Like all good things, our intrepid voyage through Star Trek has come to an end. But why let that stop us? The Enterprise has a continuing mission, and so do we: to watch even more Star Trek. I know, I know, we’re crazy. But we kind of love it. We’re nerds.
Next week we’ll be posting our usual Season 3 Wrap-Up. Then, due to popular demand, we’ll be reviewing “The Cage.” Finally, we’ll close the book on TOS with a Series Wrap-Up. We’ll probably do some post-series statistical number crunching to find out which episodes were the best and worst based on our warp system, and compare that to what our gut says.*
Next up: The Animated Series, of course! Eugene suggested we do this very early on in the process and I agreed, mostly because it’s short and it’s easy to rag on Filmation. But because the episodes, too, are short, and because no one wants to spend 5 months on TAS, we’ll be doing two posts a week: Tuesdays and Thursdays.
I’ve wanted to do the movies since we started, since I love them so, and we’ll eventually get to those and wrap up the TOS canon, as it were.
Now many of you know that Eugene and are I both, at heart, TNG fans. (I can hear the boos through the internet, I know.) But we’re not interested in re-watching all 176 episodes, because a) I want to finish this before I retire; and b) not all of them are worth re-watching, let’s be honest here. So we’ll be doing a limited re-watch of TNG. Each season we will pick between us a few of the episodes we’d really like to cover–our favorites or our least favorites–and the rest of the season we’ll leave up to a poll, and let you folks choose the 5 or 10 episodes to add to those. Details are hazy; ask again later. But we hope this is the best system for skipping the mediocrity and going straight for the very good and the very bad, i.e. the episodes most worth talking about.
Over the past two years you’ve been our constant companions and for that we are so very grateful. We hope we’ll continue to see you all in the weeks and months to come. Bring your friends! Drinks are on us.**
*All I know is, my gut says maybe.
** If by “drinks” you mean “episode reviews.”
I am already excited to follow the continuing adventures of Torie and Eugene!
Woooo!
Love the graphic.
@2 ChurchHatesTucker
Thanks! :) It’s all downhill from there.
For various reasons too boring to mention, I haven’t been able to keep up with the re-watch here. And I didn’t bother to read those by the new team on Tor.com. I’m just glad that I didn’t miss the rewatch of the movies because I’ve been looking forward to those a lot.
And now that I know there will be some TNG rewatching (which I’m a devotee of as well) then I have even more to look forward to.
So anyway…glad to see you’re still trekking.
I’m looking forward to all of this. (Well, maybe not The Cage so much. Is there really much more to say?) TAS has taken a lot of crap because of the horrible animation, but many of the stories were pretty good. And the movies will be a roller coaster ride. I’ve been thinking about some comments for I and IV for a while now.
*rubbing hands in anticipation*
Are the animated shows available on CBS.com, or shall I netflix them? I remember only fragments from the Animated shows, though I do remember watching them in their original run. The best thing about TAS, Kzinti of course!
@4 Toryx
We’re glad you’re still checking in! We aren’t going anywhere, so you have plenty of time to catch up on the posts you missed and now’s a good time to get involved again. The animated series episodes are much shorter than the original series, so it’s less of a time commitment.
@6 bobsandiego
CBS.com briefly posted them online just last month, which we thought was great timing for our re-watch. Then they pulled them a short while later, along with the original series,with no explanation. (I suspect this is related to the recent announcement that episodes would be available through Netflix Watch Instantly.)
However, a canny Google search and some poking around their website shows that the video files are still active, or at least they were when I checked last week. So we’ll keep linking to them in advance of each re-watch as we’ve been doing, as long as there’s a legal copy out there.
In the worst case scenario, I’ll just make more screencaps than usual for each episode so you can follow along, which will make it only slightly less-animated than the actual program :P
I must have missed the Kzinti in the limited number of episodes I saw. I’m looking forward to finding out what the heck you’re talking about.
And Torie, don’t you mean 178 episodes of The Next Generation?
@7 Eugene
I Assume you do know who the Kzinti are. I once spoke with Larry Niven at a local convention he commented that as far as he was concerned StarTrek now had thr ights to use the Kzinti in their universe because of the episode of the animated series.
