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zook
response 23 of 49: Mark Unseen   Oct 15 19:07 UTC 1994

I can recall some episodes where adjustments were not made and weapons
came out shooting in the stun mode (ie no safety and normally on stun).
I would think they all check the phasers because their commander just
gave them an order and they had better make sure they are in compliance
(a la #17 above).

The episode I am thinking of is when Riker did a short stunt as XO on
a Klingon cruiser.  When the Klingon captain was inadvertently beamed
to the Enterprise, Warf shot him (as best as I can recall) without
touching his phaser settings.  He drew his weapon when the Klingon 
captain materialized, and proceeded to shoot when the captain began to
draw his weapon

Speaking of TNG stuff, I saw a rerun from this season(?) where a crew
member committed suicide by leaping into the engine's plasma stream
because of the old memory traces there from a similar event, etc...
WHY didn't Warf shoot him with his phaser to prevent the guy from
leaping?  That was the logical thing to do, instead of having Riker
try to talk him down.  (BTW, I mean stun setting, not barbecue).
rcurl
response 24 of 49: Mark Unseen   Oct 17 06:25 UTC 1994

Warf, as Security Chief, would have his phaser armed at all times. 
cyberpnk
response 25 of 49: Mark Unseen   Oct 20 17:11 UTC 1994

rrrespond

Worf probably didn't fire because he didn't want to blow up the ship,...
zook
response 26 of 49: Mark Unseen   Oct 21 23:33 UTC 1994

I doubt firing on stun setting would harm the ship.  Even if so, it was
not exactly a difficult shot.
kerouac
response 27 of 49: Mark Unseen   Oct 26 16:56 UTC 1994

Kirk Lives!
Latest word is that due to Trekkie uproar, they are re-shooting the final
sequences of the movie so that Kirk doesnt die but is given some other yet to
be be revealed fate.  Shatner, Patrick  Stewart and th other principals were
called back to the studio a couple of weeks ago for re-shooting.  Not sure of
whether this is a good sign or not.  You  usually dont re-shoot finished films
unless they are major turkeys.  Last Trek


on a klingon warbird was a little too er.........original?
"."
kerouac
response 28 of 49: Mark Unseen   Oct 26 16:59 UTC 1994

Last message got a little garbled......I was going  to o say that I think 
they are also editing a keysequence involving the crash landing of the
enterprise  and the escape of the crew on a klingon warbird......awfully
original as I said Last Trek film they editied like this at the last minute was
ST: The MOtion Picture Enough said there....
rtlong
response 29 of 49: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 01:01 UTC 1994

I had heard quite a while ago (last summer, to be exact) that on Shatner's
insistence, they had changed the ending so Kirk got to live.  But then in
TV Guide a week or so ago there was an interview with Shatner, and although
he was coy about whether Kirk was going to live or die, the clear implica-
tion of what he said was that Kirk was going to die.  But Shatner might
have been lying to make the ending a surprise.  Also, although the interview
was *published* recently, I'm not sure how long ago it was *taped.*  So
we have conflicting evidence ....  My money says Kirk lives, though.
Although I was kind of hoping he'd die -- I liked him in the original
series, but I've gotten sick of him in the movies.

Actually, though, this whole debate may be pointless.  Even if Kirk *does*
die -- hey, this is science fiction, they could always figure out a way
of bringing him back.  Remember Spock, remember Superman?
rtlong
response 30 of 49: Mark Unseen   Oct 27 01:12 UTC 1994

Additional note:  in the episode in TNG where Picard first meets Sarek, he
says:  "I met your son on the occasion of his wedding."  Yet no subsequent
mention of said wedding, or the wife's whereabouts, in the later episode
where Picard meets Spock, who is living, apparently wifeless, in the
Romulan underground.  Are they ever going to follow this up?  Will the new
movie mention it?  (Hopefully not, since so far the movies have not done
well at continuity with TNG.  Consider STVI -- purple Klingin blood, although
Worf's is red;  Klingon/Fed peace during time of Enterprise-A, although
TNG says not until Enterprise-C;  warbirds that can fire when cloaked,
although the Romulans in TNG seem to have forgotten this improvement.
As clever Trekkers we can resolve all these inconsistencies -- but still,
it bodes ill.)
kerouac
response 31 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 5 22:43 UTC 1994

