TNG run-through...

Wise Old Elf

Should probably wait an hour or so, so spoiler tag:

THERE ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS

Always loved this episode.

SarahBM

Disco Stuart wrote: »

Should probably wait an hour or so, so spoiler tag:

THERE ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS

Always loved this episode.

I nearly screamed that!! Oh my god the Poor Captain!

And now Ship in a Bottle. Moriarty is back!!!

Yeti Beast

Approaching the end of Season 2 now - just watched "Up the Long Ladder". I found it cringey as a 12 year old and it doesn't fare any better 25 years later. Ugh, fuck off Hollywood.

SarahBM

Dair. wrote: »

Approaching the end of Season 2 now - just watched "Up the Long Ladder". I found it cringey as a 12 year old and it doesn't fare any better 25 years later. Ugh, fuck off Hollywood.

Which one was that again?

Goodshape

SarahBM wrote: »

Which one was that again?

The Oirish episode.



:-/

jacksie66

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Yeti Beast

SarahBM wrote: »

Which one was that again?

The one with the "Irish" colonists - pigs, Aran sweaters, poitín. Roll on Season 3!

Vojera

I've watched the first four episodes in Season 2 now. I don't like Dr Pulaski because she's mean to Data Of the first four I liked Elementary, Dear Data the best. It was a cool idea.

SarahBM

I have to say I'm.really enjoying this run through. A lot of eps I actually haven't seen.
I hated Pulaski too. Although Crusher is probably one of my least favorite characters. I love Data. He is just brilliant.

Greyjoy

i didn't mind Pulaski that much. She at least had a bit more personality to her than Crusher who I found extremely bland. Having said that, her character was too obviously an attempt to recreate McCoy from the Original Series.

SarahBM

Just got home turned on telly, and the episode menage a troi is on. :-) I love waxanna troi

And Picard's speech to get waxanna back!!! LOL epic

Vojera

SarahBM wrote: »

Although Crusher is probably one of my least favorite characters.

Because I'm new to Star Trek I don't have the characters all that well-set in my head yet, so when Dr Crusher comes up all I can think of is the adventures of 1/8th Gates >_>

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

waxanna troi

Lwaxana Troi

/pedantry

SarahBM

Myrddin wrote: »

Lwaxana Troi

/pedantry

I beg your pardon, I wouldnt want to be responsible for causing a galactic incident!!!!

Syfy have a star trek zone I'm set for the night!

SarahBM

Disco Stuart wrote: »

Should probably wait an hour or so, so spoiler tag:

THERE ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS

Always loved this episode.

there are 4 lights by SazzyBM, on Flickr

Myrddin

Face of the Enemy, Tapestry, & Birthright all done. Season 6 is certainly strong in the second half of it. Plenty more good eps to go too.

SarahBM

Going on to Birthright next I love star trek. My dad came in as I was watching an ep yesterday and he was all like "How can you watch this rubbish!" - he has no imagination. simple as that!

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

"How can you watch this rubbish!" - he has no imagination. simple as that!

Ah the classic response to a sci-fi tv show by someone who isn't into sci-fi. It's funny, when I'm watching something like Star Trek, I don't even notice the make up, or the masks or anything...to me they're just characters...& I'm watching it for the story. I think non fans think people love all the space aliens & lazerz etc. It's got nothing to do with that for me, it just happens to be good damned television. Some people will never get it though

SarahBM

Myrddin wrote: »

Ah the classic response to a sci-fi tv show by someone who isn't into sci-fi. It's funny, when I'm watching something like Star Trek, I don't even notice the make up, or the masks or anything...to me they're just characters...& I'm watching it for the story. I think non fans think people love all the space aliens & lazerz etc. It's got nothing to do with that for me, it just happens to be good damned television. Some people will never get it though

I have to admit I love the characters and the story, but I also I love the space battles and the ships. the technology that they invent is great. I love it.

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

I have to admit I love the characters and the story, but I also I love the space battles and the ships. the technology that they invent is great. I love it.

Oh definitely, that's all cool, but it's a bonus. Some of the best episodes of Star Trek weren't even in space. Funny actually, I was looking at the Enterprise-D last night while watching it on screen, & although it in itself is almost a character in TNG...the Galaxy class ships don't actually look that big or impressive to me. I think it's the windows, given the scale of each window to the scale of the ship, the big windows diminish the screen presence of the ship for me.

