Millions of yellow glowing jellyfish are the Ancients superweapon? WTF!? What kind of letdown was that! I was hoping for a superlaser or something ripping out of the antarctic surface, sending penguins flying.
The problem with that is in that episode, they took it back to the home universe of Mirror Carter (or was it Dr. Samantha O'Neil?) and Mirror Bronski (yay geek points!), so Carter could contact Mirror Thor (and Mirror Spock!)
That's the only bit of continuity rewriting (that I can think of off the top of my head) that Voyager did.
Voyager did an episode entitled "Flashbacks", I don't remember the total thrust of it, but it involves Tuvok flashing back to past experiences for some reason... one of which being his earlier experiences in Starfleet, with Sulu.
That's a long way of saying 'Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.. I mean.. the Vulcan with no pointy ears!'
So it wasn't a master reset, but they handled it nicely. The higher powers of the Marvel universe knew that something was up... so did the X-Men (and all the rest), cause they saw the wave coming.
What happened in the following months after AoA was just people dealing with having 4 months of your life disappear in questionable circumstances.
I stopped reading once they hit Onslaught, though, couldn't keep up with having to buy 10 comics a month to get the full story.
Don't forget Farscape, and the translator microbes hanging out around your brainstem, partying hard and translating alien speech for you!
There's an episode where Crichton gets tested by the wormhole aliens, with a mockup of Earth. John and the rest are speaking the same tongue... switch to a shot outside the cage, and everyone is speaking their own language, and Crichton looking like a looney, responding.
"Age of Apocalypse" (the aforementioned X-Men alternate universe thing) was actually pretty good.
It was always done as a four-month stint, gave the writers a different change of pace, different directions to go with the characters, different things to try with the characters.
I like it. It was something different. "Age of Apocalypse", however, is nothing like what B&B are doing with Star Trek. There's a difference between 'doing something different' and 'running a franchise into the ground'.
"Age of Apocalypse" did not ignore everything that had happened. It was like a 4-month comic version of 'Mirror Mirror' (and all those DS9 episodes). It gave the writers the chance to try something different.
I play on Among the Stars, as a member of Federation (a Starfleet officer) actually, and I can never keep it straight. As far as I know, some stuff from Diane Duane's vision, but largely operate based on their own buildup of the Rihannsu.
I was just subtly baiting to see if I found someone else from that game wandering/.
The only bit of Shatner's writing that works for Star Trek (the whole 'Kirk survives Generations, saves the galaxy another ten times' series) is that the events in First Contact are what triggered the split timeline, leading to the Mirror Universe (as seen in 'Mirror Mirror' and a dozen or so DS9 episodes).
He explains it that humanity, realizing that big bad guys exist (because of the Borg), become more militaristic, leading to the formation of the Terran Empire, instead of the Federation.
Doesn't explain Enterprise, but most Trekkies ignore it anyway.:)
Of course, he does point out a good point about Hatch targetting the firms that try and profit from inciting children to steal...
But when was the last time you had to pay for a P2P program (not counting Napster after it got ass-raped by the Feds)?
Something is only worth as much as the people will pay for it.
The people have obviously spoken; they don't want to pay ridiculously marked-up prices for products.
Corporate CEOs don't want to see their million-dollar paychecks disappear, so they con the government into making us keep paying them, even though the people have clearly said that they need to go burn in hell.
There's a difference between discouraging children from playing, and teaching them some common sense. Like, climbing around on stuff inside the house. That's what the outside is for. Go climb a tree, the grass is there to break your fall!
Man, I wish they woulda nerfed childhood when I was growing up. That woulda been cool to wake up the next day and find out that the school bully got nerfed so he's weaker then me.
Of course, the school bully would whine next, and I'd get the nerfbat up side the head.
I figured he was referring to the fact that fireworks were originally from Asia, and Disney is 'editting' them, just like it does every other thing they get from Asia.
For a minute there, I thought you were talking about a game where you wandered through a crowd from a First Person viewpoint, looking for a skinny fellow in a red-&-white striped hat.
"There he is!"
LEVEL COMPLETE
Of course, in today's day and age of Gaming, Waldo would be one huge mutha-fscker, with rocket launchers, gatling guns, and you'd have to strategically blow up portions of the surrounding building so it would drop on his head and knock him out... but he'd escape at the last second! Onto the next level!!
You basically said the same thing as I did, except you said it politically correct.
It hasn't been that long since I discovered comic books. In fact, it's been even a shorter timespan since I discovered Manga. And personally, I have no problems 'relating' to most of the stuff in there, on one level or another. Is it that hard for an Indian kid to relate to the concept of teenage angst, that they need to redo the concept of Spider-Man?
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Where RIAA is the RIAA, and Webster's is the US Government, of course.
SPOILERS!!!
