Star Trek Thread: To Boldly Split Infinitives
Okay whatcha wanna do? Shows? Movies? Shall we start at Star Trek season 1, episode 1???
I'll kick this off odd, with a review of a Nimoy autobiography review I wrote in my own Blog a while back:
I AM SPOCK by Leonard Nimoy (published in 1995)
This is a memoir by Nimoy which zooms through his involvement with the TV series (but gives enough to be interesting) and then more exhaustively covers his involvement with the 6 star trek movies involving the original cast (he also talks about the 7th and his reasons for not being involved with it). It also mentions his involvement with the Star Trek: Next Generation double-episode ‘Unification’ (this is a great pair of episodes, by the way). He also discusses ideas about a prequel Star Fleet Academy movie that was bandied around – which sounds an awful lot like the first reboot movie…
Nimoy writes in a straightforward, non-flowery style, and starts each chapter with some dialogue between Nimoy and Spock, discussing the issues covered in the coming chapter. He also sometimes intersperses these chats within the text. It’s interesting to start, but gets a little odd/pointless. His stories about Star Trek are interesting, but rather dry. Shatner’s books ‘Star Trek Memories’ and ‘Star Trek Movie Memories’ are much more entertaining, and detailed – and a pair of books I thoroughly recommend. If I had to pick one word for Nimoy, it’s ‘earnest’.
The book is also an interesting insight to his inner conflict with Spock and how it dominates his acting career (in this book, he strongly asserts he’s very happy with Spock now compared to earlier in his career – his book previous to this was called ‘I am not Spock’!). And whilst he says he’s happy, reading between the lines indicated Spock still haunted him somewhat back in 1995.
I really think anyone could read and enjoy this book, but really, only Star Trek fans (myself included) will be the ones to read it. And it has a great last line.
Been watching next gen. It's been so long or my memory is so bad its like I'm watching brand new all over again. I remember nothing. Kinda scary but also awesome. I remember who everyone is, but all these shows are basically brand new.
regret saying positive things about picard s3
that fleeting moment where i began to think it was getting decent was short lived - still going to finish it because it's not s2 bad and an improvement over s1
but a couple things really bother me about the main plot which I'll put in the spoiler, but the main thing is the writers just basically ripped off the entire battlestar galactica plotline
Spoiler
1 we find that the main villains are the borg - so the borg is this all powerful entity and if capturing picard's son was so important, why not just send a few dozen cubes to get it done instead of relying upon a 2nd tier minion to do it - just doesn't make sense, if they sent some borg cubes after jack from the start they would have gotten him
2 they lure the changelings onto the ship to trap them behind some force fields - which is just so dumb, and it somehow works, and then for plot reasons they do the datalore thing to then undo it all and then there's like no plan b etc and their crew just starts getting slaughtered - umm... what were you going to do if they weren't just going to mindlessly run down the hallways chasing you?
3 are the changelings are still aboard the federation vessels when the borg switcheroo occurs? if they were on most ships and obviously doing everything they could to avoid getting beamed then wouldn't they have been killed - seems like they didn't quite think it through
4 feels cheap to build up the dominion as this all powerful foe and then just wipe them off the board like they don't matter and it's now borg
5 how would it be possible to insert borg DNA etc etc and not ever get noticed etc, the main issue with this whole conspiracy thing is that it basically required all of starfleet to be under dominion control - in which case why do they even need to do half the things they did? was just poorly thought through and executed in my opinion
6 wanted to puke with the fan service given towards taking the enterprise
and that's where i left off, right after "make it so" and "engage" *eyeroll
Granted, there are some plot holes, but the issue with any Borg episode (including "Best of Both Worlds"), is "why don't the Borg do x", as The Borg are so powerful they can basically do anything.
oh man, ripping off both battlestar galactica and star wars now lol
these writers are pure hacks just recycling plot points from old scifi and space operas
