AndrewLyon

I apologize for not responding so fast, things to do, people to see, and hey I am half singing a song from the back street:) I will agree in a heartbeat, that The Next Generation in more than a few ways had its flaws. Voyager, and Janeway just had more of them. How many times was that ship blown up, damaged, ect. and the next week it looks as good as new? I view the replacement of Kess during season 3/4 with 7 of 9, as an act of desperation to save them ratings. I am not knocking 7 of 9 as a character, but a blue eye, blonde, with a rather amble chest, yeah, it screams, "We need ratings!" I am getting off topic, I want to focus on Captain Katherine Janeway... For maybe the first 5 episodes, I can give Kate her dues. The character was written for one person, and then she took over. Here are my problems with her: No one thought to rig up a timed explosive on the Keeper's station, so it could send Voyager back, and blow it up so the Kazon couldn't get their hands on it? Is she dim witted? She had an Ensign standing two shifts, and never promoted him? Her crew was close to munity over some of her actions, and come next week it looks like both sides forgive and forget? She recruits maybe 3 people from the Delta Quadrant. Why doesn't she try to recruit more to replace her loses? Even when she tried to "be tough" Kate Mulgrew just couldn't pull it off. If I see Picard, Sisko, Kirk, Archer, with a phaser rifle, an undershirt. I see someone to be feared. I see Janeway, and just not to be feared. She's too gentle. I mean Janeway received a fine death, playing with the Borg and all. The Q deal fit in with her profile so to speak. What does she have to contribute as a character besides appeasing the Voyager fans? Picard a seasoned diplomat, and an great warrior.. Sisko the Bajorains love him being back, and he was a leader of the Dominion War. Janeway, I see a fill in, someone who has a lot of 'ves, but no real punch.

I don't mean to insult/offend a GM, but can you bring something to the table to explain this? (Yes, I admt it, I love to debate things.;) )

Mind elabreating? Since I don't think we saw the same show.

Before Into Darkness came out, there was a new Star Trek game that came out.Originally it was the usual $60. Its on sale now via Steam for a whole $14.:) If you want to try it Jim, what's the worse it can hurt to pay $14...

Don't get rid of my huge saucers. I like being able to cut pizzas with the Enterprise.;-)

As a Trek fan, I wasn't that comfortable with the reboot. However it grew on me, and I had hoped that Into Darkness would be better. It showed me that sadly the people who made this film don't understand Trek, muchless the characters they are playing with. I am going to give the devil their dues here. Combining 1 episode and 1 movie together took some work. The problem is they did it in the first place. After watching countless Star Trek episodes and finally Animated, it got to me how much is rehash after rehash, new characters old plot. Sometimes not always the best of plots. With acting I find anyone can play a role. A real actor makes a role Ricardo Montalban made Khan real. A villain who if he asked you, you'd follow into the pits of hell with a shield made of ice, and you'd thank him for giving him the privilege to serve him after he stabs you in the back. Whoever cast Benedict Cumberland as Khan needs to get their eyes checked. He doesn't have the color, or the charisma to pull the roll off. He doesn't even have the body right for a genetic superman. Anyone remember Khan's followers from Wrath of Khan? They look like if they got into a throw down with the T-1000 it'd be a real fight. just don't see Benedict pulling that off. Let's be fair here to Khan as a character. Spock's move to disable the Victory, the real Khan would've seen that move a mile away. He would've stopped it given how he helped design the ship with his superior intellect. Kirk, James Tiberius Kirk. One impression I've always had from him as a character that he would live and die for the Enterprise, without it, he doesn't have a reason to go on. When he is held accountable for his actions, and being sent back to the Academy. I would've expected him to resign from Star Fleet, right there on the spot. This yo-yo of He's Captain, he's First Officer, he's Captain. Its filler, and a reason to kill Pike off simple as that. The real Kirk would've trusted Scotty, and not forced him to resign. The Klingons, now unless somehow Kirk's father and the Kelvin going boom affected their earlier experiments with fixing the genetic damage trying to augment themselves. They should still be ridgeless simple as that. Earth and Qo'Nos, they both had a problem. Where was orbital support? How are we expected to believe a Federation starship made it above the Klingon homeworld and not face any serious challenges either there or enroute. How did the Enterprise and the Victory have it out in Earth's near orbit, without there being say a weapons platform, or Starfleet command hailing either one to ask what was going on. How about a friendly dock with a tractor beam so they don't crash onto the planet below. A planet that seems 110% off guard they are above them having a slug fest! I am not going to beat the dead horse of Uhura-Spock love deal. I think if they had to give Spock a love interest Nurse Chapel would be more logical. I'll admit this film had some political intrigue as is worthy of Star Trek, but too much is blown on the flash, and not enough on the substance. I hate to say it, but I found that Iron Man 3 has more depth than did Into Darkness. Which shows you that these guys don't get it. Someone needs to point out all these flaws to JJ Abhrams and his writers. It's almost as bad as a Michael Bays Transformers film. Heck, if I see more plot in a movie based on a comic book over Star Trek there is a big problem. If Gene was still alive, he'd be going to the press, saying how unlike Star Trek this is, and declaring it none cannon. Short of Paramount locking him up, or threatening huge lawsuits. He'd be out there making it know, this is not "Wagon Trains to the Stars." While I suspect like many others than the next film will be Kirk Vs Klingons, or something along those themes. If they want to fix this train wreck of a new franchise, and get it back on track. I recommend one villain, one villain who be just perfect for dare I say it plot, and development. Q! I will let your imaginations run wild with that idea.

