The Entire Cast of Star Trek TNG is coming to Calgary Comic Con

[CaptainCrunch]

In terms of personal rankings for me

1) Star Trek 2 TWOK - Driven by unbelievable acting by all of the major players. Ricardo Montalban and Kirstie Alley added to this movie at an enormous level. You could understand the villain and he made sense.
2) Star Trek 3 TSFS - Again strong cast performances by the major players "You Klingon ####### you killed my son" Set things up for Kirk in number 6. Christopher Lloyd as Kruge and John Larroquette (sp) were great as Klingons.
3) Star Trek 4 TVH - A very light-hearted Star Trek where the back in time scenario worked really well. Some terrific humour especially when Uhura and Checkov were looking for Nuclear Vessels. Best written of all the movies. The Whale story was a terrific change from the standard Trek Villain.
4) Star Trek XI - I had a lot of trouble with the idea of a whole new cast and reality, but there was some amazing acting throughout it, it bought back the ensemble cast thing that made the original Trek movies so good and the TNG movies so terrible. Eric Bana was terrific as a villain who was very Khan like in that you could understand his rage
5) Star Trek - First Contact - The only good TNG movie and the last time that you saw the ensemble cast at work, after this movie it became the Data/Picard show. Alice Krige was suitably creepy as the Borg Queen and temporarily made the Borg a viable enemy before Voyager completely destroyed them and made them into a side show weaklings.
6) Star Trek 6 - TUC - I really liked this movie and could easily move it ahead of First Contact. We finally saw the Klingon's for what they were a complete culture that weren't just crazed warriors. Incredibly strong performances throughout with Christopher Plummer just devouring scenes as a Shakespeare quoting war hungry general. Some terrific humour throughout with Chekov quipping some of the funniest lines in Star Trek. Kim Catrell was very good as the traitorous Vulcan.
7) Star Trek Generations - This was a bland movie and it was only saved by the strong performances of its guest Stars. Malcolm McDowell was his scene dominating best, William Shatner was terrific, and Gwynnth Walsh and Barbara Walsh as the villainous Lursa and B'tor balanced off some really poor performances by the main cast. The recreationist Kirk history made no sense, Picard in the nexus was outright stupid, and the Data emotion chip scenes made me want to walk out of the theatre. It was a poor start to a poor series of films.
8) Star Trek TMP - I really liked this film and the concept of the Voyager probe returning home to finish its mission and evolve. For the most part the film was style over substance and maybe it was the set but the actors were cold and fairly humourless. To much staring into the view screen. On a plus note the loving re-introduction of the Enterprise was breath taking and worth renting the movie again.
9) Star Trek V - TFF - A real misfire after 3 incredibly strong movies. Directed by Shatner it was too much of a ego piece and the premise was flawed. However one of the great Shatnerism's occurs when Kirk asks god what he needs with a Star Ship. The cast tried hard to make it work, but the chemistry outside of the main three just wasn't there and were treated to a Uhura strip scene long after it was something that the fans wanted to see. We also started seeing the aging of the crew. The main villain was killed fairly easily, and the invention of Spock's half brother was forced.
10 ) Star Trek Insurrection - We went full bore into the Data/Picard show with the rest of the crew wandering around waiting for their checks. a terrible premise, terrible cookie cutter villain's a badly done chase scene, too much time analyzing Worf's zit, made for a boring stupid movie. And I can never bury the fact that the Enterprise can fight and navigate with the use of a Flight controller joystick. Dumbest movie ever until.
11) Star Trek Nemesis - There was nothing good about this movie and they need to remove the term Star Trek from the packaging. Even more of the Picard/Data show. Tom Hardy was outright terrible which is rare for him and probably due to a bad script. The mind rape scene of Troi and her stupid "remember me" line was so badly delivered that I almost wished that Shinzon had murdered her instead. A stupid premise for a movie with motivation that made no sense whatsoever "The Romulan's screwed me and imprisoned me and made me a slave so I'm going to destroy humanity" The dune buggy and B-4 stupidity made me want my money back, and the biggest rip off of the Lord of the Rings occurred with Shinzon crawling up his impalement. The stupidest most contrived death scene for data only to be replaced by B-4 literally made me get up and walk out of the theater. I watched it again the other night drunk and even massive amounts of liquor in my system couldn't fix that piece of spastic garbage.

