Amph [NERRRD] Observations, rhetorical questions, comments & 55 Years of Star Trek (General Thread)

DS9 is easily my favorite trek, though I may be biased becuase i love the pre-WWI style creation of alliances and the political machinations in the show. It also helped that Dukat is my favorite trek villain.

 

It also helps that Garak is one of the greatest Trek characters of all time, full stop.

I could watch Odo/Garak or Bashir/Garak all day.

EDIT: One of the other things that is surprising to me these days is just how much one of my very favorite episodes gets referred to positively around the net. The first season episode "Duet" is absolutely one of my favorites in the entire series (I also very much enjoy the first season episode "Captive Pursuit" but mostly for how it sets up many of the personality interplays and characterizations for the remainder of the series, especially Odo). So imagine my surprise when articles like this or even the AV Club's discussion of Babylon 5 references "Duet" positively...

 

I think "Duet" is one of the best episodes in the franchise.

 

LOL @ Wesley.

 

Man, I wish the BD's weren't so expensive. But images like those make it so, so tempting. Maybe I'll just pick up season 3 or 4.

 

$120 per set. I only got the S1 TNG DVD after the price had gone down to about $70.

Meanwhile Heroes, which had about the same number of episodes for S1 was around $49 dollars when it was first released.

 

I saw the TNG Blu Ray sets this weekend at Best Buy for $79 a pop. Amazon (and other sellers) have them for around $59 each.

 

Amazon has had them for as low as $50. That's still more expensive than pretty much any other single-season Blu-ray set out there, many of which can go on sale for as low as $15-$20.

 

Perhaps, but then P'mount has to keep milking the $tar Trek cash cow. It all boils down to how badly you want the remastered editions over the dvds already on your shelf.

 

Hopefully this is okay to post because I can say that there wasn't a discussion thread for Star Trek just various thread of it that really wasn't discussion threads about it in general. And I know it may be weird to post this kind of thread into a Star Wars forum but I am not one of those people that feel the need to choose because both in there own way are great sci-fi franchises. So anyways back to the point of this thread:

Space the Final Frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise
Its 5 year mission
To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life and new civilizations
To boldly go where no man has gone before

And this is the thread where you can talk about Star Trek from the TOS era to the more current J.J. Abrams era.

To start off easy with this thread who is your fav. Captain and whats your fav. era of Star Trek?

 

Captain Picard and my favourite series would be The Next Generation. He was everything basically, he was a social worker, a diplomat, a warrior and a commander. But there are too many times Picard monologues at the end of the episode to save the day. LOL.

I enjoy Kirk though as well and TOS as well as their movies. Im a 90s kid so TOS was kind of dated by then and it wasnt as "cool" looking to everyone but looking back now at TOS I see it differently.

Janeway I couldn't stand, her voice just turned me off. Sisko wasnt bad when he got the goatee but again, Deep Sace Nine never excited me enough, it was too slow for me and I didnt enjoy the Prohets and all that included.

 

Same here that I am a Picard fan I mean besides what kind of Captain he is it makes him so cool that he was played by Patrick Stewart which I can't picture anyone else as Captain Picard. Makes me wonder who else was up for the role of Picard before Patrick Stewart was cast now that I think about it I really wanna know. I am also a 90s kid and into TNG more so then TOS even though I do appreciate it for what it is and still love it in its own way. Specially since I love Leonard Nimoy and Spock.

On a side note I enjoy the Abrams era of Star Trek.

 

I read that Gene Roddenberry didnt want Stewart for Picard because he was bald. But that changed (rightly so) and we got amazing performances.

I also like the Abrams Trek. It was a shot in the arm that Trek needed badly. You can say its hollow and whatnot but in the end theyre decent movies, infinitely better than Insurrection and Nemesis.

Plus Quinto as Spock is just damn near perfect.

 

like some kind of time machine...

 

Wasn't Patrick Stewart a seasoned actor by the time he became Picard?

And whats interesting about the Abram era Trek is this is something that Gene Rodenberry wanted he even said so in a interview that I saw during a Star Trek documentary that was hosted by Gene Rodenberry Jr. He showed the video to J.J. Abrams who was blown away that it was almost like he was giving consent on Star Trek being remade with new actors and new film technology and etc.

 

I just hope they continue with Abrams vision of the Enterprise and the visuals of everything to promote continuity within the films. Especially if hes not doing Star Trek 3 now that hes with Star Wars.

 

Is it already established that there will be a Star Trek 3? And with them remaking Star Trek it makes me wonder if they will also do it for the TNG era as well at least in the film versions. I know even the thought of that fans would be against it like they were with remaking the TOS era but its not remaking it its redoing it since its a new and different timeline where anything can happen.

 

Well I assume there will be a Star Trek 3 but maybe not.

 

It may not be for a while actually I mean heck it took 4 years to get this sequel since the first Abrams Trek film came out in 2009.

 

Pretty sure there will be a New Trek 3. I think its already in the works. But after that, nothing is known, since JJ is leaving the Trekverse.

 

Do you think that Star Trek should return to TV? And if they do should they follow the films and do a Trek series that follows the reboot of the films and this new story line in the TOS era? Or should they do a new era with a new captain and crew we haven't yet seen?