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James Marster is the man. Really enjoyed his roles in Buffy and Angel. Spike was one of my favorite characters easily. He was also pretty awesome as Brainiac in Smallville. It's strange not hearing him talk without the English accent, maybe his character will be typically English for Torchwood, which would be awesome. Great choice for Torchwood.

happy birthday dude q'pla!

60th anniversary? uh, last I rememeber TOS premiered in 1967, that's 40 years ago exactly. I remember cause they made a big hubbub about it this year, including the Christie's Auction that had thousands of pieces of Trek props and related materials. It was all startrek.com could talk about for like a month straight, anniversary this, anniversary that (I read the site daily, like to keep informed on trek news)

http://media.movies.ign.com/media/746/746237/vids_1.html The first one was kinda bad imho. It had a few good scenes but overall it was lacking in what was sure to be an epic clash of two horror/monster powerhouses. Part Deux? Looks frakking awesome. It actually has human Marines in it this time instead of just a few body guards amongst archaeologists. It looks action packed from start to finish. the part where the two guys get their heads blown up? awesome. the alien getting torn apart by a predator's whip? gave me shivers man.

Heroes season 2 will be awesome, can't wait

Ya know what woulda been cool? Reverse the order of seasons. Make Ent Season 4, basically Season 1. You'd have to take out any stuff with Shran to avoid continuity, but imagine this; humans first steps into space, thrust them into these mini arcs of "holy sh!t". They go through the stuff with the Augments, the Klingons, etc the one-shot episodes fit in amazingly, including the Transporter episode. Of course you don't even bother including season 3, at all. Or any mention of Xindi. The only difference is at the end of the season, remove Trip dying obviously. And remove the 6 year gap, so at the end of a year or two, they begin the Federation, then you have seasons 2-whatever showing them taking their first steps even further, as they were supposed to do. You could include some great "season 1 and 2" episodes such as "Minefield" or "Dead Stop" to further the storyline of first contacts and such.

I disagree with these two points. While some series are good at 12 or 13 episodes, content wise as a viewer we generally want more. Look at Doctor Who, or the Sopranos. Both are 12/13 episodes long right? DW is around 45 minutes of content, Sopranos around 50ish. Now while both shows have plenty of viewers, they also could have many more. Why? lack of content. If you look at the average network show (something on NBC, CBS, ABC, etc) that is a 1-hour show (aka 44 minutes content, 16 minutes commercials) which runs over 20 episodes a season, they have more content for their time spent than the 13 episode shows. So while you may eliminate a few "bad" episodes in the smaller show formula you also risk alienating some viewers just cause, honestly 13 episodes is a "tease". Every year since I started watching Doctor Who for example, it goes by too quickly. No reruns some weeks, just 13 episodes back to back (just over 3 months of content) and it's over. You are left craving more content. You must then wait 9 more months for a new season (not counting the 1 hour Christmas specials). Same thing with Enterprise. If we had 13 episodes, we'd want more. Especially since it's more sought after science fiction (aka people love Star Trek). As for evolving the show, this one is harder to wrap your head around. While I agree the 5th series of Trek shouldn't have been a prequel style show, it also had a lot of room to work without needing to evolve. Case in point, Ent ended in what, 2005? BSG was barely into it's 2nd season by then. Ent started in 01', not a lot of scifi shows were still going back then or starting out that broke new ground. SG-Atlantis came a few years later, with a fresh updated take on the SG universe, iirc Farscape wasn't going on much longer by that point, stuff like 4400 and Heroes were just a gling in their writer's eyes. At the time, Enterprise was doing just fine as being Enterprise. It didn't need to evolve to compete cause there wasn't a lot at the time (in 2001) that was ground breaking or fresh to the science fiction genre of tv.

best I could find; Lost Season 4 - January 08 Flash Gordon - August 10th 07 Torchwood Season 1 - September 8th 07 (BBC America) Jericho Season 2 - mid-season 07/08 (that's the best any site has listed)

