That's kind of it, man. It's not really the Spiner voice. It's the entire ridiculous performance for each of his characters. And it's not really his fault, either. That's the problem. I don't know what Spiner was supposed to do differently as an actor to make it successful. He clearly hammed it up and put as much energy into that shit as he could, but the result was just ridiculous. If he were more reserved, then the performance would still be cringey to watch, just in a different way.

It's the archetype of Joe Menosky episodes (that and the one where the Enterprise is a freakin train or whatever).

I'm with you in that I give credit to Menosky for pushing the envelope and swinging big. Sometimes you swing big like that and you hit a home run. I think he did just that with the Voyager episode "The Thaw." In that one he took his favorite premise (creating a world out of the manifestation of cognition/dreams) and turned it up to 11. Only in this case, the surrealism is more constrained and serves as the villain rather than a mystery or problem that has to be solved through technobabble. You don't have to go deeper and deeper into the weird rabbit hole. And in my opinion, because you made the guest star role something big and important, you were able to get a quality actor like Michael McKean to come on and do the episode instead of a bunch of randos. The result is that the viewer buys in from start to finish. It's a great episode. One of the only really good ones from those first few seasons of Voyager.

Masks doesn't do that. It's been awhile since I've seen it, and it's hard to get myself to watch it again because I just don't find its shit to be that compelling. The performance and the concept is off-putting from the start, and thus, I can't get behind it.

Just my (and most of the fanbase's) opinion. You have your tastes, I have mine.

I'm not a big Voyager fan, but I'd say The Thaw is one of It's top 50 best episodes. I do wish they had ramped up the weirdness/scariness though. An alien's worst nightmare should probably be something freakier than Lenny from Laverne and Shirley dressed up in clown makeup and some pajamas that look like they were sewn together from the floorboard of a 1992 Chevy Lumina.

New Star Trek TV series coming to Paramount+?

For fans who have been sleeping on the new Trek shows since Discovery’s debut in 2017, the impending release of Strange New Worlds could be the reboot that Paramount+ and the Trek franchise needs. Here’s why.

Possible spoilers….
https://www.inverse.com/entertainmen...-paramount/amp

Another one being talked about…..reboot/spin-off of Captain Proton

One of the more obscure storylines from Star Trek: Voyager is closer than ever before to getting the revival treatment at Paramount+. Those who tuned into Star Trek: Voyager during its run between 1995 and 2001 may remember a short-lived side story in which Lt. Tom Paris enacted a holodeck novel called Captain Proton. Similar to the way Captain Jean-Luc Picard would act out 1920s gangster stories in the style of Dixon Hill novels, Paris would enter the holodeck and go on the adventures of Captain Proton in a 1930s B-movie style, black-and-white science fiction series.

Not saying the book was particularly great, but basically copying the theme of Starfleet: Year One for Enterprise would have been so much better than rehashing Next/Gen and Voyager themes, plots and catsuits.

LET'S DO THIS

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now &amp; then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.�� <a href="https://t.co/ZY2Ka8ij7z">pic.twitter.com/ZY2Ka8ij7z</a></p>&mdash; William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) <a href="https://twitter.com/WilliamShatner/status/1448300996015181842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

LEGEND

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/WilliamShatner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WilliamShatner</a> was profoundly moved and articulate about his <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OverviewEffect?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OverviewEffect</a> experience. I studied his words while transcribing his post-flight thoughts. Now analyzing the way he experienced his brief time up there... He clearly immersed himself fully to take it all in. <a href="https://t.co/6IDyKyqB4N">pic.twitter.com/6IDyKyqB4N</a></p>&mdash; Cosmic Perspective (@considercosmos) <a href="https://twitter.com/considercosmos/status/1448656557894369292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Takei's gotta be pissed. The first Star Trek alum to ride a dick into space wasn't him. LMAO

That's exactly what the rocket looks like. The feather vanes from a distance looks like a fully erect blue vein schlong.

https://i.imgur.com/fawWmSB.jpg

I'm watching this classic tonight. Highly recommended for fans of TOS. Roddenberry pitched Trek as "Wagon Train to the Stars" but in reality it was more like "Forbidden Planet... on TV."

so much damn fun! I hosted a watch party with that one! Yes, great flick

Some other great classic sci-fi is on the original Outer Limits and Twilight Zone.

It’s where a ton of actors and actresses got their start.

My kids and I will fire up the old black and white episodes on a Friday/Saturday night often.

I'm still attempting to learn how to use Photoshop. Here are a couple of pics I've been practicing with. I don't think there are a very many Enterprise fans out there, but I figured I'd post them anyway.


https://i.imgur.com/uJDYMa2.gif

This was one started off as an attempt at making a basic composit, but then I started working on some layer effects stuff, colorization, and the lighting filter (which i ****ing hate using).


https://i.imgur.com/z2EQOZa.gif

This was an exercise in seeing how various adjustment layers interact with one another. I still don't have a clue as to the usefulness of most of adjustment options.

Re-watching DS9... again.

https://i.imgur.com/Fdgxiyy.jpeg