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kittykat
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2003 10:45
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Apologies for the long post but I thought some people might be interested in this. Its taken from Star Trek Monthly (a UK based Magazine) and its the results of a reader questionnaire (so if you buy it then you'll have seen this :oP if you don't - there's a nice Nemesis poster this issue! . I did enter myself but Im surprised by some of the results! See what you think..
Top Ten Best Theme Music:
1.Enterprise - my vote (well I like Russel Watson.....)
2.Star Trek: Voyager
3.Star Trek: The Next Generation
4.Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
5.Star Trek: First Contact
6.Star Trek: The Orignal Series
7: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
8.Star Trek: Insurrection
9.Star Trek: The Motion Picture
10.Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Top Ten Starship Captains
1.Jean Luc Picard
2.Kathryn Janeway
3.James T Kirk
4.Johnathan Archer
5.Benjamin Sisko - my vote
6.Christopher Pike
7.Edward Jellico
8.Hikaru Sulu
9.Benjamin Maxwell
10.William Riker/Rudy Ransom
You Favourite Series (always controversial!
1.Star Trek: Voyager
2.Star Trek: The Next Generation
3.Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - my vote
4.Enterprise
5.Star Trek: the Original Series
6.Star Trek: The Animated Series
Top Ten Most Loved Characters
1.Data
2.EMH
3.Seven of Nine
4.Spock - my vote
5.Charles Tucker III
6.Worf
7.William Riker
8.Elim Garak
9.Chakotay
10.Neelix
Top Ten Moments - er not sure how to do these without a description but I guess it will be fun to see if you can figure em out :oP
1.Homecoming (Voyager - Endgame) - my vote
2."I am Locutus of Borg"
3."The Needs of the Many"
4.Holodeck Hullabaloo (Deep Space Nine - What you leave behind)
5.Tribble Trouble (the Original Series)
6."Resistance is Futile" (The Next Generation - Q Who)
7.Poker Faced Picard (The Next Generation - All Good Things)
8.The Federation vs the Borg (First Contact)
9.The Big Crash (Star Trek Generations, Never let Deanna fly a ship I say....never ends well)
10.Pregnancy Blues (Enterprise - Unexpected)
Any Spelling errors are my own!
KK
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jor
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2003 11:02
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Well, it's obvious the long-time fans have abandoned magazines like these.
'Star Trek' seems to belong to the Berman Trekkies now...
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kittykat
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2003 11:27
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Like these? ST: Monthly is a very good magazine with a varied content incorporating all but the animated series. However since TOS has been repeated god knows how many times and all that can be said probably has been said many times over, almost the same for TNG really, I'd say that was more the reason than anything else...
However! Thought you might like to hearthe editors choice!
1.Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2.Jean-Luc Picard (Kirk was their second choice)
3.Star Trek: TNG
4: Data
5: Spock Dies (pokes Kamin - his third choice for this was "Picard realises why he became Kamin")
KK
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lzrman
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2003 17:17
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Voyager
Janeway
Voyager
EMH - AKA ECH
Voyager Homecoming
There all number 1  well most
Lzrbug!
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rag451
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2003 21:06
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Good grief...
Top Ten Best Theme Music:
Star Trek: The Next Generation (Though they should have said 'The Motion Picture', given that this theme is derived from that film.)
Top Ten Starship Captains
James T Kirk (How can there ever be any competition?)
You Favourite Series
1. Star Trek: Voyager (This is just sick! )
5. Star Trek: The Original Series (This is sick as well. To rate the first, the forebearer, as next to the last is vile to say the least! )
Top Ten Most Loved Characters
Spock (Why weren't any of the other original crew listed besides Spock? In my opinion, Doctor McCoy should have been first. He is, after all, the nicest old country doctor there ever has been! )
Top Ten Moments
"The Needs of the Many" (Is this referring to Spock's death? If so... definately #1)
CL4 Robert Griffith
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babel
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# Posted: 22 Jan 2003 02:39
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The idiocy of this poll is reflected in that the themes for The Motion Picture and TNG are one and the same *LOL* I really don't think I need say any more.
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babel
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# Posted: 22 Jan 2003 02:43
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As for Voyager coming home, do me a favour. All we got after seven interminable years, was a one-minute sequence of Starfleet officers doing their best to be all stiff-upper-lipped. Dramatic? Naah. Come on. I've talked to lots of Voyager fans who felt robbed of seeing the ship arrive home 'properly'. Not forgetting, of course, that 'Endgame' was the single most witlessly plotted Trek episode since 'Spock's Brain'.
