List Only! Last Star Trek Episode You Watched
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^Very good string of episodes.
I've had a fair break from watching Trek after a full re-watch of DS9 a few months back. I had something on recently and I'm just trying to remember while I type. I had it on in the background... it was TNG... Conundrum. I think the concept was great. I was a bit so-so on the Riker/Ro/Deanna triangle. Worf was pretty funny -- "I am also decorated". One of TNG's better episodes, but not one of the best.
Very much so. But, IMO, hands down one of the best fleet-to-fleet space battles in sci-fi. Sisko's "No one stops until they reach Deep Space Nine", followed by that jaw dropping shot of the Federation fleet diving into Dominion lines always gets me.
I've had a fair break from watching Trek after a full re-watch of DS9 a few months back. I had something on recently and I'm just trying to remember while I type. I had it on in the background... it was TNG... Conundrum. I think the concept was great. I was a bit so-so on the Riker/Ro/Deanna triangle. Worf was pretty funny -- "I am also decorated". One of TNG's better episodes, but not one of the best.
Very much so. But, IMO, hands down one of the best fleet-to-fleet space battles in sci-fi. Sisko's "No one stops until they reach Deep Space Nine", followed by that jaw dropping shot of the Federation fleet diving into Dominion lines always gets me.
Brent Spiner would be a great as a 40's, 50's noir villain.
That's great. Wish I had been there. Yeah I love that era too. Take a film like Howard Hawk's Scarface (1932) which is 88 years old. I value that we can look back that far and get some sense for the customs, fashion, slang etc. of the time.
Sounds like you are making a second pass through TNG in preparation for Picard.
Last episode I watched is TOS That Which Survives.
This is still the first pass. I chopped off the first season from the re-watch and have circled around back to it.
VOY: "Time and Again", and "Parallax"
I'm sure others have noticed this, but for those who haven't, "Parallax" has a lovely nod to TNG: "Cause and Effect" when the anomaly is encountered for the first time. Tuvok reports: "The distortions are emanating from a highly localized disturbance in the space-time continuum. Distance, twenty thousand kilometres off the port bow." And in "Cause and Effect", Worf says: "We are getting unusual readings twenty thousand kilometres off the starboard bow." and "It is a highly localised distortion of the space-time continuum."
[I went to chakoteya.net to check the scripts]
I'm sure others have noticed this, but for those who haven't, "Parallax" has a lovely nod to TNG: "Cause and Effect" when the anomaly is encountered for the first time. Tuvok reports: "The distortions are emanating from a highly localized disturbance in the space-time continuum. Distance, twenty thousand kilometres off the port bow." And in "Cause and Effect", Worf says: "We are getting unusual readings twenty thousand kilometres off the starboard bow." and "It is a highly localised distortion of the space-time continuum."
[I went to chakoteya.net to check the scripts]
Continuing my Voyager rewatch, Heroes and Demons, Cathexis, and Faces
Living in this streaming world, I can understand why Voyager does get crapped on a lot. I still really enjoy the series, but the first season really does feel repetitive. How many time travel stories did we have? How many alien inhibiting a crew member stories did we have (Which I include Heroes and Demons and Cathexis as two of those episodes). One thing that makes Faces stand out above the rest is I love B'Elanna, but this really does delve deep into her character and what makes her tick. It explains her Klingon background and why she was fearful of it. The other day I made a post in the discovery forum about why I hate how the "Filler" episode has gotten such a negative connotation. I feel like in this era of streaming and everyone wanting results right away, we have lost the need to slow things down and develop our characters. I really hope Picard takes this route. I don't mind action, but Star Trek to me has always made me think. Yes they took a stand (usually a progressive stand) but I think it's key mission was opening minds to ideas and why things matter. It discussed but it never preached.
Living in this streaming world, I can understand why Voyager does get crapped on a lot. I still really enjoy the series, but the first season really does feel repetitive. How many time travel stories did we have? How many alien inhibiting a crew member stories did we have (Which I include Heroes and Demons and Cathexis as two of those episodes). One thing that makes Faces stand out above the rest is I love B'Elanna, but this really does delve deep into her character and what makes her tick. It explains her Klingon background and why she was fearful of it. The other day I made a post in the discovery forum about why I hate how the "Filler" episode has gotten such a negative connotation. I feel like in this era of streaming and everyone wanting results right away, we have lost the need to slow things down and develop our characters. I really hope Picard takes this route. I don't mind action, but Star Trek to me has always made me think. Yes they took a stand (usually a progressive stand) but I think it's key mission was opening minds to ideas and why things matter. It discussed but it never preached.
