Star Trek Thread

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by juantoo3

Eh, busty blondes are a dime a dozen in Hollywood (behold the wonders of silicon, *better make that saline*)...good looking red heads are hard to find anywhere.

Not the change the subject...but I am changing the subject

Hot off the press: British science folk are tweeking a system they've designed to act as...yep, shields for space craft. Not so far fetched as we once thought, since they have a working model to emulate...the earth.

Right, the scientists are refining procedure where a space craft is surrounded by a magnetic field (similar to earth's magnetisphere), and then filling the space between the edge of the field and the surfaces of the space craft with plasma (which is held in place by the magnetic field). With this configuration, any radiation/energy coming at the space craft would be deflected by the magnetic field and/or diffused-absorbed by the plasma.


hmmmm

[Prober]

Originally Posted by juantoo3

Eh, busty blondes are a dime a dozen in Hollywood (behold the wonders of silicon, *better make that saline*)...good looking red heads are hard to find anywhere.

One of my favorites - Maureen O'Hara...

[juantoo3]

Originally Posted by Prober

One of my favorites - Maureen O'Hara...

Excellent choice!

I also think Roby, from Friday the 13th (the series) was rather easy on the eyes.

For drop dead gorgeous, there was a sweet young Irish lass on a TV series called "Head of the Class" whose name escapes me. Billy Connolly filled in quite ably as the teacher when Howard Hesseman stepped aside, that series was far too short lived.

Hmmm, now to tie all this back to Star Trek...

Oh yeah! do you remember the episode where the whole crew sat around and vegetated over old TV reruns. Even had the Klingons hooked, for a while anyway. Ah, those were the days...

[Eudaimonist]

Originally Posted by pfw

Which version of Star Trek is your favourite and why?

The original Star Trek. The writing was thought-provoking and relevant, there was real passion, and the friendship chemistry between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy was priceless. And no-one is quite as iconic as those three characters in the later series.

TNG was pretty good in its third and fourth seasons, but was too bloodless and sleep-inducing for me most of the time.

DS9 was okay, but B5 did everything better. And James Kirk is far more interesting a character than Captain Crisco.

Voyager... the less said about this flop, the better.

I've only seen one or two episodes of "Enterprise", so I can't comment fully there. I wasn't impressed with what I saw, though. It didn't feel "Trek" enough to me.


Live long and prosper,

Mark

[Tao_Equus]

Just thought I'd post for those that have not heard.
Today the remains of James Doohan, the engineer from Star Trek best known as Scotty, were blasted into space.

[juantoo3]

May he be long remembered.

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

Just thought I'd post for those that have not heard.
Today the remains of James Doohan, the engineer from Star Trek best known as Scotty, were blasted into space.

...I can here DeForest Kelly snipping "Forget it Jim, I'm a doctor not a rocket payload..."

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by juantoo3

May he be long remembered.

I have a model of him standing next to my computer at work, and in his hand is a poster that says, "...keyboard? How quaint.."

[Snoopy]

In the same manner as one cannot mix matter and anti-matter, is it not the case that one cannot mix the constituents of the Pentateuch Wisdom thread without the risk of the whole website’s implosion?

s.

[Prober]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

Just thought I'd post for those that have not heard.
Today the remains of James Doohan, the engineer from Star Trek best known as Scotty, were blasted into space.

He was one of my favorites. Since Spock was always my favorite, I delighted in his (Scotty's) animated exchanges.

Spock would say something like "given our current situation, we'll cross the planet's path in 3.72589455742 hours" and Scotty would say something like "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE UNLESS WE GET THIS PIECE OF CRAP GOING AND YOU JUST SIT THERE".

Made him seem like a rough boob, but everybody liked him when he brought out the Saurian brandy.

He will be missed.

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

In the same manner as one cannot mix matter and anti-matter, is it not the case that one cannot mix the constituents of the Pentateuch Wisdom thread without the risk of the whole website’s implosion?

s.

Guess you've never been in a Romulan ale house...

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by Quahom1

Guess you've never been in a Romulan ale house...

never even heard of em....

...pass the popcorn....