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kaplan
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Star Trek: TNG comes to a close
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May 9 11:32 UTC 1994 |
Star Trek: The Next Generation is finally being put out of its misery.
Here's hoping that this week's episode, "The Enterprise develops a mind of
its own" is better than some of the stuff they've done this season. Next
week is a pretty interesting sounding one which features the return of
Ensign Ro. She is to be sent to infiltrate the terrorist group we met on
Deep Space Nine for the past couple of weeks.
Following that will be the series finale. It is a two hour show and it
should be run everywhere in the USA the week of May 23-29. Word from
channel 50 in Detroit is that it will be Wed May 25 6-8 in the afternoon.
Channel 36 in Toledo says they will show it Mon May 23. No information on
the time, but I'm assuming it'll run from 10 to midnight.
The movie featuring the TNG cast and Captain Kirk is in production now and
is going to be out around Thanksgiving. The next Trek series starts next
winter.
Has anyone heard about the "favorite TNG episodes marathon" that's also
supposed to be this month? What are your nominees for best episode?
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hawkeye
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response 1 of 71:
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May 9 14:10 UTC 1994 |
Why would Channel 50 be showing it from 6-8 on a *Wednesday Afternoon*?
Where did you get this information?
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robh
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response 2 of 71:
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May 9 14:54 UTC 1994 |
Um, because they can't preempt Fox programming to show it,
and they can't put it in the regular slot because it's
two hours long? It's either 6-8 PM or after midnight.
(That, or they have to preempt their precious little
10 O'Clock News, and you know they'll never do that!)
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kaplan
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response 3 of 71:
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May 9 18:59 UTC 1994 |
I got this information from a friend who said he got it from the channel
50 programming department.
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aruba
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response 4 of 71:
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May 10 01:42 UTC 1994 |
My nominee for best episode is "Yesterday's Enterprise". A really neat
way to bring back Tasha Yar.
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hawkeye
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response 5 of 71:
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May 10 15:12 UTC 1994 |
But, there *is* nothing to stop them from showing it in the "regular"
time slot. Putting it on Saturday from 12-2 or Sunday from 5-7 wouldn't
effect anything out of the ordinary. And this is *certainly* the
cast with no Detroit Sports playoffs to prempt Fox programming. I should
call channel 50. Anybody closer to Southfield, so I don't have to make a
long distance call?
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kaplan
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response 6 of 71:
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May 10 17:48 UTC 1994 |
I'm not sure that channel 50 won't be running the TNG finale on memorial
day weekend also. The first time the finale will be on channel 50 is
May 25 a few days before memorial day. The last hour long episode will
Saturday May 21.
The finale will also be broken up into two one hour segments which you can
expect to see on channel 50 September 10 and September 17 if they reserve
the regular TNG time slot for all the scheduled reruns.
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hawkeye
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response 7 of 71:
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May 11 14:38 UTC 1994 |
That can't be right. It's DS9 which has the "new" episode on Saturday,
rerun on the following Sunday. This is the schedule for TNG:
In article <2qkqld$sts@agate.berkeley.edu> Michael L. Brown,
brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu writes: >174 4/30/94 274
47829.1 Bloodlines >175 5/07/94 275 Emergence >176
5/14/94 276 Preemptive Strike >177a 5/21/94
747 All Good Things...
"Bloodlines" premiered on 50 this past Sunday, the 8th. This means "Emergence"
on the 15th and "Preemptive Strike" on the 22nd. This doesn't mean "all
good things" couldn't be on the 25th, but if 50 sticks to their "normal"
schedule, then "Strike" would be rerun on the 28th (the last hour long
episode.)
(As to the above dates, these are the dates Paramount releases them. Channel
50 has *always* shown Star Trek a week later. Why? You got me. To
coorborate, here are the dates for DS9 -- also a week "earlier":
In article <2qkqpe$sul@agate.berkeley.edu> Michael L. Brown,
brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu writes: > 41 4/30/94 441 The
Maquis Part II > 42 5/07/94 442 The Wire > 43 5/14/94
443 Crossover > 44 5/21/94 444 The Collaborator >
5/28/94 412R not given Vortex > 6/04/94 432R not given The Alternate
> 45 6/11/94 445 Tribunal > 46 6/18/94 446 The
Dominion
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kaplan
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response 8 of 71:
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May 11 17:50 UTC 1994 |
The pattern has been that the episodes go up on the satellite on a
Saturday, the date listed on Mike Brown's lists. The official week in
which the stations are supposed to show the episode is from the Monday
after the satellite date until the Sunday eight day later. Channel 36
runs the episode at 10:00 Monday night a couple days after the satellite
unless there's a Tiger or Pistons game. I usually don't count on 50 for
new episodes, so I stand corrected on my assumption that 50 shows new
episodes on the Saturday in which they are current. You seem to be saying
that 50 shows new episodes on the Sunday in which they are current and
show them again on the Saturday two weeks after the satellite date.
