14 Responses to “What needs saying”

1. zach Says:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 8:04 pm

   so true. sort of related- started getting the old tng episodes from netflix after seeing a couple episodes on cable while in sf. can’t wait.

2. ross Says:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 9:09 pm

   fucking sybok.

3. mark Says:
   February 3rd, 2010 at 10:46 am

   ross: I know right! the things we carry with us make us who we are

   zach: early tng is goo, I always think about that one early episode we watched one movie night where ross was pointing out the inconsistencies left and right. I wish I could watch that episode again

4. ross Says:
   February 3rd, 2010 at 12:25 pm

   haha, what episode was that? i don’t remember being that clever.

5. mark Says:
   February 3rd, 2010 at 1:23 pm

   I think it might’ve been the one where those worm creatures take over the admirals but I’m not sure, I think we watched it at goler

6. zach Says:
   February 3rd, 2010 at 1:58 pm

   yeah it’s almost unsettling to go back to the point where none of the characters act like themselves. everyone’s still trying to figure out their roles or even what position they’ll actually fill on the ship. watched the episode where the gravity-altered water molecules are making everyone (including data, somehow) drunk. and at the end of the episode crusher comes up with the antidote or whatever (due to riker remembering something about “people showering with their clothes on”). but it’s so stupid, like tasha yar, seconds after being infected by geordi, is already totally in full-on bacchanalia, while riker gets infected by troi and more-or-less remains stoic and unaffected for the rest of the episode. meanwhile wesley is all over the place, half the time he’s flipping out and taking control of the ship, and the other half he’s basically normal: “oh i’ll just turn the tractor beam into a repulsor beam boop boop done.”

   and then in encounter at farpoint Q is giving this stemwinding speech about how humans are a disease or whatever, while only 2 of the 4 people from the enterprise he’s talking to are even human.

7. dave Says:
   February 3rd, 2010 at 2:58 pm

   zach, just for fun do me a favor and assume you’re someone who knows nothing about TNG and reread what you just wrote.

8. zach Says:
   February 3rd, 2010 at 3:34 pm

   surprise surprise i sound like a total nerd. it’s like picard says in encounter at farpoint “if we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are.”

9. mark Says:
   February 3rd, 2010 at 3:42 pm

   yeah, “if we lose them we lose ourselves”

10. dave Says:
    February 3rd, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    i didn’t mean it as a personal insult, and i hope you don’t take it that way…i just thought it was pretty funny how for a layman something like “but it’s so stupid, like tasha yar, seconds after being infected by geordi, is already totally in full-on bacchanalia, while riker gets infected by troi…” is impenetrable.

11. ross Says:
    February 3rd, 2010 at 7:20 pm

    fuck star trek

12. rob Says:
    February 4th, 2010 at 1:54 am

    I randomly saw Patrick Stewart at a documentary film festival in Nevada City the other week. He was shorter than I expected, and his bald head was also less shiny than it appears onscreen. But it was still thrilling to see the captain.

13. ross Says:
    February 4th, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    rob: i probably would have creamed my pants. i’m not sure whether because he’s Picard or Professor X. i guess both.

14. rob Says:
    February 4th, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    It was pretty amazing. I knew he was going to be there, but Kelley and I were just walking down the street and I looked in the window and saw him talking to some reporters.