Burn Notice & other stuff n' stuff

[RedRock]

There's a lot that happens before Typhon Pact, though, with the end of the Borg, Janeway finally giving up the ghost (Yaaaaaay!!!!!), and the UFP getting slipstream drive. Plus even before that, there are a bunch of standalone story collections about DS9, for example, Twist of Faith and These Haunted Seas.

[Major_A]

aaawwww crap....I got stuck watching Voyager again....
I found the doctor from Bajor that found Odo in
season 1, and Nog playing a Kazon in season 2 lol.

Oh well, it's going to be cold and rainy for another
few weeks anyway

[RedRock]

The holographic doctor and Neelix, the sunfish (--he's brightly colored and his head and hair always were kind of elongated in the front to back direction and flattened in the right to left direction, so he reminds me of a sunfish) were my favorite characters in Voyager. Janeway, Chakotay, Paris, B'elana, Harry, etc.......just boring, or worse, characters.

[Major_A]

ya know, after thinking about that, he does remind me of a
Sunfish...with Orangutan hair lol

The first season the characters seem a little plain to me, but
they seem to take shape a bit more in season 2

I've put Voyager on hold in the middle of season 2 for the
time being so's I could reminisce with my beloved
Buck Rodgers I've missed for so long....

For the past two days I've been trying to remember if my
Buck Rodgers fighter "My first glue model I believe" is still
in one piece in a box someplace.

[RedRock]

I never watched any Buck Rogers, except for the one movie with that cutie Erin Grey (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077278/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2).

Incidentally, if you haven't watched The Guild series on-line, you've missed a clever and funny MMORPG-"WOW kind of people" series, and Erin Grey plays a fictional (aging) sci-fi series star showing up at Sci-Fi and Gaming cons (in the last 2 seasons or so). She's not as good-looking as she was back then, but it's still nice to see her in the series.

www.imdb.com/media/rm1819777024/nm0001292
www.imdb.com/name/nm0001292/?ref_=tt_cl_t3

[Major_A]

At the time when the series aired I was too young to
realize that the entire series is hot women in skimpy
clothes so you may like the rest of the episodes

[Major_A]

Interesting, I just got to Voyager 4x16 and the lead Hirogen in the episode,
I picked his voice out immediately since I'd just watched all the DS9 episodes.

The lead Hirogen also played the adult Jake Sisko "Tony Todd" In the episode "The Visitor"
That was the episode Jake grew older and his father was zapped and showing up briefly over the period of Jakes life before he off'ed himself to reset the timeline.

I just thought it interesting playing those particular two parts with all the Hirogen makeup I mean.

Make you wonder with Typhon Pact and the next cast of the next Star Trek Series will be playing on it...I mean someone has to be working on another series somewhere I'd think.

You mentioned the slipstream drive, what is that exactly, not sure I recall it mentioned in any other ST episode being talked about.

[RedRock]

It was the FTL method that was in the series Andromeda. It's also a Star Trek method/term:
I'm a little rusty on the particular book about it, I think it's with the end of the borg story, the Destiny trilogy (published 2008), but it's basically transwarp ultra-high speed travel.

You're going to encounter it in 3 episdoes of ST:Voyager. Read just the blurbs I put below, to avoid any spoilers for you, until you've seen the eps:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_%28science_fiction%29

Quantum slipstream was a starship drive used in two episodes of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. It first appeared in the season 4 finale, "Hope and Fear". Similar to the Borg transwarp conduits, the slipstream is a narrowly-focused, directed field that is initiated by manipulating the fabric of the space-time continuum at the quantum level using the starship's navigational deflector array. It works by focusing a quantum field through a deflector dish to generate massive changes in local space curvature. This creates a subspace tunnel, which is projected ahead of the vessel. Once a ship has entered this tunnel, the forces inside propel it at incredible speed. In order to maintain the slipstream, a ship has to constantly modify the quantum field with its deflector dish; however, the calculations involved are too complicated, and the time available too short for 24th century Starfleet computer technology. When this technology was discovered by the crew of the lost and stranded USS Voyager, it was hoped this could be used to allow the starship to travel at even greater speeds: the first test of this drive.........

However, in the episode "Timeless", the technology proved to be dangerously unstable, resulting in ........

Quantum slipstream technology was one of the items requested in the "Think Tank" episode, despite Captain Janeway's admission they never got it to work properly.

[RedRock]

And just for completeness, here's a list for you of the ST books to date:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_novels

[Major_A]

You beat me in here darnit

I just watched Voyager 4x26 Hope and fear.
I was on 4x24 when I asked that question.
If I'd only known I was that close to my answer lol

I am enjoying the list...interesting

[Major_A]

HOLY CRAP!!!

Voyager 6x15 ...THAT's The Rock! Dwayne Johnson

He did that eye twitch thing. Had he not done that, I'm not sure I'd recognize him.
Also General Martok Klingon plays a Hirogen. I recognized voice
and Weyoun the dominion clone slave is in it. I recognized voice

just to be sure, i looked it up.... wow
www.imdb.com/title/tt0708999/

Fascinating, makeup is just incredible when you pick out
voices from multiple characters.

Martok





en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/J.G._Hertzler

[RedRock]

I can't find a definitive link, but I KNOW I read and heard just about 2 months ago of the death of Hertzler. Oh, and he has credits listed on an upcoming 2014 made for TV Star Trek movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt2621446/

And Jeffrey Coombs has had roles in ST:Enterprise, DS9, and Voyager, maybe more. He's a really good actor.

[Major_A]

I knew it...they are planning something for TV lol

Interesting stuff you posted.

I just reached Voyager 7x08 and discovered The Shepherd from
Firefly playing a character. Didn't realize he played in multiple scifi
shows.

[RedRock]

I really enjoyed that actor (Book, the Shepherd) in the old Barney Miller tv series.

[Major_A]

OMG THAT'S WHERE I KNOW HIM FROM!

I knew that voice was familiar from other than Firefly, but couldn't
figure out from where. lolol, now I want to watch Barney Miller ;D