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Malnurtured Snay
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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? [This message has been edited by JeffKardde (edited March 11, 2001).]
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First of Two
Member # 16
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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.------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
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Fabrux
Member # 71
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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...  ------------------ "Let's make sure history never forgets the name... Enterprise" - Alternate Picard, "Yesterday's Enterprise"
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PsyLiam
Member # 73
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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.------------------ "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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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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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" ------------------ You know, you really should keep a personal log. Why bore others needlessly? The Gigantic Collection of Star Trek Minutiae
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Gaseous Anomaly
Member # 114
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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'.------------------ 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!"
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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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What?! No Arsenal of Freedom???------------------ 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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PsyLiam
Member # 73
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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
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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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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. ------------------ 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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TSN
Member # 31
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MinutiaeMan: On an eight-hour tape, w/o commercials, one should be able to fit ten episodes...------------------ "...I know this board in secret, intimate ways which are beyond your comprehension.... Let's just say that people should *not* be telling me what to do; it should always be the other way around." -"Red Quacker", conspiracy theorist and contemporary lunatic
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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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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 [This message has been edited by JeffKardde (edited March 12, 2001).]
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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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... ------------------ You know, you really should keep a personal log. Why bore others needlessly? The Gigantic Collection of Star Trek Minutiae
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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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Three words: Laserdiscs. Used. E-Bay. ------------------ 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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PsyLiam
Member # 73
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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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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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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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MrNeutron
Member # 524
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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.
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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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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... ------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 7.64 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with six 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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The Talented Mr. Gurgeh
Member # 318
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"Darmok. And Jalar. At Tenagra ...............When.......the walls fell".------------------ "Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean universe-which stands continuously open to our gaze, but which cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth." Galileo (1623)
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The_Tom
Member # 38
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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... ------------------ "Ring a bell, and I'll salivate... well how'd you like that? Dr. Landy, please tell me I'm not just a pedagogue..." -Brian Wilson, The Barenaked Ladies
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Gaseous Anomaly
Member # 114
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What box scene?And they removed Garak's and bashir's last conversation from 'What You Leave Behind' - I've never seen it *sniff* ------------------ 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!"
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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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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  ------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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Gaseous Anomaly
Member # 114
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Oh, THAT!!"I'll kill him!" "With what?" Priceless! I had seen it, the reference just didn't click. Tanx. ------------------ 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!"
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BRUTUS
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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.
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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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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. ------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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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
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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