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Enterprise' Up For Two Hugo Awards???????? What the Fuck?!
Posted: 2003-04-19 05:45am
by Dark Primus
http://www.trektoday.com/news/190403_01.shtml
By Caillan
April 19, 2003 - 1:26 AM
See Also: 'Carbon Creek' Episode Guide
Enterprise yesterday received its first Hugo Award nominations.
The fifth Star Trek series nabbed two nods in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, the Sci-Fi Wire reported. This was the first year the Best Dramatic Presentation category has been split up into Short Form and Long Form sections to honour achievements in television and film separately.
"Carbon Creek" scored the first Enterprise nomination. The season two episode, which tells the story of an early Vulcan visit to Earth, was written by Chris Black based upon a story by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and Dan O'Shannon. James Contner directed the episode.
The second episode nominated was "A Night In Sickbay", a more personal story focusing on the relationship between Captain Archer and his crew. The episode was written by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga and helmed by David Straiton.
Trek's competition this year includes three episodes of Joss Whedon series. Buffy The Vampire Slayer's "Conversations With Dead People", the Firefly pilot, "Serenity", and Angel's "Waiting In The Wings" were also nominated in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
Previous Star Trek Hugo Award-winners include Star Trek: The Next Generation's "All Good Things" and "The Inner Light", and the orginal series episodes "The City On The Edge Of Forever" and "The Menagerie". In 1968 a special award was bestowed upon creator Gene Roddenberry.
Other Trek episodes and films which received nominations over the years include Deep Space Nine's "The Visitor" and "Trials And Tribble-ations", The Next Generation's "Encounter At Farpoint" and every Trek feature film with the exception of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek Nemesis.
The Hugos, which celebrate their 50th anniversary this year, are awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society to honour the best in genre literature, art and film-making. The winners of the 2003 awards will be announced at Torcon 3, which runs from August 28 - September 1 in Toronto, Canada. .
The full list of this year's nominees is available at the Sci-Fi Wire.
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B&B must have bribed the judges or Paramount has. But something does smell shit.
Posted: 2003-04-19 10:25am
by Sektor31
I hope this is one big practical joke.
Posted: 2003-04-19 10:38am
by Master of Ossus
Note that "A Night in Sickbay" is generally considered by almost everyone to be the worst episode of the entire series. Something's wrong with this.
Posted: 2003-04-19 11:16am
by seanrobertson
Master of Ossus wrote:Note that "A Night in Sickbay" is generally considered by almost everyone to be the worst episode of the entire series. Something's wrong with this.
Yes, that's an understatement
I think it's worse than "Shades of Gray," and definitely worse than "Spock's Brain" which, to this viewer's eyes as a youngster, was at least sorta spooky (Spock being remote-controlled, LOL).
"Carbon Creek" was
okay. Not all that fantastic, really. Something's indeed amiss.
Posted: 2003-04-19 12:00pm
by Darth Wong
This will only devalue the Hugo awards.
Posted: 2003-04-19 02:00pm
by Sir Sirius
You do realize that if Enterprise actualy wins it will run for the full seven seasons for sure and that B&B will stay firmly planted on the Throne of Trek.
Posted: 2003-04-19 03:26pm
by Darksider
Sir Sirius wrote:You do realize that if Enterprise actualy wins it will run for the full seven seasons for sure and that B&B will stay firmly planted on the Throne of Trek.
[Luke]NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![Luke]
Posted: 2003-04-19 04:15pm
by Macross
Must have been a very slow-year for sci-fi TV...
The other nominees are:
Firefly: Serenity - Pilot Episode
Buffy: Conversations With Dead People
Angel: Waiting in the Wings
Posted: 2003-04-19 06:30pm
by Superman
Personally, I think "Carbon Creek" was worse, but the sickbay episode was almost as bad.
Posted: 2003-04-19 09:00pm
by neoolong
I didn't see the Buffy ep. but I think that Firefly should win.
