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Oh, my, GOSH!!!! It's been 14 freaking YEARS since I was last involved with this site, and I was SO sad when it was shut down. 😞 For some random reason I plugged in the site name and found that it is basically back as only a forum site, but still has our profiles and discussions. I can't begin to express how WONDERFUL of a surprise this is to me, especially with how awful 2020 has been. This takes me back 14 freaking YEARS to a MUCH more wonderful time of my life, and I'm SO happy that this forum is back. 2020 just got a LOT better! 🙂

Hmm, what do you think? Could a Changeling be assimilated by the Borg?

I don't want to start off a big thread on this, but I would hope we all could refrain from using the word "gay" in a negative context. I really doubt that Mav meant to use that particular word to be insensitive towards anyone, but it really isn't a good idea to use it in that context. I know it IS used quite a bit in that way, but I'm sure there are plenty of people on this forum that would be grateful if we could refrain from doing so. No hard feelings from this gay person, but I thought it was important to point out so hopefully people gay and/or not aren't put off. As a person that has had to deal with serious (read: life threatening!) homophobia, I'm grateful for your understanding. Now, back to your regular programing. :cyclops: [edit] This post is totally off topic. Your concern should have been sent via PM, not written as a totally off-topic post.

Maybe I'm a bit less tolerant, but when these "new" people that like people have mentioned JUST signed up and are begging for information, why can't someone just give them the BOOT!?! There has to be someone with the administrative ability to STOP letting people sign up new, as starcrunch mentioned, but also that ANYBODY that is so STUPID to CONTINUE to sign up or has recently signed up and NOT read the entire thread here and keeps begging for "information" that is NOT here - just BOOT them off and ban them all together. Maybe they ARE legitimate people wanting to sign up, but most likely NOT. At the very least, they should be banned for being STUPID! :mad: Heck, I'd prefer that even I got banned if I was doing something SO continually STUPID and ANNOYING and creating potential trouble for the rest of this board. I say just BOOT the JERKS! :mad:

:stare: Duh! I still consider myself a bit of a "noob", but I'm not STUPID and/or annoying enough (I hope) to persist in this DOORKNOB attitude of "where are the ..." or "this is inconvenient for me..." crap. Come ON, people, like so MANY people have TRIED to point out, this is a "discussion" forum and you can go and find your other "items" pretty much any place. Get over it and get on with it. I must say, being a bit in a grumpy mood this morning, I DO like and agree with three points str82u posted and has been quoted on. Since some people are just too stupid to GET it, I guess those individuals must have those three points DRILLED into their heads. Now - on to discussing why VOYAGER is the BEST trek seires of them ALL!!!! Hee, hee. How's THAT for a non-sequitur!?! Hopefully it gets us back on track. ;)

:stare: Okay, I just finished watching the first season of DS9, and I couldn't WAIT to delete it from my hard drive. I'm sorry, I just did NOT enjoy it, and some of the episodes I had to watch in fast-forward click because I was REALLY not enjoying them. You HAVE to tell me that it IS going to get better, PLEASE! :stare: I know a LOT of people list DS9 as their favorite, so I'm TRYING to be open minded about this and HOPE it gets better after season one. I'm also trying to figure out WHY it displeases me SO much. Basically it comes down to the fact that I just can NOT stand most of the characters. I also REALLY dislike the whole Bajorin religious/rebel thing. Kira needs to get some SERIOUS therapy to get that HUGE chip off her shoulder. I'm already sick of listening to her go ON and ON about "back when I was a Bajorin freedom fighter" stuff. O'Brian was just never an important character for me; Odo is kind of cool; I actually DO love Quark; Dax - no real opinion one way or the other; Bashir - BLOW him out an airlock! As far as Sisco goes, there's "something" about him that I never really liked, and I think it was his tone of voice. It always seemed like communicating through a drunken, drugged haze through melted marshmellow. What does THAT mean? I have absolutely NO idea! It could also be that he just looks a little TOO much like my ex-boyfriend. :cyclops: I'm GOING to keep on pushing myself to watch the seires through on YOUR opinions because so many people say they enjoyed the Dominion war saga. I sure DO hope it's worth it. Hmm, maybe what I need to make it go down better is to mix in an episode of VOYAGER inbetween each viewing of an episode of DS9. Kind of like "A spoon full of sugar..." ;)

