‘has’ was intended as ‘had’ at the start there & well the missing spaces are obvious. [sigh]

Wish we could edit our posts on-line here ..

While on TV -SF & the works of Abrams & Whedon(again all IMHON & please remember all art is subjective) :

‘Lost’ started well but trailed off with too many flashbacks and absurdities.

‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ were fun with good dialogue and some nice satire – not to mention eye-candy and the odd bit to make you think.

Personally, my own favourite TV-SF shows were : ‘Babylon5′, ‘Dr Who’ & ‘StarBlazers’ (aka ‘Spacebattlecruiser Yamato’ a kids anime which took the idea of a spaceship somewhat literally but which got me hooked on SF.)

As far as finding science (or viewing pleasure) goes in all TV / movie forms of SF, my advice is take them for what they are but as ‘Trek’ goes I’ve got to admit I feel I’ve taken enough.

Let it rest Trekkies,its been a fun ride but let it rest in peace.

The Original Series was ground-breaking for its time.
The Next Generation was a welcome revival.
‘Deep Space 9′ & ‘Voyager’ had their moments ..

‘Enterprise’ — errkkk — contradictory and really a backward step in many more ways than just chronologically.

Movies wise – I didn’t think ‘Nemeisis’ was as bad as its been tarred but much preferred Isaac Asimov’s eponymous novel which had nothing to do with Trek!

If they were going to make another Trek movie (which I wouldn’t recomend really, IMHON, the franchise has become decidedly stale and past its used-up date)then isn’t it time one of the later spin-off’s got the nod?

I enjoyed ‘Serenity’ and ‘Firefly’ but resurrecting Kirk and spock isn’t CPR but necrophilia …

Battlestar Gallactica uses “Frack”.

And I would have to agree with Jack Hagerty, that ’2001 – A Space Odessy’ was/is the most realistic portrial of space conditions etc. at least until the ending. I was never perplexed by it, explaining it to others was a problem though.

Ivan.

I used to love the Tom Corbett books when I was in the 4th grade… But I thought
the vacuum tube bit was a trick question on one of his exams. I remember it
especially due to the fact that vacuum tubes were clearly obsolete at the time
(early 60′s), so even in the 4th grade, it struck me as very funny.

“Frelling” is from “Farscape”. It seems to mean about the same thing as
“Belgium.”

Movies are almost always worse than the book. I wonder if this is also true
of screenplays? The only exception I can think of to this rule is “Jaws.”
“The DaVinci Code” may also prove to be an exception, but I don’t have high
hopes.

Try just for fun to compare them.

Including Seth Shostak of the SETI institute, on whose show our own BA frequently appears.

- Jack

“Die Frau im Mond” (1929) German, Fritz Lang director with Hermann Oberth as technical adviser.

“Destination Moon” (1950) US, George Pal producer, Chesley Bonestell and Robert Heinlein advisers.

Together with 2001 (which had Fred Ordway as the main tech adviser) these three films are the only ones to dipict spaceflight correctly, at least within the limitations of knowlege at the time. For more on why, see “Spaceship Handbook” (modestly written by me, but now out of print).

- Jack

http://www.putfile.com/sfwriter

Feel free to join our new Enterprise:Direct to DVD campaign. This looks like it has a pretty good chance of success and won’t cost anything as D2DVD is highly profitable for the studio. Sign our petition at trekunited.com… And it might help head off this potentially horrible Academy Series… Not to put TOO fine a point on it, but Spock was already 65 when Kirk was born… It’s all STUPID — the series won’t make any sense.

And to Bad Albert, what about ‘Never never’?

Ivan.

However, with a little research it isn’t hard to learn that Joss’s script bore little to resemblance to the final product. How do we know that the situation wasn’t similar with Armageddon, that Michael Bay didn’t keep the bits he liked in the screenplay and dump the rest? In fact, looking at the IMDB credits I see the following:

Robert Roy Pool (story) and
Jonathan Hensleigh (story)

Tony Gilroy (adaptation) and
Shane Salerno (adaptation)

Jonathan Hensleigh (screenplay) and
J.J. Abrams (screenplay)

Further, since then Abrams has made much better work (Alias & Lost). So, either he has greatly improved, or his previous screenplays got frelled with by the director.

I meant to say, “No Star Trek movie will EVER be able to top that SNL sketch”.

President: “Stop this anomaly crap, what is it?”

NASA Director: “It’s a new Star Trek movie approaching earth with the speed of a warp and with a plot that will probably make it a failure the size of Texas, Sir”

President: “Do you mean that….?”

NASA Director: “Yes Sir, Kirk is… back”

But I wish it weren’t.

I am a big fan of the genre, but this is a bad idea from the start. The movie might aptly be named:

Star Trek XI: When Kirk met Spock

Basically that’s the premise (read it on the site!) — Kirk and Spock in their academy days.

To me, this is as bad an idea as “Star Wars 3.5 – Luke’s boyhood days”.

For the first time in my life, I’m not looking forward to more Trek.

http://www.syfyportal.com/news.php?id=2489

“Even numbered Star Trek movies don’t suck.”

Through #6, it was true. #8 was iffy. 10? Feh.

11 is an odd number…

How can you not LOVE Nemesis for one of the most perfidious and pernicious puns ever perpetrated on the public? (I just phrased it that way to show I was alliterate)

During the fight scene between Jean Luc and his clone, the latter is “run-through” with a deadly pointy object to the extent that he is lifted right of the ground by Jean Luc!

He was hoist by his own Picard!