Comments on: Picardo Wants Trek Cameo

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:28:00 +0000

Of course he did. It was the series that was on the air when he was hitting puberty. He probably rushed straight home every afternoon to grab a bottle of olive oil and watch Seven of Catsuit.

By: nevilleross

nevilleross — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:38:00 +0000

Excuse me, but I'm becoming tired of this bullshit meme that says that the 2009 movie isn't 'real' Star Trek. It is just as real as the original shows, and the equal of them (in some ways, the better of them.) If you or anybody else have a better person that could have revived the franchise better, please let the rest of us know (and you better hope that they're good.)

By: nevilleross

nevilleross — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:13:00 +0000

The appearance of Picardo in a new Star Trek Abrams movie ( possibly as the EMH) could be explained as a bleed-over from the appearance of the Narada and all that came with it; EMH/holographic tech suddenly becomes widespread, along with the Zimmerman Mark I EMH (only this time, the personality subroutine is changed to be better than the original template.) Either that, or he plays a new character.

By: NWBill

NWBill — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:35:00 +0000

The only thing better with Voyager was the fact that the warp drive got a lot more use (at least until the war with the Dominion). The acting, storylines, and history were much better on DS9. Sisko was a better captain than Janeway; more grounded, more depth, more connections to his crew. Janeway had her plusses; for one thing, she had a superior first officer. Her overall tech base was superior in many ways, too. But the plotting and storylines and backstories were MUCH better on DS9.

I would have happily served under either captain – but I would have preferred serving with Sisko. I think he embraced what the Federation was all about better than Janeway did.

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:14:00 +0000

This is true. That, and the fact that Enterpoop had a far, FAR higher stinker-to-watchable ratio caused me to change my opinion about Voyager.
(wrestling)
(Tuvix)
(warp 10 fish thingies)
AAAAIIGHH!!! DON’T MAKE ME CHANGE MY MIND BACK SO SOON!!!!

By: Adam Williams

Adam Williams — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:59:00 +0000

Add me to the Voyager was better than DS9 party! However I did really enjoy DS9 aswell. (Way of the Warrior = Awesome)
All of the Trek series have had stinking episodes!.. infact every long running series on TV has really bad episodes! It’s difficult to keep hitting the mark when producing such a large quantity of episodes per series, thats what the skip buttons for on your DVD player I think the number of great episodes far outways the real stinkers! What about ‘Blink of an eye’,'Year of Hell’, ‘Timeless’, ‘Message in a bottle’, ‘Equinox’….??

By: AirElephant

AirElephant — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:46:00 +0000

Watch it and weep. The others are Shakespeare by comparison.

By: hostile_17

hostile_17 — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:29:00 +0000

I agree with you. Man Profit and Lace is truly hideous.

It’s very fashionable to hate Threshold. I watched it again recently, and sure… it’s not great. But there are definitely worse out there – both in terms of lack of any idea, to bad execution.

I mean Tattoo is just HIDEOUS. I find it hard to say anything redeeming about that. With Threshold, at least it gave you some background to Paris, and tried to do something different.

By: OIO

OIO — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:38:00 +0000

‘Also, Voyager will always be known as having the absolute worst Trek episode of all time in “Threshold.” That is the stinker of stinkers, bar none.’

Worse than Spocks Brain, Space Hippies, Shades of Grey, Masks, Move Along Home or Profit and Lace?

By: Doug Wilson

Doug Wilson — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:19:00 +0000

They could easily have him be an ancestor – grandfather perhaps? – of Dr. Lewis Zimmerman. Same way they had Brent Spiner as Arik Soong, ancestor of Noonien Soong. That said, if they do a cameo of a previous trek actor as an ancestor like that, I imagine they’ll want to have someone a bit more name-drop-able. Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, one of the other TOS cast. But you never know.

I too have seen the increase in new fans though via the new film. I’m on the fence on liking the new stuff – it’s not “true” trek imho – but it has brought a lot of younger folks, or even just folks who dismissed it before, on board. I see people all the time in different net communities going and watching TOS or TNG for the first time because they liked trek 09. And if that’s what it takes to get them into the club and appreciating the real deal… I suppose it’s worth it.