Vampire Journals

Urgh.

I've never watched tons of vampire stuff - just Buffy, which is more about... Buffy. And Angel, which is about, you know... Angel. I have no clue why this movie was in my queue, much less what's supposed to be so great about it. Vampires, blood, and naked women. Not a lot of why or wherefore and I think it might be a sequel or something. Not to mention an Angel ripoff. "I'm a vampire. With a soul." Sound familiar?

The Voyager Game 5: TNG Edition

Did anyone else ever notice that "The Nth Degree" is actually "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in a shiny new wrapper?

Countdown to Trek

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300

In 300 days, life will begin again.

That's kind of a dramatic statement, but 300 days from now Chris Pine will take the big chair, Zach Quinto will take the scope thingy, John Cho will take the Pointless Spinny Pointer, Anton Yelchin will take screaming duty, Zoe Saldana will open some hailing frequencies, Simon Pegg will have a freak-out over his "puir wee barins", and Karl Urban will announce to the world, "It's alive, Jim."

Or something to that effect.

300 days is roughly 10 months. We can do 10 months, people!

May the Great Bird of the Galaxy bless our movie.

A bit of philosophy on life, the universe, and everything.

Starship Mine

Sometimes you just have a really busy day. Everyone running to you asking what to do because they suddenly lose the ability to think for themselves. Suddenly, Deanna, Beverly, and Will - three generally competent people - become embodiments of "ask someone else". "Ask someone else" is a painful (for those around you) personal philosophy in which, during times of stress, you rely on someone or something to tell you what to do. In some situations, this can be a checklist, or if you're just totally lobotomized it can mean running to your commanding officer.

I feel Picard's pain right now.

Now, throw in an android trying to make small talk and you might as well just curl up with a tub of chocolate ice cream and let the tears fall.

This is me NOT playing The Voyager Game

Voyager: Lineage

Have you ever noticed that Tom and B'Elanna are very much in love? It really is sweet. Been going on since Season 1, "Faces". Anyway, she keels over in Engineering, Icheb grabs a tricorder, and informs her she has a parasite.

Not a parasite. She's pregnant. Good grief.

I actually remember this. If I recall, she tried to make the Doctor perform genetic modification on her unborn daughter.

Anyway, I guess Klingon/Human pregnancies sometimes clash, resulting in fainting. So how come humans faint when they're pregnant? Maybe Doc means Klingons don't usually faint? Oh, who cares, at least they're making up new rules, not contradicting old ones.

Then Tom says the odds agains Human/Klingon conception are high, and now I've gotta say something. B'Elanna is a Human/Klingon conception. And how about K'Eyhlar? I'm pretty sure Alexander wasn't exactly a test tube baby either. Now we're making up new rules.

Anyway, they're happy, which is good. Not telling anyone, which is good. Replicating a crib, re-arranging the living area, looking up holodeck child-rearing programs (and apparently forgetting the events of "Real Life" which is probably for the best), lots of smiling. Until Tom goes into the mess hall and is met by cheering. Seems Icheb spilled the beans. Neelix wants to be the godfather.

Janeway and Chakotay come to congratulate B'Elanna, Harry rubs it in Tom's face that he's definitely off anything resembling bachelor duty, then runs away.

Tom goes into a Jeffries Tube with Tuvok and starts talking about the baby only to find out Tuvok was totally clueless. He asks for advice from the only dad onboard. Apparently Tom's scared shitless. Tuvok points out that offspring are "disturbingly illogical" and he should "anticipate paradox".

Tom and B'Elanna compare ridiculousness that evening. Comparing who wants to be godfather, who has names picked out, who has parenting advice....folk wisdom from Chell that makes me wish there were warp cores on Earth. B'Elanna's all rattled and over-emotional and then she calms down and then the Doctor calls.

The baby has her mother's deviated spine. Doc lets slip that it's a girl. He can give the baby a genetic modification to fix it, and they get to see what she'll look like. Cute kid. B'Elanna's disappointed that she'll look Klingon. She remembers her father, who, if you'll recall, left her. Ouch.

Anyway, we have a flashback to a camping trip B'Elanna took with her dad and her uncle and cousins.

The next morning she goes in to have the spine thingy and has more flashbacks. Her cousins are mean to her and she runs off. She wakes up when the procedure is over and goes to the holodeck to see her kid at twelve, and then deletes the Klingon genes to make her not look like that. Good times.

Doc won't do it though. She fights him about it, and he reviews her work and tells her to talk to Tom, who is firmly against it. They fight, and B'Elanna drags them to Janeway and they all argue about it, until Janeway says she won't order the Doctor to do it.

B'Elanna won't talk to Tom, who ends up crashing on Harry's couch. He and Harry talk the whole thing out and B'Elanna goes back to her flashbacks. She returned to camp and everyone apologized snd it was all good on the surface, but her father tried to talk to her and she said she wished he wasn't Klingon. She ends up reading through her uncle's fish story.

And sleeping alone.

Anyway, that night her father and uncle were talking about how hard it is to live with Klingons. Her dad talks like he hates his marriage and being a dad.

Chakotay takes B'Elanna to coffee and then ducks out when they run into Tom. They try to agree to disagree, and the Doc calls them. He reviewed the data and decided they need the genetic alterations. The baby is in danger unless they eliminate the Klingon genetic material. It's scheduled for tomorrow morning.

Tom goes to Icheb for help with the genetics. Turns out there's an error. Someone rewrote Doc, and B'Elanna's in sickbay. Terrif.

Tom runs to Sickbay with Tuvok and they force the door. It's all very emotional and possibly one of the best scenes of Season 7. Have I mentioned I love Tom/B'Elanna? Anyway, she's got issues, thinks Tom's gonna leave her and the baby.

Sappiness ensues.

And B'Elanna comes to apologize to the Doctor and ask him to be the godfather. And the baby kicks for the first time. Did I mention that Klingons have a 30-week gestation, could be shorter in this case, and seven of them are gone by already, so kicking is actually feasible in this case?

Okay, so I love love love love looooove that this ep is not stolen from any Star Trek that I can immediately identify. Maybe an episode of The O.C., but not Star Trek. Kids rock.

It's not all about Seven. The Voyager Game, Part 4: Shattered.

Voyager, "Shattered".

Icheb and Naomi are doing a puzzle together. And I mean this...awwww. Chakotay is hoarding cider, which Icheb stashes in the Borg components to keep Neelix out of it. Awwww. Chakotay is still doing dinner with Janeway. Awwww. J/C shippers everywhere bite their nails and pray for the day that they get home and...awwww. Red alert, anomaly, explosion, Chakotay rushed to sickbay, blah blah blah.

