Remember the U-2 spy plane, we found out about that almost 50 years after it was put into service!...Dude, the U-2 had its first flight in 1955. So according to you, we first find out about it a year from now.
I think what he meant to say was that the U2 was put into place in 1905, which is 50 years before we found out about in 1955. Of course, the 1905 model of the U2 spyplane was made of bamboo and oilcloth and flew a mere 9 metres above the landscape of the Russian Empire it was spying on. Stealth was achieved by a man with a megaphone yelling out "Don't look at me!" in Russian.
"my cats like to chase the dot from a laser pointer"
So what is your idea? To point it at some spot in South Dakota for a couple of months in order to gather all of the cats in the country into one spot?
And then what? Attached buttered toast to the backs of the cats, drop them, and solve the energy problems of the world with the resulting perpetual motion machine?
"and you can't have evil Klingons anymore. Because that would mean you would have a predominately dark skinned color race that is "evil", and you'll get your ass sued for that sort of thing."
Predominantly dark skinned? The Klingons in the old show were white guys. Many major Klingon characeters in the newer shows and movies were played by white guys, including Gowron, Christopher Plummer's mad bald general, Worf's son, General Martok, and (I'm pretty sure) Worf's brother.
"Join the crew of the Enterprise in an extravagant tale of daring and adventure as they chase after the evil terrorist mastermind across the wastelands of Afganistan and through a wormhole in time to Arthurian England"
which they find out has been taken over by a mysterious agent from the future who has a talking black car.
Troi's character didn't grow? She certinaly wasn't the same "Captain I sense a strong life presense here... my god it's in pain! Horrible pain! Oh the pain!" piece of eyecandy in Season 7 that she was in Season 1.
Yes. By that time, she had moved up to having headaches due to ghosts in the bulkhead. She was even a cake in one show.
But other [Voyager] stuff (like the Maquis subplot) was forgotten about in favor of technobabble
I think you missed the two- or three-hundred TNG episodes about Data and Geordi teaming up to track down mysterious//jargon// emmisions/particles/etc penetrating the ships hull or emitting from the ambassador's temporary quarters. After this, they solved the problem by redirecting the//jargon// output from the//jargon// manifold (which typically involved crouching down for a half hour in front of an open wall panel and pulling at glowing blue plastic tubes).
"where the elected official has no need to please the public whatsoever. IIRC, that's how the DMCA was signed."
You greatly overestimate the public's concern about the DMCA. Clinton could have signed it in his first term without denting his support much: outside the tech world, the general public hardly knows what it is, or knows that it sucks.
"Dear God, are you insance?! Andromeda sucks ass compared to Farscape. Seriously, I've tried to like Andromeda but it is consistently bad (it is better than Enterprise though)."
I tried both, and bailed on both for the same reasons. Very badly filmed: dark grainy grey-on-black; angry characters running around shouting at each other all the time. The way to tell the difference: Farscape has its own rabid devoted trekkies (never seen any for Andromeda). It also alien muppet mushroom-turtles: I think Mario and Luigi might be at home there.
Jordie: We can do it, but we will have to rerout the jargon from the jargon manifold.
Picard: Will this endanger the ship?
Jordie: The jargon systems will be running at less than 100% efficiency, but there is enough back-up in the jargon system to make up for it.
Still doesn't explain the ghost in the bulkhead, or why they decided to flush 43 minutes down the crapper with that Beverly-in-Ireland episode.
"Are you disputing that Walt was frozen or that he tore through the cryo lab on a motorcycle?"
It was both. You mean you never saw Walt's final film appearance in the 1976 live-action children's film in which he rode a Harley through Dexter Reilly's lab as a human icicle? Kurt Russell and Jodi Foster also starred in this one all-but-forgotten film.
"It sort of explained the "Data the Aztec" and the "Dianna the Lizard" Episodes"
Bad episodes are nature's way of saying that the show has gone on a season or two too long. The one where Troi was a cake, or the ones where she gets a headache because of a ghost in the bulkhead (i think there were 2 or 3 of those episodes).
Well, I guess it was a break from all those oh-so-high budget episodes where there were aliens that were nothing but little sparkly lights, and the ones where Data and Geordi teamed up to trace unexplained chroniton/photonic/transmission/particles that were penetrating the ship's hull or eminating from a secret location on the ship.
I thought I was the only one who used English measurements for measurements longer than 1 inch, and Metric (millimeters, centimeters) for smaller than 1 inch of length. It sure does look odd in print: "The car wash? Oh. Go 2 km down the road. Turn right, and go 100 feet. You can't miss it!"
"Well, StarTrek did begin with TV's most flagrant split infinitive. ("...to boldly go...")"
