Are there any "trekkie fans"

Small rant, in my youth & that is 30 years ago , we went with our cars together, pc,screen,keyboard loaded in the back. And in my very old times we connected using , coax, i think it was called fat-internet-10-base-5. Then we shot rockets on eachother. :)
 
Alain De Vos said:
Small rant, in my youth & that is 30 years ago , we went with our cars together, pc,screen,keyboard loaded in the back. And in my very old times we connected using , coax, i think it was called fat-internet-10-base-5. Then we shot rockets on eachother. :)
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I remember the coax/thin-net era too...we had DEC coaxial ethernet cards in DOS PCs. I remember having to "fix" the network one time because somebody set a policy that meant all department secretaries would update files on an NFS share at the same time every day. That was in the era of half-duplex ethernet so the concentrator went collision crazy...until I re-tuned the NFS clients on each workstation to do NFS I/O on much smaller packets than the default 8k size.
 
Alain De Vos said:
we went with our cars together, pc,screen,keyboard loaded in the back
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I carried this and a 12-in HP LCD 7 streets across town to a friend's for weekend LANs :p

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kent_dorfman766 said:
I remember the coax/thin-net era too...we had DEC coaxial ethernet cards in DOS PCs. I remember having to "fix" the network one time because somebody set a policy that meant all department secretaries would update files on an NFS share at the same time every day. That was in the era of half-duplex ethernet so the concentrator went collision crazy...until I re-tuned the NFS clients on each workstation to do NFS I/O on much smaller packets than the default 8k size.
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Fun thing , when a terminator at the end come off , everything went down. The signals reflected, and there was also a protocol to configure, i think IPX
:)
 
cracauer@ said:
Introducing a queen or king of the Borg went against what the Borg were introduced to be in TNG, though. The whole point is that they don't have a head huncho and are self-organizing.
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That was my understanding too, so the whole Borg Queen thing kind of bugs me. I thought Borg was a dissertation on "tyranny of the majority" rule...or maybe that concept scared the writers, who probably believe in unfettered pure democracy without restraints.
 
Yes, I'm a huge fan, and I used to attend events along time ago. Also, I know that many people are going to disagree with me on this, but in my opinion, The Voyage Home is simply the best movie out of all of them. The Final Frontier had an interesting premise behind it, but the story line got extremely flubbed during the writing process. I haven't really watched too much of the newer stuff, other than Star Trek Continues on YouTube.
 
I was a huge fan, I mean I still am of the classic 66-01 series...
Enterprise was cool, but kind of a mislead plot, and rushed ending. The final seasons were great.

My favourite has to be DS9, TNG maybe has higher highs but DS9 is one of the best shows ever in the area of character development, and also the amount of Trek lore in it is insane.

Movies, Kirk and Picard, kind of rotating between meh and great.
I also loved the first new Star Trek movie, it really had the starfleet vibe going on.
The second one I didn't like so much, terrorist plot in London, c'mon. The third one I found better, more action. I watched that one in flight and should do it again.

The new series, are for me, ranging between total bullshit to kinda good, with the average being 'meh'.
Discovery I cannot digest the setup. I remember it started pretty bad. But got better at I guess season 2, and I was waiting for next season.
When next season started all the bullshit was back on, it's like the previous episodes never happened. ADHD and personal drama all over Starfleet ship.

Picard started OK but I dropped it, lost interest.

The current audience is not someone to shape Star Trek series against. The topics thoughts and interests of masses today does not align 1% to what classic Star Trek is all about.
 
Espionage724 said:
a 12-in HP LCD
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Thanks. I feel old now. I had to carry 17" CRT around, use serial line to make a network to play Doom or an online text-mud.
kent_dorfman766 said:
I loved Babylon 5 too...
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In that case, I recommend reading the book series around that. The Centauri trilogy has all the back story around Londo and Vir, but I prefer the Technomage Trilogy. They are out of print I fear, and last time I checked the second hand marked had them at an absurd price. Sorry, no lending.
 
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