Odo gets framed for murder in a very clever way, igniting the first of a lot of anti-changeling sentiment.
He's innocent. Move on.
I suggest that you allow yourself to feel comfortable with your discomfort.
-Jadzia Dax
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Oh no Odo
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A Man Alone
Odo gets framed for murder in a very clever way, igniting the first of a lot of anti-changeling sentiment.
He's innocent. Move on.
Odo gets framed for murder in a very clever way, igniting the first of a lot of anti-changeling sentiment.
He's innocent. Move on.
Who mourns for Charles Dickens?
Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead
Some guy's grandmother dies in the 1800s, and then she comes back to life and rises out of her coffin and tries to kill him. Wonderful. Apparently it's not the first time, judging by the funeral director's reaction.
The woman walks out into the snow with glowy lights around her head. Points from at least stealing from something quality like Buffy and not something lame like Enterprise.
The TARDIS isn't working that well, so they end up in 1860.
The funeral director guy gets chewed out by his servant for not doing what he should have in the first place and getting help for the, you know, walking dead people.
Rose and the Doctor get dressed and go out to see Christmas in 1860.
Just to make things more disturbing, Gwyneth, the servant girl, is psychic. She is able to find the old lady going to see "the great man" from London. Turns out Charles Dickens is in town.
Charles Dickens is depressed about his lack of attachment.
The Doctor calls Rose beautiful, which is sweet. They go out and poke around Christmas 1860, which I assume is good times.
The undertaker and Gwyneth track the dead lady to a convention hall or whatever.
The Doctor got the year wrong. It's 1859.
Charles Dickens, reciting A Christmas Carol, is disturbed to see the dead lady glowing again. She rises from her seat, screaming, and of course the Doctor and Rose run to the rescue. Gwyneth and the undertaker run in too, and these glowy phantom things fly all over the room. The Doctor runs in to help, and Rose goes after the undertaker. Sadly, the undertaker chloroforms Rose and the Doctor comes out just in time to see her taken away. He gets Charles Dickens to give them a ride on his carriage.
The undertaker and Gwyneth take Rose and lock her up. Rose wakes up with the corpse.
Charles Dickens and the Doctor arrive and see the phantoms flying around. The grandson of the dead woman wakes up, and the two corpses start trying to kill Rose, because of course she's locked up with them. The Doctor manages to keep Rose from being killed by zombies. It turns out they're not so much zombies as they are disembodied aliens.
The undertaker explains that the house is haunted, which the Doctor calls a rift. Charles Dickens starts wandering around, which I personally wouldn't do, but I guess he's closed minded, much like Samuel Clemmens in Time's Arrow. The Doctor catches him looking for wires with which to animate the corpse. Eventually he comes around and we can all get back to our fun lives.
Rose bonds with Gwyneth, who has a crush on the butcher's apprentice guy. Then Gwyneth refers to Rose's dead dad. Oh, yeah - because she's psychic. She can read Rose's mind. The Doctor hears that part of the conversation, and realizes that she's the key to the rift. So they're gonna have a seance.
Charles Dickens refuses to participate until they talk him into it. The gas creatures swarm in and Gwyneth manages to talk to them. They are called the Gelth, and they need to get home. Or they need to come through so they can posess all the dead bodies.
Charles Dickens believes now, at least.
They end up in the morgue, where the Gelth turn out to be evil. They kill the undertaker and take his body. They decide to kill the rest of them. In fact, they're gonna kill all the humans.
Yeah, great plan, Doctor.
Charles Dickens figures out that the Gelth are allergic to gas lights, so he runs back and turns up the gas in the house. Gwyneth can hold them there forever - but only by sacrificing herself. She lights a match and the whole place goes up.
Turns out Gwyneth was already dead.
Charles Dickens goes back to London, very excited. But he'll die before he has time to write about it.
Some guy's grandmother dies in the 1800s, and then she comes back to life and rises out of her coffin and tries to kill him. Wonderful. Apparently it's not the first time, judging by the funeral director's reaction.
The woman walks out into the snow with glowy lights around her head. Points from at least stealing from something quality like Buffy and not something lame like Enterprise.
The TARDIS isn't working that well, so they end up in 1860.
The funeral director guy gets chewed out by his servant for not doing what he should have in the first place and getting help for the, you know, walking dead people.
Rose and the Doctor get dressed and go out to see Christmas in 1860.
Just to make things more disturbing, Gwyneth, the servant girl, is psychic. She is able to find the old lady going to see "the great man" from London. Turns out Charles Dickens is in town.