Hmm, well there is LAND! In thoery a great lab to test cold temperatures (coldest place in the solar system is up there) It would be a cheaper launch plateform than old Earth (less gavity) To get a real idea what is up there, we would need to dig. I have yet to see a NASA robot that can dig core samples, muchless return them to Earth.

I admit for years now a hobby of mine is if I see a used book store, I poke my nose in and see if they have old Trek novels. I recently found one with an odd error. I am just wondering how it got past the editor to print. Star Trek: The Next Generation Gulliver's Fugitives #11, at the end of the novel is them promotion for what is coming out next month. Star Trek: The Next Generation Doomsday World #11. Makes you wonder if someone didn't watch enough Seasame Street growing up with errors like that.

He was right, man should return to the moon. We have technologly now that would have been science fiction then, imagine what is up there to be discovered?

You know, I just realized something. Quark is usually potrayed as business/barman. To hack the monitors, and the replicators on a warship took some damn good tech skills. *claps* Good show Quark.

Alright, we all know Star Trek has been off the air for well years. Why does the price of the movies on DVD drop, but they still want close to $500 for an entire run of say DS9? Can someone explain it to me, or did I miss that course at the Ferengi School of economics?

Actually we can blame Voyager, and writters who didn't watch the original series who cooked up Enterprise.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starships, warp speed, transporters, phasers. Think "Star Trek" technology is only the stuff of fiction? Think again. Dr. Peter Jansen, a PhD graduate of the Cognitive Science Laboratory at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has developed a scientific measurement device based on the tricorders used by Captain Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy and other space adventurers on the classic TV series that has spawned numerous spin-offs in more than 45 years. "Star Trek inspired me to be a scientist" said Jansen, who has been formally working on his tricorder prototypes since 2007, but toying with the idea of making a functioning device since he was "a kid in high school." The 29-year-old Jansen's school days spanned the late 1990s when "Star Trek: Voyager" was on the air. It featured his favorite tricorder, a model with screens on top and bottom. The first tricorder appeared on the original show's initial episode in 1966, when Capt. Kirk swaggered toward audiences with his phaser weapon holstered to his side but a tricorder in his hand. The hand-held devices for data sensing, analysis and recording, have been a part of "Star Trek" ever since. But if Jansen, a self-confessed "addicted maker" of things, is successful at developing, testing and bringing his instrument into the public, the tricorder may not be just the stuff of "Star Trek" prop rooms. It may be used for real. Jansen said his tricorder can take atmospheric measurements, or ambient temperature, pressure or humidity. It can take electromagnetic measurements to test magnetic fields, and it can make spatial measurements of distance, location, or motion. Fascinating, as Spock might say. Jansen thinks of his tricorder as a "general tool" -- a kind of "Swiss Army Knife" -- with practical uses in building inspection, for instance, where it might help taking temperature and humidity readings or be a distance sensor to measure rooms. It resembles the device carried by countless "Away Team" members in "Star Trek - The Next Generation" - his favorite of the "Star Trek" shows, he notes. NO SCIENCE FICTION No independent group has yet verified his claims for the device which, he said, is one reason for placing his designs on a public website as an "open source" that technology makers can utilize to test and tinker. Jansen has posted schematics and designs of his first and second prototypes, the Mark 1 and Mark 2, for anyone to see and build. Jansen expects to have his latest version, the Mark 4, produced for "about $200." "Everything you need to build one is on line" at www.tricorderproject.org, said Jansen. He hopes others will follow his lead. While it may sound like the stuff of science fiction, Jansen isn't the only one to take notice of just how useful a real functioning tricorder would be - especially as a medical tool. Telecommunications giant Qualcomm Inc this year launched the "Tricorder X-Prize Contest" with the slogan "Healthcare in the palm of your hand." Qualcomm hopes to motivate developers with a $10 million prize to make medical tricorders a reality. Wanda Moebus of the Advanced Medical Technology Association, who is not affiliated with Jansen or Qualcomm, told Reuters the X-Prize "is really cool," but cautioned that making a real medical tricorder device "would have to be measured on its safety and effect, like all other medical technologies." Jansen said he has been approached by "a couple of teams" about the X Prize, but added that his prototypes are more for science research than medical tools. Besides, he said he already is on to his next frontier, making a sort of "replicator," another "Star Trek" device that will create 3D objects and foods that are dimensional copies of real items. Jansen's "replicator" is a 3D printer, which in itself is not really new, but the scientist thinks about it in terms reminiscent of "Star Trek's" famous prologue. It's "like nothing we've ever seen before," Jansen said.

