Cyber-Space. The Final Frontier.

This Blog Was Created By Man. It Rebelled. It Evolved.

It Will Not Let You Take the Sky From Me.

You Will Come With It If You Want To Live.

Its a Silent Guardian. A Watchful Protector.
A Dark Knight.

It Will Not Cross the Streams.

But It Will Defend Truth, Justice -- All That Good Stuff.

...And It Can Haz Cheezburger.


If you got any of those references, you'll probably enjoy my blog. If you got most of those references? You'll totally love my blog. Its also fairly safe for work with the occasional exception.

Please feel free and heavily encouraged to re-blog anything I've posted. Re-blogging is like a round of applause IMHO, really makes me happy to see my stuff re-blogged; even if I myself re-blogged it from someone else. Likes are good too, but they're like a thumbs up. Applause trumps a thumbs up, you know?

Favorite Things as Evidenced by the Introduction are (In No Particular Order): Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica (modern), Firefly, Batman, Superman, DC Comics, Ghostbusters, Terminator, Cats, My Autographs, old school Star Wars (the prequels suck!), Pretty Genre Gals, Funny Stuff ... and my gods I Sound like a Loser with that List! Oh Well.

Also, I Don't Post a Lot. I'm Much More of a Quality over Quantity type. Usually less than Ten Posts a Day. So you may have to Really Look through your Dash to Notice what I post.

Oh, also a note for my fellow Trekkies: I'm the guy responsible for TrekCore.com's Rare Photo and Ultimately Human specials, and basically flooding the internet via TrekCore with a few thousand awesome and rare Star Trek photos for the past 5 years. So... yeah. Oh and, go through my Archive, it is frakking awesome and shiny!
As heard from Alexander Siddig at a convention about 10 or 12 years ago. 
Playing “Star Trek Online” - Everyone on DS9 Chat is Speaking German for some reason - Made the Joke “This is Deep Space Nine, Not Deep Space Nein!”

…And this is pretty much the highlight of my day.

/Sad

FYI: Order your DS9 Soundtracks Now!

Just ordered mine.  They went up for sale at 4:00 pm EST (8 minutes ago at the time of posting these) - limited to 3,000.  This is is the first time DS9 has had a solo soundtrack release since 1993.  The only other DS9 music to come out has been part of two series-wide compilation albums where it got one-fourth of the space on the disc.  So… yeah.  It be rare! :D

So go to LaLaLandRecords.com and buy! :D
Cross-fandom trivia: if not for this “liquified person” technique being developed for 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” we would not have had the character of Constable Odo on “Star Trek: Deep Space 9” anywhere near how he was.
From the Archives… frontier001: Personalized & Inscribed autograph of Academy Award winner Louis Fletcher as Kai Winn from ‘Star Trek: Deep Space 9’.  I came up with the inscription, ‘Walk with the prophets’ — I’m pretty damn good at coming up with inscriptions like that.  It’s not one of my best though.  Easy to come up with when you think about it. ;)  Even a bit heretical considering she’s holding the text of the Kosst Amojan there in that picture, lol.
Is Rene photo-bombing?  What do you think?
Really creepy looking photo (it’s the eye, the look….) of Andrew Robinson as Garak from season 6 “Deep Space 9” episode “Behind the Lines“… ((Like This?  Check Out My Archive and Follow Me!))
For some reason, it took me months to think of a caption for this… (Another: http://frontier001.tumblr.com/post/13063423455) ((Like This?  Check Out My Archive and Follow Me!))
A Trexpert’s Guide to All of “Star Trek”

Since joining Tumblr, I’ve found a whole throng of people who are in some stage of becoming a Trekkie.  Some have only just seen the new (2009) film and want to get into the real ‘meat and potatoes’ of it, while others have seen a handful of this or that and want to get the whole picture.  With a franchise as large as this one though, that’s an intimidating prospect for many.

