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#1 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted September 16 2024 - 5:36 PM

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I've been a Star Trek fan since I was very young. It generally caters to intelligent, scientific-minded individuals, and due to the fact that there is a high concentration of such people on this forum (it is a scientific forum, after all), it would be logical to assume that there are quite a few Trekkies in our midst. 

 

What's your favorite series/movie? Favorite character? Favorite looking ship? Favorite episode?

 

My series of choice is Deep Space 9, and Sisko has always been my favorite captain. Close on the totem pole are Voyager, The Next Generation, Strange New Worlds, and Lower Decks. I think Enterprise is underrated. Discovery and Picard were disappointing, to say the least. I love the Original Series, but those graphics - I just can't, it's too old for me.

 

Favorite ship is the Enterprise E, the design of anything doesn't get much better than that aesthetically. Close second is the Akira Class. Strange New Worlds OG redesign is also up there, as well as DS9 Defiant. Call me childish but I also love the Prometheus.

 

One of my favorite episodes is TNG's "Chain of Command," the THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS episode. Can't go wrong with TOS Balance of Terror either. Also am a fan of SNW "Tomorow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow." Kirk drives a Hellcat. That's peak entertainment. My favorite ever sci-fi battle is in DS9 "Sacrifice of Angels," brilliantly written episode. Gul Dukat is one of TV's best villains, that is a hill I'm willing to die on.

 

Also I found it interesting that in the Trek universe there's Teirenian ants, which produce bioluminescent enzymes. They got a shout out in Voyagers' "Child's Play."

 

 

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#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 16 2024 - 5:59 PM

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I watched a lot of Star Trek growing up. I still remember when Deep Space 9 came out. I must have been 9 or 10 years old then.
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#3 Offline Barristan - Posted September 16 2024 - 10:26 PM

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I rewatched Deep Space 9 last year, it is my favorite of all Star Trek series.


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#4 Offline Ernteameise - Posted September 16 2024 - 11:04 PM

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Long time Star Trek fan here.

I am one of the crazy people who dress up and go to conventions.

I have a whole wall full of autographs and even  went to a fan dinner once with Robert Picardo (Doctor / EMH from Voyager).

I also learned Klingon during my youth and had all the language books and the cassette audio learning tapes.

Qapla'!

 

The new stuff, I am ambivalent to.

I admit I have never seen the new Discovery (the whole new design and the harsh reality put me off), but I liked Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks.

Picard Season 3 is also awesome (Season 1 is just an ultra brutal non-fun gore-fest). TNG must be one of my favorite TV series of all time.


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#5 Offline Serafine - Posted September 17 2024 - 4:52 AM

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Best Trek series definitely Deep Space 9. Not as great as Babylon5 in both story and characters (Londo Mollari is just amazing), but it comes close.

 

Balance of terror is an amazing episode that is modelled after an actual engagement between a destroyer and a uboat.

DS9 has a time travel episode that overlaps with the TOS tribbles episode and it's both great and hilarious.


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#6 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted September 18 2024 - 9:52 AM

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I also love Trials and Tribbleations. It is great and hilarious. I've seen DS9 three times now, and after the last time wears off I'll surely watch it again.


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis


#7 Online rptraut - Posted September 19 2024 - 1:01 AM

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I got hooked on Star Trek Voyager in college. I really enjoyed the great stories. I also enjoyed Deep Space 9.

When I watched the original Star Trek series it was amazing. Totally different from anything else on TV. How far we’ve come.

Watching all these shows now, I realize how imaginative the stories were while still being grounded in the realities of science.
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#8 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted September 19 2024 - 12:52 PM

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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis


#9 Offline Ernteameise - Posted September 25 2024 - 4:17 AM

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My Star Trek autograph wall (I have a couple more on another wall, like Max Grodenchik = Rom/DS9).

Best thing is, I even had some chats with most of these actors. :D

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