ORG International Star Trek Convention (non-trekkies will be dematerialized)

[Togakure]

[Toga has relinquished his kimono and tabi for a tight-fitting blue polyester shirt, black poly pants, and shin-high black pleather boots. His sleeves bear the gold stripes of the Commander rank, and the insignia on his chest indicates membership in the Sciences division. However, it is not the Federation of Planets symbol, but that of a planet with a dagger thrust through it. A gold sash encircles his waist, and at his side, in addition to a regulation phaser pistol, is a ceremonial dagger. His precise bowl haircut elegantly shows off his pointed latex ears, and unlike clean-shaven (liberal) panzy Federation Spock, his face is graced with an immaculately oiled goatee. This is Spock of the (conservative) Empire of Planets, addressing the first annual ORG Star Trek convention. He pounds the right side of his chest with his left fist and thrusts his arm out aggressively, extending all of his fingers in the Empire salute.]



[takes a hefty swig of Romulan Ale--really diet Seven-Up with blue food coloring; Deevolutionary Star Trek Medley by Devo plays in the background]



Welcome fellow Trekkies! I've always wondered whether Star Trek was as popular internationally as it has been here in the US.

What's your favorite series (original, New Gen, Deep Space Nine, etc.)? Why do you like it better than the others?

Who's your favorite character? Why?

What's your favorite episode? Why do you like it?

Have you ever been to a Star Trek convention? Get any autographs?

In your trekkie days, what stuff did you collect?

What was your most memorable Star Trek moment?

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All those who have an urge to insult trekkies, Star Trek, or DEVO report immediately to the Agony Booth. All those who think Star Wars is better report immediately to the transporter room for beamage into deep space.

[Fragony]

*cough* geek *cough*

Sexy people don't watch Star Trek!

[Togakure]

Scotty ....

[Mr. Scott beams you directly into a Fragony booth].

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We are here, hiding behind little avatars so what does it matter what we admit to, ay? As I see it, there's a little geek in anyone who plays with computers anyway.

and I'm VERY glad that you do not think I'm sexy.

[InsaneApache]

Wow a Trekkie and Devo fan Are we not men? ....We are Devo D-E-V-O from O-H-I-O

As for the topic, the only 'Trek' series I didnt take to was DS9 that was until they had a mega war with the shape shifters then it got a lot more interesting......

'Its worse than that .... he's dead Jim'

[Togakure]

... and Devo fan Are we not men? ....We are Devo D-E-V-O from O-H-I-O

Peek-a-boo!
I can see you
And i know what you do
So put your hands on your face
And cover up your eyes
Don't look until i signal
Peek-a-boo! HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
peek-a-boo! HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
peek-a-boo! HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

The way that we weren't is what we'll become
So please pay attention while i show you some
Of what's about to happen
Peek-a-boo!
I know what you do
Cause i do it too
Laugh if you want to or say you don't care
If you cannot see it you think it's not there
It doesn't work that way

Peek-a-boo! HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
peek-a-boo! HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
peek-a-boo! HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[gives InsaneApache the inverted DEVO salute]

You bet m8. Played Whip It, Jerkin' Back n' Forth, Through Bein' Cool, Girl-u-want and a few others night after night back in the 80s. Fun stuff for a keyboard player. Surprisingly, these tunes packed dance floors constantly, even in redneck Arizona where Rob Halford and KK Downing (Judas Priest) used to come in and check us out (us guys anyway ).

OK now back to the Star Trek convention ... .

[Beirut]

Trekkie and proud of it!

I used to work with a guy and we would say a line from the original series and the the other would have to guess who said it and the name of the episode. I've lost my touch because I've got a **** cable setup and don't get ANY Star Trek any more, but I can still do pretty well.

I'm partial to Voyager. Not sure why. Maybe just because I've seen those episodes less often than all the others. I figure I've watched every episode , from all the series, between five and twenty times each. Been watching for about 25 years and at one point must have had nearly two hundred episodes on tape. My buddy easily has twice that.

