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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

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?

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

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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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

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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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

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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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :

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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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

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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At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.

"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

What?! No Arsenal of Freedom???

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

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!

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

It does?

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.

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

MinutiaeMan: On an eight-hour tape, w/o commercials, one should be able to fit ten episodes...

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

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

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :

Oh yeah... forgot that people who spend lots of money get the shows without commercials.

Looks like a good list! Sure wish I had the time and money for tapes like that...

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Three words:

Laserdiscs. Used. E-Bay.

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"Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!"
-Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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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

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

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.

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"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

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

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.

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Star Trek Gamma Quadrant
Average Rated 6.27 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with four eps posted)
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"Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!"
-Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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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

Posted by MrNeutron (Member # 524) on :

Speaking of Encounter at Farpoint, one of my favorite in-episode moments occurs when Worf is at the Conn station and the camera trucks in towards Picard from the viewscreen...and just as Worf is about to go out of shot you can see him PUSH the Conn console so it swings away to allow the camera through.

One other thing about Farpoint is that the two-part version actually is edited slightly to make room for two sets of credits, opening titles and the "Last episode" stuff. I used to know exactly what scenes were deleted from the original 2-hour pilot, but the memory has faded.

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

They did the same for every episode aired the same way --

Emissary, Way of the Warrior (Quark's scene with the box is cut out), All Good Things...

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"Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!"
-Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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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

Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

"Darmok. And Jalar. At Tenagra ...............When.......the walls fell".

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

I was especially PO'ed when I saw WotW in two parts, minus the box scene. It ranks up there as one of the best Quark/Odo scenes ever, and the bastards cut it...

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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

What box scene?

And they removed Garak's and bashir's last conversation from 'What You Leave Behind' - I've never seen it *sniff*

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At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.

"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Quark is refusing to leave the station. He's got his old Ferengi sidearm from his time in the Ferengi Merchant Marines (or whatever they call 'em), and he tells Odo he'll fight to the end to protect his Bar.

Then he opens the box and finds a note from Rom.

Brother -- took weapon to fix replicator

It was very cute

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"Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!"
-Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001

Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

Oh, THAT!!

"I'll kill him!"
"With what?"

Priceless! I had seen it, the reference just didn't click. Tanx.

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At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.

"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"

Posted by BRUTUS on :

Jeff, I was buying TNG LDs a year or two ago on Ebay but I didn't have a lot to spend and rarely did I find great deals....sold what I had collected and made a bundle in profit though.

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

I was lucky, I picked up most of the first season for about $10 a disc -- had to shell out extra for Conspiracy/Neutral Zone, though -- that one went for about $25.

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Well, my friend gave me two tapes, so I dubbed him up two tapes. Here's what they've got:

[u]Tape One[/u]

Encounter at Farpoint - I
Encounter at Farpoint - II
The Last Outpost
Lonely Among Us
The Naked Now
Too Short A Season
Justice
The Battle
Hide and "Q"
The Arsenal of Freedom
DataLore

[u]Tape Two[/u]

The Big Goodbye
Home Soil
1100101
Angel One
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
Skin of Evil
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone
The Child
Elementary, Dear Data

He wants to give me more tapes -- and hell, I enjoy making 'em -- so I'm trying to figure out what I'll put on Tape Three. Sadly, I haven't yet found Measure of a Man on LD, so it looks like that episode will be absent.

[u]Tape Three[/u]

Contagion
Emissary
Matter of Honor
Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Manhunt
"Q"-Who?
Peak Performance
Evolution
Ensigns of Command
The Enemy

[u]Tape Four[/u]

The Vengeance Factor
The Defector
The High Ground
Deja "Q"
Yesterday's Enterprise
Sins of the Father
Captain's Holiday
Tin Man
Hollow Pursuits
Sarek
The Most Toys

[u]Tape Five[/u]

Menage a Troi
Best of Both Worlds - I
Best of Both Worlds - II
Family
Brothers
Reunion
Final Mission
Data's Day
The Wounded
Clues
"Q"-pid

[u]Tape Six[/u]

The Drumhead
The Nth Degree
Half a Life
The Mind's Eye
Redemption - I
Redemption - II
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Silicon Avatar
Disaster
Unification - I

[u]Tape Seven[/u]

Unification - II
New Ground
Conundrum
Ethics
Cause and Effect
First Duty
Cost of Living
I, Borg
The Next Phase
Inner Light
Time's Arrow - I

[u]Tape Eight[/u]

Time's Arrow - II
Realm of Fear
Relics
True Q
Chain of Command - I
Chain of Command - II
Ship in a Bottle
Face of the Enemy
Tapestry
Starship Mine
Birthright - I

[u]Tape Nine[/u]

Birthright - II
Lessons
The Chase
Aquiel
Rightful Heir
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent - I
Descent - II
Interface
Gambit - I

[u]Tape Ten[/u]

Gambit - II
Dark Page
Attached
Parallels
Pegasus
Lower Decks
Journey's End
Bloodlines
Premeptive Strike
All Good Things - I
All Good Things - II