The Star Trek III (Back from the Dead) Thread

I remember being so pumped for the Voyager debut. I must have told everyone about it and then to think that turd lasted past its original season.

The only cool thing about that show was how it realistic it was. Their time lost in space was actually like the show. Boring and long as fuck with no end in sight.
 
[quote name='Friend of Sonic']Well, they did protect Bajor, and helping Bajor through transition was a stated goal that continued all the way to the end with the war.

And Davo, I am sorry I spoiled some major events. I feel like a sort of a dick now.



 
[quote name='Javery']Didn't he have slug babies with Janeway in that same episode? Man, what a colossal pile of shit.[/QUOTE]
Yes, yes he did.

On the subject of ENT, it at least gave us the "vulcans invented velcro" joke.
 
[quote name='keithp']The round table extra looks great. The cast really seemed to be enjoying themselves. And Beverly still looks good![/QUOTE]

except for troi :(

eeek

... i really wonder about the DS9 round table.
 
Sigh, they're leaving all the Borg stuff as is I guess. That cube really should be updated, looks super fake. At the least they could have updated the shield effect of the drones.

edit- Check out Frake's bald spot.:lol:
 
Yeah it looks very plastic looking :(

I am sure the fans will be in an uproar over these images...... it shouldn't be too hard to insert the updated cube.
 
It really wouldn't be, seems like the only ship they care about updating is the enterprise, which makes it really odd looking. You have that high resolution image beside a cheap looking model.
 
Review of the TNG S1 season set. Nerdgasm incoming:

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation-Season-1-Blu-ray/30939/#Review

And for those of you wanting it on the cheaper, Best Buy will have it for $59.99 when it releases. Trade in any DVD that isn't porn or a burned disc, with case and cover art, and you'll get $5 more off on it:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325249 (weekly ad)
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=324561 (BB Trade & Save info)
 
[quote name='shrike4242']Review of the TNG S1 season set. Nerdgasm incoming:

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation-Season-1-Blu-ray/30939/#Review

And for those of you wanting it on the cheaper, Best Buy will have it for $59.99 when it releases. Trade in any DVD that isn't porn or a burned disc, with case and cover art, and you'll get $5 more off on it:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325249 (weekly ad)
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=324561 (BB Trade & Save info)[/QUOTE]
Fa...fa...fifty nine ninety nine? YAH!!

Oh my. It's on. I'm going to get my coupon ready. And then I will go there on my lunch break right when Best Buy opens and it will be glorious and I will open the set at my desk and stare at it instead of working
the end
 
OH SNAP!
55 bucks with trade in!

DAMN this is without a doubt cheaper than the DVD release...... If they keep that up...all my gift cards will cover half the seasons!

I was going to use some of the gift cards towards BSG..but changed my mind.
 
Hey, the preorder for the set is up on BB.com and includes in store pickup. This means that it qualifies for the 10.00 off future purchase coupon, which expires at the end of August. And in the past, I recall being able to take my receipt to the front counter for instore pickups and getting straight cash for paper coupons I couldn't use on instore pickup orders.

So, after 10.00 future purchase coupon, and getting CS to apply/refund the 5.00 coupon, you could be looking at season 1 for approximately 45.00+tax. Stellar deal
 
The toughest part of that test was not clicking on "Hairy Kim." I got 48. Had no idea who else to click after those 48. The names all kind of blend together, I guess.

Anyhow, you're still the champ Javery.
 
[quote name='Javery']I've only seen Season 1 and I think Season 2 of Enterprise. I need to watch it one of these days. I remember thinking it was just OK even though T'Pol is the hottest girl they've ever had on any ST series ever. :drool:[/QUOTE]
After watching "Babel One" and "In a Mirror, Darkly" today, I had to come back and say you're really missing out on Season 3 and especially Season 4. Just start with the season 2 finale.
 
