i know, i know. they're all so good it's almost impossible to pick a favorite.
i love "darmok". it's the one where picard and an alien captain are stranded on a planet and they can't communicate because the aliens only speak in metaphors: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra", "Shaka. When the walls fell." and stuff like that.
and i think that all the "Q" episodes are good, too.
i just hope my wife never sees me hovering over my TNG dvd's doing my gollum impersonation: "my precioussssssessess!!!"
Larke2000 said this in post #1 : i know, i know. they're all so good it's almost impossible to pick a favorite.
i love "darmok". it's the one where picard and an alien captain are stranded on a planet and they can't communicate because the aliens only speak in metaphors: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra", "Shaka. When the walls fell." and stuff like that.
and i think that all the "Q" episodes are good, too.
i just hope my wife never sees me hovering over my TNG dvd's doing my gollum impersonation: "my precioussssssessess!!!"
Yeah, the Q episodes are cool.
As for your precioussssssss, don't forget to wear a loin cloth and eat raw fish, okay?
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I find the TV series box sets to be disappointingly expensive - I won't have anything to do with them. I stood there staring at 8 seasons worth of TNG and added up over $1000 in just TV shows on disc - sorry, but I can think of a lot better things to spend that kind of money on. Further, I felt that a significant number of TNG episodes were weak stories, poorly written, and just plain not entertaining. Perhaps one in ten stood out to me as being clever and intriguing. So if I could have a custom box set with those one in ten episodes at one tenth the cost.. then perhaps indeed.
At any rate, my favorite TNG episodes..
I liked the one where Troi found herself in disguise on a Romulan warship as a "Taush Yar" (sp?) and had to wing her way through a fake power trip and get the Romulan crew to perform her bidding.
Also the one where Reginald Barkley became super-intelligent and set himself up a mind-scanning interface on the Holodeck and took over the ship, taking them for the ride of their lives beyond Warp 10.
I also dug the one with the Dyson Sphere where they found Mr. Scott marooned on the outer surface where he had locked himself into a cyclic transporter loop for hundreds of years.
I recall enjoying most of the episodes that featured other Nunian Tsung androids such as Lor and Lol.
Heh.. and when Captain Picard was kidnapped and sent down to a planet's surface with the opposing ship's captain to face a common enemy together, "Darmack and Gillard at Tenagra! Shaka, when the walls fell!"
sean: to each his own. i grew up with them and they are my favorite TV series of all time. $700 (7 seasons, $100/box set plus a nice set of documentaries in each set) isn't all that much for what you get if you're a huge fan like i am. and you don't have to spend $700 on them all at once!
plus, to me it's worth 1/2 the money just to get rid of all those vhs tapes i had from recording them off the TV.
Larke2000 said this in post #4 : sean: to each his own. i grew up with them and they are my favorite TV series of all time.
True enough. My background is in media production and I was an early DVD adopter and technology advocate (had one of the first few DVD support sites on the web with DVD reviews and such, so did Marc). When I look at box sets like these all I see is price gauging. The studios need to look at the likes of The Simpsons and Southpark TV series boxes where the series costs 30-40 bucks. THAT is reasonable to me. The studios make TONS of money off of syndication. They don't need to try and triple their profits with over-priced DVD's. Sometimes it seems like they do zero market research.
sean: i can understand where your coming from. i'm just happy i got 'em from walmart for $100. at all the other stores they retailed for $150. i would love to see unit sale totals on them though.
whidden: i forgot all about that episode! that is one of the funniest scenes out of all of the episodes. that line from worf is priceless!
One of my favorite Worf episodes was the one with his Ascension Ceremonry. He was such a moody bastard that it was funny as hell to see him with a happy glint in his eye and even crack a highly satisfactory grin now and again.
just a li'l bit o' trivia on that ascension ceremony episode that sean mentioned. john tesh was one of the klingon extras that 'zap' worf with the pain sticks.
Larke, I remember when that was in the news. There was a small bit of controversy because Entertainment Tonight is owned by Paramount, the owner of course of Star Trek .
Why anyone would be upset by that, I don't know.
Everytime that episode comes on I look for John Tesh, and I can't make him out. Too much makeup on everybody.
I need to tape it and slow it down so I can take some time and see which one he is.
yeah, what was up with the controversy? i mean, john was in full makeup, doesn't speak (unless a klingon grunt counts) and isn't even mentioned in the credits. much ado about nothing.
i like any of the q episodes. i think my fave of those was the one where Q gets stripped of all his powers, and pretty much every being he ever messed with was out to get him. then at the end, he gets his powers back, and Q has a merry little revenge time.
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12-22-2003 07:10 AM
