All posts by Scyphi
Nice, but while the D's nice and all, it's admittedly not the one I'd want a Lego set the most of. Hopefully a TMP refit Enterprise, or even a TOS Enterprise, is next in line to be released.
Agreed, Paramount's hemmed and hawed over this so many times, it'd probably be unwise to consider this truly a "for good" just yet...but nonetheless, I believe the article when it says Paramount's not moving ahead with a Kelvin film at present time.
As much as I personally enjoyed the Kelvin films and really wanted to see another, and thus hate admitting it, Paramount's been stuck trying to get one greenlit for so long, it might actually be good for them to let that project go and instead focus on some other Trek-related projects for the time being, get their mojo back through that instead.
Be that as it may, he is still an AI, like all of the other options on the poll, so while the term "hologram" may be technically inaccurate, I still think that doesn't make him any less a viable option to include in said poll.
Easy fix would be just to change the title of the poll accordingly.
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If that's actually the case, then MA's own article on The Clown didn't get the memo, because it very clearly and upfrontly lists him as a hologram:
To me, it's potato-potahto, and not enough to invalidate his inclusion on the poll, regardless.
Good poll! Immediately the Clown and Holo-Seska top the options for me. Of the two, my first reaction is to pick the Clown, but with the Clown you could still negotiate at least to a degree with him, because there were still things he wanted to have that he couldn't get any other way and he knew it.
Holo-Seska, meanwhile, already held all the cards and effectively had nothing to lose. It's only through a happenstance chance to trick her that she was even defeated at all, and they were darn lucky Seska apparently didn't have the foresight to program some kind of failsafe to ensure she still won even then. So I'm gonna pick her for managing to be just a bit more dangerous than the Clown.
The Doc's "Hyde" personality was dangerous but also behaved in a manner that was ultimately self-destructive, unstable, and ultimately counter-productive, and they effectively fixed it by more or less just waiting it out and letting the personality collapse in on itself and the normal personality taking full control again.
Holo-Spock I never really found that particularly dangerous, since it seemed it still wanted La'an to win, just not let her win too easily, and thus still allowed for ways to potentially beat him at the game and/or save herself from any particularly critical threats if she acted appropriately in time. He was otherwise just sort of...there. Which was part of the point--trying to NOT draw attention to himself--but it also meant he didn't come off as very threatening.
Moriarty does seem like an obvious option to have included in the poll, but admittedly he still wouldn't have been my top choice. He's intelligent, crafty, tricky, and determined to have his way, but once he understood his true nature, he too otherwise seemed willing to negotiate to a degree and was not super unpleasant to work with, at least so long as he thought it was still going in his favor. He never seemed particularly interested in seriously harming much of anyone even, and only resorted to it if and when he felt he had no other choice to, instead relying on other means of trying to get what he wanted.
It probably doesn't help that he is written in such a way to make the audience want to sympathize with him at least a little, because he did still have fair points about what rights he should be entitled to, rights that were never really in much dispute once it was agreed upon that they should apply.
Haunting of Deck 12, but most of these are good spook-factor episodes.
Well, save maybe "Catspaw," as at the end of the day, it was really still just your typical TOS fair, but it still counts given it deliberately was going for a Halloween theme.
Overall a good list, I think, as all of the episodes cited can indeed meet the Halloween theme for the most part. PIC's "Monsters" doesn't feel like the greatest fit, but I can't think of another to suggest that'd be any better from PIC. I probably would've suggested episodes like "I Have No Bones Yet I must Flee" or "Mining The Mind's Mines" for LD myself, but "Much Ado About Boimler" works too. I also approve of the choice of "All Those Who Wander," as I think it's a much spookier episode than "Shuttle to Kenfori."
Heck, if we're talking about ALL of the Christopher Pike portrayals, Bruce Greenwood played a great Pike for the Kelvin timeline films, and its clear Anson Mount took a number of pages from his portrayal of the character when crafting his own, as I was rewatching Star Trek 09 not too long ago and was getting struck by how many similarities there are between the two. Obviously they both still have enough differences to still be unique, but one very clearly inspired the other.
I voted perfectly rated, which I think suits the character overall, regardless of who was playing him at the time.
"The Haunting of Deck 12" is indeed a really good episode to watch for Halloween, and I was already thinking to myself if I want to skip ahead in my current rewatch of VOY so to watch it for the holiday or not.
