Way back in March of 2006, I decide to begin a project of simply monstrous proportions. Having recently (thanks to Netflix) watched the complete runs of Farscape, Angel, Buffy and The X-Files, I decided to turn my attention to Star Trek. I made a pact with myself to watch all of Star Trek. Not just a single episode, or series or movie, but the entire franchise, from start to finish.
Just over two years later, I have achieved that impossible goal. I’d be lying if I said it was easy, but I have watched the entire franchise. Every series, from the original through Enterprise, every movie from The Motion Picture through Nemesis. I skipped nothing. I made it through all of Enterprise, all of Voyager, and through the entire Animated Series, and somehow retained my sanity.
I’ll be posting various rundowns of the whole experience in multiple posts in the future, but first, here are some random stats and quick opinions:
- Total amount of time
wastedspent: Approximately 576 hours - Real world time: 1 year, 11 months, 20 days
- Favorite series: Deep Space Nine
- Least favorite series: Enterprise
- Favorite captain: James T. Kirk (Original Series)
- Favorite character (overall): Leonard “Bones” McCoy (Original Series)
- Best developed character: Odo (Deep Space Nine)
- Worst developed character: T’Pol (Enterprise)
- Most irritating character: Tom Paris (Voyager)
- Best part of an otherwise not-so-good series: The Doctor (Voyager)
- Best movie: Star Trek: First Contact
- Worst movie: Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Most welcome guest star (tie): James Cromwell (TNG, DS9, First Contact), Jeffrey Combs (DS9, Voyager, Enterprise)
- Least welcome guest star: Dwight Schultz (Reginald Barclay on TNG, Voyager)
Lots more to come. I didn’t kill a month of my life just to let this go in one post.
I read your updates over RSS (Google Reader) and I’m getting a Don’t Steal My Bandwith image in it where the picture should be. So, either you or Google messed up. And according to almost everyone Google is perfect. =b
Hey, just a heads up, but if you read the blog from the RSS feed, you always get the “don’t steal my bandwidth” picture instead of the ones you post :(. Not sure if there’s anything you can do about it, but it kind of sucks.
That’s weird, I’m not seeing it in Google Reader or when I view it in NetNewsWire. Works fine for me.
Does it do it on all posts?
I tweaked the settings to allow the google.com domain…that *should* fix it (even if I couldn’t reproduce myself). Please let me know.
If you’ve already loaded it into your cache it shows up fine because it doesn’t try to get the picture again.
I’m not really sure how you could remedy it globally since I don’t use google’s reader (I use livejournal’s rss syndication instead), but I’m sure many more people use many different rss readers.
Hm…I see the problem. I think I have a solution. Right now I’m blocking everything that isn’t loonyblog.net (or google.com). I think I should take the opposite approach and just ban myspace, facebook and blogspot (and add to the blacklist as need be).
Unless I can figure out a way to whitelist all RSS readers at once, that seems to be the only solution, short of removing images from my RSS feeds, and I don’t want to do that.
Jason: I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks DS9 is the best Star Trek series. :-)
I was never a big DS9 fan, probably because once I got around to seeing it, it was covering territory that Babylon 5 had already done better. It will always be TNG for me.
I look forward to more posts on this though.