Posted by Kal'En:
Posted by RedFenix:
Outside of school, I love to do all sorts of things. I'm a competitive Irish stepdancer, first and foremost (got lots of Irish in me as well!)
All the best people do.
You should get over to Dublin some weekend. I seem to recall an offer to join me in a jig down O'Connell Street...
Kal'En, I'm there already... I heard Air Canada and Jetsgo just slashed their prices...
okay, my turn. And no, I'm not telling y'all my age.
been a lifelong trekkie. well as far back as I can remember. before Trek, don't remember much. okay, that's not true but what the heck this
is TrekBBS!
I'm a freelance writer and an editor and write a lot of nonsense in my spare time.
I love film and books and plays and yes, even the opera. I can stay in a room all by myself for ages with just a pile of books. you just need to feed me intermittently.
My fave *western* classic is the
Illiad. and then Tolstoy's
The Resurrection. love Austen and Dickens and Wilder and Poe. loved those old b-movies -- those old vampire flicks like
Brides of Dracula and yeah even newer, more fun stuff like
Love at First Bite.
but I really dig political intrigue and end-of-an-era classics like
Dr. Zhivago and
The Manchurian Candidate. But then I also love
Dr. Strangelove.
back to Trek, imo, the classics are the spice of life. they never fail to excite the system. so I love shakespearean/mythic references on Trek. hence I loved DS9 and STII and also STVI.
but first, I loved TOS. I was one of the first kids in line for STII (that should date me yeah). STII still rocks.
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!"
yeah it's probably hands down the best Trek movie ever made
*and* it can compete with any suspense/thriller/drama movie of that era, etc etc.
I loved STIII but more for the moments/chemistry/cameraderie/love between the crew ("Admiral, is the word given?"; "No, I am therefore going, anyway!"), not the plot -- it was a little too predictable for my taste. and for a cast that didn't "get along" they sure had oodles of chemistry together onscreen eh? I can watch TWOK, TSFS, and TUC many times.
STIV was good but haven't watched it since. it had some fun parts but on the whole, felt too much like a sell-out. but it did bring a lot of new fans into the fold. I give it that. "Everybody remember where we parked!"
what else? loved First Contact. hated every other TNG movie. yuk. Generations was only ok for the first few minutes.
I love watching character arcs, tension, conflict, drama, psychological hangups and understated, convoluted dialogue. And I love dry humour and biting satire. so I adored DS9 (and yes also B5). DS9 had almost every single character *start somewhere, and end up somewhere else*. that is an amazing achievement. and this spanned its recurrent characters too. crazy!
I didn't watch Voyager on its first run. watched it in syndication. thought it no comparison to DS9, though it seemed to have wasted potential in terms of some characters. but I didn't like the *away* mission. I want to see Trek stick to people and events *effecting* change, and in turn, that change *affecting* people and events. at times, I love that feeling of "full circle". at other times, I love being left hanging. it's all in the writing of it.
I
*hate* reset buttons with a vengeance. they should be eradicated from all modern literature and tv and film. the classics
always showed consequences of actions. that's why they're classic.
ENT is good. it really is getting better. and I feel heartened this season to see the writers attempting to inject new life into it. I love the cast, yes, even Anthony Montgomery; although he could use some help with his delivery of lines. and I like the new direction. I'm looking forward to this next bunch of episodes yeah...
okay, I'll shut up now. hope y'all had a good nap at my expense.