Also, a lot of people want to see things “in order” as you might say.  The way the stuff came out, and the way the fans back then saw it.  Which for the most part is easy.  Until it’s not.  And that time is basically a 6-year span from 1993 to 1999 when there where 2 series on at the same time.  And though they did not interact really, you can get confused on occasion.

First up is a list of short-hand terms for the series and movies. 

Series:

  • ENT = Enterprise
  • TOS = The Original Series
  • TAS = The Animated Series (Skip This; It’s a Novelty Only)
  • TNG = The Next Generation
  • DS9 = Deep Space Nine
  • VGR/VOY = Voyager

Movies:

  • TMP = The Motion Picture
  • TWOK = The Wrath of Khan
  • TSFS = The Search for Spock
  • TVH = The Voyage Home
  • TFF = The Final Frontier
  • TUC = The Undiscovered Country
  • GEN = Generations
  • FC = First Contact
  • INS = Insurrection
  • NEM = Nemesis
  • 09/nuTrek = Modern Stuff

So there are three ways to watch, IMHO… 

OPTION 1: Chronologically. 

I do not advise this, because it puts the last series to air (“Enterprise”) which is a prequel, in front of the “Original Series” and honestly, “Enterprise” is the weakest of them all.  Also as a prequel, you lose something in the translation.  So we won’t go much further with that option.

OPTION 2: Series Order.

This is the easiest, this is the simple way.  You watch all of one series, finish it, and then move on to the next.  The movies can jumble this a little bit, though so I’ve broken them up.  The order is as follows…

  • TOS
  • TMP through TUC (TOS Movies)
  • TNG
  • DS9
  • GEN through INS (TNG Movies)
  • VGR
  • NEM (TNG Movie)
  • ENT
  • NuTrek

Why do I put the TNG films broken up like that?  Well, the first three of them where done while DS9 was on the air.  While “Nemesis” has a rather big spoiler for the end of “Voyager” in it.  So that’s just the safest way to do it.  “Enterprise” comes last because even though it was set 100 years before TOS, it’s done last.

OPTION 3: As We Got It (Altered Chronological)

The last option is a little complicated, but it’s the best way in my opinion.  This is how the fans got it.  How it was released.  It will mean a lot of alternating during the 1990s series and films, but it’s how it was meant to be seen.

  • TOS
  • TMP-TVH
  • TNG Seasons 1 & 2
  • TFF
  • TNG Seasons 3 & 4
  • TUC
  • TNG Season 5

At TNG Season 6 is when it gets complicated as between episodes 11 and 12 is when DS9 premiered.  It stays pretty complicate throughout.  So, this is where the alternating starts (and will not stop for a long time!)

  • TNG Season 6 (to Episode 11)
  • DS9 Season 1 / TNG Season 6 (from Episode 12)
  • DS9 Season 2 / TNG Season 7
  • DS9 Season 3 / Insert GEN between DS9 Episodes 8 and 9 / Start VGR Season 1 after DS9 Episode 12
  • DS9 Season 4 / VGR Season 2
  • DS9 Season 5 / VGR Season 3 / Insert FC after DS9 Episode 9 & VGR Episode 10
  • DS9 Season 6 / VGR Season 4
  • DS9 Season 7 / VGR Season 5 / Insert INS after DS9 Episode 9 and VGR Episode 10
  • VGR Season 6 & 7
  • NEM
  • ENT Seasons 1-4

Now you might look at that last one and say, “Woah, that’s… complicated!”

It is.  And it isn’t.  It’s a guide; it’s not something that if you follow and get mixed up on, the world will end.  It’s just how we got the material in the first place.  If you are good at following directions?  No problemo.  If not?  Go with Option 2, lol.  Either one will get you there. ;)  Option 3 is the sort of “advanced studies” class, while Option 2 is your easiest and most relaxed route.  Again, Option 1 is a bad idea.  Truly bad. 

If anyone has any questions, at any time on your trek (pun intended!) I’m always here.

Addendum: Top 10 Worst Episodes of Original Series to Skip

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