.I go home at night and watch maybe 4 episodes before going to bed..... I find trek women to be the best lookers ever, and reality just isn't as exciting.
I get alot of abuse from my less nice pals about it, and sometimes I get upset, but surely theres nothing wrong with enjoying a bit of roddenberys work.
I don't know. HELP ME
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Don't become a fan that other fans pity, and remember that Jamie Hubbard from "The Dauphin" is mine, all mine. (maniacal laughter)
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"They gave the ferret a teleprompter!"
-Louie the Lizard, Budweiser commercial
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"Diplomacy is the art of Internationalising an issue to your advantage"
StarTrekKiddy: I was lucky enough not to take abuse from friends over trek. You should try some other things now and then. Outdoors, sunshine, food. I have been reaing books and watching other TV shows latley.
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[This message has been edited by Kosh (edited July 12, 1999).]
Maybe I should stop there though before I rant on too much and convince you all that I really am obsessive. No, I'll just tell you because I think you'll be cool about it. You see, its not like ST is a religion in my life, its not, but its a bit like an operating system. If all our live run win98, well with ST as life-operating system we'd be a million times more efficient and happy, and life would be perfect.
So that was my dilemma, its not my religion but I believe strongly enough in it to want my friends and family to know about it. So I told them. I had to. But thats when the name-calling began. If it was a religion I'd be a missionary, going to a foreign land to discover that the people there didn't understand what I said. So I had to explain it to them without the instant jeering and ridicule. Basically I made up a pamphlet on my computer that plainly stated how ST life can be lived, and loved, right here and now.
The jeering and laughing went on and on, so I stopped "witnessing" to the "unconverted". ST never left my life though, and I became (and still am) a closet fan.
Its great to be here though with people who know what I'm talking about.
Soooooo happy to meat you all.
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I declare to the world that Star Trek is part of my life. And proud of it. If you didn't know yet, I go to an all-girls school, and believe me, there are not many Trekkers there (about two per grade level). I do not know anyone who's more of an avid fan than myself (except maybe my history teacher from last year). But I wear one of my many Trek shirts to school on free dress days. I wear my Bajoran or Comm pins even more often. I talk about Trek whenever possible. I wrote an essay on Star Trek. And I wore my Starfleet uniform for Halloween, complete with phaser and tricorder. Nearly all of my friends have watched TNG, if not the later spinoffs.
Nobody laughs at me (at least not visibly). But if they did, I would not do things any differently. To do that would be to admit defeat.
And yes, I know it's just a show.
But I wouldn't mind changing my name to Jadzia Dax.
(Why not Tora Ziyal? Because then people would be calling me Tora and not Ziyal, which will get very annoying as time goes on.)
Recently I finished reading "Star Trek Voyager: A Vision of the Future". It was truly inspiring. I'd recommend the book to all of you. It was about the making of Voyager, but not just that. For some time in the past year I had been wondering if Star Trek really deserved to be the top show in my life, and if there really is something about other shows like B5 and X-Files that made them better than Trek.
This book answered my question. Star Trek talks about a brighter future. At the time it began, the SF shows told people that aliens are evil, advanced technology will fail, and the future is bleak. They still do. X-Files is the perfect example (or anything Chris Carter comes up with). Star Wars is centered around a war, and so is B5. Jurassic Park is another failure of technology. The list goes on.
But not Star Trek. It's where technology and aliens are part of the setting. The characters are constantly put under moral dilemmas that challenge their beliefs and principles. And notice how alien lovers like Quark and Natima, Worf and Jadzia, or Neelix and Kes behave just like any old Terran couples. If they took their masks off, their lines would remain exactly the same.
I have always been aware of this in Star Trek, but no one put it into words like this for me before now. Now I know why Star Trek is a classic. Now I know why I'd support it against all odds. I love Star Trek, and that's the way it is.
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"I would be delighted to offer any advice I can on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know."
--Picard to Data, "In Theory"
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Alot of people put their faith in George Lucas for the universe he has created with star wars, but I don't see Roddenbery as being God at all. If anything its Picard who I look to for inspiration and wisdom. I understand he's a fictitious character, but he's definately a demi-god to me.
Maybe maybe maybe one day science will progress to a point where I can meat him in a holodeck. If not I'll just have to stick to my lucid dreams. Lucid dreams incorporating 7of9 can be slightly embarrasing on laundry day. Sorry guys!
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--Picard to Data, "In Theory"
[This message has been edited by Kosh (edited July 12, 1999).]
(Extremely obscure injoke.)
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John Linnell
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Well to be serious for a moment: Well I don't know we have had our share of conflicts like the time the UP Forum got shut down after a massive conflict and we had other troubles conflicts, and wars, but we mostly respect others options, well at least most of time and if your not speaking of ship lengths .
Ok back to my goofy mode: Kosh wasn't the Shadow War ended without weapons but with ideas. Also I don't see how B5 was about the War when it only lasted two seasons (the War I mean). Well B5 isn't the most extremely hopeful look into the future, but it isn't the bleakest, It really sounds like jms thinks the future will be a lot like it is now, maybe a little better, but not a lot better. Honestly it sounds more realistic that the model governed by Star Trek because I honestly don't see Technology changing our minds that much.
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HMS White Star (your local friendly agent of Chaos:-) )
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Charles Capps
Chief Administrator, the solareclipse network
"I do whatever the voices in my head tell me to do."