Frootloop
Nutball
well, with that phrase, shes right up there with Deltan's; Ilia "I would never take advantage of a sexually immature species"
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Any Trekkers here? :)
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well, with that phrase, shes right up there with Deltan's; Ilia "I would never take advantage of a sexually immature species"
AnnetteMarie
Skilled Investigator
now that Nimoy has grown older and looks very craggy, wonder how he would have done as Gandalf? part of me thinks he would have been great, but the other part has difficulty seeing him as anything other than Spock.
Chuckleberryfinn
Paranormal Maven
Many of you are unsympathetic to the spin offs. Shame on you. And social workers in space? Only someone who had not seen the series would say such a thing. Shame on you.
CapnG
Devil's Advocate
Enterprise is a prequel. And it deserves to be showered with every drop of piss my bladder can spare.
Hmmm, Nimoy as Gandalf? Bet he woulda loved that! He has (or had) a great voice for such a character.
AnnetteMarie
Skilled Investigator
who the heck is Galvatron?
derekcbart
Skilled Investigator
Yes. I am a Trekker.
One of my favorite personal, and professional, experiences was when I worked on two Star Trek specials: "Star Trek: A Captain's Log" for CBS and "William Shatner's Star Trek Memories" for Paramount Home Video.
At the time I was a Post Production Coordinator and never went to set, but when this production happened we got all of the original cast and several crew members to be interviewed on-screen I volunteered to be an on-set Production Assistant in order to meet with everybody.
One very fond memory was talking with Walter Koenig and George Takei about some restaurant that we had all eaten at recently. Talking with "Chekov" and "Sulu" about something so mundane was a real trip.
-Derek
One of my favorite personal, and professional, experiences was when I worked on two Star Trek specials: "Star Trek: A Captain's Log" for CBS and "William Shatner's Star Trek Memories" for Paramount Home Video.
At the time I was a Post Production Coordinator and never went to set, but when this production happened we got all of the original cast and several crew members to be interviewed on-screen I volunteered to be an on-set Production Assistant in order to meet with everybody.
One very fond memory was talking with Walter Koenig and George Takei about some restaurant that we had all eaten at recently. Talking with "Chekov" and "Sulu" about something so mundane was a real trip.
-Derek
Frootloop
Nutball
Wasnt he a Transformer? - As far as I recall, Unicron transformed a battered Megatron into Galvatron during the animated movie
derekcbart
Skilled Investigator
Here is the only photo that I have. It is of me in the original Captain's chair that we had sitting in an office while we were building the set for the interviews. This was around 1993. I do have a picture of me and Shatner, but the picture was taken by a writer so it is completely blurry and unrecognizable. I have a Star Trek calendar that was signed by everyone except for Nichelle Nichols and DeForest Kelley. The only picture of Nichelle in the calendar was of the kiss with Shatner and she didn't want to sign that and De was already very ill and didn't have the strength to sign anything.
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Gil Bavel
Guest
You're right, Gil. It was Mark Lenard. I do remember it was spelled that way, now that you wrote it.
And WOW YOU got Nimoy's autograph not once, but twice! *I bow to you!*
I should still try to score Nimoy's autograph, damn it! (Jim!)
*sigh*
Bixyboo
Why thank you, Bixyboo... I actually cheated. I had the Creation con official thing, which everybody had, and also had my collector's copy of the script for Undiscovered Country (VI--British Klingons)... and I had my brother standing right next to me, so I slipped the Creation thing in, for both of them to sign, and then had my fingers holding the places in the script for them to individually sign it where their photos are. I wasn't sure I'd make it, but either no one noticed, or no one cared.
So, I also got The Shat to sign twice, too.
By the way, here's a neat trick: Type in "The Shat" into IMDB and see what happens...
Now that Nimoy is in the new Star Trek film, his autograph is going to be in higher demand... but he's still appearing this year at cons put on by Creation (they must pay those guys a God-awful amount of money), so you could concievably get his autograph... but I'd hurry if I were you.
I cried my eyes out when I heard that Mark Lenard died.
Another weird point of trivia:
The very same day that ST:TNG premeired, I was at a friend's house, and his dad was a Star Trek fan. At the commercials, we were switching over to another channel, and there was another show on and it had Mark Lenard in it! It was a competing science fiction show, and it obviously got hammered by TNG--but I've never seen it again, and never remembered what it was called.
But I was really excited that he was on TV, and of course, later, on TNG.
His episode, "Sarek" was an emotional tour-de-force, but the real star of that episode was Patrick Steward (catch his show, Eleventh Hour, if you can, it's great)... there was a really long shot, like, seven minutes, where he went into an emotional tirade and ran the gamut of emotions when Picard lent Sarek his emotional stability.