Just to be clear Cale, I was the one who won the auction. Given how it's an 8-10 hour drive from Toronto to my place, I expect them within a week. Yes, I already paid, even had to cough up tax..:-(

Well it seems I surprise myself again in a short peroid. A few months ago I bought a 360 on a lark when my DVD player died. Now sadly in Canada, Amazon.com doesn't like to ship up here, however, Ebay does. [Link Removed] **Happy Dance***

When was the last time you updated Java?

You ask, you shall search Amazon for the blu-ray

*Note this is a news story, all ranks and otherwises indicated are from the Star Trek Online history, and do not reflect any STSF.net connect. I RPed it because it'd be fun* Andrew Lyon seemed to become one with the bat'leth, slicing at borg drones as they kept coming. He has always been hands on, but it was days like this he wished he was one of those desk drones he hated, hitting his combadge, "Lyon to Met, where are my reinforcements Met?" (Met being short for Metroplex) His third officer responded, because the first and second were down here trying to make a dent in the number of drones, "Sir, we're fighting off 2 cubes, reinforcements are incoming, but the nearest ship is 2 hours away." "I confirm Met, Lyon out", he said as he pulled the klingon blade from the neck of a now terminated drone. Unlike Picard they were pushing forward a small 7 man away team trying to make it to a central point of the local borg hive mind. Help was coming soon Redshirt had said help was coming soon... ((The below story is from Gamespot.com, check under news)) <<From Lord of the Rings Online to Age of Conan, success stories abound for massively multiplayer online role-playing games that flip to a microtransaction-driven freemium business model. With Cryptic Studios' Champions Online going the freemium route in January, it should come as no surprise that the MMOG specialist has similar intentions for Star Trek Online. Freemium isn't exactly a space where no man has gone before. Cryptic Studios confirmed this week that it intends to transition Star Trek Online to a freemium business model by the end of this year. The studio expects to have additional information on its pricing and execution strategy for Star Trek Online available next week. News of the announcement first arrived during a Perfect World postearnings conference call last week. In that report, chief financial officer Kevin Lau confirmed that a freemium version of Star Trek Online will arrive in the US and China. Perfect World bought Cryptic from Atari in May 2011. Star Trek Online received middling review scores when it first launched for the PC in February 2010. The game operates independently from any of the events established in the film or television series. Players assume the role of a starship captain operating under the banner of either the United Federation of Planets (better known simply as "the Federation") or the Klingon, who are locked in an intergalactic struggle. The hive-minded Borg will also play a role in the MMOG.>>

I doubt they want me. I am old, I am meaner than a Vulcan during Pon Far, and I have enough baggage for the Tintanic II.;-)

There always is shore leave, and a mysterious you're getting blamed for a murder that COULD be your fault.

Alright, as Vice Admiral* Andrew Lyon beamed up to the Metroplex, something hit me, the guy behind the keyboard. It's been six years since Star Trek: Enterprise came to an end. The new novels are considered cannon, and we have Star Trek Online. If they both had the same thing, I'd say alright, two Treks are one, but they aren't. The Novels make it sound like the Borg are almost gone/have been forced to do a major change, while Star Trek Online the Borg are the same, just more liberated Drones, and so forth. Maybe I missed a keypoint in Trek lore, but are these two seperate Treks, or are they different times? I am confused that I can use older uniforms on STO. And if you ask why I ask here, since I figure most of you have kept up to date on Trek as I boned up on Battle Tech, Transformers, Terminator, just to name a few series. * Please note....Not an STSF Council member or Host.

First I wish publically apologize for any misunderstanding. The reference to rank and ship were of my Star Trek Online ones. They are in no way connected to STSF.net, beyond being mentioned, also a good way to point out I play the game. Now before the little hamster in my brain burns out here, let me see if I have this straight. The novels happen in the late 23rd century, while the game happens in the 24th one. Which explains why certain characters who make appearances/mentioned in the game have moved so much forward in life. The new novels (which I understand are cannon)can be seen as a fill gap, so eventually they'll connect to the game. Is that in a nutshell? And I wondered why Laforge got nose bleeds talking about time travel...

I can image some of you are looking to fast click report because Transformers and Star Trek have NOTHING in common, except one thing. Vector Prime is voiced by Lenard Nemoy. If you ever wanted to hear some classic Spoke lines come out of a giant robot, nows your chance since Vector does say some Spoke lines.

Spock lines.:-P Example. "You should realize Optimus Prime, the good of many outweight the needs of the few"

Recent my DS9 bug has bitten hard, and I saw on the back of one of the relaunch novels that Sisko came back from his time with the wormhole aliens 4 years ago. Does anyone know the name of the novel where he come back?