Oh, yeah, back when TNG was recycling all of TOS's plots. Except I'm sure they didn't calling it recycling and called it something like homaging.
I'm fuzzy on the details but I'm pretty sure Riker didn't act any differently than he did through out the rest of the series---play his trombone ('cause did you know Jonathan Frakes can play the trombone?) and try to get in the sack with all the women.
My whole (extended family) thought I was nuts for like Star Trek--well they thougt I was odd anyway, but more nuts for liking Star Trek---so I was at my grandparents house and finally convinced them to watch one episode to show that it wasn't some stupid ass sci fi show.
So they agreed and I turn on the tv and find TNG and I notice that it looks kind of like a rerun, but not really. And oh wait there's Riker trying to get busy with an alien and another alien and...
it was the clip show episode where Riker contracted some virus and was dying and so they flooded his brain with something so he'd remember all his happy sexy memories and then decided he needed all his bad horrible memories to live.
I just stood there hands over my face saying "this isn't what it's like, not really, I promise it's really good." No one believed me.
I think this is when my irrational Riker hate started.
I think this is when my irrational Riker hate started.
I don't have any of it any more, but I suspect you would have really liked my court martial of Riker for the destruction of the Enterprise D in Generations.
The destruction of the D was unnecessry, avoidable, and (I felt) directly attributable to Riker's incompetence and willfully bad tactics.
Bashir could still have ended up with his twu wuv - Garek.
Well, yeah. That would have been for the best.
He really was all about the man-crushes, wasn't he?
And you realise why I like him...
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.
Emily, that's wonderfully put. And quite true.
Early 19th-Century Methos had adorable floppy hair. Early 19th-Century Methos entertained the idea of threesomes.
And, without knowing anything else about him or the show, I become a fan.
What Dana said about the floppy hair and the threesomes.
I don't even know what Dana did say, but I'm sure I agree with it. Could I tag this?
Sean--I would have loved to have seen your court martial.
I don't go out of my way to hate Riker. I don't make little I hate Riker icon or buttons or websites. No dierikerdie@hotmail.com email addresses or whatever.
I also thought the Two-Two-Two Rikers in One! Storyline was kind of stupid. I didn't get how he was supposed to survive down there for a long time, it didn't seem to me like there was a really good food source. Plus it just seemed like a way to give Troi more conflict and she needed less personal conflict and more actual professional work to do on the bridge.
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.
(Looks up at Sorority Boys poster)
Yes, this.
I don't even know what Dana did say, but I'm sure I agree with it.
Methos! I was talking about Methos!
It's sort of a defense.
Another DLM watcher here, though the addition of Daisy O'Dare, the sporadic subtraction of Roxy, and the wimping out on the affair subplot George's dad was supposed to have are all conspiring against my enjoyment.
Yes. What Matt said.
But I'm still watching it, though wouldn't get Showtime for it (luckily, I have a friend who has the Dish...)
All the DS9 talk is making me nostalgic...and I agree, though I was more a TNG fan back in the day (OK, when I was 14!), I'd sooner rewatch DS9 eps...
Enterprise is a very bad show, but nothing on it is quite so bad as the AWFUL AWFUL REALLY BAD STUPID SONG!!!!!
I saw on the bittorrent site supr nova that they had tonight's Enterprise S3 premiere, and in the music area, they had a 2 mb download of "Enterprise Season 3 theme."
I ignored it at the time, but now I wonder...did they change it?
And Yes, on Stargate's theme. I can pull it up in my memory quite readily and I'm listening to it now, AIFG.
Enterprise theme? Bryan Adams singing Rod Stewart as an 80's ballad.
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.
At the moment, I can see why people would find MR attractive, he just doesn't do it for me. I have a feeling he may be one of those people you have to see in action (so to speak!) to fall for, and that would involve watching more Smallville, which I'm not certain I'm prepared to do just yet. Though if the new season of genre programming is as dire as it seems, I may just eat my words!
