queenhank

We already know the answer to this. In the UFP, all information is public, by law. Of course, that makes all that secretive Section 31 stuff, and all of the "intelligence gathering" extra-legal...but hey, nobody (but Gene Roddenberry) said the people of the future are perfect.

I KNEW IT!!! Riker IS Jesus!!

Well, the simple fact is that no computer file can be made "undeletable". Even if you carved each log entry in stone, the stone could be broken. There is no method of storage that cannot be destroyed or tampered with.

queenhankthefirst@hotmail.com Now I can see what all this hype has been about (for the past few years)...

The Founders took on the look Odo had as a way of having a humanoid "Founder" look.

I figured it was a psychological thing. He finds it so hard to mimic humanoid faces because he doesn't feel that he is one of them.

...umm. The misquote was intended to humorously break a rule, not to imply you actually said that.

DS9 was syndicated. Voyager launched with UPN, and Enterprise, as I recall, took over the same time slot when it started.

Voyager was on a network, was it not?

No, they still need it. Did you think the Hadar were only made for the war with the Federation?

I once played a ROM of Wario's Woods for 10 solid hours, before I gave up, noticed the time, and decided to stand up. My legs hurt at that point. I think I beat that, however, with a two-day marathon of Enterprise. I only stopped for food and bathroom, but I did stop for those brief periods, so I'm not sure if it counts.

Well...if you want to get this LOCKED... So, how DOES one get to Carnegie Hall? Anybody know? Should I make a poll? So, all those who believe in The Flying Spaghetti Monster are complete and utter morons. If anybody disagrees with me, they can go Malkovich themselves, the stupid purple-skins! I am a LIEUTENANT, and I WILL NOT BE CENSORED, DAMN IT!!! Getting a thread locked on purpose? STUPIDEST IDEA...EVER!!! Hmmm... I remember no such words, NiteShdw. I think you made that WHOLE THING UP!!! So...is violating every rule good enough to lock the thread?

Perhaps Walken is the creepiest, but maybe, just maybe, it is John Malkovich.

22 days? An hour per episode (commercials included), an average of 26 episodes per season, and...let's see...28 seasons...728 hours, roughly...plus ten movies at 2 hours each, and AA, at 22 half-hour episodes... Let's round off to 760 hours. That's 31 and two thirds days. So, yeah, a month of Trek, assuming a non-stop marathon. What they would need is a new Trek show to help with their launch. I'd say make it a Trek channel, and have the other Roddenberry shows on in the early morning and late night, as bookends to the infomercials. They could also have a Trekkies-style reality show (yes, I, too, hate reality shows...but they get ratings), and they could have other Trek-related shows and movies, like maybe having a Patrick Stewart day (showing movies with him, etc.) and such. It would also have to be a non-basic cable channel. One of the ones you have to order specifically.

Well, all of Trek is one hell of a lot of TV. And if you throw in the movies and Animated Adventures, then you've got about a month of stuff right there.

The world isn't going t-

queenhank=schooled

No, they all put their resources toward Federation ships. Sure, there would of course be privately-owned ships, but freighters and the like tend to look rather similar.

Brannon Braga is one guy.

But Chuck Norris does not sleep...he waits.

You know what I would really like to see? A new show set in the TOS era. All new stuff, maybe one or two cameo appearances from the Enterprise, in the pilot and such, but have it be all new stuff, with an all new crew, but with the old technology and uniforms. We saw a bit of that in "In a Mirror, Darkly", and in "Trials and Tribble-ations", and people loved it. WHy not do a whole series?

I imagine that if they'd had 7 years, they would have fully explored the whole crew. Unfortunately, they did not.

Indeed. Having starring roles is not the mark of a great actor. Paul Giamatti is one of the finest character actors of our time, right along with Steve Buscemi. If you have any doubts about Scott Bakula's acting ability, look at Quantum Leap. You may not like the show (why, I could not possibly fathom, but stil...), but just the fact that he is able to overcome the challenges presented by the complexity of the show's basic premise - Sam Beckett, a super-genius scientist from the future who has massive memory loss, having to adapt to the personae of different people on a moment's notice - shows how good an actor he is. He made it believeable. Like Tim Allen in Galaxy Quest, or Christopher Reeve in Superman, Scott Bakula has the rare talent for bringing out the reality of a piece, no matter how absurd it is. I would put him on par with such great actors as Leonard Nimoy, John De Lancie, or DeForest Kelley (to use Star Trek examples).

We like to keep the suspension of disbelief when watching Star Trek, and explaining things away via metafictional terms is the opposite of that. If you notice something "wrong" in the show, saying it's the production crew (or whatever) brings you out of the show, and into reality, thus ruinging the immersive experience. Like talking on a cell phone in a theater.

But you're forgetting something: Tuvok and Neelix were ALREADY dead! Killing Tuvix to bring them back would be like killing you to bring your parents back to life. Had she let Tuvix live, she would not have been killing anybody. Instead, she killed him, to bring her two friends back from the dead. Kinda like when Archer killed Sim to bring back Trip, only he had a much better reason to do it.