Sparrow, you're good at writing these synopses.

You got a life?

Care to write me a paper comparing and contrasting (the novels) Frankenstein and Jurassic Park? I'll give you all my info!!

Well, CC, thanks, kind of, and hell no.

Although that would be a cool and interesting paper..

JD!!!!! You're alive!!!!!

I've missed ya, buddy!! *pounces him, gives him a big hug*

Awww, Sparrow...

I'll give you all the needed info.:P

I am alive, I've just been---waaugh!

gets bowled over and hugged

Hmm, sounded a bit like the Penguin there. Yes, yes, still kicking. And hopefully posting a bit more. :-)

Season Two! Done and done! Yes!

Mark's post about a new planet has been moved to the Kitchen Sink/Science Related/Astronomy Class.

On Next Generation, there are two types of rank pips. The gold, and the black with a gold outline. All the reference material I've seen shows the gold pip as being solid gold. However, I was watching "The Wounded" on DVD today, and I noticed that the "gold" pip actually seems to have a small black circle in the center. Is this really the way it is, and all the reference material is wrong, or are my eyes playing tricks on me?

Could have been a bad prop.

I mean ALL the gold pips. I'm watching "Night Terrors" now, and its the same.

It could simply be that in reality, the pips are not solid at all, but a hollow gold circle with another gold or black dot that is inserted into it.

Anyone seen the trailer to the new Pierce Brosnan/Salma Hayek/Woody Harrelson movie After the Sunset? 13 seconds into it, as Salma's character, posing as a homeless squeegie guy, passes her squeegie over the car's scanner, the sound it makes sounds just like a door chime on NextGen. Or am I imagining things here? Interestingly, the movie is being put out by New Line, and not Paramount. (Or such sounds in the public domain?)

It is indeed the NextGen door chime sound, Luigi.

You win the Refspotting Award of the Day.

Sound effects may indeed be public domain material. The background sounds on the TOS Enterprise bridge were previously used in episodes of The Twilight Zone and I Dream Of Jeannie.

I just got a cool new calendar with CGI images of a lot of the Star Trek ships. February features the NCC-1701-J but for the life of me I can't remember what it's from. (And for some reason, the pic looks upside-down). I did a search here with no results. Anyone remember? Thanks.

The episode was "Azati Prime" (ENT). And it's not upside down, it's just futuristic (I have the same calendar ). I thought Doug Drexler did a brilliant job making the CGI just from the background diagrom in that episode, and it also captures both hugeness and speed as the Ent-D did (whereas the Ent-E, while it looks very fast, doesn't look as humongous as the Ent-D).

I saw this on another forums having nothing to do with Star Trek. The poster didn't say where he got it from so I'm just showing what he copied and posted there.
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A New Cast for Star Trek XI

So says writer Jendresen.

March 10, 2005 - Erik Jendresen, who helped write the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, is the man hired by Paramount to pen the next Star Trek feature film. He's not given completely free reign, of course; Star Trek producer Rick Berman and the suits at Paramount have been working on ideas for an eleventh feature ever since Nemesis was released – ideas that have been rumored to include a pre-Captain Kirk adventure with an all new starship crew.

It turns out those rumors are true – for now, at least. Jendresen confirmed in an interview with SyFy Portal that the story will take place before the time of Kirk, Spock, and the original USS Enterprise. It will not, however, feature the cast of the television series Enterprise, as detractors of the show have feared. Instead, it will be the first fresh starship crew for a Star Trek movie.

"We're going 160-odd years before Kirk is born. It's an earlier time, and I think it would be really refreshing to feel something in the course of telling this tale, instead of being wowed by special effects, or presenting another crew in jeopardy where, in the end, the captain does something brilliant, and all's right with the world.

"By the end of this story, everyone isn't fine," Jendresen said. "I can safely say as a storyteller with certain standards ... my intention is literally as a writer, as a storyteller, as a filmmaker, to go boldly where no one has gone before."

