Star Trek

[Buster's Uncle]

Brass is a good enough structural metal to use in small cannons.  Are you talking about the pocket watch/communicators?  I don't see why brass is worse that, even if bronze is more substantial, which I do not believe is the case.  Not a lot of difference between the alloys anyway, the difference being mostly zinc v. tin and ratios thereof, I think.

We are tending to be talking about an accessory issued (the ones we mostly see, anyway) to officers, and it would be very Victorian to make such a thing shiny even if doing so is impractical.

Now, my first reaction to Ptrope's work was one of pleasant surprise - when you're scrolling down to look at steampunk art, you expect a gothic look - but he, correctly I feel, saw that that wouldn't be right for the bridge  of the Enterprise.  In fact, it would be very Victorian, not just ST, for much of the ship to look like a coal bin, but the bridge to be very spit-and-polish.

[Unorthodox]

Here's more along the lines of what I'm talking.  granted, it's a Tardis, but ya know.  CONTRAST for the shiny. 

http://douglas442.livejournal.com/

[Buster's Uncle]

That's nice work.

[Mylochka]

Into Darkness gets the honest trailer treatment: http://io9.com/honest-trailers-aims-its-phasers-at-star-trek-into-dark-1174225947

[Geo]

Lens flares! 

[Buster's Uncle]

Hey Valka - Mylochka and I are second wave ST fans, being from a CBS family (the kids don't know what that means, having had remotes all their lives) and catching it first during the first round of syndication before even the cartoon came along.  You're the same age; how about you?

[Vishniac]

I'm just old-school with the Trek, and being nasty about it.

I watched Star Trek: Generations yesterday. (They give us one ST movie each Tuesday this summer on a network).
BUncle: anything caustic to say about the movie?

[Unorthodox]

Is there anything NOT caustic to say about that one? 

[Vishniac]

I don't know.
But since he thrashed The Undiscovered Country last week, I prefer asking...

(By the way, "The Undiscovered Country" seems a lttle lame as a title. The French one would translate as "Star Trek: on unknown land". It has something more I think.)

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm just old-school with the Trek, and being nasty about it.

I watched Star Trek: Generations yesterday. (They give us one ST movie each Tuesday this summer on a network).
BUncle: anything caustic to say about the movie?

I hated it the most of any ST movie, (only one of which was actually inarguably good, though I liked a few others okay, and have hated more of them than otherwise.)

If I speak frankly enough on the subject of Star Trek: Generations, I will have to ban myself.  It's that bad.  Do you really want me to go into it?  (I reserve the right to tone it down to un-banworthy.)

[Unorthodox]

My review:  There were many episodes of TNG better than that movie. 

[Vishniac]

Do you really want me to go into it?

I'll go into it but not at 11:45PM here.
I hope I won't forget what I hold.

[Mylochka]

Here's a nice picture of a blue lady...

[Geo]

Andorian Rhapsody? 

[Buster's Uncle]

Ain't she sweet?