Howdy folks and welcome back to this madcap blog. I thought I would tackle some more of Doctor
Who given the impending 50th Anniversary celebration on its
way. This time around I will be focused
on the stories leading up to or directly after one of the Doctor’s lives is
spent. So with that in mind I welcome
you to The Doctor’s Regeneration Week!
For those that are not aware of this particular aspect of
the Doctor, as a Timelord they can cheat death by rearranging all the atoms in
their body giving them a chance at another life. The only reason why the Doctor has little to
no control over this simple and basic Timelord ability is he didn’t pay
attention in his university classes as a young cadet of 325 years of age.
Back again boys and girls to round out our Even Number Star
Trek Week and I had a few issues with this particular movie but all will be
explained momentarily. Moving beyond the
original cast this film would be the second of the Next Generation crowd so prepare
yourselves for absolutely no racial slurs about green blooded hobgoblins and
such. So strap yourselves in, prep that Steppenwolf
CD and blast past the moon. This is Star
Trek: First Contact.
Yes Data, the movies revolve around us...what's your point?
Cmdr. Riker: We
finished our first sensor sweep of the neutral zone.
Captain Picard: Oh,
fascinating. Twenty particles of spoiler dust per cubic meter, 52 ultraviolet
radiation spikes, and a class-2 comet. Well, this is certainly worthy of our
attention.
Jean Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart of Dune, Excalibur,
Gunmen, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Conspiracy Theory and X-Men) awakes
from a nightmare that makes him relive his assimilation into the Borg six years
prior. Starfleet contacts him priority channel letting him know that a Borg
attack is incurring along the borders and their destination will allow them to
reach Earth in record time. And rather
than have the flag ship of the Federation there at the ready, Starfleet orders
Enterprise to the Neutral Zone along the Romulan region of space in the
unlikely event they may join the Borg in this attack.
Resistance is futile. Every orifices will be probed!
The communications chatter points out the Federation is losing
so Picard and the Enterprise crew disobeys orders and joins in the fight. In the nick of time the Enterprise is able to
save the crew of USS Defiant commanded by Lt. Cmdr. Worf (Michael Dorn of CHiPs, Star Trek
VI: The Undiscovered Country, Gargoyles, Fallout 2, Cow and Chicken and Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine) and he takes up his former place at
tactical. The fleet under the command of
Picard fends off the Borg but not before they open a time portal (plot device) and the Enterprise follows
after them. The Borg have changed the
past before Starfleet could be created and the valiant crew has to put things
right.
Meeting the very creator of the Warp travel Dr. Cochcran (James
Cromwell of L.A. Confidential, The Green Mile, Babe, Spider-Man 3, Six Feet
Under and A Lonely Place for Dying) our trekkers need make sure the
doctor is safe for his first contact with an alien species that will aid
humanity unite and create the uptopia of Earth…but get portrayed in Enterprise
as swaggering know-it-alls.
Gasp! It's Loctus of Bald!
I’ve just a few reasons I did not immediately love this
film. Picard in the films is almost a
separate entity from his personality in the series. More the space cowboy of Kirk’s standing and
while that makes for better film experience it really detracts from the
character. No Wesley Crushers allowed
to even make an appearance but hey apparently there was bile and hatred of the
only teen in space that was never allowed to be human and screw up more
often. This was also Jonathan Frakes’
first film directorial debuted aside from episodes of the Next Generation and
overall was a smash hit aside from some nitpicking on fans’ behalf. All in all this is an enjoyable film.
Back again trekkers and welcome to Day 3 of Even Trek Movie
Week and I feel this is a bit underrated as a Star Trek film. Admittedly I may have been one of those nay
sayers…well I am copping to it. So let’s
break out the Romulan Ale, quote Shakespeare and find out what it is all
about. This is Star Trek VI: The
Undiscovered Country.
Reservations for three please.
Captain Spock: Logic,
logic logic. Logic is the beginning of
spoiler, Valeris, not the end.
More than 70 years the Federation and the Klingon Empire
have been trading blows, insults and the destruction of their collective
fleets. From border disputes, planetary conquests thwarted and out and out
space battles this struggle has spanned generations. The U.S.S. Excelsior is on patrol near the
Neutral Zone with Captain Sulu (George Takei of Star Trek, Batman Beyond and
Kim Possible) witnesses firsthand a major gravimetric explosion of the
nearby moon of Praxus, the Klingon mining operation and they were told to mind
their own affair.
NOT INTO THE SUN, YOU IDIOTS!!!!
Cut to a main chamber of Starfleet Intelligence meeting in
under way and the senior staff of the Enterprise has been dragged in
session? Kirk who had been demoted
before the Final Frontier is looking to retire after 3 months and is informed
that in 50 years time the ozone layer around Kronos (Klingon Homeworld) will be bathed in solar radiation and due to the
massive amount of expenses wasted on their expanding military budgets, they
have no means of repairing this damage let alone fending off its effects. The Empire must ask for help.
Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner of Time After Time, Time
Bandits, The Omen, Tron and Doctor Who) and Captain Spock have been in
conference for months now and they both concur that peace talks need to be held
in order for the survival of the Klingon people. Captain Kirk has been tasked with escorted
the Chancellor and his party to the summit.
With a long standing hatred of the Klingons, Kirk is reluctant to trust
or chance his instincts he has honed over the years. Is this an end to the onslaught of battle
with each other or merely some breathing space so they can rebuild and slaughter
them all in their sleep or enslave them outright?
These feelings aside, the Enterprise must embark on one last
mission until…the Chancellor’s vessel is struck by a photon torpedo rupturing
the hull and causing more than a few deaths.
With the Enterprise being the only ship in the quadrant and is on the
hook for the damage to the battle cruiser and the possible murders within. Kirk and McCoy go to the ship in order to
save the Chancellor only to have him die on the very table he was lain on. Under Empire law the two are immediately
whisked away to trial for Gorkon’s assassination. But if this was not orchestrated by Kirk…then
who did it?
Bet you can't see the strings.
This one requires a meerschaum pipe and a deerstalker hat to
figure out what is going on, is there a conspiracy to sabotage the peace talks
and who stands to gain from it all??
Hey there readers and welcome to Even Number Star Trek Movie
Week. The title kinda gives the idea
away but for those of you doing whippets I will explain. The concept behind this week is most Trekkies
feel the odd number films were too long, dull or baffling on how it even got
made. One thing the trekkers agree on is
that the even number movies were enjoyable and memorable. So with that in mind I take you back to the
far away time of 1982 continuation of an episode 24 in first season of the
Original Series known as Space Seed. So
grab your road warrior apparel, juice up on those roids and dare to be
superior. This is Star Trek II: Wrath of
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!
Still tending to that Pon Far issue, Captain Spock?
Kirk: Khan, you
spoiler. You’re going to have to do your own dirty work now! Do you hear me?!
Do you?
Stardate: 15 years after the success of Space Seed, we catch
up with the crew of the Enterprise after the mishaps of the Motion Picture, the
loss of its commanding officer Captain Decker (Stephen Collins of All the
President’s Men, 7th Heaven and Blood Diamond) and the newly
promoted Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy of Gunsmoke, Star Trek,
Mission: Impossible, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Star Trek Into The Darkness)
with an inexperienced crew and senior staff of the original series. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner of Dr. Kildare,
Incubus, Impulse, Barbary Coast and 3rd Rock From the Sun) is
doing a routine inspection of the Enterprise after its repair and refit from
the V’ger incident to see the performance and that they are ready for the
field.
Hailing COOOOOOOMMMMSS open, Captain. Oh my.
Light years away a group of scientists led by Dr. Carol
Marcus (Bibi Besch of The Day After, Steel Magnolias and Tremors) are
developing a project called Genesis to bring life to dead planets. As the U.S.S. Reliant is done with their
progress update and recon they find a distress beacon on the outer system and
go and investigate.
Oh get up! I think one of you is sitting on Tattoo!
Captain Terrel (Paul
Winfield of Damnation Alley, The Terminator, Presumed Innocent and Mar Attacks)
and First Officer Chekov (Walter Koeing of Star Trek, Moontrap,
Babylon 5 and War of Heaven) go to investigate only to encounter the
former crew of genetically engineered humans of the Botany Bay led by Khan Noonien
Singh (Ricardo Montalban of Battleground, Mystery Street, Fantasy Island, The
Colbys and Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams) who holds Kirk
responsible for the planet they were marooned on this wasteland of a planet being
ruined by their neighboring one exploding.
Khan and his crew
seize the Reliant and could have left for planets unexplored and ripe for
conquer but Khan wants both the Genesis project as a weapon and Kirk’s head on
a pike. He’s old school like that.
The crew of the Enterprise must deal with a madman they so
long ago forgot and must put an end to his diabolical schemes for the sake of
all creation. The needs of the many
outweigh the needs of the few or the one after all.
So I was racking my brain on some Science Fiction this week when it dawned on me I have never touched base with Star Trek from TV or Film and that is actually surprising. The mere possibility that somehow I have not spoken or written a single nuance of this amazing series that spawned 5 spin-off series, 9 movies of the Original and Next Generation series, two reboots as well a plethora of video games, RPG , board and card games.
Men can wear girdles too Lieutenant!
This prodigy of TV Science Fiction has spanned the generation gap for many, the stories have enriched us and some...well some are Spock's Brain but hey it was still a fun episode. With that in mind I think that many can agree that the even number Star Trek films DO NOT SUCK. We shall explore this notion together so get ready to do the bridge shimmy, tilt your camera and for God's sake be careful with that model.