And that Enterprise should burn.
Posted: 2003-04-19 09:11pm
by Master of Ossus
Macross wrote:Must have been a very slow-year for sci-fi TV...
The other nominees are:
Firefly: Serenity - Pilot Episode
Buffy: Conversations With Dead People
Angel: Waiting in the Wings
Actually, this is mildly frightening. What if Enterprise really is the best sci-fi show on the air?
Posted: 2003-04-19 09:27pm
by Sea Skimmer
Sir Sirius wrote:You do realize that if Enterprise actualy wins it will run for the full seven seasons for sure and that B&B will stay firmly planted on the Throne of Trek.
I should hope so, all the crap they spray had better be going into a toilet
Posted: 2003-04-19 10:07pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
Master of Ossus wrote:Actually, this is mildly frightening. What if Enterprise really is the best sci-fi show on the air?
*coughSTARGATESG-1cough*
My work here is done.
Posted: 2003-04-19 10:21pm
by Macross
Master of Ossus wrote:Actually, this is mildly frightening. What if Enterprise really is the best sci-fi show on the air?
...then someone needs to check the temperature in Hell!
Firefly should win. Even if you didnt like the shows Sci-Fi/Western theme, the quality of the writing is still way ahead of Enterprise.
Posted: 2003-04-19 10:34pm
by Gandalf
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Master of Ossus wrote:Actually, this is mildly frightening. What if Enterprise really is the best sci-fi show on the air?
*coughSTARGATESG-1cough*
My work here is done.
The new Buffy season has been better than the whole Enterprise run. Or at least the eps I saw until I gave up.
Posted: 2003-04-19 10:34pm
by Kerneth
Damn, I loved Firefly. I really had hoped the sci-fi channel or SOMEBODY would buy the rights to it and keep producing the show
Posted: 2003-04-19 10:37pm
by Gandalf
Does this mean that Darkstar may soon repent?
Posted: 2003-04-19 10:37pm
by Montcalm
If Enterprise win the trophy that will prove the whole damn thing is rigged.
Posted: 2003-04-19 10:41pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
"A Night in Sickbay" was nominated?! I mean for god's sake, the plot revolved on the Captain's dog pissing on a tree and getting sick!
Posted: 2003-04-19 10:56pm
by Master of Ossus
Montcalm wrote:If Enterprise win the trophy that will prove the whole damn thing is rigged.
Isn't that what everyone said about "A Beautiful Mind?"
Posted: 2003-04-19 11:12pm
by Isolder74
Gandalf wrote:Does this mean that Darkstar may soon repent?
Hell hasn't froze over yet. But it may soon!
PS the Chicago Cubs need to win a world series first!
Posted: 2003-04-19 11:22pm
by HemlockGrey
Devaluing the Hugo's. B&B's crimes against science fiction only grow longer.
Posted: 2003-04-20 12:55am
by neoolong
Master of Ossus wrote:Montcalm wrote:If Enterprise win the trophy that will prove the whole damn thing is rigged.
Isn't that what everyone said about "A Beautiful Mind?"
Exactly.
Posted: 2003-04-20 02:21am
by Darth Fanboy
Other Trek episodes and films which received nominations over the years include Deep Space Nine's "The Visitor" and "Trials And Tribble-ations", The Next Generation's "Encounter At Farpoint" and every Trek feature film with the exception of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek Nemesis.
So for all you who were saying That Nemesis wasn't bad enugh to be mentioned in the same sentence as ST:V, well there you go.
PS the Chicago Cubs need to win a world series first!
U seen the way they've been playing? Something is not fucking right with the world. Same with the Mighty Ducks whoping the Red Wings and so on...
Re: Enterprise' Up For Two Hugo Awards???????? What the Fuck
Posted: 2003-04-20 05:55am
by Peregrin Toker
Dark Primus wrote:
B&B must have bribed the judges or Paramount has. But something does smell shit.
If anyone can be blamed for this, it's Nyarlathotep.