Yeah, I think we're past the point that it counts for white fonting in the movie thread, but c'est la vie.

I'm not sure how I feel about this development, I may have to wait until I see the movie to know for sure. Either way, it's been a while since I really cared all that much.

Me too, strangely. I was full of the TNG love when it was on, but whenever I check which episodes are playing on Spike (nee TNN), even the really good ones are not enough to make me watch them again.

Hmm, I sense a pattern, as I'm the same. I can easily fall back into watching a DS9 episode, but whenever TNG comes on, I find myself flicking pretty quickly

X-posted, but yeah, Ezri. I felt bad because I really liked the actress and some of what they did with the character, but she started out too perky and neurotic.

Most of my problems with that character arose from the fact that the way they made her feel more like she fitted in was to have her cure Garak's nervous breakdown. Sacrificing a wonderfully subtle character like Garak, just so that Ezri could feel all fulfilled was a ridiculous contivance, and one I could never quite forgive.

(Also, to introduce myself further, I used to love Due South when it was on, but haven't seen it in years, adore Farscape, though due to scheduling problems I've yet to see the 4th series and Smallville is a mystery to me. I've tried watching occasionally, but just find it a little to dull and overly sentimental most of the time. Plus I don't find TW all that attractive, so I don't even have that to ull me in!))

happy phantom, some of us are under the sway of the subversive lure of Michael Rosenbaum, rather than the hypnotic glare of Tom Welling's orthodontic work. Actually, I don't watch it anymore anyway.

I was always a little irritated with the conception of Data (and Spock, for that matter) -- quite clearly he had emotions. How could he have wanted emotions without them? And as fond as I am of "My neural pathways have become accustomed to your input," he liked the crew!

(Edit: Although of course with Spock it makes more sense. Still, sometimes I just wanted to hit Bones over the head: "Look, you shithead, facts aren't somehow the opposite of emotion!" Then he'd see the light and get down on his knees and propose and we'd live happily ever after while going from elf-strewn planet to puppy-and-kitten-inhabited planet to Planet of the Amazons, where I would be crowned Prettiest Princess, looking for the Home of the Talking Horses.)

I was also taken aback by how much more "alive" the Holo Doc on Voyager was than Data. I was told that the emotion problem was because Data was self contained, and wotsisname didn't have that problem.

Whatever.

And contractions -- what the hell? It's just language. You can have a computer use them without exploding.

It's just language. You can have a computer use them without exploding.

No shit. I can program contractions. Data had full language capabilities! That's... that's... we still don't know quite how that works! But he couldn't learn "if first word 'I' && second word 'am', replace with 'I'm'"?

I read a really bad DS story where Fraser never used contractions, because his grandmother instilled it in him or something.

Of course RayK claimed he liked to be called Stan. And Diefenbaker was spelled wrong.

It was a cross over story so I'm thinking the author hadn't actually *seen* Due South but the characters from the other show were pretty out of character as well.

And contractions -- what the hell? It's just language. You can have a computer use them without exploding.

Stupidest. Plot device. Ever.

I can't remember which magazine it was--Starlog ?? or something like it--that had a cartoon about Data's no contraction thing. It was Data explaining it to Worf. "I can not use contractions such as 'can't' ." and Worf just repeating "Can not say can't" over and over going insane trying to figure the logic in it.

I'm not sure how I feel about this development, I may have to wait until I see the movie to know for sure. Either way, it's been a while since I really cared all that much.

Sean, it sucked like a thing that sucks. So stupid - either have the balls to go all the way, or don't bother.

And contractions -- what the hell? It's just language. You can have a computer use them without exploding.

Stupidest. Plot device. Ever.

No, that's second place. First place is when the android contracted a virus (in "The Naked Now" episode). And no, it wasn't a computer virus.