"Preemptive Strike" is the last hour long episode. "All Good Things..."
is the two hour series finale.
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hawkeye
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response 9 of 71:
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May 11 18:18 UTC 1994 |
Correct. "Bloodlines" premiered on 50 on the 8th. It will be rerun on
the 14th.
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wasichu
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response 10 of 71:
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May 15 03:15 UTC 1994 |
they're gonna kill shatner...huzzah...
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curby
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response 11 of 71:
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May 15 04:07 UTC 1994 |
Be nice to the old man, Matt.
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wasichu
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response 12 of 71:
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May 16 22:42 UTC 1994 |
Why? Sympathy?
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kaplan
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response 13 of 71:
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May 21 05:11 UTC 1994 |
Last chance before the big TNG Viewer's Choice Marathon!!
After Chris (chanur) Bichler and I brainstormed to pick out our list
of "Grade-A" episodes, we eliminated the following 20 as unlikely to be
voted into Saturday's marathon by the fans:
Darmok; Sins of the Father; The High Ground; Lower Decks; Starship Mine;
Tapestry; I, Borg; Ship in a Bottle; Parallels; The Pegasus;
Premptive Strike; Frame of Mind; Ensign Ro; First Duty; The Emissary;
Sarek; Family; Brothers; Renuion; The Wounded.
We took 3 more off the list when we decided to eliminate the ones
that are just too cerebrial to be remembered by the masses:
Inner Light; Who Watches the Watchers; First Contact.
The last 3 were really hard to part with:
Cause and Effect; The Offspring; Face of the Enemy.
And our final predictions for the top five were.... <drum roll please>
Yesterday's Enterprise - Alternate reality, Tasha returns, action-drama
Relics - Scotty likes Geordi, old bridge noise returns
Q Who - Q meets Guinan, we meet the borg, cool cube ship
Deja Q - Q naked, Guinan stabs Q, 10 sundaes, Data laughs
Measure of a Man - Picard vs. Riker, Guinan helps, Data forgives
Watch this afternoon to see if we're right!
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robh
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response 14 of 71:
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May 21 12:37 UTC 1994 |
Not bad, but I still think "Sins of the Father" will make it in.
Go Worf!
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drm
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response 15 of 71:
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May 22 13:22 UTC 1994 |
2 out of 5. Ugh!
Best of Both Worlds (parts 1 and 2)
Yesterday's Enterprise
Inner Light
Relics
Frankly I would treat Best of Both Worlds as one episode and add Face of the
Enemy to the no. 5 spot but I guess they only had 5 Hours.
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amber
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response 16 of 71:
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May 23 03:07 UTC 1994 |
I was very happy with the winners -- I think they spanned a good many of
the key aspects of Trek's mass appeal (which I guess one would expect from
the selection process). Of course, I had my own favorites, and some of
these I wouldn't have even thought of, but seeing them all together was
good, I think. Chalk up one satisfied viewer...
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fuz
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response 17 of 71:
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May 24 01:40 UTC 1994 |
im in Nh, it shows locally on the 28th, form 2-10 including top 5, premier, and
ye olde grande finale. who/what were the winning episodes in your neck of the
woods? -fuz ps: mail me
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gregc
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response 18 of 71:
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May 24 04:22 UTC 1994 |
My vote for the best episode of STNG goes to _The Inner Light_. I t was
an excellent example of good SF. It didn't need the Star Trek universe
to exist in. _All good things..._ tonight was very well done.
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aruba
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response 19 of 71:
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May 26 02:19 UTC 1994 |
I thought "All Good Things ..." was just great. I loved the Enterprise
with 3 nacells! It looked like it could kick some butt!
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amber
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response 20 of 71:
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May 26 03:43 UTC 1994 |
Those were some serious phasers!!! Sliced and diced those Klingon ships...
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kentn
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response 21 of 71:
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May 26 03:57 UTC 1994 |
And it was about damn time the Federation figured out cloaking technology,
after capturing several Klingon ships oh, I don't know, a hundred years
ago...
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jwp
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May 26 06:34 UTC 1994 |
Actually the federation had a trety with the romulans that prevented the
federation from using clocking technology....also Talk about phasers that thing
acted like those ships didn't even have shields!...now that's power...Btw, I'm
new to this conference.
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kentn
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response 23 of 71:
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May 26 13:20 UTC 1994 |
Oh, another hokey treaty excuse? Bah. The Federation gets it butt
kicked by cloaked ships and they can't cloak? Jeez. I'm glad they
said the hell with it and used cloaking technology, then.
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jwp
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response 24 of 71:
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May 26 23:10 UTC 1994 |
Well since the romulans were conquered by Klingons there was no treaty so they
could then use cloacking technology...
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