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Saturday, July 11, 2009
The best episode: The Big Goodbye
Above average: Datalore, the Battle, When the Bough Breaks, Conspiracy
Honorary mentions: Worf and Wesley talking in Coming of Age, Troi and Armus in Skin of Evil, Troi and LaForge in Arsenal of Freedom, Yar and Worf talking at the start of Skin of Evil
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Friday, July 10, 2009
The second book in the excellent historical fantasy series set in Venice. The main character is again Alfeo Zeno who is the apprentice of Filippo Nostradamus.
This time the case starts small: nobleman and former ambassador Zuanbattista Sanudo and his young second wife Eva Morosini pay a visit to the famous astrologer and clairvoyant Filippo Nostradamus. The nobleman’s 15-year-old daughter Grazia is missing. They don’t want any scandal – they just want Nostradamus to find her quickly. The old sage Alfeo both realize quickly that the parents think that their daughter wasn’t kidnapped but eloped with a young lover. This is especially likely when they hear that the girl might be fated to be married to a much older, but rich, man.
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Conspiracy
This is the follow-up to the hints (read: the admiral says it straight up) of something being wrong in “Coming of Age”. There’s also a chance to do something further with the aliens, but in typical TNG style they’re forgotten.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Booking Through Thursday
An idea I got from The Toddled Dredge (via K for Kat). Here’s what she said:
“So here today I present to you an Unread Books Challenge. Give me the list or take a picture of all the books you have stacked on your bedside table, hidden under the bed or standing in your shelf – the books you have not read, but keep meaning to. The books that begin to weigh on your mind. The books that make you cover your ears in conversation and say, ‘No! Don’t give me another book to read! I can’t finish the ones I have!’ “
Because I have day job I won't list my to-be-read books here. :) However, even though my TBR-pile is likely about 200 books (when counting non-fiction, too), I've never had the urge to run away from new books. Instead I love to hear about them.
Anyway, here are my more immediate TBR-piles:
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Symbiosis
I thought for a while that I didn’t have this one. Apparently, I was turned off by the very clear preaching even as a teenager, when I first saw this one, and I’d taped over it. (This was the first time when TNG was show in Finland in Channel 3. The last episode shown was Best of Both Worlds part 2. Yuppers, another fine example of how non-mainstream stuff is treated here.) However, the second time TNG was shown here (in cable that time) this episode was taped and I managed to find it.
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6:12PM
Your result for Roleplayer Test! ...
The Stuntman
Random, Action-Oriented, Platonic
Screw character relationships and development, you're just here for the IC badassery. You like your roleplays to be short, sweet, and action-packed: who cares about continuity as long as your characters are always doing something awesome like blowing things up or running from the cops? You're the type of roleplayer least likely to take roleplay seriously and most likely to have your characters pull ridiculous stunts for the hell of it because hey, it's RP! What exactly is stopping you from wrestling that helicopter? Of course, your characters often tend to be flat and if there isn't anything exciting going on, you quickly lose interest entirely. But since your characters' relationships tend to be weak in the first place, you don't leave much of a gap when you leave to go fight bears with your bare hands somewhere else.
http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/roleplayer-test
I don't agree with this at all. I don't play for stunts but for character interaction (no matter if it's done by talking or with swords) and interesting situations which can never happen in the real world. However, I've been mostly the GM for some years now.
I also think that roleplaying relationships depends of the group; if no-one else is interested in that, what's the point? I also feel somewhat awkward playing a relationship with an other player and so my characters tend to have relationships with NPCs. I have no interested what-so-ever of roleplaying sex, though. Maybe that's the reason I was put down as a mere stuntman...
This quiz had some terms I didn't understand. What's a "dressing room"? What about "crack" (I'm guessing that it isn't an actual drug??) How about crit-post??? That sounds like an online-game and not a roleplaying one.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Home Soil
I didn't find this one.
Coming of Age
Worf: "Thinking about what you can't control only wastes energy. Worse, it creates another enemy... itself."
Wesley: "...and I thought nothing could frighten a Klingon warrior."
Worf: "Only fools fear nothing."
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Or rather the Finnish edition which consists of JLA 16-21 and New Year’s Evil: Prometheus. The US trade seems to also contain JLA 22 and 23. The preview at DC’s site seems to have a few pages out of them.
The Finnish edition has three stories: one about Prometheus’s quest to destroy JLA, then Julian September and his successful attempt to alter the probabilities of the universe, and lastly Adam Strange kidnaps the JLA and forces them to work for him.
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
Datalore
Another good episode. I really like Lore and felt that he was very much underused in the series.
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Hide and Q
Q’s back! This isn’t one of my favorite Q episodes but he does tend to be enormously entertaining and DeLancie’s very talented.
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This is part of my 9 books challenge.
