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My buddy Keith hasn't seen an ep of TNG in years, so now that I've got all these laserdiscs (first season, mostly), he's begged me to make him a tape. So, I'm figuring I'm going to grab an eight-hour tape and put these on for him:
Encounter at Farpoint, Lonely Among Us, The Battle, Heart of Glory, Datalore, Arsenal of Freedom, Coming of Age, Skin of Evil, Conspiracy
Thoughts?
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 6.27 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with four eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 **** "The candidate who slimed John McCain in the primaries and smeared Al Gore in the general election is now the president who pledges to elevate the nation's tone and bring civility to our discorse. Kind of like Michael Corleone brought peace to the mob by killing the heads of the other four families." --Paul Begala, Is Our Children Learning?
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Watch 8-hr tapes. If you put them in fast rewinders, they have a tendency to break or come off the spool at the beginning of the tape.
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It's not the tapes, it's the rewinder. We once had a rewinder, but it went kaput on us and ruined a couple of tapes. Good thing none of them were rentals...
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8 hour tapes would be 4 hour tapes on LP, right? I've never had any real problems with them. Although I'd never tape anything on LP. The sound quality drops badly. Urgh.
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I've never had a problem with 8-hour tapes. Last year my sister taped the entire "Babylon 5" series... all 110 episodes. And rewatched half of them at least five times...
As for the first season eps, here's my top 8 choices (in no particular order):
1. "Encounter at Farpoint, Part 1" 2. "Encounter at Farpoint, Part 2" 3. "11001001" 4. "The Battle" 5. "Heart of Glory" 6. "Conspiracy" 7. "Datalore" 8. "Coming of Age"
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Once squeezed 10 Voyager episodes onto one 8 hour tape - nearly all of the first half of Season 4. Me was well 'appy wiv mesel'.
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------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 6.27 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with four eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 **** "The candidate who slimed John McCain in the primaries and smeared Al Gore in the general election is now the president who pledges to elevate the nation's tone and bring civility to our discorse. Kind of like Michael Corleone brought peace to the mob by killing the heads of the other four families." --Paul Begala, Is Our Children Learning?
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I've never really cared for "Encouter at Farpoint". It's probably the worst out of all 5 Trek pilots.
Howsabout the Neutral Zone? Sure, the Romulan part should have been the A-plot, but the humans are occasionally amusing. Plus, it has a Doctor WHo reference in it! Class!
------------------ "And Mojo was hurt and I would have kissed his little boo boo but then I realized he was a BAD monkey so I KICKED HIM IN HIS FACE!" -Bubbles
I'm not a big fan of EatF myself, but he asked me to put that on the tape because he hasn't seen it in 14 years or so.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 6.27 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with four eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 **** "The candidate who slimed John McCain in the primaries and smeared Al Gore in the general election is now the president who pledges to elevate the nation's tone and bring civility to our discorse. Kind of like Michael Corleone brought peace to the mob by killing the heads of the other four families." --Paul Begala, Is Our Children Learning?
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MinutiaeMan: On an eight-hour tape, w/o commercials, one should be able to fit ten episodes...
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Eleven, if I cut off the end credits and all but one of the opening "Space...the Final Frontier" monologue/credit sequences.
I'm actually making TWO tapes. Here's what on 'em:
TAPE ONE
Encounter at Farpoint The Last Outpost Lonely Among Us The Naked Now Too Short a Season Justice The Battle Coming of Age Heart of Glory Arsenal of Freedom
TAPE TWO
DataLore Hide and "Q" Skin of Evil Conspiracy The Neutral Zone The Child Elementary, Dear Data Measure of a Man Contagion "Q" Who? Peak Performance
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 6.27 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with four eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 **** And homeschooling also turns you into a socially well-adjusted person, capable of talking to people without them wanting to ram a f***ing chair down your throat! - PsyLiam, 3/11/01
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------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 6.27 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with four eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 **** And homeschooling also turns you into a socially well-adjusted person, capable of talking to people without them wanting to ram a f***ing chair down your throat! - PsyLiam, 3/11/01
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JeffK: Yup. It's almost impossible to see, but when stupid 20th century woman is looking up her ancestors, the computer displays:
William Hartnell Patrick Troughton Jon Pertwee Tom Baker Peter Davison Colin Baker
No Sylv, cause he wasn't a Doctor by the time that ep was made.
------------------ "And Mojo was hurt and I would have kissed his little boo boo but then I realized he was a BAD monkey so I KICKED HIM IN HIS FACE!" -Bubbles
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Yeah, I heard the producers made a lot of "in-jokes" for the episode because filming the first season had been so trying on the cast and crew.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 6.27 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with four eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 **** And homeschooling also turns you into a socially well-adjusted person, capable of talking to people without them wanting to ram a f***ing chair down your throat! - PsyLiam, 3/11/01
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