Man JJ would win my heart forever if he produced a kick ass Kziniti movie as the follow-up.
@ 4 Toryx
Yep, still trekking. :)
@ 5 DemetriosX
I am soooo excited about the movies. I did a full re-watch of them maybe two years ago, so I’m curious to see how I’ll react now having seen the full series.
@ 6 bobsandiego
CBS.com is being coy. They took down the direct links to TOS and TAS but if you search, they turn up in the results. Eugene explains this a bit better.
@ 8 Eugene
No, I mean 176. Two of the episodes are two hours, so there are 178 hours of TNG, but only 176 episodes. Nerd fight!
@ 9 bobsandiego
JJ would win my heart forever if he went back to poorly characterized and absurdly plotted television and left the franchise alone. But as Picard says, “Wishing for a thing does not make it so.”
(Duh. Saying “Make it so” makes it so! But I digress.)
@10 Torie
I’ll take JJ’s overly bright, explosion filled, noisy spaced, red-mattered, cotton candy version of Trek over the dynamic dunderheads oxymoronic vision of luddite science-fiction.
Hey, 15 to 20 screen caps and you pretty much have a whole episode, just without the zooming on the still and the musical sting.
And the Kzinti are in only one episode. Niven pitched a few of his stories to them and they picked “The Soft Weapon”. So we get Spock as a Pierson’s Puppeteer. Apparently, the story he wanted to sell them was “The Borderland of Sol”, which is a Bey Shaeffer story. I don’t know how they would have cast that one, but Spock probably would have been Carlos Wu. It’s really weird, especially if you’re familiar with the original story.
@ Torie- Two Years? Already?
@12 DemetriosX- The Borderlands of Sol? I dunno how they would’ve translated that one to Star Trek.
sps49 @13: I know, I can’t really picture it at all. Like I said, you probably put Spock into Carlos Wu’s role and I guess Kirk as Bey Shaeffer. But beyond that? It’s not a very Trek-like story.
No, I mean 176. Two of the episodes are two hours, so there are 178 hours of TNG, but only 176 episodes. Nerd fight!
I hate it when you fight! *goes to room, buries head in TOS coverlet*
Torie & Eugene: Huzzah! More reviews!
DemetriosX@14: I don’t know about translating Niven works into Star Trek. I mean, yes, ‘The Soft Weapon’ sort of worked, kind of, except that the Kzinti don’t really fit that universe (I mean, where were they this whole time?); they should have just been Klingons.
But if you’re going to do Niven, let’s throw Kirk & Co. at the Ringworld. Maybe have a General Products hull and a Puppeteer collide with Enterprise and go from there….
NomadUK @16: I might have used Romulans rather than Klingons to offer some small justification for the psychic officer, but you are correct that things don’t quite fit. OTOH, it put Kzinti ships into Starfleet Battles, so it has that going for it.
@ 13 sps49
I know! I can’t believe it’s been so long.
@ 15 ChurchHatesTucker
This made me laugh out loud. If you want to see a real fight, though, get us started on DS9.
@ 16 NomadUK
Huzzah! More NomadUK!
Torie@18: Awww…. Shucks.
Hey guys,
I’m really sorry but my day job has been kicking my ass and I’m running late on this review. I should have it done by tonight, barring (additional) total catastrophe, so fingers crossed…
/cryforhelp
Take your time, Torie; first things first. We are but your loyal audience, and are infinitely patient.
Well, maybe not infinitely, but certainly a close approximation thereto.
Patience is a virtue, and I’m relatively virtuous! I’ll be looking forward to the new post, whenever it is available.
Thanks! We’re going to have to switch up the schedule a bit and reshuffle the projects but I’ll explain more later.
Looks like some unmentionable types are copying you and nto suspending their own rewatch. Huurmp I am not impressed, I caught errors in the recap in the first few paragraphs. Snark, yesh that’s all and good, errors, uh-uh fandom don;t roll that way.
Yeah, what’s up with that? Are those guys reading this site and scheduling their rewatches to match? Or is it just coincidence?
Looking forward to continuing with you all, maybe coming up with a new record and get TWO people to agree with me. In one thread! ;)