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by old guy

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Thanks to ProtiusX for starting this discussion http://tinyurl.com/84opa awhile back I am home today and tomorrow to take some of my leftover vacation days from 2005 and have found some of my Star Trek TOS tapes and watching them back to back--no commercials. Of course it is ProtiusX's fault that I brought them out http://tinyurl.com/b6ylw .

Just finished watching Armageddon. "Today I choose not to fight." Man, what diplomacy!

Anyway, two days of back to back Star Trek. Man, what a life...

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by stargazerr

I did that this weekend. Locked the door to the apartment, brought out the coke and the m&m's, propped my feet up and spent 48 hours watching 28 episodes .....

LIFE !!! :D

]:)

by dr dij

every voyager episode on dvd: only $600!

give me EFC! love the cool graphics, tho the rebel faction seems to always find a way out.

by stargazerr

I grew up watching The Next Generation. Dont know many episodes of the Voyager .... But thats next on my list.

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by dr dij

it has more than any other. I may be thinking about NG tho.

some very cool parts, including the final episodes where janeway tricks the borg into finding her in her cloaked ship to infect them and let voyager slip thru the borg transwarp conduits. won't say anymore, don't want to ruin it.

other neat episodes, the nerdy scientist at the deep space array thinks he knows where they might be and bounces a comm beam thru a wormhole to them.

too many other neat episodes to mention.

by trek05

I wish I could do that, watch all the episodes, but I need to get them first. Big fan of TOS, only have a couple DVDs of it though.

Anyone want to get rid of some??

by m_a_r_k

Gosh, y'all, with all that TV-watching you're going to burn your eyes out or come down with a bad case of brain cancer. Might I make some chirpy tongue-in-cheeks suggestions for alternate uses of your time? Enjoy a long vigorous workout at your local gym. Or read a book just for fun. Or write a book. Do some brain exercises to improve your memory skills. Spend some time IMing with distant friends. Or catch up on emails. Priorities, priorities. ;)

by stargazerr

Or does all of this sound very familiar ...

Hey Old Guy ... I have a friend who keeps cribbing about the exact same things ;)

Yeah Mark, I agree ... TV watching is bad ... Heck ..Even TR is a bad addiction .... People should be working and trying to incorporate the sales guys' and management's latest requests ... :p

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by m_a_r_k

;) I surely don't know why it all sounds familiar. And ditto about the TR addiction. Maybe fulfillig my latest management request will be the kicker to break my addiction. I'll trade you one management request for one sales guy request. Or better yet, I'll trade one management guy for one sales guy. haha

And where has Old Guy been lately? Has he found the secret to breaking the TR addiction?

by old guy

You're absolutely right about too much TV turning your brain to mush. It's very rare I get to watch more than 2 or 3 shows a week, except for the news.

However, this is probably the first time in 20 years (I'm guessing because I don't remember the last time) that I have taken a couple of vacation days and didn't do anything but just veg out. I probably wouldn't have done it this time if ProtiusX hadn't started that Star Trek thread a couple weeks ago. But it was good this time. I didn't know I could do it.

by dr dij

I agree with a few exceptions: nature shows, particulary animals eating each other verify the fundamental purpose of existance (or creation if you're religious). The cooler the animals, the better: tentacles and changing colors like squids, worms that shoot out sticky strings to capture prey, like peripatus, hive mind insects like Siafu army ants, or the giant wasps of Japan that behead 3000 honey bees per hour.

THen of course, there's the Simpsons and Futurama. Prevents mushy brain as you're trying to avoid doing what they do.

And the NGC or History channel.
Guess I'd better add Sci-Fi channel. If no one watched it, our planet would fall to the Ga'ould and we wouldn't know what they had at Area 51. (History of the future:)

By the way, what is TOS (the orignal startrek?)
The best way to watch these is half asleep on a couch. YOu will synthesize your own episode to the dialog. (and you will also work your way into the ads)

by old guy

Have I found the secret to breaking the TR addiction? Yes. Two things. One has been work lately. :)

by m_a_r_k

You said two things have broken your TR addiction but only named work. Uh...what's the other?

by old guy

I'm still going over in my head (hey, at least something is up there) and may send you two an IM later. We just blue screened one of our servers--got to get back to it.

by m_a_r_k

You said there were two reasons even before you knew there were two reasons? Are you sure something is in your head? ?:|

by stargazerr

Dont tell me Aliens abducted you and one of them has come back as you with half of your brain??

]:)

by m_a_r_k

having a X-ray of your head because you're having headaches and the doctor, not finding anything out of the ordinary, tells you he saw nothing on the X-ray.

by old guy

You have to have one to be out of right. So what is it? Are you guys saying I don't have a mind or that I do have a mind?

What were we talking about????

by old guy

Would the ability to answere ANY question give you the proof? Go ahead and ask me a question. I have an answer for everything... :)

by stargazerr

Breaking TR addiction ... You said that there is some way to break it ... and mentioned on of the 2 things ... which was WORK ... that doesnt help ... whats the second thing??

About your mind ... I guess we can safely come to the conclusion that you DO have a mind ... but right now feel out of it for some reason .... pissed off maybe ... did someone say something?? ;)

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by stargazerr

I gather ... you are not a big star trek fan ...

We ... The nutters :p ... have star trek on DVD and VHS .... NO ADS :D

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by dr dij

I am a big startrek fan, voyager in particular. I liked the others as they came out, some more than others..

The original has been played too many times, will turn your brain to mush if you keep watching some episodes. I liked enterprise as it links current to the future.

I just enjoy other shows too. was tempted to get voyager dvds but is $600 for set with all seasons.

Seriously, it is great fun to fall half asleep and watch (listen to) the shows. I wasn't just bored with them.

Your brain tries to involve you with everything it hears in dreams. (including ads, I've drempt I was mentally disagreeing with infomercial product as I sold it, half asleep)

by stargazerr

I havent seen but a few episodes of Voyager .. But I am on the verge of collecting the TNG season ...

I shouldn't .. specially after the advice jd gave me ... but I am going to spend this weekend watching star trek as well ... Ohh .. Need to buy some more m&m s

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by old guy

Stargazerr, if you're going to be watching TOS watch the episode Spock's Brain as your last one. Someone in the original thread said it was the worst one. I saw it last week and it was really bogus. I still enjoyed it but that will carry me over for a couple more years now.

Have fun!

by dr dij

Earth Final Conflict, or Andromeda fan?

I love the graphics and special effects on EFC.
very well done.

they're at a dift scale, small and close to you vsn huge star ships tho has those at times.

plots can be predicatable in that the rebel faction always is able to get away and liam is able to explain his helping them from position as companion protector.

by dr dij

falling asleep w/ infomercial had me doing rational reasoning like I was in the studio with them reading the ads. sometimes I was one of the readers but internally disagreed with what they were selling. sometimes I got convinced. sometimes I was like the studio audience. No wonder they get so many sales from late night people half asleep.

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