h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Geeks of the Earth! Come hereth to speeketh your geeketh!

Whether it be Star Trek, Star Wars, X-Files, whatever, it don't matter. Show off your geekness here (ps no TV show spoilers).

This thread is basically the place for people like the Trio from Buffy, except without the murderous intentions.

Don't wait up - Talk Geek!

Spook

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RhoMuNuQ

From a skillfulness as captain Kirk is definately the best, but if i was offered the option to spend an evening with a Captain i would have to go with Janeway!

My favourite captain's Picard, but that list still cracks me up every time I read it. I can't decide whether Kirk or Janeway is the better captain, though.

RhoMuNuQ

Kirk is definitely the best captain. he does what he likes, when he likes, and gets all the best girls. Picard is cool but too much of a loner to be cool. Sisko is good, pretty cool dude being a Prophet and all.

The best character in Star Trek is Bones by a mile. he so rocks in every manner!

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I'm not really a fan of any of the captains, for various reasons. The simplest being:
- I don't like the person the Janeway actor is copying.
- Sisco is a bit sulky (but possibly the default winner).
- Picard is ... wet (?)
- Kirk is just too dangerous to be anywhere near.

When my friends and I played the pick your own starship/series crew game, someone commented that I'd mostly chosen scientists (including androids and). Naturally!

Spock (who did get to be captain briefly) would be my choice.

Oops, a word got away. Try "androids and children". I don't think I'd finished deciding what else might go in there.

opinions on Captain Archer anyone?

I'm still having a bit of trouble getting over him being a chimp in Quantum Leap. He was so right in the role. Actually I'm adapting a bit better than I thought I would - or perhaps the actor is!

Scott Bakula normally plays the big softie type who can do the crying scene - just as they originally hired William Shatner because they knew he could do the fighting scenes they wanted. So it was hard to imagine him having any credibility as a captain. Mind you it was hard to take Dean Stockwell seriously as a goodie in Quantum Leap when he's more a baddie. It made so much more sense in the episode when he turned out to be the devil instead.

The Trio from Buffy? Not all geeks watch Buffy you know.

What language is that, Owl? Is it de-indented Python? If it is, it's not syntatically correct (through no fault of your own )

Hmm, Star Trek captains... Yes, Bones is the best Star Trek character of them all IMO And I like when that hunter race turns Neelix into a Klingon

* Christopher Pike. Don't remember anything about him so he can't be much of a character

* James T. Kirk. Egocentric and reckless. Not a man I'd like to serve under, methinks. Not so bad in his later years (in the films).

* Spock. Does he have a first name? Very competent, but just too narrow-minded - too obsessed with logic. Thankfully he has a sense of humour, perhaps because of Kirk, or perhaps his half-human nature.

* Jean-Luc Picard. Somewhat long in the tooth, but a good captain. Not much of a talker. Too few personality flaws to be an interesting character. But I like the way he dealt with those aliens that were obsessed with treaties.

* Kathryn Janeway. I agree with Spook (not to be confused with Spock ) about her. Being female certainly makes a change. Can be a bit *too* chummy though. The one outstanding thing about her is that she drinks . The elixir of life!

* Benjamin Sisko. A man who knows what he wants. Very opinionated and paranoid - the latter is a good quality for a post at a dangerous frontier. But he'd be too hard to get along with. (Not a captain by the way )

Conclusion? I can't make one. They're all good and bad in different ways.

Oh and Jonathan Archer... all I can think of to say is, thank goodness they didn't call him Jeffrey!

It is Python, Pete ... and I did indent it properly, but this stoopid parser doesn't let me.

As far as Captain Archer is concerned... watch "American Beauty" again...

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U200417

Spock does indeed have a first name. Spock's full name is...









Mr Spock!

My computer has an INtel 4 pentium processor and my laptop doesnt...


Geeky enough?

lol omg n00b l33tzor

I did just sell my soul.


Anyhoo, cpt Picard me thinks, Archer close 2nd. Janeway was waaay to friendly and non-shooting. Picard was a bit that way but not as much as Janeway.

Final geekiness; I hate Micro$oft!

Spock does have a first name but you wouldn't be able to pronounce it.

(And yes, that is a quote, just change it to 1st person, its from the episode with the spores that make everyone happy)

My fave captain? Hmmm...

Pike - dunno him that well
Kirk - good TV show captain, not sure if i would actually want to be up in space with him
Spock - only ever saw him training cadets as a captain... he did that well i guess
Picard - His (artifical) heart is in the right place, and if i were actually up in space i might like him, but he isn't interesting on TV
Sisko - DS9 became a soap and i stopped watching it, so i dunno
Janeway - By process of elimination i guess janeway has to be my favorite, she is the only captain (except spock, who doesn't count) that actually worked their way up to captain, she still has her enginneering skills, none of the others can say that. Being a geek i actually understand most of her technobabble so i quite like her.

I think that's everything.

Tango

You missed the new one - Archer (from Enterprise, the prequel!).

I missed out Pike because I never really counted him. He struck me as foolish but the "young" prototype character of Spock was interestingly different.

I mostly like StarTrek for its comedy value - the Americans taking themselves soooo seriously. Other people don't always get that. I think things like Buffy are more intentionally funny (except when they are very unfunny indeed).

So my all time favourite feel-good sci-fi, for values, attention to model detail (and some obscure things not many people would get) has to be Thunderbirds. That's what I watch when I'm very ill and sad but can actually manage to cope with TV at all (lights and sound). Anyone want to guess my favourite character and TB craft?

in the first ever Star Trek pilot 'The Cage', Spock smiled!