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The DS9 writing staff had a running joke with a semi-annual "O'Brien Must Suffer" episode. Among these were "Whispers", "Tribunal", "Visionary", "Hard Time", "Honor Among Thieves" and "Prodigal Daughter". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) According to Ira Behr, "Every year in one or two shows we try to make his life miserable, because you empathize with him."

So, rewatching Trek movies. Good times. First Contact has the best opening theme of them all, for reals:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=mhoa7oWPPhk

So, speaking of the movies, does anyone else think TWoK is overrated? Is it a good movie? Sure. But best Trek movie? I don't think so. TBH, TVH and/or TUC are better than TWoK, meme-ness of KHAAAAAN aside. And I also kinda place FC above TWoK now.

EDIT: So I totally went over that already. Whoops. :oops:

But I left the FC > TWoK comment because that's actually new. And I totally stand by it.

The uniforms first introduced in the movie are still the best Starfleet uniforms I have ever seen come from the canon, though. For reals.

The Motion Picture was way better than First Contact.

RANKING THE STAR TREK MOVIES

1) #4
2) #2
3) #6
4) #3

the others meh

i do kinda like three though. christopher lloyd was so over the top

and shatner, as always, was brilliant

Zod wrote:The Motion Picture was way better than First Contact.

Haven't seen it yet. It's on my DVR for Sunday, IIRC.

adr wrote:i do kinda like three though. christopher lloyd was so over the top

and shatner, as always, was brilliant

Even if I liked nothing else in III(and there's plenty I like about it), the stealing of the Enterprise would secure the film for me.

'Commander of Starfleet on emergency channel. He orders you to surrender his wessel.'

I'm sorry, FC>TWoK? That's some stinking hot bullshit

its only fair to say neither are really as good as certain obsessed people would like to think

i gotta say i rewatched twok a few years ago and i was realy underwhelmed by everything except the broad theme and the model work

fc is kind of a lol really

RogueIce wrote:And I also kinda place FC above TWoK now.

!?

Hey the wide beam phaser thing, would the outer bits of the beam be weaker then the center?

Aaron wrote:Hey the wide beam phaser thing, would the outer bits of the beam be weaker then the center?

depends on how sophisticated the power system on a phaser is

unless it has some type of compensation thingy where it distributes power to the outer parts of the beam so it keeps up then probably

you guys ever notice how picard references the events of "pen pals" in "family"

whoa

You need to start watching actual shows
Or start using cocaine seriously

Oh my god DS9 stop the padding.

This is getting to be not funny anymore, at least when Apocalypse and Mister Sinister kept popping up in X-Men I could laugh at them for looking incredibly goofy and doing stupid looking over the top bullshit. But here I just keep getting sad O'Brien/randomly unlikable O'Brien, bad acting, and Bajorans being hateable.

i'm reading some thing on the internet talking about racism in star trek 6

and it mentioned something i never really thought about before

where kirk hated klingons and had biases

spock had the other side of the coin: he had faith in vulcans and that affected him with valeris

whoa a screenshot on the internet shows khan had the holy bible on his bookshelf

i never noticed that


of course i watch an old tape that's been watched 20 times

i'm watching some tas and i love it

so many weird aliens

aqua shuttles!

The death of the Kzinti during this episode's conclusion marks the only time any characters are killed on screen during The Animated Series.

check that ship out

its a nebulon b

wouldn't be the first time an unimaginative hack stole shit from real science fiction

but yeah i haven't watched these animated episodes for a long time

they've been pretty ok so far

and hell how bad can it be

it stars

william shatner

leonard nimoy

deforest kelley

james doohan

james doohan

james doohan

james doohan

james doohan

james doohan

james doohan

majel barrett

majel barrett

majel barrett

majel barrett

george takei

george takei

nichelle nichols


awesome

No Walter Koenig?

the internet says they couldn't afford him too

they let him write an episode though