I think Enterprise was both a failure and a success. Strange eh? Seasons 1 and 2 had great moments, and really bad moments. Watching humans venture out as Starfleet in Warp 5 ship was great. Watching Trip get "pregnant" was not so great. Basically seasons 1 and 2 were very hit and miss. I think however Seasons 3 and 4 were...even further strange. Season 3 was very politically charged. Enterprise premiered shortly after the events of 9/11, by the time season 3 came out the "War on Terrorism" was in swing, so hey they write in an alien attack on Earth ;\ Season 4 was far better than season 3. I chalk this up to Manny Coto taking the helm so to speak, rather than Berman or Braga doing most of it. There were some real gems in season 4. Great stuff. Honestly, I think if they hadn't of done a Pre-Kirk Enterprise it would have been better. Look at it this way, if the first major warp based Starfleet ship wasn't the "Enterprise" and it wasn't all hyped up as "Before Kirk there was..." it probably would have done better. That way, the character of Archer wouldn't be measured up nearly as much to the character of Kirk, nor would we have some preconceived notions of what the starship "Enterprise" should be like in the 22nd Century. If they had named it as a different ship and just left it as the first major Starfleet vessel, it wouldn't be so bad. I also think for Season 3, they should have went with an alien race we knew of from one of the other series. The Xindi were kinda cool in their own right, but completely inventing species that have never been mentioned in other series as a major "villain" was a waste of a season+ Just the little things like that could have made it better. I also think the ratings were still good enough for another season easily. Sure they only had around 2 million viewers by the end of season 4 but even that's in the 2.0 Nielson range which is easily good enough for a prime time show, look at all the other shows networks have kept on with similar ratings. I just think UPN was a bad choice for airing it. While Paramount owns the UPN network, they were more geared towards "urban" shows, a completely different demographic than what Star Trek usually draws in. Paramound should have cut a deal with NBC, to air it on NBC and rerun it on SciFi much earlier than they started with this year. That might have helped them some.

No one keeping up with Season 4? While the story is good, you can tell things are moving slow, in the fact that almost no "powers" have been really displayed this season. Some people are attributing this to budget cuts, most 4400 or promicin positive abilities have been stuff they don't need CGI or anything for (such as the season premiere or Jordan's ability). I was glad to see Richard come back towards the end of the season, I always thought he was a great character. I was sad to see him retcon his decision on making Isabelle young, plus Tom's Marked Agent triggers and he wants to give her, her powers back? ;\ While the stuff she can do is cool, she was pretty unstoppable compared to the rest of the 4400 (unless Jordan nukes her abilities) Interested to see how the rest of the season plays out. Hope we get a season 5.

Don't forget Lost Season 4 starts in 08' as well (it's pretty sci-fi if you ask me) Flash Gordon started the other week (definitely new) Torchwood Season 1 should be playing on BBC America soon (kinda "new") Jericho get's it's "second" and finale season I believe in 08 as well

Saw this posted on another forum I lurk at, dude is awesome

yall got me hooked on this heh. not a bad little game, for a web based version. has a more polished look than other browser based rpg's like Travian. sadly my village got put no where near anyone else in the guilds ;\ i'm all alone up in the north in world 10

any word on this Megalith? wanted to get back into BNT but traders.nitescifi.com just redirects to the forum index there was the final release of the game around August 1st

How the hell will the Sark guy from Alias be Kenzo? I mean, he was Japanese right? That should be very interesting

Tough choice, I'd narrow down to something from TNG or DS9 though. TNG, probably "Tapestry". DS9, harder to choose. "In the Pale Moonlight", "Sacrifice of Angels", etc Pressed to choose, I'd say "In the Pale Moonlight". Very tough choice but probably the best episode of Trek ever made.

