Nerd rage....

[Forbin]

I was watching an Enterprise ep yesterday for the first time since its original run and shook my head in anger at the fact that all the computer sounds were near-identical to TNG. There were many things that could have been done to make that show actually feel like a prequel. Projectile weapons for one...

I think my first major nerd-rage moment with Boobyprize was, one episode, they faded in from the titles, we see the ship cruising by, and the dull incidental music was playing, and it was EXACTLY like an opening shot from about 100 Voyager episodes. My heart sank, my anger boiled, and I shut the TV the frak off.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I love Goldeneye. I didn't realize so many people had a problem with it.

As for nerd rage, I'm pretty good about keeping it in check. I usually just get annoyed, smoke a cigarette and let the tumor in my brain grow a couple more inches. One thing that definitely pops to mind was the remake of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Of all the horror movie remakes, I don't think any of them bothered me more than that one did.

 

[Wingsley]

1. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier - was like paying to see "Spock's Brain" in a movie theater. No... "Spock's Brain" would've been better.
2. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - the actors were doing comic sendups instead of acting. What a waste.
3. TNG's "Home Soil" - Never heard of silicon-based lifeforms before, eh? Horta, anyone?

Those are just a few off the top of my head.

 

[Green Shirt]

Nerd rage doesn't seem to be very dangerous. You might get flipped off, or shot at experiencing someone's road rage.

What's a nerd gonna do to you? Chuck his pocket protector at ya? Make prank phone calls from his suite in Mom's basement? Take a shower?

 

[Amaris]

No, no nerd rage that I can recall.


J.

 

[Bara Khuda]

CSI recent episode about "Astral Quest," a thinly disguised ST. One character, sitting in a forensics lab, working with computers and microscopes, remarks (with unintended irony) about how "only nerds care about a cheesy 60's science fiction TV show" (unlike those "cool" people obsessed with watching crime forensic shows ad nauseum. No nerd has ever watched a single episode of CSI or its spawn).

Assuming TOS is for nerds, then what do cool people watch?

People who can't understand why TOS special effects were not done by Industrial Light & Magic.

"Enterprise" theme song. Some people are probably convinced it was better because it was recorded with newer equipment. Lack of memorable incidental TOS music throughout later series. The loss of the audio & visual ambience of TOS in later series.

Most importantly, not being able to get a cd with the background atmospheric sound from when Pike & crew beam down to Talos 4.

 

[Anticitizen]

I just discovered the Sci-Fi channel is airing PROFESSIONAL (fake) WRESTLING.

Doubleyou.
Tee.
Eff!?

 

[Too Much Fun]

Didn't you hear the announcement that they're moving away from showing only science fiction programs as evidenced by the choice to change their name to "SyFy"? No, this is not a joke, unfortunately.

 

[Triskelion]

Killing Data. RRRRRGH! Just say you gave him an aging program. Then later when he's too old, reboot him like Doctor Who. What's the problem?

I liked 5th Element because I liked the villain (Commissioner Gordon actor, his name slips my mind).

Enterprise's revised opening theme. And all the decon scenes.

Crashing the D without so much as a thank you ma'am. Hey, out with the old, in with the new!

ANY time plots are recycled between series. For example, the "I'm alone on a starship and going mad" or "body switch" or "X files small town investigation" or "Kid for a day" or "Nurse with Baggage" or "Film Crew Terrorists" or....

I really don't like the humorless BMW commercial called the 007 franchise these days. Bond should have a sense of humor. Now the world is too big for him to handle. And frankly, it takes itself too seriously. I for one can't identify with him or care what happens to him. Though the new actor who plays him is really great - just lighten it up. Geez it's a movie, not a funeral.

Hancock.
Starship Troopers 2 etc
The end of Dr Who season 4 - WTF??? And a year till the next one? No thanks, I'll just write him off!

Yeah, I absolutely revile gratuitous cliffhangers as contract manipulation.

And why did they cancel Cleopatra 2525? It was the best show since Star Trek TOS!

 

[treklover]

Killing Data. RRRRRGH! Just say you gave him an aging program. Then later when he's too old, reboot him like Doctor Who. What's the problem?

Brent Spiner said at the convention that he thought he was too old to play Data because Data would not age.
They could have made another Next Generation movie with the original cast except for Spiner and have another actor play Data (kind-of like Data got rebooted). Yes, I would miss Brent as Data, too, but it would have given them less of an excuse not to make a movie.

My nerd rage: (not really rage, but sadness) is when I had to look away every time Spock kissed Uhura or kept making moon-eyes at her on the bridge.
It would have been much better if they had fixed-him up with a women who was not on the bridge (the way Nurse Chapel was in TOS).
The rest of the movie was great, but this just urked me because there is no way in Heck that these two characters would ever have behaved this way, even with Spock succumbing to his emotions, even in an alternate universe! Yuck!
What happened to protocol on this ship? Does Starfleet command approve of this behavior?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

No. Life's too short.

 

[Basill]

I only experience nerd meh.

 

[Warped9]

My nerd rage from two nights ago has subsided. But I still can't think of anything I liked about the film.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I only experience nerd meh.

What about nerd horniness? Is nerd horniness an emotion?

 

[ST-One]

My nerd rage from two nights ago has subsided. But I still can't think of anything I liked about the film.

Well, then... you just live long and prosper...

 

[Warped9]

My nerd rage from two nights ago has subsided. But I still can't think of anything I liked about the film.

Well, then... you just live long and prosper...

Thanks. And you.

 

[johnsonalmighty]

Any kind of rage is very bad. Im not talking about fleeting moments of anger, Im talking about the sheer force of will that can kill a man. Here's a story, my friend in grade 5 brought out the Enterprise-A for show and tell. During Lunch after show and tell another young kid in our class bullied him until he broke the enterprise. At first my buddy started to tear up. The Bully started to moke some more. At this point my friend got sick of it pounced on the kid and proceed to beat the living crap out of him! It was brutal to say the least. He got Expelled and I did see him until grade 10. For me the Vulcans got it right bury the anger it just causes problems oh boy.

 

[Too Much Fun]

I guess the closest I got to being really pissed about something nerdy was when watching with "And the Children Shall Lead" and "Plato's Stepchildren". Here I'd just watched most of two seasons of Star Trek for the first time and built up an enormous amount of affection for the actors and the characters they played, and seeing them be as humiliated as they were in those episodes made me want to quit watching "Star Trek" for good. Thankfully there were episodes like "The Tholian Web", "Day of the Dove", "Whom Gods Destory", and "Turnabout Intruder" to restore my love for Star Trek after those season 3 atrocities tainted it.