TOS "A Private Little War" and TNG "Haven".
And here is a link to a thread about "A Private Little War": https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/a-private-little-war.302438/
And here is a link to a thread about "A Private Little War": https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/a-private-little-war.302438/
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Watched Jetrel this afternoon.
Has James Sloyan been in anything recently? Other than Jeff Combs, I think Sloyan is my favorite recurring guest actor. He was also in a top 3 TNG favorite for me, The Defector.
Has James Sloyan been in anything recently? Other than Jeff Combs, I think Sloyan is my favorite recurring guest actor. He was also in a top 3 TNG favorite for me, The Defector.
Learning Curve (VOY)
I wish we had seen Dolby again. I rather liked him.
I wish we had seen Dolby again. I rather liked him.
The Quality of Life (TNG Blu-ray)
Watched The 37s tonight.
wouldn’t Voyager crush the landing struts considering it’s weight? The shot of Voyager in the planet sitting on these small four claw like things makes me wonder how the ship can stay in place.
of course I don’t know the tech aspects of Trek, but I would think Voyager would be too heavy to stay still.
wouldn’t Voyager crush the landing struts considering it’s weight? The shot of Voyager in the planet sitting on these small four claw like things makes me wonder how the ship can stay in place.
of course I don’t know the tech aspects of Trek, but I would think Voyager would be too heavy to stay still.
TOS:
The Tholian Web (a very busy episode in ways but is fantastic and fun as all heck)
Is There In Truth No Beauty <-- a really underrated episode, penned by Jean Lisette Aroeste, one of season 3's saving graces IMHO ("All Our Yesterdays" she also penned)
The Tholian Web (a very busy episode in ways but is fantastic and fun as all heck)
Is There In Truth No Beauty <-- a really underrated episode, penned by Jean Lisette Aroeste, one of season 3's saving graces IMHO ("All Our Yesterdays" she also penned)
The materials used for the strut and support construction would have to be sturdier and support tons and tons of weight distributed across the hull. Compare to the Golden Gate Bridge (just without direct connections to the land at the very edges); the ship's scaffolding will have been designed to accommodate weight distribution (while being aware of maximum weight limits since nobody wants that infrastructure to sag in the middle) during any contingency where a landing is required. Their design also proves some starships are now being built on a planet on the ground and not in a space dock in orbit - either as an impromptu idea or as response to an invasion or something that took out their construction starbases, I don't recall the pilot and it's not my favorite episode but I digress. I too am unaware of the technical aspects, and some are inevitably fictional as concept (e.g. dilithium, since that lithium coin battery isn't going to support any warp drive ever.)
Even better, by the 24th century, computer algorithms will be able to do all the design work, allowing humans to construct it after learning enough about construction, which still requires acuity in processing mathematics (measure twice, saw once - unless you're Maxwell Smart and that doesn't date me because I wasn't able to see the show when it first aired
). If we have piddly games on the iPADD and Android devices that allow one to simulate the construction of a bridge and then see if it survives rush hour traffic, then it's just a matter of scaling the algorithms to account for density, mass, weight, and so on of various materials, size, implementation location, and so on. /freerdAlso, how can a giant jet - like a Concorde for example - hold up its fuselage with three struts - two in the rear and one at the forward and those don't look terribly large either? Same cause and reason, different materials available at the time. Granted, its fuselage isn't bulky in the middle but that can still be compensated for - in theory, if not outright imagination. Now where's that special brownie I made leftover from Grace's bag o' acid?
(Note, a Boeing 757 has one strut in the front angled slightly lower than its two other and slightly larger struts in the middle where the bulk of the mass and weight would be...)Also, how could the Enterprise remain saucer-side up while in Earth's gravity in season one'; "Tomorrow is Yesterday"? Counterbalances, anti-gravity mechanisms, propulsion not leaving behind a smoke trail, and other contingencies all operating in sync to keep a proper ship attitude since the original 1701 clearly was designed to flit through an atmosphere.
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"Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (TOS Blu-ray)
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