TREK REVOKED!

Another reason my Geek Card has been revoked: Star Trek.

I used to watch the old show when I was a kid. I remember liking it, but not as much as Star Wars - but then, I didn't like ANYTHING as much as Star Wars at that point in time. Not even girls. Give me a break, I was only eighteen at the time, girls were icky!

Anyway, I was thirteen when TNG came on the air. And it was the absolute BALLS. I didn't mind that Picard was not Kirk - that's what Riker was clearly there for. The new look of the ship and the uniforms and even the aliens was great! The hot women didn't have 60s hair and good lord was Marina Sirtis hot! And that Q guy! And yes, Wesley. There was a kid my age on that ship, and he might've dressed in Cosby sweaters but dammit, he was a smart, geeky kid who the adults LISTENED TO! (Sometimes.)

I watched as much as I could, but this was pre-DVR days. I'm not even sure if we had a VCR at this point. My parents weren't against Trek, but they certainly didn't go out of their way for it. So I saw the first few, caught more here and there, and generally liked the show. But after a while Trek and I just sort of parted company.

I've tried to write some sort of explanation for why Trek just stopped working for me. And deleted it. And wrote it again. And deleted it again and again. I really don't know why, but Trek just never worked for me the way other stuff did.

I do have favorite episodes of TOS and TNG. Never really got into DS9 or Voyager and I barely gave Enterprise a chance (insert cheap Enterprise joke here.)

I have read Harlan Ellison's book about City on the Edge of Forever, and that ruined the episode for me. I remember really liking The Trouble With Tribbles and Balance of Terror from the old show (haven't watched either one in years, what with City turning out so badly for me.)

TNG had The Measure of a Man, the Cardassian Torture episode Chain of Command, the one with Ryker's Dad, and the final episode, All Good Things...

And like everybody, I love me some of the Trek movies. The only TNG movie I really dug was First Contact, but I really enjoyed seeing Kirk and Picard share the screen in Generations. Wrath of Khan holds up damn well. And the Abrams relaunch blew my head right off. It had its flaws, but man oh man.

So yeah. I guess what I'm really saying is I'm an at-best casual fan of the Trek 'verse. But willing to give it another go.

Geek Card REVOKED!

I am a geek... but not much of one. I am a role-player (not lately, but I still have a ton of rulebooks and still want to. So that counts.) I used to be a huge Star Wars fan. I love comic books. I enjoy the minutiae and trivia of movies, music, comics, and all sorts of geeky subjects. Joss Whedon is STILL my master, dammit. And I love sf and fantasy.

In fact, here's a list.

• I still feel vaguely betrayed by George Lucas. You know why.
• I have (nearly) every season of all of Joss Whedon's shows. Buffy, Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse. Firefly I have in two formats (the blu-ray was a Christmas gift this year) and a copy of the Special Edition of Serenity to go with the regular edition. I went for the double dip, yes. For the record, the one piece missing is Angel Season Four. Next time I see it for sale, maybe.
• Battlestar Galactica is my favorite show of the past few years. Even though I'm not completely sure how I felt about the last few. And yeah, I own nearly the entire series in standard DVD and the entire thing on blu-ray. I even bought The frakkin' Plan. On blu-ray. The day it came out. And I'm still pissed about it.
• I own a copy of the current edition of GURPS. With quite a few sourcebooks in e-book format.
• I have a preference involving versions of White Wolf's World of Darkness.

There's more, but those are some highlights.

And now, why my Geek Card has been REVOKED!

• The Disney/Marvel deal could not be of less concern to me. I'm really actually looking forward to what Pixar might be able to do with some of the Marvel characters.
• I'm constantly late to the party. Enough so that that will be its own tag on this site. I finally saw Iron Man, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and even Revenge of the Sith on DVD.
• Speaking of The Dark Knight? Overrated. To an extreme.
• I have a vague idea of what Blackest Night is about. Can't say I much care.
• I don't have a strong opinion either way about Lord of the Rings. The movies, anyway. They look absolutely stunning, and some of the acting was off-the-charts good. And I guess I don't really have a strong opinion about the books. Glad I read them (better than a decade before the movies, thanks) but I don't see re-reading them anytime soon.
• And, finally, not sure I'll be seeing Avatar in the theaters. Likely candidate for the Late to the Party feature.

I guess if there were a mission statement I could make about this blog, it would be: Talking Geek from just outside the Geek realm. Next up: A Late to the Party.