The Enterprise-B (Excelsior class ships) were the opposite...they looked HUGE in comparison to the Constitution class ships. Given the Galaxy class is supposed to be almost double the size of an Excelsior, it just 'look' that way on screen. The Excelsior windows are tiny, & it makes the ship look so much bigger on screen.

Fans might expect that the design length of 467m of this widespread Starfleet ship class should be well-established. Still, there are some reasonable doubts about this figure. Some of the various available facts points to a considerably larger size of the Excelsior. Progressive estimations for the length rise up to almost 700m.

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/excelsior-size.htm

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/excelsior/probert-sizechart.jpg

Excelsior - http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/excelsior/excelsior-spacedock-tsfs.jpg

Galaxy (almost twice the size apparently) - http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/excelsior/excelsior-galaxy-encounteratfarpoint.jpg

SarahBM

I have always found the distances and sizes of things hard to get my head around. like the captain in one ep of TNG said bring the ship to within 500 KM of another ship, but considering the size of the enterprise this distance seemed very small to me - I dont know.
I have always found this chart really cool

http://dirkloechel.deviantart.com/art/Size-Comparison-Science-Fiction-spaceships-398790051

SarahBM

Hello deep space 9

jacksie66

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SarahBM

Just watched Lessons. Great episode IMO. Get to see a different side of Picard. I was so sad for him at the end.

TBH I didnt pay as much attention to DS9 as I did to Voyager. I hated the Ferengi and the Cardassians. The whole religious thing bugged me greatly and I didnt really like Sisko?

TNG and Voyager are my favs.

SarahBM

Season 6 episode 21. Frame of Mind.
Disturbing episode.

Thargor

Myrddin wrote: »

Season 6: Chain of Command. After watching this last night, it's probably my choice of all time best ep of TNG. Utterly, utterly, brilliant.

Except of course that out of the billions upon billions of citizens in the Federation and all the millions of Starfleet specialists they cant scrape up a commando team or anything like that, it has to be the aging captain of the flagship and the ships middle-aged doctor with zero combat experience that they send on a suicide mission?

Myrddin

Thargor wrote: »

Except of course that out of the billions upon billions of citizens in the Federation and all the millions of Starfleet specialists they cant scrape up a commando team or anything like that, it has to be the aging captain of the flagship and the ships middle-aged doctor with zero combat experience that they send on a suicide mission?

Sure you can pick apart a lot of episodes with that approach. Take "Face of the Enemy", they kidnapped a non command level counselor to act as a Tal Shiar commander, and for some reason that counselor just happened to have access codes to the Federations gravitic sensor net? Would someone with command level experience not have been a better target?

The plot line of Chain of Command in no way diminishes the episode for me

SarahBM

just watched the ep where Crusher disobeys and order to prove a ferengi right.
she really annoys me.
Next ep is one about worf. again, not a fan of the Klingon stuff.

SarahBM

Descent Part 1. Is that the real Stephen Hawking?

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

Descent Part 1. Is that the real Stephen Hawking?

You're flying through them, & ahead of me now Yep tis Hawking himself

SarahBM

I have been watching on Netflix and it only goes up to season 6!!!!!

SarahBM

SarahBM wrote: »

I have been watching on Netflix and it only goes up to season 6!!!!!

Robbed this from another thread LOL

Kiith wrote: »

Slightly random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcL6KSmpAWI

Myrddin

Season 6: Starship Mine

Data making small talk with 'Hutch' down on the base...priceless. I'll say it again, Spiner is just awesome.

SarahBM

Myrddin wrote: »

Season 6: Starship Mine

Data making small talk with 'Hutch' down on the base...priceless. I'll say it again, Spiner is just awesome.

The more I watch the more I love Data. Decent Part 1 and 2 are great.
Watching Gambit Part 1 and 2 now, and the way Data takes command is great.
Im really flying through them, but I must slow down because I dont want it to end!

SarahBM

Up to the episode Inheritance. Data meets his mother. Fionnulla Flannagan.
Another great ep. Is better slow down. Or it will be over before I know it.