[MrMastodonFarm]

So much text.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

So much text.

Might say it just hit you with a tree...

[Ped]

Mostly agree with CC but I would move up The Undiscovered Country. I love that movie. Especially Christopher Plummer quoting Shakespeare. Also thought the forcible mind-meld Spock did on Valaris was an ingenious piece of writing.

And you're right, Chekhov was hilarious all the way through. Especially his "if the shoe fits" line.

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by Ped

Mostly agree with CC but I would move up The Undiscovered Country. I love that movie. Especially Christopher Plummer quoting Shakespeare. Also thought the forcible mind-meld Spock did on Valaris was an ingenious piece of writing.

And you're right, Chekhov was hilarious all the way through. Especially his "if the shoe fits" line.

Random bit of trivia: the "guess who's coming to dinner" line was originally written for Uhura, but Nichelle Nichols refused to say it.

[Blaster86]

Good news! The Vancouver comic expo got Adam West and the male sidekick from Buffy!

-_-

How did we get shafted so bad? Atleast it is good to know Nicholas Brendan isn't dead, I guess.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Ped

Mostly agree with CC but I would move up The Undiscovered Country. I love that movie. Especially Christopher Plummer quoting Shakespeare. Also thought the forcible mind-meld Spock did on Valaris was an ingenious piece of writing.

And you're right, Chekhov was hilarious all the way through. Especially his "if the shoe fits" line.

Spock basically mind raped Valaris. Not cool.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

Spock basically mind raped Valaris. Not cool.

Bitch deserved it. #### her and Sisko's dad.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Good news! The Vancouver comic expo got Adam West and the male sidekick from Buffy!

-_-

How did we get shafted so bad? Atleast it is good to know Nicholas Brendan isn't dead, I guess.

Chances are his identical twin will show up and you will be none the wiser.

And Adam West is awesome.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

And Adam West is awesome.

So underwhelming. Pretty much everyone else they got already lives in Vancouver. They put as little effort in as necessary.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Good news! The Vancouver comic expo got Adam West and the male sidekick from Buffy!

-_-

How did we get shafted so bad?

You don't have Kandrix.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by SebC

You don't have Kandrix.

Kandrix has a stake in the Fan Expo vancouver too. I'm pretty sure the riots scared away all the celebs though.

Man i'm going to be so beat in April. Comic shows in Edmonton, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary in consecutive weeks, and then my 8 month parental leave is done! so sad.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Good news! The Vancouver comic expo got Adam West and the male sidekick from Buffy!

-_-

How did we get shafted so bad? Atleast it is good to know Nicholas Brendan isn't dead, I guess.

I'll give you an extra 20% off if you show up at my booth in a Phaneuf Flames jersey.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

I'll give you an extra 20% off if you show up at my booth in a Phaneuf Flames jersey.

....done.

Edit- Wait what the #### is your booth?

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

....done.

Edit- Wait what the #### is your booth?

Did you ever watch the pulp fiction part where they go to the pawn shop....?? hehe

I know the fan expo is new and it's their first year, but i've paid $1600 for my booths to some guy in toronto and i still don't know where i am yet.....

[CaptainCrunch]

I had this whole glory hole joke, then decided it was inappropriate, then Bertuzzi outdoes me anyways.

[Chingas]

Whenever I hear Comic Con, this is all I can picture.

[Bertuzzied]

I went to the Comic Expo workshop for exhibitors last week and the numbers for attendance is flipping incredible. already 25% more pre sale tickets than last year already and 55% of the pre sales are from people outside of Calgary! insane!

Also Calgary is the #2 show in the world for people willing to pay to take pics with the celebs. hmmm i wonder why the next gen cast chose calgary to re-unite.. hehe

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Also Calgary is the #2 show in the world for people willing to pay to take pics with the celebs. hmmm i wonder why the next gen cast chose calgary to re-unite.. hehe

Crazy, and interesting.

What's number one?

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Crazy, and interesting.

What's number one?

Prob San Diego. They didn't say. Course that show has an attendance of 130k!