Watching Voyager on the Borg Collection; I forgot how good that show could be...
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 15:18
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I agree with you, cris, with one exception, I did/do enjoy the Seven-of-9 character. So many different story-lines were realized when she came aboard.
But we're forgetting someone! The good Doctor! You know, ol' "whats-his-name". He certainly came a long way, from emergency hologram to marrying a young, hottie (real person, too) in the final episode. I confess, though, that whenever I see Robert Picardo, I tend to remember "China Beach" -- I'm guesssing that would be another thread in another timeline; I can't imagine that you're that old, but I sure am! I think he had hair in that series . . . .
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Originally posted by Arcadia:
Other great episodes (the sad thing is, I knew almost all the episode titles off the top of my head, I am such a dork):
One
Thanks, Arcadia. I wrote the original pitch for that show!
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
While it had possible paradoxes waiting to blow holes in the space-time continuum, the story was quite emotionally satisfying.
I thought it was abrupt and exceedingly unsatisfying.
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I mean, FutureJaneway comes back in time to get them home? If you're going to allow that kind of messing around then why don't we see FutureInsertCrewMemberHere every other week?... Besides, even if you totally discount all the paradoxy stuff, it was far too quick and easy a solution for me.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I don't even see time as working on a linear thing in the Trek universe, and I won't question it, anymore than I want to scrutinize why Earth couldn't have just been terraformed along with Mars in the Firefly 'Verse.
The difference is paradoxes are just that - there's no way around them. With Firefly you can simply choose to assume Earth and Mars were terraformed, and that people could still be living there.
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Quote:I like abrupt
Originally posted by Grounded:
I thought it was abrupt and exceedingly unsatisfying.
Let that guillotine fall!
Gimme THE END!
And make it quick.
Maybe not seeing the finale until just this very last week made me like it. Maybe any ending would have been liked by me as a result of such a long wait...
NAWWW, if Janeway had pulled a Kes, or if Q had made them one with his continuum, I woulda hated it.
Time-paradox hugger Chrisisall
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Quote:Unless you protect the reactive timeline change by routing it through a quantum singularity, thus nullifying the ripple effect and stabilizing the distortion.
Originally posted by Grounded:
The difference is paradoxes are just that - there's no way around them.
See?
Treknobabbleous Chrisisall
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I really liked Voyager when it premeired, but thought it slid downhill very fast. I gave up on it by halfway through the 3rd season. Over the years, I'd see a commercial for one ep or another, and think "that looks like it could be interesting". Then I'd watch the ep, and be dissapointed. Lots of good ideas on that show, but very pedestrian, even banal, execution of those ideas.
I thought the "Dark Frontier" movie was entertaining, but I liked it better when Babylon 5 did the same plot in "A Call to Arms".
For my money, DS9 was far and away the best Trek series, in terms of story. Though I admit that I've always had a sentimental preference for the characters of TNG.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by Redwing:
Thanks, Arcadia. I wrote the original pitch for that show!
Seriously? *feels rather star struck* That's so cool.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Unless you protect the reactive timeline change by routing it through a quantum singularity, thus nullifying the ripple effect and stabilizing the distortion.
Originally posted by Grounded:
The difference is paradoxes are just that - there's no way around them.
See?
Treknobabbleous Chrisisall
Oh man it's so obvious, I can't believe I didn't see it
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Quote:*heh heh, he bought it*
Originally posted by Grounded:Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Unless you protect the reactive timeline change by routing it through a quantum singularity, thus nullifying the ripple effect and stabilizing the distortion.
Originally posted by Grounded:
The difference is paradoxes are just that - there's no way around them.
See?
Treknobabbleous Chrisisall
Oh man it's so obvious, I can't believe I didn't see it
Dubious Chrisisall
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very pedestrian, even banal, execution of those ideas
I can't forget holograms falling in love, dinosaurs leaving Earth in spaceships, people "evolving" into giant salamanders and the captain magically fixing her ship by giving it some verbal comfort. All ingenious ideas presented by the VOY writers.
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