It's been a long road ...

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
...
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
...
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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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, OM wrote:

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


"The Other James" wrote in message
...
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.

The reason that "Shades of Grey" and other subpar episodes wound up in
TNG's second season (it was also several episodes short of normal as well)
is largely the effect of the writers' strike that was affecting all of the
entertainment industry at that time.
-Mike

In message .edu, Mike
Dicenso writes


On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, OM wrote:

...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.

The reason that "Shades of Grey" and other subpar episodes wound up in
TNG's second season (it was also several episodes short of normal as well)
is largely the effect of the writers' strike that was affecting all of the
entertainment industry at that time.
-Mike

Didn't several series resort to the flashback formula to get round the
strike?
At least "Shades of Grey" gave UK audiences the chance to see that guy's
head explode - the scene was cut from "Conspiracy" but censors are never
the sharpest knife in the box.
Why did they use the British spelling, BTW?
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