Although the prologue is set in 1980, this is a modern day mystery. I might even call it a cozy mystery because there are no greasily bodies or blood spurting everywhere in the book.
This the first book in a series about art historian Sweeny St. George who specializes is gravestones and other funerary art. She’s a professor at the University of Boston.
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Kazada: The android was mentioned. What is its price? We should like to purchase it.
Picard: He is not for sale. Commander Data is, um... is um...
Riker: ... is second-hand merchandise. And you wouldn't want him.
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Bok: That vessel is yours, if you wish to have it.
Rata: At no cost? Ugly, very ugly.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Data: Would you choose one life over one thousand, sir?
Picard: I refuse to let arithmetic decide questions like that.
The episode tries to examine the justifications of laws. Unfortunately, the premise itself doesn't make any sense; as far as I can see the Edo aren't a space faring species so the crew shouldn't have made any contact with them. I also find it baffling that they would just start to blithely organize shore leaves as the first thing when they encounter a new society.
The Edo are said to be healthy and beautiful – also all white and blond and very clearly human.
Wesley is in trouble but nobody told him about the laws of the planet.
Once again, I would have loved to see the aliens, the protectors' of the star system, again.
Booking Through Thursday
Do you read celebrity memoirs? Which ones have you read or do you want to read? Which nonexistent celebrity memoirs would you like to see?
1, No. Their lives are none on my business.
2, None.
3, I'd would be absolutely thrilled if an archaeologist found the memoirs of Alexander the Great or Marcus Antonius or any of the Pharaohs or their primary wives.... Oh. You mean modern celebrities, don't you? In that case none.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Data: "It's elementary, my dear Riker... sir."
Yar: "The problem is, is that one of the cooks has just been asked to boil reptile for the Anticans, and it looks like the Selay delegate."
This seems like quite a mixed bag.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Darkseid is!
JLA issues 10-15.
This one of my favorite JLA albums: cosmic stuff, alternate futures, Darkseid, Lex Luthor leading the Injustice Gang. What more can you want from a simple super hero comic?
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The episode where Wesley is declared a genius. Incidentally, I’ve never had a problem with Wesley but apparently there are some fans who utterly loath him. Yes, he’s put the ship in danger, and brought it out of danger as well, a few times but to me he’s never taken over the show the way that, say, Seven of Nine did with Voyager. I don’t even find him particularly annoying, either.
Kosinski is played by Stanley Kamel who later plays Monk’s psychiatrist (in the show Monk). He seems to be rather talented actor because these roles are quite different from each other. Kosinski doesn’t seem to have any rank and his arrogant attitude is quite civilian. :) He’s never heard from again.
I rather liked the Traveler and I would have loved to find out more about them. We do see him in a few other episodes but IIRC nothing is really explained.
I also like the whole "thought becomes matter" –thing and the things that the crew conjured up. Again, they did focus on their job remarkably but I guess that’s really the only way to get aboard Enterprise in the first place. But I wonder what the civilians and kids thought up? That would have been fun to see.
Too bad that they couldn't have stayed and explored for a few episodes. Perhaps while the Traveler was recovering enough to get them home?
We see a glimpse of Yar's unpleasant past.
My VHS tapes have been timed and the timing doesn't always work. It cut off the ending for this episode and for Naked Now. This time TNG was shown on our first cable channel, PTV, and we didn’t have cable. My uncle graciously agreed to tape them for me. Alas, the show was run after midnight during the week and the vast majority of the ads shown are for phone sex. I’m really grateful for the fast forward button...
TNG has been later shown at better times but I’ve haven’t had cable then, either. In fact, my current apartment is the first time I have cable – and now, of course, I can't afford to buy the cable compatible digital box which is required here today in order to watch TV.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
“I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.”
The third and final volume in the excellent Mistborn-series. It's one of the best epic fantasy series I’ve ever read because it plays around with so many of the usual epic tropes.
The third book turns some of the things we’ve come to know about the world on its ear. But at least I enjoyed that. Anything I’d say about it would be a spoiler for the previous books so I won’t.
Just like in the previous books, we get journal entries at the start of every chapter. This time they are scholarly thoughts about the situations of various people. I kept trying to guess who had written them.
The atmosphere is usually quite bleak and hopeless, both mentally and also physically because ash rains from the sky almost every day. But there are bright spot as well. Usually I don’t really care for this sort of bleakness but the mysteries of the world, the characters, and the writing style distracted me from the all the hopelessness enough to continue.
And the ending is great and so fitting!
I got in from Audible as an audiobook and I've already listened it twice. The series is excellent. Go read it.
Where we meet the Ferengi. The voice of one of the Ferengi actors sounded familiar and sure enough, he's Armin Shimerman who later plays Quark.
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
The second episode in the first season introduces an alien culture on Ligon II which has rigorous honor rules. It's one of the few Yar-centric episodes so it's a shame that it makes little sense at all:
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