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[tj_dragonblade]

Bad: *cough*cough*hack*WHEEEEZE wheeze wheeze wheeze--* I can't breathe entirely well, and I'm consequently not feeling quite chipper.

Good: Thus, I am taking a sick day.

Bad: Thus, I am taking a sick day.

Good: Spike TV re-runs DS9 in the middle of the day??

Bad: Feh. "Meridian". Ah well. I do suppose it could have been much worse.

Good: My labcoat has just arrived in the mail. ^_^ *would dance, except that dancing requires breathing*

Ugly: The couch, unfortunately, is not at all accomodating to long-term holing-up upon it. Ugh, my back... *hobbles off*

Completely unrelated to any of that: Hee. Poor Beckett's-new-turtles, alas!

Comments

[tj-dragonblade.livejournal.com]

The pilot episode

Haaaah. Oh, yes, you're so very right. And yet I remember watching it when it premiered and going "...Wo~ow...". ^_^; Of course, I was ten, but...still.

Star Trek was lucky enough to have all the cult-classic history behind it that allowed for that time to grow and develop into its potential. There's a lot of shows today that could really benefit from that kind of legacy, if only they had it.

...OMG. I'd never thought of him in terms of Gary Stu, but...that's exactly what he is. That totally explains the huge annoyance factor. And the fact that as a ten-year-old, I thought he was just the coolest thing evar. Eheh. ^_^; Though he does do a lot of growing over the course of the four seasons before he went off to the academy.

I saw Wil Wheaton, on an I Love the Eighties segment, just bashing Wes Crusher to pieces; I couldn't help thinking that y'know, buddy, no one would even know who you are if not for Wesley so maybe you should look back on him a little more considerately.

[sychogrl.livejournal.com]

I think Roddenberry pretty much admitted as much about Wes. But I still like the character at least little bit. At the least, I wouldn't bash him. *snarls at Wheaton*

I mean, Wes was just a kid. Okay, a precocious one, but that's not unfathomable, especially in the rather utopian world of the future that Star Trek portrays. *shrug*

And yeah, lucky for that legacy (I only found out recently that the original series only has three seasons!). It didn't save Enterprise though. When they make good series like TNG and DS9, anything that comes after is kind of meh. That's all I thought of Enterprise when I tried to watch it. Meh.

[tj-dragonblade.livejournal.com]

That's all I thought of Enterprise when I tried to watch it. Meh.

Heh. Me too. I couldn't get into it. The characters all seemed relatively...dull. Lacking the sort of inner fire that showed up in previous Trek incarnations. I don't know - maybe it's just time for the franchise to take a few years' break, refresh itself and start again in another five, ten years or so. *shrug* Or take DS9 to the big screen.

And yeah, I don't have the same starry-eyed view of Wesley as I used to, but I certainly don't find him intolerable and I do think fandom and the world at large are far too harsh on the kid. It's not his fault he's uber-smart and everyone else isn't. He needs a slogan like the old Pantene commercials, perhaps - "Don't hate me because I'm gifted." ^_^

[sychogrl.livejournal.com]

The series is definitely best served by taking a long break. And yes, while we're at it, WHERE are the DS9 movies? I know they just finished wringing the last possible drop of story from TNG, which I will happily agree is the golden age of Trek, but who ISN'T up for some DS9 movie joy? I barely know anything about the series and I'D go see a DS9 movie.