Star Trek

paramiteabe · #1 07-14-2003, 02:52 AM

Well I am no treky but I do like Star Trek, mainly the Next Generation and the Original seris. Who is your favourite Star Trek character or episode? My all time favorite bad guy of the Next Generation seris was Q. Mainly here are my favorites

Q
Captain Picard
Deta
Captain Kirk
7 of 9 (because she is hotter than hell!)
Khan
The Borg
Mr Spock
and
Scotty and Checkoff or how ever you spell his name

Mann I can remember when I was very little every Sat evening I was always watching eather the Next Generation or the Original seris. I still watch them today. There is nothing like a Sat evening watching Star Trek the Next Generation I never get tired of those shows. And the original seris sure it looked fake but you have to admit those fighting scenes with the Klingons were so memerable and funny as hell. For some reason I love how they did fighting scenes in Star Trek especially in Trouble With Tribbles when Scotty got mad at the Kilingons for calling the Enterprise a Garbage Scowl.

I love that fighting scene. It turns into like a fight sort of like what you would see in Batman and Robin.

GrigtheSlig · #2 07-14-2003, 04:35 AM

Yeah, I'm not that big of a treky, but I do like to watch it occasionaly. NG was the best one! I liked Data, Captain Picard, Jordy, and Q the best out of all the characters in the whole show!

Facsimile · #3 07-14-2003, 08:59 AM

*Sounds the Nerdalarm.*

GrigtheSlig · #4 07-14-2003, 08:04 PM

Alright, why are you posting if you're just gonna make fun!?

paramiteabe · #5 07-15-2003, 02:11 AM

Oh no I am scared now I shouldn't talk about this stuff. I am a nerd. Lalalalalalala goes and gets a pocket protector and a wooden duck with pointy edge sticks as PA pokes Facs through the computer. Take that Muha Take that Muha! Now dance pesant dance!

I am just jokeing around dude.

Al the Vykker · #6 07-15-2003, 02:29 AM

I dont like Star Trek. My dad likes it, but when he was really young thats what was on tv. So he grew up with it being on all the time, and thought it was great.

I however, never really was grabbed by it, or interested in it.

Ashe · #7 07-15-2003, 03:26 AM

Hello paramiteabe. I do not really like Star Trek, but it's okay I guess. Your nerdy joke was funny. I know some people who like Star Trek, but they are not nerds though. Only those that dress up and that are nerds.

Biggy Bro Slig · #8 07-15-2003, 01:59 PM

I agree

GrigtheSlig · #9 07-17-2003, 05:02 PM

I used to know people like that, they would dress up in Star Trek coustumes every year for halloween, or just whenever! They would talk like it was real. They'd say things like "I forsed mindmeld is like rape!" and stuff like that. They were really LOSERS

***Wil*** · #10 07-17-2003, 05:45 PM

Good to know pigeonholing and dismissive presumptions are still rife in the world.

Codek · #11 07-17-2003, 10:36 PM

I personally quite like the Voyager series, I just find the Star Trek: Next Generation series irritating.

There is a good message to all the Star Trek series, and that's that violence is often NOT the best way, a lesson I think this forum would find useful.

The main problem with the Star Trek series is that the only ship that looks good is the Romulan Warbird, the rest all merit nothing more than a fancy trashcan lid.

It's one of those things you need to be introduced to rather than discover yourself, that's why conventions tend to be so popular - not that I have ever been to a Star Trek convention of course.

paramiteabe · #12 07-18-2003, 02:46 AM

Yea the only way to get rid of Star Trekies is to give them the Volcan Neck Bench like from Space Balls hehe

"What the hell are you doing?"

"The Volcan neck bench!"

"Well you got it too high a little bit lower!"

"Like here?"

"Yea!"

***Cloverfield*** · #13 07-18-2003, 12:45 PM

I like Star Trek, it's a good show. It's one of few things I watch on TV (I don't watch a lot of TV). I enjoy Voyager the best, because they are exploring unknown space.

I really think it's kind of wrong to assume that "everyone" who likes Star Trek is a nerd. It's one of those stupid stereotyping things. I hate that. Unfortunately though there are some "nerdish" Star Trek fans out there, and they have given the show that kind of name. So if you don't like the show or haven't seen it, you instantly think "oh, that's nerdy". When really, it's not too much different to other sci-fi shows like Farscape, etc ... except that perhaps it uses more technical kind of jargon, and like Death said, it doesn't always resort to violence.

And I actually have been to one Star Trek convention. I'm not afraid to say that I have. I did really expect to see lots of people dressed up, but there was only one person dressed as a Klingon. The convention was okay, and I got to meet a couple of the actors and get autographs. Although I did feel somewhat left out, as everyone was talking about the series on video, and I had only watched it on TV. I am not a huge fan to buy the videos or DVDs. I don't even care if I miss episodes (which often happens).

Although, dressing up as characters isn't quite that bad, providing it's not done in some obessive way. In the anime community it's very accepted (possibly because of it's popularity in Japan). I actually will be cosplaying (which is the anime term for dressing up as a character) as Yuna from FFX next month at an anime convention in Melbourne. I'm making the costume myself, and it's working out well.

Abe Babe...

Codek · #14 07-18-2003, 02:32 PM

Yes, quite.

Farscape is absolutely fantastic don't you think? The costumes look really good, I think it would be hard to be a nerd with Farscape if you dressed up like them - they all look so cool!

Abe Babe is right, you can't say something is "nerdy" just because nerds are associated with it. Hackers for instance, often get called nerds, but in fact most of us are quite cool. Ever watched the movie "Hackers"? Yeah, then I think you will know what I mean.

People are still people, know matter what they do, and this is sometimes very easy to forget.

Zach Roy Wilson · #15 07-18-2003, 02:41 PM

I like StarTrek. Captain James Tiberian Kirk (William Shatner) is/was really cool.

***Wil*** · #16 07-18-2003, 04:24 PM

I got really into Star Trek since about two years ago till some time I can't remember. A few months maybe. No, maybe it was when Sky One started repeating TNG again, followed by Voyager again. Yes, that was probably it. I know DS9 is frequently dismissed as the least popular of the series, but I've never seen it, because Sky One just won't show it. Anyway, I haven't seen any of it in a few months. Nor The Simpsons, come to that. Oh, and why are you all so against nerds? It's no better than being against any other kind of pigeonholing.

Uh oh, townies! *whips out grenade launcher*