General Star Trek thread

TheValeyard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123989516#Comment_123989516

Ten Forward lol

AMKC

Oh a Pub I might actually want to go into. Please let us know the pub.

Evade

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123989516#Comment_123989516

McGowan's in Phibsborough

breezy1985

Wasn't there a pub in Dublin that housed a Star Trek club. Would that be it ?

JayRoc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123990217#Comment_123990217

There have been a couple :)

eadrom

oh man, pretty sure I had those magazines. That Kirk cover in particular rings a bell.

think that’s “July 1995” in the corner of that one? Sounds about right. Pity I didn’t hang onto them.

Rawr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123990837#Comment_123990837

Ah, I had a load of them too. I can’t remember when I stopped buying them, but I’m pretty sure I was getting them during Season 4 / 5 of DS9 because I remember a special issue in relation to The Way of the Warrior.

Damn…Way of the Warrior was such a big deal back then. Worf in DS9?!! I remember him from that other Trek show I liked!

breezy1985

Don't remember that magazine at all. Star Trek fact files was the only one I remember collecting.

Rawr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123992162#Comment_123992162

You could find them back in the newsagents back in the 90’s. I think even my local shop in Kildare was stocking it. You’d definitely get them in the likes of Easons too. Big glossy A4 thing emblazoned with marketing shots of the cast on the covers.

I think I remember it building up the hype for First Contact during those years, and it made the experience of going to the cinema to eventually see it all the more exciting.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123992296#Comment_123992296

I used to get mine in the magazine shop in Newbridge in the old shopping centre with Dunnes and the water fountain. I have not been to Newbridge in years. Is it still there?

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123992378#Comment_123992378

Ya Newbridge is still there.

Changed a lot over the years though.

AMKC

Come on the boys in Green.

AMKC

Not much of a match so far lol.

AMKC

Oh ffs.

AMKC

Yes a goal check. Hopefully not a goal.

AMKC

Damit. The battle does not go good.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123992414#Comment_123992414

I meant the old shopping centre in Newbridge. I know Newbridge is still there lol.

NRH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123992520#Comment_123992520

warriors

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123993688#Comment_123993688

It was wrong thread lol 🙉🫣

Rawr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123992467#Comment_123992467

Death to the Opposition!

eadrom

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123992520#Comment_123992520

..

odyssey06

I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

TheValeyard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123994116#Comment_123994116

You will be one with the Parrot.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123991908#Comment_123991908

The only copy of the star trek magazine that I owned was that copy. It folded out into a a huge poster of Worfs face and DS9 under attack. It hung on my bedroom wall for many years.

Changing tac for a moment. I know most people regard ST:Picard series 3 as the best one, and yes it's nice seeing the old crew back together, but Ive been doing a rewatch of it the past few days and feic me it's convoluted.

Fun fact though: The music Worf was meditating to in around episode 3, is Vallon Sonore from Les Troyens by Berliosz. It's the same piece of music Picard was listening to during ST: First Contact.

Rawr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124008804#Comment_124008804

They do a lot of First Contact callbacks in that Season. The intro tune is the First Contact theme. We get Berliosz as you mention (which is possibly one of my favourite scenes early in the film…really underlines how f*cked the situation has become), and there was one suggestion that the “Red Door” is a reference to the red door of engineering that Picard faces before going to confront the Queen.

I’m thinking there was an attempt to recapture the sort of “Peak-TNG” feeling of First Contact in that season. In retrospect S3 is alright, but it has issues. I think what was going for it was the shock that it has half decent live-action Trek after years of Burnham and an actual continuation of the story instead of another prequel.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124008906#Comment_124008906

Agreed on all your points.

There's one small "gaff" by Beverly Crusher where she says the Borg have not been heard from in 10 years. Picard should have piped up and said, "Actually I spent last season hanging out with Alison Pill who is the new Borg queen"

We get Berliosz as you mention (which is possibly one of my favourite scenes early in the film

To be honest, it is one of the few bits of opera I actually like.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124008906#Comment_124008906

Sorry to repeat myself but Crusher has a phaser shotgun that loudly shouts "out of power". The changeling has to cut off her arm to communicate with Skeletor and the "entire Starfleet" is at Earth to see off a ship being decommissioned after only a few years and can't defeat Spacedock 1. The entire show is also set in the dustiest ships ever built who all seem to be constantly parked next to a sun. Everyone is dressed in leather jackets and Starfleet seems to be entirely crewed by people connected to or the children of previous shows.

It's absolutely totally as dumb as anything Discovery has done. It was just done with a memberberry cast.

The only reason it's not the biggest heap of sht in Trek history is the fact Picard season 2 exists.

LambshankRedemption

I wasn't keeping count but in the 3 seasons of Picard, how many times was Data killed off and then resurrected? Its about one per season.

Rhetorical question.

Rawr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124009214#Comment_124009214

• Season 1: Data’s “soul” is sort of killed off
• Season 2: No Data, but Spiner plays yet another evil Soogn scientist guy.
• Season 3: Data/Lore/B4 hybrid becomes new Human version of Data and is alive at the end.

TheIrishGrover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124008986#Comment_124008986

I was not impressed with Picard in general. It had some good points. The first couple of episodes of Season 1 where he is casually demanding a starship and an admiral goes something like "The f*cking ARROGANCE!". Orla Brady (Could have done without "cheeky fecker" but apart from that she was great). I got to like Rios a lot by the end. The only real relatable human character on the show (I even enjoyed the terrible accents on his holograms as I chose to believe they were intentionally bad) Riker's reaction to Worf's zen outlook. Frakes in general having a ball.

But they bring in Spiner…. AGAIN….. They mingle up that android girl and I can't remember, her human template? Is Picard not an android? Seven an Raffi having ZERO chemistry for a so-called couple. Jaaaayyyyy Ellllllll (Jesus christ). It really came off as a vanity project/memberberries. While I won't say it was as bad as Discovery, it was not great and didn't hold my attention. You know things are bad when you spend ages trying to place Picard's father without using IMDb.