It's been a long road ...

"JNICHOLS" wrote in message
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I would not be surprise to see an episode written that involves a
religious zealots who plan to destroy whole cities by getting followers to
fly highjacked spaceships into them setting off the antimatter pods as
they
do so. The planet these beings are from have declared the total
obliteration of all other cavitations as there purpose. The plot and
message of the story will be how unfair it is that the being (people,
lifeforms) of the other planets in their solar system don't like them and
check their luggage more closely when they visit. Muslim extremist,
airplanes, Iran, Taliban, buildings, Islam, and liberals who don't believe
evil people exist are not mentioned, but the meaning will be clear.

Well, there was a "terrorism" episode last year sometime, addressing that
lovely "Terrorist... or FREEDOM FIGHTER?" question. The "bad guy" was Kurgan
from the first Highlander movie.

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Terrence Daniels writes

"JNICHOLS" wrote in message
.. .
I would not be surprise to see an episode written that involves a
religious zealots who plan to destroy whole cities by getting followers to
fly highjacked spaceships into them setting off the antimatter pods as
they
do so. The planet these beings are from have declared the total
obliteration of all other cavitations as there purpose. The plot and
message of the story will be how unfair it is that the being (people,
lifeforms) of the other planets in their solar system don't like them and
check their luggage more closely when they visit. Muslim extremist,
airplanes, Iran, Taliban, buildings, Islam, and liberals who don't believe
evil people exist are not mentioned, but the meaning will be clear.

Well, there was a "terrorism" episode last year sometime, addressing that
lovely "Terrorist... or FREEDOM FIGHTER?" question. The "bad guy" was Kurgan
from the first Highlander movie.

I wonder if that ep will be banned in the UK in the same way as "The
High Ground"?
--
"Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles of
void"

"Jon Berndt" wrote in message
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As today is the season premiere for Star Trek: Enterprise, and I'll
confess
I am a trekkie, the theme song and opening credits keep coming to mind:

"It's been a long road, getting from there to here ..."


eh. First season of Enterprise was mainly great with the occasional mildly
sucky episode. The characters were interesting, they didn't have the crutch
of perfectly working technology to fall back on, lots of good stories. Good
"we're learning this as we go along" vibe.

Last season started off mainly bad (stupid, contrived resolution to a
fantastic cliffhanger) and got steadily worse. The characters are already
stereotyped (there is absolutely no difference anymore between Sato and
Uhura, f'rinstance). Tired plots. Lots of blah.

And last week's episode *really* sucked. Buh-bye.

--
Terrell Miller


"In the early days as often
as not the (rocket) exploded on or near the launch pad; that
seldom happens any longer."
-Columbia Accident Investigation Board report, vol.1 p.19

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:20:13 +0100, Jonathan Silverlight
wrote:

I wonder if that ep will be banned in the UK in the same way as "The
High Ground"?

....Actually, the only reason that it was banned was because the
episode predicted that the IRA would be successful in driving the
Limeys out of Ireland in the mid-21st century, not because of the
debating issues over what makes a revolutionary a terrorist and vice
versa.


OM

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Mike Dicenso
much improved step up from the crap that was
Voyager.

One time I was watching Voyager and realized that the captain woman
ran the ship like she was a middle-school hall monitor. What a dull
stiff bitch.

Another time I was watching Babylon 5 and the elves were arguing about
the price of Grakulan ale. What thu...?

The new season of Star Trek is getting away from the cerebral bull****
and sickbay visits and time warps and Vulcan mating customs to a theme
of earth vs the evil alien alliance.

I thought the new plot direction was a good move when I heard about it
a few weeks ago....now I just realized that, in addition to trying to
boost ratings, it is also a 911 thing. Anyway it is like the first
series Bakula has been in that ever got renewed....

Kent Betts wrote:


Anyway it is like the first series Bakula has been in that ever got renewed....


Quantum Leap ran for 5 seasons.

"That is like" 4 renewals, if my math is like correct...... :-)

- George Gassaway

It's been a long road ...

True some enterprise episodes werent very good, but that was true of all of the
series.

Even TNG had some bombs.

Hallerb wrote:

It's been a long road ...

True some enterprise episodes werent very good, but that was true of all of the
series.

Even TNG had some bombs.

"Masks".

"The Other James" wrote in message
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Hallerb wrote:

It's been a long road ...

True some enterprise episodes werent very good, but that was true of all
of the
series.

Even TNG had some bombs.

"Masks".

"Masks" was pretty bad (Something is wrong with Data!
Again!) but I think the two worst episodes were "Sub Rosa",
a Twilight Zone ghost story masquerading as Star Trek, and
"Night Terrors" which involved the well-trodden ground of
the various crewmembers losing their mental faculties, the
Enterprise being stuck dead in space, an unknown alien
presence, and Troi getting mysterious telepathic visions
that most of the audience figured out right away but which
took the crew another 30 minutes to decipher.

Bruce

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:11:30 GMT, "Bruce Sterling Woodcock"
wrote:


"The Other James" wrote in message
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Hallerb wrote:

It's been a long road ...

True some enterprise episodes werent very good, but that was true of all
of the
series.

Even TNG had some bombs.

"Masks".

"Masks" was pretty bad (Something is wrong with Data!
Again!) but I think the two worst episodes were "Sub Rosa",
a Twilight Zone ghost story masquerading as Star Trek, and
"Night Terrors" which involved the well-trodden ground of
the various crewmembers losing their mental faculties, the
Enterprise being stuck dead in space, an unknown alien
presence, and Troi getting mysterious telepathic visions
that most of the audience figured out right away but which
took the crew another 30 minutes to decipher.

....And then there was the episode that no other Trek series ever
attempted again - "Shades of Grey", aka "So It's Come To This: A TNG
Clip Show!" That one's considered *the* worst TNG episode by far.

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr