I got my first computer in 3rd grade for Christmas in 1992. It was a Windows 3.11 home built special from our local computer store slash internet provider. I still have that thing in storage somewhere, and last I checked it still works. The first game I got was a combination Civilization 1 / Mantis game. I was instantly hooked on Civ, and have played every iteration since. Mantis, eh, it was okay, was a little buggy.

Geoffrey Rush would make a great anything on Star Trek, preferably some really eccentric deranged scientist. Ooh, he'd make a great Soong (and Data, too)!

V is a little bit of a guilty pleasure to be sure

It's appallingly written - character motives come and go, huge gaping plot holes and oversights and some seriously wooden dialogue. Characters stumble through the plot like drones and coincidence heaps upon coincidence.

But it does have a few redeeming features - discounting the camp spice added by Jane Badler. I am sure that a lot of geeks of my generation got a shiver when she was revealed - and I think every gay geek was mandated to squeal, just a little bit :)

Like BSG before it - there's a metaphysical aspect in the quest to conquer the human soul. But that's probably where the comparisons to Ron Moore's opus stop.

Monica Baccarin's Anna can be (but rarely is) truly terrifying, her smiling, beauteous demeanour revealing nothing of her (virtual) moustache-twirling-histrionic-spouting-evil.

The sheer preposterous nature of the show is fast becoming its strength. How mental can they go this week - and still keep me watching till the closing credits.

Yet still I watch.

Sexy lizard queens with (very Freudian!) lethal hidden tails? Check.

Yet still I watch,

A master plan to breed with the humans (How very 1950's b-movie - "We're here for your women!"). check.

Yet still I watch.

A giant technobabble plot device (We need to park our giant invisible space ships on buildings) Check.

Yet still I watch.

Plot twists telegraphed so far in advance that they make an episode of Casualty look like Hitchcock.

You get the picture - yet still I watch.

Maybe I keep watching in the vain hope that someone, at some point, will slap the sh!t out of Tyler. For. Being. So. Damn. Stupid.

I know it's bad - but I am hooked. Just don't tell anyone.

My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20! As for the first game I bought, well the old grey cells might be failing me but it could have been Frogger!

The best game I saved for was on cartridge format for the VIC-20 and that was the arcade game GORF!

I didn't instantly go to Express Yourself when I heard this, I went to When Takes Over! Just shows songs can sound like so many others!

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Its a pretty good song, but I still like Love Game better....mabye it ties for second with Bad Romance.

And as much as I love gaga I cant help but think that with alot of her outfits that she wears that she is a Romulan Infiltrator...

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just sayin...those shoulders really give it away.

I love this song too. I don't think she's pandering to us, Gaga truly does love and value her gay fans and she's well aware that we are her first and strongest fan base. I can't recall any other music artists dedictating a MTV VMA award to us (let alone their first one). When I listen to it I really don't think its a lot like express yourself at all. Maybe a little bit but it's definitely its own song. A lot of my gay friends IRW hate on her a lot but I think they're just being catty and contrary because its in their nature (or at least they think it is :P )

I think Gerard Butler would have been a fantastic captain. If I was the casting director I would have insisted that he keep his Scottish brogue. It would have given his character a distinct personality.

That and I think accents are f'n hot. :evil:

I bought a friend's Apple II+ and he threw in a bunch of games. I think the first one I played was Sir-Tech's "Wizardry", probably one of the first dungeon-crawlers made for a PC.

Funny side note - I don't know how I did it but I managed to make one of my party members a Ninja, a supposedly rare class within the game. And this being during the prime-time soap opera "Dynasty"'s heyday, I named her "Alexis", after the show's resident villainess played by Joan Collins.

My parents should have guessed they were never going to be grandparents then and there. (although I'm sure they must have thought something was up a few years earlier when the very first record I bought with my own money was "ABBA's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2") :blink:

Oh gosh..mine was on an APPLE 2E and it was a txt based RPG called Zork.. **showing his age**

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deep space 9 harbinger it was cheap, lol I can see why. The guy sounded hot, I liked that

I grew up playing on our family's Commodore 64 and also an old Tandy RP-90 'portable' computer. I played some kinda very primitive roguelike, and a ghost-hunting game called '13 Ghosts' and a 3d Scifi Game called Zaxxon. Since the RP-90 was the same age as me, we must've had those starting in 1982 ;)

My family tells me that I learned how to recognize letters from the keyboard of that old Tandy.

The first game I remember picking on my own (not the ones my father had for those computers) was Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System, but there were probably some before that.

The first game I bought with my very own money was on the Sega Master System, but I don't know which game it was.

Patsy'Tagh!! Sweetgh'Tegh Dagh'Liin?

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Oooh, speaking of steely eyed hero types, Patrick McGoohan (of The Prisoner) would have made a great captain. :D

He would have made the perfect captain.B)

I can totally see him staring down a Klingon captain.

see.. I have this sick fantasy.. I would LOVE to see Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders as the Klingon sisters, B'etor and Lursa

I saw a name and instantly thought of this topic, George Kennedy.

I'm related to Gary Seven, Robert Lansing (aka Bob Brown) was my Grandfather's cousin.

My Family got our first computer in 1998, it was a Compaq presariou Pentium 1. Earlier that summer I had come upon a strategy guide in a book store for Star Wars: Rebellion. This was the Grandfather to Star Wars Empire at War. You built ships, conquered planets or sent major star wars characters on diplomatic missions to negotiate that planet turning over to your side. You could build super star destroyers and Death Stars, it was awesome. Coming back from a camping trip in Yosemite I found out that we finally had a computer so I went to ToysR.Us the very next day and bougth the game. As I walked home a almost got caught in a lightning storm (a very rare occurence in LA). Luckily my Grandmothers house was closer than mine so I made it there before the rain started to fall and waited it out.

For me it was X-Wing vs Tie Fighter on my first computer. I used to love going up against the Star Destroyers! There was a little known bug in it, that you could blast off the nose cone, fly inside and blow it up from there!

But not long before that I had a Sega Saturn that I didnt play alot, as I mainly had the Aliens game for it, which scared the BJesus out me! I played for an hour, hiding in a corner. Why my parents thought that was a good game for me I still dont know!

I still remember playing some really old games on my brother's ZX81 and Spectrum 128 (that's 128k, I know). However, the first game I actually saved up for was the original ToeJam & Earl on the Sega Megadrive. I loved that game, and the megadrive aswell. I've even got the Sonic back catalogue for the Xbox 360 now so I can relive my childhood, lol.

Episode 189 - The Next Generation - "Final Mission" - 11/19/1990

Wesley sets off on his final mission with the Enterprise accompanied by Picard, but they become stranded on a desert planet.

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Actually, it is so funny you brought this up. I am visiting my sister's/ nephew's house and they were playing the Super Nintendo I gave them 10 years ago and first got when I was 5 or something. The first game I played on there was Super Mario World and I would have to say that was my first games.

Other games that I saw they still had that worked were Joe and Mack, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Simpson's: Bart's Nightmare and a bunch others. I posted the pic on my twitter if anyone wants to see - http://www.twitter.com/bfelczer