Some Criticism

The stereotypist (John Campbell of pictures for sad children) takes a look at Star Trek: The Next Generation. He totally accurate and not kind.

Star Trek: Online!

The whole comic.

The wonderfully verbose Eric Burns-White, he of Websnark, posted a review of Star Trek Online, including screen caps, while beta testing a few weeks ago. Today he wrote about how the game should run to continue to be as great as it, apparently, is.

I'm not a MMORPG person, but the trekkie in in me really want to be.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Redub

What does an episode of ST:TNG look like re-dubbed according to the actor's lip movement?

Like this:



Seriously, this brought me to tears.

No, I can't translate it.

Shatner Twofer

When Where is When

Siskoid explains the Prophets:

In a nutshell, it is this: The Prophets perceive time as simultaneous the same way we perceive space. With one look, they see all of time much as you can look at the entire room you're in. This is a useful metaphor to understand just what is going on inside that Wormhole.

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Here's a question: When did they send the Orbs to Bajor that gave them their colorful monicker? Answer: It's a "when" for us, but it's a "where" for them. Think of the world of the Prophets (the Wormhole and areas of space they can survey from it) as a continually updating reality. ... If we could be made aware of the timeline as a single room, we would see that they put the Orb on a certain shelf. As linear beings, we call that shelf the past though the information comes from another corner of the room which we call the present or future.

And there's plenty more at the link.

The Rest of the Crew

Read the rest if it.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

Here's a fantastic break-down of the metaphorical language the Tamarians use in that excellent Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Darmok."

Disturbing, but Funny

With all the clone-ish things running around, why not?

And All the Hand Held You Can Take

Yeah, there really was too much shaking of the camera going on in the new movie, but since that's the main non-quibbling criticism I have (I mean, come on, how is it feasible to build a 300 meter long ship that's several hundred thousand metric tons on the surface of a planet?) it must be a darn fun movie.

Also, Roger Ebert Vs Star Trek (movie) fans. He's a brave man baiting them like that.

Trek Yourself

Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video Clips

I guess this'll be Star Trek week.

"Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'"

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

Battlestar 9

Far too perfect.

Art Trek

You can see it much larger over here. And read some stuff here.

Fuller and Star Trek?

Bryan Fuller, creator of the excellent Dead Like Me and even better Wonderfalls and even better Pushing Dasies, would like to create a new Star Trek series.

"I would love to return to the spirit of the old series with the colors and attitude. I loved Voyager and Deep Space Nine, but they seem to have lost the ‘60s fun and I would love to take it back to its origin." (From an iF Magazine interview.)

"I would love to do it in the same era as the J.J. Abrams movie, but on another starship on a completely different adventure. But it really is a dream and there is nothing official about it at all." (From Ain't It Cool News.)

Fuller wrote for both DS9 and Voyager, and produced Voyager's final season, which was the best one since Jeri Taylor stepped back from being in charge.

And, hell, if Fuller's great original series don't stick around for long (Although they should!), maybe a Fuller run Star Trek can.

The First Lady of Star Trek

Majel Barrett Roddenberry died last night, she was 76.

The picture is her playing Number One in the original Star Trek pilot. She was also Nurse Chapel in TOS and appeared as Lwaxana Troi in TNG and DS9 and she regularly played the voice of the Starfleet computers from the 60s until Voyager ended in 2001 and had been cast to do the computer's voice in the new movie. I don't know if she completed the work for the movie.

She also produced two science fiction TV shows based on notes left by her late husband and guest starred in them, too.

Two beautiful, vibrant women dead in two weeks. I sincerely hope that these sort of things don't really happen in threes.