He wakes up in a Sickbay where Doc doesn't have a mobile emitter. Realizing that's weird, he wanders down the hall to the turbolift and heads for the Bridge, which is still in the Badlands looking for a Maquis ship. Janeway has him arrested but on the way to the brig his guards disappear. There is only one conclusion: Chakotay keeps popping around Voyager in different time periods. Terrif. Okay, so, how is it that he appears in the same place in the ship when the ship is, for instance, in the freaking Badlands? That's some pretty cool technology. I bet they could use that to go home! I also bet they won't get to do that.

So, when he goes back in time, it's like "All Good Things..." which didn't affect the future when he affected the past. But that was Q. And I know this isn't Q.

Anyway, Doc had given him some serum that was chroniton-infused, because he got hurt in Engineering, but it was the Doctor of the past that gave him the serum, because different parts of the ship exist in different time periods. Points for having Engineering under Seska's control. The Bridge is right after they left DS9, but Tom isn't there. I'd say he was downstairs yelling at the replicator, but Harry is there so that can't be right. Also, guess who else isn't there! Commander Cavit. Talk about a footnote in history. And just when I was so impressed with the continuity.

Chakotay goes back to the Bridge and gets Janeway to trust him. He tells her how she got Molly the dog and she drags him in the ready room.

And then he gets her to scan the hypospray, she wants to have Harry scan it too, but then instead Chakotay grabs the hypospray and Janeway and drags her out of her own ready room in front of some nameless starfleet minion who I don't have to count in my list because he didn't necessarily make it to the Delta Quadrant alive. Tangent over. Because that's smart, Chakotay. Brilliant in fact. You're not on a time crunch, you don't even know what's going on, you have no evidence that the ship won't stay like this forever. I wonder if you went up to the bridge and sent a distress call what would happen? Would Starfleet maybe send a ship to beam you all back? Of course then all the Maquis would die. Bad plan. Never mind. But you see my point - not a good time to be grabbing Janeway by the throat.

So he drags her down a corridor and shoots her up with the serum and takes her through a time portal. Then he lets her go. They wander over to Astrometrics, and props to the creative team for realizing that Janeway should be confused, because Astrometrics wasn't always there. Chakotay fills her in on the cliffs notes version of the last seven years. Anyway, she believes now.

Astrometrics is not doing well, full of unconcious people. "This could be the time telepathic pitcher plants put us all in comas," Chakotay says, "or it might be the time aliens invaded our dreams." Why not ask the computer what the date is? Oh, never mind. Why did they choose two of the lamest-sounding (although in the case of "Bliss", surprisingly coolest) concepts from all of Voyager?

Or it could be in the future, when Naomi and Icheb run Astrometrics! They're all growed up now! Janeway and Chakotay died 17 years ago. They all decide they need Seven, except for Janeway, who has no clue who Seven is. Chakotay decides to go find Seven, who, I would like to point out, is still alive 17 years later, but died five years after "Endgame" according to Admiral Janeway. Yeah-huh. Headache.

The cargo bay is full of Borg, because it's in the middle of Scorpion. Seven is still borgified. All those who saw that coming?

Question: If technology won't pass through the rift thingies, only stuff that's had the serum - why isn't Chakotay naked? Anyway, Doc replicates them some belts that will go through the different time periods with them. They go inject the gel pacs with the serum to get them all charged with whatever, and then what happens? Big damn macrovirus.

Macrovirus!

I thought we'd seen the last of those.

Macrovirus.

Macro. Virus.

MACROVIRUS.

Okay, now I'm done. Slow death please, with a side of OMG, just when it couldn't get any weirder! You know what this is? Voyager Cliffs Notes.

Stupid macrovirus.

It's like, "Here's our lame tribute to the last seven years. Enjoy!"

Okay, I'm over it now.

Chakotay tells Janeway it was a macrovirus.

You know what would be cool? Going back to Astrometrics and getting Seven and Icheb to tell them what time period everything is in so they can know what they're getting into wherever they go. For some reason they also have to visit the holodeck, they also have to visit Captain Proton. Right, holodeck access port. They have a run-in with Satan's Robot and Chaotica. He remembers Arachnia, all right. Maniacal laughter ensues. Janeway begs for her pathetic life, Chakotay throws in some Aliens from the Eigth Dimension, and then Arachnia makes a return appearance.

Janeway decides that her Mr. Paris will never have holodeck privileges after that.

Next, they find a bunch of Maquis, including B'Elanna, right after the destruction of the Array. B'Elanna is not in a good mood. They do what they need to do, but B'Elanna blames Janeway for stranding them, which gets Janeway curious. Janeway questions Chakotay about it and he tells her about the Ocampa.

The mess hall is full of patients and Tom. Tom is not happy. Neelix runs into Janeway and gives her coffee. Tuvok is a patient, in really bad shape. He tells her it was an honor to serve with her and be her friend, and then he dies. Which is more fun then the whole insanity thing he did in "Endgame".

They get in the turbolift, and Janeway decides she wants to start the whole thing over and not get stranded. She calls the Delta Quadrant a "deathtrap". Not that that's wrong. Chakotay has to tell her about Seven recovering her humanity, Tom's various jobs, plus the fact that he marries that angry woman in the transporter room - the future Chief Engineer. "Are you going to be lecturing me like this for the next seven years?" asks Janeway. No, only the next three, and then you'll have Seven and Chakotay will be reduced to a walking prop until they decide to have him do a token ep every year. Not that I'm bitter.

They go to Engineering and get Seska to let them inject the gel packs.She hits on him for a minute, but then decides that if he's from the future he must not be stranded on that planet which means, say it with me now, they got the ship back, and Seska lost. God, she's slow.

She tries to make it go back to her timeframe, which could blow the ship up, and then Janeway gets Tom and Harry to jump in and start a big fight next to the warp core. Brilliant. Seska takes Janeway hostage, they almost lose, but Seven comes in right then - Borg shields. So they all go back to their places after a stirring speech from Janeway with dramatic music and no Kes. No, not one sighting.

Poor Jennifer Lien.

"Just how close do we get?" she asks Chakotay. He says there are some barriers they never cross. J/C shippers start to cry a bit.

It all works fine, but Chakotay's the only one who knows what's up. He burns out the deflector, but manages to stop the pulse. They fly off. Brilliant strategy. Then he refuses to explain to Janeway, which is weird because he was fine telling Janeway of the Past.

So now it's time to play... The Voyager Game! Let's start with a ripoff of every cute Alexander moment from TNG at the beginning. All Good Things, obviously, with a generous helping of Night and Caretaker. Fury, for abuse of the Kes character, and a little bit of a ripoff of ever single Voyager episode referenced here, and it makes NO SENSE, just none whatsoever, because it's an anomaly not a sentient being like Q, which means the ship was in a different place and I still say it could have got them home.

A Response to a Response - this has minor spoilers for The Man from Earth, if you care.

