kpowers said:

morningsong said:

Cable ain't free.

Well besides basic cable, the TV you bought, electric bill.

Always had to pay for the tv and electricity since there was tv, but this paying and paying to watch it is a whole other thing.


Especially when there isn't enough content to fill up what already exist.

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If you're a resident of the United States you can watch CW shows including The Originals on the app the next morning. No cable logins necessary and it's free. http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/the-cw-app.

Hudson said:

If you're a resident of the United States you can watch CW shows including The Originals on the app the next morning. No cable logins necessary and it's free. http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/the-cw-app.

There's a catch there always is, like you have to wait a week or 2 after it's aired, and don't miss a few episodes, they are only available for a short time. Stuff like that. At least with cable (rather paid tv) I just hit the button that says record whole season, and if I miss a few epi's it's fine, I can binge them later.

morningsong said:

Hudson said:

If you're a resident of the United States you can watch CW shows including The Originals on the app the next morning. No cable logins necessary and it's free. http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/the-cw-app.

There's a catch there always is, like you have to wait a week or 2 after it's aired, and don't miss a few episodes, they are only available for a short time. Stuff like that. At least with cable (rather paid tv) I just hit the button that says record whole season, and if I miss a few epi's it's fine, I can binge them later.

Not on the CW app. You only have access to the latest five but they are there the day after they air. You can't skip the ads though unlike on a DVR.

Hudson said:

morningsong said:

There's a catch there always is, like you have to wait a week or 2 after it's aired, and don't miss a few episodes, they are only available for a short time. Stuff like that. At least with cable (rather paid tv) I just hit the button that says record whole season, and if I miss a few epi's it's fine, I can binge them later.

Not on the CW app. You only have access to the latest five but they are there the day after they air. You can't skip the ads though unlike on a DVR.

Cool. Unfortunately at this point The Originals is pretty much the only show on CW I watch with any regularity and it's only got one season left.

Star Trek and Animal House connection

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morningsong said:

kpowers said:

Well besides basic cable, the TV you bought, electric bill.

Always had to pay for the tv and electricity since there was tv, but this paying and paying to watch it is a whole other thing.


Especially when there isn't enough content to fill up what already exist.

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Yeah I too am not gonna pay that CBS on line. I'll just wait for the DVD, that's what I did for True Blood because I don't have HBO.

morningsong said:

CBS and Netflix announced today that the streaming service will make the series available within 24 hours of its airing on CBS All Access in 188 countries around the world, including the U.K. The catch, though, is that CBS All Access is still the only way for Americans to see the new series; there will be no Netflix airing of the show here or in Canada. The only reprieve we get is with the premiere episode, which will also air on the regular CBS network, while Canadians will get the opportunity to watch the series on the Space and Z cable networks, with CraveTV having the exclusive streaming rights.

I'm hoping it fails and the studio decides to put Star Trek Discovery on CBS or CW

Hudson said:

The first episode of the show will air on CBS, but all subsequent episodes will only be available on the network's online viewing platform, CBS All Access, which requires a subscription fee. Altman said many fans had decried the additional cost, but Altman said he thinks it's a good thing.

of course he's gonna say that. Hope it fails.

kpowers said:

Hudson said:

The first episode of the show will air on CBS, but all subsequent episodes will only be available on the network's online viewing platform, CBS All Access, which requires a subscription fee. Altman said many fans had decried the additional cost, but Altman said he thinks it's a good thing.

of course he's gonna say that. Hope it fails.

It's a total fail if they don't make the series accessible on Netflix.

Why the project is doomed if you have twenty minutes to spare.

purplethunder3121 said:

It's on you tube now

Sheba from Battlestar Galactica is also in the new episode

Wow just got done watching episode 9, What Ships are for. Another great episode. Honestly I wish CBS would pay them to continue their series. I wonder whats going on with the Fleet of ships???

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OK here is my theory about what is going on with the ships of the fleet. Since Star Trek continues is ending this year maybe they are going to show the next class of ships.

I also think by the time this series ends they will also have new uniforms. In the last episode Kirk was talking to some one at Star Fleet command and comment on his white uniform. Guessing the uniforms will look like how they did in the motion picture

Watched this, pretty inspirational.




hate it when images don't post.

