RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-24 Thread Martin
Night Live -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:53 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world ha-ha! You

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2008-05-24 Thread Astromancer
, May 18, 2008 7:53 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world ha-ha! You definitely need to get a job as a writer on a comedy show. Is Saturday Night Live hiring? -- Original message -- From: Martin

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2008-05-23 Thread Astromancer
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:53 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world ha-ha! You definitely need to get a job as a writer on a comedy show. Is Saturday Night

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2008-05-18 Thread Martin
Of Lockhart, Daryle Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 7:58 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Frakes directed Insurrection. On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:49 -0400, Tracey de Morsella wrote: For me, First Contact was the best

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-18 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Frakes directed Insurrection. On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:49 -0400, Tracey de Morsella wrote: For me, First Contact was the best of the recent Trek movies. They were never able to recapture the magic of that movie. I

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-18 Thread Martin
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:53 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world ha-ha! You definitely need to get a job as a writer on a comedy show. Is Saturday

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2008-05-18 Thread Astromancer
@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Frakes directed Insurrection. On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:49 -0400, Tracey de Morsella wrote: For me, First Contact was the best of the recent Trek movies. They were never able to recapture the magic

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2008-05-18 Thread KeithBJohnson
PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:53 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world ha-ha! You definitely need to get a job as a writer on a comedy show. Is Saturday Night Live hiring? -- Original message

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2008-05-18 Thread KeithBJohnson
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:53 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world ha-ha! You definitely need to get a job as a writer on a comedy show. Is Saturday Night Live hiring? -- Original message

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2008-05-18 Thread KeithBJohnson
] On Behalf Of Lockhart, Daryle Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 7:58 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Frakes directed Insurrection. On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:49 -0400, Tracey de Morsella wrote: For me, First Contact

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2008-05-17 Thread Astromancer
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Frakes directed Insurrection. On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:49 -0400, Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, First Contact was the best of the recent Trek movies. They were never

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-17 Thread Astromancer
] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world i know of just as many older fans who prefer Trekkie myself included (been watching faithfully for 36 years) but as you so, it's not the most important thing around. it's only when I say Trekkie and get attacked that I take umbrage

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2008-05-17 Thread KeithBJohnson
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lockhart, Daryle Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 7:58 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Frakes directed Insurrection. On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:49 -0400, Tracey de Morsella

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2008-05-17 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Well I like you any way :) -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 2:38 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

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2008-05-17 Thread Tracey de Morsella
, 2008 6:25 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Like someone said--Rave or Daryle, I believe--it wasn't awful. It would have been a decent two-part TV show. But it never rose to the level of quality and action that one

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-17 Thread Astromancer
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Now wait a minute...I liked Insurrection... Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said before, never mind.. YUK! -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-17 Thread Astromancer
: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Frakes directed Insurrection. On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:49 -0400, Tracey de Morsella wrote: For me, First Contact was the best of the recent Trek movies. They were never able to recapture the magic of that movie. I wonder why

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-17 Thread KeithBJohnson
: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lockhart, Daryle Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 7:58 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Frakes directed Insurrection. On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:49 -0400

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-17 Thread Martin
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 6:25 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Like someone said--Rave or Daryle, I believe--it wasn't awful

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2008-05-17 Thread KeithBJohnson
Frakes back to do the two follow up movies -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ravenadal Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:12 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek

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2008-05-16 Thread Lockhart, Daryle
the two follow up movies -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ravenadal Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:12 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Which reminds

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-16 Thread KeithBJohnson
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world First Contact is my fave of the new movies, too; The Search for Spock is my fav of the old cast movies. Frakes directed Insurrection, I think and that wasn't very good. Bad scripts for the last couple of flicks

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-16 Thread KeithBJohnson
Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world i know of just as many older fans who prefer Trekkie myself included (been watching faithfully for 36 years) but as you so, it's not the most important thing around. it's only when I say Trekkie and get attacked that I take umbrage

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-15 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Of ravenadal Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:12 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Which reminds me...I finally saw Nemesis on satellite this weekend. It was a pleasant enough way to spend a Saturday morning at home