So, the producer for The Man from Earth was not happy with my last post, which is, of course, his right, but I'd like to clearify a few things.

1. I did see the movie. The acting was not that great. I watched it on Netflix on demand two weeks ago, just so we're clear. And I found the part where he claimed to be Jesus borderline offensive/intriguing.

2.Reusing old ideas is too stealing from yourself. I have no problem with you being honest about it, and it doesn't even really bug me, I just found it weird.

3.A lot of the dialog seemed forced and the script seemed a little weak, and then the fact that it was the same concept as one of my favorite Trek episodes ever was not thrilling to me. Had that not been the case, maybe I would have been moved to comment more favorably on the movie, but it was the case, and so I wound up just kind of disgusted, which is my right as a human being/movie viewer. I'm frequently disgusted, by contemporary movies, and by life in general, so don't take this as any special insult.

4. Jerome Bixby is one of my favorite Trek writers.

Requiem for The Man From Earth

Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth is, in fact....

Dun-dun-duuuun!

Star Trek's "Requiem for Methuselah".

Written by... are you ready for this? Jerome Bixby.

I know I've had this talk with people about writers stealing from themselves. Tacky!

I don't believe it!

Spike and Angel's battle over cavemen vs. astronauts from "A Hole in the World" is not on YouTube, LiveVideo, or MySpace.

Anyone?

George Takei Got his Marriage Liscense

I'm not trying to get all political here, but I do believe that if you let a church tell the state what to do, then the state should be able to tell the church what to do.

And since we have separation of church and state in this country...

Butt the hell out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0aP4Av1Un8

http://trekmovie.com/2008/06/17/takei-marriage-license-big-news/

Why Chris Pine will never work out

Okay, so I just watched Just My Luck and I realized that Chris Pine will never be a believable Kirk.

See, when he kisses a girl it doesn't look like he's eating her face.

See?

Or we could... not.

Yeah, that'll be the day.

Thankfully, the website does not exist.

The Voyager Game 3

So, an away team returns via shuttle to find something horribly lame has happened to the crew.

Is it "Genesis" (TNG)

Or is it....

Macrocosm?

Interesting note: both episodes, neither of which is well-liked, were written by Brannon Braga. It's one thing to copy your own work over when it would be enjoyed, but why redo an episode that is almost universally hated?

The Voyager Game 2: Warlord

A major character with a medical focus is body-snatched by an alien criminal and does a lot of really mean things.

Anyone?

DS9: The Passenger.

or... Warlord (VOY)?

Or, if you take out the medical background, we have The Schizoid Man (TNG).


Or, if it's not a criminal, we have Turnabout Intruder, the final episode of Classic Trek.

Summarizing Ten Things...

We can learn about JJ Abrams' Trek from M:I III

1.It will be nonlinear.

2.Characters will develop.

3.Low-tech looking high tech equipment.

4.Complicated Villain

5.Strong Women

6.Respect for the Franchise

7.Humor

8.Locations

9.Great effects

10.Modern soundtrack that respects the original

So basically, we're saved.

Well they didn't screw that up too badly...

The Lights of Zetar look pretty damn good in TOS - R.

And in Mira's eyes....

weird stuff I ran across today

Remember when Naked Gun was cool? And so was OJ Simpson?

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Ye Gods

A Star Trek movie without Star Trek in the title?

Trekmovie thinks so.

That just seems wrong, somehow. They point out that Bond movies have never had James Bond in them. Well, boo freaking hoo! Since all seventeen movies don't have the character name in them, that's what we call a pattern. Since all ten (soon to be eleven) previous Trek movies have Star Trek in the title, that's also what we call a pattern.

What's the rule of successful franchising?

Don't upset the pattern.

Uh

Limited space and lots of time to travel and I'm supposed to believe they kept the Caretaker's remains in an empty storage cabinet in Sickbay?

A Known Story

Faran Tahir's interview, located here, calls Star Trek XI a "known story", which for me opens up a whole new can of doubts.

Does he mean a story that we all know because it's been done over and over? Or is it that Star Trek is so well known?

Either way, it's an interesting turn of phrase.

No Effing #*&%*#

Sometimes I want to cry.

Relieving Trauma May Ward Off PTSD

Really. That's profound.

Bob Justman

Bob Justman died this week.

I don't know if I can describe to you how scary this is. i met him, very briefly, last year at the convention. He was very attentive, walked up to everyone he talked to, and answered our questions as well as an 80 year old man with Parkinson's can be asked to do when he's talking about things that happened half his lifetime ago.

I was standing in the presence of the one man who was there for all of it, and it was truly humbling. I think, too, that he knew what he had meant to all of us, and had an idea of the impact his life and work had on the world.

More than that, Bob Justman had faith in the future of Star Trek. He had faith in JJ Abrams and his team to pull off what they are attempting, and because of that faith, it will only heighten our resolve.

Bob Justman believed in this project, and to honor him, we should give it a chance to vindicate his faith.

Bob's contribution to my life is as hard to quantify as Gene Roddenberry's. His achievements have inspired each of us - and our lives will serve as a memorial to his life.

Godspeed, Bob Justman.

The Voyager Game I

What episode did we rip off this week?

Answer: The Paradise Syndrome

Yep, we're ripping off lousy Season 3 of TOS. An all-time low, and it's only the second season!

Voyager Episode: Tattoo


And as an added bonus, the Doctor gets a cold.

Patrick Stewart's massive amount of interviews and such about Macbeth - wow, could this title get any longer? I bet it could!

http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=112684@wcbs.dayport.com

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/118094.html




And just in case you care, he's gonna be in Hamlet with David Tennant! Geekalicious!

For Wesley Haters One and All (And Wil Fans too)

you know how sometimes you just don't get peoples' senses of humor?

This is one of those times.

Anyway...



They're trying to make the YouTube most viewed. So view!

Okay, that was a space alien.

So I just spoiled the end of Indy 4. So sue me. My blog, my rules.

Okay, pros.

They never even tried to pretend that Harrison Ford was young.

The fight scenes were waaaay more convincing than Firewall.

Shia LaBuff (or however you spell that) was pretty damn good.

Harrison Ford can still act - without breaking a hip swinging from a rope.

Fake rear screen projection. I love Steven Spielberg. A lot.

Original Paramount Logo.

Great classic Indy-looking moving rocks and such.

Marion.


Cons.

Dude, Space aliens, flying saucers, and what was up with the psycho non-Nazi chick?

And speaking of which, was I not promised Nazis?

The box they kept the Lost Ark in was not scorched.

You cannot survive nuclear blasts by climbing in a fridge.

Why do you need a countdown loudspeaker in a city full of dummies?

The warehouse in Area 51 looked totally different in Raiders.

Marion has forgotten how to act in the last 30 years or whatever long it's been.


In the end? Thumbs up.

