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Things you love about Star Trek

Insurrection is like the Star Wars prequels: I've almost completely blocked it from my memory. I'm aware it happened but my clearest memory of it is excitement over the poster on an kiosk at the Potomac Mills Mall. Once in awhile some cringeworthy line will pop into my brain but the whole thing is largely erased. It was on cable one time, years and years ago. Friend was visiting and channel-surfing. Found it and said "oh, Star Trek, you like Star Trek" and I said "that's not Star Trek" or something to that effect.
 
I think Insurrection was the last ST movie I saw in a theater. l was probably quite baked at the time and still found it boring, aside from a couple of people dressed up like Klingons meandering around the theater lobby before the actual show. Definitely did not bother seeing Nemesis until its DVD release, nor any of the later ones. Wish I'd seen TMP in the theater but that didn't happen either.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
I think Insurrection was the last ST movie I saw in a theater. l was probably quite baked at the time and still found it boring, aside from a couple of people dressed up like Klingons meandering around the theater lobby before the actual show. Definitely did not bother seeing Nemesis until its DVD release, nor any of the later ones. Wish I'd seen TMP in the theater but that didn't happen either.
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Star Trek First Contact is the only Star Trek movie I've seen in the theater. I was in college. I feel old thinking about it.
 
I saw TMP in the theater--and had the McDonald's Happy Meal. The toy was a "communicator" that had a comic of the opening scene of VGR destroying the Klingon ship(s) on a scroll that you could crank through the "viewscreen."
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
I think Insurrection was the last ST movie I saw in a theater. l was probably quite baked at the time and still found it boring, aside from a couple of people dressed up like Klingons meandering around the theater lobby before the actual show. Definitely did not bother seeing Nemesis until its DVD release, nor any of the later ones. Wish I'd seen TMP in the theater but that didn't happen either.
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I also waited on DVD for Nemesis as I'd heard nothing good about it, and even then it was a dodgy burned DVD my brother in law gave me...I think the picture stuttered at times but I could still tell it was shit. I think my Trek fandom was at its lowest than (it would have been during Enterprise season 2 which was...not good.)
 
CaptainWacky said:
I also waited on DVD for Nemesis as I'd heard nothing good about it, and even then it was a dodgy burned DVD my brother in law gave me...I think the picture stuttered at times but I could still tell it was shit. I think my Trek fandom was at its lowest than (it would have been during Enterprise season 2 which was...not good.)
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Heh, I remember the script for Nemesis leaking online way before it was released, so I read that and decided to nope out of actually seeing it. I did get around to it six months later or whenever and it was still meh.
 
Voyager was amazing. It was magical. TNG went out on a high with "All Good Things" (which was actually kind of stupid now that I rewatch it--but I digress). Trekkies LOVED the franchise. This was still in the era of direct syndication and they rolled out DS9. It had some things going for it but around this time Paramount decided to do their own network and TPTB liked the idea of a ship, flyin' around, so they came up with VOY, which had an interesting premise, nice sets and costumes etc. So I watched it. And watched it. And watched it. Around the time they had the ship land on a planet and the crew was captured and enslaved or something something in the back of my head started to go "does this suck?" It did. And it just continued to go downhill week after week. Back when TNG was first run you'd sit right up to the "Next time on an all-new Star Trek:TNG" and go "OMG! SCOTTY!" That hour of your week was permanently blocked out. There was a point in VOY where you'd go "oh, I missed VOY. Oh well." I remember me and my roommate actually watching the finale though and going "meh."

Then ENT was coming. The premise was amazing. (ENT was actually how I wound up here, in the long run. It was impossible to e-mail Paramount about Star Trek so I joined the official Star Trek message board. It was crap so I drifted to Subspace, then TBBS, WF, and eventually here.) My roommate and me talked about it and settled in to watch the premiere. "How long do you think before we encounter the Klingons?" I asked. The credits ended and next thing you know, there's a Klingon. "Well, there's your answer," my roommate said. I watched the first few episodes, then caught the last few episodes of the 1st season and the first few of the 2nd and said "well, this is as good as this show is ever going to get" and it wasn't very good. I did watch the Manny Coto final season and it was an improvement but not as amazing as everyone made it out to be. And of course we got the Bermaga finale.
 
Voyager had some great episodes, and lovable characters (except NEELIX :rwmad: and his creepy feet). I was frustrated by the way it had fantastic ideas sometimes, but just wasted them. IDK, like when they were using those ancient alien things to communicate with earth, but then instead of making it all very interesting and exploring what those aliens might have been like they decided to have some other aliens hunt Voyager and then we got the holo nazi episode.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
Heh, I remember the script for Nemesis leaking online way before it was released, so I read that and decided to nope out of actually seeing it.
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That script must have been linked to on TrekBBS, becasuse I read it too. I remember Riker was supposed to say "don't worry, Hell is dark" after he killed Ron Perlman's character, but they cut it from the finished movie. It was the best line.
 
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