Hey all,
I'm bored now, I dont want to sleep, So I figured i'd create a thread to give me a little more insight into the people that visit AnimePhilia every now and then by asking them about favourite TV shows, so for this edition, Star Trek! A cultural phenomenon to say the least
What is your favourite series? Why? Who're your favourite characters and why? You get the idea..

My favourite series is Deep Space Nine, Simply because of three reasons
1) The war with the dominion
2) They dont go out looking for trouble
3) The Defiant <-- nuff said

1) The War with the Dominion was immense, as much as sometimes the CGI/Modeling sucked a little and the acting for the Changlings were a little... screwy the entire war just seamed to kick ass, with DS9 being retaken and the massive fleet of 100+ star fleet ships that actually made my body temperature drop by three degrees and my skin turn white as snow. Yes it was that awesome (see screenshot).

2) DS9 just sits there not doing much, and suddenly a massive attack comes in and they just own everything! They're the first line of defence against the dominion and they take all the fire!

3) The best ship in the entire starfleet arsenal. Officially a transport ship, unofficially a war ship, it's so powerful that if it put all power into it's own engines it'd rip itself apart. I could rabble on for hours as to why I love this ship, but I wont because it'd bore you all.

Also, Sisko is an awesome Commander! He plays the role perfectly!

So, what about you guys? What do you like?

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Each of the diferent series has its own good and bad points and the off shoots of series and the movies... I likes each of the series in their own right equally ... I do remember the " StarTrek" (66-69-) when it was a weekly show along with "Lost in Space" (65-68-) which was a for runner to Star Trek. and the Older show I knew as Jett Jackson in reruns in the early 60's but was "Captain Midnight" from the mid 50's...

Bill Shatner recently hosted a show about all the new scientific devices that were just dreams in the 60's but became reality in the coming decades... to include the fact he and (Lt. Uhura) Nichelle Nichols had the first in screen inter-racial kiss, ever
The show also pointed all the changes in computers and the Hi-tech world and the Race relations... and the use of Peaceful exploration with the ability to still defend your self was not a bad thing.
The Original series was more than 20 years ahead of it time... Gene Roddenberry was a visionary ... and an inspiration to 3 generations of dreamers looking to the Stars, and to the Futures we have there, and getting there.....

Sorry... I did not mean to get wrapped around the plasma drive...

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Its Time to throw out the Trash... and the Spam....

Agreed, the series was years ahead of it's time, also the technology was a little off but not that far! Yet, some things in DS9 and Voyager (based on later stardates) seam to be more lacking then the technology we have today.

For example, when they're playing around with their Com badges in that horrible monotone sound, why not just take out an iPhone? LMAO

I will give better examples one day,... oh wait. here we go. Why cant the computer compensate for most of the basic dialitium mixture problems? Saves having an entire enginearing team there to press three buttons...

Also, remember the episode of The Next Generation when one of the screens in the background went into a BSOD? LMAO.
Then notice how from that episode onwards you notice little things that hint that they've stoped using Windows to emulate the LCARS interface and have acutally started using a Mac! LOLOLOL +1 for apple. OS X StarShip edition

Oh, another example
*Computer Play audio file Gammer 12*
why not do what I do
*Mac, open iTunes and play Slipknot wait and bleed*
Yes, I can talk to my Mac

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I've seen a car commercial recently where the driver was able to verbally request the track he wanted to hear... and his buddy requested something embarrassing from his library.

Back on topic, I've been a fan of TNG for a long while. I think Voyager was good in it's own way, but it got out of hand at times with ludicrous concepts. I never gave Enterprise much of a chance originally, but now that Sci-Fi channel is re-running them I've acquired a new respect for the series.

Recently I read that Enterprise gave a basic explaination of why OTS Klingons had flat foreheads... I think the franchise is taking itself a little too seriously now.

i heard that shatner was doing a cameo apperence but not as kirk

Well, now i'm going to sound like a real nerd

In DS nine the crew of the defiant go back to TOS timeframe and meet some Klingons with flat heads, Worf explains that this timeframe was not a good one for his species

In Enterprise the crew find that the klingons have been experimenting with combining Human and Klingon DNS to make super soldiers, one side effect is a flat head.

So it's logical to assume that the effects didnt ware out for at least another 200 years, TNG timeframe :P

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I actually stubled across this information by accident recently. I guess what I meant was that until Worf made his comment in the DS9 episode it sparked controversy with the fans. Until this episode, people just took the flat-headed klingons (who speak klingonese in that episode ) as poor makeup with a bad budget. But once Worf declared that he couldn't talk about it and that no one else recognized the "flat" klingons, the fans wanted to know what was going on. Enterprise came in with the explaination. But was Worf's comment neccessary? Did fans need a story explaination for the flat klingons? And why was every klingon encountered in OTS a flat?

Now, Star Trek isn't my forte'. Star Wars is my thing... >

Well, I know nothing of Teh Star Wars, it all seams a little backward for me.

But Star Trek, God I love it :P

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star wars FTW

If you two wana gangrape Star Wars make a new thread :P

I've gota protect mine :P

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