And the WINNER is - VOYAGER!!!!!!!! :-) Yes, yes, I know, there are a LOT of people that just can't STAND Voyager, but as I keep watching the various shows, I always keep coming back to Voyager as my personal favorite. I must say that I just LOVE Janeway with all of her faults and all. I just really enjoy the "motherly" approach that she ended up HAVING to take considering what their situation was, and like ANY single, childless person THRUST into the situation of suddenly having over 100 "children" to be concerned with, I think she was learning parenting as she went. Made mistakes, sure. But I think she came out doing pretty well. I also really enjoyed the "family" atmosphere that the crew of Voyager developed, and considering it started out as a mixture of the Hatfields and MaCoys, other than that b$*@~ Seska, they seemed to get along well considering the circumstances. I will admit that there WERE characters on Voyager that I'd like to have blown out an air lock, such as Harry and Tuvok. Personally, I would have THANKED Tuvix for getting rid of that grouchy, annoying Tuvok. Neelix had his moments, but he was okay. No, Voyager was NOT a "traditional" Star Trek show, but I think it worked, much like some people enjoy DS9 for not being the standard Trek show. By "traditional" I mean based off of the concept of the original series. ;) After Voyager I'd have to go with Next Gen, TOS, and I can't really say much about the others. I actually DO remember enjoying watching the animated Saturday cartoon show when I was a kid, as cheesy as it was. Heck, it was a Star Trek cartoon and I was a little kid. It didn't HAVE to be good to be cool. :p I've only seen a couple of episodes of Enterprise, and based off of those couple of episodes I labeled it as absolute RUBBISH! The singing theme song was the FIRST thing that made me want to PUKE! I know a LOT of people just LOVE DS9, but I have NEVER liked that show and I still can't put my finger on WHY I dislike it so much. In all fairness, I haven't seen any of the episodes since they were originally aired, so I'm taking some people's advice on here and giving them another shot. I just watched the first three episodes and I'm still NOT liking it. I would like to shoot Kira out an airlock, Bashir is annoying, I never thought of O'Brian as anything other than an occasional backup character, Odo just always seems so DARN grouchy (probably why he and Kira get along so well!), and there's just something about Sisco that rubs me the wrong way - mostly I think the guy isn't the best actor I've ever seen and the whole baseball things is WAY over-done. I'm going to try and hold off final judgment on DS9 until I finish watching the whole series again, though. Oh, I actually DO love Quark, though. :-) As far as the original series goes, it was what it was "original". I really enjoyed it for what it was at the time that it came out, and I still do enjoy watching it today because I'm able to put into context the time that it was created. Sure, it was a bit cheesy and campy at times, but that just made it FUN for me. It didn't have to be SO serious all the time to be enjoyable. :cyclops: Well, that's my two cents. Have a GREAT weekend, ya'all. :D

Howdy everyone! Lately I've been checking out some of the fan-created Star Trek films and audio books online, and I came across the website for the Section 31 audio files. Darker Projects: Star Trek - The Section 31 Files I've been listening to these episodes the past couple of days and I must say that I'm REALLY enjoying them quite a bit. I'm enjoying the storyline and the characters. I'm also really enjoying some of the REALLY humorous jabes and even sci-fi series references that are in some of the episodes. Some have made me bust out laughing out loud! :D I've also noted some VERY "clever" references that the writers have inserted in some of the episodes, one in particular being towards "20th century pop music" and the year in particular when that came to an end. It's probably a reference only a RUSH fan would pick up on. ;) So, I'm interested in whether any of you folks have checked these out and what you thought, and if you haven't checked them out yet, I'd say it's worth the download and time to listen to. I'm also happy to notice that the various fan-created shows take into account the OTHER fan-created shows and try to maintain some kind of continuity between them all. I still think Paramount should just give up on producing any more Star Trek and let the FANS run the show (no pun intended) for a while. The fans seem to be more interested in at least trying to create some interesting shows in the Trek realm without worrying about trying to mostly attract a particular audience that will get them high marketing ratings. The fans only "target" audience is other Star Trek fans, and I for one am grateful they are at least trying to keep the Star Trek universe up and running. I'm glad Trek isn't just on Paramount's shelf collecting dust until they deem it's time to try and make another wad of cash off those Trekie/Treker fans. It seems that the technology is getting pretty darn good for the fans to produce some really good shows, too. Some I've seen are not much more than fancy "home movies", but then there was "Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning" that had top-notch effects. Well, I'm rambling WAY off course now. I was just curious what ya'all thought about the Section 31 files, if you've heard them. If you've never heard them, go and check them out. I think it's worth it. :)