Well, the galaxy is a big place, and even when narrowed down to just one quadrant (or one-fourth of it), that's still around 25,000 lightyears to explore, with probably an even greater number of star systems to sift through--quite a lot of ground to cover even for the Borg. So yeah, we know the Borg have ventured as far as the Gamma Quadrant, but that doesn't necessarily mean they've explored very much of it or got anywhere close to crossing paths with the Dominion, particularly given that the Dominion does not control the whole of the Gamma Quadrant, not even close.
And when you consider the Borg were only just reaching the Alpha Quadrant to start poking around it at about the same time...it's totally plausible.
That said, I think the Borg did have at least one encounter with the Dominion at some point, the Dominion on a whole either weren't aware of it (like how the Federation's own first few encounters went under the radar), or it was never super relevant for the Dominion to bring it up during the time they were in active contact with the Federation, suggesting at least that the Borg hadn't yet made themselves as major a threat to them.
The Dominion surely knew about the Borg by the Dominion War either way though, if simply because the Federation they were battling about knew about them and thus, via the war-time information gathering they were no doubt engaged in, learned of them through that, if nothing else. But then the video already touches upon this.
Personally, I'm not for anything Kirk/Spock. It's got nothing to do with the LGBT thing, I just don't see them as in any way romantic, and I think it'd really mess with that all important brotherly friendship dynamic they have later in life.
Anyway, to answer the question, I can't think of any more off the top of my head, but at the same time, I don't really go through watching a show and counting all of the relationships, LGBT or otherwise, so...
TOS's "The Doomsday Machine," but later this week I plan to watch the next (in release order) episode, "Catspaw," which I've deliberately tried to plan to do near Halloween--it seemed fitting.
Do like the video's purely speculative but still very important point that the events of Q Who may have, for all we know, been the defining event that determined who the Borg focused on trying to assimilate first--the Federation or the Dominion--and that may have easily changed the playing field for all three powers quite significantly as a result. Because had the Borg instead focused their attention more on the Dominion, that whole fight with them might've gone very differently and not entirely in the galaxy's favor.
Just one day off from my own birthday, come to think of it (the 26th).
But why, though? What reason would French culture or language have died out by TNG anyway? I think that's the part I get hung up on, as I can't really see any good reasons for it to. Nor for much of any of the other world cultures, but on that note, there's plenty of evidence that other world cultures persist still in the 24th century, so why not the French as well? Why would it have been the exception?
Really, I think it was just some writer throwing it into the script without thinking it all the way through until after it aired, realized that maybe that wasn't such a good idea, and then quietly silenced the idea and never addressed it again moving forward. Hardly would've been the first time that happened in TNG, let alone the rest of Trek. The fact the line in question was spoken in early season 1 TNG, where a lot of things like that had happened, doesn't help.
Technically I was watching both TOS and TNG simultaneously back in the day (they'd air a rerun of TOS after whatever episode of TNG it was had aired), so it might more really be both, but I'm going to say TOS anyway, as that's what my earliest memories of it suggest.
Well, I'm sure his program has had regular maintenance and other upgrades during that whole time after Voyager got back. No real reason to not to, really.
Yeah, but for a language supposedly obscure in Trek, it sure seems to get used quite a bit by more than one person regardless, Picard (naturally) included. So I've never really put much stock in that line, and it seems like it's been mostly retconned anyway by how often speakers of it are demonstrated.
Thus I figure it's still plenty common in it's native country, and just not so much elsewhere...a lot like how it is today.
I think I'm going to go with McCoy and his sassy "tell it like it is" attitude, but Spock's very much a close second.
I think everybody else would be pretty much tied for third after that. :-P
I suppose, though on the upside, one could at least argue that the reason Voyager never fell back on the Doctor's backup later in the show was precisely because it was lost in the events of "Living Witness," so it's really only more a problem for anything before that.
Though the discrepancy doesn't really ruin the episode at all for me either way. Honestly, of all of the plot holes that have ever come into existence in Trek, this is one of the more minor.
As for never following up on it...well, I think that was part of the point of the story, first of all--some stories are meant to be left open-ended like that--but it's also why I'd be down for SA to take the chance to resolve the matter finally, as it'd be a great time to, IMO.