One of the links on the Official Site is “skip trailer”. I’ll do them one better. I’ll skip the movie.

Charles will hold on to his infancy?

They could have done another Next Generation, but did not?

The only inconsistency in the classic TV series of which I can think is from the very first episode, where Kirk says to McCoy “Perhaps you should take a lesson from Mr Spock, doctor… stop thinking with your glands!” This from the man who went on to become perhaps the most glandular captain in the history of Star Fleet.

Other than that, I found the show very consistent; red shirted extras always died, Manual Override never worked and Kirk would either romance a hot alien chick or get his shirt off at least once an episode.

w00t! I spy Vasquez Rocks!

I go to burn incense at the altars of Fineline, God of engineers and Zeemoff, God of automation and building contractors.

I’m still not getting what I want.

A hard R-rated Mirror Universe movie. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Tits and gore, and a little subtle satire.

Or a Deadwood-style Mirror Universe show on HBO.

Yep, that should do it.

[i]“Ok, just for the record … in the Original series Warp speed was supposed to represent n^3 times the speed of light.”[/i]

This was actually a retcon. As originally scripted, there WAS no mapping between warp factors and real-life speeds, except for Warp 1. Higher warp numbers just meant that the Enterprise was going “faster”, and the actual speed was left as an exercise for the imagination.

Later fans wanted to impose some rules of order on their favorite show, and came up with a formula that would make the maximum cruising Warp Factor of the Enterprise (warp 6) be a reasonable speed for interstellar travel. They settled for the “Warp x = x^3 * c” formula because it was simple and reasonably elegant, and later generations of Trek novel writers took it as canon. However, this formula was never officially sanctioned by Paramount, and arguments among the fans would still occasionally break out.

When ST:TNG rolled around, the writers decided to make an official warp speed formula to settle these arguments once and for all. This time, though, Rodenberry had proclaimed that Warp 10 corresponded with infinite speed, and so their formula had to take that into account. Thus was born the famous “Warp x = x^3.333333… * c, up to warp 9″ formula that made it into the published ST:TNG Technical Manual.

You sure it is Klingon? Sounds more like Martian (as in Mars Attacks!)

The trailer, gaaaack.

No, I don’t know what gaaaack means in Klingon.

Kurosawa’s “Drunken Angel” (1948) and “Stray Dog” (1949) were superb examples of cinema-noir — something that Trek flirted with a bit in TNG with Picard in the Holodeck.

You could even make a case for some of the aspects of BSG’s having noir elements, and at times the show has certainly used the mood and lighting styles well to reinforce the “grit” that the plot was propelling.

It could be pretty darned interesting to have a dark noir-ish Trek adventure directed by the very much alive Ridley Scott or perhaps by the Cohen Brothers. It might go against the grain of purists, but every universe has its dark places, even Star Trek’s.

So… a Star Trek zombie film? With samurai? And the zombies have phaser rifles. Actually, that’s sounding sort of cool…

But who cares? There’s a new season of Storm Chasers underway on the Discover Channel. Now that’s how to mix science and action, people!

If you want actual, hard sci-fi, go watch BSG.

Well, the two shows do have Ron D. Moore in common.

1/16/09 is a national holiday around our house, because we’ll be gathering around the plasma to find out just what is going to happen to the BSG folks who we last left standing on the smoldering ashes of Earth.

Just as May whatever will see the wife and going to the multiplex (or even better the IMAX) to see the ST movie.

“You have the wrong idea. I love Star Trek as much as anyone.”

Gee, how could I possibly have gotten the wrong idea! I mean, phrases like:

“Star Trek as science fiction has always bothered me, because not only is a lot of stuff completely implausible (transporter: meet Heisenger) the plots are ridiculous too”

couldn’t possibly give the impression that you’re just crapping of ST for the sake of it. Right?

“I just wish that they could have done a better job with the hard realities of physics”

Meh, that was never what Trek was about, so I don’t worry about it. If you want actual, hard sci-fi, go watch BSG.

“in some episodes the writers not been lazy storytellers and resolved plots by resorting to cheap tricks.”

Yup, I wish every episode was perfect, too. But they’re not. So I enjoy the good ones, bitch about the bad ones, and otherwise enjoy the show for what it is.