As far as the CGI goes, I think it was pretty good for the technology that was available 13 years ago. There are also the budget and time constraints that the producers have to deal with that we never have to deal with. Putting it in the context of the time that it came out and what was technologically availble, I thought the CGI was pretty good. Nowadays, I think a teenage computer geek could probably produce the same or with current technology in software and hardware, probably do even better with the graphics. All in all, I enjoyed it. I must confess that I haven't seen any of the new Battlestar Galactica yet, so I'll have to try and download some of them and see what all the talk is about that show. From what I've read about it, some people REALLY love it, and some are a bit lukewarm about it. I'll have to check it out for myself. :)

For me, I think I enjoyed B5 in a different way than most. I haven't had a television in eight years now, and watch DVD's on my PC (and now with Niteshdw, some more WONDERFUL sci-fi shows!). When B5 was originally on television, I only saw sporradic episodes during the first season. B5 just really isn't the kind of show that you could pick up on what is going on by watching individual episodes every now and then. Therefore, I was turned off of the show at that time. However, last winter I checked out the entire seasons from the public library and watched the whole series from start to finish (a pretty good way to make it through the dull drums of winter, I'd say). By being able to watch the entire series from start to finish in that fashion, I really fell in love with the show and the characters. No, I don't think it was perfect or that there wasn't room for improvement, but I had just finished six years of college with watching NO sci-fi so I was STARVED for sci-fi and B5 certainly filled that need. For me, I think I actually enjoyed and came to care about the characters on B5 more than I often have for other shows. I don't want to start a pissin' match of B5 vs. DS9 (to each their own), but I just didn't seem to be able to even begin to like so many of the characters on DS9. In all fairness to DS9, I wasn't able to watch all of those episodes either, so as soon as I'm done burning some DVD's and make room on my PC, I'm going to download DS9 and give it another try. Back to B5 though, I think what I ended up enjoying about it this time around vs. the first attempt at watching it was the very thing that turned me off of it - the continuing story thread. After all, I'd consider B5 to be a bit of a sci-fi soap opera. Hmm, no, that makes it sound bad, but I think you know what I'm trying to say. There was just a complex background story going on that certainly could NOT be wrapped up in a few episodes or even a few seasons. Wow, I sure rambled on about this. Sorry. :-) Back to the original intent of this thread, if anyone enjoyed the B5 series and has NOT seen the individual five films that came out after the series was done, I DO recommend them fully as they are able to be seen and understood without difficulty to the original series. I thought they were well done and I enjoyed them very much. :-)

Cheese and Rice!!!! I was hoping this place was at least ONE place I could "escape" from all this political B.S.! Apparently not. I can only speak for myself, but I have a sci-fi side that likes to come here and read and post about sci-fi, and I have a political side that took my political concerns to the White House back in September and was arrested with about 400 other concerned citizens. I take my political interests to Washington. I take my sci-fi interests to niteshdw. If people want to piss and moan about politics, I'd be more happy if that kind of discussion was taken to a political-based message board (e.g. any of the Air America Radio boards - or any of the Right Wing boards if you're a brain-dead FREAK!). I guess in the "Ten Forward" zone "anything goes", but jeeze, take the "real world" politics B.S. elsewhere. At least get into Romulan vs. Federation politics on THIS site. Good GRIEF! :-(

"Pigs-In-Spaaaaaaaace" have voted. :-)