Oaky, [D[D[D
Heres the real lowdown, courstey of rec.arts.startrek.......apparently the 
ending was re-fiolmed because test audiences tididnt think Kirks death was
dramatic enough or relevant enough to the film.  So the seen of kirk dying 
in Picards arms after being shot buy Malcolm McDowell was cut and
the new scene has Kirk falling off a cliff as a consequence of preventing bad
guy McDowell from getting what he wants......no final words from Kirk
in this cut, just a ne w more dramatic sequence.
Film still ends or still shows rather Picard burying Kirk and placing 
Kirk's captain ensignia on top of the grave, so dont think he'll be back any
time soon.......
        And the film still shows the Duras sisters blowing up the Entriprise D
so sthe ship wasnmt saved at the last minute either........
Still it sounds like a good movie, surely better than V or VI and if Marinka
Sirtis really has anude scenme, so much the btetter!
gregc
response 32 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 6 07:03 UTC 1994

I still think the idea of having the Enterprise get defeated *again*, by
a klingon ship is getting really tired and overused. They already did
this in the third movie.
verbal
response 33 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 6 22:12 UTC 1994

This is coming out a day before my birthday.  Too damn bad I have to work.  :(
pegasus
response 34 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 15 15:46 UTC 1994

what? No one organizing a grexpedition to see it on Thursday night?

        Pattie
robh
response 35 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 15 23:50 UTC 1994

Nope, because my parents will take me to see it for free on
my birthday.  >8)
kerouac
response 36 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 21 22:11 UTC 1994

Well, ok I saw the "Generations" movie finally on Saturday.  I thought it had
some flaws but on the whole was a godod movie wiorthy of the STark Trek name My
one beef is they took out the skydiving scene that orignially was to have been
at the Start of the movie. Aklso I wish some of the characters had more to do
than just stand around.
        aL IN ALL, A GOOD MOVIE THOUGH....star rtrejk lives!
bliddil
response 37 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 24 04:39 UTC 1994

It was absolutely above average Star Trek. Thank goodness they stopped
looking for God.  :-)
peacefrg
response 38 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 28 00:11 UTC 1994

I finally saw it. Loved it.
mgout
response 39 of 49: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 01:56 UTC 1995

I've seen the damn movie already,they killed the ship.
albaugh
response 40 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 24 15:27 UTC 1998

Who's going to the Dec. 11 release of Insurrection?
robh
response 41 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 24 16:54 UTC 1998

Shows you how out of it I am, I didn't even realize it was coming
out this year...  >8)
lumen
response 42 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 25 23:20 UTC 1998

Oh duh, that's right.  Julie and I will have to see-- we get married the next
morning.
starwolf
response 43 of 49: Mark Unseen   Dec 7 15:03 UTC 1998

Congratulations.  I will probably not get to see it until at least mid 
Feb., being in Germany and all.  :(
papa
response 44 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 24 11:10 UTC 2017

Star Trek: Discovery or The Orville?
tod
response 45 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 28 20:37 UTC 2017

I forgot Orville exists
have to watch more
papa
response 46 of 49: Mark Unseen   Nov 30 07:19 UTC 2017

I saw a couple of The Orville episodes while they were on YouTube (since taken
down). They were a lot of fun, more homage than parody.

STD might be interesting, but I don't feel motivated to go out of my way to
see it. It's obviously not my TOS, but I've got my memories and BDs.
mijk
response 47 of 49: Mark Unseen   Feb 10 19:23 UTC 2018

papa: you are like the Grex-topic phoenix. :) I have no idea what Orville,
STD or TOS are but i imagine they are something good. 
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