Charles Dickens is depressed about his lack of attachment.
The Doctor calls Rose beautiful, which is sweet. They go out and poke around Christmas 1860, which I assume is good times.
The undertaker and Gwyneth track the dead lady to a convention hall or whatever.
The Doctor got the year wrong. It's 1859.
Charles Dickens, reciting A Christmas Carol, is disturbed to see the dead lady glowing again. She rises from her seat, screaming, and of course the Doctor and Rose run to the rescue. Gwyneth and the undertaker run in too, and these glowy phantom things fly all over the room. The Doctor runs in to help, and Rose goes after the undertaker. Sadly, the undertaker chloroforms Rose and the Doctor comes out just in time to see her taken away. He gets Charles Dickens to give them a ride on his carriage.
The undertaker and Gwyneth take Rose and lock her up. Rose wakes up with the corpse.
Charles Dickens and the Doctor arrive and see the phantoms flying around. The grandson of the dead woman wakes up, and the two corpses start trying to kill Rose, because of course she's locked up with them. The Doctor manages to keep Rose from being killed by zombies. It turns out they're not so much zombies as they are disembodied aliens.
The undertaker explains that the house is haunted, which the Doctor calls a rift. Charles Dickens starts wandering around, which I personally wouldn't do, but I guess he's closed minded, much like Samuel Clemmens in Time's Arrow. The Doctor catches him looking for wires with which to animate the corpse. Eventually he comes around and we can all get back to our fun lives.
Rose bonds with Gwyneth, who has a crush on the butcher's apprentice guy. Then Gwyneth refers to Rose's dead dad. Oh, yeah - because she's psychic. She can read Rose's mind. The Doctor hears that part of the conversation, and realizes that she's the key to the rift. So they're gonna have a seance.
Charles Dickens refuses to participate until they talk him into it. The gas creatures swarm in and Gwyneth manages to talk to them. They are called the Gelth, and they need to get home. Or they need to come through so they can posess all the dead bodies.
Charles Dickens believes now, at least.
They end up in the morgue, where the Gelth turn out to be evil. They kill the undertaker and take his body. They decide to kill the rest of them. In fact, they're gonna kill all the humans.
Yeah, great plan, Doctor.
Charles Dickens figures out that the Gelth are allergic to gas lights, so he runs back and turns up the gas in the house. Gwyneth can hold them there forever - but only by sacrificing herself. She lights a match and the whole place goes up.
Turns out Gwyneth was already dead.
Charles Dickens goes back to London, very excited. But he'll die before he has time to write about it.
Perhaps I've thought of everything I'll ever think
-Charles Dickens
Spy Games
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Past Prologue
Garak approaches Julian to be his spy contact person and we have to deal with what Bajor was like before the Federation stepped in. Good times.
Garak approaches Julian to be his spy contact person and we have to deal with what Bajor was like before the Federation stepped in. Good times.
It's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak.
-Elim Garak, Obsidian Order Papa-spy
Who are you?
Dr Who: The End of the World
The Doctor gives Rose a choice - backwards or forwards in time. 100 years later - no, 10,000 years, no, wait - 5 billion years. This is the day the sun expands and the world ends.
Well, at least humans haven't all killed themselves in that time.
Aliens are coming to watch the spectacle. They almost get thrown out, but the Doctor has a psychic paper and the blue host decides it's an invitation. The Doctor flirts with a tree. And then they bring out the last human - who is like, the thinnest human possible. Skin stretched in a frame. She is eyeballs and a mouth. Creepy. You can see through her.
These black robe types give everyone a sphere. The tree chick tries to find out the Doctor's species and then says "it's impossible". I'm guessing that's not good.
Rose, meanwhile, watches the end of the world. Is it any wonder she's a little upset. She realizes she has no idea who the Doctor is while talking to a blue skinned alien. The blue skinned alien crawls into a jeffries tube and has an encounter with a spider thing. Or two. Billion. Scream.
The black robed aliens' silver balls may be responsible. They hatch little spider things. Hmmm...
Rose is sitting around playing with hers. She speaks to the plant the tree lady gave her when her little silver ball hatches. Yikes.
The Doctor gets his phone booth valet parked. Then he finds Rose sitting alone. She's trying to deal with the aliens. And then the Doctor won't even tell her who he is. They have a small fight about it. She gets over it. The Doctor rigs her phone so she can phone home.
The station shakes. The blue host guy finds the spider guys but one kills him before he can do anything about it.
They return to the party, and the Doctor and his tree girlfriend go check out why the station shook.
