These are meant mainly for humorous sake.....
1. Why that bonehead reporter insisted on following David Banner around in the Incredible Hulk show . I mean for one thing the guy gives him a vauge threat in the opening credits "Don't make me angry Mr. Mcgee--you wouldn't like me when I'm angry!" it was clear he had anger manegment problems--why keep problems up? Also why was it everyone except the reporter figured out David's secret except the reporter who mercilessly hounded him? And was I the only one who hated the sleazy evil reporter enough to want to see him get killed or at least get his butt whipped by the Hulk?
2. Why the DS9 folks replaced the original Dax with a lame one--even if she was leaving the show, were they doing so badly that they couldn't find a better person to take over?
more to come......
1. They wanted to heighten the tension when McGee almost catches up with him every week. Kinda like the Fugitive.
2. Don't be knocking Nicole DeBoer. Yes a lot of people hated her, but I am not among them. When Jadzia died they had to put Dax inside someone to keep it alive, so they put him in Ezri. She had not been prepared for the blending (which was apparently a lifelong thing for the host), so she acted very squirrelly for a while.
Ah....
Some A-Team questions:
*Is it really possible to throw so much lead around and never really hit anyone with a bullet? Why even carry a gun?
*Why does shooting tires always cause a flash of fire and some smoke when the tire blows?
*Why does shooting a radiator on a car cause the hood to explode open?
*How is it that when a car crashes (usually flying up into the air and landing on its roof), the occupants are able to just climb out with no injuries?
*If the general population was able to find them for help so easily, why did the government have such problems?
*Most everything they did was for free out of the kindness of their hearts...how did they ever afford anything like, say, food?
*If the general population was able to find them for help so easily, why did the government have such problems?
You know, it's funny, I remember reading a hysterical parody of that show years back in Mad Magazine. There's a part in the opening splahs where they have all the team members in the street firing guns while people in the background are commenting on various members.
On BA (Mr T's character) a woman says, "Well, if they can't find him in THAT outfit, justice really IS blind!"
Hehehe
pops_mcfly Wrote:
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> 2. Why the DS9 folks replaced the original Dax
> with a lame one--even if she was leaving the show,
> were they doing so badly that they couldn't find a
> better person to take over?
Now wouldn't that have been an interesting predicament for Worf if instead they had found a guy to be the host?
I didn't mind Nicole de Boer as Dax. I mean you couldn't just have someone just like the original. (Geek warning) The hosts are different people. Just with access to the same set of memories. There were whole shows on how the host is not the symbiont. A whole new character. Its not like replacing Darrens on Bewitched, and we were not supposed to notice.
Besides, Nicole is cute!
-Ed
Nicole deBoer is cute, though from the wrong angles she sometimes looks like a twelve-year-old boy.
trek_geezer Wrote:
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> 1. They wanted to heighten the tension when McGee
> almost catches up with him every week. Kinda like
> the Fugitive.
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> 2. Don't be knocking Nicole DeBoer. Yes a lot of
> people hated her, but I am not among them. When
> Jadzia died they had to put Dax inside someone to
> keep it alive, so they put him in Ezri. She had
> not been prepared for the blending (which was
> apparently a lifelong thing for the host), so she
> acted very squirrelly for a while.
>
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> You misunderstood my first question--I know why the writers put him in there, I was wondering why he was so stupid as to follow Banner character-wise..
When they first introduced the Trill in TS:TNG, there was a very definite continuation of emotional attachments from one host to the next (and Riker managed to nail Crusher because of this). When they switched hosts on DS:9, suddenly recalling previous relations was verboten. Gotta love continuity errors....
Shadowphile Wrote:
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> When they first introduced the Trill in TS:TNG,
> there was a very definite continuation of
> emotional attachments from one host to the next
> (and Riker managed to nail Crusher because of
> this). When they switched hosts on DS:9, suddenly
> recalling previous relations was verboten. Gotta
> love continuity errors....
Yeah, and originally, they looked completely different as well. What happened in production there? Who decided on an overhaul?
Jack McGee wasn't after Banner. He was a tabloid journalist following up on sightings of the Hulk. Banner couldn't be seen by him, because McGee thought the Hulk had killed him (that 'don't make me angry' bit was from the pilot, before Banner disappeared), and finding Banner someplace where the Hulk has been spotted would raise a lot of questions. Later on, McGee starts to figure out that the Hulk is normally human, and apparently a good guy, yet he never puts two and two together.
The question I have is why McGee's paper keeps paying to fly him all over the country for stories on a monster they consider the equivalent of Bigfoot. Why isn't he just making it up, like all the other tabloid journalists?
Another, perhaps more serious question: If Banner is serious about hiding his identity, why does he always pick some form of David B. as an alias. The guy's a genius and everything, but the idea of an alias being different from his real name seems to escape him.
And I also wonder how Banner fits all his belongings in that tiny, little tote bag, especially when he goes through two or three sets of clothes every episode.
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Remember McGee was a legitimate journalist, and because of the Hulk story, was fired and could only get tabloid work. Yet he still approached his work in an entirely legitimate manner.
Speaking of overhauls, what about the Klingons? Oh-sure they gave a slight explanation for the physical change from the original series to TNG and later series but what about the thirty or so changes Worf seemed to go through? He started off kinda wussy looking and wearing that butt-ugly gold sash but they improved him a little later on and made his skin darker and his forehead bigger as well as improved his sash and made it look more warrior-like.
So what I want to know is why they made him look weaker when he transferred to DS9---they made his forehead small and lightskinned again and if memory serves me they gave him back the stupid gold sash..........
