Posts with tag trekkies
Posted Sep 7th 2007 8:56AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Web, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Are you a Captain Kirk fan or a Captain Picard fan? On one hand you have toupees and overacting and awesome songs, and on the other hand you have a calm, tea-drinking guy who pulls at his shirt all the time. I lean more toward Picard, but I often find that punching an alien instead of talking to him and sleeping with various female life forms gets the job done too.
In honor of Star Trek: The Next Generation's 20th anniversary,* Marty Beckerman makes a case for Jean-Luc Picard as President of the U.S. in this Huffington Post piece. More specifically, he compares the leadership qualities of the Enterprise captain with the leadership qualities of our current President.
It's a great piece, even if you're not a Trekkie geek virgin Star Trek aficionado.
* God I'm old.
Posted Feb 19th 2007 3:04PM by Wil Wheaton
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, Retro Squad, Spike, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Title: Hide and Q
Original Air Date: November 23, 1987
Teleplay By: C.J. Holland and Gene Roddenberry
Story By: C.J. Holland
Directed by: Cliff Bole
Episode: S01E010
Stardate: 41590.5
Synopsis: The Enterprise receives a distress call from a colony on Quadra Sigma III, which is just a few planets before eMac Sigma III. There's been an accident, and they need urgent medical attention. The colonists are in luck (as are Trekkies who have had their fill of "Pain! So much pain!") because the Enterprise has just dropped off Counselor Troi at Starbase G-6, putting them close enough to Sigma III to speed on over and save the 500 or so trapped miners. (Ah, trapped miners on a far off colony . . . it's one of the
classic Sci-Fi cliches.)
The Enterprise kicks it up to Warp 9.1, but quickly runs into a familiar and no-longer-mysterious giant CGI net that the ship can't pass. Faster than you can say, "Hey, that's the ILM-designed thing Q used in '
Encounter at Farpoint!'" Data says, "Captain! It's that ILM-designed thing Q used in 'Encounter at Farpoint!'" They put on the brakes, and in a blinding flash of light, Q appears on the Bridge, and tells Picard that he's decided that humans are not just a bunch of shitcocks, and as a reward, he's giving them a really swell gift.
Picard tells Q that it's very sweet of him to offer, but they're on their way to save those trapped miners on Quadra Sigma III, where there are also radioactive mutants, a sentient brain in a jar, a computer that's become self-aware and turned on its creator, beings of pure energy, and a call that's coming from inside the house, so maybe they could just talk about this some other time.
Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hide and Q
Posted Jan 3rd 2007 12:06PM by Wil Wheaton
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Retro Squad, Spike, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Title: Encounter At Farpoint (Part I)
Original Air Date: September 28, 1987
Written By: D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry
Directed by: Corey Allen
Episode: S01E01
Stardate: 41153.7
Synopsis: The Enterprise, which is huge and beautiful and majestic, cruises through space toward the camera, and Trekkies who have waited since the 60s to have new
Star Trek on television let out a mighty cheer. The camera zooms in on a darkened window, where her captain -- the second bald man to command a starship called Enterprise -- steps out of the shadows and gazes at the stars. In voice over, the captain, Picard, says that they're heading out to "the unexplored mass of the galaxy."
Picard heads out on a tour of this spiffy new Galaxy Class starship, through engineering and up on the bridge, while he tells his log (and the now tearfully celebrating Trekkies) that the ship is huge, isn't entirely filled with crew just yet, and is on its way to Farpoint Station, where they'll pick up their new first officer and absolutely nothing else of interest will happen.
Wait. Of course something interesting will happen! They're supposed to solve the mystery of Farpoint, but before the ship can even reach its mysterious destination, a more pressing mystery presents itself: the mystery of the giant mysterious CGI net that the ship can't pass . . . mysteriously.
Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter at Farpoint (Part I) (series premiere)
Posted Dec 5th 2006 12:03PM by Wil Wheaton
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, Retro Squad, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Title: Justice
Original Air Date: November 09, 1987
Written By: Worley Thorne
Story By: Ralph Wills and Worley Thorne
Directed by: James L. Conway
Episode: S01E08
Stardate: 41255.6
Synopsis: After dropping some human colonists off in the Strnad solar system, the Enterprise notices a rather nice Class M planet in the nearby Rubicun system, called Rubicun III. Picard sends an away team down to the surface to find out if it's a good place for some shore leave, and they return with some very good news: it's clean, it's beautiful, it's populated with friendly humanoids . . . and they really like to do the nasty.
"At the drop of a hat," according to Geordi.
"Any hat," Tasha says, knowingly.
Picard sends a second, larger team down to the planet to see exactly how many hats they're going to need. Because every responsible Starfleet parent would want to send their children down to the galaxy's longest running planetary orgy, he orders Wesley Crusher to see if the planet is a good place for kids to hang out.
After beaming down to the planet, the away team quickly learn three important facts:
- The planet's inhabitants, called the Edo, like to jog everywhere.
- They are all beautiful blond models, possibly descended from some sort of Maxim/FHM breeding program in the late 22nd century.
- The entire planet is clothed in about 6 yards of fabric.
The Edo's leaders jog up and meet the away team, greeting them in the traditional Edo manner: lingering glances and inappropriately long hugs. Troi says, "I'm sensing a lot of boners, Commander."
Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation: Justice
Posted Oct 2nd 2006 11:35AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Syndicated, Web
Laura Goodwin (for some reason referred to as a man in this
digg) has created an exhaustive
web shrine to female characters from the original
Star Trek -- complete with photos and descriptions of each. Her point (not that she needs to have one) is to show that
Trek women were more than just "babes" for Kirk to tussle with. Janice Rand is described as "a real trooper."
Characters are divided into categories like "Starfleet Heroines," "Villains and Femme Fatales," and my favorite "They Were Not Women," -- a necessary category for the inclusion androids, shape changers, phantasms, etc. A handy guide to bookmark in case you happen to forget what say,
Yeoman Mears from "The Galileo Seven", or Yeoman Smith (pictured), and need to access that information right away. I love it.
Posted Jul 18th 2006 3:41PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV Royalty, TV on DVD, Animation
There has been buzz around the industry for months, but now CBS and Paramount have made it official:
Star Trek: The Animated Series is coming to DVD on November 21.
Check out the cool box!
The set will have a ton of extras too, including several features, a photo gallery, show history, wallpapers, AIM icons, and text (?) commentaries from behind the scenes folks.
This is great news, because people have been waiting for this show to come out for a long time. And it happens to be not just a cartoon version of a classic show, but one that actually stands on its own as a well-done, solid, dare I say even intelligent series. (Side note: I love the pic on the right. It makes it seem that the whole cast got together for a cast photo shoot, when in reality it's just a drawing, heh.)
Posted Jun 17th 2006 3:11PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV Royalty, Talent, Celebrities
Back in 2004, writers and producers J. Michael Straczynski (
Babylon 5,
The Twilight Zone) and Bryce Zabel (
Dark Skies,
M.A.N.T.I.S) actually wrote a
Star Trek script that would have "rebooted" the franchise. Like the new J.J. Abrams-produced movie will do (supposedly), having the original characters of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, this script did as well, only as Zabel puts it, "...not as young officers in Starfleet Academy. We wanted to do what they do in the world of comics, create a separate universe so we could embrace the good stuff, banish the bad, and try some new things."
Take a look and let us know what you think of it (click the above link and scroll down to the PDF file).
[via
Lee Goldberg]
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