BBC America Star Trek TNG Marathon This Weekend + Syfy Star Trek Movies Marathon Memorial Day Weekend

Will keep BBC on at work tomorrow night!

I hear they are running all the very best TNG episodes back to back.
I’m not sure what they are going to do with the other 14 hours though.

I always love the way Kirk swung his chair ‘starboard’ as he gives the command, as if trying to drag the Enterprise out of the way of danger.
Just a great little moment.

by the way I have a small question, is that Orson welles narrating the Star Trek 2 trailer? Certainly sounds like him.

can’t wait!!

I never really looked at the Reliant battle in quite those terms, Vults, but you are quite right, that was an old naval type of battle, wasn’t it!
You do have to wonder why two massive space ships would have to come so close though!.
Still, it did make for some great screen stuff!

And I do believe you are correct about Nick Meyer. I’d bear his children if I had the right internal equipment! *did i just say that out loud?!*

7. No, but Orson Welles did narrate the trailer for STAR TREK — THE MOTION PICTURE. A Gene Roddenberry production… of a Robert Wise film. Coming this Christmas… from Paramount.

I think I have listened to Nick on TWoK so i must have heard him talking of the naval comparison. What you said that made me really think in those terms was your use of the phrase ‘broadside’. That really is an old naval term and you are so right. Reliant really does empty her cannons onto the poor Enterprise.
I can remember to this day how shocking I found that. It made me feel quite sick to see her getting spliced apart like that!
It must have been the first time we saw her get beaten about in such a graphic way? Sickening.

To a Brit the sheer size of the States is quite mind boggling. Its genuinely hard to get my head around it!
I think PBS has aired something similar over there. I found this and though it isn’t exactly the same footage it is close enough to what i’ve seen…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5YIa1NOByo

I don’t know how animals survive the winters there. 8-/

General Motors still upsetting people over there, Vults? Haven’t they started to pay back the money yet?

Well, i’m sure you are well aware of our terrible State owned car manufacturer of the 70’s and 80’s, British Leyland? Clarkson gave a good lesson, for anybody that care’s to take it, about how fat and lazy any organisation that is guaranteed its pay cheque (check ;-) ) can become.
They made terrible products on the back of poor managment and a militant workforce who came to believe the country owed them a living, and ultimately they went the way of the Dodo.
Man it really saddens me how my Country’s once fantastic manufacturing base has gone.
I read this morning that the Union Flags that will fly over the Olympics in London next year were made- wait for it-……… in France! Depressing.

LOL at your Troi metaphor. And we know what happened to the ship when she was promoted to Helm!!!
Unbelievable that the HR guy in now in charge at Future!

In some small defence of GM i will say that their European operation does seem to be fairly healthy. In Britain Vauxhall is the second best seller only just behind the perennially popular Ford, and across continental Europe Opel is also selling well.
They are building some well designed and well built, attractive vehicles. So while it may seem less than ideal to have the tax payer so involved I fully expect them to survive and prosper and, hopefully, they will do so without any more bailouts, and in fact get that debt paid down!
I don’t foresee a British Leyland future for them.

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Oh, I do hope they do well, for the world economy’s sake if anything else. But with their track record (no pun intended), I can see this happening again ten or twenty years from now…

It’s an old boy’s club mentality there. Hard to shake loose, if ever.

LOL at the printer jam clip. So true. I actually work in the Print trade- in fact i am a Printer- and have spent many a miserable hour fighting with a Litho Machine that doesn’t want to cooperate!
What was that clip from? Very funny.

That is shocking about the Empire State! I seem to remember reading that the Chinks now own that. That would appear to confirm my memory wasn’t playing tricks on me.
And if i’m not mistaken (in fact i know i’m not) FIAT own Chrysler now. I know it was pitched as a ‘merger’, but is that how it looked to you?

I just did a quick Google and it seems an American company called W&H Properties owns the Empire State. I really do no know what made me think the Chinese owned it. Excuse my confusion.

http://www.whpropertiesny.com/about/index.phtml

Quite why they felt the need to mark Communism in China will have to remain a mystery!

Oh yes, for my sins i’m very much a Printer. I’m one of those poor souls that is in entirely the wrong trade. Its most unrewarding. I just kind of fell into it and time passes by and, before you know it, thats all you can really do.
I really wanted to be a Journalist or writer of some sort. We all have our dreams i guess. If I had my time over i’d join the Navy I think.
Graphic design and illustration eh? You enjoy that? What kind of work do you mostly do?
I used to email another one of our fellow Trekmovie posters who was also a Graphic designer. ScottB. Haven’t heard from him in a while. Hope all is well with you and the family, Scott, if you are reading this?

