Academy 1/48 F-16C Block 25/32 Viper Review

re: Patrick Stewart. In Roger Ebert's review of Star Trek:Nemesis, he remarked that "many people say that Patrick Stewart is capable of delvering even the worst lines with absolute conviction.

I say we should stop encouraging him!"

Heh.

I became VERY disenchanted with ENT after Bannon/Braga/Buttheads decided the throw in that moronic "time traveller cold war" crap. But then, I gave up quickly on Voyager as well, right after someone said "why does this show remind me of Lost in Space?...." Yep. That's it! :)

I never was thrilled with the D myself, but have become acclimated. At least the popularity of the show allowed modelers to finally settle on a COMMON SCALE. Heh.1/1400 it is, then!

Of course, now we have Polar Lights stirring things up with their

1/1000 series. At least my B will be in scale with something else...

I do like the Voyager design, and the E has (finally) stopped the "bigger is better" creep. I think it's actually smaller tonnage than the D.

It's not too hard to find E images all 'round the web. Check it out, you might like it. ;)

I liked the description of DS9 comparing it to Magical Mystery Tour, put a bunch of musicians on a bus, have tehm drive around the English country side and film what happens. Let's put a space station by a wormhole and film what happens. At least DS9 evolved into something interesting at times as it went along.

Deep Snore 9 was nothing but a total and lame ripoff of the Best Sci-Fi to ever air on t.v. ...

Babylon 5

Talk to James Garner about Glen Larson sometime. The Bubonic Plagiarist, who never had a good idea until someone else had it first.

i've heard it was because the show had a few weeks to get into production and then had no scripts ready for advance shows plus the network wanted changes every week.

larson was like the rest at that time. and some still are.

Your close, there where a few other resons too. Being stationed with my cab in Hollywood I got to take to a lot of the behind the shows people.

i've heard other reasons...mostly dirty money.

the new bsg is miles above enterprise. and kicking it's ass in the ratings with 1/4 the audience.

Personally, I found DS9 to be more relevant in describing former underground fighters who have to rebuild a country. I enjoyed all the political maneuvring between Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians and the Dominion. That exercise last year on Enterprise was so worthless that none of it was taped here and I have almost every ST show on a cassette.

BSG was good fun and a big step ahead of "Buck Rogers" but I don't rank it generally near Trek.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

And the DS9 people are now making BSG.

Mad-Modeller wrote: : : BSG was good fun and a big step ahead of "Buck Rogers" but I don't rank : it generally near Trek. : Like Hell! BSG had NOTHING to compate to Erin Gray. Col. Wilma Deering in a slinky jumpsuit, in a mini. Of course, it wasn't so neat the last season, when she was in a dress proper. Not to mention the highly annoying robot. Creighton, perhaps?

For that matter, BSG was hard pressed to match Pamela Hensley.

Bruce

I never tried lighting the kit, but I did pick up the cockpit and seated Colonial Viper pilot. Really nice detail. I haven't used the set yet, I was waiting for the landing gear set, but have been too cheap or lazy to pick it up. Rob Gronovius Modern US armor at

Speaking of Pamela, whatever happened to her?? After a short stint on that detective show with what's his name she seems to have disappeared. Did she marry a millionaire stock broker or what?

Bill Shuey

Apparently she hasn't appeared in anything since 1984.

Casey Tompkins wrote: : Dunno; a couple of the BSG chicks could keep up with Erin, I think. : Ok, the mini gives her a small edge. : Really? I don't remember any female in the original BSG series, and given that I was in high school at that time, says a lot.

I am not sure what I think about the female second to Apollo on the new series. I like the series, and I have liked EJO since his role in "Blade Runner".

But, actresses in BSG? Nope. Which is to say, yes, I remember there were some, but none stand out 30 years later. Then again, they weren't in minis either. :-)

Bruce

You don't remember Jane Seymour? Tch, tch, tch.

Bill Banaszak, MFE