Converting people to the light

I just convinced my coworker who has never seen Trek to watch Star Trek 4 because Catherine Hicks is in it. Good times.

What's wrong with Jasmine

Why do I hate the fourth season of Angel so much?

Probably several reasons.

I came to Angel fairly late in the game, in what I think may have been a massive conspiracy among my friends not to let me get addicted to yet another show (probably a good plan), so they never talked about it in front of me. I caught the last season of both Buffy and Angel and got hooked from those - honestly, not the finest moments of either show.

I like Season 3 of Angel the best.

Anyway, why is it that I dread watching Season 4? This time through, I'm watching less in chunks than normal, so I'm seeing it more spaced out (like, one or two a day instead of eight). It's better this way - but I don't like it.

I think the problem lies in the villain. Something about me sees her point - she's saving a lot more people than she's killing. Lots more. And that scares me more than anything. Of course, like Janeway, I don't want to let numbers solve this. She's eliminating free will in the name of universal peace. Not cool.

Also, the fact that Joss essentially pulled the Jasmine plot out of thin air because Charisma Carpenter was pregnant sucks. He should have just ignored it and gone with Plan A. Would have been better.

You know those things you put off?

Turns out they're not worth it, I've decided.

Like Braveheart. I'm bored.

Don't know why I never saw it before. Wanted to at the time. My ex made me rent it once and then wouldn't let me finish watching it. It's dumb. I don't like it. And boring. And the kind of movie I hate that has everything I despise about movies in it.

Also, Mel Gibson is rubbing me the wrong way.

I hate that man.

Too bad, because I actually saw the spot where they executed William Wallace when I was in London, which might be the problem - I know what happens. Been there.

I've been thinking about JJ Abrams...

And Time.

We start... with Forever Young. Written by JJ ages and ages ago when the Earth was young... or at least before my tenth birthday. Mel Gibson was still cool and we didn't see Frodo when we looked at Elijah Wood. Those were the days. Anyway, the thing that really calls out to me here is the use of time as both an enemy and a friend, and how much time works for the people in the movie. It's undeveoped, but even though I was seven years old when this movie came out, I still remembered it fifteen years later. That counts for something, right?

Moving on, we see Alias. And the answer to the question: what do you do when you screw the show up? Most producers move on. JJ jumps two years into the future. Didn't work of course, but A for effort. I think maybe the having Vaughn's wife be evil was what lost you the gig dude.

And then there was Lost, and now he's really got it going on, because... okay, remember in The X-Files season 7, when Scully got pregnant? Remember when she gave birth one year later? Obviously not one year in the show, but one year of our lives? Remember how annoying that was? Lost is like the opposite of that. The polar opposite. In four years, the characters have lived for less than one.

That's freaking awesome.

Anyone else feeling pretty good about him doing a time-travel based Trek movie?

Pictures!

Because... Pictures!

That's right, we can now see inside a Star Trek (movie) shuttle. And for those of you who were worried about the look of things, that maybe it would be more reminiscent of Enterprise than TOS...

Don't be.

There's a bunch more where these two (my personal favorites) came from at AICN, including what may be a Starfleet uniform, possibly belonging to Spock (I don't remember the insignia ever looking like that before!)

It frees up a lot of my concern, because the console looks awesome. And very TOS-y.

Is this really it?

This picture may show JJ on the Bridge. Anyone?

Holy Spoilers!

Chris Pine just revealed by accident - I assume - a teensy tinsy little spoiler - he has scenes with Leonard Nimoy.

This is not big, earth shattering news, but they've been so careful not to let anything slide that anything at all is huge.

Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger died today.

I've loved his work for some time, ever since I really became aware of him in A Knight's Tale. So this tragedy runs especially deep for me.

Also, I'm pissed because someone told me he O.D'd in Mary Kate Olsen's apartment.

Mary Kate Olsen!

This is the kind of rumoring that just makes bad celebrity gossip worse.

Anyway, here's to Heath Ledger. I really wish he'd been on Star Trek once.

A Lesson Learned

When I started this blog, it was intended as a purely nerdy outlet. And while I still intend that, I'm hoping to expand a bit. I've been reading Just a Geek and it's made me realize how much better these things are when you add your real life to them. So that's my promise to myself and to whatever loyal readers I have, to include more of myself in these posts.

Which means: Rant Time!

The other day my computer stopped charging. Just stopped. And then my identity was stolen. I'm kind of curious, in a morbid sort of way, to see what's gonna happen today. I mean, what did I do anyway?

Stupid stupid stupid.

It's just so annoying, I mean I just submitted to Trekdom *crosses fingers* and now my computer's busted and I'm working off a crappy borrowed computer that I can't even type on with out L....A.....G......

It sucks.

I found where I could buy the replacement part I need online but I can't buy it because my new debit card won't arrive for 8-10 business days.

Arrrrrgh!

Invocation

The X-Files

There is no mention of Scully's pregnancy, but there's a little hint that Doggett has issues. Also we got to see him run, which is always a kick because it brings me back to when he was a Terminator and movies were decent.

Why do you call it that exactly?

I Am Legend

They said it sucked. They lied. While it's nowhere near perfect and the premise is from an era where you could write a book about a disease that turns people into vampires, it lacks several problems with previous incarnations. The vampires are NOT trying to take over the world this time, they just wanna eat. Robert Neville is played by someone hot, not someone with freakishly ginormous teeth, and there's a dog for you pet lovers out there.


Spoiler warning.

The dog dies. So does Will Smith.

Ultimately, it was way way better than The Omega man, which I had the misfortune of seeing six weeks ago.

And now I know why they call it that.

Cloverfield

So that's it, folks. I saw it.And let me tell you: I now trust J.J.

Despite what they said on AICN, I see something diferent. J.j. shows that he understands sacrifice, which means that he understands love. Which means thatt he understands e and mine, namely the Trekkies.

I am scared, of course, for Star Trek, as I should be, but more than that, I believe that this movie can succeed in being a new era. I saw the trailer. I saw the Enterprise - my Enterprise - being built. I heard Leonard Nimoy's voice. And I believe.

And I saw the movie. I saw what J.J. Abrams can do - could do - if he puts his mind to it. And then I believed again, that Star Trek has a future.

And Cloverfield is what brought me that future. And for that, I will always owe it.

More than that, I liked it. For all the formula plot, it spoke. And what it spoke of was the things that I have felt in my own life - loving someone so much that you're willing to give up everything, even your own life and future, to see that they don't die alone.

And then there's the fact that there are no answers to be found - just like life. It doesn't wrap up in a neat little package. Everyone dies, and no one learns the answers.

Now, please, don't ruin it by making a sequel.

I seem to have made a very disturbing discovery

Star Trek: The Animated Adventures

Star Trek V is a ripoff of an ep of The Animated Adventures called The Magicks of Megas-Tu.