While debate has raged among sci-fi fans about the viability – or even desirability – of another Star Trek feature, it is refreshing and even hope-inspiring to hear Jendresen's approach to the stagnant franchise. Jendresen admits to not previously being a fan of Trek or science fiction, but he respects the franchise – the original series in particular – and is not afraid to do some experimenting within the beloved Star Trek universe. In particular, he'd like to inject some realism into a world that is typically clean and sterile despite its violence.

"There's an old tradition in space films, if you think about it, where war and conflict are very sterile," Jendresen said. "Death doesn't hurt, it's not really ugly. You can get killed by a phaser and just ... disintegrate."

Jendresen also says it's time to rediscover the boldness and spirit of the original series, and put that back into Star Trek.

"In the original series, there were big ideas, and they were delivered each week with a lot of verve," Jendresen said. "The crew in particular, lead by a commanding officer who had a certain sense of timeless style, boldness and vision. He had a pioneering spirit, the spirit of all great explorers, that was captured by the original series."

Jendresen seems to have a good grasp of what Star Trek needs, and he just might be the man for the job, as long as he gives existing canon the respect it deserves. Could it be that Rick Berman has done something right for once?

"There is a lot of misinformation out there, negative speculation and ill-will," Jendresen said. "Everybody just needs to just take a Romulan chill pill and have some faith. Everything that has gone down over the last few years has not been lost on the gentlemen involved in this effort. I think it would be wonderful to bring a whole new generation into this world."

Could popular a Star Trek film finally give birth to a television series, instead of the other way around? We might get a chance to see. Star Trek XI could reach theaters by 2007 if all goes well. Watch this spot for more news!

Postscript: For anyone trying to place the next movie into a timeline with existing Star Trek lore, it should be pointed out that Jendresen retracted the 160-year comment after the interview, saying it was not totally accurate.

I didn't find a good place to put this without starting a new conversation...

This person claims the 24th century Trek Federation has gone Communist. I'm not sure I entirely agree...
What do you think?

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Trek-Marxism.html

Not sure where to put this, but Websnark had an interesting article on Star Trek & evolution. http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/12/what_do_i_do_wh.html

G4 will start to air STNG Sundays starting on the
8th of January.This is the first bit of good news since it was announced that Anime Unleashed was going to run RahXephon.

STNG on G4 starts next Sunday with an 8 hour marathon beginning 7 p.m. Eastern and Pacific.After that the show will be shown Mon.-Sun.from 8-10 p.m.In other words two eps.per day.

And, AFAIK, it will still continue running on Spike TV as well; they currently run three episodes every weekday (as well as two eps of DS9). Also, TOS will begin running on G4 in the second quarter of 2006. (Maybe uncut? Nah. Probably not.) More here.

I would suppose if that is true then they would run TOS at 8 and STNG at 9 since they are currently doing a two hour block of STNG.Then again we shall have to wait and see.
As far as it goes aside from Anime Unleashed and an occasional X Play,STNG is now one of the few shows I turn on G4 to watch.
I still miss when it was just Techtv.

But, G4 showers its run of Next Gen with incessant bugs, including ones that say "More coming up" (complete with the communications beep) and plugs for "The Man Show". That's almost as bad as when TNN ran that black bar under the picture for each episode of Next Gen when TNN first ran it in late 2001.

Yeah, the commo beep is really annoying. At first, I couldn't figure out why they weren't answering it.

G4 is a horrible, horrible network. I miss TechTV.

Now they're showing bugs for Banzai, some crazy Japanese game show that bombed on Fox a few years summers ago. The bugs end with the japanese guy yelling "banzai!" It's almost as annoying as the comm beep bug during AOTS.

So is g4 going to show the Tas episodes? Haven't seen them since the 70s on reruns

G4 will start running TOS in April. They're doing something called "Star Trek 2.0," an "interactive experience." More here.

(If you can figure out what they're talking about, please tell me. My 51 year old mind ain't what it used to be. Maybe it never was...)

G4 ran "The Cage" on Saturday, April 8, which bagan their run of TOS. Within five minutes, they broke for their first commercial(s), and ran bugs filling the bottom of the screen advertising their other shows, such as Banzai. I think I'll stick with my DVD's; at least they don't have commercials or stupidly moronic logo bugs.

