Comments on: Celebrating 15 years. One more year until this site can drive.

By: Joan T

Joan T — Sun, 02 May 2010 10:53:10 +0000

Bit late with the congrats on 15 years but what an achievement! I would reckon I have been a (semi) regular visitor for almost all of those years. I e-mailed you a couple of times but can’t find the messages after all this time. I remember that DS9 was still running, but coz I live in the UK we were shown them later and I would try to resist the temptation to skip ahead and read the reviews before the episode had aired over here. Sometimes I managed to resist, other times not.

A lot has changed in my life over the years, but I am so pleased that you are still here to entertain me with your witty, incisive reviews of Trek and other stuff. In an ever changing world it is nice to see some things are still going strong.

By: J-Lup

J-Lup — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:32:42 +0000

Just found you this year – I started watching BSG at the insistance of my friends (after the finale aired, of course), and usually relying on the A.V. Club for TV episode reviews, did a quick search for BSG episode reviews.

The reviews are great. I believe that TV is a naturally stupid medium, and in order for it to not be a complete waste of time, one has to actually think about what one saw afterwords. These are a good jumping-off point for that, so Thanks!

By: Mal

Mal — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:01:28 +0000

wow!

been reading your site since 2002, when you were a mod over at TrekBBS.

st-hypertext is still the number 1 site for star trek reviews on my internet

By: methane

methane — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:46:45 +0000

I started following you very early on, but I’m not sure if I was looking at your website at the time. I was definitely reading the newsgroup startrek.reviews.moderated or whatever it was called.

I haven’t been a continuous reader, as there were times when I left the country for a while, missing out on parts of Deep Space Nine (though I was a big fan) and an internet connection. I also gave up on Voyager completely when it was first aired. However, I eventually watched all episodes of both series from season 1, reading your reviews as I went. We generally agree on those 2 series and Enterprise.

We disagree on Ron Moore’s more recent work, however. I thought BSG was OK, though it never really got me excited, and I gave up on Caprica. So I read all your BSG reviews as they went up, but only check your site occasionally now.

By: BMCG

BMCG — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:56:04 +0000

Would have been mid ’95, was using DS9 as a distraction whilst in Denmark, Pentium 90, 56k modem…and a site that stayed on top of DS9. Very cool. Thank you for the rich perspectives over a decade plus five.

Oh that reminds, believe i sent you an email congrats when the ticker passed 100,000 hits…time flies

By: Minsc

Minsc — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:55:56 +0000

Like most, I don’t remember how or when I found your site. It was definitely before you had the st-hypertext domain name. My guess would be twelve to thirteen years. I distinctly remember watching DS9′s “Far Beyond the Stars” and thinking this one going to be four stars.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:06:00 +0000

I remember looking for a website that reviewed Star Trek episodes just as I was really getting into DS9, probably around season 4. I was just nerding out online and i stumbled accross your website.

I can’t remember but I think it was ST: Hypertext at that time but I do know this is one of longest websites I’ve followed since my first Pentium 100 computer (you know, back when you had to hand crank your PC to start it and hope you didn’t blow a vacume tube).

I was think I was only 3 or 4 years out of college at the time. I’m really starting to date myself now.

Great work Jammer, I’ve enjoyed your reviews as much as I’ve enjoyed reading Roger Ebert.

By: Arnoldvb

Arnoldvb — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:40:49 +0000

Hi Jammer,

I don’t remember exactly when I found your site, but I know it was when you were doing the DS9 reviews. Over the years, I’ve collected all of your reviews in a set of 3-ring binders, and still have them all … now including Caprica. Congratulations on 15 years of reviews.

We’re kindred spirits in a sense, since I’ve also had my own site since 1996 (www.sandcastlevi.com) where I’ve had a very modest Star Trek/scifi episode section in addition to sections on other general topics of interest to me. Before that, I was active on the old CompuServe SciFi SIG. It now helps to keep me busy in retirement.

Thanks for all the effort you’ve put into your reviews over the years. They’ve helped me to appreciate the various shows so much more than if your reviews never existed.

