Star Trek

Jazzman · 05-14-2009, 03:23 PM

Wil Wheaton's hilarious blog about TNG, in case anyone hasn't seen it. Worth a read for any Trek fan.

As per the DS9 vs Voyager question, I agree that DS9 had higher quality acting and deeper characters, but personally I prefer episodic, stand alone Trek as opposed to endless story arcs, and DS9 got so buried under wormhole aliens, religious dogma and the boring Dominion war that I tuned out, much as with Enterprise and the Xindi. Voyager was a little hokier, the characters a little more cardboard and the writing maybe not as profound, but it was fun, imaginative, and dogma-free, which is what I believe makes Trek its best. This is why DS9 and Voyager are largely a tie in my mind; where one succeeds the other fails, so they balance out in the end.

And I wholeheartedly agree about the awesomeness of the silent, 2001-esque outer space. During the first battle when things began as usual (loud and bombastic) I thought, "Well, they didn't fix that. Too bad." Then that crewman got sucked out and it went silent and I was blown away. Totally awesome! Even BSG didn't quite get this right. Hopefully they take this further. I kind of got the feeling that they were trying to make it look like the space sounds we hear are how it sounds inside the ship, but it actually is silent outside. Anybody else get that feeling too?

innerSpaceman · 05-14-2009, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Jazzman

I kind of got the feeling that they were trying to make it look like the space sounds we hear are how it sounds inside the ship, but it actually is silent outside. Anybody else get that feeling too?

No.

Though I will always appreciate that, way back when, they originally tried the Star Trek series opening with accurate silence as the Enterprise whooshes past the camera, but found it simply didn't work without the sonic whoosh added.

I won't mind if this new movie series employs a combination of both.

05-14-2009, 03:23 PM	#1
Jazzman Sax God Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Portland's Tijuana Posts: 510	Wil Wheaton's hilarious blog about TNG, in case anyone hasn't seen it. Worth a read for any Trek fan. As per the DS9 vs Voyager question, I agree that DS9 had higher quality acting and deeper characters, but personally I prefer episodic, stand alone Trek as opposed to endless story arcs, and DS9 got so buried under wormhole aliens, religious dogma and the boring Dominion war that I tuned out, much as with Enterprise and the Xindi. Voyager was a little hokier, the characters a little more cardboard and the writing maybe not as profound, but it was fun, imaginative, and dogma-free, which is what I believe makes Trek its best. This is why DS9 and Voyager are largely a tie in my mind; where one succeeds the other fails, so they balance out in the end. And I wholeheartedly agree about the awesomeness of the silent, 2001-esque outer space. During the first battle when things began as usual (loud and bombastic) I thought, "Well, they didn't fix that. Too bad." Then that crewman got sucked out and it went silent and I was blown away. Totally awesome! Even BSG didn't quite get this right. Hopefully they take this further. I kind of got the feeling that they were trying to make it look like the space sounds we hear are how it sounds inside the ship, but it actually is silent outside. Anybody else get that feeling too?
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