ST:TNG season 6
Dec. 14th, 2010 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSo yesterday I discovered you can play other people at scrabble online.
... oops.
... my essay progress, let me show you it: [-insert essay here-] *facepalm*
So then I was awake between about 0400 and about 0100, and then I got maybe four hours sleep, at generous estimate. I woke up with a headache, which I still have, at 0900, after painkillers. Clearly today is also going to be productive.
I've been watching more Next Gen, usually one episode per meal break like I had been doing with Enterprise. It's interesting because now I'm up to season six I'm finding episodes I'm reasonably sure I haven't seen before. Everything through 'Chain of Command' I have seen; though there was a bit of a scene that surprised me, Memory Alpha reckons the BBC edited it a tiny bit for the timeslot. Aquiel I might have just forgotten. I know I've seen Tapestry, a bunch of times. I think I've seen Birthright before. But Starship Mine and The Chase? If I ever saw them I forgot every last one of the details, which don't seem likely. Even though they are fairly forgettable and a bit bland. And daft. A message in the dna? :eyeroll:
Mind you, if humans had the technology to seed a message in the dna across the universe, you know someone would hack it for teh lolz. Would not leave a message of peace and hope though.
... could not leave a message of peace and hope that turns a tricorder into a holo emitter by making a computer program that executes itself when scanned by completely alien technology. Bug sci fi and science are not so much related.
Now I'm wondering, if I did miss these, what was up at the time? I think I can guess, Memory Alpha says these eps are from early 1993 so math says I'd be 15 and quite a lot of my late teens is best left forgot. But I got sidetracked just now trying to find out when they were on the BBC, because it's unlikely to be the same date, right? And I'm sure I found a list once. I was looking for exactly when a particular DS9 episode was on. But now I can't find any such data. Is annoying.
ETA: Memory Alpha says the BBC showed them first run up until 1992: 6 May - "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" airs on the BBC. This episode marks the end of the corporation's rights to air the series in first-run. ; that with the end of season 3 plus the cliffhanger from season 4. After that they moved to Sky for first run from Family onwards. So we were seasons and years behind. It's possible my viewing was interrupted by changing houses even. /ETA
Stories interact with their contexts at time of production and consumption. Films get labelled with one particular date on the DVD case, but even films aren't that simple. Staggered release in different markets. TV also, different channels get different times, sometimes different by years. Channel One (Virgin One as was) only just finished showing Enterprise, and Channel One is as far as I know the only channel I could get that showed it. Stories stretch out, even as 'first' broadcast. And then readers find them for years, on repeats or on DVD. New meanings are created every time they're seen new. Is interesting.
Next Gen seems a bit cold and distant. Technobabble rather than emotion. And not many consequences for most people. Worf gets the strongest storyline because things that happen to him change him. He gets promoted, he gets mated, he gets a son, he tries to send him off to be raised by his parents, he has him back and has trouble with him, he re-explores Klingon culture as a parent trying to transmit the essentials to his child. It's a strong story that only gets stronger if you follow it through to DS9. You can read the whole of both shows as Worf's story and get a lot of out it that way. But it highlights how little actually happens to anyone else. Few promotions, no changes in their personal lives that last more than one episode, no knock on consequences, and little revealed about their home cultures. Deanna's mum gets a good story that makes progress, Deanna does not. We learn about the Federation mostly by noticing what they consider normal, or abnormal. The everyday way their world works just isn't dug into much. And as for culture, it's all Shakespeare and classical music, things that are already old today. You end up wondering if humans gave up on creating culture and cocooned in an imagined idealised past. It's creepy.
I find even in the middle of rewatching the whole seven seasons the people in my head remain the DS9 crew. DS9 put their people through a lot of changes, had a lot of consequences going on, had emotional connections, relationships, marriages, births, deaths, the whole deal. And it was much the better for it.
But probably harder to syndicate. :eyeroll:
... oops.
... my essay progress, let me show you it: [-insert essay here-] *facepalm*
So then I was awake between about 0400 and about 0100, and then I got maybe four hours sleep, at generous estimate. I woke up with a headache, which I still have, at 0900, after painkillers. Clearly today is also going to be productive.
I've been watching more Next Gen, usually one episode per meal break like I had been doing with Enterprise. It's interesting because now I'm up to season six I'm finding episodes I'm reasonably sure I haven't seen before. Everything through 'Chain of Command' I have seen; though there was a bit of a scene that surprised me, Memory Alpha reckons the BBC edited it a tiny bit for the timeslot. Aquiel I might have just forgotten. I know I've seen Tapestry, a bunch of times. I think I've seen Birthright before. But Starship Mine and The Chase? If I ever saw them I forgot every last one of the details, which don't seem likely. Even though they are fairly forgettable and a bit bland. And daft. A message in the dna? :eyeroll:
Mind you, if humans had the technology to seed a message in the dna across the universe, you know someone would hack it for teh lolz. Would not leave a message of peace and hope though.
... could not leave a message of peace and hope that turns a tricorder into a holo emitter by making a computer program that executes itself when scanned by completely alien technology. Bug sci fi and science are not so much related.
Now I'm wondering, if I did miss these, what was up at the time? I think I can guess, Memory Alpha says these eps are from early 1993 so math says I'd be 15 and quite a lot of my late teens is best left forgot. But I got sidetracked just now trying to find out when they were on the BBC, because it's unlikely to be the same date, right? And I'm sure I found a list once. I was looking for exactly when a particular DS9 episode was on. But now I can't find any such data. Is annoying.
ETA: Memory Alpha says the BBC showed them first run up until 1992: 6 May - "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" airs on the BBC. This episode marks the end of the corporation's rights to air the series in first-run. ; that with the end of season 3 plus the cliffhanger from season 4. After that they moved to Sky for first run from Family onwards. So we were seasons and years behind. It's possible my viewing was interrupted by changing houses even. /ETA
Stories interact with their contexts at time of production and consumption. Films get labelled with one particular date on the DVD case, but even films aren't that simple. Staggered release in different markets. TV also, different channels get different times, sometimes different by years. Channel One (Virgin One as was) only just finished showing Enterprise, and Channel One is as far as I know the only channel I could get that showed it. Stories stretch out, even as 'first' broadcast. And then readers find them for years, on repeats or on DVD. New meanings are created every time they're seen new. Is interesting.
Next Gen seems a bit cold and distant. Technobabble rather than emotion. And not many consequences for most people. Worf gets the strongest storyline because things that happen to him change him. He gets promoted, he gets mated, he gets a son, he tries to send him off to be raised by his parents, he has him back and has trouble with him, he re-explores Klingon culture as a parent trying to transmit the essentials to his child. It's a strong story that only gets stronger if you follow it through to DS9. You can read the whole of both shows as Worf's story and get a lot of out it that way. But it highlights how little actually happens to anyone else. Few promotions, no changes in their personal lives that last more than one episode, no knock on consequences, and little revealed about their home cultures. Deanna's mum gets a good story that makes progress, Deanna does not. We learn about the Federation mostly by noticing what they consider normal, or abnormal. The everyday way their world works just isn't dug into much. And as for culture, it's all Shakespeare and classical music, things that are already old today. You end up wondering if humans gave up on creating culture and cocooned in an imagined idealised past. It's creepy.
I find even in the middle of rewatching the whole seven seasons the people in my head remain the DS9 crew. DS9 put their people through a lot of changes, had a lot of consequences going on, had emotional connections, relationships, marriages, births, deaths, the whole deal. And it was much the better for it.
But probably harder to syndicate. :eyeroll: