But I digress.

You could have just mentioned the Voyager over LA in Future's End.

Don't forget Keiko's mother lives in Komomoto.

Stop running about like a blue-assed fly. This community is tight knit enough that sometimes you forget people are halfway around the globe.

BTW: Mojo - the talk of "Unseen Frontiers" was one of the few bright points this past week.

I've been receiving your 'Star Trek' historical documents, but have only seen the firstseason and the second season up until "The Doomsday Machine," since the transmissions are only coming at me at the speed of light.

But all of you on the message board have given away the ending of 'The Trouble with Tribbles', 'The Enterprise Incident' and 'Turnabout Intruder'.. all shows i wont be able to watch until next year!!!!!]

I must insist you put spoiler warnings so that i dont find out things i dont want to about star trek..

Thankyou too Red Admiral - for reassuring me that what I see might/might not happen!?! It seems like Time Travelling and plot twisting is going to happen.

Also, it's just that I have consciously stayed away from threads ear-marked as containing Endgame spoilers. I once used to read happily episodes of DS9 and earlier Voyager well a head of time on the net. Since I stopped that little practice, I have been enjoying episodes SOOOO much more. A lot of you here and there bag a lot of the Voyager episodes, that I was so not thrilled on seeing - but when I did I REALLY REALLY enjoyed them.

Rev: Vogon Poet's a Brit too. And there are a few other semi-regulars. I think Da-Bang is a Brit as well, but don't quote me.

Here's my critique (Last 6 added):
January (Sunrise from nacelle support of USS Galaxy): I like this one but wonder where the photographer was standing. He must have been floating in space. Maybe the wide surface of the nacelle support filling the bottom half of the picture is a bit dull.

February (Defiant above ring of planet): Although Defiant is supposed to be in a swarm of micrometeors, it looks more like simple image degradation. Composition with commonly seen view of Defiant from front quarter is a bit dull.

March (Enterprise in V'ger cloud). I like this one a lot.

April (work bees at UP): I can see why some people might not like this one, but I like it. Sort of looks like a National Geographic picture, although the identical weathering on the work bees is kind of unrealistic. Varying the positions slightly to break up the pattern or placing some human figures among the bees (for interest and for scale) might have helped.

May (EntD under construction): An interesting picture, but it lacks focus. Without the caption, we have no idea what it shows other than a mass of girders. We see a few lighted panels, but they're meaningless. This picture tells no story. It looks more like the background for a render.

June (Time lapse picture outside spacedock): National Geographic puff-pieces about big US cities always have at least one picture like this. However, when they do it, the focus is on the lit-up buildings of the city, not on the streaking tail lights. Here you have a blurry ship (Galaxy class), a mostly unlit spacedock, and a bunch of light in all directions. Shouldn't the lights of space dock be brighter? Also, why wouldn't the ship be visible during its entire course and not only blurred at the end? Did a light suddenly come on in the last few seconds? Again, no real focus.

July (Delta Flyer in Borg Unicomplex): The Delta Flyer is probably too small and easy to miss among the Borg structures.

August (TOS Romulan Bird of prey firing): I love TOS, and especially this episode, so I like this simple picture. Great historical value.

September (IKS Kahless buring up as it flys towards setting sun): The burning ship and the foreground rock (it is a rock, isn't it?) on the left look too pasted in, like bad matting. That sun looks too white and bright. It doesn't have the colors of a setting sun. This pic looks too staged and unnatural.

October (lights on inboard surface of refit E nacelle support): A quiet, atmospheric pic, I think I like it.

November (Enterprise on viewscreen of abandoned USS Exeter): Are going to have a pic from "Spock's Brain" next year? You shouldn't have reminded us of this episode, maybe the worst of TOS! I'm not too excited about this pic.

December (Yoyager flying low over some mountains): I think this would have been better if Voyager were in focus and the scenery were blurred. Most photos of race cars and planes in flight are like that. Having big ships down in the air strikes me as kind of a bad idea. Please don't over do it!

Centerfold (B/W shot of Galaxy-class challenger and EntE in orbit): I like this. Nice depth of field and lighting.

[ September 17, 2001: Message edited by: Masao ]