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Giveaway: The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD
By Great White Snark | May 5, 2009
All of you know that I have the willpower of seven steroidal Wampas. But now, even I have succumbed to the Star Trek hype building ahead of the release of the new movie this Friday.
Of course, of all of the Star Trek properties, The Next Generation insults my Star Wars-centric sensibilities the least. So I agreed to host a giveaway of The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which features what are apparently the four most popular episodes of the series… EVAR.
- “The Best of Both Worlds (Part I)” – Responding to a distress call on one of the Federation’s outer-most colonies, the Enterprise arrives…only to find the colony has disappeared
- “The Best of Both Worlds (Part II)” – Commander Riker pulls out all the stops in order to save Earth from a Borg invasion lead by Locutus – otherwise known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- “Yesterday’s Enterprise” – A rift in the space/time continuum brings the previous Enterprise – the Enterprise C – 22 years into the future, forever altering time
- “The Measure of a Man” – When Data’s rights as a sentient individual are placed under trial, Starfleet forces Commander Riker into a position where he must prove that Data is an Androi
You read that last line right. I quoted it verbatim from the press release. Commander Riker must prove that Data is an “Androi.” I’m not terribly familiar with the Trekker lingo, so for all I know, Riker is trying to prove that Data is a delicious Klingon delicacy. Whatever.
To sign up to win a copy of The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation DVD:
- If you haven’t already, get an e-mail subscription to Great White Snark. It won’t cost you nuthin’.
- Leave a comment on this post. In the “Mail (will not be published)” field, enter the same e-mail address of your subscription, so I know who you are.
- In the comment, name a character from The Next Generation who should have died in lieu of Tasha Yar, the hot(ish) blonde security officer.
I’ll select the winner at random and announce them in an update to this post next Tuesday, May 12.
UPDATE: Congratulations to Ann, who can’t find a place in her heart for androids.
One entry per person. And remember, cheaters never prosper, because I’ve got your IP address, people: duplicate entries are dopey entries. Winners outside the forty-eight contiguous U.S. states pay shipping. Because this ain’t a money tree, it’s just a plain ol’ blog.
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Topics: Contests, TV | 35 Comments »
Tags: Contests, giveaway, Star Trek, TV
May 5th, 2009 at 3:33 am
Wesley, of course!
May 5th, 2009 at 5:22 am
Despite it being a dozen episodes too early… Kate Pulaski.
May 5th, 2009 at 5:44 am
I’m with Michael. Wesley. Although I didn’t really like Tasha, either.
May 5th, 2009 at 6:05 am
I should have subscribed for the Dexter give-away, but here I am now. IIRC, the question stumped me.
Anyway, for this one: Deanna Troi. Why do we need an empath on a spaceship? Adama did just fine without one!
May 5th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Wesley Crusher…kill him already.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Crusher? I hardly know her! Ha ha ha! No really…Wesley.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Wesley. But not because of hatred toward his character or anything. At the time…he wasn’t that important to the cast and could have been spared.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Long ago I heard Jonathan Frakes mention Wil Wheaton and the crowd yelled “KILL THE BOY!” Yes, Wesley is obvious, but who was more annoying than Roxanna Troy?
May 5th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Whiny Wesley Crusher.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Wimpy Wesley gets my vote~!
May 5th, 2009 at 7:57 am
So much hate for Wesley! You mean, you’d rather have HIM die than Whoopi’s character? Troy was even more useless, but she was hot! ;)
May 5th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Really; I can’t believe you people. What did poor Wesley Crusher ever do to you?? Oh, right. Annoy you to death. Hmmm. Yeah, I can see that.
Well, my young pre-teen self had the hugest, that’s right–CRUSH–on him for many years, and I wouldn’t want to see his existance shuffed out prematurely. ‘Course, they could have always brought him back to life by supernatural means–characters have a way of doing that a lot in the Star Trek genre.
But who should have died in place of Yar? That’s a tricky one. Coulnd’t have been any of the other man characters or we’d be sitting here today asking, “Who should have died instead of Counselor Troi,” or “who should have died instead of Worf?”