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morningsong said:

Watched this, pretty inspirational.

I bet some of the original cast watch this series and say to them selfs "Wow that was a great episode, wish we did that"

Archer needs to lose the mustache

morningsong said:

Watched this, pretty inspirational.




hate it when images don't post.

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Inspirational with Jason Alexander in it????????????????

kpowers said:

morningsong said:

Watched this, pretty inspirational.




hate it when images don't post.

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Inspirational with Jason Alexander in it????????????????

Well he didn't take up that much of it and I did forget he did play a character in one of the ST episodes, I forget if it was TNG or DS9.

Oooops. It was Voyger.

Is Nicholas Meyer working on a Khan mini-series?

http://www.joblo.com/movi...series-690

The Trill Transformation

Just got done watching the episode called "The Host" from season 4 of TNG. They introduce the Trill for the very first time and notice they don't look how they did on DS9

Terry Farrell donning the Trill makeup featured in TNG

It was initially planned for the Trills of DS9 to look basically identical to Odan, who had established the Trill appearance in "The Host". The make-up was consequently to still consist of several distinguishing marks on the forehead. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 21) Actress Terry Farrell recalled how the Trill makeup was being planned when she was cast as Jadzia Dax; "[Makeup Supervisor Michael] Westmore [...] was about to put this whole thing on me [....] I didn't know that the [makeup] testing would take months to figure out that I didn't need a forehead." ("Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) Indeed, a new prosthetic forehead, much like the original, was designed by Westmore. ("Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) The appliance was filmed in test footage involving Farrell. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 7; "Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) At first, the forehead matching Odan's was used for only two days. "Then they kept reducing it with each test," related Farrell, "until it really looked like someone had just hit me in the forehead. But Paramount didn't want to make me look strange." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 7) The forehead appliance was used over the course of a few weeks. ("Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) "We had only shot one of her scenes, which [the producers] wanted to redo for some other reason, so they took a new look at the makeup," explained Westmore. (The Official Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine, Vol. 1, p. 28)

Farrell with an early test stage of the spot makeup

After Paramount executives watched the dailies of Terry Farrell in DS9 pilot "Emissary", they issued a rare ultimatum about the Trill make-up scheme. The executives insisted the make-up be changed via removal of the forehead markings; having spent a long time seeking a beautiful actress for the role of Dax, Paramount wanted to avoid Farrell being defaced by prosthetics. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 21) The actress offered, "I just remember that somebody said, 'What did you do to her? She used to be beautiful and you gave her this weird head!'" ("Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) The alarmed reaction to the Trill forehead finally resulted in the more common spots seen on Deep Space Nine. Hence, the reasons for the change were purely cosmetic. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 7; "Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) Like the unused forehead, the Trill spots were designed by Michael Westmore. ("Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) He took inspiration for the spots from Kriosian make-up in TNG: "The Perfect Mate". (TV Zone, Special #34, p. 12) The DS9 makeup team thought the Trill spots would look sexier than the earlier ones, though. ("Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) "I didn't want to do the exact same thing," recollected Westmore, "so we experimented around the front of Terry's face and the powers-that-be finally accepted that design." (TV Zone, Special #34, p. 12) The resultant distinguishing marks were tested over a couple of weeks. One of the tests, labeled "Take 3", was filmed with a TNG clapperboard. ("Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) Observing the entire make-up layout usually worn by Farrell, Westmore said, "Aside from her regular beauty makeup, she has a pattern around her hairline and ears, and down her neck." (The Official Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine, Vol. 1, p. 28)

Although the writers of DS9 were obviously aware of the physical differences between Odan and the Trill in DS9, no canon explanation has ever been offered. In an attempt to explain the variations, Terry Farrell once suggested that the spotted members of the species were from the north of Trill whereas Odan was from the planet's south. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 21) She also regarded the spots as natural-looking. "It's not much different than freckles or leopard spots or zebra stripes," Farrell observed. (Hidden File 05, DS9 Season 1 DVD special features)

