All Star Trek Discussion Thread ("Into Darkness" trailer released)

[rumborak]

The trio was a quad, and they weren't played by the same actress according to Alpha.

Crap, you're right. I saw this picture on Memory Alpha



and thought it was the genetically engineered woman. But it's actually a female Q!

[El Barto]

And a particularly strange picture of her, at that. She looks gravely concerned in that picture, when she was actually 10x more flippant than regular Q. Awful episode, though. I thought the concept of Q Jr. and Aunt Kathy was great, but it was really all terribly executed.

[King Postwhore]

I loves how sarcastic she was.  It reminded me of a character from The Pretender called Miss Parker.  Sassy and sexy.

[Super Dude]

I just came across a Supreme Court case in my casebook entitled Khan v. Singh. I guess they're pitting brother against brother!

[chknptpie]

I loves how sarcastic she was.  It reminded me of a character from The Pretender called Miss Parker.  Sassy and sexy.

Loved that character!

[ZirconBlue]

I loves how sarcastic she was.  It reminded me of a character from The Pretender called Miss Parker.  Sassy and sexy.

Loved that character!

Miss Parker kicked all sorts of ass.  Even in a pantsuit.

[Kotowboy]

SOMEONE HALP !!!!

Watching random eps of TNG on Netflix and wanna find an episode where a race of not particularly bright aliens kidnap Geordi and make him improve their ship in order to take on Enterprise. However Geordi talks in code to Enterprise and manages to make it appear as though the Bussard collectors overpowered the ship.

Any ideas ?
Thanks...

[Orbert]

Ha ha, I was just thinking about that one the other day.  Worf tells him "You will die without honor" and Geordi is just like "Well, I can live with that because I have new friends now and we're stronger than you".  It was a fun episode, with some depth to it because those guys really were pretty ruthless, and not bright enough to scare easily.

But I have no idea what the title of the episode is.  Sorry.

[Kotowboy]

After typing keywords into google - I have found out that it is Samaritan's Snare.

If you want to watch it with me

[Orbert]

No Netflix.  Maybe someday.

[rumborak]

"The universe is a spheroid region 705m in diameter".

Actually not a bad episode, especially when you see it the first time.

[BlobVanDam]

I'm watching an episode of The Golden Girls, and playing a shifty doctor is none other than THE doctor, Robert Picardo! I hardly recognized him with hair, but I recognized his voice and delivery instantly.

[Orbert]

"The universe is a spheroid region 705m in diameter".

Actually not a bad episode, especially when you see it the first time.

"Remember Me"  I liked that one.

[El Barto]

"The universe is a spheroid region 705m in diameter".

Actually not a bad episode, especially when you see it the first time.

"Remember Me"  I liked that one.

The premise was good, and for the most part it worked, but then Wesley's boyfriend, that goofy-ass traveler guy, shows up and pretty much blows it out of the water. "Your mom is alive as long as she believes she is!" 

Didn't much care for the Samaritan Snare. I was kind of torn on the antagonists. On one hand, they were unbelievably stupid and worthless. On the other hand, they did repeatedly stun Geordi, which makes them alright in my book.

[Kotowboy]

Star Trek Into Darkness is Wesley Crusher's favourite film

https://wilwheaton.net/2013/06/my-review-of-star-trek-into-darkness/

[Dream Team]

Star Trek Into Darkness is Wesley Crusher's favourite film

https://wilwheaton.net/2013/06/my-review-of-star-trek-into-darkness/

He's obviously smart and knows what he's talking about, but the only thing I agree with him on is the embarassingly bad, gratuitous underwear scene.

[El Barto]

I agree with him about the new and improved theater experience. We've got a couple of those fancy-ass theaters here in Dallas and it's the only way to go. Now if they'd just do away with all of the commercials I might actually go to see more movies. Alas, I find sitting through 20 minutes worth of previews ruins the overall experience.

[yorost]

Why not show up late?

[ZirconBlue]

Star Trek Into Darkness is Wesley Crusher's favourite film

https://wilwheaton.net/2013/06/my-review-of-star-trek-into-darkness/

He's obviously smart and knows what he's talking about, but the only thing I agree with him on is the embarassingly bad, gratuitous underwear scene.

I do think that scene was meant to be a character-based moment:  To show how much of a horndog Kirk is, but, more importantly, to set up the attraction between the 2 characters, that in the original continuity led to them having a son together.  I just don't think it succeeded in it's intent.

[El Barto]

Why not show up late?

