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shadowkata) Whitney Houston just died at 48 years of age. In case you have no idea who I am talking about? She coined the song -"The Greatest Love of All" and sang the Dolly Parton song with great aplomb - I Will Always Love You. (I'm not posting either...because they are huge earworm songs. I already have the second song in my head just after listing it.)
b) After watching Secret Circle - I've decided Kevin Williamson has a pattern. Heroines driving in lonely country roads, unlit, in the dead of night, with forest, and something coming out of nowhere to stop their car. Also the heroine is put in jeopardy every frigging week. Seriously? I know she's going to live. Stop teasing me.
You aren't killing off the lead character - there won't be a show!
c) Star Trek Meme
1 - Which Star Trek series is your favorite?
Star Trek Next Generation.
2 - Who is your favorite character?
TOS: Kirk (he made me laugh)
TNG: Picard
DS9: Kira, Garak, Bashir,
VOY: Janeway, Tom Paris, B'Elanna Torres
ENT: Trip and T-Pol and The Doctor
3 - Who is your least favorite character?
TOS: Eh...Chekov
TNG: The writers of this series did not know how to write female characters. They didn't in TOS either, to be fair. My least favorite was D'Enna, she had nothing to do.
DS9: Jadazia Dax and Worf (yes, I'm not a Worf fan or a fan of Klingons...so sue me)
VOY: Chakotay. He really ought to have been interesting. Maquis. Former Federation officer. Nice backstory fitting in with all that. And yet, whatever. He was written and acted like a dull grey rock.
ENT: The Captain...which is why I couldn't watch. I liked the actor in other things, just not this.
4 - What was the first Star Trek series you watched?
TOS.
5 - What was the first episode/movie you watched?
No idea. The first episode was as a child in the 1970s. I just remember everyone was diseased and I got scared.
6 - Your favorite canon pairing? (Canon being the series and the movies, including the reboot.)
TOS: Kirk/Spock/Bones
TNG:Deanna/Meatboy (I can't remember his name...it was the Number 2 character), also Jean Luc/Bev Crusher
DS9: Bashir/Dax and I think Kira/Odo
VOY: Tom Paris/B'Elanna Torres - they had chemistry to burn (Runner up? Janeway/Q)
ENT: Sorry, no.
7 - Your favorite non-canon pairing?
TOS: I don’t actually ship anyone in the original show.
TNG: I can't think of any
DS9: ?
Voyager: Janeway/Q
ENT: None
8 - Your favorite actor/actress? (Not the same as character.)
TOS: William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy...
TNG: Patrick Stewart and Brent Spinner
DS9: Nana Visitor and the guy who played Bashir
VOY: Kate Mulgrew, Roxanna Dawson and Robert Duncan McNeil (who went on to become a television writer and director - he's been doing Chuck) and the guy who played the Doctor
ENT: No one.
9 - What's your favorite episode?
TOS: Mirror/Mirror, Trouble with Tribbles, and the one where Spock gets emotional.
TNG: Hmm... "The Measure of a Man” which is a freaking court drama in a space show. A good court drama. I don't remember the names of episodes - the one with Professor Moriarity and Data playing Holmes on the Holodeck, the one where Picard lives a whole life on another planet - to understand their lives. And the last episode of the series. Also "Q".
DS9: The episode where Jake is a science fiction writer in the real world - can't remember the name of it. But I did get to meet the writer of that episode in person, and had a lengthy discussion about what inspired him.
VOY: The last episode of the series. The episode where Tom and B'Elanna get together.
Any episode with Q in it or the Holodeck.
ENT: Errr...
10 - What's your favorite species? (Humans are a species as well.)
Tie between Vulcan and Bajoran
11 - What's your least favorite species?
Klingons. They just grated on my nerves.
12 - What's your favorite funny moment?
TOS: Tribbles. Lots and lots of Tribbles
13 - What's your favorite dramatic moment?
TOS: “City on the Edge of Forever”/”He knows. He knows.”
