Star Trek: The Next Threaderation

[BlobVanDam]

Stick widescreen bars over the top, add some faux epic orchestral music, edit like a cliche trailer complete with the green screen at start, and suddenly people are like OMG SO AWESOME

People are so easy.


Still a better movie than Nemesis though.

[Kotowboy]

Plus you have to zoom in because TNG was in square format.

[hefdaddy42]

I've started a re-watch of TNG, but I'm not hitting every single episode.  I'm being a little selective (especially in the first two seasons).

So I started with "Where No One Has Gone Before", which was much worse than I remembered.  Ye gods.

[Kotowboy]

I've started a re-watch of TNG, but I'm not hitting every single episode.  I'm being a little selective (especially in the first two seasons).

So I started with "Where No One Has Gone Before", which was much worse than I remembered.  Ye gods.

Me too. Dear Me. Season 1 of TNG is *SO* bad. . .

What's the episode where Tasha has to fight for those Jamaican Aliens ? Code Of Honour ?

Quite possibly the worst episode of Trek ever. What. A. Mess.

I'd say some eps of TNG S1 are more dated than some eps of TOS.

If anyone was to start TNG from the beginning - i'd say watch Encounter At Farpoint *just* to set everything up then skip straight to S2. Maybe S3...

Some eps of TNG S1 are more dated than some eps of TOS!!

[hefdaddy42]

Yeah, I am totally considering skipping the rest of season 1.

[Kotowboy]

I'm on S4 of Voyager.

Last night was the episode where they get 7 of 9.

I'm such a baby. That scene where they disconnect 7 from the collective and she reacts in pain - I was like "awwww " because of the face she made and her little yelp....




You can imagine what I think of the scene at the end of JAWS 

[Kotowboy]

Watching Voyager episode S4 E2 The Gift

Jeri Ryan is a great actor.

[El Barto]

About a third of season 1 is perfectly watchable. It's just that the other 2/3 is so bad. I've gone back and watched some of the more decent ones quite recently and they didn't bug me much. I certainly wouldn't tell somebody to skip the whole thing. I'd just warn them that most of it blows.

[Kotowboy]

About a third of season 1 is perfectly watchable. It's just that the other 2/3 is so bad. I've gone back and watched some of the more decent ones quite recently and they didn't bug me much. I certainly wouldn't tell somebody to skip the whole thing. I'd just warn them that most of it blows.

It's really 80s and has that horrible constant synth score. And then there's scenes with no background music or SFX at all which are really jarring with handheld camera which makes it seem really

amateur.

[Kotowboy]

WTF is this ? Apocalypse Now ?

How is this Star Trek ?

[Kotowboy]

Favourite characters from each series ?

• TOS - Spock

• TNG - Data

• DS9 - Odo

• VOY - EMH

• ENT - tbc



omg. the scene where Neelix has to teach 7 how to eat.

[hefdaddy42]

OK, I rewatched "Datalore" and that wasn't too bad.  But being impatient, and not in the mood to suffer through any more bad material, I skipped straight ahead to "Elementary, Dear Data" which was fun.

[El Barto]

Favourite characters from each series ?

• TOS - Spock

• TNG - Data

• DS9 - Odo

• VOY - EMH

• ENT - tbc



omg. the scene where Neelix has to teach 7 how to eat.

The only one I'd change is DS9, and I'd either go with Garack or Dukat. Weyoun and Kai Ratched a very close third. DS9 is the best example of an ST show where the secondary characters are all far more interesting than the primary ones.

As for ENT, if Shran counts, there you are. Otherwise I might go with the dog.

[Polarbear]

Favourite characters from each series ?

TOS - McCoy

TNG - Picard or Data

DS9 - Odo, Dax or Bashir

VOY - Seven, Doctor or Kes

ENT - ? Maybe Hoshi?

[Kotowboy]

Kes ?