Rose goes to talk to the last human - Cassandra, who used to be a little boy. Cassandra is the last "pure" human - the others interbred with aliens. Rose gets mad and stomps out and the black robed aliens watch.
The tree tells the Doctor she knows where he's from. She says it's remarkable he exists and how sorry she is. He sheds a single tear.
They emerge in the room from Star Trek: Nemesis where Riker and the Viceroy had that big fight.
Rose gets mugged and dragged away by the black robed aliens.
Doctor and the tree discover that there's sabotage. Good on them, everyone else has known for ten minutes.
Cassandra turns on a "traditional ballad" for the end of the world - Britney Spears.
Rose wakes up in a room where the sun filter is descending. Not good.
The Doctor saves her just in time, and the tree tells eveyone what's up. The figure out that the robey types set them. Oh, no, those are just more robots. Turns out it was Cassandra. Just when you think she's won - well, she kind of wins. In the sense of turning off the forcefields and teleporting away.
Of course, the switch is on the other side of a huge fan. Doctor's about to run through it as a hopeless cause when the tree saves him by slowing down the fans at the cost of her own life - she calls him Time Lord, by the way. Anyway, it's about to be very bad for everyone and then the tree dies, which doesn't help. But the Doctor somehow gets through the fan and raises the shield just in time for Earth to blow up spectacularly.
The Doctor brings Cassandra back... and she dries out and dies. Which is gross.
The guests all leave. Rose stays to watch the debris of the Earth. The Doctor takes her away, back to her own century. And then he tells her his own planet is gone - before it's time. He says there was a war, and they lost. His people are the Time Lords and he is the only survivor.
She takes him out for chips, which I think are fries.
The Doctor gives Rose a choice - backwards or forwards in time. 100 years later - no, 10,000 years, no, wait - 5 billion years. This is the day the sun expands and the world ends.
Well, at least humans haven't all killed themselves in that time.
Aliens are coming to watch the spectacle. They almost get thrown out, but the Doctor has a psychic paper and the blue host decides it's an invitation. The Doctor flirts with a tree. And then they bring out the last human - who is like, the thinnest human possible. Skin stretched in a frame. She is eyeballs and a mouth. Creepy. You can see through her.
These black robe types give everyone a sphere. The tree chick tries to find out the Doctor's species and then says "it's impossible". I'm guessing that's not good.
Rose, meanwhile, watches the end of the world. Is it any wonder she's a little upset. She realizes she has no idea who the Doctor is while talking to a blue skinned alien. The blue skinned alien crawls into a jeffries tube and has an encounter with a spider thing. Or two. Billion. Scream.
The black robed aliens' silver balls may be responsible. They hatch little spider things. Hmmm...
Rose is sitting around playing with hers. She speaks to the plant the tree lady gave her when her little silver ball hatches. Yikes.
The Doctor gets his phone booth valet parked. Then he finds Rose sitting alone. She's trying to deal with the aliens. And then the Doctor won't even tell her who he is. They have a small fight about it. She gets over it. The Doctor rigs her phone so she can phone home.
The station shakes. The blue host guy finds the spider guys but one kills him before he can do anything about it.
They return to the party, and the Doctor and his tree girlfriend go check out why the station shook.
Rose goes to talk to the last human - Cassandra, who used to be a little boy. Cassandra is the last "pure" human - the others interbred with aliens. Rose gets mad and stomps out and the black robed aliens watch.
The tree tells the Doctor she knows where he's from. She says it's remarkable he exists and how sorry she is. He sheds a single tear.
They emerge in the room from Star Trek: Nemesis where Riker and the Viceroy had that big fight.
Rose gets mugged and dragged away by the black robed aliens.
Doctor and the tree discover that there's sabotage. Good on them, everyone else has known for ten minutes.
Cassandra turns on a "traditional ballad" for the end of the world - Britney Spears.
Rose wakes up in a room where the sun filter is descending. Not good.
The Doctor saves her just in time, and the tree tells eveyone what's up. The figure out that the robey types set them. Oh, no, those are just more robots. Turns out it was Cassandra. Just when you think she's won - well, she kind of wins. In the sense of turning off the forcefields and teleporting away.
Of course, the switch is on the other side of a huge fan. Doctor's about to run through it as a hopeless cause when the tree saves him by slowing down the fans at the cost of her own life - she calls him Time Lord, by the way. Anyway, it's about to be very bad for everyone and then the tree dies, which doesn't help. But the Doctor somehow gets through the fan and raises the shield just in time for Earth to blow up spectacularly.
