Watching for the last time...

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Maybe it's your VCR. They made those tapes to clean the heads of the machine every so often.

I've tried them on more than one machine...

Googling told me what was wrong, and even how to fix it (although 1) I'm all thumbs with intricate work, 2) I don't have the time, and 3) I'm not that bothered)

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http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/how-to-fix-sqeaky-vhs.14841/

I'll just watch the ones that still work. So far I forced myself to watch that ep with Joel Grey, and the one with Nog turned Kazon. Another tape wasn't quite so bad, it squeaked occasionally and the picture shimmered every few second, but that was it, the only episode that really suffered on that tape was the one with Chakotay's dad, the rubber people episode..

I didn't bother with The Chute and The Swarm.

 

[jaime]

Yes...

I have never watched TNG's "The Wounded" since 2004 since I watched it with my then girlfriend. She was very ill and we watched it on her hospital room's tv. One of her last acts was to give me a hug after it was over and say she'd watch "Devil's Due" tomorrow - sadly, she slipped away during the night.

From that day, and every time for the next twelve years, I walk out of the room it comes on

Just to say I have liked this because it is a touching anecdote, in a thread that will lend itself to 'this trek is rubbish this trek is good', and whilst I am sure there are many who will say otherwise, I think not watching that episode again for those reasons is a genuinely touching gesture of remembrance.
I hope you have found happiness in your life since that sad event.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Just to say I have liked this because it is a touching anecdote, in a thread that will lend itself to 'this trek is rubbish this trek is good', and whilst I am sure there are many who will say otherwise, I think not watching that episode again for those reasons is a genuinely touching gesture of remembrance.
I hope you have found happiness in your life since that sad event.

Thank you...

Thankfully, I have found somebody else, but Rudy will always still with me forever - hence why I don't watch "The Wounded" at all... Its all too painful

 

[FormerLurker]

In all honesty, for the sake of your remembrance of her, I hope one day you will be able to watch the episode in her honor and memory. I think it is a far better tribute, myself, to do the thing that tugs the heartstrings, and use the tug to recall happy memories, than to avoid it for fear of the unhappy ones.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Finished my run through of Voyager on VHS today, and I'm really going to miss it... That little digital clock under the TV. DVDs and Blurays may be great, but you can't tell the time with those.

Seriously, Voyager wasn't as bad as I remembered, once you forgive the reset buttons, the lack of character growth, the jettison of the original premise. I'd say fifteen to twenty percent was memorable, sixty percent watchable. Not enough for me to buy it again on DVD, but enough for me to tune in for a TV repeat, and hope that it's not a stupid episode, like the one with the salamander babies... Or any episode with the use of the word Akoochimoya, or Eeekwinocks (Equinox).

 

[locutus101]

Not everyone likes everything, not even when it comes to Star Trek, which let's face it is a broad church. When I was first into it, I religiously bought everything, books, videos, CDs the works. It's only later, following maturity, that I started to look on these things with a more critical eye, and found that some aspects of Star Trek I'm not particularly fond of. I've gradually upgraded my collection to disc from tape, but now I come to Star Trek Voyager, which I bought as it was released. And I find I have no desire to get the DVDs. But I have to get rid of the VHS tapes, I'm screaming for reclaimed storage space...

So this is my last run through of Star Trek Voyager. I've dug out the old VHS player, and I'll watch them then throw them away. And then never think of Voyager again.

Then again, I thought I'd never buy Star Trek Nemesis after watching it in the cinema, and then I wind up getting the Stardate Collection...

Have you had a last experience with a Trek franchise?

I will. Likely it will be sometime before I am dead.