"And the same thing happened to those godawful Kazon in Voyager. Remember those? The klingons with pinecones instead of crabs for heads?"
I always thought that they looked like overgrown Oompa-Loompa's whom someone had given a swirly in a salad bowl.
"Enterprise has great potential, they should be drumming up the Orions, the Gorn, the Klingons, the Romulans"
When the show was sputtering along during the first two seasons, I made the argument that they should bring in the Kzinti. The show does, after all, take place around the time of Kzinti first contact. The orange rat-cats would have added a splash of color on a show that might as well be watched on a black-and-white set.
Alas, what do they do for Season 3? Bring in a race whose name is pronounced almost like Kzinti, but has no other similarities.
"Voyager did much better once they ditched the Kazon and picked up the Borg and that fluidic-space species (4276?) as enemies"
For just a little while. They managed to wear out the Borg and make them seem banal. The fluid-space aliens never impressed me because they made the mistake of showing them: the crude texture and motion made them seem like N-64 videogame characters. Rather sub-par.
"Orbiting one planet permanently should've been an opportunity to experiment with some continuity."
Did you even watch the show? The station DS9 was not really located within sight of Bajor, let alone orbiting it. It was a deep space station, after all.
"Indeed, i too wondered what happend with the Suliban."
I think it was lack of fan interest. The Tal..er Suliban did not impress anyone the way they had hoped, so they were pulled. The same thing happend with the Ferengi in ST:TNG. Roddenberry expected them to be the major adversaries of the entire series, but once these snarling barely-sentient Perot's saw the light of day no-one was impressed and they too were pretty much phased out until they were re-tooled for DS9.
"They've already began to fracture the enemy, an interesting twist. The Xinidi reptilians and perhaps the insectoids look as though they will remain evil"
Who would have ever thought that the bugs and lizards would be the evil races, while the sloths, man-likes, and manatees would be good?
"Thousands of Enterprise fans will, after celebrating, move back into their parents' basements to plot their next letter campaign"
I for one, look forward to seeing the amount of trekspam increase in proportion to viagra pitches. I also look forward to the words evolving to evade filters: "SAV TRECK SP0CK RULES and "WRITE LE.TTERS TO PARAMOONT - CAST NIMOY AS CAP.T IN NEW SHOW
"If Enterprise, Joan of Arcadia, and Andromeda all share the same time slot?"
I thought Andromeda was cancelled. I never could get into it. I do not have a fondness for shows with sets that are so poorly lit that you have an irrational desire to shine a flashlight at the TV screen just to see what is going on.
This one has always been a struggle to watch. Our local Fox affiliate has a "secondary" affiliate relationship with UPN, which means that they show a few UPN shows at odd times, and the cable company would be fined if they brought in an actual UPN affiliate.
So it is shown usually at 11:00 pm Friday, but sometimes the Fox station moves it without telling anyone. Not only that, they replace the "next episode" teaser with ads for their own WWE shows. I hope someday that CBS shuts down UPN and moves the couple/few UPN shows worth saving to the regular CBS schedule.
This Fox affiliate actually showed the UPN show "Dilbert" only at 1:00 AM Sunday morning. I kind of wanted to see that one.
Since FM Radio is sandwiched into the middle of the VHF stations (between channels 6 and 7, I believe), if you can get Channel 6 at the very bottom of your FM dial, as I can, you might be able to get WiFi screeching as well. Assuming that they place one of these near Channel 6.
"...create world renowned Unix-based solutions designed...."
Seriously, is SCO actually creating new products right now? (other than the product of lawsuits, $699 profits, FUD, scare, etc). Actual user/consumer/business products?
What great marketable skills they are being taught. Once they get out of school, they will surely be able to dominate the videogame industry of either Albania or Burma.
""so simple, even my grandmother could implement it."
"(AP) Dateline August 12, 2008. National and international commerce was brought to a halt as the "SugarCookie" worm infected and seized up the installed base of Windows 2006 computers. An FBI task force was able to determine that the worm was written by someone's grandmother who thought she was entering a cookie recipe into her computer. She was quoted as saying 'I did not know that Windows was so insecure that you could bring down networks with accidentally-written worm programs'"
"Fear of flying is a very valid fear since you are dealing with a scenario where there is no room for error and you are basically entrusting your life in the hands of strangers."
