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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] I'm surprised no-one has commented on this - yesterday was the 10th anniversary of [i]Star Trek: First Contact[/i]. The film which, more than anything is probably the reason most of us are here at Flare. I was looking forward to this film sooo much. I wasn't on the internet then (few people were!) so only had brief glimpses in other media to inform me about the film - a teaser poster at our local cinema, announcing the UK date (6th December); the teaser trailer, shown in the UK before [i]Mission: Impossible[/i], with its recycled TNG & Voyager footage; a pic in a magazine showing the new uniforms, and phaser rifles! What I was almost unable to find was any clue as to what the [i]Sovereign[/i]-class [i]Enterprise[/i] looked like. A crappy pic of the MSD became my Windows 3.11 background immediately. How I got to see the film was a bit of a saga. I'd been out clubbing the night before, ended up stranded in Brighton until the first train at 5 the next morning, fell asleep in the chillout room of a club (but got constantly awakened by clubbers asking what fantastic drugs I was on and could they have some? My answer every time: "I've had a hard week at work, fuck off you stupid cunt." Then had a slap-up fry-up in a cavernous cafe next door while all these veggie female students berated me as a brutal carnivore, and their hapless boyfriends moped over their nut rissoles and tried to look disapproving rather than secretly envious. Then catching the train home and having to share a carriage with a nutter (sat as far away from him as possible, ignored the curious rhythmic fapping noise coming from his direction, oh I wish I was making that bit up). Then slept late, caught a train to London, met some friends and did battle to get some good seats in a packed prime-time Saturday night screening at the Empire in Leicester Square. The next year, taking my first tentative steps into the non-porn part of the net, I found this place called Utopia Planitia, and the rest is history. I'll end this trawl down memory lane with of course the most-analyzed sequence in Trek history (although the Wolf 359ers might beg to differ); shame UBB doesn't allow embedding of YouTube videos:- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8B1RJbtd9E">The Battle of Sector 001.</a> Where were you, what were you doing, and what did you think? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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