host Reading Rainbow.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
Picard: "Mr Worf, fire at will!"
*ZOT*
Picard: "Hmm... where did Riker go?"
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No, that happened in the pilot.
But truth be told, I wouldn't want to see Kirk giving Spock naked backrubs.
Enterprise is ok overall, they just too revisionist and reliant and tech babble for my tastes...and I get the feeling that they are making things up as they go along. Sorry, think I've been spoiled by JMS and B5 in my expectations from a "serious" sci-fi show.
How about instead they ditch those two, save all that money and instead spend it on a 45 minute long lesbian scene between t'pol and hoshi, no not some crappy kid-safe scene, a proper late-night special, go beyond the final frontier, the next generation, boldly! and it could even involve some elaborate time-travel scenario where they must get completely naked or else risk being stranded in a half-way dimension. Now tell me seriously that this episode won't get viewers?
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An army of the same hot android?
Riker was the worst TNG character. Episodes centered on him made me nauseous... Ugh.. The one where he was going crazy and it ended up that he was in some romulan prison... I can't even bear to think about it.
(in the immortal words of George Takei)
The dodo was bloated, and had numerous security vulnerabilities.
[Enterprise 1 set vanishes, replaced by empty holodeck]
Riker: [taps badge] Riker to bridge. Captain, the runaway holodeck virus has been destroyed.
Picard (heard through communicator): Very good Number One. Mr. Crusher, ahead warp 5.
Troi: How are you feeling?
Riker: Hungry. For a hot fudge sundae. In your quarters.
Troi: [knowing smile]
Theme music up, Enterprise D goes into warp. Roll credits.
Somewhere I read that the premise behind "Star Trek" was, "Let's see what's out there," while the premise behind the new "Galactica" is, "Run like hell, they're after us."
The premise of the old "Galactica," of course, was, "Run like hell, they're --ooh, a casino planet!" First recorded instance of a TV show with ADD.
Ahh, I'd always wondered how Riker and Troi met.
how to invest, a novice's guide
I liked the bit where Troi got raped by the bad guys then she died in hospital after the doctors said she'd be OK.
No, wait, I think that was Death Wish 3. I always get those two confused.
yeah? well... double dumbass on you!
Please compare to DS9: a bleak war movie in space, with an emphasis on fighting an implacable, deadly enemy (the Dominion); dark and gritty. For my money, this was the most entertaining of the Star Treks, but for what-if sci-fi and Utopian morality plays, TNG is better.
They really lost me with Voyager, though: after reading Greg Egan's Permutation City, I was very excited about the prospect of a digital character, but it was very poorly executed. The Dr. was unable to fork/copy himself, and could only move his program to a "mobile emitter" and back. The computer memory had to be extensively modded to handle binary data! Arbitrary and ridiculous restrictions were placed on the tech because the writers didn't understand their subject matter, and were intent on telling their story, rather than exploring actual ramifications presented by the setting and characters.
Here are some new ST series ideas for Paramount:
Troi maybe, but Riker? Come on, the man is a legend.
Especially after hosting "Alien Autopsy"!
Dude, you most surely will rot in a special circle of hell, for having laid that image in my mind.
"I am Locutus of Borg. Do you have any decontaminant gel?"
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
I pity da fool who goes to da Delta Quadrant!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
You know, I'll agree with you on the time travel thing, they have raped it dead. I will disagree on year of hell though, I thought "year of hell" was pretty good - it was, at the very least, original - especially given that most of the trek stuff is a rehash from st tos / whatever.
Enterprise, end of third season, my reaction was
Well great, ok, whats next?
Eh?
What the fuck?
Nazis?
Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to bring back fucking nazis? Kirk fought nazis, wtf.
I HOPE YOU DIE!!
I want my hour back.
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Kirk wasn't a flat character - just acted that way!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
And if the season turned out to be really fantastic, it could spawn a new Star Trek meme on Slashdot.
The horror.
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
You seem berry, berry cranky.
There's an official Marina Sirtis fan website.
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
It's kinda like asking Picasso to fix your 3 year old's child drawings. Yes, he could do it. And yes, it's an insult.
Picasso fix the kid's drawings? Have you seen Picasso's work? =)
A CPO in the Navy is an E-7
What if it's a 3C-PO? Is that still an E-7 or an R2-D2?
These comments do express the opinions of my employers, and, personally, I think they're complete rubbish.
you misspelled "fat bastard" "flat character"
Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious