Yeah, I'm an enormous geek.  But I had to start this because I just now found out something: ShutUpWesley is coming back!  He's going to be in the new Trek movie.  I find this hilarious.  I wonder if they'll kill him off.

Aww, I liked Wesley back in the day. He was so pathetically cute... and you had the residual good "Stand By Me" vibes.

She's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead!

Sorry, I had to do that. I have been well programmed by my Scottish overlords.

I hear his role is only a glorified cameo, but I don't care because I LOVE Wil Wheaton.  You hear me?  If he wasn't happily married, I'd want to bear his children.

I..uh, also like Star Trek.  I just saw the digitally remastered DVD version of the first movie...and boy, did it suck!  Haha.  It wasn't the remastering - that was interesting.  The movie is just BAD.

**shudder** So disturbing...in so many, many ways.

I have to comment on the first ST movie. Yes, when you watch it now it is SO cheesy. But you should have been there when it first came out: The excitement level was fevered, the Trekkies were in full force. We ditched our jobs to sit in a line for 12 hours on lawn chairs. We cheered so loud and so long during the first few minutes that no one could hear the movie, not that anyone cared. "They" had finally listened to us. They had finally Got It.

Remember, this was a TV show that was cancelled over a decade prior to the movie, the only folks that remembered the show were a closeted legion of fans. And I mean Closeted, it was VERY uncool to like Star Trek back then. So when the movie came out it was like vindication for all our hushed-up ST lurve.

Nowadays it is common for TV shows to go to theaters. This started all that.

(Edited by LurkerNan at 12:05 pm on Dec. 21, 2001)

Yes, I understand the importance of the movie.  I loved the theory of it.  I was just bored to tears.  However, seeing Stephen Collins (Rev. Camden from 7th Heaven) cancelled out a lot of that boredom.

He did an audio commentary, too!  It was so *weird*.

And shut up about Wil Wheaton.  Haha.  I've loved him since Stand By Me.  Plus, he runs a really awesome website that he updates himself nearly every day (www.wilwheaton.net).

Well....he was kinda cute on the Weakest Link.

Hey, I checked out that website of his, and I have a newfound respect for him. He writes just like he's one of us, posting every day. Gotta love that.

(Edited by LurkerNan at 3:54 pm on Dec. 22, 2001)

He's hilarious (and yes, excellent in Stand By Me).  But Wesley was really, really badly treated by the scriptwriters.  It's like they wanted people to hate him.  

Nan, I'm sending you a special picture that I'm sure you will love.  Anyone else who's a big Captain Picard fan (or just wants a laugh), message me and I'll send it to you too.

And there is a sudden unexplained jump in the traffic at wilwheaton.net. But I have to ask: Who stole the other "l" in his name? Is it the same people who dropped an extra "m" on Samm Levine and Timm Sharp?

Pandrea, Holy Mother of Cheese, that picture is The Best!

Anyone who wants to see Patrick Stewart at his prime beefcakiest has got to see that! See, that is what a slender guy's legs should look like!

Is it the picture of Patrick Stewart as Oberon wearing a loincloth? If so, I've got that picture already. It's definitely drool-worthy.

Well, he's wearing a loincloth, so I'm guessing we are talking about the same picture. And what a teeny, eye-catching loincloth it is!

Oh my, yes. Patrick Stewart in a loincloth? ####, now I've got to de-saliva my keyboard.

Hey godam, thanks for the Wil Wheaton Website! I gotta go there! I just adore ShutupWesley! I'm sure he's the reason that Jean-Luc and Doctor Beverley never quite got it together.

While cleaning my closet recently, I discovered a cache of notes passed between my friend, Lisa, and I in 11th grade American history class. Much of it concerned my crush on Riker and hers on Wesley. There was also a great deal of really bad, round-robin "Star Wars" fanfic. (Here's a hint: Jenna and Lisa = Mary Sue.)

I've already confessed my Patrick Stewart love to some of you so the rest of this post should come as no surprise...

I went to see him in the play Ride Down Mt. Morgan with a couple of my friends.  I think it was two summers ago.  We were the only people under 60 in the whole place.  At some point in the play he has to strip down to his underwear and my god, he is definitely still in shape.  Even my guy friends were impressed.  He was also, um...how do I say this without coming off as a complete freak?  I don't think I can so...he was also very well endowed.  Just thought you guys would want to know.  :)

Afterwards we were hanging out outside waiting for our ride.  All the old people were still there waiting to meet him.  He came out and signed all the autographs and we were still waiting for our ride.  So he came over to us and was like "You guys don't seem to fit in here.  You still have all your teeth".  It was actually kind of funny.  So we talked with him for a really long time.  He actually knows my cousin (a fact she has neglected to tell me) because she was on a couple episodes of TNG and Voyager.  He called me a "lovely young lady".  Heehee.

Anyway, that's my scary fan story.  Feel free to mock me.

No, I'll just gawp in admiration instead.  How cool!  He seems like a terribly nice, witty and sorted chap.  He's the straight Ian McKellen!

I've just remembered that I saw "Ride Down Mt. Morgan" too. So you weren't the only young one ever to see it. And, yes, the acting and the toplessness were impressive... although I had a bit of a horrified skinny-legs-of-Spike reaction to seeing Stewart in his shorts. Shirt off only was better.

(OT: I can't wait till you see Nekkid Giles, then)

I'm not worried. I somehow imagine that Head isn't quite so pale and scrawny. Maybe I'm wrong.

Mmm.  I still likes me some skinny legs.  Woo.

