Has Discovery brought you back to Trekbbs?
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DSC hasn't brought me back, because nothing can make me leave.
The Minions work for Bonz now? That does explain a lot.
To explain further...
I had heard in order to make a Romulan (or Vulcan) woman more like an Orion goddess, slap her in the face a few times until her face looks green (from the green blood and all
). Unfortunately I tried this with T'bonz on to get my ass kicked and thrown into the Trekbbs dungeon. Then, I was subject to all sorts of torture by her minions. I did escape once, but that's a story for another time. LOL
Yeah! I've been absent from this board for ten years and came here to check for info and speculation about Discovery since I'm a wee bit excited about it. I originally regged here in 2004 mostly because of ENT, and now that there's a new show...
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I have been poking my head in more lately than I have in the last few months. I mostly had been checking the lit page for upcoming novels but have been in the movie & future of areas more.
Have high hopes for Discovery, it'll be nice waiting week-week for new Trek instead of every 3 years.
Have high hopes for Discovery, it'll be nice waiting week-week for new Trek instead of every 3 years.
@Greg Cox - It's a big ass forum basically, but it's distinguishing feature was that people's posts get up-voted to the top of the thread if they are liked a lot. From the era when voting on everything was in vogue, (supposedly a sign of democracy and collective intelligence). I think it has had some controversies, becoming a home for racism maybe, and people dislike it now, or something. Or maybe they don't, I dunno. It's cool sometimes to lurk on anyway.
Unless you were joking I mean
Thanks for the explanation and, no, I wasn't joking. Good to know, although I admit to still being a little leery because, yes, I had picked up the vague, secondhand impression that it could be a seething cauldron of racism, sexism, etc. Which may be an unfair characterization, but that's the context in which I usually heard the word "Reddit" bandied about. ("They're raging on Reddit about how women and gay people are destroying comic books again ... .")
I'll think I'll just stick around here for the the duration.
No. It's like The Prisoner. You may think you've escaped and got back to the real world, but one day you'll realise you're living in a simulacrum populated by actors, and you never really got out at all.
I never left. I'm glad if people have come back. I'll be sad if it all degenerates into "This isn't exactly what I wanted therefore it's the worst thing ever!", just like it has every other time. But really, what are the odds of that happening again?
Reddit sounds redditulous.
A hefty ignore list, and you too can live in a paradise.
Tricky as while I'm excited about Star Trek: Discovery, I've been wanting to get back into Trek fandom for a while anyway.
As mentioned elsewhere, I love all Trek from The Cage to Beyond but after the death of Enterprise and Nemesis, the enthusiasm for Star Trek across the board seemed to dip. The local Star Trek group shut up shop due to falling membership, but we all remained good friends since. And I think we all found other things to be excited about (For instance, I started to invest more in my other ongoing passions - motorsports, Doctor Who, tech, etc), but by earlty 2012 I started to miss Star Trek fandom.
I started going to conventions again. (Well, I say conventions but somehow they turned into comic cons which aren't quite the same - more impersonal). I joined some Star Trek fan groups on Facebook. I joined two local groups which both vanished, before my former local group rose like a phoenix from the ashes (and became the USS Phoenix). I found the conventions that I went to in the late 90s were still running so I started going back to those.
However, fandom had changed. I left many of the Facebook groups for the sheer nastiness that came about from some of the members towards fans of certain eras. I got told with no irony that I was wrong and an idiot for liking Star Trek and Into Darkness. Some got quite nasty and insulting too, and to be honest, the mods of the groups in question were useless. I've joined other broader 'geek' groups but they've all gone the direction of Pokemon and anime (personally - zero interest), Power Rangers (zero interest) and superheroes (a bit of interest but getting fed up of superhero overkill).
I miss talking about Star Trek (and other space-based sci-fi) so I went on the look out for Star Trek forums. You are the Number 1 search result in Google for 'Star Trek forum' so I joined based on that.
So far you all seem friendly. And while there are some JJ-haters here, you don't seem abusive of the fans that do like the new films. And after all, the new films have brought in new fans. My girlfriend for one. I introduced her to Star Trek and Into Darkness, and we're now working through season 2 of TNG, with her now owning three Star Trek uniforms.
Sorry, it turned into a bit of an essay but that's my recent Trek history.
As mentioned elsewhere, I love all Trek from The Cage to Beyond but after the death of Enterprise and Nemesis, the enthusiasm for Star Trek across the board seemed to dip. The local Star Trek group shut up shop due to falling membership, but we all remained good friends since. And I think we all found other things to be excited about (For instance, I started to invest more in my other ongoing passions - motorsports, Doctor Who, tech, etc), but by earlty 2012 I started to miss Star Trek fandom.
I started going to conventions again. (Well, I say conventions but somehow they turned into comic cons which aren't quite the same - more impersonal). I joined some Star Trek fan groups on Facebook. I joined two local groups which both vanished, before my former local group rose like a phoenix from the ashes (and became the USS Phoenix). I found the conventions that I went to in the late 90s were still running so I started going back to those.
However, fandom had changed. I left many of the Facebook groups for the sheer nastiness that came about from some of the members towards fans of certain eras. I got told with no irony that I was wrong and an idiot for liking Star Trek and Into Darkness. Some got quite nasty and insulting too, and to be honest, the mods of the groups in question were useless. I've joined other broader 'geek' groups but they've all gone the direction of Pokemon and anime (personally - zero interest), Power Rangers (zero interest) and superheroes (a bit of interest but getting fed up of superhero overkill).
I miss talking about Star Trek (and other space-based sci-fi) so I went on the look out for Star Trek forums. You are the Number 1 search result in Google for 'Star Trek forum' so I joined based on that.
So far you all seem friendly. And while there are some JJ-haters here, you don't seem abusive of the fans that do like the new films. And after all, the new films have brought in new fans. My girlfriend for one. I introduced her to Star Trek and Into Darkness, and we're now working through season 2 of TNG, with her now owning three Star Trek uniforms.
Sorry, it turned into a bit of an essay but that's my recent Trek history.
yeah. kinda. I check in whenever a new movie comes out, but this new series will probably have me coming back more often. I had a fun run on here around 2009. life kinda gets in the way, but I'm looking forward to getting back with my trek pals to commiserate about Discovery. I have high hopes and every expectation that it will be great, perhaps even the best since DS9.
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