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Which one was Tada? Been a while since I watched it.
Which one was Tada? Been a while since I watched it.
I think in one of the books, or short stories, Super Power Kes returned home, and made the planet habitable again, with water and plants and stuff...I thought Kes went all superpowered, did she lose them?
My personal favourite series was DS9, but TNG was great, though the quality of the scripts was very uneven at times. Which series do you mean when you say the last few as there have been 4 since TNG: DS9 (Deep Space Nine), Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery. In hindsight each were products of their time, but I am not sure they have or will hold up equally well.
And also hope that they spent enough on competent actors around Sir Pat. I can grade the series by the proportion of professional actors on the screen. DS9 is right up there. Enterprise was consistently cringeworthy, so help me the beagles were a saving grace. And Mulgrew is a decent stage actress but putting your hands on your hips is not characterization.As well as weaker scripts, I found some of the main characters downright irritating in those later series. I never really took to Janeway in Voyager and the comedy character Neelix just made me cringe.
In Enterprise, the good ol' boy Trip and T'Pol just got right up my nose and Michael's aloofness in Discovery irritated me, as did the cumbersome shoehorned gay lovers plot.
Hope Picard will focus on great stories and not descend into political preachiness.
No mention of it in the script.Watched Nemesis again last night in preparation for Picard.
I was 100% convinced that right at the end, there was a shot of Data's head floating through space. It wasn't there! I even watched the entire credits in case it was in there somewhere. But no.
So did I completely make it up, or was it edited out of some versions? I guess it could be upsetting for some viewers. The version I watched was on Sky Cinema.
Perhaps you're thinking of the final episode of the first season of Transformers Beast Wars? One of the robots gets blown up and there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it head floating through space of the dead robot? Or Transformers The Movie in which Unicron gets blown up and his head floats away?Watched Nemesis again last night in preparation for Picard.
I was 100% convinced that right at the end, there was a shot of Data's head floating through space. It wasn't there! I even watched the entire credits in case it was in there somewhere. But no.
So did I completely make it up, or was it edited out of some versions? I guess it could be upsetting for some viewers. The version I watched was on Sky Cinema.
Just thinking, what Star Trek merchandise did anyone here have as a kid? I had a couple of the British annuals which I got second hand, full of artwork better suited to 70s prog rock album covers (and probably plots, too), but the library had a two or three of the fotonovels, City on the Edge of Forever (the one with Joan Collins), Devil in the Dark (the rampaging pizza one) and most oddly, All Our Yesterdays, the one I most remember because bizarrely they had chosen an episode where Kirk, Spock and McCoy were trapped in a freezing cave with a lady, so not the most visually arresting they could have chosen.
Fotonovels were comic books, only they used still frames from the series with speech bubbles for the dialogue. Anyone remember those?
Just watched Picard, and... hmm. Not sure, probably too early to judge from the first episode, but I was only really intrigued by the cliffhanger ending. It has a mystery plot, fair enough, but the bursts of stylish violence seemed out of place, maybe because they were nowhere to be seen in TNG. I suppose time has moved on, but I'd have rather done without the martial arts. Still, any Patrick Stewart is a good thing, so I'll stick with it.
Specsavers .. but who cares ..Data looked quite trim to me!