i want to start watching star trek

  abusivegeorge said:

  EDGEY said:

  Deepex said:

  hexagon son said:

start with enterprise

Do not do this, watch Babylon 5 instead.

instead? why not watch both? Deep space nine did copy B5, but at the same time B5 was heavily influenced by TREk tng. scifi people are funny with their team loyalty

I must confess that I edited Deepex' post, sorry. Yes I think watching both is a good idea, I just can't seem to stand Star Trek, and that doesn't mean to say I don't think its good, I think was problem was being forced to watch it non stop as a child, and then finally when I got old enough to make my own decisions I watched Babylon 5 and was like "fuck star trek".

the cool thing about babylon 5 is that it was all preplanned and the entire story for the show was decided on before they started filming, all 5 or whatever seasons. pretty cool, and it made following it a bit more rewarding, i think.

  beneboi said:

the cool thing about babylon 5 is that it was all preplanned and the entire story for the show was decided on before they started filming, all 5 or whatever seasons. pretty cool, and it made following it a bit more rewarding, i think.

Yea it made the whole story a bit more concrete, it also influenced an awesome PC game called Freespace which I bought and played at the time of my Babylon 5 phase.

omfg freespace was excellent, but you know whats better? freelancer, thats like the best fucking game ever made

  beneboi said:

omfg freespace was excellent, but you know whats better? freelancer, thats like the best fucking game ever made

Dude don't even get me started, we'll be on 8 pages before you know it.

i think one thing that separates Trek from Babylon 5 the most is the fact that 5 is more of a continuing story with more focus on character alliances and politics. Star trek has continuing story arcs resembling that but more often than not each episode is dedicated to a new science fiction concept enabling a drama to take place within it.

besides B5 being in space and with aliens i wouldn't really even consider it science fiction

Thats like saying you wouldn't even consider Ghostbusters a Sci-Fi.

But yeah I do agree with you, B5 is far more political and in-depth, sometimes its hard to keep track.

  abusivegeorge said:

Thats like saying you wouldn't even consider Ghostbusters a Sci-Fi.

 

But yeah I do agree with you, B5 is far more political and in-depth, sometimes its hard to keep track.

yeah i guess im using the classical definition of the term

so i just watched the first episode of the original series.

why do some of the people wear gold suits, others wear blue, others red? what do the suit colors represent?

  JohnTqs said:

so i just watched the first episode of the original series.

why do some of the people wear gold suits, others wear blue, others red? what do the suit colors represent?

Ship rank of course.

i thought the colors signified their job or whatever

  beneboi said:

i thought the colors signified their job or whatever

Yeah thats what I mean.

with the job of the redshirts being 'sacrificial lamb'

lol

You fags are talkin about babylon 5? Lollers

  Mr Salads said:

You fags are talkin about babylon 5? Lollers

Yep, take it bitch.

  abusivegeorge said:

  Mr Salads said:

You fags are talkin about babylon 5? Lollers

 

Yep, take it bitch.

George ive just followed you in cos i stumble across top 20 posters today just now and u is at 100 :omg:

edit: Lol its moved to 99, that thing doesnt work it goes backwards

I'm on 130 something today I think, but it changes for some reason I'm not sure why, I really have had fuck all to do mate and I'm back on a daily routine tomorrow so I've just been chilled sat here, watching tele and eating really.

  Awepittance said:

i think one thing that separates Trek from Babylon 5 the most is the fact that 5 is more of a continuing story with more focus on character alliances and politics. Star trek has continuing story arcs resembling that but more often than not each episode is dedicated to a new science fiction concept enabling a drama to take place within it.

besides B5 being in space and with aliens i wouldn't really even consider it science fiction

True, but remember that DS9 is in a very similar style.

When I was a kid, Tasha Yar getting killed by that black slime thing was really traumatic. I had dreams about that thing

theres an episode of voyager where the alien people take the face of one of the characters and wear it.

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  Joyrex said:

OMFG

 

HOLY CHRIST