He also has ALL the figurines in their original packages. Must be worth a fair bit of money. I told him him one day I"m going to drop acid, break into his house and unwrap and play with them all. I'm sure he would cry.

Star Trek is great because is focusses on the human condition. It has a positive attitude, and good imagination. Also, those chicks Kirk got to bang, oh my. "Tonight I'm your slave Captain Kirk." Indeed.

Some of them were more than fine. And nothing wrong with the space battles too. Some of the scraps were better than anything you'd see in the theater.

And every girlfriend I have had HATES Star Trek. Biyatches.

**** The pics above are from Mirror Mirror and The Cloud Miners

Fragony - Sexy women don't watch it. True. But us hunk-like menfolk do. Hell, I used to make my woman wait until the show was over before she got any attention. She knew her place.

[Togakure]

Trekkie and proud of it!

I used to work with a guy and we would say a line from the original series and the the other would have to guess who said it and the name of the episode. I've lost my touch because I've got a **** cable setup and don't get ANY Star Trek any more, but I can still do pretty well.

I'm partial to Voyager. Not sure why. Maybe just because I've seen those episodes less often than all the others. I figure I've watched every episode , from all the series, between five and twenty times each. Been watching for about 25 years and at one point must have had nearly two hundred episodes on tape. My buddy easily has twice that.

He also has ALL the figurines in their original packages. Must be worth a fair bit of money. I told him him one day I"m going to drop acid, break into his house and unwrap and play with them all. I'm sure he would cry.

Star Trek is great because is focusses on the human condition. It has a positive attitude, and good imagination. Also, those chicks Kirk got to bang, oh my. "Tonight I'm your slave Captain Kirk." Indeed.

Some of them were more than fine. And nothing wrong with the space battles too. Some of the scraps were better than anything you'd see in the theater.

And every girlfriend I have had HATES Star Trek. Biyatches.

**** The pics above are from Mirror Mirror and The Cloud Miners

Fragony - Sexy women don't watch it. True. But us hunk-like menfolk do. Hell, I used to make my woman wait until the show was over before she got any attention. She knew her place.

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LOL! A fun post Beirut [offers a Vulcan salute] ... may you live long and prosper. My buddies and I played the trivia game too, whilst backpacking--original series though, and a very long time ago. I'm sure I totally suck at it now.

Yes, I liked Star Trek because of the very interesting topics and issues it would creatively address (sometimes extremely silly, but still entertaining). I also liked the character development and interaction between the main cast (I'm an original fan--the relationships between Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty remind me a lot of my buddies back in high school; Funny, my buddy Dan was the Kirk parallel, and he DID get all the finest chicks--bastardo).

As a kid in Jr. High I joined the Star Trek club, took over the Captain's chair by leading a mutiny, and threw a famous Star Trek party complete with costumes, 3D chess tournament, and bikini'd green Orion dancing girls (the mum came in and made them put their clothes back on though ). I made a full costume, had models of a communicator, tricorder and phaser, and latex pointed ears.

What REALLY sucked was, the year after, I discovered girls, rock and roll, drugs and what it meant to be cool. The guy who I'd deposed from the Captain's seat ended up being the editor for the Yearbook, and put a picture of me from the previous year, fully dressed up as Spock in the Eighth grade yearbook. I was MORTIFIED. He hid from me the last week of school, as I would have surely given him the Spock pinch of his life for doing that.

I also collected the first set of blueprints, the original technical manual, most of the ship models, and 11 of James Blish's Star Trek novels. I had George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, and James Doohan sign one of them at the only convention I ever attended. A pity that all my trekkie stuff was destroyed when the river flooded in '84 while I was off rockin' and rollin' on the road. They would probably be worth a bit today.

And finally, yes, my girlfriend in eighth grade thought it was geekily hilarious that I had been in the Star Trek club, and never let me live it down. Damn thing was too, that a year later we broke up, and she hooked up with my buddy Dan for the next year or so (Mr. Captain Kirk)! Bastardo. But we eventually drove her away because we constantly played the one game that out-does Star Trek for extreme geekiness--Dungeons and Dragons.

