The More I learn:
the less I fear.
the better I feel.
the happier I am.
the more I know.
the more I have to fear.
I dunno, it just seems to run in cycles with me. Sometimes I'm thrilled about the movie, and sometimes I just want it to go away. I admit it - like Kirk and Spock, I am afraid of change. I have grown inflexible, and I may have outlived my usefulness.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Brothers
I just love the ep where Lore kills Noonien Soong. But what I've never understood is why. I know he's insane, but he had no reason to kill his own father. And he was genuinely upset that Soong was dying.
So why kill him?
I don't understand the mentality of the insane. Or the sane, for that matter.
So why kill him?
I don't understand the mentality of the insane. Or the sane, for that matter.
"I am not less perfect than Lore. I am not less perfect than Lore."
-Data
Thursday, October 11, 2007
As if that's not enough
We also have Sulu cast - John Cho. So we're doing pretty well here, really, and also, FYI - this is totally gonna work people!
We have Scotty.
I think I'm right in saying that Simon Pegg is a good damn choice. And after all this - I'm willing to finally let it go and trust J.J. again. He's gotten too much right for me to worry about him anymore - until November, when shooting starts, with it's whole new bag of worries.
Boy did he call it.
"I told him we shouldn't have colonized so close to the Cardassian border."
-Mr. Mott
"Ensign Ro"
Star Trek: The Next Generation
-Mr. Mott
"Ensign Ro"
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Fear
Watching Mirror, Mirror and The Enemy within so close together is that they really show you the dark side of humanity.
The very dark side.
There's the side of Kirk you don't want to see. And Spock, and Sulu, and Chekov. We don't really see Uhura or Scotty or McCoy being evil.
Scary, isn't it?
But what's scarier is the people on Heroes. Sometimes they're good and sometimes they're shooting Simone and breaking into people's houses. And sometimes George Takei is handing over other peoples children to that guy who plays Claire's dad and OMFG, what is going on here? Because now everyone's all interconnected.
The very dark side.
There's the side of Kirk you don't want to see. And Spock, and Sulu, and Chekov. We don't really see Uhura or Scotty or McCoy being evil.
Scary, isn't it?
But what's scarier is the people on Heroes. Sometimes they're good and sometimes they're shooting Simone and breaking into people's houses. And sometimes George Takei is handing over other peoples children to that guy who plays Claire's dad and OMFG, what is going on here? Because now everyone's all interconnected.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
I hate weekends
The problem with having a weekend away is that now I have to watch "Man of the People", "The Enemy Within", "Mirror, Mirror", "Barge of the Dead", "Ensign Ro", "Brothers", "The Raven", "The Survivors", and "Partruition". I've gotten behind. Not to mention my other shows.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Confusion
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Search 2
I remember confusion. Unending confusion. Rene Auberjoinois was awesome as always. Confusion, confusion, confusion. Wondering - how? Because nothing seemed quite right.
But I never did like Nechayev.
I remember knowing, too, that something was rotten in the state of Camazotz - or Founderworld. Whatever, I'm not picky. The point is, they were creepy. They were NOT RIGHT and I could tell. And I was right.
It was a profound experience, knowing and being correct and predicting. I was twelve years old, and I hadn't ever made a correct prediction. But this - this I knew.
I remember confusion. Unending confusion. Rene Auberjoinois was awesome as always. Confusion, confusion, confusion. Wondering - how? Because nothing seemed quite right.
But I never did like Nechayev.
I remember knowing, too, that something was rotten in the state of Camazotz - or Founderworld. Whatever, I'm not picky. The point is, they were creepy. They were NOT RIGHT and I could tell. And I was right.
It was a profound experience, knowing and being correct and predicting. I was twelve years old, and I hadn't ever made a correct prediction. But this - this I knew.
Monday, October 1, 2007
The only time the TNG crew is allowed to have issues
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Family
Worf's parents visit, Wesley has an up-close encounter with his dad's holographic image (Wil Wheaton has apologized for this one, by the way).
The big thing is Picard recovering from his Borg experience. And let me tell you, boy am I glad that they didn't decide that Picard destroying half the fleet was cause for everyone just going back out to space with no emotional consequences.
Worf's parents visit, Wesley has an up-close encounter with his dad's holographic image (Wil Wheaton has apologized for this one, by the way).
The big thing is Picard recovering from his Borg experience. And let me tell you, boy am I glad that they didn't decide that Picard destroying half the fleet was cause for everyone just going back out to space with no emotional consequences.
Aupres de ma blonde
Qu'il fait bon, fait bon, fait bon
Aupres de ma blonde
Qu'il fait bon, fait bon
Au...dum da-da blonde
Qu'il bo-bo fait bon..
