Picard going into the holodeck, turning off the "safeties", and killing a Borg with a tommy gun? TV writing all the way.
Here is your cup of coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.
Xander ,'Chosen'
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Sean K - May 14, 2009 2:51:06 pm PDT #1384 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
DavidS - May 14, 2009 2:54:15 pm PDT #1385 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Okay geeks: Which surname figures prominently in both Trek and Batman lore?
(I just stumbled across this tidbit but I expect others know it.)
Dana - May 14, 2009 2:54:56 pm PDT #1386 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Grayson.
le nubian - May 14, 2009 2:57:17 pm PDT #1387 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Troi! (ha)
Frankenbuddha - May 14, 2009 2:57:25 pm PDT #1388 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Where did you watch the first episode of TNG? Did you have a geek gathering of friends?
Saw it in college, in a dorm room, with a group of friends. We were...disappointed.
DS9 was my show, BIG TIME. It only took them a season to work the kinks out. TNG seemed to take longer, and be more inconsistent once they did.
DavidS - May 14, 2009 2:57:48 pm PDT #1389 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dana is quick on the draw!
I didn't know that was Spock's mother's maiden name. But I bet it's hard currency in the land of fanfic crossovers.
DavidS - May 14, 2009 3:02:47 pm PDT #1390 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Here's one guy's list of the best Trek episodes.
His top ranked DS9:
7. Rocks & Shoals
11. In the Pale Moonlight
13. Children of Time
17. The Visitor
22. The Quickening
25. Trials and Tribbelations
29. Our Man Bashir
Glamcookie - May 14, 2009 3:04:07 pm PDT #1391 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
TNG! Loves it! No love for Hugh?
Connie Neil - May 14, 2009 3:06:10 pm PDT #1392 of 30000
brillig
"Our Man Bashir"!
"Kiss the girl, get the key. They didn't teach me that at the Obsidian Academy."
§ ita § - May 14, 2009 3:06:10 pm PDT #1393 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think TNG had a less talented cast. Stewart carried many of them. Things averaged out better in DS9, so I think the scripts could go more places. And they embraced the arc and the dark without becoming unremittingly bleak.