Project Haruhi

A quick guide to Star Trek for the uninitiated...


Star Trek, sometimes referred to as The Original Series (TOS): This show features the original starship Enterprise, helmed by Captain James T. Kirk. It ran from 1966 to 1969 for three seasons.



Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG): This show takes place 100 years after the original series, and features the Enterprise-D and Captain Jean-Luc Picard. It ran from 1987-1994 for seven seasons.



Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) This show takes place during the same era as TNG, and is set aboard the starbase Deep Space 9, commanded by Captain Benjamin Sisko. It ran from 1993-1999 for seven seasons.



Star Trek: Voyager (VOY), This show, also in the TNG era, features the starship Voyager lost on the other side of the galaxy, trying to find its way back to Earth. Voyager was commanded by Captain Kathryn Janeway. It ran from 1995-2001 for seven seasons.



Star Trek Enterprise (ENT), known simply as Enterprise for seasons 1 and 2: This show was a prequel, taking place about a century before TOS, and featured a prototype starship Enterprise under Captain Jonathan Archer. It ran from 2001-2005 for four seasons.

Hmm, perhaps I'll dream of Star Trek tonight...

i know i will :sleep

The original Enterprise is somehow the nicest looking, shapewise.

The designers of the second ship seem to have been under the dilusion that it had to be streamlined. IIRC Enterprise is just a 'mothership' not a lander, no?

i never really liked star trek to be honset, ahh well theres something for everyone i guess

Yes, the Enterprise is just a mothership, and is incapable of landing on a planet. Generally, it sends people and equipment to the surface of a planet using its transporters, which are basically teleportation devices. It also has embarked shuttlecraft, but they are rarely used.

The Voyager, on the other hand, is a smaller starship specifically designed to be capable of planetary landings. It only ever performs them once or twice, though.

still reckon the enterprise E was the best looking thing ever...

I still think I'm the best looking thing ever.

I prefer the Voyager. It has an elegance and simplicity of design that I find appealing.

It looks more like a toy than the others, you mean? :3

*throws gauntlet*

Well, why don't you try your hand at starship design and see what you come up with?

The only requirement of Federation starships is that they have nacelles (usually in multiples of two) and a saucer. Aside from that, anything goes.

im skeptical of how gothic ship design will ever appeal...

:3

Oh no, I'm quite content with the design as is for the Enterprise. I just happen to prefer the less racy shape to that of the constructs on the Enterprise D.

Put the disc of D on the original and it'd look great :3

bandai have some pretty cool models...this bloke has modded his up

And now for something completely different:



Me.
:cat_w

hi dude, i see you have straghter hair now :p

Actaully it's my wig :3

But it will be like that soon enough.

thats a pretty good wig ><

It is indeed 8D

I've posted a picture previously actually. Not long before last October.

Aah! Too much lens flare!

I did dream last night, but it was a jumbled and confusing mess, most of which I don't remember. There seem to have been quite a few girls, though... parts of it seemed to have been based on some doujins I've read recently. :cat_w

Yeah, sadly I have no curtains.

Sounds like it was a nice dream :3

Nice, but confusing... and frustrating, since I can't remember most of it.

Whai no IM?

Nobody to talk to =<

Sorry, I'm about to go to class.

I'll be on in around 2.5 hours.

Dreams???? Humm most of mine end up like this ...

last night i was discussing with jeremy clarkson, his new outdoor speakers....

weird.

Not his nice outdoor gnome jet plane then?

mine are always too random to explain, or based in a computer game setting with no cutscenes ><

Last night's dream:

Carl is just an average guy... at least, until he winds up cryogenically frozen, and transported to the distant future. Here, Carl finds the last survivors of humanity; several hundred people living in a technologically advanced mansion (protected by an energy shield) on a distant world. On this new world, humans have worked on improving themselves, and have perfected a process by which most emotions (except for happiness) can be removed from the human brain. The result is a human species that is cold, logical and mostly unfeeling. Although they welcome Carl, he feels out of place.

Eventually, Carl's immediate family is recovered. Carl's son (a character from a previous dream) was accidentally frozen in a cryogenics accident, and is found buried in a block of ice on the distant Earth. The presence of Carl's wife and brother is unexplained. Despite the happy reunion, Carl's family decides to undergo the emotion-scrubbing process, and become unfamiliar and distant to him.

Eventually, the humans in the mansion decide to place themselves in an artificially-induced coma, so that their minds can be linked electronically into a hive mind. This will allow them to commune with each other for all eternity while their bodies sleep in a chamber deep beneath the mansion. Carl, however, opts to avoid joining them. Just before they go to sleep, the humans remotely detonate a series of nuclear bombs they left on Earth's surface, a final salute to their mother world. Even from the mansion, located hundreds of lightyears away, the throbbing red explosion is visible in the night sky. After a tearful goodbye, the other humans go to sleep and Carl is left alone, the last human still conscious in the galaxy. He now has the entire shielded mansion complex to himself. Carl spends the time making star charts by hand, with the mansion's telescopes, as well as reading books from the mansion's vast library. He also learns that the planet is inhabited by primitive, medieval-era humanoids who are embroiled in feudal wars. The planets native inhabitants, having long ago learned that the mansion's energy shield is impenetrable, leave Carl alone.

Growing lonely, and interested in studying the native culture, Carl goes into the closest town. His timing is bad; the town is a city-state currently embroiled in a bitter war with another city-state. Joe is quickly recognized as an outsider, and attacked in a bar. However, he is unexpectedly saved by unexplained weapons fire from the mansion.

At that point, the dream ended.

There are various bits of this dream that ring a bell :p

Yeah, it seems like a patchwork of the various sci-fi series I watched. Altogether, a very interesting dream...