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ChrissyRyan

#20
March 07, 2026, 02:05:20 PM
There is a Star Trek captain's chair in Seattle at a local museum in the Science Fiction section.



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ChrissyRyan

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March 07, 2026, 02:06:44 PM
You can stop in Vulcan, Alberta, Canada and see all kinds of Star Trek related stuff!

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Dawn Kellie

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March 07, 2026, 03:23:24 PM
There us a town in Idaho that honors captain Kirk.
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Sephirah

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March 07, 2026, 04:36:05 PM
Quote from: Stottie Girl on March 06, 2026, 11:27:20 AMHave you watched the Expanse? Now that's good Sci-Fi. I would love them to do a Babylon 5 remake too.

I watched maybe 3 seasons of it, yes. Then, for whatever reason, I didn't keep up with it.

Babylon 5... now you're talking my language! I don't know that they could remake it though. It was one of those shows where the actors were as pivotal to it as the plot. I don't know that another cast could make it work. Although they pulled it off with Battlestar Galactica, so you never know.

As far as Simon Pegg goes... I liked "Spaced", the comedy TV show he did with Nick Frost back in the late 90s-early 2000s. Wasn't a fan of the movies, though. I thought they were a bit cheesy, and contrived.

But anyway, back on the topic of Star Trek. Enterprise was the only series I never really watched. I saw the pilot but it didn't grab me. I like what they did with Picard, but sometimes it feels like they wheel actors out of the retirement home for fan service, I don't know.
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Stottie Girl

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March 07, 2026, 04:48:16 PM
You're right about Picard, they did wheel out everybody after a disapointing 2nd series but by god it worked I felt like a little kid again!

See Babylon 5 had a compelling story and great acting, usually great stories like that come from books but this was all tv, a rare thing. It's just the early CGI that lets it down now which is why I would like to see it rebooted.

I think they are working on a Mass Effect series based on the games, that has potential to be up there too as it's a great story with amazing world building.
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Dawn Kellie

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March 07, 2026, 04:50:15 PM
Another series i really enjoyed was the rebooted Battlestar Galactica. They did some amazing stuff
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Sephirah

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March 07, 2026, 05:22:11 PM
Quote from: Dawn Kellie on March 07, 2026, 04:50:15 PMAnother series i really enjoyed was the rebooted Battlestar Galactica. They did some amazing stuff

Absolutely agree, Dawn. That was a fantastic show and I would recommend it to anyone. Even as someone who watched the original aired originally back in the late 70s.

Quote from: Stottie Girl on March 07, 2026, 04:48:16 PMYou're right about Picard, they did wheel out everybody after a disapointing 2nd series but by god it worked I felt like a little kid again!

See Babylon 5 had a compelling story and great acting, usually great stories like that come from books but this was all tv, a rare thing. It's just the early CGI that lets it down now which is why I would like to see it rebooted.

I think they are working on a Mass Effect series based on the games, that has potential to be up there too as it's a great story with amazing world building.

I don't know how I would feel about a Mass Effect TV show, Sarah. I have played all the games and I am a huge fan of the franchise. The key element of that is choice. At least in the original trilogy. You choose how everything plays out and it carries over between games. The ending of the third game sucked badly and felt like a giant cop out for all the investment you made but nevertheless... the whole point of the games was choice. I don't know how I would feel about a show where the choices were all pre-made. I mean I would absolutely watch it because... it's an incredible sci-fi world.

The question you have to ask, though, is would it be Mark Meer or Jennifer Hale as Shepard? You'd kind of alienate half the potential fanbase having a male or female Shepard because... they are both equally good (unlike Cyberpunk 2077, where Cherami Leigh's portrayal of female V is objectively so much better than Gavin Drea's guy version). Obviously I always went with Jennifer Hale and her fem-shep, so to speak. It would be extremely weird for me having a male Shepard character. I don't know how they would satisfy both audiences with a TV show.

I kind of like the Babylon 5 CGI. It was groundbreaking for its time. As I understand it, it was made on a whole lot of Commodore Amiga computers... which is something I grew up with as a kid, haha. It was one of the shows of my childhood.
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Dawn Kellie

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March 07, 2026, 05:24:29 PM
The first computer I used was an apple 2. The first computer I owned was a comadore 64.
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Stottie Girl

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March 07, 2026, 05:34:06 PM
Quote from: Sephirah on March 07, 2026, 05:22:11 PMAbsolutely agree, Dawn. That was a fantastic show and I would recommend it to anyone. Even as someone who watched the original aired originally back in the late 70s.