H.P.Lovecraft did this in the 1920s:
"At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath."
"That same thinking is one of the many reasons Voyager went down the tubes. The Borg *were* great, but they overused them and wussified them"
The more odd coloring, the worse it was. If you look at the first Borg episode in TNG, everything about them was normal colored, including the inside of their ships. After this, the more they used them, the greener they got, including adding green fog. Eventually (Voyager), they were overused and greener than Kermit, and the inside of their ships looked like a bug-zapper light.
Some of you people have seen maybe three episodes of Enterprise and declared it horrible. The same goes for Deep Space Nine or Voyager.
I watched all of DS9 and loved it. I can't remember there being a bad episode, although it sort of twiddled its thumbs for the first two seasons. I watched all but the last season of Voyager. While there were few really bad episodes, the show was hampered with throwaway cast members and a lack of really good episodes: most were "below average".
Enterprise? At least the premise is good (Voyager was a botched effort that should have not made it out of the starting gate), but somewhere between TNG and Enterprise, they have forgotten how to film. Everthing is all dark and grainy, and might as well be on a black and white TV set.
Compare this to the average bridge scene on those "Spike" ST:TNG reruns: they knew how to actually light a set. Only DS9 had any reason to look this way, being a grungy Cardassian station. The strength of "Trip" Tucker (one of the best actors/characters in Trek, I think) shows how the rest of the cast really comes up short.
"Star Trek fans know the aliens, we know the different politics for different alliances, we know the history."
Uh... not really. The Klingon/etc stuff has been shelved. All you have now are Xindi which are totally new, and races like Andorians and Vulcans who were around before but now are having the history created or re-written.
"I hope they make another series after Enterprise.. and I hope Enterprise goes for at least 5 years."
This season is better than the first two, but even then, the Xindi are nothing to write home about (nothing like the Borg, Vulcans, and Klingons that fired fan interest before). Still waiting for the show to "find its groove".
"There was an episode of ST:TNG (the Traveller) where Commander Data said that Star Fleet had only explored a little more than 11% of _our galaxy_ in the three hundred years of space development and exploration"
So, that leaves 89% of the galaxy still filled with the same tired old Caucasian-skinned aliens with greased-back dark hair and forehead-bumps and/or cheek gills.... living in concrete-walled buildings with burlap hanging on the walls and flying around in spaceships that look like juice harps or blow-dryers
"I have thoroughly enjoyed the ten films produced under the Star Trek banner"
I thought "5" was as bad as it could get until I saw the last two. They weren't even trying. All the high concepts running down into flops involving Klingon zits and Picard in an SUV.
"I swear that turds like "Andromeda" and "Earth: Final Conflict" only stayed on the air as long as they did because of his name."
I think Andromeda has life now because it is just like Farscape, but without muppet mushroom aliens. EFC? I think that Celtic theme song kept it going.
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I think what he meant to say was that the U2 was put into place in 1905, which is 50 years before we found out about in 1955. Of course, the 1905 model of the U2 spyplane was made of bamboo and oilcloth and flew a mere 9 metres above the landscape of the Russian Empire it was spying on. Stealth was achieved by a man with a megaphone yelling out "Don't look at me!" in Russian.
As a patriotic American, I for one look forward to my duties punching missile remnants in the Arabian desert.
(hey, minime, stop humping the laser!)
The laser is really just for communications. Or at least that is what we are saying for the benefit of the invading Kzinti fleet.
Won't that do nothing but make popcorn and anger the Dickless guy from "Ghostbusters"?
So what is your idea? To point it at some spot in South Dakota for a couple of months in order to gather all of the cats in the country into one spot?
And then what? Attached buttered toast to the backs of the cats, drop them, and solve the energy problems of the world with the resulting perpetual motion machine?
Predominantly dark skinned? The Klingons in the old show were white guys. Many major Klingon characeters in the newer shows and movies were played by white guys, including Gowron, Christopher Plummer's mad bald general, Worf's son, General Martok, and (I'm pretty sure) Worf's brother.
which they find out has been taken over by a mysterious agent from the future who has a talking black car.
Yes. By that time, she had moved up to having headaches due to ghosts in the bulkhead. She was even a cake in one show.
But other [Voyager] stuff (like the Maquis subplot) was forgotten about in favor of technobabble
I think you missed the two- or three-hundred TNG episodes about Data and Geordi teaming up to track down mysterious //jargon// emmisions/particles/etc penetrating the ships hull or emitting from the ambassador's temporary quarters. After this, they solved the problem by redirecting the //jargon// output from the //jargon// manifold (which typically involved crouching down for a half hour in front of an open wall panel and pulling at glowing blue plastic tubes).