[quote name='Javery']So how much do you know? I got to 51 before I messed up (because of my lack of Enterprise knowledge) See if you can BEAT ME.[/QUOTE]

55, though I can't for the life of me figure out who the last two are. There are a few bit players in there, so I have no idea if it was a very obscure character or someone from the later seasons of Enterprise, which I never saw.

Most amusing was T'Rack.
 
[quote name='blandstalker']

Most amusing was T'Rack.[/QUOTE]

I snicker every time.

It took me about thirty attempts to get all of them. Some I have never heard of.
 
I went to the theater screening. Never thought I'd get to see "Shut up, Wesley!" on the big screen.

Also they showed an extended season two trailer. It looks like the extra footage of The Measure of a Man is VHS quality. :(
 
oh damn FOS you saw it???
So tell me , how was it? Was it shown in full wide screen (Stretched?) or did they have it 4x3? How did it look? Was it worth it? Any cool give outs?

Oh OP, please update the Thread Title to include the release of the S1 BR!!!
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']oh damn FOS you saw it???
So tell me , how was it? Was it shown in full wide screen (Stretched?) or did they have it 4x3? How did it look? Was it worth it? Any cool give outs?

Oh OP, please update the Thread Title to include the release of the S1 BR!!![/QUOTE]
4x3, though it's worth noting during the documentary they had some ship shots that were 16:9 (and of course looked amazing :D) The picture quality was crisp in most areas-- there were some moments of fuzziness, but there was also talk earlier in this thread that the projector for fathom events usually sucks? Even if it is an issue with the source material, I suspect the problem will be greatly diminished with our smaller TV sets.

No free swag. But I would say it was worth it. Some LOL moments during the doc, during the legitimately funny bits in the episodes (and corny bits as well( and the theater was packed. It was a fun experience and I would love to go to see an airing of The Best of Both Worlds should they ever decide to do it.

My body is ready for the season 1 release today. :D
 
[quote name='CocheseUGA']:)[/QUOTE]
Yeah baby! Rock Hard!!!


[quote name='Friend of Sonic']

My body is ready for the season 1 release today. :D[/QUOTE]

Eh?


oh big oops in Naked Now episode.............the Captain's log says the ship is traveling at warp.....yet the stars are not moving at warp....OOOPS. :oops:
 
[quote name='dafoomie']After watching "Babel One" and "In a Mirror, Darkly" today, I had to come back and say you're really missing out on Season 3 and especially Season 4. Just start with the season 2 finale.[/QUOTE]
I agree, I just lost any interest sometime in season 2, and then loosely followed it until the end. After going back and watching the last few season last year, was a LOT better than I thought, ignoring the continuity problems and retreads(which I understand is very hard for many people). It was similar to TNGs very slow start, which makes me wonder what could have been. Character of Archer just winging it was very entertaining, down to earth, and didn't have the holier than thou attitude of the later Starfleet captains. That rush job finale was a shame.
 
[quote name='6er']I agree, I just lost any interest sometime in season 2, and then loosely followed it until the end. After going back and watching the last few season last year, was a LOT better than I thought, ignoring the continuity problems and retreads(which I understand is very hard for many people). It was similar to TNGs very slow start, which makes me wonder what could have been. Character of Archer just winging it was very entertaining, down to earth, and didn't have the holier than thou attitude of the later Starfleet captains. That rush job finale was a shame.[/QUOTE]
The series finale can be interpreted as non-canonical, I just ignore it.

Shran was going to join the cast full time in Season 5, they still had a lot of story coming down the pike.
 
Wow, I read up ok wikipedia and season 5 (and I guess 6 because Coto had plans for that too) sounded amazing. Origins story for the Borg Queen, Romulans as the main villains, a four-five episode arc for the Mirror Universe. Awesome.
 
Ron D. Moore's thoughts on ST in general and VOY.

A friend sent this link to me, it was recently posted to reddit so it's possible you guys have seen it already. It's new to me, at least. I had known of RDM left VOY early, and that it was over a disagreement about the show, but I didn't know specifics. His views on VOY summarize the points that have been made in this thread. It's good reading.