I have very rarely seen an actor force tears onscreen, but Stewart is the caliber of actor that can actually pull it off. I'd hate to think of how many takes they did on that scene...
CapnG
Devil's Advocate
AnnetteMarie
Skilled Investigator
What is sad, CapnG, is I used to watch that stuff on Saturday ams with my boys. Memory is just not what it used to be. 
Aaron LeClair
Paranormal Maven
What is sad, CapnG, is I used to watch that stuff on Saturday ams with my boys. Memory is just not what it used to be.
I was into transformers and didn't remember. Once they went into transforming bugs and everything under the sun I lost interest.
CapnG
Devil's Advocate
For the record, Nimoy only provided the voice of Galvatron for the feature film. When the cartoon resumed next season Galvatron was voiced by Frank Welker, the virtuouso voice actor with credits beyond transformers too numerous to list (look him up on imdb if you have some time, the sheer volume of work he's done is astonishing).
And if you're scratching your head right now, please see my previous comments re:all things nerdy and my interest in same.
And if you're scratching your head right now, please see my previous comments re:all things nerdy and my interest in same.
status4
I love hydrocarbons!
*oooo* *OOOOOOO* *jumps around waving madly* ME!!!
Major fan, love the Trek. I enjoyed aspects of all the series, the only one I was really kind of luke warm on was Enterprise, it had potential to be something good in the beginning, but I think they blew it big time with weak writing, and Scott Backula(sp?) never really grew on me as a Capt. the way Kate Mulgrew did as Janeway.
I've seen every episode of every series, all the movies, the fan films, yada yada... I actually enjoyed the fact that they went more into developing the personal side of the characters when TNG came along, I liked the little stuff, albeit a bit hokey sometimes, like Riker and his trombone playing, or Data and his constant search to be more human.
All in all though, I think they have done a good job of keeping Gene's vision alive. I mean, you have to remember that even before his death, Gene had sold the Star Trek rights to Paramount, so it really wasn't his show anymore, although he was involved right up until the end, he had to answer to execs at Paramount and I'm sure wasn't always happy about some of the decisions. Of course his wife Majel (Nurse Chapel, Mrs. Troy and the voice of "computer") took over after his death with major help from guys like Brannon Braga and J.P. Farrell, so there were probably one or two too many fingers in the creative pie at various times which led to things going off course. (we're off course Captain! Look, the stars, they don't look right....er sorry, was having a Pavel Chekov moment there
)
Something interesting I once heard or read somewhere, I believe I recall hearing the Gene was much more interested in Andromeda before his death, and felt it was closer to his original vision, I could be wrong about that, but I believe that's how the story went. As we know Majel went on to finish Gene's work and bring Andromeda to TV produced by her own Majel Barrett Roddenberry Productions.
Oh wow! I just found this out, I didn't know...
Quoted from Roddenberry.com:
"Majel Barrett Roddenberry passed away December 18, 2008, at 12:27 AM in her Bel Air home. She died peacefully, in her sleep, and was surrounded by family and loved ones."
This makes me very sad
Major fan, love the Trek. I enjoyed aspects of all the series, the only one I was really kind of luke warm on was Enterprise, it had potential to be something good in the beginning, but I think they blew it big time with weak writing, and Scott Backula(sp?) never really grew on me as a Capt. the way Kate Mulgrew did as Janeway.
I've seen every episode of every series, all the movies, the fan films, yada yada... I actually enjoyed the fact that they went more into developing the personal side of the characters when TNG came along, I liked the little stuff, albeit a bit hokey sometimes, like Riker and his trombone playing, or Data and his constant search to be more human.
All in all though, I think they have done a good job of keeping Gene's vision alive. I mean, you have to remember that even before his death, Gene had sold the Star Trek rights to Paramount, so it really wasn't his show anymore, although he was involved right up until the end, he had to answer to execs at Paramount and I'm sure wasn't always happy about some of the decisions. Of course his wife Majel (Nurse Chapel, Mrs. Troy and the voice of "computer") took over after his death with major help from guys like Brannon Braga and J.P. Farrell, so there were probably one or two too many fingers in the creative pie at various times which led to things going off course. (we're off course Captain! Look, the stars, they don't look right....er sorry, was having a Pavel Chekov moment there
) Something interesting I once heard or read somewhere, I believe I recall hearing the Gene was much more interested in Andromeda before his death, and felt it was closer to his original vision, I could be wrong about that, but I believe that's how the story went. As we know Majel went on to finish Gene's work and bring Andromeda to TV produced by her own Majel Barrett Roddenberry Productions.
Oh wow! I just found this out, I didn't know...
Quoted from Roddenberry.com:
"Majel Barrett Roddenberry passed away December 18, 2008, at 12:27 AM in her Bel Air home. She died peacefully, in her sleep, and was surrounded by family and loved ones."
This makes me very sad