Saw the pilot, it was pretty wooden acting all around. They also seem to be really budget constrained, they spent how much time on Mongo? This really seemed compounded by the fact that episode 2 was also mainly on Earth with little to no special effects. If BSG can recycle the same "landing" sequence of CGI, they couldn't just shoot a couple CGI scenes for traveling to Mongo and reuse them as needed for later episodes if they ever traveled back to Earth? They aren't even really trying to shoot "Mongo", just a city or so of it that happens to have Ming, for all we know the rest of Mongo is a barren planet ;\

I don't get how Ianto and Jack go from the stuff in "Cyberwoman" to all of a sudden in a bi/gay relationship? He really loved her, shown no signs of attraction to men, and all of a sudden he's all over Jack? I don't mind the sexuality, I enjoy a more adult oriented show. I just dislike how, on a whims notice, any of the cast goes from heterosexual to bi/gay/omni etc

Then Jack would never age and never become The Face of Boe. Thus Boe would never encounter the Doctor etc he'd be screwing with his own timeline. Nothing like using new information to torpedo a seven month old theory that was just tongue in cheek speculation then. ;) True. But I think it makes sense, and is probably the best theory. Plus you gotta admit if it's true and stays canon, it's a nice end for Capn Jack, dying for good, helping the Doctor a few more times before he does ;) Poetic really.

with the whole "center of the storm" thing, why was the President (of America) still dead? In the previous episode, the Master didn't activate the Paradox machine until after he had killed the President and aged the Doctor 100 years. So if time was reversed to completely erase the previous 365 days, it just happened to stop it's reversal to right after the President's death?

So, I started watching Torchwood on a whim. I didn't hear totally positive reviews when it first aired, I figured I'd just wait for it to come over the pond. Well it's been almost a year since the premiere aired (Octorber 06) and we have yet to have any word about it airing in America (whereas Season 29 of Doctor Who starts this week, having just finished last week in the UK) Anyways I'm watching it online, and I got a question; is the entire cast basically interchangeable sexually? I don't mind the sexual stuff, hell I really love how it's a more adult science fiction show. I love profanity, love it. But this struck me strange. Obviously by the end of the season, every cast member has had a kiss or encounter with the same sex, even if they don't stick with it. Now I know Jack's always been a guy to play both sides of the game but it just seems like everyone else is doing it "just cause". Like Tosh being all attracted to Mary? At first she was into it then not long after she really wasn't that keen on it, it just seemed like the writers wanted it to happen so it did. Beyond that, really loving it. Love how it's centered around Capn Jack, could use some more aliens (Countrycide was just...eww). Hope to finish up the season today or tommorrow.

Tate makes Freeman look like an Academy Award winning actress (acting wise not physical appearance). I mean Martha wasn't "bad" but she wasn't really "good" either, save for one or two episodes. Tate was alright, for the one-time-only Christmas special. It worked. On a weekly basis though? Oh gods...please...no

Calm down dude, I never said he couldn't change his mind. You forget I'm first and foremost a Trek fan, I know how the writers can go back and change or totally rework things, a the tip of a hat (Klingons, nuff said). I simply said that, for now, for the moment, RTD has said in canon, Jack is Face of Boe. Whether or not that changes down the line, who knows. It might, it might not. But for now between the scene in "Last of the Timelords" and RTD's commentary, I choose to believe Jack is the Face of Boe. If at such a time that changes, that's cool too, I follow canon where canon goes.

We do know he is the Face of Boe. RTD said in the recent podcast that he confirms Capn Jack does indeed live on to become the Face of Boe. Straight from his mouth into canon. I'd link the file but I can't locate the subsection of the site that has the podcasts atm.

I'm pretty sure it'll be considered a two part story. Not many shows in the U.S. on non premium channels run past 44-45 minutes (with 15+ of commercials). Since it was like 52 minutes long... They might split it up into two 30 minute episodes or one 1.5 hour episode (with an extra 20 minutes of commercials to split up the excess half hour)