Star Trek Things of Interest

[grammarwoman]

Man, it's only been a few days, and I don't even remember who linked this: Reunion of the Rikers, where Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes sit around and have the most wonderfully breezy chat about a sitcom starring Riker and Troi and what they'd be like at home, and their romantic journey through the series and movies. It had me giggling almost the whole time.

On the other end of the spectrum...Just today, several people posted about Joe Flanigan's piece on Martin Firrell's site. But what I found most fascinating there was Kate Mulgrew's contributions. This ballsy lady went in and told TPTB that she thought it would undermine Janeway's position to be having sex, that she believed Janeway went through more than the previous captains by having her life stripped away, so she instead concentrated on guiding her crew. Most of all, when she mentioned she was 39 when she started, it blew me away - that's only a couple of years older than I am now, and I can't imagine having attained by then such gravitas, such dignified calm as she displayed. If I ever were to meet her, I would love to shake her hand.

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[harempriestess]

I saw the Reunion of the Rikers video a couple of weeks ago, linked from a tweet from Jonathan Frakes twitter. It made me SO HAPPY. I've even watched it a couple more times since then, realizing how ST:TNG was probably my first fangirly experience. I still have all of my Wil Wheaton teeny-bopper mag pictures I used to have on my wall somewhere :)

I always really liked Janeway; I just could NOT get into Voyager. But she was awesome. And just from what you've written above, I like her even more! I'll have to go poke around that site and check out what she said. I loved Star Trek, and I think too often they played their female characters a little short. But Janeway, from what I saw, was done very well, from how she was written to how Mulgrew portrayed her. She is such a cool woman.

(BTW, glad all is mostly well with the car. My dad once had a car stolen, in like the 70s. It wasn't found FOR MONTHS, by which time it had been replaced. But when it was found? It was in BETTER condition than when it was stolen from, get this, the parking lot at the probation department, where my dad worked. Gutsy people, man. :)

[grammarwoman]

TNG and X-Files were my first group fan experience; a bunch of us used to get together every Sunday night to watch them back-to-back. Those were the days...

The end of DS9 and the beginning of Voyager fell into my period of watching little TV, so I missed most of them. I always respected that a woman was helming Voyager, and I loved what I saw of Mulgrew.

Hah! Now that's a story. We are lucky that our thief was as evidently stupid as he was - I mean, running out of gas when he had a bunch of full gas cans in the back. That takes a certain level of special.