Hmm ... I sure am glad no one here knows who I really am ... hehe.

[Komutan]

Welcome fellow Trekkies! I've always wondered whether Star Trek was as popular internationally as it has been here in the US.

Here in Turkey, when TOS was shown, there was just a single TV channel to watch. As a result everybody watched it. People liked it so much, that a "turkish Star Trek" movie was produced(Omer the Tourist in Star Trek).



http://www.filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?Id=3033

Very entertaining, if you like bad movies

[Togakure]

Here in Turkey, when TOS was shown, there was just a single TV channel to watch. As a result everybody watched it. People liked it so much, that a "turkish Star Trek" movie was produced(Omer the Tourist in Star Trek).



http://www.filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?Id=3033

Very entertaining, if you like bad movies

Wow ... that is so cool! I would love to see this ... bad movies are so funny! So Star Trek does have an international fan base. Fascinating.

[econ21]

[IMG]

What's your favorite series (original, New Gen, Deep Space Nine, etc.)? Why do you like it better than the others?

Deep Space Nine. I liked it best because it alone had a continuing story that lasted longer than a couple of episodes - especially towards the end with the Dominion War. (Although Babylon 5 did the same thing even better) Confining a plot - and usually character development - to 45 minutes is very limiting. Also, although all series have a good ensemble, I enjoyed that in DS9 more (esp. Sisko, Kira, Odo, the Chief, Bashir, Garak, Worf). They seemed to interact in more interesting ways (romantic, antagonistic, old friend/best friend etc) than in other series.

Who's your favorite character? Why?

All series had some great characters (Spock, Data, the Doctor etc) but at the moment, Seven of Nine stands out. That combination of logic, ruthlessness, intellect and assertiveness was always fun to watch. However, I confess the actress Jeri Ryan is also easy on the eye.

What's your favorite episode? Why do you like it?

City on the Edge of Forever. I enjoy the mind-bending alternate reality type stories best - the one where Picard lives the life of an inhabitant of a doomed planet would be a close runner up, as would the one where Jake loses his father. What puts City above the others is the combination of a credible love interest (an eye opener for a generation used to seeing Joan Collins as a drag queen icon) and a tragic moral dilemma ("Jim! Do you realise what you have just done?" "He knows, doctor, he knows.").

BTW, the one series I have not taken to is Enterprise. It just seems too bland. I'm currently getting my weekly Sci-Fi kick from the new "Battlestar Galactica" - I think we in the UK with Sky One are getting it ahead of the US for once, but it is definitely one to watch out for.

[lancelot]

Fav series is definately DS9

I think they wrote some excellent stories and had the courage to do things like kill important characters, destroy the main ship of the show and give wider parts to secondary characters.

Fav character is a toughie....probably Garak.

Fav ep...probably 'by Inferno's light'..where the Dominion finally comes through the wormhole.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Trek all the way! TOS and NG (series and movies). Didn't see the rest but this shall change. Long live eMule, death to Star*spit*wars!
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[Mount Suribachi]

I used to be really into ST, but after watching hundreds of episodes every evening at 5 on Sky One I gradually came to realise that there are only about 8 plotlines in ST that are endlessly recycled.

This week, an old character has been trapped in a temporal buffer for X years *yawn*

Next week Kirk/Picard/Sisko/Janeway has to decide whether to break the Prime Directive or not *yawn*

[econ21]

I used to be really into ST, but after watching hundreds of episodes every evening at 5 on Sky One I gradually came to realise that there are only about 8 plotlines in ST that are endlessly recycled.

Heresy! Well, who was it said there were only seven basic plots in literature? In which case, ST is doing rather well to get them into a 40 minute slot and create a new one!