-Jean-Luc and Robert Picard
Singing drunkenly
Why Humans need Telepathy
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Darmok
Some aliens that make no sense kidnap Picard. Will can't get to Picard, but Deanna thinks it's not exactly a fight to the death.
Deanna and Data learn to communicate with the aliens - sort of. Meanwhile, Picard really does, but the alien captain has to die to get it done.
Some aliens that make no sense kidnap Picard. Will can't get to Picard, but Deanna thinks it's not exactly a fight to the death.
Deanna and Data learn to communicate with the aliens - sort of. Meanwhile, Picard really does, but the alien captain has to die to get it done.
His arms wide...why? Because he's holding them apart?
-Captain Jean-Luc Picard
They reuse this word way too much
Star Trek: The Changeling
Changelings are always misguided, is the only thing I have to say.
That, and the alien probe that Nomad joined with must have been really, really, advanced.
Somehow, a teeny tiny probe managed to destroy four billion people in a teeny tiny amount of time. Of course, Kirk gets stuck dealing with the probe. Luckily, the probe thinks Kirk is it's father (kind of the reverse of Star Wars). The probe is on a mission to sterilize all life that is imperfect. Kirk proves to the probe that it, itself, is imperfect - but not until after Scotty's had to be resuscitated and Uhura has to relearn everything she ever knew.
Changelings are always misguided, is the only thing I have to say.
That, and the alien probe that Nomad joined with must have been really, really, advanced.
Somehow, a teeny tiny probe managed to destroy four billion people in a teeny tiny amount of time. Of course, Kirk gets stuck dealing with the probe. Luckily, the probe thinks Kirk is it's father (kind of the reverse of Star Wars). The probe is on a mission to sterilize all life that is imperfect. Kirk proves to the probe that it, itself, is imperfect - but not until after Scotty's had to be resuscitated and Uhura has to relearn everything she ever knew.
That's problematical, sir.
-Scottty
See, it is a word!
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Nudity
Star Trek: The Naked Now
Everyone gets drunk. Every time I watch this episode, I think of The Naked Time, the episode based on this one they made for TNG. Let's just say it was less than stellar.
That's a pun, FYI.
That said, this is actually a good episode, highly amusing in many ways, and yet with very serious components as well. Also, I think Kevin Riley is pretty hilarious.
Everyone gets drunk. Every time I watch this episode, I think of The Naked Time, the episode based on this one they made for TNG. Let's just say it was less than stellar.
That's a pun, FYI.
That said, this is actually a good episode, highly amusing in many ways, and yet with very serious components as well. Also, I think Kevin Riley is pretty hilarious.
I'll protect you, fair maiden!
Sorry, neither.-Sulu and Uhura
Friday, September 28, 2007
Huh
And, on the flip side, Mike Vogel of The Posiedon Adventure fame, may be the new Captain Kirk. More news to come.
Personally, the man makes the worst decisions about which movie to do ever. I think that maybe he could be the barometer here. If he decides to not, we'll know it's good.
Personally, the man makes the worst decisions about which movie to do ever. I think that maybe he could be the barometer here. If he decides to not, we'll know it's good.
TNG's Twentieth Anniversary
I'm going to keep adding to this as stuff happens today, but here's a good start.
Twenty years ago, I was barely four. I didn't understand the concept of a spinoff, or that there were two seperate Star Trek shows. I remember watching "The Way to Eden" before TNG one night and thinking Picard was dead because Dr. Sevrin had about the same amount of hair, so that must be the same guy.
I couldn't know, then, that TNG would be with me for the rest of my life. I was, after all, just a nerd in training, not the real thing yet.
Twenty years ago, I was barely four. I didn't understand the concept of a spinoff, or that there were two seperate Star Trek shows. I remember watching "The Way to Eden" before TNG one night and thinking Picard was dead because Dr. Sevrin had about the same amount of hair, so that must be the same guy.
I couldn't know, then, that TNG would be with me for the rest of my life. I was, after all, just a nerd in training, not the real thing yet.
Quinto finds out what's coming to him
Zachary Quinto has never done a convention. The closest he got was the comic-con announcement. But now he's signed for 2008's grand slam.
I really really hope this doesn't turn him off to Star Trek. People are scary.
So, who else wants to do Burbank in place of Vegas now?
Oh, can't you just see those poodle people naming a poodle Spock just for him?
BTW, here is that link.
I really really hope this doesn't turn him off to Star Trek. People are scary.
So, who else wants to do Burbank in place of Vegas now?
Oh, can't you just see those poodle people naming a poodle Spock just for him?
BTW, here is that link.
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.
I suggest that you allow yourself to feel comfortable with your discomfort.
-Jadzia Dax
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
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