The Doctor brings Cassandra back... and she dries out and dies. Which is gross.
The guests all leave. Rose stays to watch the debris of the Earth. The Doctor takes her away, back to her own century. And then he tells her his own planet is gone - before it's time. He says there was a war, and they lost. His people are the Time Lords and he is the only survivor.
She takes him out for chips, which I think are fries.
It's inside my brain?
Well, in a good way.
-Rose and The Doctor
The Bad just keeps on coming
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Search pt. 1
Sisko and the crew go to the Gamma Quadrant to contact the Founders, a task that defies solving.
Maybe not their best plan. In fact, they get blowed up in Starfleet's finest warship.
On the flip side, Odo finally finds his people -
End of episdoe.
Sisko and the crew go to the Gamma Quadrant to contact the Founders, a task that defies solving.
Maybe not their best plan. In fact, they get blowed up in Starfleet's finest warship.
On the flip side, Odo finally finds his people -
End of episdoe.
Welcome home.
-A female changeling
Amnesia
Star Trek: Voyager: Non Sequitr
Harry wakes up on Earth. He's never been on Voyager. And he really really wants to get back. It's possible that Harry is not that bright and doesn't know about Species 8472.
Harry wakes up on Earth. He's never been on Voyager. And he really really wants to get back. It's possible that Harry is not that bright and doesn't know about Species 8472.
Why does everyone say "relax" when they're about to do something terrible?
-Harry Kim
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
startrek.com moving up in the world
Chris Doohan's pictures from his recent trip to Scotland are up at Startrek.com.
I remember a time in which startrek.com wouldn't have even touched the stuff. Things are looking up today.
I remember a time in which startrek.com wouldn't have even touched the stuff. Things are looking up today.
New Beginnings
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Emissary
The groundwork for my personal favorite Star Trek series. Very very complex plot - but who cares? Possibly the best Star Trek pilot ever, this is.
Also, the first time Gene Roddenberry didn't invent Star Trek.
The groundwork for my personal favorite Star Trek series. Very very complex plot - but who cares? Possibly the best Star Trek pilot ever, this is.
Also, the first time Gene Roddenberry didn't invent Star Trek.
They've left the Bajorans without a means of being self-sustaining. The relief efforts we've been coordinating are barely adequate. I...I've come to know the Bajorans. I'm a strong proponent of their entry into the Federation.
Is it going to happen?
Not easily.
-Jean-Luc Picard and Benjamin Sisko
Sunday, September 23, 2007
The Gods Return
Star Trek: Who Mourns for Adonais?
Turns out Apollo was an alien. Good to know.
Turns out Apollo was an alien. Good to know.
"Where's Apollo?"
"He disappeared again! Like the cat in that Russian story..."
"Don't you mean the English story – the Cheshire cat?"
"Cheshire? No, sir; Minsk, perhaps..."
"All right, all right, all right..."
- Kirk and Chekov
I think we've been here a few times since then
Star Trek: Where No Man has Gone Before
Kirk kills his best friend. Despite what we think we know about this episode, a lot of it is conjecture. Like the idea that they just started their mission. they didn't.
Kirk kills his best friend. Despite what we think we know about this episode, a lot of it is conjecture. Like the idea that they just started their mission. they didn't.
Captain's Log, stardate 1313.8: add to official losses Doctor Elizabeth Dehner - be it noted she gave her life in performance of her duty; Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell, same notation.
I want his service record to end that way; he didn't ask for what happened to him.
I felt for him, too.
I believe there's some hope for you after all, Mr. Spock.
-James Kirk and Spock
A Death in the Family
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Time's Arrow, part 2
Data's head gets blown off but it's okay. Picard almost gets blown up. Samuel Clemens writes a few more books. And this is one of the episodes that I remember as marking a moment of change in my life, so yay on me.
Data's head gets blown off but it's okay. Picard almost gets blown up. Samuel Clemens writes a few more books. And this is one of the episodes that I remember as marking a moment of change in my life, so yay on me.
Young lady, I come from a time when men achieve power and wealth by standing on the backs of the poor! Where prejudice and intolerance are commonplace! And power is an end unto itself! And you're telling me, that isn't how it is anymore?
That's right.
Hmmm... Maybe it's worth giving up cigars for, after all.
-Samuel Clemens and Deanna Troi
Friday, September 21, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Killer Tribbles
There are a lot of things I would never like to hear. Among them:
deep-fried twinkie
banning of Star Trek
Jar Jar has a talk show
Musical episode of Angel
What's Star Trek?
