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I have to say that this film has blown my mind. Having stayed away from any write-ups or reviews of the film I went along to see what I thought was going to be a prequel, not this reboot. I thought during the film that they would have restored the time line to what we know. As they did not, this shatters the whole Trek universe. I could even have handled the alternate time line, until they destroyed Vulcan. The Federation in Kirk

The theme song actually works if you take the following measures: Season one and two - Hold your lighter/mobile phone in the air and sway in time with the tune as you would in a rock concert when they do the slow ballards. Season three and four - Pretend that you're in a country & Western bar and shout "Yee Har" at random times during the tune. These steps may seem a bit on the daft side, but it helped my friends and I (we all used to gather at my place to watch Enterprise when it was first aired on Sky1) get through the series. I personally think that the series is better second time round. The first three seasons were not very good, but had a few moments that I think worked. The fourth season rocked, and it left me wanting more.

No, I'm afraid not. The Motion Picture was the first Star Trek film released in 1979. It was the one that went on for hours and hours, whole new civilisations could have risen and fell in the time it took for that movie to play out. Ok, so maybe not quite. But I do seem to remember that it ran on for a very long time. The new film is simply called 'Star Trek'. I guess a lot of hours of movie exec brain storming went in to thinking up an original imaginative title like that.

Fair point. But we do know that the Master was offered a whole new regeneration cycle for his services to the Time Lord High Council in the Five Doctors, thus creating a precedent for extended life span. With Gallifrey destroyed they would have to work something out, but as a fan I would have no problem with that. As I understand it, Matt Smith has signed a 5 year contract so it

That's kind of the idea. It keeps the programme fresh. The trouble with regeneration though is you never quite know what you're going to get. I have my reservations about Matt Smith, as an actor he's pretty good if Party Animals is anything to go by. However, I am not sure I am ready for an Emo Doctor. The Earth is in peril! Only the Doctor can save the day! No he can't, he's too busy listening to The Cure and slashing his wrists. But time will tell, it usually does!

Yeah, that wasn't me, BTW If I were going to rob a convenience store I wouldn't use a childs Bat'leth. There is no honour in that!

It's a close run thing for me between :TNG and DS9. :TNG on the plus side was the idealism, the cast, especially Patrick Stewart (Why he hasn't been knighted yet is a mystery to me. If you ever get the opportunity to see him on stage you'll know just what a great actor he is ) and for me it was the series that hooked me in as a fan. On the minus side, they didn't actually do a lot of going where no one has gone before. A great majority of episodes revolved around the enterprise going from one known planet to another known planet to provide diplomatic services/medical help, while the sub-plot was usually Data exploring some element of the human condition. As Picard's archaeology professor said to him "You're just like a Roman centurion, patrolling a bloated empire." I totally agree with what W.I. said about DS9 about the balance of idealism and reality. I think that they dealt with issues better than :TNG e.g. The terrorism v freedom fighter debate. Also in later seasons we had a lot of Klingon orientated episodes and that's always a plus in my book. It took me a while to get into Voyager. For the first few seasons I had this theory that they were the B Ark of Star Fleet and the Marquis. I will explain: For those unfamiliar with Douglas Adam's Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, the people of the planet Golgafrincham decided to get rid of their useless third of their population (hair dressers, middle management, telephone sanitizers etc.) by making up as story about impending planetary doom. They packed off the useless third onto one giant spaceship called the B Ark. And that's what I thought Star Fleet and the Marquis had done with their useless personnel. They couldn't sack them, (the unions wouldn't have it ) so they packed them off to the bad lands and off to the Delta quadrant to keep them out of harm's way, so that they could get on with their nice little war with the Dominion. Many an episode I'd have to watch them work out the blatantly obvious while shouting at the TV "It's an effing temporal flux", only to have to sit through 44 minutes until they work out that it was a temporal flux. But that aside, I actually ended up really liking Voyager. I won't go into the original series or Enterprise, because one, I have spent too long waffling on, and two, I've posted views on those two shows in the other Trek thread. As for the films: First Contact is my favourite, closely followed by The Undiscovered Country. Then it would be a tie between Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home, with the former only just coming out in front.

