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July 4, 2004: Happy Birthday TripHammered!
My little site turns two today! It has been a pleasure and
an honor to entertain you, and I hope to continue doing so
in the year to come.
As you saw from the splash screen, I've made
a few changes -- mostly in grouping content differently.
Here's the rundown:
Home: Brings you
to what used to be the "front" page, where all the
fresh commentary and rambling will continue to be. If you
need to get to the splash screen for some reason, just back
up the URL.
Recaps: Where
Seasons 1 through 4 now live. I couldn't keep squeezing more
"Season" buttons up top.
Extras,
Links, History,
and Email haven't
changed.
Site Map: I gave
this a promotion, so it wouldn't get buried in the sand
to the left. Redesigned as well, since Moogie was getting
blinded by the mouse-overing photos.
Like it? Hate it? Let me know what you think.
And have a safe and happy Fourth of July! (to my readers
outside the States too!)
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"Chosen Realm" director Roxann Dawson
really enjoys showcasing the finer assets of the actors
during fights, this one with Malcolm and an Exploding
Zealot. I'd like some strawberry jam and fresh cream
on my English Muffin, please.
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July 7, 2004: Thanks to everyone who's
sent kind words; I'm glad you like the updated look.
More ENT Libs this
week, with three non-Starfleet semi-regulars: Shran, Soval,
and Degra. We also have the title of the Season 4 opener, "Storm
Front," so I've added that under the S4 Recaps page.
July 14, 2004: A fresh Get
Me Rewrite for this week's Extra. Plenty of opportunity
for Archer-Malcolm sniping. :) I'm almost finished my next
DVD commentary, and since rumor has it that filming for Season
4 starts tomorrow, I'll have a Season 4 wish list to share
next week.
Zap2It, among others, reports that ENT will
move to Fridays at 8pm on August 6, which will be the permanent
timeslot (rather than 9pm *whew*).
Hey, did anybody think Degra's ENT Lib was
funny?
July 16, 2004: I suppose it's appropriate
that a photo from a boring episode ("The Shipment")
doesn't generate a lot of captions... :)
July 19, 2004: Wednesday's repeats are "Proving Ground" and "Stratagem,"
and make sure you enjoy them because it looks like there's
no ENT airing at all the week of the 28th.
July 21, 2004: Now that Season 4 filming
is getting underway, it's time for all the armchair writers,
couch potato pundits, BBS quarterbacks, and other Internet
blowhards to propose what we would do if we were king.
Herewith is my own wishlist/set of suggestions/manifesto, Season 4: Go Big, Go
Bold, Go For Broke. In a related story, The Futon Critic
reports that "Storm Front," the season premiere,
will air October 8.
So I'm used to plain ol' spam, identity theft
spam (aka "phishing"), My Dictionary Threw Up spam
(two hundred random words which no spam filter could predict),
and lately Literary spam (in which the spammer grabs random
chunks of real books or stories and pastes them into the
body of the email to make it look like actual conversation;
L. Frank Baum's The
Master Key comes up a lot, for some reason). Now I get
Spam With Jokes. The latest offer for...something, I didn't
bother to look...had four jokes in the body of it, interspersed
with the Dictionary Vomit and spam links! And they were kinda
funny jokes! The Literary Spam was sort of enlightening,
making you track down the source and possibly encouraging
you to read the original. This is just amusing.
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Did you say two more months of
repeats? Are you outta your mind?
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July 24, 2004: I should mention that I neither read
nor post spoilers, so any predictions or suggestions I make are either
my opinion, my guess, or an outright joke. If you're a fellow proud member
of the No-Spoiler Club, you may roam here with abandon.
Having said that, I've updated the Season
4 page with new episode titles. And from the UPN TCA Tour Party,
we have a new shot for Those SHIRTS! which
isn't quite so glaring as the rest.
July 28, 2004: After three months, I've
finally finished the next DVD commentary, for "Dead
Stop." With luck the next one won't take quite so
long to put together. Guten tag to my German fanbase! *waves*
Isn't it nice when the actors agree with the
fans? Non-spoiler third- and fourth-season commentary
from Jolene Blalock about T'Pol, from StarTrek.com. (I'd link
the article but there are spoilers in it.) Quoted in full
without cuts.
