Quick question:

We should just start calling it “Luna” and end the confusion. 🙂

I wonder if there will come a day our descendants will take the names Terra and Luna for granted and scoff “Would you believe people used to call this place ‘The Moon’ as if it were the only one?”

You’ll like the last season the best (except, as everyone notes, the final episode, which you should skip). Once Rick Berman and Brannon Braga left to pursue other interests, the writing fell into the hands of the “secondary” crew. Those guys had an actual understanding of Trek and a love for the series (and, it…

I am a huge Trek fan and I never watched one episode of Enterprise, initially because I couldn’t envision Scott Bakula as the character they described, and then because I knew I would have to watch all of it if I started and it would just make me angry.

The same way that when you look at Jupiter’s icy moons - and isolate any one of them, you don’t realize that there’s actually more water ice there than in all the oceans on the earth’s surface. Now the earth actually has far more water than is on its surface, but still, its a daunting and surprisingly comforting…

I was about to say, those alien spacehips aren’t real, but spacehips are in fact real.

Spaceships aren’t real.

or a Jonathan Tunick.

Back in the day, of course, the best film composers did their own. The scores of Bernard Herrmann, to pick an obvious example, sometimes feel like they’re carried more by the “orchestration” than the “composition” — if it’s four alto flutes, two harps, eight violins, and solo cello, then it almost…

Does he even do his own orchestrations at this point? I was under the impression he only ever does a short score (three or four staves with general indications like “low brass” or “strings pizz.”) and then professional assistant comes in and fleshes it out to a 40-stave fullscore while JW moves onto the next project.

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It’s not weird at all. John Williams is a man of many accomplishments. You don’t get to be a man of many accomplishments by sitting through a bunch of movies. I’ve accomplished very little in my long life. I’ve sat through a boat load of movies and TV shows. See how that works?

I wonder if the man has named his other leg yet.

I’m willing to argue it’s the second one. The only reason we looking back favourably on prior decades is because, by necessity, the crappier stories have faded from the public consciousness. It’s not like the 20th century was some flawless golden age of storytelling.

Was it not always a problem, or is it just that we are more likely to remember the examples that weren’t bland?

Maybe they’ll go really old-school and go with the jacket and slacks from The Cage.

TBH, I’m worried. there’s so much going wrong with this show, the botching of the 50th anniversary, the fact that we’re rapidly approaching a 4k-media reality and DS9 and Voyager have yet to be remastered (and could by accounts, could actually be lost if film transfers aren’t done soon).

But will they have smooth or bumpy foreheads? Enquiring minds want to know!

They BETTER look like this:

I just hope they know how to sing!