Star Trek? Isn't that the one with Luke Skywalker?
Tribbles from the mirror universe
The last one was just announced by the guy making the new Star Trek MMORPG. You can read the whole artilce if you want, but really... tribbles from the mirror universe, I ask you.
deep-fried twinkie
banning of Star Trek
Jar Jar has a talk show
Musical episode of Angel
What's Star Trek?
Star Trek? Isn't that the one with Luke Skywalker?
Tribbles from the mirror universe
The last one was just announced by the guy making the new Star Trek MMORPG. You can read the whole artilce if you want, but really... tribbles from the mirror universe, I ask you.
What is Brain?
Star Trek: Spock's Brain
There is a truly ridiculous moment in Buffy: The Vampire Slayer wherein Riley Finn performs surgery on his own central nervous system. He recovers very well. This episode contains the impossible: a more ridiculous moment.
Spock talks Dr. McCoy through the re-connecting of his own brain.
Yep.
There is a truly ridiculous moment in Buffy: The Vampire Slayer wherein Riley Finn performs surgery on his own central nervous system. He recovers very well. This episode contains the impossible: a more ridiculous moment.
Spock talks Dr. McCoy through the re-connecting of his own brain.
Yep.
"I knew it, I should never have done it!"
"What?"
"I never should have reconnected his mouth."
"Well, we took the risk."'
- McCoy and Kirk
Trusting the Enemy
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Enemy
When the Romulans send a team into Federation Space that then crashes their spy plane, Picard comes to rescue them. Sadly, Geordi gets trapped on a planet with one of them while Worf refuses to donate ribosomes to save the other's life. In the end, Picard is forced to trust a Romulan commander not to fire as he saves Geordi and Subcenturion Bachra.
Star Trek: Voyager: Elogium
Kes begins eating everything in sight. Turns out she's ready to have kids - biologically, at least, but not emotionally. Luckily, she'll have another chance. Also, Chakotay and Janeway have more sexual innuendo, because we needed that.
When the Romulans send a team into Federation Space that then crashes their spy plane, Picard comes to rescue them. Sadly, Geordi gets trapped on a planet with one of them while Worf refuses to donate ribosomes to save the other's life. In the end, Picard is forced to trust a Romulan commander not to fire as he saves Geordi and Subcenturion Bachra.
I never lie when I've got sand in my shoes.
-Geordi LaForge
Star Trek: Voyager: Elogium
Kes begins eating everything in sight. Turns out she's ready to have kids - biologically, at least, but not emotionally. Luckily, she'll have another chance. Also, Chakotay and Janeway have more sexual innuendo, because we needed that.
"Good work Commander. In the future, if I have any questions about mating behavior, I'll know where to go."
- Captain Janeway
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Free Enterprise
Well, I don't think William Shatner should rap. Ever. Again.
And Eric McCormack will always seem gay to me, thanks to eight seasons of Will and Grace.
But Rob and Mark are me.
And Eric McCormack will always seem gay to me, thanks to eight seasons of Will and Grace.
But Rob and Mark are me.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Just to clarify
This video by the AP was reviewed on trekmovie.com, but they really misrepresented it, I think. They made it sound like Quinto wasn't gonna even watch Classic Trek. "Oh no!" I thought. "This is horrible!" But then I watched the video. He doesn't say that - he says Nimoy is a better resource. Hey, if you have access, yeah, he really is.
Running Amok
Star Trek: Amok Time
Kirk gets wedged into a duel to the death with Spock. Never mind the circumstances of that - no one but the Vulcans are supposed to know. Anyway, Kirk forgets to check exactly what the duel is to, so of course he gets his ass kicked and dies.
No, wait. McCoy gave him something to simulate death and now he's all better!
This episode is the starting point for a fair amount of Trek fanfic, all of the Kirk/Spock variety.
Kirk gets wedged into a duel to the death with Spock. Never mind the circumstances of that - no one but the Vulcans are supposed to know. Anyway, Kirk forgets to check exactly what the duel is to, so of course he gets his ass kicked and dies.
No, wait. McCoy gave him something to simulate death and now he's all better!
This episode is the starting point for a fair amount of Trek fanfic, all of the Kirk/Spock variety.
"It has to do with... biology... Vulcan biology."
"You mean, the biology of Vulcans...?
-Spock and Kirk
Monday, September 17, 2007
Books
I just got the last of my books that I left behind when I moved out of my parents' house today, and it's so weird to see how many I actually own. I'm not doing bad at all.
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