Star Trek 2.0 is like watching Bloomberg TV. Lots of visual clutter around the (much smaller) picture. Plus, commercials after five minutes, and plenty more thereafter. Any other opinions?

I thought you were going to stick with your DVD's?

Did anyone catch Teusday's edition of MSNBC's 'Countdown'? Their "# 1" story of the night was how Star Trek lives on through fan produced shorts on the internet. Several brief clips were shown. Though low budget (backgrounds added by greenscreen), some looked rather interesting. One fan produced series of eps features gay characters. It seems that fans have more courage than the producers of Enterprise (who chickened out on making Malcomn gay).

Well it all depends on what they put into their shorts doesnt it?

Earlier in another board I said that Star Trek was dead.

I stand corrected.

Anyone have links to some of the good stuff? I had previously downloaded one fan series but lost it all in the Great Disk Crash of 2005.

So does this make it undead?

I thought you were going to stick with your DVD's?

Yeah, but if Trek is on, even Star Trek 2.0, I tend to watch it. Plus, I learn little tidbits of trivia from Trek 2.0. Like James Cromwell is divorcing Julie Cobb; I had no idea they were even married.

G4 has dropped their late-night run (2 a.m. ET) of Next Gen and now only runs two episodes per evening.

I'm not sure anyone else noticed, but the episode 'The Child' is missing.

I meant as a episode on here.

It's listed at Season 2 in the STTNG board

Sorry, I was thinking of a different episode....not sure what happened.

The off topic posts have been moved to the appropriate thread.

Please explain the technology of the 24th century to me. I do not understand it. In "These are the voyages" Riker has a holodeck simulation of NX01. Did they really have very detailed record keeping in Archers time, right down to private conversations?

In Nemesis Shinzon transmitted audio and video in holo type transmission to Picards ready room, how did Shinzon see and hear Picard. Does Enterprise-E transmit Holo-messages?

I'm sure they kept detailed records in Archer's time, as I can't see any reason why they wouldn't, but I don't think that they would've had extensive data on conversations, which I and others pointed out for that ep.

In Nemesis I had thought that Shinzon broadcast the hologram from his ship(since he said 'don't bother trying to trace this or something like that)

This is a test.

G4 will give Next Gen the "2.0" treatment, starting January 15, 2007. (Jeez, has it been almost 20 years since Next Gen premiered?)

Star Trek Next gen.(g4) is on at 1am pst, along with Star Trek Voyager (spiketv)at 1am pst, and the Star Trek Enhanced on our local station..at 1am.(Sundays).

also Tos(G4) and next gen (spiketv)is on 9am pst, Ds9 at 10am pst.
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Also, off topic, Cops is on at 9 pm pst 2 episodes fighting for audiences!, 2 different cable channels.

Jonathan Frakes said at the convention that one of the directors* in the 1st season could not tolerate the cast of STNNG. He called the cast, "Difficult to direct because they goof around too much". Therefore, he walked out and drove his car right through the gates of Paramount and never came back.

(* I don't recall which of the directors he was talking about)

Picard doesn't goof around... he doesn't even like games... ???

Patrick Stewart does indeed goof around a little. On one of the DVDs for STTNG, he does a little song and dance about Gene Roddenberry. Complete with hat and cane.

But for the most part, you are right, he is a serious Shakepearean actor.

The entire main cast of TNG will guest star on this week's "Family Guy" as themselves.

They will be on tonight! (Sunday night: March 29).

That is on Family Guy (Sunday night: March 29, Fox Network, 9 p.m./Eastern/Pacific, or 8 p.m. Mtn/Central).

NextGen promo from the early 90's, based on Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_9eGjZoYoc&feature=related

The Paramount logo has been removed from the current syndicated run of Next Gen (seen here in NYC at 3 a.m. weeknights); it was replaced by the CBS Distribution logo.

Next Gen episodes seem to be everywhere. They're seen in syndication, on SyFy, and on BBC America. (The HD version of BBC America blows up the picture, so it will fit the 16 X 9 HDTV screen, with small "pillars" on the sides. This makes for one awful picture).