...and I know from BSG that RDM tends to take himself a little too seriously sometimes (e.g. his military know-how based on his being in the friggin coast guard), but in the end, he clearly cares about the material.

EDIT: A really good damning quote on VOY from the above link. Important to note these aren't the words of some anonymous internet message board punk, this is a producer on TNG and DS9 saying this...

I think the audience intuitively knows when something is true and something is not true. VOYAGER is not true. If it were true, the ship would not look spick-and-span every week, after all these battles it goes through. How many times has the bridge been destroyed? How many shuttlecrafts have vanished, and another one just comes out of the oven? That kind of bullshitting the audience I think takes its toll. At some point the audience stops taking it seriously, because they know that this is not really the way this would happen. These people wouldn’t act like this.
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You're welcome, and I agree, it's really fun to read through all that. I'm guessing he did that that in late 1999, maybe early 2000?

The original VOY concept definitely stuck with him...

I doubt it needs to be said, but if there's anyone on here who hasn't seen his remake of Battlestar Galactica (BSG), you might want to check it out. If you enjoyed TNG or DS9 or the VOY premise, you need to watch BSG right now.

People can argue over BSG all they want, but you can't deny that the show took some really fun risks. It's worth watching no matter what people tell you about individual episodes or certain narrative arcs. That's not to say the criticism isn't valid, it's just to say that you shouldn't let that color the entire show. It's good stuff.
 
:lol: He mentions Gilligan's Island too. I never really thought about it when the show was on, but yeah, the show shouldn't have looked so clean and spotless. I know that a few times they would address resource problems. I think I remember them running low on food one episode, and I know they had to conserve energy at one point, but it was all forgotten in the next episode. I think the real problem of the show was that they palced them too far away from home. To do a 7 season show, having them deal with the problems of being that far away, plus trying to get back, it just wasn't doable. That's why they constantly found wormholes or conduits or some other BS to help them cut down on travel time, and why they basically only had to deal with the trip home, rather than resource issues or other sensible things anyone would deal with in that situation. They could have, and probably should have, had more time pass between each episode, that is more time in the show. Instead, because they were still too far away, they had them use some BS borg conduit and POOF they're home, end of series.
 
That was a fantastic read. He was spot on in just about every single opinion.

As far as the realism of Voyager goes, I vaguely remember Year of Hell being a tantalizing tease of what a properly "real" Voyager could have been. Serious consequences to the ship, and its crew.
 
[quote name='dothog']You're welcome, and I agree, it's really fun to read through all that. I'm guessing he did that that in late 1999, maybe early 2000?

The original VOY concept definitely stuck with him...

I doubt it needs to be said, but if there's anyone on here who hasn't seen his remake of Battlestar Galactica (BSG), you might want to check it out. If you enjoyed TNG or DS9 or the VOY premise, you need to watch BSG right now.

People can argue over BSG all they want, but you can't deny that the show took some really fun risks. It's worth watching no matter what people tell you about individual episodes or certain narrative arcs. That's not to say the criticism isn't valid, it's just to say that you shouldn't let that color the entire show. It's good stuff.[/QUOTE]He pretty much tore Voyager a new ass with what he had to say with it, and honestly, I can't disagree with any of it.

I know it's a different caliber of show than DS9 or TNG and in retrospect, it shows. I think that if he was there from the beginning, it might have turned out a lot better/cleaner.

He did do some good stuff on BSG and I was very pleased with almost all of it. Also highly recommend anyone who is a RDM fan to watch BSG if they haven't done so already.
 
So I have been watching a few episodes from S1 these past few days.... You know the grain isn't that bad when watching it from a distance on my 58 inch plasma. The disc 1 documentary is very impressive and I applaud the team's effort to make this happen. The show does have 16x9 footage but there is filmed studio stage equipment in it which makes sense.