I have to go with 'Live & Let Die' because I loved the theme song AND because if you'll notice, they had sponsorship of a certain car for the show - a 1971 or 72 Chevy Impala (you'll notice a ba-zillion of 'em once you look for 'em!), and that just happened to be the first car I ever owned. What a BOAT! :-)

Howdy! :-) I'm not sure which url you are looking for, so I'll post the ones for the individual seasons AND the Hidden Frontier website. I do NOT recommend downloading the episodes from the Hidden Frontier site as I found I had quite a bit of trouble connecting to their download site, and sometimes I'd get bumped off of their site. Also, after I downloaded all the episodes for all the seasons, I renamed the files so they would fit in a familiar format that I've noticed for other Star Trek shows on this site. The ones you download from the Hidden Frontier site are saved as "601", "602", etc. I renamed the files to include the title of the episode. I thought that would be helpful and that people would want to have the title of each episode on the files. So I recommend downloading the torrents that I made here on Nite's site, because then the title names for each episode is already there for you. :-) Here is the website for the original Hidden Frontier site: Star Trek Hidden Frontier Here are the pages for the individual torrents: Season 1: Star Trek Hidden Frontier Season 1 Season 2: Star Trek Hidden Frontier Season 2 Season 3: Star Trek Hidden Frontier Season 3 Season 4: Star Trek Hidden Frontier Season 4 Season 5: Star Trek Hidden Frontier Season 5 Season 6: Star Trek Hidden Frontier Season 6 Sorry if this is more information than you were looking for, but I wanted to try and cover all the options. I hope you enjoy the show! :-)

Hello everyone! :-) Last evening I uploaded all of the Star Trek Hidden Frontier seasons, and in only 10 hours over 400 people are downloading it. I guess people ARE interested in checking it out. :-) For you folks that are downloading it, I'd like to hear what you think about it AFTER you've watched it. Try to look past the bad acting. These people are NOT professionals, but they're doing their best and trying to have fun. Let's cut them a little slack on their acting skills. What I'm interested in is what you folks think about the stories and the overall feel of the series. I've thus far only watched the first season, but I must say I enjoyed it - considering the whole thing is created and produced by a bunch of amateurs. Heck, it could anyone of you or I in their place. Personally, I'd like to play an alien with a LOT of make-up. :-) So, after you've watched the shows I'd love to hear what you think, and trying to put into context that it is being done by fans like you and I. If you haven't watched them and don't plan on watching them, then please don't write in just to slam the show. Heck, so far I think it's better than anything Berman was putting out recently. Heck, even the opening theme song "feels" like a genuine Star Trek theme - no cheesy singing. ;-) I hope you enjoy the show, and thanks in advance for your participation. P.S. - this was my first ever shot at creating and uploading a torrent. I'm just glad it worked. Whew! :-)

Well, it's too bad that a gay character was never part of a line up like Rodenberry said he wanted there to be and told fans that he would implement. After he died and Berman took over, he refused to have a gay character no matter how much the fans and the casts called out for one. I read an interview with Kate Mulgrew (a.k.a. Janeway) and she said she approaced Berman on many occasions and talked about having one of the regular members of 'Voyager' be gay, but Berman refused. I guess Berman wasn't too concerned with following through on Gene's intensions for Star Trek. On a side note, I hope that if there is another Star Trek series to come out, that they start from scratch and do NOT include Berman or Braga. Star Trek needs some new blood if it is to get going again.

You're welcome. I've finished watching all five of the B-5 movies and I must say that I really enjoyed ALL of them quite a bit. I recommend just downloading them all and enjoy them as often as you like. I have to agree with Cypha01. I think that B-5 was in many ways superior to some of the other sci-fi shows on television. I don't want to start a mud-slinging thread here, because I enjoy most sci-fi all around, but for me there really WAS something "special" about B-5. I really came to like the characters, I was really interested in the ongoing storyline, and it just didn't seem as "stereotypical" or predictable as some sci-fi shows can be. I remember NOT enjoying B-5 when it was actually on television because it IS more of a continuing story line (as the five year storyline was already pretty much laid out when it began). I wasn't able to watch every week so I was lost as to what was going on, but when I was able to check out the DVD's from the public library and watch the whole series from start to finish, I ended up just LOVING the show! Well, to end my rambling, I'm going to be downloading the entire series as soon as I can make some room on my hard drive. ;-) Have a "Happy New Year", everyone! :-)