Michael's a huge Trek geek and he's taken to addicting me.  He passed on this link to me today: http://www.geocities.com/phineasbg/kirksex.html
which is both funny and a load of bunk because the dude's not counting implied things properly and...oh god, it's gotten me.  Stupid Star Trek bug.

Anyone else watching Enterprise?

I tried watching Enterprise, but I just couldn't get into it.

I was hugely addicted to The Next Generation and Voyager. And my ass is going to Best Buy tomorrow to get the first season of TNG that is now out on DVD. And FYI (pfft, all these acronyms), season 2 will be out May 7 and season 3 is out July 2.

Yeah, Michael says he already knows where that portion of his salary this year will be going.  There's no stopping buying the entire series (which will be out by the end of this year - a whole series run in one year!  You hear that, Buffy people??).

The plus is I'll get to see the entire series now!  Yay!

Hey all you Wesley Crusher fans, listen up.  Wil Wheaton is going to have a recurring role on Enterprise!  Read up on that at his site.  Or what's left of it.

Methinks I smell an April Fool's joke...

Yeah I thought of that too but he knows what his fans are like and that's just mean.

By the way, I feel really dumb.  But then again, I am the person who thought Nalian was godam so at least I'm staying in character.

If it's any consolation, black dove, I bought it too. It was all so elaborate and plausible... but then that's the essence of a good April Fool's joke. I mean, it's not like "Enterprise" would be above that sort of thing. It'd probably help the series' ratings.

I'm amused that he considered doing his return in "Stand By Me II: Back To the Body." That I would have had trouble believing. I mean, Wheaton, sure... but ain't no devil with the power to resurrect Corey Feldman's career.

The sequel one I wouldn't have believed.  So I guess it's good that he didn't use that one.  What made me believe it was that for a while he's been saying that he had something big that he couldn't talk about, so I figured that was it.

I'm actually disappointed.  I mean, it certainly couldn't make Enterprise any worse and it might have made it better.  Even a little bit would help at this point.

Back To The Body, heh.  The leeches return and this time it's personal!

I hear you people. I have also tried, more than once, more than twice, to watch Enterprise, but I can't get through a whole episode. Each time I try, I watch and think to myself, there had to be something better than this between Cochrane and Kirk. Humble beginnings, I'm willing to concede. I do not have words to describe Enterprise....although perhaps if I did manage to watch an entire episode, I could be more articulate about it.

Oooh, hoist by mine own petard, perhaps?

So Enterprise managed to not get cancelled, which is a bad thing, because its boring, but is a good thing, because it gives it time to improve. Maybe it'll get renewed enough to do the same thing as Voyager and DS9, and only get interesting in Season 4 with the introduction of a new character?

Okay this is just funny.  And disturbing.  And kind of trippy.

Is that...? God, I'm scarred for life. And he's gotten a lot older than I thought he'd be.

He has to be wearing that for a bet.

(Oh GAWD, I just saw the Enterprise episode where Trip and Reed get drunk and talk about T'Pol's bum.  The Comic Book Guy's famous words come to mind.  Sheer horror.)

That is not Wesley.  It cannot be Wesley.

That so isn't Wesley. It just can't be. He looks way too old, and pretty damn scary. I have trauma now. Help!

Wanna come join me cowering in the corner?  That can't be Wesley, cos he looks *old* and not so brat-like

Unless I'm falling for another joke, according to Wil Wheaton he was cut out of the movie.

I accidently watched Enterprise last night; it was Vox Sola. It felt like a real honest-to-goodness Star Trek episode. No really, it did! It wasn't anything like as awful as I had expected it to be.

Last night's Enterprise was my favorite so far. There was humor and tension, and a dog. They hit below the belt with the dog-possibly-dying bit and the surgery, but I'm a great big sap, so I bought it.

Back in nineteen-eighty-something, I discovered something truly miraculous: Star Trek: TNG was the very very best stress relief tool in the Federation. As much as I love TWW (and I do), it doesn't always divert me as ST:TNG does. I rediscovered this on the weekend, when I rented the boxed S1 set from Blockbuster. I loved it all over again. I especially loved Riker (and remembering my long ago lust for him). I also loved the extras: seeing Michael Dorn and Brent Spiner without their makeup is always a treat.

I am such a dork, but after 10 epis, some Thai food and Saxby's Ginger Beer, I am a relaxed dork.

Oh, I wasn't aware that it was in danger of cancellation - what's the story? I assumed that any Trek series pretty much had seven years sewn up regardless of quality (after all, if Voyager got away with it ...)

Ugh. Just saw the season ending Enterprise episode.

Only T'Pol can make the Pon Far look boring. And Star Trek just lost the last ace-in-the-whole for us former fans.

That being?

IMHO: The potential for hot Vulcan sex.

Ever since Spoke went all Pon-Faree in the first show, the assumption is that Vulcan sex must be this hugely erotic thing, because they are all so repressed. Like they must really be animals in the sack.

But Jolene Blalock was about as sexual as, well, anything not very sexual. So if that's all she's got, we might as well switch the channel now.

I'm totally agreeing with your assumption about Vulcan sex being so sexy that it requires a whole other word. Unfortunately I've never actually seen a Vulcan I want to get nekkid with. Spock? Tuvok? Sarek?

*shudder*

Okay, maybe Sarek. Maybe.

Totally young Spock. Totally. Fabulous cheekbones and that skinny boy-figure. Plus, that sexy eyebrow raising thing.

Actually, Sarek and Tuvok too. Especially Tuvok in real life, who I saw in concert once.