Maybe the nanny-drones have cube-carriages?
Dom wrote:Playmates' brand management has always been weak. They had a consistent inability to have figures of main characters in their normal/default uniforms. Still, it was better than TMNT. At least the "Star Trek" figures were relevant to a given episode, rather than the completely irrelevant TMNT figures. (When the TMNT relaunch went down that road a few years back, a friend of mine noted that it made him nostalgic for "the first time that kind of thing killed the brand".)
And by "better", you mean "worse"? Yes, Playmates buried the TMNT line with variations of the main characters, but the main characters did get re-releases every few years too, and the variants weren't boring "space heroes in WW2-era costumes" and "old guy wearing hat" figures the way so many of their Trek figures were. Playmates does have a boner for trying to get tons of variants out with a small window for main characters.
Most of those figures were terrible. You are better off without them.
They made me happy at the time, but I just don't have a need for them anymore. To be honest, the 4" Hasbro Marvel figures aren't SO much better - they cost 3 times as much and have fucked up articulation problems or weird sculpt problems and/or distribution problems - while TB's Marvel line you could walk into Kaybee and walk out with regular versions of your main characters, as well as 11 different Wolverines.
I know that they were good toys. I just tended to avoid Micro Machines, (aside from a a few SW sets). Part of it was not wanting tertiary stuff when I could not find a proper analogue. (It felt wrong that I could not get a bigger model of most of those ships.)
Look where we are now though, it's MM or nothing. Johnny Lightning never lived up to the promise of the concept because they spent too much resources trying to milk those first 8 molds too hard. The Japanese companies' releases would do the same ships in nearly the same scales almost on top of each other putting themselves out of business. Corgi didn't even deliver their Defiant. And Mattel's Hot Wheels line is just too toyetic to work for the older audience yet too bland to catch the kid market. So the Micro Machines turned out to be the only way to go, and now it's insane trying to get that stuff.
I would need a picture. I would be using it as a display piece more than a playing piece, ya know?
Then it'd depend on how much customizing you'd want to do. Keep in mind, it'd be useless as a display piece without gutting the mirror because otherwise with its lights off there's nobody in the transporter chamber.
I just could not stand when they wrote in her fanfic grade daughter. The actress pitched a fit and got what she wanted. Mission accomplished. Then, she whined and cried and got back in.
Sela was a more compelling villain than Nemesis' Shinzon, and was tolerable to me considering the potential from that alternate-timeline episode, especially when compared to Tasha's horrible fanfic-grade sister Ishara. At least Denise Crosby found out that nobody wanted her, that she was a star due to Trek, not in spite of it.
Yeah, it pitched higher.
Not higher, just different and some might argue lower. Roddenberry's Trek was about the heights man could reach, DS9 was about deconstructing that into a darker, more "now" mindset.
If you only watch one episode, watch "Shades of Grey". You can live with it.
Uh, which now? DS9 doesn't have an episode with that title or anything like it, TNG does but it's the only Trek clip show ever.
No Gene, I cannot take "Kirk and Spock on NaziWelt" seriously
That is dumb, the nazi planet didn't develop by itself, it was intentionally affected by a human to be a "nice" nazi planet only it turns out you can't seed a planet with just SOME nazi ideals, the bad ones come with them.
They did not have editors to keep track of that stuff? Supplies could have been accounted for with creative use of replicators and throw-away lines about trading/finding stuff as they went.
Dead crewmen are a bit harder to deal with, especially if the ship's attrition was high enough for Janeway to have to use enemy troops in the first place.
They did have editors to deal with it, but that stuff got in the way of Rick Berman running the brand like a machine for the "modern Trek experience" so they just kept ignoring stuff that got in the way of dumber and dumber plots.
Dead crewman should have been a HUGE problem, they only had a 150 folks that survived the trip to the Delta Quadrant in the first place... hell, here's a whole article about Voyager sucking at this issue:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/incon ... es-voy.htm
How did the movie actually contradict Rodenberry's concept? I have not seen '09 Trek.
I don't want to get into New Coke Trek too much in here, but in that 23rd century humanity is still using money, still has class systems, still has a lot of petty squabbles that escalate into violence (Kirk gets into a bar fight before he joins the academy with a Starfleet officer... who starts it because Kirk is flirting with Uhura), Kirk doesn't put any effort into being the best of the best (TOS called him a walking library from all the books he'd read, NCT just has him sleep with some broad to cheat the Kobiyashi Maru test and he's BLATANT about the way he cheats), there's no exploration, there's no consideration of others, there's no use of real science as foundation (Scotty beams our heroes across several star systems onto a ship that's moving at warp, the Enterprise's engineering deck is a fucking brewery, Sulu has a switchblade SWORD that just keeps flipping tiny blade segments on top of each other), and our "heroes" do nothing but fight with each other and get angsty, it's surprisingly jingoistic and militaristic which is the antithesis of what Roddenberry had in mind for Trek, and it's just a bunch of f/x-laden battle scenes. It's also a cheap ripoff of Star Wars. It's very much studio product, which is why it's been so forgettable - it made big box office, but nobody cares about it a few months after seeing it, nobody is inspired by it. Real Trek inspired people to become scientists and to become responsible leaders in the military, it caught childrens' attentions because of its outlook, not because it was a space war with flash effects.
What I will say is that Rodenberry, besides being dead, does not own Trek. Trek is owned by Paramount, so it is there right to change it.
Roddenberry owned the ideas behind Trek, Desilu the rights, when Desilu got bought by Paramount they tried to sell Roddenberry all the remaining rights and they had paid him so poorly that he couldn't afford the fire-sale pricing they offered. Roddenberry and his estate still hold certain rights to the brand though, I'm not sure but I think Majel divested them to Paramount shortly before her death.
