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ESL Guru · Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 462

This is the captain speaking....

Wolf get back to your station -

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

Thanks Wolf.The character who later became Nurse Chapel was actually in that show and was # 1 or 2? She was in charge of the ship after the Capt. was captured.She also was Gene Roddenbury's wife.
Cheers dude.

tjpnz2000 · Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 118 Location: Japan

Hi all,

Hands down best Star Trek episode ever (for my money of course) was the Next Generation episode `Yesterdays Enterpirse`. It tears a hole in almost anything else except some of the really dark Deep Space 9 episodes. The original series had some great design, love those silver highlights, but really not a lot else.

`Yesterdays Enterprise` is the one which opens `Captains war log star date....` and you go `What? Did he say `war log`? What war?` Turns out that this is a paralell universe where the Federation is at war with the Klingon empire, and Tasha Yar is still alive Very Happy

. Anyway due to rift in time the Enterprise crew can go back in time and stop the war from ever taking place. Worth the price of admission just to hear Riker say `Lets show them what we'er made of like we did off Archer 4!`. All I could do not to stand up and cheer.

An earlier poster said:

Here is my problem...in the old Star Trek the Klingons looked kind of like Chinese migrant workers who have been away from homw too long. In the new Star Trek they look much cooler, but totally different. What's up with that?

There is an explanation but nobody knows what it is. There is a DS9 episode, `Trials and Tribblations`, where the DS9 crew go back in time to the `Trouble with Tribbles` episode and the DS9 crew ask Worf the same thing; `Was it a virus?`, `Some kind of genetic mutation?`. Worf says `They are Klingons and we don't like to talk about it with non-Klingons`. End of story. There is probably a site out there for REALLY hard core trekies that has theories.

Anybody else think that the good series episodes are WAY better than the movies?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I saw a lot of the first (original) series but have missed out a lot onlater ones.

I did see one where the trekkies were taken prisoner by some barbarous and cretinous aliens who held them ransom and forced them to give them training in hi-tech gizmos "WE want to be smart like you !"

Can anyone enlighten me as to which episode this was ? I would love to have it on video.

johnslat · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 2:50 pm Post subject: Beam you up, scotty?

Dear scot47,
" I did see one where the trekkies were taken prisoner by some barbarous and cretinous aliens who held them ransom and forced them to give them training in hi-tech gizmos "WE want to be smart like you !"

Very interesting. And would this, I wonder, shed any light on your reasons for being in the Kingdom?

" I would love to have it on video. "

Have it on video? Good Lord, man - you're LIVING it.

Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

JOHNslat !

I want to be reminded of life here when I am on vacation and when,one day, I retire from here.

johnslat · Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 12:40 pm Post subject: Q and A

Dear scot47,
" I want to be reminded of life here when I am on vacation and when,one day, I retire from here."
Now that just begs the question: WHY?
However, having begged, I'll supply a possible answer - because the contrast bewteen " life " here and outside will only make the latter all the sweeter. Kind of like the USMC - for me, after that, everything else has seemed relatively nice and easy.
Regards,
John