I don't know how I would feel about a Mass Effect TV show, Sarah. I have played all the games and I am a huge fan of the franchise. The key element of that is choice. At least in the original trilogy. You choose how everything plays out and it carries over between games. The ending of the third game sucked badly and felt like a giant cop out for all the investment you made but nevertheless... the whole point of the games was choice. I don't know how I would feel about a show where the choices were all pre-made. I mean I would absolutely watch it because... it's an incredible sci-fi world.

The question you have to ask, though, is would it be Mark Meer or Jennifer Hale as Shepard? You'd kind of alienate half the potential fanbase having a male or female Shepard because... they are both equally good (unlike Cyberpunk 2077, where Cherami Leigh's portrayal of female V is objectively so much better than Gavin Drea's guy version). Obviously I always went with Jennifer Hale and her fem-shep, so to speak. It would be extremely weird for me having a male Shepard character. I don't know how they would satisfy both audiences with a TV show.

I kind of like the Babylon 5 CGI. It was groundbreaking for its time. As I understand it, it was made on a whole lot of Commodore Amiga computers... which is something I grew up with as a kid, haha. It was one of the shows of my childhood.
Ha! I loved my Amiga! I didn't know that about the CGI, that's awesome!

Yeah female shepherd for me all the way, though in all honesty everytime there was a choice in any game I would play the female all the way back to the likes of Valkyrie in Gauntlet. They say that's actually a big trans indicator.

I kinda know what you mean with the choice thing but it has worked with Fallout so I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

Kellie - My first computer was the Commodore Vic-20. Yes, I am that old!
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Sephirah

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March 07, 2026, 05:44:44 PM
Quote from: Stottie Girl on March 07, 2026, 05:34:06 PMHa! I loved my Amiga! I didn't know that about the CGI, that's awesome!

Yeah female shepherd for me all the way, though in all honesty everytime there was a choice in any game I would play the female all the way back to the likes of Valkyrie in Gauntlet. They say that's actually a big trans indicator.

I kinda know what you mean with the choice thing but it has worked with Fallout so I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

Kellie - My first computer was the Commodore Vic-20. Yes, I am that old!

Omg Gauntlet... arcade games on the Skegness sea front... Girl where have you been all my life!

That's a good point about Fallout. I enjoyed that TV show very much. But again I think that's because Courtenay Taylor did a way better job voicing the female protagonist in Fallout 4. So it's who most people went with. So... having Ella Purnell as the protagonist wasn't such a jarring thing.
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Stottie Girl

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March 07, 2026, 05:49:13 PM
A gauntlet machine was in the college canteen and I missed so many lectures due to being unable to walk away! Fond memories.
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NancyDrew1930

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March 08, 2026, 06:46:14 AM
Quote from: Stottie Girl on March 07, 2026, 01:58:29 PMMaybe I should re-visit it as it likely the TV version I saw. The first Star Trek film I saw at the pictures was the Search For Spock.

In 2022 Paramount finally upgraded the Director's Edition and the Special Longer Version to 4K, and released the DE by it's (the SLV was part of a box set and could be turned on when watching the theatrical version.  But they finished the unfinished optical shots in SLV, including the infamous Kirk one where he goes out the ship and you could just see some of the studio walls that were meant to be removed had the shot been completed in 79.)
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ChrissyRyan

#32
March 08, 2026, 07:22:39 AM
There is a birthplace marker for Captain Kirk in Iowa.
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ChrissyRyan

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March 08, 2026, 07:23:09 AM
There is a birthplace marker for Captain Janeway in Indiana.
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ChrissyRyan

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March 08, 2026, 07:24:34 AM
These birthplace markers are not for the actors that protrayed the characters.
They are for the characters themselves.
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Stottie Girl

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March 08, 2026, 08:30:34 AM
So many trekkies on here. I wonder if that's significant ha ha!
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ChrissyRyan

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March 08, 2026, 12:42:01 PM
We are out of this world.

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Dawn Kellie

#37
March 08, 2026, 02:10:22 PM
I just watched The Balance of Terror.
A great episode
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Karen_A

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March 08, 2026, 04:29:47 PM
Quote from: Paulie on February 14, 2026, 10:59:29 PMToo many great episodes in the original series to pick one, but Space Seed is definitely in the top 10, maybe even the top 5. 

For TOS "City on the Edge of Forever" is up there!
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Karen_A

#39
March 08, 2026, 04:31:38 PM
Quote from: Stottie Girl on March 07, 2026, 05:34:06 PMMy first computer was the Commodore Vic-20.

Mine was an Atari-800 I bought after college.

The first desktop machine I used was an HP 9830A while in college ... HP called it calculator but it was programed in BASIC and cost about $6K (in 1972 dollars!!!) when it was released back then.

  https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp9830.htm 🔗
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