I remember the Chrysler/Mercedes tie up. That was just such a bad idea to start with.
FIAT make some good little car’s, though i’m really not sure they are what the American market is going to want, should they decide to start selling over there. There must be some vehicle downsizing going on, though, due to the cost of fuel?
Get this- i paid £1.47 for a LITRE of diesel this week! Thankfully my car will do 50+mpg to the gallon so its not all bad.
How is it affecting you guys over there?

Yes, I do enjoy my work… but it is difficult to find work right now. I’m in between jobs, redoing my portfolio and trying my hand at oil painting. Anything to keep busy.

Gas is around $3.70 a gallon over here, and it’s beginning to hurt—starting to drive up prices of everything else like food and clothing. They’re expecting it to reach $5.00 a gallon by the end of summer. Oh joy. Oh happy day. Suffice to say, my gas-guzzling Jeep Cherokee doesn’t see the pavement much anymore. I’d been thinking of getting a Mustang, but with prices the way they are I might end up with a Ford Focus! (Not a bad little car actually.)

Same to you, Steve.
If you’d like to see some of my work, go here:

http://www.bluecanvas.com/micahbrooks

Hhmmm, SyFy not showing ST: Insurrection, but will show STV: TFF??

I’m still boycotting them for cancelling Stargate: Universe. Besides I got all of Star Trek on DVD now, why wait until Memorial Day to watch them when I can go home right now and pop in a DVD?? ;-)

Well its a real talent that you have there, Vults, and I’m sure it will take you far. I wish you every success.
What medium do you prefer to use? You seem to have a real flare for that most difficult of all subjects, portrait. Your likenesses are superb.
I guess you have been painting forever? Have you had professional training? Have you ever done any Trek related art?

Oh, and Raiders is one of my all time favourite movies too! Edged off the Top Spot only by Close Encounters of the Third Kind I reckon. I absolutely love that very special piece of cinema.

I don’t know anything about Super8. I will look into that.
If it can capture just 25% of Close Encounters magic and wonder it will have done well.

Your Enterprise is very sleek. Very modern looking. Perhaps too modern looking for my ‘old time Trek’ eye! You know me, Mr Tradionalist when it come’s to Trek!
But as the name of the game was The Next Enterprise I think you nailed it! Good luck with that competition. It’ll take something pretty spectacular to beat yours out I think. Is there a prize for the winner?

I’d like to see your Kirk painting!

Have you ever considered combining your interest for the motor vehicle with your talent and flair (got the spelling correct that time!) for art?
I’d like to see what kind of car you could design.

Yeh I can’t say that i’m much of a Gamer either. I’ll have the occassional go at Asteroids (but my Doctor has given me something to clear that up now!) and I did used to enjoy Birth of the Federation, but i haven’t looked at that in a long while.

Should you ever get to the UK there is a nice Motor Museum down Southampton way…

http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/attractions/world-of-top-gear

I just noticed they have a Top Gear display on! Hmmm I may have to get to that!
Funnily enough, just along from where I work, there is a Educational Programme for youngsters who have had problems or just struggle to cope in a tradional educational environment. They put the kids to work by building cars and bikes and teach them practical skills.
Anyhoo, I was talking to the guy thats runs the place and he gave me a guided tour. He pointed to a Honda Cub that James May had donated to them- apparently the very one that he rode across Vietnam! I was very impressed. And I really want to believe it is the very bike too. lol

http://www.wizardeducation.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33&Itemid=166

I just found this! I’m not entirely convinced its the ‘nam bike, but a good story anyway. Good on, James. They are a good bunch of kids down there and they are sooo enthusiastic.

Cool.
May seems like a good guy. Love it when he makes a remark that causes Clarkson and Hammond to cringe. Funny stuff.

The American Top Gear is pathetic by comparison. The main problem with it is that in the original Brit version they have three auto journalists/television presenters who happen to be funny, whereas in the American version they have three “comedian/personalities” who are trying—and by trying I mean reading a script—to entertain. I think only one of them actually has any knowledge of cars, and he has the personality of a speed bump. Can’t see the show lasting past its second season—a mercy killing for sure.

sorry, that should read a FEW clips! Darn I wish you could correct on this site!