Sorry, I was referring to a running gag with some of the commenters, about *how* Riker uses the holodeck. Barkley would use it more frequently for romantic fantasies, but Riker would leave vast quantities of biological… fluid… that Barkley would be forced to mop up later.

(Bong bong!)

In Lucas's original script, R2 would make some beeps, then carry on a normal conversation.

That was only the Enterprise computer. On other ships, where the CPUs weren't taxed by Kirk's streaming porn videos, the voice was probably smooth.

I was thinking of when I miss the recommended turn, and hearing the Dukat voice give a disappointed sigh before saying "recalculating route".

You are focusing on the wrong part.

There have been shows where the character has "talked their way through steering" (using phrases like "take evasive action" or "plot a course"), but that was usually when the character was not a trained pilot.

Is it too much to hope that they'd hire Marc Alaimo to make a model for the male voice?

Considering that even simple GPS devices can have voice turn-by-turn navigation, it doesn't seem to be much of a luxury for a computer several hundred years in the future.

"I need to concentrate on navigating through this debris field. Computer, why aren't the shields at full power?"

The SyFy network dysagrees with iou.

That's like the Kali fight in "Golden Voyage of Sinbad".
The purple tint on the ground gives away where the live action ends, and the model begins.
Doesn't stop me from watching that scene over and over and over again.

Yup. Which is why it is bonkers to have the T-X start pulling out plasma weapons and flamethrowers, both on the story-construction level (establishing limits on the antagonist) and for violating previous continuity. If it was that easy for the T-X, the T-1000 could have done it too.

It wasn't the movements, which as you point out are well done. It was the film grain, or the focus, or lighting, or color correction… Those images didn't look like they were taken at the same time as the rest of the film frame.

Or a robot with rubber skin. Reese: "We spotted them, easy."

That was sorta my problem early on with T3's writing.

I always get Arnold's Terminator and Robert Culp's "Glass Hand" mixed up. (/sarcasm)

I agree with the article writer on this point.

Part of what made Siskel and Ebert so good, was that most of the time I could tell if I would like a movie based on their review, even if they didn't. Too many reviewers just try to crap on a movie they don't like. S & E gave enough reasons that a viewer could figure out if they would feel the same way.

One of my favorite moments was in the factory hallway, before they got to the assembly machines. It is pretty obvious when they used a stop-motion Harryhausen model, instead of a practical object, but like Tom said, it worked to give it a nightmare quality.