A Klingon doing Tai-Chi. Sorry, at that point there is no bringing him back from wuss status.
> Yeah, and originally, they looked completely
> different as well. What happened in production
> there? Who decided on an overhaul?
From what i understand, they started out with her in the original, TNG makeup, but then they kept redoing it, putting in less and less prostestics, until it was finally phased out all together.
To me, they should have just said it was a different race, one similar to Trills but not the same.
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Yeah, in fact, when I first saw Jadzia, that's what I thought was going on.
LH-C Wrote:
> Yeah, and originally, they looked completely
> different as well. What happened in production
> there? Who decided on an overhaul?
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> LH-C - my photography
It's all about the sex appeal. Most alien females on Star Trek are humanoid, have huge tits, round asses, hourglass figures, and maybe just a few tweaks on the face. Most of the alien females are also really horny and will jump into bed with anything vaguely humanoid. Think of who the (supposed) core audience of Trek is and put two and two together.
That's why the Trll makeup was changed for Dax.
AndyC Wrote:
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> And I also wonder how Banner fits all his
> belongings in that tiny, little tote bag,
> especially when he goes through two or three sets
> of clothes every episode.
And how does Banner manage to hold a job long enough to collect a paycheck? I mean, if the slightest thing sets his transformation off, that means hitting his hand with a hammer or burning himself on the fryer would send him into one of his hulk rages... I suppose he could use the same day labor type of places, but then it raises the question of where he gets the money for all the clothes he goes through... unless he visits the salvation army every other day...
I always got the impression that McGee was obsessed over the hulk story. I pictured him ultimately getting fired, becoming homeless, and spending every free minute of his time searching for the hulk. After breaking his last camera during a hulk encounter, he resorts to making hasty skectches and tries to sell them to the worst newspapers he can find. Probably turns to booze and from that point on, Banner has it better off than McGee does...
This is just another bit of mis-continuity in Star Trek lore. There is a publicity photo of the crew from DS9 that has Dax in the same makeup worn by the Trill Odan in the TNG episode. Why they made the change I have no idea. It may have been that Terry Farrell didn't like the prosthetic.
The Trill on TNG could not travel through the transporter because it could harm the symbiote. Also, the symbiote was dominate over the host, unlike on DS9 where the host and symbiote personalities were blended and both retained the memories of past blendings.
Star Trek continuity has lots of holes in it, but considering there have been five series and 10 movies they overall do a pretty good job of trying to keep it together.
Worf changed every year on TNG, with his hair getting longer until he finally wore it i a pony tail. His skin got darker because they decided to do the make up for black actor portraying Klingons in the actors natural skin tones. On DS9 had the makeup they used for him in Generations with heavier eyebrows and beard. His forehead did not change.
Michael Dorn got so good at his facial expressions that they could use less adhesive on his prosthetics and cut his makeup time down to 90 minutes.
Remember the Klingons on TOS were just swarthy looking guys with bushy eyebrows and goatees. In The Motion Picture they all had brow ridges that ran to the back of their heads, but they did wear the same type uniforms as the later Klingons. The look of Klingons on TNG started with The Search for Spock.
I always get annoyed a people who say Klingons all look alike. Every family had a distinctive brow ridge, so you could tell who was related. Worf , Alexander his son, and Kurn his brother all have the same brow ridge.
I know it's scary I know all this crap, but I also know a lot about a lot of other things. That's what you get when you read a lot of books and watch a lot of tv and movies.
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Trek, what was the difference between the Klingons in Star Trek - The Movie, Wrath Of Khan, and Search For Spock? (I can't even remember if there were any Klingons in Wrath, I haven't seen it in so long.)
In ST:TMP the Klingons were bald on top and had a big ridge that looked like a spine running from their nose to the back of their head. They had just short hair on the sides. Everybody's ridges looked the same. No Klingons appear in TWOK. Christopher Lloyd appeared as Commander Kruge in the Search for Spock.
Here are so pics;
The Klingon Commander from TMP
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a322/trekgeezer/KlingonCommanderTMP.jpg)
Chistopher Lloyd and crew from Star Trek III
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a322/trekgeezer/Klingons2285.jpg)
Trivia: Mark Lenard (better known as Sarek, Spock's father) played the Klingon Commander in TMP. James Doohan (Scottie) came up with the Klingon and Vulcan dialogue for the movie.
The Klingon standing on your left of Chris Loyd is John Larroquette from Night Court. When he was asked what is was like wearing the Klingon makeup, he said it was like having a crab sitting on your head.
They needed more extensive Klingon dialogue for STIII, so they hired a linguist Marc Okrand to expand on Doohan's work. He eventually made up an entire language and published the Klingon to English dictionary.
And no, I can't recite anything in Klingon except one word, ki'plah. This is a good bye greeting you hear all the time on TNG, it means Success!
In the Motion Picture, they just had a single ridge in the middle that looked kind of like a spine running from front to back, which was a pretty big change from TOS. There were no Klingons in ST2, but when they played a big part in ST3, a little more work was put into reinventing them for the movies.
Good point Horse. I hadn't even thought about Banner's financial situation. He never seemed to work at a job more than a couple of days before he had to disappear again. Did he ever make it to payday?
And notice how he only got jobs that would offer a group of ruffians an opportunity to throw him into a dumpster, behind a counter or into an empty back room.
Thanks, guys! When I was growing up in the late '70s and '80s (and into the '90s when I was in HS) I really liked the Star Trek franchise, but in the past 10-12 years I've lost interest, and haven't even really watched anything since DS9 went off the air. Never watched either Voyager or Enterprise.
Argh, beaten to the post by four minutes. Curse you, trek_geezer!