Amph Engage! The Star Trek: TNG General Discussion

The Best Buy Sunday ad has Enterprse DVD sets Season's 2 and 3 for only 44 bucks a piece.

 

Worf's discovery of prune juice may be one of the few things that can top the hilarity Data provides.

I think Data is really funny, especially when it gets other crew members annoyed or at least seemingly annoyed.

Like the time he had his fingers caught in the finger trap during a meeting, and Picard got mad at him for being stuck and had to unstick his hands. (Also see: anytime time measurement is given)

 

That episode was on last night.

 

I have a pedantic question.

How did Data get through Starfleet Academy without being exposed to all the 'human dilemmas' that challenge him in so many TNG episodes.

 

He didn't. but it's more fun to have him start from zero in TNG.

 

Pretty much. Just a plothole, methinks.

Loved 'We must ignite the midnight petroleum' from 'All Good Things...'. And of course, his trial in 'Measure of a Man'. Really influenced how I see mechanical life forms in sci-fi.

 

I'm going to assume that upon the occasion of Data's 'graduation' there was a terrible accident that saw his adaptive memory erased.

 

What's interesting is that his positronic brain can calculate 60 trillion calculations a second, and yet 'I'm' is too much. Except when he slips up.

 

Contractions like that are one of the major clues to spotting when Lore is posing as Data.

 

Ferguson and Benitez at Old Trafford

Kop End's children, their faces wet

Ignant, his eyes uncovered

 

FIST. SMASH. FACE. MALKIE.

 

I get the feeling I'm the only one here who likes Nemesis simply for Riker/Troi's wedding. But then..I've been a Riker/Troi shipper since I read Imzadi WAY back when...

Does anyone else remember when the series finale was aired, and how they had a bunch of specials before it aired, one of them the top 5 (fan-picked) episodes of TNG. Most of the favorite episodes listed here were on that special(and I still have it on tape)

 

They had Hollow Pursuits on Spike TV today. Classic Barclay episode. I like his caricatures of Troi and Riker especially.

"I am the goddess of blah blah blah. I sense...something."- Troi.

 

Followed by "Sarek" which just confirms in my mind that it was a travesty of justice that Patrick Stewart never got an emmy for Picard during TNG's run.

 

TNG is so awesome that I had to buy all the DVD sets. I like that I can just pop an episode in and watch it whenever. Cool to have marathons.

 

If the prices for the DVD sets weren't extortionist, I would get them in a heartbeat.

 

The price I paid works out to about $4.00 per episode (not counting extras). So if three episodes is the equivilent of a movie time-wise... I guess it's not a "rip-off" in my opinion. Be mindful, I paid around $99 for each season (new from Amazon or from eBay).

I've been working my way through them in order. The other night I watched "Darmok". That's definitely one of my top ten TNG episodes.

Edit: I think I got one season - don't recall which - for $84 on eBay.

 

I worked at a chain store and used my discount card on the box sets.

 

Most of the favorite episodes listed here were on that special(and I still have it on tape)

Me too . That tape is almost 12 years old now. I have it around here somewhere, and last watched it a couple years ago. I forgot to record one segment of Yesterday's Enterprise, unfortunately. Was editing out commercials, and wasn't paying attention.

 

Who didn't tape the marathon that proceeded All Good Things? I think most everybody's favorite episodes were in that marathon. I also taped All Good Things.

 

Well, here, the marathon was on at 1am in the morning, so I wasn't awake to edit out the commercials.

I'm not sure if I still have "All Good Things" on tape though, I'll have to look thru the tapes again. I did catch it on Spike a few months ago though.

 

Something I've always wondered, too. Why the hell are the ST boxed sets so high when compared to other TV series? Not just TNG, but all of them!

 

I don't know Jon, but it may backfire on everybody, as if the prices are too high then, people won't buy them, and if people aren't buying, then Paramount will think nobody wants Trek anymore and as a consequence, we could end up waiting a looooooooonnnnnnnnnnggggggggg time for new Trek.

Paraborg is greedy and that's all there is too it.

As an aside: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS comes on Spike TV tomorrow!

 

Here in the UK The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager season boxsets were - upon their release - priced at £85 each ($150), but now you can get them for between £35 ($60) and £40 ($70) each. I've recently completed my DS9 collection.