An episode, which, btw, is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

Murasaki 312

The Galileo Seven takes place in a "quasarlike" phenomenon called Murasaki 312. In the TNG episode "Data's Day", they are doing sensor observations of "the Murasaki quasar". That's continuity, folks.

Waiiiiting, little mammals!

How many of you remember "Prime Directive"?

Moving on.

Where is startrek.com? I'm waiting!

Why I hate Alias

I hate how complex situations are usually solved in one little ep. Vaughn's sick with the most evil disease imaginable! Oh, look, cured next week.

Crazy.

Minefield

Enterprise

In the early days of TOS, there was a great debate about salt shakers. Someone bought the most futuristic shakers they could find, only the one they used needed to be recognizable as a salt shaker. So the salt shakers became McCoy's medical instruments.

Today, watching Entersuck, I noticed Archer waving this little wand over his food. And then I realized, he's putting salt on it!

Now first of all, Archer likes a high sodium content on his eggs. Second, that thing is not remotely recognizable as a salt shaker.

Broken Bow

Enterprise

I know a lot of people won't be happy that I'm doing this.

Sadly, I don't care.

I want everyone to know, though, that it wasn't easy for me.

My history with Enterprise began on the day Enterprise began in 2001. I was excited, a little scared, and very very happy that Star Trek was continuing.

By the credits, I was in tears. I never watched an episode of the original run again.

I've seen it, of course, but not because I particularly wanted to. After it was over, I watched a few of the DVDs from Netflix. I sat through Connor and Dominic at the Vegas con, and I even watched the Anthony Montgomery segment (boring, FYI) but I never took the time to enjoy Enterprise.

I don't intend this entry to be a laundry list of complaints aimed at Brannon Braga's head, but I do want to rewatch Broken Bow and give Enterprise another chance - this time the whole show, with a lot of preconceptions and having read all the transcripts. I don't expect to be pleased, but I do expect to be more levelheaded than I was at eighteen.

Without further ado...

I think, at the time, we weren't ready to take a lot on faith. Production wise, it would have been better for the Klingon in the cornfield to be a TOS Klingon, and let the fans breathe a sigh of relief. I also think that introducing the Suliban at this stage was a very risky move, and the fans were not ready to accept risk like that after Voyager.

And the theme song was a mistake. First, the song part. And also the title of the show - no Star Trek. That was a mistake. Because while the fans have "faith of the heart", we also have the strength to walk away when we are displeased - unlike, apparently, Rick Berman.

So, yeah, the first four minutes were a disappointment. Even the opening lines, and the spacedock aren't enough to counteract what has been done by the first four minutes.

The depiction of the Vulcans is also very disappointing. They were supposed to FIX our problems, not help to cause them. And there are Klingon cultural inconsistencies that date back to the first season of TNG. That's more than a decade. The transporter looks better than Kirk's did - more futuristic. There's Brannon's little philosophy come to life.

And having Porthos around doesn't seem that great an idea. T'Pol's such a bitch that I can't imagine she came from the same planet as the same people who saved humanity in First Contact. Good movie.

They got James Cromwell to reprise Cochrane and coin the phrases that are known in the openings of TOS and TNG. That still doesn't make up for what seemed so frighteningly wrong with this show.

Again, I feel that including the Suliban this early in the game is a bad idea, because if it's not working (which it isn't), there won't be any more chances.

Which, for Brannon Braga and Rick Berman, there aren't, of course.

I keep trying to think if Spock or Tuvok ever ate with their hands. Not to mention Vorik or Sarek.

The controls look NOTHING like the ones on TOS. More like TNG with physical things to manipulate. URGH! Ugly and inconsistent. Also the fact that they are so different from TOS aliens is disturbing to me, because this is, you know PRE-TOS. It should be kinda like TOS, but with starting-up difficulties. Maybe some actual relationships instead of Archer just kissing every girl he meets. Instead? Decon rub-downs and sexual tension between just about everyone and T'Pol, despite the fact that she's a bitch. And no one has sexual tension with Hoshi because she can't do much more than scream.

I'm trying to see the good.

Really.

Now, what I would have liked to see was T'Pol going onto the Bridge and coming over to Archer's side. But they don't show that! Apparently the crew wanders around in BoxerBriefs, BTW. But the viewscreen is way more advanced than TOS's also.

But I love that they don't have shields yet. Or a tractor beam. Or phasers. These things are good. They make me happy. But the pre-tricorders should be a lot bigger - like a laptop. Hoshi's earpiece is too non-metallic - especially after Nog had the same thing Uhura used to use when the comn went out in DS9.

Since Klingons are so cold-sensitive, there is a big hole when they show Kronos to be such a cold-looking place. Of course, I never liked that whole "Klingons hate cold" bit anyway. And then the bit with the info-storing DNA.

Well, screw you too, Braga.

Dirty Girls

Buffy: The Vampire Slayer

And then it all goes to hell, because Caleb is waaaay more annoying than Glory ever was.

The dream Xander has about the two girls that want to have a threesome with him is hilarious.

Faith and Willow are back from L.A. and find the girl - Shannon - who was stabbed by Caleb. Faith goes after Buffy to say hi, and finds Spike chasing some girl through a cemetery, so she steps in to help. Only Spike's not evil and the "girl" is a vamp. And then they meet Buffy and everything gets straightened out and Faith kills the vamp so everyone's happy.

They take Faith back to the house and show her off. Spike fills her in on the source of the tension.

Caleb hangs out with the First for a while. God, he's boring. He does reveal that he blew up the council.

Andrew briefs the girls on Faith - mistaking the vulcanologist for an acutal Vulcan.

Principal Wood fires Buffy to give her more time to prepare for the First.

Faith and Spike smoke together in the basement and figure out they've met before. She kinda hits on Spike. Anyway, the girl from the beginning wakes up and Buffy goes to talk to her.

The girl tells her story and they get a picture of the burn Caleb left on her neck. And then she gives the message "I have something of yours."

So Buffy decides to take the girls on a little outing.

Caleb and the First play kinky games. Really.

Buffy fights her friends about her plan, but in the end she leaves Giles and Willow behind to protect the girls who don't know what they're doing. She and Faith go find a Bringer to follow and Buffy admits that she's glad Faith is there. They talk about Angel.

Xander gives the girls a pep talk about how great Buffy is and off they go to fight Caleb. They end up in the basement of this Vineyard and then they run into Bringers - and Caleb. Xander's team comes in to help and lots of slashing later Molly's dead, Rona's hurt, and...

Xander's lost an eye.

Because he trusted Buffy. He trusted her with his life and his world. And now he should have died - but he didn't. He just lost an eye.

Satan is a little man.

-Caleb

Night

Star Trek: Voyager

Janeway finally figures out that her actions in "Caretaker" were not a good idea. Which, duh.