Boy was I glad when she left... She was like an irritating cross between Tasha Yar & Deanna Troi.

[abydos]

• TOS - no one, haven't finished it bc bad

• TNG - Data / Picard / Q

• DS9 - this is a tough one since so many of them are great. Jadzia Dax, Odo, Garak would be the first three.

• VOY - no one, haven't finished it bc bad

• ENT - Archer/ T'Pol - This is a bit hard, because for me at least there were no big standouts, but they worked really well together as a team.

[Kotowboy]

Voyager : S4 E7 : Scientific Method.

When you see the EMH drawing in the holodeck and then you ee his drawing and it's TERRIBLE.

[El Barto]

Good episode, though.

[Kotowboy]

I'm saying it's a funny joke. Not that it's a bad scene.

I LOVE jokes that don't draw attention to themselves.

If it was a Seth Rogen / Will Ferell film - there'd be 5 minutes of actors screaming about how awful the drawing is.

[Kotowboy]

Woah Michael Ironside.

Oh wait no it's Kurtwood Smith. I always get them confused...

[El Barto]

Woah Michael Ironside.

Oh wait no it's Kurtwood Smith. I always get them confused...

Dumbass!

[Kotowboy]

Well a double dumbass on you !

[BlobVanDam]

I'm not sure Kotow will get the reference, and just think you're calling him a dumbass for no reason.

[Kotowboy]

Is it a robocop reference or a Voyage Home ref ?

[El Barto]

Is it a robocop reference or a Voyage Home ref ?

Red Foreman from That 70's Show. Great reply, though. 

[Kotowboy]

ive not seen it but I know he's in it.

[BlobVanDam]

I actually knew him from That '70s Show first, so I always found it funny seeing all of his earlier serious roles where he was often a bad guy. And his appearances in Trek have always amused me too.

[El Barto]

He just makes me call everybody dumbass.

Including him as Annorax, actually. The solution was, in retrospect, painfully obvious.

[Kotowboy]

Both he and Ronny Cox seem like theyd be nice in real life.




Edit : Annorax.

[Kotowboy]

WTF ?!

Voyager : " Random Thoughts " - When Tuvok thinks " violent thoughts " - some of the images are from "Event Horizon"

[soupytwist]

Favourite characters from each series ?

• TOS - Spock

• TNG - Data

• DS9 - Odo

• VOY - EMH

• ENT - tbc

TOS : Kirk.
There are only 3 main characters to choose from here Kirk, Spock and Bones and they are all great in their own way.
TNG : Worf.
Toss Up between Picard and Worf.
DS9 : Garek (because I don't want to pick Worf again)..
So many good characters on this show - Bashir, O'Brien, Jax (ver 1), Dukot....
VOY : The Doctor.
Slim Pickings.
ENT : Trip.
Slimmer Pickings.

[El Barto]

TNG : Worf.
Toss Up between Picard and Worf.
DS9 : Garek (because I don't want to pick Worf again)..

Worf would actually be a decent pick for DS9 (though IMO far behind several of the secondary characters), but he'd be very low on my list for TNG, even though I dislike damn near all of them. Worf was a weak Klingon for most of that series. He certainly had his better moments when dealing with actual Klingon stuff, but those tended to be offset by a lot of other factors (Troi, his idiot son, his suckiness at his job). Once he got to DS9 he was basically just allowed to be his own guy and it worked far better for him.

[hefdaddy42]

What are the overlap seasons of TNG and DS9?  How much cross-pollination/continuity was there between the shows while both were on the air?

I never watched much of DS9 when it was on the air.  When I start my rewatch, will I need to start it while I am still watching TNG or will I be OK to wait until I'm done with TNG?

[BlobVanDam]

I can't really think of any major crossover between them, nothing that would benefit from watching them side by side at least. I say just watch TNG, then watch DS9.

[King Postwhore]

More like Picard showing up in the beginning.   There is the same timeline,but no definite episode to crossover on.