Trek...... This is fast

Advantages: fast, light, high spec for cheap price
Disadvantages: None

.... This led to a further discount being applied. To cut a long story short I ended up paying £450 for the bike (although we had to purchase a Giant SCR for my other half at the same time - although this was discounted too. However a significant saving was made and I love the fact that a lot of the road bike fraternity are so snobbish that they have to have a 'new' bike each year and the manufacturers change the models on an annual basis, even if it only means changing the colour scheme!!) and walking out of the shop with a big grin on my face. Trek History *************** Trek is an American company which was started in 1976 in a barn in Waterloo, Wisconsin. By 1980 the company had outgrown it's original factory and moved to new premises. The owners decided to keep the company in its 'home town' of Waterloo. In 1982 Trek started...

yackers1 06.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Trek 1200

Star Trek Original Series - Season 1

Advantages: If your a Original Star Trek Fan you'll just want this
Disadvantages: Expensive

...I have been a Star Trek fan since they showed the show on the BBC in the 70's. Crikes I even remember being taken by my dad to see ST:TMP at the local ABC cinema (I even remember my kid sister snoring as she fell asleep!). But I digress! Having bought the original series on video in the grand old days of "lets run to WH Smiths every fortnight and fork over £9.99 for the next two episodes" if only I knew! I have had the original series on video for years - with the degradation and grain, I knew it was time to update. When the original series first landed on DVD, I knew I wanted them, but there was no way I was going to fork over £79 a box (lessons learned!), so I waited. Luckily, my wait has paid off, and HMV in there wonderful summer sale has all the boxes going cheap £44 each - nice! The box set is lovely - in command gold...

davwan 04.07.2005 · Read review
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Review of Star Trek - The Original Series - Series 1 - Complete (DVD)

Star Trek: Massively Overrated

Advantages: Swift plot development; suitable for nearly all ages.
Disadvantages: Terrible plot; unconvincing characters; indifferent acting.

.... Star Trek Star Trek is one of the most iconic entertainment franchises of all time. With six long-running television series spanning four decades, eleven feature films taking over $1 billion dollars between them at the box office, books, comics, games and other spin-offs, there can?t be many people in the western world who don?t have an opinion on Star Trek. Created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s, Star Trek is set deep into the future and follows the multi-species crew of a ?Starfleet? spaceship (originally the USS Enterprise) whose mission is ?to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before.? In the many TV series, each episode normally involves an encounter with some strange planet, alien race or space phenomenon. The crew?s lives are frequently endangered, but...

MikeOCarroll 28.06.2009 · Read review
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Oh my goodness - A Trek Movie that I loved!!!!

Advantages: A brand new storyline with definite tributes to the original Trek
Disadvantages: Not enough Nero!!!

...that Pegg's performance was a hit as far as he was concerned. Chris is also in the movie - he is the ensign sat next to Scotty in the transporter room and it was fun to watch the movie and looking for him. Hubby was surprised to get a rather large dig in the ribs when I saw my friend on the big screen! There are quite a few little tributes to the original series which only those familiar with Star Trek would notice, but this is a movie that, in my own honest opinion, crosses the boundaries and appeals to fans of the Trek and non-fans alike. It is brilliant film and well cast, and one that I think J J Abrams should be exceptionally proud of. The special effects were absolutely fantastic and I have no problem in watching this movie again and again when it comes out on DVD as I am sure I will be subjected to it several times. My only...

bonsi6337 03.06.2009 · Read review
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Trek Returns!

Advantages: All the original cast return.
Disadvantages: Can be slow in parts.

...After the surprise cancellation of Star Trek in 1969 whilst it was in it's third season, the opportunity to resurrect Star Trek, following the more recent success of a certain science fiction film called Star Wars, was hard to resist. Paramount had a dilemma, how could they bring back the series in such a way that the audiences would take to this. The answer was simple, a follow on series called Star Trek: Phase II. Production designs were drawn up, scripts written, new sets were built and the original cast were reunited, well nearly all of them as Leonard Nimoy had originally refused to appear as Spock. At the eleventh hour, Paramount decided that the focus should not be a TV series but a big budget film that could rival Star Wars. This allowed all the cast including Nimoy as Spock to once again take their places on board the newly...