I was going to avoid commenting on this whole sub-topic. But, I wanted to quote that for reading hilariously. "Well, to his credit, he did toss his first wife in favour of his mistress."
He cast Majel in the original pilot because he was banging her, and Nichelle in the series for the same reason. Granted, he chose great ladies to cheat on his wife with and they weren't just flings, so it's not like he just gave them free work, but it's still accurate that he knew they were right for the part because he spent so much personal time with them during extramarital affairs.
I...uh, liked "Generations".
Ok, why? What about it did you like? You can be subjective here, all you're saying is you liked it not that it's something great (that would require a more objective answer), I'm just curious about what. Also, have you checked out the commentary track on the film? Good stuff, the writers explain why they did what they did and how in hindsight they see some of those as mistakes (Kirk's deaths, for example).
The assimilate entire worlds, why would you not wipe them out?
Interesting point, turning existing infants into borgbabies probably would take a lot of extra resources for little gain, while more developed children and teenagers (and of course adults) are independent enough to not need that extra care -- plus, it doesn't seem there's a lot of aging involved once you go Borg.
Sparky wrote:B'elanna did mention once she was sick of having to rebuild shuttles. Although with some shuttles being totally destroyed/left behind, it's hard to swallow they could have totally rebuilt a shuttle from replicated/traded parts.
Heh heh, yeah, they paid lip service there once in a while, and it was so stupid to think a tiny crew could just keep cranking out new warp-capable, Federation-quality shuttles week after week. "Let's build a new warp core out of twigs and weird alien parts from that guy over there who uses negative-dimension energy to power his watch, it only took them years to build the original at a Starfleet drydock facility that has nigh-unlimited resources, we should be done with this one on our ragtag ship in about a week."
The Maquis weren't exactly enemy troops. They were (mostly) civilians who weren't happy the Federation just handed over the planets they lived on to the Cardassians.
The Maquis were being pursued and had spies planted in their ranks by the Federation, that was somewhat "enemy" to Voyager at the beginning of the series. They got over that shit way too quickly too.
Roddenberry wasn't a big fan of "The Wrath of Khan" or "The Undiscovered Country" having objected to various story elements in those movies, which were largely ignored by the studio.
He was very unhappy with the militarism injected into the movies by Nick Meyer and Harve Bennett starting with Wrath of Khan, that is quite true.
Sparky Prime wrote:JediTricks wrote:I thought she said they didn't procreate, not that they didn't manufacture babies. I can't picture the Borg storming a society and then carefully scooping up all their infants and carrying them delicately back to the ship in their robotic arms. Or do they have nanny-drones?
Right, but she also said the Borg only assimilate. The Borg she named "One" was unusual even having been 'manufactured'. And babies assimilated by the Borg are placed in maturation chambers to accelerate their growth until they are ready to enter service as a fully grown drone.
I don't remember it that clearly, so I'll take your word. I'll discount anything Voyager says though just for being so slapdash in general.
Shockwave wrote:This. Seriously. I swear Paramount has a standing order that every damned piece of Trek memorabilia has to be limited edition, numbered, collector's edition, exclusive, with a certificate of authenticity. That shit killed the Playmates line for me back then and I'm thoroughly convinced that's why Trek stuff is so monetarily worthless now. I think the fans ultimately just got fed up with everything being so hard to get on a consistent basis that the market bottomed out and never recovered. And Coke Trek (just out of curiosity why are we calling '09 Coke Trek?) didn't do anything to change that. In fact, I think Playmates effectively killed the market further if that's possible. On the upside, that means that if I want to get Picard in his regular season 3 and on togs I can cheaply and easily do so. Right now I have him with the Jacket. Other stuff I'm keeping includes a good smattering of Borgs and the TOS set. And the other thing that they started doing that irritated the hell out of me was this need to put out exclusive hard to find Kirk and Spock sets without having even done the main crew for some of the other shows. I mean, we never did get a Wesley figure in his regular grey outfit. And the 9" line never saw the release of all the DS9 or Voyager crews. Neelix and Kes never saw release and neither did Quark. But if I want a figure of Gangster Kirk or Spock with the wool cap then I'm prefectly set
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The signed ornaments are signed on the boxes. I'll take pics and post them later this week. Might also post pics of the current playset set up.
Paramount probably did, I know all those Galoob boxed sets were numbered editions, although the regular 3packs weren't. And every fucking Playmates figure for the first 4 years or so had that dopey white painted sole with numbers printed on it. They were sure fanboys could only get a collecting boner if they knew it was limited, but we just want our Enterprise A ships and such when they're this hard to get; everything was limited in way higher numbers anyway since it was mass-produced (and the irony was you still couldn't find most of it! Who gives a shit about edition 10,452 out of 50,000 when you have a hard enough time getting ONE?!?).
I'm calling the '09 movie "New Coke Trek" because that's what it is to me, it's New Coke - it's trying to be Pepsi rather than Coke because Pepsi is more popular ("Pepsi" in this case is Star Wars). If you're not familiar with "New Coke", look it up, that'll explain a lot.
Ha! I forgot that they made Picard in the Bomber Jacket, it wasn't my preferred look so I don't remember if I bought that figure or not. I know I never bought the TOS Kirk in his green "casual" duty uniform either.
We didn't get pre-ensign Wesley? I am a little surprised, I personally wouldn't have bought one so that's why I don't remember one way or the other, but they made Deanna Troi in a few of her outfits, so I figured they would with Wes too. Then again, Playmates had hindsight that Galoob didn't because they came in later when fans voiced their displeasure with Wes in season 1 and 2. They made Ensign Wes and Cadet Wes, I have both although I got the Ensign one mainly as a generic crewmember for my Bridge.