Difficult to time.

[rumborak]

And difficult to still get a good seat.

[Kotowboy]

Star Trek Into Darkness is Wesley Crusher's favourite film

https://wilwheaton.net/2013/06/my-review-of-star-trek-into-darkness/

He's obviously smart and knows what he's talking about, but the only thing I agree with him on is the embarassingly bad, gratuitous underwear scene.

The theme of family and revenge is there from the very beginning.

Kirk wants revenge for Khan killing Pike and Khan wants revenge on Marcus for holding his crew hostage and forcing him to design weapons.

The film is basically all about - is revenge right - even if it's for the right reasons ?

I'd say there were slight echoes of a post September 11 world in there. Spielberg's War Of the Worlds is a lot more explicit.

[El Barto]

And difficult to still get a good seat.

Reserved seating at the theater I go to. You buy early in the day and you can pick a seat on the center aisle, and first row behind the middle walkway for lots of sprawling space.

[Kotowboy]

The cinema in town where I live has rows as normal and then a huge gap where you walk in and up the aisle kinda like this :

L L L L L L       R R R R R R R
L L L L L L       R R R R R R R
L L L L L L       R R R R R R R
L L L L L L       R R R R R R R
L L L L L L       R R R R R R R   < I usually sit in this row. Tons of Legroom


L L L L L L       R R R R R R R
L L L L L L       R R R R R R R


-----------------------------------
     - This Is The Screen -

[rumborak]

I went to a reserved-seat theater in New Orleans, that was very neat. They even had a waitress go around for drinks.
Sadly those theaters don't exist in Boston

[Orbert]

I've never even heard of a reserved-seat "regular" cinema.  Not to get all semantic on you, but in this case, calling it a "movie theater" seems wrong, even though it's a common enough colloquialism for cinema.  But you always see plays in a theater, concerts in an auditorium, and both of those have reserved seating.  Movie theaters are general admission, I've always thought.

[Kotowboy]

Most cinemas in the UK have reserved seats. Very rare you just turn up and sit wherever.

[El Barto]

Most down here are still GA. We just have a couple of trendy locales catering to a more affluent set. On the rare occasion that I want to go to a move (about once every 5 years on average), it's worth it to me to spend an extra $3 to avoid Wil Wheaton's riff-raff. I will say that the drink service is annoying. However, since there's only about 30 seats in each theater, there's not enough of it to make a difference.

[Orbert]

Most cinemas in the UK have reserved seats. Very rare you just turn up and sit wherever.

Wow, that's something you guys have that we probably had at one point, but abandoned.  Over here, reserved seating would just be something to slow down the system, the "system" of course meaning moving as many people through in a short a time as possible, so as to maximize profits.  That's the American Way.

[Kotowboy]

Most down here are still GA. We just have a couple of trendy locales catering to a more affluent set. On the rare occasion that I want to go to a move (about once every 5 years on average), it's worth it to me to spend an extra $3 to avoid Wil Wheaton's riff-raff. I will say that the drink service is annoying. However, since there's only about 30 seats in each theater, there's not enough of it to make a difference.

I guess that's one of the benefits of 3D - the ticket price is so high that the people that pay that much genuinely want to see the movie and aren't just having a day out.

[El Barto]

Further demonstrating a point I made earlier about how surprisingly easy it is to boost a shuttlecraft, just watched an episode where Crusher not only manages to take off in one undetected, but lock out the Enterprise's ability to control it and elude Worf's ineffective ass. It really is laughable when it happens. If I ever decide to watch all the series again, I'll have to remember to make a list of every time it happens.

I wonder who the goofiest character to ever pull it off was. Crusher has to rate up there, but it wouldn't surprise me if Hoshi or O'Brien's wife stole one or two.

[BlobVanDam]

I watched an episode of DS9 recently where some random kid from the Gamma Quadrant managed to steal a shuttlecraft. It's the episode where a race of people with awful skin from the GQ come through and claim that Bajor is their mythical place of origin.

[yorost]

Well, runabouts aren't shuttlecraft, but do you mean at the end of the episode when he's killed by the Bajorans? I'm pretty sure that's not a runabout. He stole one his own people's ships, presumably one he had fairly free access to, already.

[rumborak]

That stupid emo friend of Wesley who doesn't get into Starfleet steals one too at some point.

[Perpetual Change]

I saw "Into Darkness" but thought it was only OK. Very actionny, I have no issue with that, but it would have benifitted being just a tad bit more cerebral.