TV Guide featuring Voyager, "most promising and risky Star Trek yet!"
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Remember CD-ROM caddies?
Talk about a blast from the past!
Dude, I remember floppy discs and wired computer mice with rubber balls in... CD ROMs were the future!
Yeah, for me, when it comes to TNG vs VOY, I definitely come down on VOY's side. TNG admittedly has higher highs than VOY, but it also has much lower lows - and not just in the first two seasons. I'd much rather watch Threshold than episodes like Masks, Descent, Man of the People, and any episode with Lore or Deanna being abused for 40 minutes.I remember when this article came out. I consumed it eagerly.
TNG lite? Hm. I'm doing a VOY rewatch now (which makes up for a few episodes I missed here and there) and I'm impressed by how much more I prefer it over TNG. And VOY was different, with the first regular hologram and ex-Borg characters and a woman captain. I'm finding that I love the show even more than I thought I did.
"Can you find romance online?" Yup - and much more. Probably too much.
"Press a button and work from home?" Yup!
What is Ethan standing in? An electronics rack of some kind?
Those balls hurt like hell if you got caught in the face with one flying across the computer lab.
(I found an old mouse stash in a box at work and saved every ball. Tossed the mice. But those balls are too cool to just throw away!)
Philips looks like he's standing in an Agony Booth.
I'm curious about what's under the glass dome. It looks like a Nintendo DS, but it's too early for that I think...?
Mouse balls are a great weapon.
I also remember periodically having to take the ball out of the mouse and having to clean the track wheels inside.
Life was shit in the old days!
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Halcyon days...
Ethan Phillips looks a a lot like Jason Alexander in that picture.
Remember CD-ROM caddies?
Talk about a blast from the past!
I had a few Mac PowerPCs that needed those…
I’ve got two original Blue iMacs that both work great. I wish it were 2001 so I could sell them for 3,000 bux each… actually the value might be going back up.
in the image, B’lanna is stooping next to a desktop computer, but I can’t read the brand. Anyone know what that is?
back then, I built my own computers from Barebones systems, it was the best way to do it back then. Those computers would last years and years and back then it was all Windows 98 SE, I had, still have a Microsoft Sidewinder joystick I used to use to play Mech Warrior II.
these days, well I have a Mac Pro 5,1, that cannot be updated without a 500 dollar Metal Capable video card, so I use it for Bootcamp. Apple and now Microsoft are using planned obsolescence more and more and more. I even had to buy an iPhone 8 cos my 6S was made obsolete.
My mom and I were talking about this last week. We were discussing old computer and video games and she recalled a game that was pixelated gorillas on top of gray buildings throwing exploding bananas at each other. And yes I recall using the command prompt and lines to initiate the game.
Far be it from me to romanticize the past, but, at least when it comes to computers, there was a sense of adventure accompanying the multitude of incompatibilities we had to circumnavigate. Plus, there absolutely was a greater sense of accomplishment when you pieced together your own personal computer (a task made far easier in the present thanks to the internet and more computer-savvy folks in general).
Yeah. I remember being resistant to change but the greatest accessibility now is leaps and bounds ahead.
Halcyon days...
What strikes me is how Kes is in the very center of the picture, dressed in attention-grabbing colors, as if she was supposed to be the big star of the show, whereas once the show started they didn't really know what to do with her after her initial characterisation.
I mean... it's not exactly rocket science to figure out why they put the young pretty white girl on the front of the magazine cover.
I liked Voyager, but the whole 'get back to Earth' thing got old really fast. Compare that to Farscape: there were a few early episodes where Crichton tried getting back to Earth, but for the most part he was resigned to staying where he was and helping his fellow renegades. I really wish that VOY had done the same thing: Find a spot in the Delta Quadrant, settle down, and make a life for themselves in this new place rather than wandering aimlessly through space getting the ship beaten to crap every week by aliens-of-the-week, but then having it miraculously repaired and spotless by the start of the next episode. The suspension of disbelief in that show was intelligence-insulting.
Quite frankly, even if JL had donned last-year's burlap sack, she would have commanded every gaze.
So, that would show the producers were aware of this capacity from the start, yet chose to not use it in the series (instead going for the elvish and alien look). I'm not saying they should have, the way they exploited 7's appearance later was, frankly, offputting, but it's still interesting to see the difference between the publicity pictures and the show itself.
There isn't anything objectionable about that, and I never said it was.
I only observe that in that picture she seems to be presented as the center of the cast, which she wasn't in the actual show. I find that surprising.
I only observe that in that picture she seems to be presented as the center of the cast, which she wasn't in the actual show. I find that surprising.
"(instead going for the elvish and alien look)" lead me to believe there was an implication that conventional good looks are better for marketing (as opposed to an exotic physiognomy that isn't as broadly appealing).
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