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2008-05-15 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Smart woman :) -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:12 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world As for being

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2008-05-15 Thread Tracey de Morsella
@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world good points, I just like Nemesis better, probably because it at least *reached* for being a Trek movie, even though it failed. As opposed to Insurrection, which as you astutely pointed out

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-15 Thread Tracey de Morsella
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world i know of just as many older fans who prefer Trekkie myself included (been watching faithfully for 36 years) but as you so, it's not the most important thing around. it's only when I say Trekkie

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-15 Thread KeithBJohnson
] On Behalf Of ravenadal Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:12 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Which reminds me...I finally saw Nemesis on satellite this weekend. It was a pleasant enough way to spend a Saturday morning at home

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2008-05-15 Thread KeithBJohnson
@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world As for being mad about wasting money. I went through a period years ago when I was between jobs, hundreds of miles from family (and money!), had just lost my car, so was on the bus, and was literally

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-15 Thread KeithBJohnson
: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:39 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world i know of just as many older fans who prefer Trekkie myself included

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2008-05-15 Thread Tracey de Morsella
] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:15 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world First Contact is my fave of the new movies, too; The Search for Spock is my fav of the old cast movies. Frakes directed

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2008-05-15 Thread Astromancer
-Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:39 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world i know of just as many older fans who

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-08 Thread KeithBJohnson
i'd be curious to see what you think of it. Dark and sombre in many ways toward the end, but just doesn't feel right to me. It's as if the writers said Hey, let's make a really dark Trek show. Didn't work. A shame, because I do like Stewart's acting chops getting exercised. Same for Brent

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-08 Thread Martin
I was going to go to blockbuster to look for it today, but the car made some funny noises, and I didn't want to chance the ride. Tomorrow, hopefully. I did happen to read the final script, and the story was somewhat interesting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'd be curious to see what you think of

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2008-05-08 Thread Meta
I feel your pain.:-) I always found it rather crazy that the most devout fans of IDIC, could go all postal with anyone who dared to use Trekkie. I figure there is worst things to be called.:-) Meta --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i know of just as many older fans

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-07 Thread Lockhart, Daryle
Recently, Insurrection has been on cable, and I watched it because it was on one of the HD channels. In my opinion, Nemesis is not better. Nemesis is pretty bad. And even though Insurrection put us in the middle of a TNG episode with a race we never heard of, it was still good ol'

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-07 Thread KeithBJohnson
good points, I just like Nemesis better, probably because it at least *reached* for being a Trek movie, even though it failed. As opposed to Insurrection, which as you astutely pointed out, is really just a TV show. I think its safety and lack of reach disappointed me more than Nemesis and its

[scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-07 Thread Meta
In early Trekdom the term Trekkie was well used by the media whenever they did a usually not flattering story about Trek fans, so many older fans preferred to be called Trekker over the other name. Having been a Trek fan from day one I still prefer Trekker That said I really don't care what

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-07 Thread KeithBJohnson
i know of just as many older fans who prefer Trekkie myself included (been watching faithfully for 36 years) but as you so, it's not the most important thing around. it's only when I say Trekkie and get attacked that I take umbrage. -- Original message -- From: Meta

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2008-05-07 Thread Martin
I'm not sure, but I believe that I may be the only person in this post who *hasn't* seen Nemesis. Closest I got to viewing it was back in '04, when I was at my aunt's place in Virginia for the Fourth. Saw the opening credits before the ribs were ready. Hey. I have priorities... ;D And, looking

[scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-06 Thread ravenadal
Which reminds me...I finally saw Nemesis on satellite this weekend. It was a pleasant enough way to spend a Saturday morning at home with an open laptop, a tankard of coffee and my morning newspapers handy, but I would have been mad as heck if I had paid first run movie house prices to see

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world

2008-05-06 Thread KeithBJohnson
well i paid full price to see Nemesis, just as I've paid to see *every* Trek movie that's ever come out. It was weak and disappointing. only thing I can say is that it was better than Insurrection. I still can't figure out who was smoking what when they wrote that script: a Romulan based on