For me, this poll had a lot in common with the recent 'Hundred Greatest Britons' poll, and all these types of polls - they are always hopelessly weighted towards the recent at the expense of the past. So the results are best taken with a large shovel full of salt.
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kittykat
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# Posted: 22 Jan 2003 08:57
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Don't insult the poll, the poll is impartial and the votes are from the readership. It wasn't multiple choice either.
Personally Im not a big fan of TOS (apart from Spock). The Acting is dodgy, the effects are firmly of the time and the fact that the women are running round in entirely impractical skirts really gets on my nerves. I'm guessing I'm not the only one.
It could also simply be a case that the younger readers aren't exposed to TOS anymore. I mean when is it ever screeened in the UK?
Still - it sounds like sour grapes to me
KK
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babel
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2003 02:53
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*l* It may well do, but my point stands. How elese do you explain the Greatest Britons top ten? John Lennon? Princess di? *l* Same with this poll. I'm not insulting it, just pointing out a truism of all polls of this nature.
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babel
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2003 02:54
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. . . saying this, I heartily agree that I DID insult the fact that the SAME piece of music is at two different places in the poll. *L* Defend that, Kathryn, I challenge ye!
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gentry
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2003 13:50
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ok and here i do *eg*
Well i agree with KK about DS9 even though voyager was my favourite i prefer DS9 and TNG in that order, does that make any since *no* I like enterprise theme does that make any since *no*
And yes i feel that Berman has messed up trek a fair bit, voyagers homecoming was very dissapointing, it could have been much better, DS9 last eppie was much better but extremly weird, but i still luv voyager *dun ask why thou*
and yes i got that magazine although i know most of the stuff i see in it about 2 months earlier *lol* 
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tovey
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2003 00:46
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<!--QuoteBegin--gentry+Jan. 23 2003,13:50--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (gentry @ Jan. 23 2003,13:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->"voyagers homecoming was very dissapointing, it could have been much better"<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>I read soem where that kate mulgray has said that the rick and the paramont staff where in rlkas about a voyager moive or a Mini Serise, id prefer a moive but i would like a mini serise:)
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lzrman
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2003 05:43
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A Voyager Movie:? I can't wait mini series, nah just a pure movie would be nice
Lzrbug
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eon_blue_apocalypse
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2003 20:59
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A Voyager movie would be terrible, and would be the least successful Star Trek film to date. There would be no point in making something they know would bomb at the box office.
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rag451
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2003 14:10
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For me, it just goes to show that as the decades pass, television becomes more and more mindless. Seems to me that, even with plywood sets, plastic weapons, and cardboard crates; TOS was still more plausable as an epic space adventure. It was "Wagon Train to the Stars", but now it's just a "Winnebego Ride to the Trash Heap".
CL4 Robert Griffith
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gentry
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2003 14:51
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a voyager movie could work... however it is very unlightly that this will
a) ever happen
b) be a success
unless of course they decided to get some "proper writers " in.
But i would luve a telly movie, that could work?
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babel
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2003 02:33
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<!--QuoteBegin--rag451+Jan. 25 2003,14:10--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (rag451 @ Jan. 25 2003,14:10)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->TOS was still more plausable as an epic space adventure. It was "Wagon Train to the Stars", but now it's just a "Winnebego Ride to the Trash Heap".<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>*LMAO* Quote of the year, so far! <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/win.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
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rag451
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2003 07:52
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<!--QuoteBegin--babel+Jan. 26 2003,02:33--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (babel @ Jan. 26 2003,02:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--rag451+Jan. 25 2003,14:10--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (rag451 @ Jan. 25 2003,14:10)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->TOS was still more plausable as an epic space adventure. It was "Wagon Train to the Stars", but now it's just a "Winnebego Ride to the Trash Heap".<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>*LMAO* Quote of the year, so far! <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/win.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Did I mention that, at the trash heap, Cletus, his young wife, and their eighteen children would be <i>lookin' for dinner too-night</i>?<br><br><!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/win.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--><br><br><a href="mailto:rag451@sbcglobal.net">CL4 Robert Griffith</a>
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