TNG: Picard playing the flute at the end of that episode he lives and loves an entire life in a day. The statement at the end of the Moriarty episode where Picard states - we may all be just characters on someone's box. “Measure of a Man”/“Pinocchio, his strings have been cut”. Not a big epic battle, but a moment where Riker briefly has this moment of triumph and then realizes that he’s just proved that a friend is a toaster.
Voyager: The last episode of the series...and the moment in space, where B'Elanna and Tom Paris declare their love.
14 - What's your favorite Star Trek quote?
Picard's statement: "Who knows, we may all just be characters in someone's box."
15 - How did you get into Star Trek?
My parents were huge fans. They took us to the movies when they came out - each one, except after Voyage Home, when they gave up. Then I ended up meeting fans in college, where we gathered each day to watch reruns of the original, and weekly appointments in the Lounge to see STNG. The Lounge was packed.
16 - Are you involved with Star Trek fandom?
No.
17 - Have you read any of the books? If so, which ones?
No. Although I did read the Marvel comics X-Men/Star Trek cross-over.
18 - If you could be any species in the Star Trek universe, what would you be?
Human. We live pretty long by the time of ST, have a neat fleet and apparently San Francisco is the center of the universe.
19 - How did the Star Trek reboot affect you?
Enjoyed it. Great flick. But I don't remember much of it. Just fun. Didn't have a big affect.
20 - Of the minor characters (one shots, not the recurring ones) who’s your favorite?
TOS: Can't remember any
TNG: Diana Muldare's character and Professor Moriarity in the Sherlock Holmes episode
21 - Which Star Trek food would you want to try at least once?
Picard wine.
22 - Which Star Trek world would you want to visit at least once?
Vulcan or Bajor
23 - How has Star Trek changed you?
It didn't really. I think it did introduce and get me to appreciate episodic sci-fi.
And my it was a family bonding thing. My parents loved Trek.
24 - Lots of Star Trek Parodies out there. Which do you dig?
Galaxy Quest. Definitely. It paid homage to the original.
25 - What would you cross over with Star Trek?
I think just about everything has been. Famously there was an X-men/Star Trek cross-over in Marvel Comics. I kid you not. They actually did that.
Personally...I wouldn't mind Doctor Who/Star Trek - the longest living British Sci-Fi Cult Series crossed over with the longest living US Sci-Fi Cult series.
I know John Crichton desperately wants a Farscape/Trek Crossover but it just would not work.
26 - Your favourite friendship in Star Trek?
TOS: Kirk&Spock&McCoy - I can’t tell you the number of essays I read analyzing this relationship from every angle from Trek magazine.
TNG: Jean Luc/Dr. Beverly Crusher
DS9: Quark/Odo
VOY: Captain Janeway/Seven of Nine
ENT: ?
27 - If you could tell Gene Roddenberry one thing, Star Trek related or not, what would it be?
Interesting question. You re-wrote Sci-Fi by creating a non-disptopian universe and sci-fi series that wasn't just horror related. Kudos. Plus the universe you created was so vast and so different, many writers could play. Your characters and universe outlasted you.
28. Favorite Star Trek Film?
Wrath of Khan tied with Voyage Home
b) After watching Secret Circle - I've decided Kevin Williamson has a pattern. Heroines driving in lonely country roads, unlit, in the dead of night, with forest, and something coming out of nowhere to stop their car. Also the heroine is put in jeopardy every frigging week. Seriously? I know she's going to live. Stop teasing me.
You aren't killing off the lead character - there won't be a show!
c) Star Trek Meme
1 - Which Star Trek series is your favorite?
Star Trek Next Generation.
2 - Who is your favorite character?
TOS: Kirk (he made me laugh)
TNG: Picard
DS9: Kira, Garak, Bashir,
VOY: Janeway, Tom Paris, B'Elanna Torres
ENT: Trip and T-Pol and The Doctor
3 - Who is your least favorite character?