More seriously, I confess I would tire after watching hundreds of episodes. But it's unfair to accuse Star Trek of lacking original plots. It had some jaw-droppingly good plots - I've already mentioned the original's "City on the Edge of Forever" and TNGs "Inner Light". I admit such outstanding scripts are not too common - maybe once a dozen at best. But even the more run of the mill stuff is more varied than most 40 minute format shows - that's perhaps the greatest advantage of its "explore space" premise.

Star Trek is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you what you are going to get ... a juicy temporal paradox one, a gassy sentient nebulae one or, shudder, a nutty Lwaxana Troi one...

[zelda12]

I hate BBC2, first Star Trek then the Simpsons. Now I can no longer watch ST.

*Sigh*

I'm not a huge mega fan but my God-Mother is and its rubbed of to a certain degree. My favourite series was Deep Space Nine, mainly because of the tribble episode and the huge war towards the end. I also liked voyager.

My aforementioned God-Mother has a signed picture of Chikotee (Can't remember actors name.) Which she got at a convention.

Then again she loves Magyver and SG1. I like SG1 as an escape on Sundays. Plus it is quite good. Ah well ramble over.

[Togakure]

Heresy! ... Star Trek is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you what you are going to get ... a juicy temporal paradox one, a gassy sentient nebulae one or, shudder, a nutty Lwaxana Troi one...

Hehe ... yes indeed. That would make a good spoof: Forrest Gump as Captain of the Enterprise.

I can relate, Mount Suribachi--I only watched through the New Generation regularly. I enjoyed DS9, but didn't watch them as often, and never really got a clear picture of the ongoing story involving the Dominion and the Cardassians. I've only seen a few episodes of Voyager and the newest series. You hit upon the very reason why the newer series' episodes didn't hold me--I kept seeing direct parallels to episodes from TOS and TNG. It seemed as if the writers were running out of gas (particularly after the death of Rodenberry). But as Simon Appleton says, some of the episodes from all the series are extraordinarily good, particularly when you look at all the new Sci-Fi tripe that's being released on Cable and Satellite TV today.

My fav episode is "Mirror, Mirror" from TOS. I delight in the idea of an Empire of Planets instead of a Federation, and a mean and nasty Spock. Plus, I'm a fan of Michael Moorcock and his multiverse/eternal champion books, so the idea of alternate universes has always appealed to me.

[Gregoshi]

I like Star Trek and used to think it was the best thing on TV...until Babylon5 aired. My biggest gripe with ST from STTNG and on is it seems like every other episode involves time travel. I thought the show was called Star Trek, you know, "Space...the final frontier!" They should call it Time Trek with all the temporal crap they toss around. When ST was good, it was very good though. I watched TOS repeatedly for years and STTNG up through its last season or two. DS9 and Voyager I only watched occassionally. Enterprise I stopped watching after about the 3rd episode when they introduced some kind of time traveller. I'd had it up to my eyeballs with the time travel nonsense, and the time travel seemed like it was going to be a major theme of the first season. So that killed Enterprise for me. The thing is, I wanted to like these shows, and I did like the characters, and even though every series had its Spock clone, I still liked those characters. Many of the stories just killed them for me.

One of the (brief) story lines from STTNG that I liked was in the 2nd or 3rd season when high ranking Star Fleet officers were being taken over by some alien parasite-like creatures. The season ended with the discovery and destruction of the queen creature and a mysterious signal being sent out into space. Alas, to my knowledge, they never developed that plot line any further, but it certainly was riveting as it unfolded over a good part of that season.

Another good memory from from STTNG was when Q put the Enterprise crew in the role as Robin Hood and his men. One of the all time classic ST lines was Worf's "I am not a merry man!"

From the original series, The Trouble with Tribbles is a classic. I always liked the Doomsday Machine too. The other episode I really enjoyed was The Balance of Terror where we meet the Romulans and their cloaking device for the first time.

I wish they could get someone in charge of the ST empire who can recapture Roddenberry's spirit. It deserves better than it has gotten of late.