Star Trek Megathread: Everyone Get In It's Time to Boldly Go

[Pike]

This thread is for the discussion of anything and everything Star Trek.

Welcome here with open arms:

• The Original Series
• The Animated Series
• The Next Generation
• Deep Space Nine
• Most of the movies (including those of the reboot)

Reluctantly welcome here:

• Voyager
• Enterprise
• Star Treks V, Insurrection, Nemesis

News:
49 more years until Zefram Cochrane invents warp and the Vulcans land in Pike's yard!

Starter Topic:
When was the last time you watched Trek and why are you not watching Trek right now?

Huxley and I are almost done with TNG. Next stop TNG movies and then DS9.

[Jinx]

About a year, and I don't know why.

[Ayen]

The last Star Trek related thing I watched was May of last year, Star Trek Into Darkness, which I thought was a great film. The movies have done a good job of bringing the characters from TOS back to life and that was always the appeal of Star Trek. The characters.

I'm not watching any right now 'cause I don't feel like it. I switch between moods of what I want to watch quite often. Right now it's all GoT until the next thing comes along and grabs my attention. I still want to get the third season of TOS, though. Then my TOS collection will be complete and I can start tracking down TNG seasons. But I still need to get my hands on the sixth TOS film.

I don't get why Nemesis gets as much hate as it does. To put it in the same boat as Insurrection is an insult I wouldn't even grant to Star Trek V. The beginning scenes were crap, yes, and the ending was a rip off of Wrath of Khan without any of the same impact, but the rest, minus one scene I'm not going to mention, was just fine. The villain actually felt like a character instead of a person standing around doing nothing until the climax and they didn't try to squeeze screen time in for the entire cast like they did with the other films. It was also the first time that Data was starting to understand what it meant to be human (and I'll gladly forget the chip exists since they never mention it) which is something TNG fans have been waiting for since the beginning of his smurfing development.

[Crop]

I don't think I'm ever NOT watching some sort of Star Trek.

[Pike]

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In all fairness I haven't seen it since... I don't even know, whenever it was in the theater I think. I just remember really disliking it. I'll be watching it again soon and then I'll report back with updated thoughts.





* smiley not meant as an insult. I just wanted an excuse to use it.

[Ayen]

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* smiley not meant as an insult. I just wanted an excuse to use it.

I honestly thought ":talk:" was funnier

I wish Enterprise wasn't prematurely cancelled. It was really starting to get interesting into its fourth season but by that time the verdict was already out on it. The past three series prior needed a couple of seasons before they got good, Enterprise was finally starting to see that same shift but they cancelled it and gave us the worst send-off imaginable and now so many questions will remain unanswered. I also thought the way they incorporated the Borg into an episode using the plot from First Contact was brilliant.

Who here has played Star Trek Online? This thread has got me wanting to pick it back up again.

[Slothy]

I've played more of Star Trek Online than I care to admit Tori. I hate MMO's, and I'm not a big fan of the gameplay in it either, but I get to fly a Galaxy class starship and be exposed to copious amounts of fan service so apparently that's enough to get me to betray every gaming principle I live by.

Anyway, I agree with Tori that Nemesis isn't nearly as bad as everyone says it is. It's not great, but it's definitely not on the same level as Star Trek V or Insurrection. It at least had a reasonable concept that suffered a bit in the execution. The other two were just plain terrible ideas.

[Shauna]

I like Voyager.

Deal wit it.

[Slothy]

Anyone who watches Voyager again should turn it into a drinking game. Every time they mention trying to solve a problem with the deflector dish, a warp field, or modulating the phasers you take a shot.

Warning: watching more than two episodes back to back while playing this game will result in death.

[Ayen]

I've played more of Star Trek Online than I care to admit Tori. I hate MMO's, and I'm not a big fan of the gameplay in it either, but I get to fly a Galaxy class starship and be exposed to copious amounts of fan service so apparently that's enough to get me to betray every gaming principle I live by.

Right there with ya, bud. Each mission big or small felt like my very own episode and I loved every minute of it.

I like Voyager.

Deal wit it.

I liked Voyager too. It was my introduction into Star Trek and has some of my favorite characters in it: The Doctor, Kes, Janeway.

Janeway's last line to the Borg Queen was awesome.

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I randomly thrown on an episode of TNG while doing other stuff. I keep meaning to watch Deep Space 9 as it seems different and interesting.

I tried watching voyager but I could not stand Janeway. I wanted to shoot myself.

[Shauna]

I like Voyager.

Deal wit it.

Oh. I forgot the most important part of this announcement.

I like Voyager better than DS9.

DOUBLE DEAL WIT IT.

[Madame Adequate]

Pike what do you think of the fact that soon we will be watching the TNG movies, including ones that are not First Contact, and then after DS9 we will watch Voyager?

e; Shauna, what... what do they put in the water up in Scotland? I'm genuinely concerned for you.

[Shauna]

Scottish water is much better than that limey stuff you get down south.

I have seen significantly less DS9 compared to Voyager, that probably has a lot to do with it. I will rectify this situation by watching all the Star Treks and coming to a fully formed opinion. Eventually.

[Ayen]

I never got into Deep Space Nine myself. That was a show my mom watched religiously so I have seen some of it, but nothing ever grabbed at me like the other series did.