Millions of yellow glowing jellyfish are the Ancients superweapon? WTF!? What kind of letdown was that! I was hoping for a superlaser or something ripping out of the antarctic surface, sending penguins flying.
The problem with that is in that episode, they took it back to the home universe of Mirror Carter (or was it Dr. Samantha O'Neil?) and Mirror Bronski (yay geek points!), so Carter could contact Mirror Thor (and Mirror Spock!)
Voyager did an episode entitled "Flashbacks", I don't remember the total thrust of it, but it involves Tuvok flashing back to past experiences for some reason... one of which being his earlier experiences in Starfleet, with Sulu.
That's a long way of saying 'Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.. I mean.. the Vulcan with no pointy ears!'
What happened in the following months after AoA was just people dealing with having 4 months of your life disappear in questionable circumstances.
I stopped reading once they hit Onslaught, though, couldn't keep up with having to buy 10 comics a month to get the full story.
Imagine the guest appearances! Abe Lincoln! Bill Gates! Stephen Hawking (again)! Kathryn Janeway! Jeff Foxworthy!
There's an episode where Crichton gets tested by the wormhole aliens, with a mockup of Earth. John and the rest are speaking the same tongue... switch to a shot outside the cage, and everyone is speaking their own language, and Crichton looking like a looney, responding.
There was no visual communications then. IIRC, there wasn't even subspace radio (IE: warp-speed communications), or a universal translator.
So everything was done, effectively, on ham radios. Neither side saw the other.
It was always done as a four-month stint, gave the writers a different change of pace, different directions to go with the characters, different things to try with the characters.
I like it. It was something different. "Age of Apocalypse", however, is nothing like what B&B are doing with Star Trek. There's a difference between 'doing something different' and 'running a franchise into the ground'.
"Age of Apocalypse" did not ignore everything that had happened. It was like a 4-month comic version of 'Mirror Mirror' (and all those DS9 episodes). It gave the writers the chance to try something different.
I play on Among the Stars, as a member of Federation (a Starfleet officer) actually, and I can never keep it straight. As far as I know, some stuff from Diane Duane's vision, but largely operate based on their own buildup of the Rihannsu.
I was just subtly baiting to see if I found someone else from that game wandering /.
*proudly polishes his geek badge, too*
It can be used to keep Roddenbury's coffin together, from all the spinning he's doing in his grave.
Maybe they can do a theatrical version of the razing of Nelvana III.
If you don't get this, don't mind. It's kind of an injoke flamebait. :)
Aside from the fact that Year of Hell reset itself, erasing that entire year from the timeline of Voyager, therefore it didn't ever happen.
He explains it that humanity, realizing that big bad guys exist (because of the Borg), become more militaristic, leading to the formation of the Terran Empire, instead of the Federation.
Doesn't explain Enterprise, but most Trekkies ignore it anyway. :)
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Rampant. Yes. I went there.
Of course, he does point out a good point about Hatch targetting the firms that try and profit from inciting children to steal... But when was the last time you had to pay for a P2P program (not counting Napster after it got ass-raped by the Feds)?
The people have obviously spoken; they don't want to pay ridiculously marked-up prices for products.
Corporate CEOs don't want to see their million-dollar paychecks disappear, so they con the government into making us keep paying them, even though the people have clearly said that they need to go burn in hell.
I WANT MOSH MOSH REVOLUTION!!!
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MOSH
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There's a difference between discouraging children from playing, and teaching them some common sense. Like, climbing around on stuff inside the house. That's what the outside is for. Go climb a tree, the grass is there to break your fall!
Man, I wish they woulda nerfed childhood when I was growing up. That woulda been cool to wake up the next day and find out that the school bully got nerfed so he's weaker then me. Of course, the school bully would whine next, and I'd get the nerfbat up side the head.
"It's a rock monster. It doesn't have motivation!!!"
I figured he was referring to the fact that fireworks were originally from Asia, and Disney is 'editting' them, just like it does every other thing they get from Asia.
For a minute there, I thought you were talking about a game where you wandered through a crowd from a First Person viewpoint, looking for a skinny fellow in a red-&-white striped hat.
"There he is!"
LEVEL COMPLETE
Of course, in today's day and age of Gaming, Waldo would be one huge mutha-fscker, with rocket launchers, gatling guns, and you'd have to strategically blow up portions of the surrounding building so it would drop on his head and knock him out... but he'd escape at the last second! Onto the next level!!
Damn, that'd make a fun mod for something. :)
It hasn't been that long since I discovered comic books. In fact, it's been even a shorter timespan since I discovered Manga. And personally, I have no problems 'relating' to most of the stuff in there, on one level or another. Is it that hard for an Indian kid to relate to the concept of teenage angst, that they need to redo the concept of Spider-Man?