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They can call it "Tungsten". Oh wait....
"In 1984, seems to me that the acronyum is HYMAW"
I always thought that they looked like overgrown Oompa-Loompa's whom someone had given a swirly in a salad bowl.
"Enterprise has great potential, they should be drumming up the Orions, the Gorn, the Klingons, the Romulans"
When the show was sputtering along during the first two seasons, I made the argument that they should bring in the Kzinti. The show does, after all, take place around the time of Kzinti first contact. The orange rat-cats would have added a splash of color on a show that might as well be watched on a black-and-white set.
Alas, what do they do for Season 3? Bring in a race whose name is pronounced almost like Kzinti, but has no other similarities.
"Voyager did much better once they ditched the Kazon and picked up the Borg and that fluidic-space species (4276?) as enemies"
For just a little while. They managed to wear out the Borg and make them seem banal. The fluid-space aliens never impressed me because they made the mistake of showing them: the crude texture and motion made them seem like N-64 videogame characters. Rather sub-par.
I stand corrected. See topic!
Seems to me that the acronyum is HYMAW.
William Hung? Is that you?
Did you even watch the show? The station DS9 was not really located within sight of Bajor, let alone orbiting it. It was a deep space station, after all.
This sounds like a set-up for some sort of bovine Matrix, only this time the computers are powered by cow-brains.
I think it was lack of fan interest. The Tal..er Suliban did not impress anyone the way they had hoped, so they were pulled. The same thing happend with the Ferengi in ST:TNG. Roddenberry expected them to be the major adversaries of the entire series, but once these snarling barely-sentient Perot's saw the light of day no-one was impressed and they too were pretty much phased out until they were re-tooled for DS9.
Who would have ever thought that the bugs and lizards would be the evil races, while the sloths, man-likes, and manatees would be good?
Ever since his first appearance in "Episode I".
I for one, look forward to seeing the amount of trekspam increase in proportion to viagra pitches. I also look forward to the words evolving to evade filters: "SAV TRECK SP0CK RULES and "WRITE LE.TTERS TO PARAMOONT - CAST NIMOY AS CAP.T IN NEW SHOW
I thought Andromeda was cancelled. I never could get into it. I do not have a fondness for shows with sets that are so poorly lit that you have an irrational desire to shine a flashlight at the TV screen just to see what is going on.
So it is shown usually at 11:00 pm Friday, but sometimes the Fox station moves it without telling anyone. Not only that, they replace the "next episode" teaser with ads for their own WWE shows. I hope someday that CBS shuts down UPN and moves the couple/few UPN shows worth saving to the regular CBS schedule.
This Fox affiliate actually showed the UPN show "Dilbert" only at 1:00 AM Sunday morning. I kind of wanted to see that one.
Since FM Radio is sandwiched into the middle of the VHF stations (between channels 6 and 7, I believe), if you can get Channel 6 at the very bottom of your FM dial, as I can, you might be able to get WiFi screeching as well. Assuming that they place one of these near Channel 6.
Seriously, is SCO actually creating new products right now? (other than the product of lawsuits, $699 profits, FUD, scare, etc). Actual user/consumer/business products?
No, it's a settlement with Oprah Winfrey. If the googol guys can sue Google....
If anyone had prior art on this, it is the guys who created Barney Google in 1919.
I would have seen this, but I outsourced my TV watching.
Have the enterprising written EQ "bot" programs which accumulate the platinum automatically?
Has there been any outsourcing to Everquest yet?
What great marketable skills they are being taught. Once they get out of school, they will surely be able to dominate the videogame industry of either Albania or Burma.
"(AP) Dateline August 12, 2008. National and international commerce was brought to a halt as the "SugarCookie" worm infected and seized up the installed base of Windows 2006 computers. An FBI task force was able to determine that the worm was written by someone's grandmother who thought she was entering a cookie recipe into her computer. She was quoted as saying 'I did not know that Windows was so insecure that you could bring down networks with accidentally-written worm programs'"
Unlike spaceflight?
This is the same Ray Bradbury who was afraid to fly in airplanes until recently. Could we get him on a spaceship?