Here's a New York Times article I read years ago, explaining why Next Gen ended when it did. (Hint - maximum $$$.)

Ashley Judd returns to TV tonight. She stars in Missing. In it, she plays a widowed former CIA agent turned soccer mom, whose son has now gone (you guessed it) missing. Here's a review of the pilot.

On Monday, July 23rd, two eps of NextGen will be screened at movie theaters. The eps are "Where No One Has Gone Before" and "Datalore". This is being done to tie-in with the 25th anniversary of the Next Generation. The page also includes a link showing what theaters will be participating in this event. (None near me.)

"Make it so.

I take that back. It is running at the Savoy 16. That's kinda near me. Don't know that I'll go, though.

Why those two eps? Neither is among the strongest of episodes. Why not The Inner Light? or Data's Day? or The Best of Both Worlds two-parter?

Probably because this event is to promote the upcoming Blu-Ray release of Season One, and those two are effects-heavy season one episodes. Especially "Datalore", which has the first of (IIRC) two appearances of the Crystalline Entity.

GOD NO!!!! NOT...........DATALORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Didn't the in-charge people ACTUALLY READ all of our nitpicking for that EXTREMELY INCREDIBLY BADLY-WRITTEN episode???!!!

(As for WNOHGB, I would TOTALLY see that one again. The Traveler was cool! And I did some great nitpicking for it! Read it, it's great!)

Sigggghhhhhh......well, whatareya gonna do???!!!

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Seasons Greetings from Picard and crew.

Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSn2JuDQSc

That's a great video; I must have watched it six or seven times this past weekend. Vaughn Monroe and John McClane would be proud.

From Trek Today:
Maurice Hurley has passed away.
Born on August 16 1939, Hurley as the writer who created the Borg for Star Trek when he introduced them in his TNG episode Q Who.
His Star Trek credits was solely for TNG where he was also its producer/co-executive producer.
Along with Q Who, the TNG episodes he wrote were that of Hide and Q, Datalore, 11001001, Heart of Glory, The Arsenal of Freedom, The Neutral Zone, The Child, Time Squared, Shades of Grey, Galaxy’s Child & Power Play.

Outside of Star Trek, his other work as writer and producer included K-9 (not the Doctor Who character), Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Diagnosis Murder, Baywatch, La Femme Nikita & 24.

Hurley died on February 24 2015 at the age of 75.

Hurley died just three days before the passing of original Spock Leonard Nimoy. So the Borg creator and the original Spock died within days of each other.

Mark La Mura has passed away.
Born on October 18 1948, La Mura appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Transfigurations playing John Doe.
Outside of Star Trek his work include Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures TV series, Gossip Girl, Army Wives and was well known for his role as Mark Dalton in the soap opera All My Children.
He died on September 11 2017 just 38 days before his 69th birthday.

David Ogden Stiers has passed away.
Born on October 31 1942, Stiers had at one time entered the world of Star Trek when he appeared in The Next Generation episode Half a Life playing Timicin and in the world of Stargate in the Atlantis episodes Progeny, First Strike & Lifeline as well as archive footage of him as Oberoth used in the episodes Ghost in the Machine & Inquisition.
For the rest of the world Stiers was well known as Major Charles Winchester in M*A*S*H.
Other work included THX 1138, Creator, Perry Mason, Doc Hollywood, Beauty and the Beast, Shadows and Fog, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jungle 2 Jungle, Krippendorf’s Tribe, Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World, The Outer Limits, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Spirited Away, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Justice League, Lilo & Stitch, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, Lilo & Stitch: Stitch Has a Glitch, Hoodwinked!, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil & Leverage.
He died on March 3 2018 at the age of 75.

Not sure where to put this, but I found a Youtube video about all the changes made to the bridge of the Enterprise-D
It's a funny look at all the changes that I guarantee you never noticed.

https://youtu.be/DHXeGkCvmlU

No time to watch, but... I'm assuming the tiltback navigatation and helm consoles were on the list?

That was the least of the alterations. There's walls, consoles, seats, carpeting, color schemes-- you'd never realize how much it changed from season 1 onwards.