Michael Westmore applying Terry Farrell's Trill makeup

On DS9, Dax's Trill makeup was regularly applied by Michael Westmore; faced with having to select only one makeup to ordinarily apply, he chose the Trill spots, which pleased Terry Farrell and meant they spent a huge amount of time together. "And it was a really exciting makeup," enthused Farrell, "because makeup artists would always say, 'My god. How do they do the spots?' [....] And so, when he started doing it, I said, 'You know, it's really neat and I get a lot of compliments from you doing my makeup.'" ("Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) Westmore used brown make-up for the Trill spots, and subsequently accented them with burnt orange coloration. He applied the spots by hand, employing a technique whereby he deliberately made his hands quiver while painting the markings on. Westmore never used a stencil, so the spots were always unique. [2] "It's a laborious job," he remarked. "There seems to be no easy way to make up a stencil for that. It just has to be done every day." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 31) Farrell stated, "Michael Westmore [...] [used] two different colors of watercolor. The first season we experimented with art pens, but they would take me two or three days to get off of my skin – not pleasant!" Applying the spots generally took slightly longer than an hour each day, though Farrell thought the process would likely have taken less time if she and Westmore hadn't enjoyed conversing with one another quite so much as they did. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 7) In hot shooting conditions, the sweat of the Trill-playing actors might cause the watercolor to run down the side of his or her face, so the actor had to be kept cool. ("Crew Dossier: Jadzia Dax", DS9 Season 2 DVD special features)

The disparity between Trills seen on TNG and the later Trills goes beyond makeup. In contrast to DS9's depictions of the species, "The Host" seems to make it clear that the symbiont was dominant (in fact, the symbiont is referred to as a "parasite" on more than one occasion), and that the host was merely a body with no influence over the joined entity. Odan was apparently unable to safely use the transporter, while Dax used it often with no trouble at all. Ronald D. Moore noted, "The Trill were not supposed to go through transporters and we slid by it (like the original Trill makeup)." (AOL chat, 1997) Furthermore, whereas Odan was ready to pick up where he/she and Crusher had left off, a Trill taboo against reassociation was, early in the series run of DS9, suggested by Michael Piller.

Trill society was foremost on Michael Piller's mind when he devised the ban on reassociation. "He felt they'd have to have a very strict taboo in order to avoid an aristocracy of the joined," reflected René Echevarria. "Otherwise, they'd all want to hang out with each other, their dear old friends from five hundred years ago, and it would become a really screwed-up society." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Ha!! That's a big change.

Ensign Ro

Watching season 5 now and episode 3 introduces Ro. Always liked her on the show. With Yar and Wesly Crusher gone it felt like they needed another cast member. She was a strong female and liked her on the bridge.

Forbes was later approached to reprise the character of Ro on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but she declined because she did not want a regular television role at the time; Nana Visitor's role of Kira Nerys was scripted as a replacement. Forbes was also offered the chance to return on Star Trek: Voyager, but again turned it down.

I had never watched Star Trek Continues before last night. You guys got me interested...

Wow! That's some good stuff. Love it!! Thanks for getting me to check it out.

kpowers said:

Ensign Ro

Watching season 5 now and episode 3 introduces Ro. Always liked her on the show. With Yar and Wesly Crusher gone it felt like they needed another cast member. She was a strong female and liked her on the bridge.

Forbes was later approached to reprise the character of Ro on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but she declined because she did not want a regular television role at the time; Nana Visitor's role of Kira Nerys was scripted as a replacement. Forbes was also offered the chance to return on Star Trek: Voyager, but again turned it down.

I've always liked her. But I really like Nana too as Nerys.

morningsong said:

kpowers said:

Ensign Ro

Watching season 5 now and episode 3 introduces Ro. Always liked her on the show. With Yar and Wesly Crusher gone it felt like they needed another cast member. She was a strong female and liked her on the bridge.

Forbes was later approached to reprise the character of Ro on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but she declined because she did not want a regular television role at the time; Nana Visitor's role of Kira Nerys was scripted as a replacement. Forbes was also offered the chance to return on Star Trek: Voyager, but again turned it down.

I've always liked her. But I really like Nana too as Nerys.

I knew that the producers wanted her to be on DS9 but not Voyager as well.