Though she [Blalock] admitted
the third season was difficult for her, she had some very
positive things to say about the fourth. "I can tell
you right now, this season's going to be our best. And I
can tell you why, because Manny Coto has been given some
freedom and some liberty to push forth a vision." She
had just read the second script of the season, and said, "It
was a pleasure to see the story unfold. I was interested,
and the characters were rich -- you could see the characters
on the page."
She hopes to have the opportunity to resolve
some of the emotional loose ends for her character. "I
had a hard time last year. I had a real hard time with
the trellium-D addiction, I had a real hard time with the
sex, I had a hard time with the emotions -- I couldn't
justify it as an actor. Why do I find these emotions so
thrilling? What's wrong with me? I just felt that she was
lost. She was lost in the story arc, she was lost in resigning
her commission, not having a post -- it was weird not being
called 'subcommander.' I felt that she was ripped of her
respect and her dignity. I just felt that she became an
emotional floozy, you know? And I didn't like it."
This year she hopes to build T'Pol back up,
in part by enriching the character's history, roots and
beliefs.
And on another note, congratulations to Dominic
Keating, who recently became engaged to his girlfriend Jilana
Stewart. Dominic, Connor, Jolene last year, John and Scott
already have wives -- marriage is good! Anthony's status I
don't know, but Linda is dating Tom Hardy (Shinzon from Nemesis).
I imagine Breezy and Windy are fixed.
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Trip: Any luck?
Malcolm: None. Whatever Daniels does to travel
about in time, I can't duplicate it.
Trip: Damn!
Ah was really hopin' you could hack that thing. October
8 is just eons from now.
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August 4, 2004: A mini-update to ease the transition from Wednesday to Friday
episodes: At Moogie's excellent suggestion, I've reformatted
the ENT Libs so the blanks
are all on one page and you can edit them before submitting.
I was surprised to find out how differently they come out
just from that rearranging of input! Check it out.
August 6, 2004: A new Get
Me Rewrite, featuring Malcolm. I just got my hands on
a trove of very cool episode photos, so the next couple
of GMRs should be lots of fun.
August 13, 2004: A good multi-character Get
Me Rewrite this week. Next one will have Trip in it, I
promise.
August 20, 2004: At the suggestion of
a few people, I'm trying an experiment: ENT Libs episodes.
We'll start with "Broken
Bow," naturally, and if you folks like it, I'll keep
going. Let me know what you think. (To my own amusement, I
found that I kept remembering my own Buffy/ENT crossover better
than the actual episode, and I had to keep checking the real
summary to write it properly.)
August 27, 2004: The next two ENT Libs
episodes are up, "Fight
or Flight" and "Strange
New World." They're getting longer, but I'm trying
to keep from using too many blanks. How are Friday night reruns working
out for everyone?
September 3, 2004: As promised,
this "Get
Me Rewrite" stars Trip. And appropriately enough,
the photo is from "Future Tense," which will be
next week's DVD commentary.
September 8, 2004: Happy 38th to Star Trek!
September 14, 2004: Happy second birthday
to the great House
of Tucker! Now featuring five subsites where fans of Trip
can gather and chat and focus on their favorite engineer (plus Archer, T'Pol, Malcolm,
and Chef. I mean food).
September 10, 2004: You know, it was a great story while
it lasted, but watching the repeat of "Countdown,"
I am so glad Season 3 is over. All that running and
yelling and snivelling and threatening -- it's just exhausting.
This week's Extra is the long-awaited DVD commentary
for "Future
Tense." I really enjoyed writing this, so let
me know if you like it!
September 17, 2004: Working our way through
the first season, the next two ENT Libs are "Unexpected"
and "Terra Nova."
Major thanks to wombat61 for the beta and unsticking.
Three more weeks to the premiere!
September 24, 2004: Okay, I had way too much fun writing captions
for this Get
Me Rewrite, so I expect you folks to pitch in and be even
funnier. ;)
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