tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post7163661137156339459..comments2023-09-08T01:35:21.679-07:00Comments on Zaki's Corner / Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Retro Review: Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)Zakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06150118173142516267noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-50226916547571832272010-07-03T09:41:34.877-07:002010-07-03T09:41:34.877-07:00SPACE
FRAKKING
HIPPIES!!
Sorry. The link to the...<b>SPACE<br />FRAKKING <br />HIPPIES!!</b><br /><br />Sorry. The link to the <a href="http://www.zakiscorner.com/2009/05/nemesis-enforcer.html" rel="nofollow">Nemesis</a> review in your <a href="http://www.zakiscorner.com/2010/06/rockatansky-road.html" rel="nofollow">new Mad Max</a> blog entry got me heading down memory lane here, and crashed me right into my anti-<b>SPACE HIPPIE</b> rant.Ian Sokoliwskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088518873613161316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-88764320338452591272009-12-22T23:53:22.820-08:002009-12-22T23:53:22.820-08:00Great Conversation ! Thank you very much !I really...Great Conversation ! Thank you very much !I really loved it.Watch Movieshttp://moviesplanet.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-20308483531926757112009-06-24T06:45:10.488-07:002009-06-24T06:45:10.488-07:00Zaki, I can only agree with your side note that DS...Zaki, I can only agree with your side note that DS9 is the better show by far. In fact, tying it back to your argument on <i>First Contact</i>, I think one of the reasons why I myself prefer DS9 to TNG is that is moves further away from the utopian stalemate and gives us the backside of humanity, the imperfect stuff, continually.<br /><br /><b>Ian wrote:</b><br />"<i>Nobody even has to move to the other side of the planet!</i> [...]<i> Nobody even needs to set foot on that planet for the regenerating effects to take hold.</i>"<br /><br />Well, unless I misremember very badly, they didn't want to just have people on the planet or close by, they wanted to extract what caused the effect so that they could turn it into mass production of some sorts. Medicine from the p.o.v. of the Federation (though not so much from the p.o.v. of the Son'a).The Mad Swedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11909803239199450139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-5289979996656577062009-05-11T05:55:00.000-07:002009-05-11T05:55:00.000-07:00Zaki, you forgot the absolute pinnacle of Star Tre...Zaki, you forgot the absolute pinnacle of Star Trek battle scenes; Riker flies the Enterprise with a friggin' joystick that pops out of the bridge floor!Adam Hutchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297297811499508510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-44544424427752031572009-05-08T08:52:00.000-07:002009-05-08T08:52:00.000-07:00Personally, I'd be quite happy with all those SPAC...Personally, I'd be quite happy with all those <B>SPACE HIPPIES</B> dying a slow, agonizing death from the swine flu or something because they were away from their precious metaphasic radiation.<br /><br />...frakking space hippies.Ian Sokoliwskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088518873613161316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-65747559831770739222009-05-08T06:54:00.000-07:002009-05-08T06:54:00.000-07:00I never got the "Briar Patch" thing, and I don't t...I never got the "Briar Patch" thing, and I don't think Michael Piller fully understood it, either. In the Br'er Rabbit story, he keeps telling Br'er Fox NOT to throw him in the BP, because that's precisely where he wants to go! <br /><br />And then there's the gigantic hole in the Federation's plan, that just makes all of them look incredibly stupid. If they relocate these people to a holographic fake world off-planet...aren't these people going to realize what's going on as soon as one of them gets the sniffles or a wrinkle? Gah!David Carrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-24758531249057322452009-05-08T06:37:00.000-07:002009-05-08T06:37:00.000-07:00And that about sums it up. :-)And that about sums it up. :-)Zakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014455379015009582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-63241215114421034622009-05-08T00:23:00.000-07:002009-05-08T00:23:00.000-07:00SPACE HIPPIES.
Geordie's eyes shouldn't have rege...SPACE HIPPIES.<br /><br />Geordie's eyes shouldn't have regenerated. He was born blind. There was nothing that had degenerated that should then regenerate.<br /><br />SPACE HIPPIES.<br /><br />Ain't no way the Federation (that we are supposed to know stands for peace and the promotion of universal paradise and such) would ever forcibly relocate people just to speed up a rejuvenation process, when they could just insist that the stretchy-face people just go and live on the other side of the planet.<br /><br />SPACE HIPPIES.<br /><br />Nobody even has to move to the other side of the planet! The Enterprise crew members felt themselves getting younger and healthier while remaining in orbit! Nobody even needs to set foot on that planet for the regenerating effects to take hold.<br /><br />SPACE HIPPIES.<br /><br />Heck, throw in a few holodecks in orbital stations, and you've got the greatest health spa in the known universe. Risa would have to set up their own franchise here just to compete. Briar Patch or no Briar Patch.<br /><br />SPACE HIPPIES.<br /><br />Okay, so even if the Federation gave into the whole <I>but we can't wait decades for those health effects to take place</I> thing, the involvement of the Enterprise at the start of this little farce doesn't make any sense. How would Starfleet not already have schematics of Data on file? He was under the examination of Starfleet engineers for <B>TWENTY YEARS</B> before he joined the Enterprises. Someone in San Francisco download too much pr0n and get a virus?<br /><br />SPACE HIPPIES.<br /><br />This is the only Star Trek film I've ever seen in the theatre. I cannot begin to describe how mad that makes me.<br /><br />SPACE HIPPIES.<br /><br />Oh, yeah. Those frakking <B>SPACE HIPPIES</B>. So, let me get this straight, just so we are clear: <br />you spend centuries developing mental techniques (or something) to be able to experience a <I>perfect moment</I> (or something) which then allows you to freeze that one moment in time for as long as you like. Because you didn't have enough time to waste on staring at your own bellybutton. Being functionally immortal. Because you are <B>FRAKKING SPACE HIPPIES</B>.<br /><br />At least if we had some better shots of a wet t-shirted Donna Murphy, there would have been <I>something</I> going for this film, but even that gets cut far too short.<br /><br />Yeah, these are all nitpicky points that don't talk about the overall story, the human drama, yadda yadda yadda. That's because these nitpicky points were more interesting than the human drama going on.<br /><br />SPACE.<br /><br />FRAKKING.<br /><br />HIPPIES.Ian Sokoliwskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088518873613161316noreply@blogger.com