Is out there any Star Trek fans? I tried to use search function, but it seems here is no single word about this greatest sci-fi masterpiece... My favourite series are TNG and my favourite character is Lieutenant Commander Data.

Let's hear the others...

I have seen all of TNG episodes and I love them.  I am a counselor Troi fan, her and her naked Mom.

I love all of the4 movies, especially 2-4.

The new one I thought was excellent, I especially liked Karl Urban ( he played Eomer in LOTR) as Dr. McCoy.

I just watched the new star trek movement and it's made me realize just how much info I have on the phenomenon in my skull..
Gods... I want to own.. ALL of the star trek series, All seasons, and All movies.. on DVD...

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I was lucky enough to purchase most of them as boxed sets of DVD's a while back.

I also have most of my other favourite show which is "Dr Who" the original classic series. I worked as a technician on it too. For some reason a lot of people in the UK seem to be all either/or with Star Trek and Dr Who - but they are both amongst my favourite sci-fi. I also love Babylon 5. Ok ok so I'm a sci-fi junkie

The only Star Trek that I really didn't get so much was DS9. I Love Voyager. Kate Mulgrew is one of my on screen role models. I really wish they had done a Voyager movie...

Live long and Prosper, Tall.

My favorite character in all of the series has to be Quark.  He was just so cute and tried to blend both Human and Ferengi cultures.





Hugs and Love
Janet

Quote from: Janet Lynn on December 13, 2009, 12:28:06 PM
Live long and Prosper, Tall.

My favorite character in all of the series has to be Quark.  He was just so cute and tried to blend both Human and Ferengi cultures.

Yeah, Quark is very cute. He appears as human (without makeup) in one DS9 episode, as well as Nog... However, Nog also appears as member of one alien race in Voyager...

I haven't seen all the new movies yet 

But I've been a Star Trek fan since the early television series 

Another Trekkie here. First saw second-season summer reruns in 1968 after living abroad for a while and missing out on the first season. But it didn't seem to matter; I got right into the swing of the show and was hooked from day one.

I was irate when the third season opened at a ridiculous time...I think ten o'clock, but it was too late for me. I was six, and my parents were strict about bedtimes. But that didn't stop me from dreaming at night about being on the Enterprise as a sort of mascot.

I loved the three principals for different reasons. Kirk for his brashness, Spock for his intellect, McCoy because he was so human and feeling. In my dreams, Mr. Spock was my math/science tutor. I think one reason I loved him more and more through the years was that he could turn OFF his emotions most of the time but still be quite human at his core while maintaining a very alien presence.

I wonder how many other queer kids of my era identified with Spock?

TOS occupies a special place in my heart, so I really don't like to compare it with any of the spinoffs.  Of the shows that followed, I never really liked TNG and found it stiff and dull. Voyager I stopped watching regularly before it ended; it seemed so PC and got boring for me. I didn't think it was good Trek. Enterprise, of course, died an early death; I watched the first three seasons, and then my depression went into hyperdrive and I lost all interest.

My favorite spinoff is DS9. I liked the intensity, the sociocultural threads, the hard questions and sometimes unsatisfactory answers, the character conflict (think back to the Kirk-Spock-McCoy love triangle--that's good Trek). I felt that this show had more of a sense of humor, even in the last season, than TNG or Voyager. And what a great mix of characters. I don't much like a show in which people don't have any conflict, so DS9 suited me just fine. O'Brien became much more interesting, Keiko became a real character, Worf finally became more than a token Klingon. Dr. Bashir I thought was dead sexy--I love geeky ectomorphs--and the supporting aliens were wonderful. Garak. Gul Dukat. Damar. Kai Winn. Vedek Bareil. Any character played by Jeffrey Combs, but particularly the superb Weyoun, all fifty zillion clones of him.

That's my kind of show.

I wasn't enthralled by the recent movie. It tried too hard, it crammed in way too many characters and too many catch phrases, and it had SLAPSTICK. Good Trek can be funny, but never slapstick.

IMHO.

Longtime TOS fan, I stood in line in '79 to see TMP.

I liked TNG at the time but it hasn't aged well

I think DS9 is be far the best made series in terms of character development and storytelling (even though TOS is my sentimental favorite DS9 is simply very very well done) and it has aged much better than TNG, in my opinion.

I despised Voyager in every way except that I thought Kes was darling and i kind of liked tom paris (in isolation from the way he was handled on the show)

I liked Enterprise a lot better than most, but it was a highly flawed series until Manny Coto took over for Season 4.

Season 4 was as AT LEAST as good as TNG ever was, even with a less than impressive Captain (I like Backula but he was just wrong for that sort of character)

I liked all the movies up through First Contact, I though Insurrection wasn't even a decent example of a TNG television episode. Nemesis wasn't as bad as the grief it's taken but it wasn't good.

Wrath was the best but Undiscovered Country was close, despite all the goofy anachronisms.

Quote from: Laura Hope on December 13, 2009, 05:09:06 PM
Season 4 was as AT LEAST as good as TNG ever was, even with a less than impressive Captain (I like Backula but he was just wrong for that sort of character)

Now, this is interesting. I mostly enjoyed the series till I fell into a dark hole, so I haven't seen the last season. I like Bakula too (fond memories of QL) but wondered why they cast him. I wondered if they had done it because of his previous association with sf. Anyway, I thought the captain needed a bit more character. Can the dog, and make the captain more interesting. That was my take. But I had no really strong objections to him. Who would you have cast?

BTW, I thought they did a very good job in casting the latest movie, but I felt that the whole Chekov thread (and, yes, the character himself) was completely superfluous.

Quote from: Arch on December 13, 2009, 05:15:57 PM
Now, this is interesting. I mostly enjoyed the series till I fell into a dark hole, so I haven't seen the last season.

Cotto went back to the idea of a true prequel to TOS.

The first two-parter wasn't that great because they had to tie up the stupid space-nazi cliffhanger.

But the did a three show arc tied to Khan's storyline (featuring Brent Siner as an ancestor of Dr. Soong) and a three show arc about Vulcan and another one about Andor
and a two-parter in the Mirror Universe.

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I like Bakula too (fond memories of QL) but wondered why they cast him. I wondered if they had done it because of his previous association with sf. Anyway, I thought the captain needed a bit more character. Can the dog, and make the captain more interesting. That was my take. But I had no really strong objections to him. Who would you have cast?

Ben Browder if he hadn't still been tied up on Farscape, wold have been a good choice....and I always had a soft spot for Bruce Campbell in the center seat (although you could never have written him as the "guy in over his head" the way Archer was written).
The same is true of Gary Sinse although I wouldn't have supposed at the time that Sinse would do a series.

But i think the most perfect guy for the role, bar none, would have been Mark Harmon.

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BTW, I thought they did a very good job in casting the latest movie, but I felt that the whole Chekov thread (and, yes, the character himself) was completely superfluous.

the problem with Chekov in the move was that he was too damned young. Bad enough that he was 17, but he was 17 and already on the ship (as opposed to being a cadet).

Chekov was, essentially, Wesley Crusher.

But yes, otherwise the casting was fantastic. The only other one I had a problem with was Surak. I didn't think the guy who played him was close enough to the gravitas of Mark Leonard.

Laura,

I guess I'll have to watch the whole Enterprise thing on DVD.

Bruce Campbell is awesome. I'm not a big fan of Mark Harmon, but it would have been interesting to see him in the role.

I was very put off by the Chekov thread, for all the reasons you mention, and more. It didn't border on absurdity, it really was absurd.

I can't think of anyone who could have done Sarek as a younger man. Mark Lenard was always awesome, a genuine Star Trek institution. And he was fantastic in "Balance of Terror," one of my all-time favorite TOS episodes.

off the top of my head, I'm not sure what actor would have been appropriate but Sarek at that point would have only been 6 or 7 years younger than he was in Journey to Babel and that's nothing for a Vulcan.

Here's how he looked in that episode:




Ben Cross looked ok enough but there was just...something off.

It might seem an odd suggestion but I wonder if Alan Rickman wouldn't have done well in the part...

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Better yet, Javier Bardem



given Rickman's age.

Thing is whether or not Bardem would have taken such a relatively supporting role.

Hello. A Trans Trekkie here. I grew up watching TNG and Voyager. I could never really get into the Classic Star Trek. DS9 was alright but my favorite has to be Voyager. I just love all of the character conflicts. Especially the Tom Paris/B'lanna Torres and Nellix/Tovak conflicts. My fav character has to go to Doctor(EMH) "Computer. Activate The Emergency Command Hologram" The color changes from green to red, the four Pins appear in gold right to left signifying the rank of captain, and janeway says nice touch. From season 6 episode 4 tinker tenor doctor spy. I had to look up what the episode's name was. I just thought that episode was funny has hell.

QuoteThing is whether or not Bardem would have taken such a relatively supporting role.

Bardem did a great deadpan in No Country for Old Men. He might have pulled it off. And some actors will take supporting roles just to be part of the ST phenomenon.

Amrisa: Alas, I never did get into Voyager, although I must have watched a good five and a half seasons before I gave up. Never really liked Kate Mulgrew and thought the character conflict was tepid and there was too much PC...I suspect that I have a higher threshold than most people for conflict. I did love the doc, though. Wasn't he terrific?

As any of a vast number of Hollywood films prove it's possible to get great actors for sometimes the most fleeting roles.  It's all about paying them and the billing.  Sometimes like you said they will do it just to be a part of a successful series like Batman.  Or because they want to do something different.  I've heard of lots of stars doing kinda minor roles in kiddie type movies (and Star Trek is kind of kiddie stuff) so their kids could see them in a movie.  I'm sure if Bardem has munchkins around he's not letting them watch daddy in No Country for Old Men.  And there is the epic war movie deal.  Just look at The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far.  Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Denholm Elliot, Elliot Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Kruger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Red Buttons, , Peter Lawford, Gert Frobe, John Wayne, Irina Demick, Curt Jurgens and Robert Wagner, Robert Redford, Maximillian Schell, Liv Ullman, (Sean Connery is on there twice because he is the only person to appear in both).  They got all those people to be in just two movies.  A lot depends on the project, and there has never been a 'minor' StarWarsTrek project. 

Quote from: Tal-12A7 on December 13, 2009, 08:25:36 AM
Is out there any Star Trek fans? I tried to use search function, but it seems here is no single word about this greatest sci-fi masterpiece... My favourite series are TNG and my favourite character is Lieutenant Commander Data.

Let's hear the others...

Favorite is DS9 and favorite character is Major Kira.

Mmmmmm, Bogarde.

Another point on Bardem - if this Kirk ever meets Khan...he's the guy for that role.

Quote from: Laura Hope on December 14, 2009, 05:11:48 PM
Another point on Bardem - if this Kirk ever meets Khan...he's the guy for that role.

Dayyam, that would be cool.