TOS: Eh...Chekov
TNG: The writers of this series did not know how to write female characters. They didn't in TOS either, to be fair. My least favorite was D'Enna, she had nothing to do.
DS9: Jadazia Dax and Worf (yes, I'm not a Worf fan or a fan of Klingons...so sue me)
VOY: Chakotay. He really ought to have been interesting. Maquis. Former Federation officer. Nice backstory fitting in with all that. And yet, whatever. He was written and acted like a dull grey rock.
ENT: The Captain...which is why I couldn't watch. I liked the actor in other things, just not this.
4 - What was the first Star Trek series you watched?
TOS.
5 - What was the first episode/movie you watched?
No idea. The first episode was as a child in the 1970s. I just remember everyone was diseased and I got scared.
6 - Your favorite canon pairing? (Canon being the series and the movies, including the reboot.)
TOS: Kirk/Spock/Bones
TNG:Deanna/Meatboy (I can't remember his name...it was the Number 2 character), also Jean Luc/Bev Crusher
DS9: Bashir/Dax and I think Kira/Odo
VOY: Tom Paris/B'Elanna Torres - they had chemistry to burn (Runner up? Janeway/Q)
ENT: Sorry, no.
7 - Your favorite non-canon pairing?
TOS: I don’t actually ship anyone in the original show.
TNG: I can't think of any
DS9: ?
Voyager: Janeway/Q
ENT: None
8 - Your favorite actor/actress? (Not the same as character.)
TOS: William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy...
TNG: Patrick Stewart and Brent Spinner
DS9: Nana Visitor and the guy who played Bashir
VOY: Kate Mulgrew, Roxanna Dawson and Robert Duncan McNeil (who went on to become a television writer and director - he's been doing Chuck) and the guy who played the Doctor
ENT: No one.
9 - What's your favorite episode?
TOS: Mirror/Mirror, Trouble with Tribbles, and the one where Spock gets emotional.
TNG: Hmm... "The Measure of a Man” which is a freaking court drama in a space show. A good court drama. I don't remember the names of episodes - the one with Professor Moriarity and Data playing Holmes on the Holodeck, the one where Picard lives a whole life on another planet - to understand their lives. And the last episode of the series. Also "Q".
DS9: The episode where Jake is a science fiction writer in the real world - can't remember the name of it. But I did get to meet the writer of that episode in person, and had a lengthy discussion about what inspired him.
VOY: The last episode of the series. The episode where Tom and B'Elanna get together.
Any episode with Q in it or the Holodeck.
ENT: Errr...
10 - What's your favorite species? (Humans are a species as well.)
Tie between Vulcan and Bajoran
11 - What's your least favorite species?
Klingons. They just grated on my nerves.
12 - What's your favorite funny moment?
TOS: Tribbles. Lots and lots of Tribbles
13 - What's your favorite dramatic moment?
TOS: “City on the Edge of Forever”/”He knows. He knows.”
TNG: Picard playing the flute at the end of that episode he lives and loves an entire life in a day. The statement at the end of the Moriarty episode where Picard states - we may all be just characters on someone's box. “Measure of a Man”/“Pinocchio, his strings have been cut”. Not a big epic battle, but a moment where Riker briefly has this moment of triumph and then realizes that he’s just proved that a friend is a toaster.
Voyager: The last episode of the series...and the moment in space, where B'Elanna and Tom Paris declare their love.
14 - What's your favorite Star Trek quote?
Picard's statement: "Who knows, we may all just be characters in someone's box."
15 - How did you get into Star Trek?
My parents were huge fans. They took us to the movies when they came out - each one, except after Voyage Home, when they gave up. Then I ended up meeting fans in college, where we gathered each day to watch reruns of the original, and weekly appointments in the Lounge to see STNG. The Lounge was packed.
16 - Are you involved with Star Trek fandom?
No.
17 - Have you read any of the books? If so, which ones?
