Star Trek (TNG): Identity Crisis

[crankyconner]

I meant to say this when Chuck had his review of Preemptive Strike (TNG). He said in his review of that ep that they weren't accepting submissions from fans anymore. I found that odd because in Journey's End (the documentary made toward the end of TNG season 7, NOT the episode) Johnathan Frakes said that they received loads of fan submitted episodes a year. It strikes me odd that he'd mention that in the same season TNG wasn't accepting scripts from fans.

[Robovski]

I meant to say this when Chuck had his review of Preemptive Strike (TNG). He said in his review of that ep that they weren't accepting submissions from fans anymore. I found that odd because in Journey's End (the documentary made toward the end of TNG season 7, NOT the episode) Johnathan Frakes said that they received loads of fan submitted episodes a year. It strikes me odd that he'd mention that in the same season TNG wasn't accepting scripts from fans.

People will send them in unsolicited, whether they want them or not.

[FaxModem1]

I was an English major in college and even I think that would be awfully nitpicky.

How is teaching high school?

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I rather liked this episode. I showed it to a friend a few months ago, and the holodeck scene really freaked him out.

[Shuboy07]

This began a fan-written script? When were they accepting those? And given the dribble most of paramount and CBS' writers gave us, why are they accepting any now?

That policy ended in Season 7 but there was a policy under Michael Piller's tenure from Season 3 to 6. I recall reading that the majority of them were rejected (nicknamed the slush pile) but among the good stuff was a script by Ron Moore (which became The Bonding) which ultimately got him a job on the show. From what I've read, Piller likely allowed fan scripts because TNG needed to fill out a standard television season.

[Beastro]

the actress playing Susanna Leijten (it's a Dutch surname, I'm guessing it's pronounced closely enough to Leyton {and that'd probably be the English transilteration})..

I got a good chuckle out of that part being a Dutchophile (Never have narrowed down the proper term for that philia yet...).

Nonetheless I sympathize with the confusion over the Dutch J, especially as it seems that it originally was a simple Y.

A good example of that is the word Vrjheid - Freedom (Love to see Chuck's expression trying to pronounce that at first glance!). In that odd way that off shoot languages often remain the archaic (Yes, most of those differences in American English compared to British English is from it being the one that has remained the least changed), it's original spelling remains in Afrikaans and is much easier to wrap ones head around in that form, though it's largely become associated with a place name - Vryheid.

It's also a good word to show how close Dutch is to English in the way many German words seem like English with typos in it.

Swap the V with an F, say it quick enough and it starts to sound like Freed, which from there it's simple to figure out what it means.

[Durandal_1707]

the actress playing Susanna Leijten (it's a Dutch surname, I'm guessing it's pronounced closely enough to Leyton {and that'd probably be the English transilteration})..

I got a good chuckle out of that part being a Dutchophile (Never have narrowed down the proper term for that philia yet...).

Nonetheless I sympathize with the confusion over the Dutch J, especially as it seems that it originally was a simple Y.

Dutch isn't really the weird one here, though, is it? Most languages that use the Roman alphabet have 'j' sounding much closer to the way Dutch has it than the way English has it, because as I understand it, the letter 'j' itself just started out as a fancy 'i'. Having it make a consonant sound is a peculiarity of French that English picked up after the Norman invasion, so really, we're the odd ones out.

[griffeytrek]

Standard procedure for away missions should be a body camera on each team member and a dedicated "Away Mission Control" Room on the ship to monitor what the teams are doing and provide a constant communication to the ship. Unfortunately, anything like that really only happens when it is required for the plot to work.

They'll get right on those suggestions. Right after they rediscoer keys, security passwords other than "password", seatbelts, bolting the furniture to the floor in a moving ship, and actually making the bridge consoles out of a material that is not prone to explode on impact.

[griffeytrek]

Is it just me, or can you always tell the scripts that Braga has touched? I mean there seems to be a certain "ick" factor to oh so many of them. Geordi Pregnant and transformed into mutant. Janeway Lizard Sex. Trip pregnant with alien babies. Etc etc etc. I'm just saying that Braga's mind clearly works in some rather unusual ways. I pity whoever hacks his hard drive and finds his porn collection. They will likely need major counseling.

[ScreamingDoom]

They'll get right on those suggestions. Right after they rediscoer keys, security passwords other than "password", seatbelts, bolting the furniture to the floor in a moving ship, and actually making the bridge consoles out of a material that is not prone to explode on impact.

And fuses and/or circuit breakers. And cellphone cameras. And memory cards (so they won't have to keep several dozen PADDs around). Those are some mysterious 20th century tech, I tells ya.

[Durandal_1707]

They'll get right on those suggestions. Right after they rediscoer keys, security passwords other than "password", seatbelts, bolting the furniture to the floor in a moving ship, and actually making the bridge consoles out of a material that is not prone to explode on impact.

And fuses and/or circuit breakers. And cellphone cameras. And memory cards (so they won't have to keep several dozen PADDs around). Those are some mysterious 20th century tech, I tells ya.

Cell-phone cameras are 21st-century tech, not 20th. I'd argue that memory cards are 21st as well, despite the fact that rudimentary flash memory devices started showing up in the 90s, for the same reason that we consider the automobile to be a 20th-century tech despite being invented in 1886—it was the 21st century when they really took off. I mean, one of the most popular digital cameras of the 90s used floppy disks as storage, for crying out loud.