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Netflix now has the entire B5 series on DVD.  I just watched the first disc, Ep 1-4.  It is obvious that the show is 20 years old, it looks relatively low budget and the charachters are so "over the top" (and not to thinly veiled ST inspired at that).  But the overall concept and story lines hold up really well.  I look forward to getting to the second season, when budgets went up.  Good stuff, too bad a lot of the public have forgotten it as an "also ran".

I just finished the series two weeks back.  Amazing series.  The Dominion wars got a little hokey and tiresome.  My biggest irk is that at some points "The Worf and Dax saga" almost completely dominated the series, to the point it seemed that 50% of episodes were completely revolving around them... even after Jans-Dax dies!!!

That being said, IMHO, DS9 reached the peak of "what could be" in a ST series.

Over a year later, and I can no longer force myself to watch it any more.  I spend so much time FFWDing past Neelix and Kess [sp?] that the average episode is minimum 25% cut.  My wife said she barely remebered the show, and would give it a try, but as soon as she saw Janeway she said "Oh, Fuk, this is the one with that annoying d-bag cook with the mohawk... I'm not watching him for a second!".   Braga should be waterboarded at gitmo for this series...

Cool, sort of like a real life ST version of "FanBoys".

Enterprise already looked ridiculously low budget, not sure that Netflix could do much better with it.  Plus, Netflix has had a spotty run with it's originals:

House of Cards: EPIC WIN, great show, it got the 2 Million new subcribers.

Arrested Development: WIN, even though it got some bad critic reviews and new subcriptions fell short of predictions.

Hemlock Grove: Meh, it's just there.  Shocking for the sake of shocking, but as far as I can tell they forgot to write an actual plot.

Orange is the new Black: FAIL.  My guess is the only people watching this retread jail drama, are 16yo boys wanking it to all the soft core scenes.

With a 50/50 batting average, it will be interesting to see how much money they will allocate to further exclusives...

This is one of my favorite Sci Fi series of all time.  So far neither Netflix of Amazon Prime have this available for streaming, I'll keep my fingers crossed...

I thought the movie was above average scifi fare. While the movie started out interesting, especially the scene with Guy who seeds the planet. But after that it just seemed like another way to make yet another Alien franchise installment.

The idea that the black goo "outsmarted" superior beings, is a bit of idiocy that they expect us to blindly swallow. They know they can get away with all these huge logic gaps, because the general public is filled with simple minded cretins with zero attention span.

Definitely worth a watch, it was well done overall. Just don't expect to be walking away with anything remotely close to a nerdgasm.

I know that solar sails are real.

I know the Cardassians knocked the crap out of them for 50 years.

My issue is that "hundreds" of years ago these simple craft were in space. If they had the tech to get man into orbit hundreds of years ago, they would not have been using those silly craft that look like some whack ass Divinci drawing. If they were purely relying on solar sails, they could not have had the tech to get into orbit. Even if we go way out on a limb and say they got into orbit via light propelled device, it doesn't add up because Gov't skunkworks are currently only just being able to propel a small disc a hundred feet in the air - and that is with our relatively superior tech. There is a logic flaw in these assumptions we are supposed to swallow.

An episode I saw last night reminded me of something that has been irking me. OK, I get this hokey story that the B'jorens [sp?] had some solar sail craft that allowed them space travel hundreds of years back. They claim to have had space travel before the Cardassians. Yes, a charming little story. So lets assume these crafts would be possible with their technology, because they use the same tech as ocean ships and primitive submarines. So then how the hell did they get into orbit? Seriously, WTF?

The problem with Firefly is that a lot of the dialogue comes of sounding like douchebaggery. My wife wanted to punch me after watching the movie. Some can be funny, but that series made me roll my eyes so many times I got vertigo. Not really, but you get the level of yawn I think it deserves.