I don't know if there's is a "correct order" to watching the films. So far, it seems to me that they are fine to watch in any order and not mess up your understanding of what's going on. I'm just watching them in the order that they are listed: 1 - 'The Gathering' 2 - 'In The Beginning' 3 - 'Thirdspace' 4 - 'The River Of Souls' 5 - 'A Call To Arms'

I'm actually checking out the movies right now. I've watched the first three of five, and I must say I really have enjoyed them quite a bit. I was a bit unsure how they'd be or how I'd feel about them, but they really ARE very good (in my opinion, that is). As soon as I'm done typing out this message I'm going to start watching the fourth movie. I highly recommend the movies. I can't say anything about the final two movies, as I haven't watched them yet, but the first three of five are VERY well worth it. :-)

Speaking of B5, I remember watching it a bit when it was first aired, but I didn't have cable and it was aired at different times and days and was difficult to figure out where and when it was on. I gave up watching it because since it was a continuing story, I just was completely LOST when I would find it. However, I checked out each season on DVD from the public library and was able to watch them all through from start to finish and I was HOOKED! I just LOVED that show!!!! I'd say the first three seasons were the best (e.g. The Shadow War), but it was nice to see the whole story wrapped up with season 5. I have NOT checked out any of the individual movie specials that came out afterwards. Anybody can pipe in on those if they've seen those. I've heard many people make the connection between B5 and DS9, and as many similarities as there are, there are some pretty significant differences too, and I think each show can be enjoyed and/or annoying at the same time depending on your preference. For example, I found the station doctors on both DS9 and B5 to be pretty annoying. The one thing missing on DS9 was a really HOT bad guy like Morden on B5. Too bad he had to get killed off - again. :-)

For me, I'm often torn between enjoying TNG and Voyager the most, but I think Voyager slightly bumps above TNG. I can't put my finger on why, but I absolutely HATE DS9. I just HATED it when it was originally on, and I would FORCE myself to try and watch it, and I'd just get angry at myself for watching it, but it was the only sci-fi I could watch since I didn't have cable. I think I really just pretty much HATED most of the main characters on DS9. My "dream" episode of DS9 is that Worf would do a fly-by and BLAST DS9 into dust! ;-) I would agree that the only good thing about DS9 was Worf - YUM!!!! ;-) I haven't seen any DS9 since it was originally aired, so maybe I should download it and give it another try. However, the first time I tried brussel sprouts I hated them too, and I don't think they'd taste any better now. Anywho...

Howdy all. I've just finished downloading all six season of 'Star Trek Hidden Frontier'. I'll slowly begin watching them from start to finish and post my opinions, just in case anyone is curious and hasn't seen any of them.

Oh, I always let something seed at leat 1:1, and I've seeded the "snake_eyes" Voyager season 3 up to a ratio of 8, so I'm doing my part to help out, and I'm VERY happy to do my part. Since I have absolutley NO clue how to rip a DVD or even upload something, the least I can do is offer my bandwidth. I don't use my internet connection too much that I need it all for myself, and if seeding things as long as possible helps everyone else, it's my pleasure to help out. :-) I haven't watched any of the New Voyages stuff yet, except for one episode, so I can't comment on them yet. On their website they ask people to watch something from their sixth season first and not judge them off of their earlier stuff as they've just gotten into their stride. I'm going to watch them from start to finish in order, and then I'll give my opinion on them. However, it's all new to me, so it's cool. :-) I can say that I really DO enjoy the MP3 radio episodes that I downloaded. It's "Section 31" stuff, but the stories are really good. I've got a LOT of new Star Trek to watch - have to run. ;-)

Okay, okay, I'll third that, but I haven't had a chance to actually WATCH the 'Star Wreck' show yet. I did find it and download it this past weekend, but I ended up downloading more than I could actually watch. I'll add my two cents on it after I actually watch it, but thanks for pointing me in the direction of it. :-)