I’d say some engeneering underling. Sure, it’s not that dramatic–they were always killing off engeneering underlings–but at least Yar would be alive. I liked her.
Did you see the one where the crew meets her sister? That was an interesting episode.
Okay, so I so hope I win this–I’m very much a Star Trek junkie, much to my husband’s dismay.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Dr. Katherine Pulaski. Who’s idea was it to replace the redheaded MILF with a female version of Dr. McCoy? Pulaski didn’t even come off funny-grouchy to me, just as a bitchy old lady who liked to boss everyone around. Leave Tasha and kill the mean old cat lady.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Good for you for setting aside your prejudices. I was going to have to express some nerd rage soon about all the Trekkie hate you got going on.
I was glad it was Yar. She annoyed me. The next most annoying character was Dr. Polaski, but she wasn’t on the show then. So of the first season cast,I have to go with Wesley.
And the word in the press release should be “Android”. Riker has to try to prove he is only a machine. You should watch these episodes and stop hating.
You (Mike) might especially enjoy the episode “the Perfect Mate” which is not on this disk. But it has Framke Jansenn (sp?) at her hottest.
Oh, and if I win, please note I’m not a guy. You called me a guy last time. Hee.
Alex (yes I know that can be confusing)
May 5th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Wesley Crusher
May 5th, 2009 at 8:54 am
I’m going with Geordie – I never did like him much, and to this day I can’t watch Reading Rainbow with my kids because it creeps me out to see his eyes not covered by glasses that look like an 80’s banana hair clip.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Pakleds. Definitely Packleds. How threatening can an intellectually challenged heavyset humanoid seem in the 24th Century? “We look for things. Things to make us go”. Oooh, scaaarrryy. Just get rid of the whole lot of ‘em.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Wesley Crusher. Hands down. They struggled to make something good come from that character, but failed miserably again and again.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Must…. win… Shinies!
Troi. Why you ask? She nearly undid all the feminist work that the Original series did with her insipidness and one tone presence, so see ya DeAnna.
Seriously given the sexism of the original, that says a lot.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:52 am
OK, first off, you can’t kill off Troi, way too hot. With Yar gone, who will TNG fans obsess over, search the internets for old movie scenes, etc.?
The obvious choice, besides Wil Wheaton, is Data. Could anyone be more annoying than that pasty robot with the pantomine-like puzzled expressions?
May 5th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
data for sure.. what a creep!
May 5th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Instead of Yar? Why does there need to be an instead of? She was so totally annoying that I almost did a little dance when they killed her. But I also second the time warp into when Pulaski was on board and wish that hag would get her molecules rearranged during a particularly hairy beam down.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Now technically this person was not on the ship when Yar died, but I still would rather have seen Ro be killed instead. The Bajoran was immensely annoying to me!
May 5th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Troi.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Yeah, I have to say if we are sticking with Season 1 characters than it has to be Wesley Crusher.
If not, then Guinan/Whoopi. Possibly Troi. She was hot but did nothing.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Whoopi, of course.
May 6th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Oh it has to be counselor Troi. Anytime she hit the screen, it was like…”Oh here we go…It’s gonna be a Troi episode.” Ugh.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
My vote is for Mr. Homn. He was a pasty bastard who can’t get drunk, and he steals berries. Ass.
May 7th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Deanna Troi por favor.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Riker. Seriously, lets promote someone competent to XO.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Perhaps Wesley Crusher- he was pretty annoying, but I guess you can only do so much as an actor with what lines you are given. I guess the writers wanted him to be a whiner. I can appreciate his whineyness though, because I am a big whiner. I have OCD- Obsessive Cry-Baby Disorder.
On the other hand, I would have much rather have seen Dr. Katherine Pulaski’s character bite the dust. She was personality free.
May 9th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
I’d forgotten about Pulaski but I have to suggest Q.
May 11th, 2009 at 11:26 am
I always thought Troi had it coming. I couldn’t ever really get past Mirina Sirtis’ portrayal of her character, and found her to be silly, superfluous, and annoying.
May 13th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Who won?
May 17th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Congratulations, Ann!