What polarity can we reverse today?

[capnq]

Actually, Tasha was killed off because Denise Crosby wanted out, because she wasn't getting much to do besides look good. She was a lot happier coming back as Commander Sela.

I was just starting to get fed up with Wesley when the Traveler declared him the Mozart of warp engineering; for some reason I found him easier to cope with after that. But I stopped following the series relatively early in its run, because I moved to a place where I couldn't get the station it was on, and can't afford cable.

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Cap'n Q


The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft

[DirectorTsaarx]

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Originally posted by Puke:

would have to be that danm singing hologram Vic Fontaine, or perhaps that dingle Rick Borman who gave him so much air time and is ARSING UP all things trek-ish.

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Hey - I LIKED Vic... yeah, the episodes were just filler-fluff, but think of them as palate-cleansers. You know, to get you ready for the next "serious story" episode.

[zen.]

The obvious fave: da Borg!

Although I think they were much more menacing when introduced and throughout TNG... Voyager has reduced them to simple plot devices. Although the sheer alienness of Species 8472 was also quite cool.

zen

[Puke]

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Originally posted by dmm:
I liked the basic premise behind Wesley Crusher (boy supergenius), but he was SO poorly written. No angst, no frustration, no anger, no failures, nobody who didn't like him (nobody on the show, I mean). But then, a LOT of the early STTNG characters (ALL of them?) were poorly written. For instance, Worf's character was horrible at first, and Tasha's lines were so bad that she was unrecoverable so they had to kill her off.

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i guess you prefer the seaquest DSV Version of the boy genius? (not a flame, just curious)

[Possum]

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Originally posted by dmm:

IMHO, the best short-term (one episode and a movie) villain was Khan, and the best long-term villain was Gul Dukat. Each of them had admirable qualities, but their lust for power and revenge drove them to extreme evil.

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I agree that Khan was my favorite villian, (thank god I saw the Wrath of Khan episode before Fantasy Island came out), but I must heartily disagree with that "lust for power and revenge" part.

At least in the first episode, Khan and his people were the Last remnants of a race, fleeing a genocidal war of extermination. What were they supposed to do, lay down and die? Even the lowest of creatures has a right to self-defense.

[capnq]

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I agree that Khan was my favorite villian, (thank god I saw the Wrath of Khan episode before Fantasy Island came out), but I must heartily disagree with that "lust for power and revenge" part.

At least in the first episode, Khan and his people were the Last remnants of a race, fleeing a genocidal war of extermination. What were they supposed to do, lay down and die? Even the lowest of creatures has a right to self-defense.

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Hmm, as I remember that episode, Khan was the leader of the faction that triggered the genocidal war, and was fleeing to avoid prosecution as a war criminal.


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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft

[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 24 May 2001).]

[zen.]

Heeeey...weren't they genetically bred to be superior? Ah well, at least the Nietzscheans got to strike back.

Oh, wait, wrong series.

zen