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ShroomerInTheRye
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Any Star Trek Fans?
#22195771 - 09/06/15 05:22 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've been watching a lot of Star Trek on Netflix lately, so I'm wondering if we have any other fans in the house and what your favorite series is.
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Shroomslip
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I wouldn't say fan. But I do watch some of it. Voyagers is hands down my favorite and to date, the only series I've watched in it's entirety. Actually, I "watch" it every night and have for probably the last 5+ years. I can't sleep without noise, so I throw on a few episodes before I lay down. I do this with this particular show because I've seen it so much, there is nothing I've missed. I can just listen to it and know exactly what's going on. There's no random sitting up to see what is happening or anything.
I've watched most of DS9 and TNG. I don't like either a lot. They're just okay. I've seen all the movies from First Contact up.
I also have Renegades sitting on my desktop waiting to be watched.
I also hand built Voyager in Mine craft. Took me a couple of weeks, it was pretty much life sized. No interior or anything, for obvious reasons. Was a pretty fun project.
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I agree with you about Voyager and I do the same thing. When I lay down for the night, I pop it on Netflix.
That's really cool how you built Voyager in Minecraft!
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It wasn't easy. Voyager is one sexy bitch, she's all curves. Making curves with square blocks is kinda hard
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I grew up watching Star Trek with my dad. I've seen it all. Except Deep Space 9. That one is an abomination and should have been burned alive when they had the chance.
The OG series is classic but TNG is thought provoking. I like them both.
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DS9 really isn't that bad. I mean, I'm not a huge fan, but it has it's moments. I love the quark-odo conflicts.
Actually I just like Odo in general because I identify with him.
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"To boldly go where no man has gone before."
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They did go where no man has gone before.
They made a show about space exploration that happens almost entirely in a fixed position.
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DS9 has some hammy actors in the station's main crew but a great supporting cast (Garak, all the Ferengi characters, etc) and story arc. I'd say it's my second favorite Star Trek series after TNG. When it was first out I thought it was shit though, wasn't until much later that I gave it a chance again and watched it straight through. DS9 ripped off Babylon 5 a lot I think, another show that's great once you get past some of the corny acting. The CGI exterior shots on that are horrible but some of the costume work is amazing.
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It's awesome how Star Trek makes you think...even the original episodes. It seems they always try to push and open up dialogue about society's issues. Like that interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura. There was that episode in TNG with the J'Nai where they didn't have gender labels.
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The original is the one series I haven't been able to watch in its entirety. Just doesn't hold my attention for long enough to sit through an episode most of the time.
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Re: Any Star Trek Fans? [Re: psi]
#22195878 - 09/06/15 06:39 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I haven't even see a preview for TOS. Will never watch it. I don't like old shit. If it wasn't for Q I'd probably never even watch TNG because it's too old.
I just have this thing about crappy effects. It completely ruins the immersion. I can't look back on something and appreciate it for what it was in it's time. I only have what I've known my entire life to judge it by.
I do watch old shit (yes contradiction) but anything action/sci-fi, just can't do it. I grew up on I Love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke and shit like that and still watch it. But sci-fi shit? Can't really do it pre-90's.
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Those craptastic "special effects" are my favorite parts of older TV shows and movies. Like Plan 9 From Outer Space. That movie should get a Lifetime Achievement Award for Hilarious Craptasticness.
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They redid all the effects for the blu-ray version of TOS, for good or bad. I have great looking rips of them but I never watch them, I just get too bored. The blu-ray rips of TNG look great too.
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I enjoyed The Original Series, TNG is a distant second and all the rest was relatively shitty. 
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I grew up on TNG, but watched Voyager, DS9, and TOS. I didn't watch TOS until after I watched the 2009 reboot though. It didn't hold my interest very long, I think that speaks to some of themes of the era more than the quality of the show.
My favorite series was definitely DS9 though; Quark, Garak, and Judzia Dax being my three favorite characters.
I'm really excited about Star Trek: Anaxar.
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Love TNG, and whilst we're on about "old stuff" Also should watch dark star. It's got an arguement with a philosophical bomb which makes it a great story.
FWIW, Data was my hero in TNG.
Voyager could have been so interesting if they stayed to help that human colony. Half the crew wanted to settle. THey could have made a foundation, like foundation and empire, but more optimistic. Instead they just redid TNG, but not as good.
Enterprise had some very good actors but they were crippled by shit writing that no one cared for.
I like DS9, I find the show far more "comfortable" than TNG, and yes, I to like babylon 5 and I'm so pleased to hear there's a new Babylon 5 film coming out, about 20 years on, which I said right at the beginning, i'd love to see.
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Shroomslip
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Q was mine. If I were an omnipotent being, I would be exactly like Q.
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There's an animated series?haha, i''ll have to check it out
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Re: Any Star Trek Fans? [Re: abductee]
#22196099 - 09/06/15 08:14 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Taysiders in space for those that haven't seen it. Scotty would feel at home :3
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