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Old 01-27-2008, 05:57 PM   #21 (permalink)
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What annoyed me about most about each series was this desperate attempt to link back to the old one with dubous plots of being zapped back to that time and splicing into hold espisodes or using old sets and uniforms. That and the overly simplistic way each alien culture was.
what annoyed me about the post Next Gen series was the fact that almost any space anomaly could be solved by "sending out tachyon emissions" or something of the sort.
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Old 01-27-2008, 06:05 PM   #22 (permalink)
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what annoyed me about the post Next Gen series was the fact that almost any space anomaly could be solved by "sending out tachyon emissions" or something of the sort.
What annoyed me the most with Next Generation was O'Brien always checking those damn "Pattern buffers" WTF....man delegate!
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what annoyed me about the post Next Gen series was the fact that almost any space anomaly could be solved by "sending out tachyon emissions" or something of the sort.
Or that space germs are affected by neutrinos. You fuckers don't know what neutrinos are! They're neutral in charge and have no mass! C'MON!!! One of those many moments in Star "Tweak" where you catch yourself throwing popcorn at the screen, having reached the limits of your suspended disbelief.
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It's a museum tour. Costumes, sets, ships, makeup appliances etc. Very cool! Started in San Diego this month!
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Wow, can't wait. My son and I are "Trekies" I got him the Chess ste from the original series and all the pices are in silver and gold. He had the Klinon dictionary too. Collected everything and never opened any of it.
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I grew up on the Shatner/Nimoy movies. This will be my kind of Trek.
As good as Next Gen was, I was too invested in the original crew.
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