The remastered effects look pretty good. There are some that scream CGI, but others are movie like. I have no doubt that this season will sell well.

Anyways hopefully with the success of this project, WB will consider going back and remaster Babylon 5 for HD. Now I did read somewhere that Babylon 5 was filmed in widscreen format and that HD was in mind during filming, but converted to SD for broadcast including making the graphics shots in SD. With most of the models lost, I am sure it should be too much of problem redoing all the models and animations for HD. So we might see a Babylon 5 HD release one day. Now that would be awesome.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']So I have been watching a few episodes from S1 these past few days.... You know the grain isn't that bad when watching it from a distance on my 58 inch plasma. The disc 1 documentary is very impressive and I applaud the team's effort to make this happen. The show does have 16x9 footage but there is filmed studio stage equipment in it which makes sense.

The remastered effects look pretty good. There are some that scream CGI, but others are movie like. I have no doubt that this season will sell well.

Anyways hopefully with the success of this project, WB will consider going back and remaster Babylon 5 for HD. Now I did read somewhere that Babylon 5 was filmed in widscreen format and that HD was in mind during filming, but converted to SD for broadcast including making the graphics shots in SD. With most of the models lost, I am sure it should be too much of problem redoing all the models and animations for HD. So we might see a Babylon 5 HD release one day. Now that would be awesome.[/QUOTE]Good to hear that it at least is worth the money if you've never bought it before and probably worth the money if you've bought it on DVD.

B5 in HD would kick all kinds of ass, if they do it correctly.
 
[quote name='shrike4242']Good to hear that it at least is worth the money if you've never bought it before and probably worth the money if you've bought it on DVD.

B5 in HD would kick all kinds of ass, if they do it correctly.[/QUOTE]

I am glad they showed footage of "up-conversion" tests and you can tell instantly that it would not be acceptable for HD. Explosions have more "boom" to them. ooooooooo Cause and Effect Enterprise booms :drool: can't wait.

To be fair.........the effort they put into it is worth more than the 60 bb is selling it for.. I will be honest and say it's worth 100 bucks or more by the amount of stuff they put into it.

Yes B5 would look great in remastered HD... the DVD's are dark :(
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']I am glad they showed footage of "up-conversion" tests and you can tell instantly that it would not be acceptable for HD. Explosions have more "boom" to them. ooooooooo Cause and Effect Enterprise booms :drool: can't wait.

To be fair.........the effort they put into it is worth more than the 60 bb is selling it for.. I will be honest and say it's worth 100 bucks or more by the amount of stuff they put into it.

Yes B5 would look great in remastered HD... the DVD's are dark :([/QUOTE]Just because you think it's worth more than the $60 BB is selling it for doesn't mean I do. ;)

I bought the TOS sets for around $35 each and thought that was a great price for it. $60 for release week of TNG S1 when it retails for almost twice that could be a lot worse.

Me, I'm waiting for two $10 certs from Best Buy and once they get sent to me, I'll be off buying it.
 
A lot of stuff on Battlestar Galactica interested me. I watched a few episodes and was instantly hooked and then instantly bored about 15 minutes later. The show would have done much better on Showtime, because it tried too hard to be an adult show. At the very least, they could have properly swore if the writers were so adamant about saying "frack" every ten seconds.
 
[quote name='shrike4242']Just because you think it's worth more than the $60 BB is selling it for doesn't mean I do. ;)

I bought the TOS sets for around $35 each and thought that was a great price for it. $60 for release week of TNG S1 when it retails for almost twice that could be a lot worse.

Me, I'm waiting for two $10 certs from Best Buy and once they get sent to me, I'll be off buying it.[/QUOTE]


True cheap ass indeed Shrike....... hey it could have been worse.......paramount could have slapped a 200 dollar MSRP sticker on it. I was really scared that they would have priced it that high with it being "on sale" for 100-150.

oh...seems there are audio problems with the set :(

http://thedigitalbits.com/#072512a
 
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