Perhaps you could teach a course at Starfleet Academy: Satan's Robot: An Historical Overview.

-The Doctor

Lies My Parents Told Me

Buffy: The Vampire Slayer

Robin Wood is one twisted little educational administrator. All that time on the Hellmouth I guess.

This was one of the last few really good moments of Buffy, when they just kind of let loose and wrapped up loose ends. Giles betrays his role as a father, though, which makes me kind of shaky about him.

Everything's terrible! Total catastrophe! Have you seen the new library? There's not a book to be seen!

-Giles

Plato's Stepchildren

Star Trek

Um?

Um?

Well, we did have TV's first interracial kiss.

And that's about it.

Alexander, you talk too much.

- Philana
A precursor to "Shut up, Wesley!"

Storyteller

Buffy: The Vampire Slayer

Buffy rocks, 'kay? Even though, you know, lately she hasn't. But then we have this ep, that reminds us of why she rocks, exactly. Andrew's amazing, and Buffy's amazing, and so is everyone else.

If you're running to catch the bus naked, that's a dream. Army of vicious vampire creatures, that's a vision. Also, I was awake.

A bus to where?

-Buffy and Principal Wood

Final MIssion

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Wesley's leaving? What! No! I can't live without Wesley!

Hey, I was seven.

Oh, I envy you, Wesley Crusher.

-Jean-Luc Picard

The Swarm

Star Trek: Voyager

This is the first Tom/B'Elanna scene where he shows any kind of interest. He's jealous because of "Freddy Bristow" (I'm counting the crew memebers, people) and asks her out. She turns him down. Still, it's a moment.

The Doctor also begins his sordid career as an opera singer here. The holodeck even programs him with a toupee.

It's like singing with a computer!

-The Doctor's holographic opera singing partner

Everybody Hates Hugo

Lost

So the food just gives everyone one night of happiness. Charlie finally gets some peanut butter for Claire, Kate gets a shower, Michael and crew find Bernard, and Sun buries the bottle of messages that washed up onshore in the forest.

The Chute

Star Trek: Voyager

And just when you thought all was lost, there was light.

Great acting, somewhat of the original mission of Star Trek - social commmentary - acheived, Star Trek returns from it's illness. It's not cured, and it's not permanent, but for that moment, we remember what it is we loved.

We can escape! If! We! Work! Together!

-Harry Kim (a la William Shatner)

Orientation

Lost

Well, they're good and orientated now. Sawyer, Michael, and Jin are prisoners of the Others. Locke convinces Jack to push the button labeled "Execute" without knowing what he's executing, and Desmond quietly runs away. Won't we ever get any answers?

Flashback

Star Trek: Voyager

Wherein canon is violated left right and center.

Wherein Sulu is used as a tool of the idiotic masses.

Wherein the end of good Star Trek is nigh.

And what do they call those blocks Tuvok's playing with? A Katheera? Why do they persist in making this crap up all the time?

Structure. Logic. Function. Control. A structure cannot stand without function. Logic is the essence of function. Function is the essence of control. I am in control. I am in control.

-Tuvok

Adrift

Lost

I really thought that was it for Michael and Jin and Sawyer, but nooooo. Turns out the Others also kidnapped Jin. I know they wanted Walt, but why on Earth would they want Jin? Walt's psychic. What's weird about Jin?

Yeah, something's odd here. You know what else is odd? Spending an entire episode rehashing the plot of the last episode.

Basics II

Star Trek: Voyager

We finally get to see the baby again. She's cooing. BTW what's her name? (I mean, I know what it is, but at this point she is nameless). Wouldn't it be good to give the kid a name? You know, like "Naomi"?

For the record, I thought this episode was lame in my twelves and thirteens. Now I KNOW it is.

The scene where they start the fire with the hair is pretty funny though. And Tom's pretty good. Wrapping up the Suder stuff - good idea.

And the revelation - Vulcan Institute of Defensive Arts? Vulcan Institute of Defensive Arts? Where they teach "archery science"?

It's amazing the entire crew didn't get redshirted. There's a fucking dragon in that cave. And why doesn't Janeway's hair fall out of it's ponytail? Samantha Wildman doesn't hold that baby like anyone who's ever held a baby would for long periods of time (your arms get tired).

Why did Suder have to bust into Engineering if the Doctor (trapped in Sickbay) was suppossed to be able to deactivate the phasers? That doesn't make sense. And what exactly killed Seska?

Urgh.

I'm a doctor, not a counterinsurgent!

-Doc

Man of Science, Man of Faith

Lost

Jack and Locke are gonna need to have it out one of these days.

What confuses me most is how can anyone possibly keep up with the plot twists? Answer: JJ Abrams. That concerns me, because eventually you run low on things to twist. Then what do you do? Answer: Your show flops.

So Jack's pep-talky "friend" that he met once is down the hatch. Good to know. And what's the brilliant light that occasionally shines out of it? And why write Quarantine on the INSIDE of the hatch? Huh? Huh?

A Matter of Time

A Matter of this. A Matter of that. A Matter of Time. A Matter of Honor. A Matter of Perspective. Are we sensing a pattern here?

This is one of those eps I remember very well from my childhood, mostly because of Picard's big moral dilemma. It scared me to see Picard lose confidence in himself. Even so, my focus was on Rasmussen, but unlike every other member of the audience, I really thought he must have a good reason to take that stuff - turns out he's just evil. Here's one kid who really took the lessons of Star Trek to heart I guess.

Other than that moral dilemma for one act, there's not a lot to this ep. The crew almost gets hoodwinked but manages to catch the guy at the last possible minute because he was too efficient a thief. Why do we even bother to let these people have jobs? Sometimes they are dumb.

We are being hailed, but... Captain, they are requesting you to move over.

Mr. Worf, inform them that the Enterprise will not be going anywhere.

Not the ship, sir - you.


-Worf and Picard (who is really dumb sometimes)

Generations

Alike, but DIFFERENT.

Darker doesn't mean you turn the lights down, you idiots! And where did they get all those people in Ten-Forward. And why can Data identify anger (in Descent) but not hatred? And why bother to kill Robert and Rene? And don't you wish it had been Spock and McCoy, not Scotty and Chekov? Too bad they wrote a sucky script that Nimoy wouldn't touch. And Data remembering a joke we certainly don't remember. Why not something we do remember? Huh? Huh?

Rick Berman, despite denial, knows why this movie sucks. They finished TNG while in pre-production for this movie with a huge, expensive finale. They were prepping Voyager. They were making DS9. Can you say "biting off more than you can chew" can you say "lesson learned in Star Trek: TMP?" I can. I know that lesson. That lesson is:

If you wait ten years to make a Star Trek movie after the show ends, no one cares how crappy it is. Also, you have time to make it, you know, better and stuff.