I'm far enough into the series that Worf has now joined. It's not working for me, the story lines around him are tiresome cliche. He was a compelling character on NG, but on DS9 it feels contrived and counter-intuitive to what the tone of the series is. I'm not sure if they needed s ratings boost or what. And the impending marriage to dax is just plain jumping the shark. No wonder the ST franchise started the death spiral after DS9. I will be doing the FF during any of their courtship BS. This story arc makes baby jesus cry.

http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/10/30/disney-purchases-lucasfilm-including-the-star-wars-franchise-for-4-05b-in-cash-and-stock/

 

Now this is interesting. I wonder what it will mean for the Star Wars franchise.

I don't want to live in a world where this is true!

It will be nice to finish up the last trilogy, but Disney is going to rape this franchise.

I sill haven't made it through Season 1 yet. Janeway's "I am Kate Hepburn" soliloquies get a bit too much for me sometimes. Episodes that are Neelix or Tess focused get skipped, or at very a lot of fast-forward, the douchechills are just too much for me. Meanwhile I still watch when I can, mainly because I am still trying to figure out if Lt. Torres is hot or not.

You are saying it was better than Season 0?

Wormhole phenomena permits it.

I meant OS and NG. They seem like slapstick compared to DS9 scripts.

My sympathies.

Monday I had to put down my 15+yo Cat "Dante". He was looking a little sick for a few days, then within 72 hours he was comatose. The last 36 he stopped drinking water and was sleeping 99% of the time. Monday morning he started having spasms but wouldn't wake up. I had to break it to the kids that it was more humane to put him to sleep.

No fun, with 4 females in the house it was like trying to manage the meltdown at Chernobyl.

I'm still watching an episode once in a while. But Neelix make me want to kick kittens. I have to take in very infrequent doses.

I'm well into Season 2 right now. The story lines were an exponential leap over the previous two. Really great casting, most characters come across as natural. I get fatigued by those androgenous space hippie Bajorans though, I realize they are central to the story line, but no wonder the Cardassians took them over so easily.

I watched about half of the pilot last nite. I agree with Ty, either my standards are lower, or I just poo-poo'd it because DS9 came off so much better. I'll definitely watch a few episodes here and there, but I'll still be focusing on DS9... oh and I'll visit Enterprise once in a while, to be impressed by T'Pol's federation issue flotation devices!

I just cued this on Netflix streaming two weeks back. Got a few episodes in, and I am enjoying it immensely so far. I watched it casually when it was originally airing, but those days were preoccupied by women wine and song, so I didn't follow all the nuances. I am finding myself enjoying the darker, more mature, perspective they are using.

I kept thinking to myself last week during the Pilot: Is Garak as blatantly fruity as he seemed back then?. Then serendipitously I got to see the lingering bad touch episode last nite, I thought Bashir was going to scream that he needed a grownup!... "I don't know Julian, what could Garak want from you" (nice smirk on Dax's face as she/he says it).

I've got every single other ST series on Netflix streaming, but I'm on the fence about going back in watching Voyager. When it was on I found it mediocre, especially what is maybe the most annoying character of all time: Neelix (I loathe him in ways words can't describe).

OTOH, it doesn't cost me anything to cue it up. I might give it a watch when the wife isn't around, she does OS and NG but shuns the rest!

Is it supposed to be an MMO or is it a single player game?

It's a 1-2 player campaign. I am betting the MMO stuff will stick within the Prime universe. The article in Game Informer said the current plan is to begin a full ST2k9 franchise, with a Console Game Series as part of the plan.

Whoops! OK then, parallel timeline. You Roddenbeeches are easily worked up!

It will be interesting to see how well the Co-op mode is implemented.

Has anyone had any interest in the upcoming Star Trek 2012 Reboot Video Game? It's supposed to be a tie-in bridge related to the upcoming movie sequel. Usually these movie games are throwaway marketing nonsense, but they claim this one will be higher quality... supposedly. Here is the trailer:

http://www.startrek.com/article/new-deets-about-upcoming-star-trek-game

Wrong. TJ Hooker was totally bad ass, he could always jump on some car's hood to save the day! That dude was MF'n Ninja, who else could keep their hairpiece on while doing that? Plus, you know Heather was bringing him Donuts right before he pounded her's.

I have been served. I walked right into that one. Obviously, if I had known, my reply would have been different - such as: "You are gay if you don't FF to the hot PGGA"...