Timbo3107 26.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Star Trek - The Motion Picture (DVD)

Star Trek - Alternately Outstanding

Advantages: Fantastic Action and spills, the effects are amazing and will pull in new fans
Disadvantages: None

...Star Trek.... well... first of all... I have not even seen the tv series (original or the next frontier) or have i seen ANY movies. (well 1/4 of a movie and i'll say.... i got parts of the movie i saw but not much (FYI it was Star Trek: Nemesis). Moving to my point.... Star Trek.... Was.... The Worst film if you dispised all actions and thrillers, but one of the BEST films of the decade if you love actions and thrillers like me! I was actually worried that I wouldn't get the plot of the film, but surprisingly enough, I did and i really enjoyed the film. WARNING: Like all my reviews, I reveal the beginning, so if you do not wish to know, please just scroll past the next two paragraphs. As the USS Kelvin becomes attacked by the Narada (a Romulan mining ship), all the crew members evacuate. The current captain is asked...

goku1st 26.05.2009 · Read review
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Star Trek, maybe it should have been left alone

Advantages: Okay if you don't think too hard about it
Disadvantages: Plot holes and poor acting

...I was a bit wary of watching this film, because I really enjoyed the later Star Trek films, and wasn?t sure a prequel was a good idea. Synopsis The story follows James Kirk from the events of his birth and his yearly years, but mainly concentrates on his first voyage on the Starship Enterprise. It also follows the life of Spock and how he was an outcast both on Vulcan and Earth due to his mixed parentage. Spock as we all know also ends up on the Enterprise. Early in the film Kirk is accused of cheating on a test, and during the enquiry a distress call is received from Vulcan and Starfleet respond by sending off the fleet to investigate. Despite the fact Kirk is suspended he sneaks on the Enterprise as it heads off. The ship is being run by all new recruits apart from the captain, so it sets off later than the rest...

Fiver29 02.09.2009 · Read review
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A New Beginning, A New Future?The New Star Trek

Advantages: 127 mins of sheer warp speed adventure. The best Star Trek ever an outstanding movie
Disadvantages: Not enough of it you want more

...go to a wedding once where the bride walked down the aisle to the Next Generation theme tune, the wedding party wore communication badges instead of buttonholes and flowers and the groom?s uncle was the spitting image of Patrick Stewart. The movies of the 80?s were Star Trek for me yet Mum, my cinema going companion didn?t have any interest in any of it. I liked how Star Trek crews take me on their adventures for a couple of hour?s entertainment and fun. You can laugh and cry, be happy or sad and still fly along on the edge of your seat like on the biggest fastest roller coaster. Many people will never forgive me for saying this but, Star Trek was growing a little tired, or maybe it was the Next Generation crew I was growing bored with? Ok so I did not see a great deal of the Original series, alright, so I was born a few days before...

melodysparks 18.06.2009 · Read review
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Trev Tries Trek

Advantages: Good re-introduction to road bikes
Disadvantages: expense and pedals

...daughter finished her Istanbul to London lone cycle, she began planning an idiotic cycle around the coastline of India. Once that plan came to fruition at the start of this year, it was clear that any hint she gave of future cycling plans, should be taken seriously. So the planning has begun for her solo circumnavigation of the world by pedal power on land and sea, in world record time! Preparation for that requires some quick spins - so Lands End - John O'Groats and Belfast - Dublin are being suggested. Clearly, Dad needed a bike to keep her company. 2 The Frightening Choice Once a bike was a bike was a bike. Now there is a frightening choice of road bikes plus hybrids, plus tourers, plus mtbs and urban ones too. Since dear daughter has such vast experience of bikes, her advice led me in the general direction of the Trek brand...

trevorbrock 18.06.2008 (19.06.2008) · Read review
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Review of Trek 1.2 Double

Trek and travel

Advantages: see loads in a short space of time
Disadvantages: fast paced, tiring

...Trek America is a travel company specialising in tours throughout America and Canada. It is not an 18-30's holiday company although most of the travellers will be this age. Trek America work under different names in other countries, I know their Australian counterpart is Let's Trek. When we decided we wanted a tour in America we considered various tour groups and decided on this one as it seemed to cover what we wanted and seemed to have a similar sort of attitude to use (i.e not a club 18-30's we didn't want to be either durnk or hungover the whole time, we actually wanted to see and experience the place). We did the Western BLT which toured from San Francisco to LA, taking in Yosemite National Park, Las Vegas and Grand Canyon. The tour was very tiring with long days driving but this is understandable considering the distance...

jennyf16 23.07.2008 · Read review
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