No. Although I did read the Marvel comics X-Men/Star Trek cross-over.
18 - If you could be any species in the Star Trek universe, what would you be?
Human. We live pretty long by the time of ST, have a neat fleet and apparently San Francisco is the center of the universe.
19 - How did the Star Trek reboot affect you?
Enjoyed it. Great flick. But I don't remember much of it. Just fun. Didn't have a big affect.
20 - Of the minor characters (one shots, not the recurring ones) who’s your favorite?
TOS: Can't remember any
TNG: Diana Muldare's character and Professor Moriarity in the Sherlock Holmes episode
21 - Which Star Trek food would you want to try at least once?
Picard wine.
22 - Which Star Trek world would you want to visit at least once?
Vulcan or Bajor
23 - How has Star Trek changed you?
It didn't really. I think it did introduce and get me to appreciate episodic sci-fi.
And my it was a family bonding thing. My parents loved Trek.
24 - Lots of Star Trek Parodies out there. Which do you dig?
Galaxy Quest. Definitely. It paid homage to the original.
25 - What would you cross over with Star Trek?
I think just about everything has been. Famously there was an X-men/Star Trek cross-over in Marvel Comics. I kid you not. They actually did that.
Personally...I wouldn't mind Doctor Who/Star Trek - the longest living British Sci-Fi Cult Series crossed over with the longest living US Sci-Fi Cult series.
I know John Crichton desperately wants a Farscape/Trek Crossover but it just would not work.
26 - Your favourite friendship in Star Trek?
TOS: Kirk&Spock&McCoy - I can’t tell you the number of essays I read analyzing this relationship from every angle from Trek magazine.
TNG: Jean Luc/Dr. Beverly Crusher
DS9: Quark/Odo
VOY: Captain Janeway/Seven of Nine
ENT: ?
27 - If you could tell Gene Roddenberry one thing, Star Trek related or not, what would it be?
Interesting question. You re-wrote Sci-Fi by creating a non-disptopian universe and sci-fi series that wasn't just horror related. Kudos. Plus the universe you created was so vast and so different, many writers could play. Your characters and universe outlasted you.
28. Favorite Star Trek Film?
Wrath of Khan tied with Voyage Home
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Date: 2012-02-12 03:13 pm (UTC)Agreed - he was a good character. But we nicknamed him "meat-boy" in my family, so I forgot his name. I really wasn't enough of a fan of Star Trek to remember the details. I don't think I've seen STNG since it originally aired. OR DS9 or Voyager for that matter. Never found them to be that re-watchable for some reason.
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Date: 2012-02-12 04:14 pm (UTC)1 - Which Star Trek series is your favorite? Star Trek Next Generation.
2 - Who is your favorite character?
TOS: Spock and Sulu
TNG: Picard and Data
DS9: Garak and Quark
VOY: Janeway, and 7 of 9
ENT: never loved any of them, but Hoshi Sato seemed interesting even tho she really wasn't ever given much to do (or say)
3 - Who is your least favorite character?
TOS: Chekov and that nurse, Christine Chapel
TNG: Deanna Troi was terrible EXCEPT when her Mom was on board!
DS9: Odo and Jadzia Dax....
VOY: Kes (so lame, until she returned later to try to destroy the ship)
ENT: none of the characters were developed fully (with faults and layers) so they all seemed a little dull to me...
4 - What was the first Star Trek series you watched? TOS (when it first aired on TV!
Yes, I'm old)
5 - What was the first episode/movie you watched?
I think I caught the first episode, but I really can't remember now...
6 - Your favorite canon pairing? (Canon being the series and the movies, including the reboot.)
TOS: Kirk/Spock and Sulu/Uhura
TNG: Picard/Crusher worked... and Data/Tasha Yar
DS9: Mr and Mrs O'Brien I LOVED, Quark/Garak
VOY: Harry Kim and every girl who turned him down(!) and Janeway/7of9
ENT: how can you ship undeveloped characters you don't care about??
