Party pooper LJ!
Oct. 7th, 2012 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartWell, folks, it seems that LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But I still have most of the comments in my inbox, and will re-post the original entry and list the available comments with the simple mentioning of the names, if it's all right with you. If not, tell me, and I'll delete yours.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
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(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 01:57 pm (UTC)One of the "Mission Gamma" series, I don't remember which one. This is an excellent series of DS9 novels - basically an 8th season, just in written form.
I don't really like the OCs - IMO the really interesting ones were killed off right at the beginning - but Ro Laren as the new security chief of DS9 is wonderfully done, and so is Nog as the new chief engineer, and poor Kira has to run the station while excommunicated by her own clergy... very interesting.
The only OC I like is the Andorian science officer. What the series writes about the Andorians doesn't really fit "Enterprise", but that series was one big canon rape, so I happily accept the book version of the blue guys. Just as I did with Diane Duane's version of Romulan culture versus that horrible "Nemesis" movie.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 11:33 am (UTC)This sounds intriguing, I shall add it to my mental to-be-read list.
Sadly that list seems to grow much faster than I have time to read
books...
And yes, Enterprise was annoying in its inability to stick with
canon. I don't mind prequels, but if you want to set a new series in an
established universe you have to stick with what has already been
established about that universe. If they wanted free rein to invent new
things and not be tied down by the known history, they should have made
another sequel. Don't get me started on the latest 'Star Trek' film,
which I feel is Star Trek in name only and that just to draw in the ready
made audience of trekkers.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 12:12 pm (UTC)We are in total agreement about the film. The only good thing was how
Chris Potter managed to copy Shatner's hysterical mannerism - I was
rolling on the floor! Zachary Quinto wasn't a bad Spock, if only they had
given him a better chance to shine.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 12:13 pm (UTC)Ah yes, I was indeed quite impressed that they had found someone to play
Kirk who managed to be annoying in the same way as Shatner! Quinto could
indeed have been a good Spock, if they weren't so busy re-writing what
Vulcans are like. I really, truly hated the romance between him and
Uhura!
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 01:24 pm (UTC)Gah, don't even remind me! The Uhura actress was terrible. And Karl Urban
really wasn't McCoy.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 01:25 pm (UTC)and what on Earth (or any other planet!) were the doing with Scotty?
Here, quick, have some chocolate to forget it all!
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 04:36 pm (UTC)They all acted as if Classic!Trek would have been a parody. Well, it
wasn't - if one ignored Shatner's godawful acting, that is. But the other
actors were great. I even liked Chekov, although poor Walter Koenig
didn't really got anything substantial to do, upt to the films.