Apparently I’m the middle-aged, toupee-sporting movie-era Kirk, though I’m 36 now, which is about the age of the TV-era Kirk.
Ah, well… I’m still Shatner, and to be Shatner is good! My wife picked up two more Star Trek paperbacks for me at the library booksale… one tells of Spock’s first voyage on the Enterprise (under Capt. Pike), and the other tells of the end of the original five-year mission. I’m also reading the book that tells of Kirk’s first mission on the Enterprise. I’m not expecting great things from these books, but since the wife and kids are off visiting grandparents in Texas, I’ve got a lot more time on my hands, even after doing the laundry, weeding the lawn, marking papers, reviewing a book for a publisher, and playing The Longest Journey for about four hours yesterday.
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I suppose if she had instead responded "qureeeebleepqeeb!" like a distressed tribble, that would have been a very memorable rejection.
Wrong? Maybe, but it would have been cool if you had proposed with "Engage!" and she had replied "Make it so!"
I once considered proposing to my wife with Picard's signature "Engage!" but somehow that seemed just... wrong.
I've played the game for about six hours... so far I think there's about 20% too much dialogue, though I recognize that some of it exists in order to establish the PC's character and place her within a commuinity. The backgrounds are lush and beautiful, the real-time rendered characters are blocky (needs more vertices, but it's an old game, so I'm not compalining). But the storyline is engrossing, and I'm looking forward to getting finished with classes today and getting back to it. I haven't gotten stuck yet, and I haven't been bored yet. The voice acting is pretty good, particularly the PC. She says about six different things when you click the "look" icon on her, and there are a few in-game jokes built on the fact that she talks out loud about everything you click on. In one case she says something unflattering about her boss, he says something like "I heard that," and she chides herself for talking out loud all the time.
The dialogue is a bit too self-consciously "hip," but that fits with the bohemian downtown setting and the PC's attendance at an art school.
The Longest Journey is playing like a miniseries -- the plot is unfolding very slowly, but so far it's been enough to keep my attention. Syberia had better music and more visually stunning cinematic sequences, but fewer locations, fewer characters, and more annoying puzzles.
And apparently, I'm Jean Luc Picard.
How is "Longest Journey"? It's in my game stockpile, but I've only had time for games that can be played in short bursts lately. (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Grand theft Auto).
If you run out of reading material while your family is gone, I highly reccomend "Altered Carbon".
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0345457684/ref=sib_dp_ln/002-9082145-2352869#reader-page
It's best described as noir sci-fi. Imagine Raymond Chandler and William Gibson writing a book together and asking Quentin Tarantino to help with the action bits.
Yep, need Guinan in there too. Done.
What about Guinan?
Dennis, it told me I was Spock also, but I think the test missed a few possibilities. I've set up my own Star Trek: The Next Generation poll on Techsophist that gets closer to the truth. :)
Dennis, It tells me that I am Mr. Spock, which some of my friends already suspected. A Vulcan in the Humanities and not the Sciences...hmm.