7 - Your favorite non-canon pairing?
TOS: well I counted Kirk/Spock as canon
TNG: and I counted Data/Yar as canon (they did have their moment)
DS9: I counted Quark/Garak....
Voyager: Janeway/Q (Skat's answer, and it is a good one!!)
ENT: zip zero nothing
8 - Your favorite actor/actress? (Not the same as character.)
TOS: Leonard Nimoy...
TNG: Patrick Stewart and Brent Spinner
DS9: Armin Shimerman (Quark... AND I loved him as Principal Snyder too)
VOY: Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan
ENT: No one.
9 - What's your favorite episode?
TOS: the time traveling one with Joan Collins
TNG: anything with the holodeck and/or with Q, and I liked the one with the orgasmic glasses/game (when Wesley had to save the day)
DS9: Anything that featured Garak and/or Quark
VOY: Anything after 7 of 9 comes on board
ENT: nothing is memorable, I liked the idea of explaining the changes in Klingons... but they didn't tell the story well enough.
10 - What's your favorite species? (Humans are a species as well.) Vulcans
11 - What's your least favorite species?
who were the blue ones w/antennia? And Kes' species...
12 - What's your favorite funny moment?
TOS: Tribbles. And when Deep Space 9 went back and added to that TOS episode! That was hilarious!
13 - What's your favorite dramatic moment?
TOS: “City on the Edge of Forever”/”He knows. He knows.” - yeah, that one!
TNG: Data creates a daughter, who only lives in that one episode...<3
14 - What's your favorite Star Trek quote?
TOS: "I am endevoring to construct a pneumonic memory circuit using stone knives and bear skins."
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Date: 2012-02-12 04:14 pm (UTC)15 - How did you get into Star Trek?
My sister became a huge fan of TOS immediately and I don't remember a time when I wasn't as well....
16 - Are you involved with Star Trek fandom?
No. But my sister was, big time... she went to conventions, did fan art, and kept people in touch (she owned a used book store for a while)
After she died my brother and I went to a Star Trek convention together and got to see some of the stars (from a distance)
17 - Have you read any of the books? If so, which ones?
I read a few w/Quark & Garak, and 7 of 9... none were great, but they were mindless fun (I do love those characters)
18 - If you could be any species in the Star Trek universe, what would you be?
Human, but I wanted to hang out w/Spock and/or Data....
19 - How did the Star Trek reboot affect you?
I liked it a lot.... I would see the next one
20 - Of the minor characters (one shots, not the recurring ones) who’s your favorite?
TNG: Brent Spiner's characters: Data's creator and his brother ... oh and Lore! Data's daughter!!
21 - Which Star Trek food would you want to try at least once?
? I just wanted to have tea w/Picard
22 - Which Star Trek world would you want to visit at least once?
That amusement park planet from TOS
23 - How has Star Trek changed you?
It made me open to all things sci-fi, it was my first sci-fi that wasn't a horror movie.
24 - Lots of Star Trek Parodies out there. Which do you dig?
Galaxy Quest. Both an homage and a parody, it was brilliant
25 - What would you cross over with Star Trek?
Oh I just about died when Faith killed a Vulcan in BtVS S7! OMG that was the best cross over EVER!
26 - Your favorite friendship in Star Trek?
TOS: Kirk&Spock&McCoy
TNG: Jean Luc/Dr. Beverly Crusher
DS9: Quark/Odo
VOY: Captain Janeway/Seven of Nine
27 - If you could tell Gene Roddenberry one thing, Star Trek related or not, what would it be?
I liked his Utopian universe a lot... but I agree w/Whedon's Firefly that many people would feel oppressed by all that perfection and would never fit in... I wish Roddenberry could watch Firefly and would comment on it.
28. Favorite Star Trek Film?
I liked the first one: Star Trek the Motion Picture, I really loved Wrath of Khan, and I enjoyed First Contact a lot!
And of course the Reboot....