Definitely the best thing I ever bought off of ebay. While I really liked Wrath of Khan, my favourite film is First Contact, closely followed by The Undiscovered Country. Not wishing to hijack this thread with Dr Who, I'll just say that although the classic series looks a bit ropey by today's standards, you have to remember that most of the effects were state of the art back when those episodes went out. The BBC special effects department was world renowned in its time and when it was closed up a lot of the effects team went on to be involved in big budget Hollywood films. Effects aside, most of the stories were pretty good But yes, there were some duff ones there as well. But for one of the longest running television programmes in the world (1963

I'm with you on that one. I have never seen trekkies, I don't think my cringe-omiter could take it. I once went to a Trek convention at the Albert Hall (just after Generations was released) with a couple of friends. I told them that if they show up with so much as a phaser I'd ditch them. That said, I'm the geek who has a full size replica steel Bat'leth mounted on my wall. But I maintain that it's purely for self defence purposes. I pity the idiot who tries to burglarize me. I have it all planned, the first sign of a disturbance I'll grab my Bat'leth and run down stairs shouting "Heghlu'meh QaA jajvam" (today is a good day to die) at the top of my voice. </FONT>Although I grew up watching the original Star Trek, I was never a big fan of it. Dr Who was/is more my thing. It was pretty much :TNG that got me into Star Trek. Even now I find it hard to sit down and enjoy an episode of the original Star Trek. That said, without the original we could never have what followed. So I can't completely dismiss it. And I loved most of the films (although I doubt I'll live long enough to ever want to watch the fifth one again). I'm not a big fan of Enterprise either. But, I wish it had been given a better time slot in the States, as I understand it they kept on moving it around, which is a sure fire way to kill a series off. The thing is IMO the first three seasons of :TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise were all fairly lame. Yes they all had the odd good episode here and there, but none of them were fantastic until their fourth season. When Enterprise first aired I really didn't like it. As I said in a previous post, Star trek is about going forward not backwards. Each episode to me was just showing us why we have the prime directive. Okay, it had its good points. Malcolm for one, I loved that character, and some of the creatures in Dr Flox's sick bay were pretty cool . But that's about it. Then came season four. Wow! barely a duff episode. Unfortunately, by that time I think a lot of people stopped watching. I have quite a few friends who gave up on it. Even now I can't convince them to watch season 4.

Having seen a picture of Kirk in this new movie, I'd have to say wow. Much better than young Shatner. I never was a big fan of Kirk. Personally I am more looking forward to seeing Simon Pegg (Scotty). I know, it's weird. But he's been on the top of my list of guys that I fancy yet don't know why for years.

For any Brits reading this: I have just seen a trailer for Bring Back Star Trek. It goes out on Channel 4 on Saturday at 9pm. Justin Lee Collins is IMHO one of the funniest TV presenters around at the moment and If it

I just thought I

Star Trek has a wealth of history of the future to go on. As :tng had bought a once formidable enemy into the fold as an ally, I envisaged the next next generation seeing the Federation encompassing the whole galaxy. I thought of a main storyline for the opening story, set some ten years after the dominion wars, that way we could have a few characters that we already know and love. The major powers of each quadrant either joined the Federation or were allied to it to drive the Borg out of existence once and for all. That would make for a great TV movie length episode, blow a wad of the budget on some great battle scenes and the story would give us a chance to catch up on events that led to where the new show started off. A nice bit of continuity for us fans. Then the real series gets going. Set 40 or 50 years after the defeat of the Borg. The Federation and its allies using captured Borg technology, that they would have enhanced, have all turn their sights on to another galaxy and we would see what would basically be a land grab between the Federation and not so reputable members of the alliance. And like it or not the Federation is as much an imperial power as the Romulans. It's just that they go about it in a more palatable way. "Hey there, we're the good guys. Would you like to join our gang? We have cookies!" The thing is with the advancements made over the past few years in CGI we could have some really great looking alien races and characters. Get away from that whole everyone in the universe is basically humanoid and the only way to tell that they are not actually human is that they have dodgy ears/eyebrows/foreheads/noses. Who knows, maybe if this new Trek film is successful it may make Paramount believe that the public are ready for a new series? I won't hold my breath though.

I have to admit that I haven