You greatly overestimate the public's concern about the DMCA. Clinton could have signed it in his first term without denting his support much: outside the tech world, the general public hardly knows what it is, or knows that it sucks.
I tried both, and bailed on both for the same reasons. Very badly filmed: dark grainy grey-on-black; angry characters running around shouting at each other all the time. The way to tell the difference: Farscape has its own rabid devoted trekkies (never seen any for Andromeda). It also alien muppet mushroom-turtles: I think Mario and Luigi might be at home there.
Looks like it is time to convert to GIF which has absolutely no intellectual-property snags!
Picard: Will this endanger the ship?
Jordie: The jargon systems will be running at less than 100% efficiency, but there is enough back-up in the jargon system to make up for it.
Still doesn't explain the ghost in the bulkhead, or why they decided to flush 43 minutes down the crapper with that Beverly-in-Ireland episode.
It was both. You mean you never saw Walt's final film appearance in the 1976 live-action children's film in which he rode a Harley through Dexter Reilly's lab as a human icicle? Kurt Russell and Jodi Foster also starred in this one all-but-forgotten film.
The km example was just another way to show use of mixed measurements.
Bad episodes are nature's way of saying that the show has gone on a season or two too long. The one where Troi was a cake, or the ones where she gets a headache because of a ghost in the bulkhead (i think there were 2 or 3 of those episodes).
Well, I guess it was a break from all those oh-so-high budget episodes where there were aliens that were nothing but little sparkly lights, and the ones where Data and Geordi teamed up to trace unexplained chroniton/photonic/transmission/particles that were penetrating the ship's hull or eminating from a secret location on the ship.
I thought I was the only one who used English measurements for measurements longer than 1 inch, and Metric (millimeters, centimeters) for smaller than 1 inch of length. It sure does look odd in print: "The car wash? Oh. Go 2 km down the road. Turn right, and go 100 feet. You can't miss it!"
H.P.Lovecraft did this in the 1920s:
"At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath."
The more odd coloring, the worse it was. If you look at the first Borg episode in TNG, everything about them was normal colored, including the inside of their ships. After this, the more they used them, the greener they got, including adding green fog. Eventually (Voyager), they were overused and greener than Kermit, and the inside of their ships looked like a bug-zapper light.
botched it, was thinking of a certain movie and badly misspelt Kirk. "So.... SORRY. Priceline.....dotcom."
I watched all of DS9 and loved it. I can't remember there being a bad episode, although it sort of twiddled its thumbs for the first two seasons. I watched all but the last season of Voyager. While there were few really bad episodes, the show was hampered with throwaway cast members and a lack of really good episodes: most were "below average".
Enterprise? At least the premise is good (Voyager was a botched effort that should have not made it out of the starting gate), but somewhere between TNG and Enterprise, they have forgotten how to film. Everthing is all dark and grainy, and might as well be on a black and white TV set.
Compare this to the average bridge scene on those "Spike" ST:TNG reruns: they knew how to actually light a set. Only DS9 had any reason to look this way, being a grungy Cardassian station. The strength of "Trip" Tucker (one of the best actors/characters in Trek, I think) shows how the rest of the cast really comes up short.
"Star Trek fans know the aliens, we know the different politics for different alliances, we know the history."
Uh... not really. The Klingon/etc stuff has been shelved. All you have now are Xindi which are totally new, and races like Andorians and Vulcans who were around before but now are having the history created or re-written.
"I hope they make another series after Enterprise.. and I hope Enterprise goes for at least 5 years."
This season is better than the first two, but even then, the Xindi are nothing to write home about (nothing like the Borg, Vulcans, and Klingons that fired fan interest before). Still waiting for the show to "find its groove".
So, that leaves 89% of the galaxy still filled with the same tired old Caucasian-skinned aliens with greased-back dark hair and forehead-bumps and/or cheek gills.... living in concrete-walled buildings with burlap hanging on the walls and flying around in spaceships that look like juice harps or blow-dryers
"I have thoroughly enjoyed the ten films produced under the Star Trek banner"
I thought "5" was as bad as it could get until I saw the last two. They weren't even trying. All the high concepts running down into flops involving Klingon zits and Picard in an SUV.
"Will the REAL..... Slimshady..... PLEASE stand up! Please stand up! PLEASE..... stand up!"
The US also has a tax (levy) on blank CD media, but there are still legality issues.
"I swear that turds like "Andromeda" and "Earth: Final Conflict" only stayed on the air as long as they did because of his name." I think Andromeda has life now because it is just like Farscape, but without muppet mushroom aliens. EFC? I think that Celtic theme song kept it going.