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100 Reasons Why Kirk Is better Than Picard !
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Mar 24, 2011
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Shatner's early attempts at music were very bad, but he was utterly beaten in the race for the wooden spoon by this abomination:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04
How can I embed a video like this?
How can you argue against Kirk with fighting moves like this?
Famous drop kick
Wall of destruction
Body Slam
Barrel Roll
... and we... we're the Clantons!
Mar 24, 2011
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#47
I am sure we are all united in hoping Will had a happy 80th birthday on Tuesday. Many happy returns!
conquistador - lol gee Kirk's backhand throw/punch is fierce but just Picard's stare is more dangerous.
ivan - Kirk is creepy, I wouldn't trust him to walk my grandma across the street.
Kirk can beat a Vulcan at chess. (Did this actually happened in some episode?) If it did, then probably he let him win :P
In both shows, usually some kind of bizarre modification to the transporter ended up saving the ship about half the time.
Apr 5, 2011
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#51
BorgQueen wrote: You are watching the wrong show imo. "Bizarre modifications to the transporter" almost NEVER saves the ship.
Apr 5, 2011
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#52
BorgQueen wrote:
And how exactly is that relevant?
The episode has neither a "bizarre" transporter modification, nor does any kind of transporter modification save the ship. The ship is saved by wedging a smaller ship in the door to hold it open while the Enterprise moves at it at full speed, torpedoing the smaller ship just before impact allowing it to escape the Dyson Sphere.
Transporters (normal ones, not modified in any way) save the crew of the smaller ship though... that happens a lot... transporters are often saving people from harm's way.
Did you actually watch that episode? 
(Scotty had modified the transporter so that it would run at low power and keep him alive, enabling him to save the Enterprise later on.)
Apr 5, 2011
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#53
BorgQueen wrote: So the transporter saved Scotty (crew), not the ship.
The transporter saved Scotty. Scotty saved the ship. Therefore the transporter saved the ship.
Q
Apr 5, 2011
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#54
BorgQueen wrote:
IMO that logic is faulty.
By that reasoning, Einstein nuked Hiroshima.
'Saving' is a transitive operation. Where's the transitivity between Einstein and Hiroshima?
Apr 5, 2011
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#55
BorgQueen wrote:
Besides, even if that one episode is credited with saving the ship, which I don't accept, then still it changes nothing. One episode is nothing like "half the time".
Would you go with: 'the transporter is the most-commonly used plot-device device in Star Trek' ?
Apr 6, 2011
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#56
In the original series, transporter technology was used as a means to reduce the special effects budget that would be needed to go down to the surface of planets on a shuttle.
Apr 7, 2011
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#57
LisaV wrote:
Okay, debate over. Kirk slobbers over anything female -- no standards. Picard gets a Bond girl.
Check it out. Picard "bonds" with Famke Janssen, aka our very own Xenia Onatopp! :)
That episode was a remake of Elaan_of_Troyius - when Kirk was obliged to interact with a much dodgier female
even though you could tell he didn't want to!
Apr 7, 2011
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#58
Elroch wrote: In the original series, transporter technology was used as a means to reduce the special effects budget that would be needed to go down to the surface of planets on a shuttle.
But the main plot device was a pretty damsel in distress. (If she wasn't in distress to begin with, she soon was after Kirk turned up.)
I prefer Janeway. Controversial.
Star Trekkin' across the universe,
On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk.
Star Trekkin' across the universe,
Only going forward 'cause we can't find reverse.