Greyjoy

SarahBM wrote: »

Season 6 episode 21. Frame of Mind.
Disturbing episode.

Frame of Mind was one of my favourite TNG episodes - mainly because it keeps the audience guessing right up until the end. Usually in these "mind control" stories it's a very obvious subterfuge that you're waiting for the protagonist to realise it's a trick.

But 'Frame' keeps pulling the rug out from under the audience so that just like Riker himself you're never sure what's real and what's a hallucination. In some ways it reminded me of an episode from the old tv series "The Prisoner".

Greyjoy

Thargor wrote: »

Except of course that out of the billions upon billions of citizens in the Federation and all the millions of Starfleet specialists they cant scrape up a commando team or anything like that, it has to be the aging captain of the flagship and the ships middle-aged doctor with zero combat experience that they send on a suicide mission?

Yeah it's a little bit contrived in how Picard gets selected for a commando mission. I think because the raid itself is not the focus of the story but rather the interrogation and the fact that Stewart & Warner's scenes together are just so good that it's a fairly minor flaw that's easily overlooked.

Myrddin

Watched Frame of Mind last night myself, a very dark episode. Damn good though, & Frakes is very effective in it.

SarahBM

Myrddin wrote: »

Watched Frame of Mind last night myself, a very dark episode. Damn good though, & Frakes is very effective in it.

Your kind left thinking about half way through "Oh my gawd! what if it IS all a dream!" The opening scene is great. You really think Riker is in an asylum in the first few minutes! Great stuff.

Myrddin

Season 6 - "Suspicions". I found it curious that a Ferengi would develop the metaphasic shield technology, & not be interested in selling it to the highest bidder. Still, not a bad ep.

SarahBM

Just watched the ep where crushers grandmother dies, with the ghost. Weird. Very weird.
Parallels was a good ep.

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

Just watched the ep where crushers grandmother dies, with the ghost. Weird. Very weird

That's the episode that everyone HATES (Sub Rosa), tbh I've watched worse TNG eps

Vojera

We ended up not watching TNG last night, as has become our weekly routine, and watched Eureka instead.

I actually missed seeing the adventures of Picard et al... I may be becoming addicted!

SarahBM

I was actually thinking I might take a break tonight. Becoming slightly obsessed myself. Or maybe just watch one.......

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

I was actually thinking I might take a break tonight. Becoming slightly obsessed myself. Or maybe just watch one.......

Wrap them up & do a DS9 run through. I know you said you weren't mad into DS9 but I guarantee you if you do a TNG style run through you'll be a fan.

SarahBM

Myrddin wrote: »

Wrap them up & do a DS9 run through. I know you said you weren't mad into DS9 but I guarantee you if you do a TNG style run through you'll be a fan.

As wonderfully tempting that is, I have to go back to SG1. I also have 24 to watch and loads of more shows.
I dont want TNG to end though. I feel like its just getting better and better (Sub Rosa being and exception) I have all the movies to watch as well. I'll see how I go with SG1 and then perhaps DS9 will get a look in. :D:D

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

As wonderfully tempting that is, I have to go back to SG1. I also have 24 to watch and loads of more shows.
I dont want TNG to end though. I feel like its just getting better and better (Sub Rosa being and exception) I have all the movies to watch as well. I'll see how I go with SG1 and then perhaps DS9 will get a look in. :D:D

Yeah wrap SG1 up, definitely. I was actually thinking about the TNG movies when my run through comes to an end...I've more or less decided to not bother with them. All Good Things was the perfect ending, & the movies are mostly all garbage...First Contact was OK...but BoBW done it better & that wasn't even a movie!

SarahBM

Myrddin wrote: »

Yeah wrap SG1 up, definitely. I was actually thinking about the TNG movies when my run through comes to an end...I've more or less decided to not bother with them. All Good Things was the perfect ending, & the movies are mostly all garbage...First Contact was OK...but BoBW done it better & that wasn't even a movie!

forgive me, I have too many abbreviations in my life, what does BoBW mean?

Myrddin

SarahBM wrote: »

forgive me, I have too many abbreviations in my life, what does BoBW mean?

The Best of Both Worlds

SarahBM

Ah cheers

There are not enough hours in the day!