Ha ha ha ha ha!

-Data

And my concerns begin anew

Trek geek co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have laced the script with multiple Trek references.

Yeah, I guess it was funny in First Contact. But we can't just expect them to not do a rehash of that nightmare from Voyager. You know what I mean. The constant "I'm a Doctor, not a ____"

Great. One, right around the time of De Kelley's death, is cool. Forty billion is not.

Anyway, trekmovie.com said it, and they're usually pretty accurate, and that scares me anew. Good job!

Piccys

There's some new shots of Quinto as Spock. On a website.

Written in French.

Hey, nobody's perfect.

The pics are here.

Caretaker

Unhappy with a new treaty,
Federation Colonistss along
the Cardassian border have
banded together.

Calling themselves "The Maquis,"
they continue to fight the
Cardassians.

Some consider them heroes,
but to the governments of
the Federation and Cardassia,
they are outlaws.


We didn't really see much of this, now did we. Did anyone expect this to have any bearing at all on the show? Or did they all know it was just. The. Teaser.

You know what would have been cooler? If Evek's ship would have come along for the ride. But nooooo. Too edgy. Don't want to follow the path of DS9. That would be wrong.

And thus began a series that went to so many wrong places...

Children have to grow up.

-Kathryn Janeway

Ben Cross

He doesn't look like Sarek. I don't think he can sell it.

George Samuel

We all thought it was Kirk's dad.

Could it be.... Sam? His brother?

Stay tuned.

There are a lot of things I could say

I've been sick. I'm still recovering. I don't feel well. My boyfriend is inconsiderate and texts me at midnight. The dogs are running around upstairs, I have dishes to do. I'm behind on my Star Trek news.

And Quinto looks damn good in those ears.

I've been sick

My friend Mario called me the other night while I was pretty much on my deathbed to tell me that the writers are striking. To which I said "duh". I mean, I do read Wil Wheaton, right? So anyway, Mario goes on and on about next summer, which got me to thinking.

Next summer's gonna suck, movie-wise. Stock up on your DVDS, kiddies.

George Frigging Samuel Kirk!!!!!!

OMFG, they're having Kirk's dad in the movie!

That's blowing all this continuity debate to kingdom come, seriously. I mean, there's not a fan alive who doesn't know Kirk's father's name - and not a fan alive who wouldn't like to see something about him.

Well, now we will.

'Cause he's in the movie, baby!

New Developments

So, for Christopher Pike we have Bruce Greenwood. I didn't know his name, but I liked him in Thirteen Days. And even in The Core, despite the abominableness of that movie. So I can't say I dislike that bit of casting - even though he looks NOTHING like Jeffrey Hunter.

And to replace Jane Wyatt?

Winona Ryder.

Well, she doesn't suck. She did really well in Little Women...a dozen years ago. And since then? She shoplifts.

Maybe this is her great comeback.

Civil Defense

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

It's been a DS9-heavy day, hasn't it?

In another week I'll be into netflixing Voyager, and then Enterprise (grumble)

But I digress. Civil Defense is possibly one of the most frightening eps of DS9 because it shows you just how out of control their station is.

Quark and Odo getting locked in the security office, btw, is priceless.

Dukat... if you are seeing this recording, it means you tried to abandon your post while the station's self-destruct sequence was engaged. That will not be permitted. You have lost control of Terok Nor, disgracing yourself and Cardassia. Your attempt to escape is no doubt a final act of cowardice. All fail-safes have been eliminated. Your personal access codes have been rescinded. The destruct sequence can no longer be halted. All you can do now is contemplate the depth of your disgrace... and try to die like a Cardassian.

-recording of Legate Kell

Villains

Buffy: The Vampire Slayer

Buffy and Xander spend an entire day chasing Willow around while she tries to kill Warren. Big damn failiure.

I came to Buffy late in life and I didn't know who this Tara was when I first saw it. Wacky.

Oh my God.
Willow - no... What did you do?
One down.

-Xander, Buffy, and Willow

The Enemy

When I was a child, so much of what this ep contains confused me. Geordi being stuck on the planet, Worf refusing to donate ribosomes to the Romulan, and Tomalak lying his face off.

As an aside, Tomalak was also the one-armed man in the movie of "The Fugitive".

We have a second survivor from your one man craft.

-Picard

...Nor the Battle to the Strong

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

This is Cirroc Lofton's chance to shine - and for once, he gets to take advantage of it. Good on him.

The removal of caffeine from beverages has plagued restauranteurs for centuries! You can't expect me to cure it over night."
"I'm not paying for that! I want to get her off caffeine, not poison her."
"So much for Quarktajino."

- Quark, O'Brien, and Odo

Looking for Par'Mach in all the wrong places

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Julian has way too much fun spying on Miles and Nerys in this ep. I have way too much fun rediscovering all these little things.

It's also a wonderful example of DS9's tradition of having fun after Serious Business. You know, some Serious Stuff (like the last three or so eps) happens and all of a sudden they just bust out and have some fun. Or some Klingon sex. Whatever.

I am a fool.

You're in love - which I suppose is the same thing.

-Worf and Jadzia

The Ship

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

When the 100th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine came out, I was very excited.

In fact, I taped it.

I watched it every day for weeks, and then my mom accidentally erased my tape. I was devastated. And this is the first time I've seen it since.

And since that time, there has never been a true hundredth episode of Star Trek.

We will both keep the predators away.

-Worf, to Miles

Apocalypse Rising

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

This was the first time since the end of the Federation/Klingon peace treaty that things don't seem royally screwed up in galactic politics. For just that brief moment, they had it back.

The scene between Nana and Sid where she blames him for the baby is hilarious, because of course the baby really is his fault. Poor Kirayoshi - a plot device to cover for the fact that Nana and Sid were screwing behind the scenes.

This is when Dukat gets back to being an ass. I always wanted to like Dukat - and then he was just evil. Too bad.

That's one de-pressed ex-changeling.

-Quark, talking about Odo

Lonely Among Us

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Does every sector have a neutral conference planet? Because that's what Picard's log implies at the beginning.

Do No Harm

Boone's still not doing well. And where did Sun get all her medical training? Claire goes into labor at the worst possible time. Claire has a boy, Boone dies, and Jack decides it's all Locke's fault.

This does not bode well for Locke.

Deus Ex Machina

Locke temporarily loses his legs again, resulting in Boone maybe getting dead. And the big metal thing lights up and no one knows why.

To be fair, no one seems to be able to die on this island so maybe Boone will be fine. I hope so. He's kinda hot.

Dark Page

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Few people know that Kirsten Dunst had her TV debut on Star Trek. This performance made me a Dunst fan forever - for some reason I just like her. Always have. Ever since Hedril.

I also see this as the beginning of the end of TNG - the season seven tradition of wrapping up errant plot points and characters as well as having a "one last". This is "one last" Lwaxana episode, and a chance to wrap up Lwaxana - and for those who dislike her character to feel for her.

Star Trek has always symbolized parts of my life, and TNG was my childhood - this was the beginning of the end of that. This is when I began to grow up.

Inside your mother, there is a ... dark place.

-Maques

Teaser Trailer

The word is that someone told the Latino review that a teaser trailer is in the works for XI that shows the Enterprise being constructed.

So there goes assumptions made in two books I can think of.

Oh, and BTW, it would be nice if maybe instead of ignoring the books, you were to kind of back up some fan favorites. Huh? Huh?

Numbers

Lost.

Hey, check it out. Hurley won the Lottery. And BTW, the French chick had his lottery numbers written down.

And when is Claire gonna get around to having that baby?

In Translation

Well, Jin and Sun finally split up and Hurley ran out of batteries.

Good times.

Booby Trap

The scene where Picard realizes he is the only one among the senior staff with taste? Classic. "Didn't anyone here build ships in bottles when they were boys?"

"I did not play with toys."

"I was never a boy."

This is also the beginning of all the Leah Brahms stuff, not to mention poor Christie. And you know, to this day, I can barely watch the stuff on the holodeck without cringing. Talk about horrible dialog!

The rest of it's really good too. That sucks.

I just realized how much Geordi slips up on the holodeck. "Give me an opponent capable of defeating Data." "Show me which ones."

Yeah, great.

Computer, do you have any, you know, personality on file for Dr. Brahms?

-Geordi LaForge

Something Sad

You want pathetic? I am seriously considering going to the Beowulf movie so I can see the Cloverfield trailer. That's pathetic.

Smokin' Aces

Have you ever seen such a piece of crap?

I guess the plot twists were cool, but the Tremors Brothers (which is who I was watching it for in the first place because one of them is Chris Pine) really disturbed me and I didn't enjoy that bit at all. The FBI agent doing that thing I shouldn't tell you about (spoilers and all that) in the end really threw me, and the big surprise was something I figured out about fifteen minutes in.

It just sucked sucked sucked.

I did like the trashy hit women though. They had a certain energy that is often missing from the standard cinematic hit man.

The Secret

If you want to audition well, calm the fuck down. Wil Wheaton discovered that the other day when he got cast in the role of Miles Something-or-other in Numb3rs.

Go Wil! You rock! You're awesome!

A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry

The anniversary of Gene's death is today.

The Doomsday Machine

They're right. It is cooler in Remastered.

Not that it's not cool. I'd like to take this moment to harp on the lack of respect we're paying the people who friggin invented the special effects needed to do this ep - whose work is now being basically deleted by computer.

BTW, I'll get remastered as soon as I buy the complete TNG set, okay?

"Sir – may I offer my condolences on the death of your friend; it is most... regrettable."
"It's regrettable that he died for nothing."

- Spock and Kirk

Hippocratic Oath

Leaving out the Dominion plot for the moment, does anyone else wonder how it is that Worf got so out of line? I realize there's no love lost between him and Odo at this point, but seriously, he's just annoying in this one.

Now stumbling back into the Dominon plot - what are we doing sending runabouts alone through the wormhole? Seems like the dictionary definition of crappy idea to me. And Garan'Agar proves that despite the lack of addiction to White, the Jem'Hadar will never be the great thinkers of the galaxy, which makes me wonder just what exactly Julian thinks he's doing.

So, what you're saying is you whish Keiko... was a man.

-Julian Bashir

For those of you who know who I am

Despite the bomb threat across from my work - I AM OKAY.

Equilibrium

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

This has one of my favorite scenes in it, where the whole crew gets together for dinner in Sisko's quarters. Odo learns to cook, Bashir hates beets, Kira calls Odo cute, everyone gets a lecture about cajun cooking and probably at some point baseball.

I just love it.

But then the rest of the ep happens and one burning question pervades my conciousness:

Where the crap is Verad?

There's all this stuff in here about Dax's eighth host. Verad? Gone. Still, I know he only had Dax for a few hours or so, but...

Ninth. Ninth host.

You just look so...cute.

-Major Kira,
watching Odo cooking

Forever Young

Mel Gibson when he was still cool and a really short Elijah Wood? What's not to love?

Also, JJ Abrams strikes again.

I'm shocked by how many things I enjoyed as a little kid have JJ Abrams involvement. This time he wrote the thing. It makes it all a little easier to know that he's repsonsible for many of my fond cinematic memories - too bad he's not writing XI.

Someone just asked why I don't cover Voyager.

Simple question. Want a simple answer?

I only own season 4.

And that sucks.

Give me some time, I'm working on it. I just graduated, for cripes sake!

Seriously, though, I'd love to cover Voyager and even *sob* Enterprise but I just can't stop paying rent and buy it all right now.

Lazy day

I've watched no Trek today and none yesterday and I miss it. But I only have 11 and a half hours before I go to bed, so I better go watch it I guess...

Being a nerd is a demanding passion, one that can eat away at you. Beware: you may not be able to leave.

And the AICNs Have It

There's a McCoy and I can't look.

Because he's the last one. After this that's it. No more waiting - the thing's totally cast.

Okay, here we go...

Karl Urban.

Karl Urban... We've heard the name. No one's surprised.

Karl Urban.

La De Friggin Da

Still waiting for it all to sink in... waiting... waiting...

Nope, still can't wrap my mind around it.

Well, that's all folks. And by folks I mean Shatner.

William Shatner is out and Chris Pine of crappy movie fame is in. At least he's a reasonable look-alike and he's reasonably hot to boot. We'll wait to see if he has a brain - giving up a shot at any other movie for The Posiedon Adventure doesn't look promising - and if he can act. Questionable, I doubt he got much from Lindsay Lohan.

I remember idolizing Shatner as a child. My parents would joke about him all the time and I just couldn't stand it. They never understood how much it bothered me. As I got older, I was able to understand that Shatner is an egomaniacal freak of nature and that he's self-important and that he's not that smart and probably not easy to get along with. I also began to understand that Captain Kirk, himself, isn't exactly going to be winning a Nobel Prize for Brilliance anytime soon. But still, Kirk is a hero for nothing more than stupid bravery and sheer dumb luck and Shatner is to be honored for bringing Kirk to us.

And so I'd like to request a moment of virtual silence for Shatner's Kirk, who we will probably never get to see again. Forty years was not enough - and keep writing your damn books. Just because they're all the same doesn't mean we'll stop reading. After all, you're William Shatner!

Yayayayayayayayay

I recently found a site that sells quality asian versions of the star trek sets. For CHEAP. That means I'll have it all in about three months for a reasonable price without copyright violation. Which means that then I can start buying other things. Wonderful things. I think X-Files is next, or maybe The Pretender.