By: Latex Zebra

Latex Zebra — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:01:27 +0000

I also agree we should get a top 15 for 15 years. They can’t all be DS9 episodes though. ;o)

By: Azabaxe

Azabaxe — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:37:28 +0000

I can’t remember exactly when I started reading your stuff. It must have been in the mid to late nineties when Tim Lynch gave up on Voyager. I also was a fan of Homicide:LOTS and remember thinking that that show and DS9 were the best on tv at the time, a sentiment I remember you shared.

Congrats on surviving this long.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:25:35 +0000

An amazing thought–I’ve been visiting this site since before I started high school, so over twelve years now. Somehow, I’d never really thought about it in those terms. But I read your reviews through most of Voyager and then went back and started over, years later, when I discovered Netflix. Then was really excited a few years back when I learned you were reviewing BSG. Crazily enough, I’ve been reading your reviews for almost half my life…

By: Jeffrey Bedard

Jeffrey Bedard — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:26:49 +0000

Hi Jammer. Congrats on 15 years! Quite the accomplishment. I discovered this site roughly 3 years ago. I was now turning into a ST completist back then and collecting all the series and wanted to find some review sites. Yours was one of them and it’s also my favorite. It was great to watch a batch of episodes and then see what you had to say.

It’s also allowed me to start thinking more critically about the various ST series. Also by reading your reviews it’s allowed me to learn things I probably missed when I first watched an episode or movie.

Keep up the great work, I am one of the many waiting for the rest of the TNG reviews.

Happy 15th!

By: enniofan

enniofan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:21:38 +0000

not sure how I found this website. I think by accident.

I had gotten into watching some of BSG when it was still on air, and bought the DVDs cheap off Amazon and watched them. I think I remember being pretty blown away by something by Resurrection Ship, Part 2 and just started looking at reviews online and this was one of the first I found.

Pretty sweet. Dig all the reviews of Trek, BSG, and Caprica.

Here’s to many more years.

By: ReptilianSamurai

ReptilianSamurai — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:21:10 +0000

I first came to this site, oddly enough, for the Andromeda reviews. I had remembered watching most of the first season as it aired, than dropping the show in season 2 when it felt like the show jumped the shark (actually, they fired the head writer). I wanted to see if the show was worth watching for the rest of the seasons, and whether I should bother getting the dvds. Thanks for saving me the trouble!

At the time I noticed the other Star Trek reviews, and came back last year to read your thoughts on Deep Space Nine episodes as I worked through the series on dvd. It was a lot of fun following along with the reviews as I watched, although I learned that comments didn’t respect spoilers for future episodes, and sadly had a few things spoiled. I still enjoyed your reviews, which went into a lot of great depth and detail and focused on things in the episodes I hardly noticed myself (down to the lighting at times!) I loved some episodes you hated, hated some that you loved, but usually I agreed a lot with your ratings.

Now I am reading your reviews of Caprica (hope the mid-season finale is posted soon). They are the best reviews of the series I’ve seen, and I think that Caprica is very under-rated right now. It’s a bit flawed, yes, but there is a lot of promise and potential in that series and I hope that bad ratings don’t kill it and the show gets the chance to grow.

Congratulations on 15 years!

By: Poltargyst

Poltargyst — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:54:07 +0000

I like Cian Devane’s question. Jammer, you should do a top 15 favorite episodes you’ve ever reviewed in honor of the big 1-5 anniversary.

By: Quinalla

Quinalla — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:13:33 +0000

Not sure exactly when I found this site, probably in 2001 sometime if I had to guess. I did a search for “Star Trek Reviews” when bored at work one day and was quite pleased to find this site, especially since you shared my love for DS9 that a lot of other Trekkies I know don’t seem to share. Back then there were no comments, but I did e-mail you a time or two with some feedback. I love the improvements you made to the site while still keeping it fairly straightforward.

Congratulations on 15 years and I hope you will continue to do your thing for many years to come

By: imnotrixie

imnotrixie — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:35:37 +0000

Been dropping in regularly from about ’96 or so, hard to remember exactly when, or how i found the site – dementia setting in early i guess. I think it was around the 5th season of DS9. Hard to believe the time has gone so quickly.
Got caught out on a couple of your April fools jokes – vaguely remember one, some years ago about the site closing down. It was a definite WTF! moment.
Anyway, congrats on 15years, i have always enjoyed your reviews and hope to continue to visit as long as you keep doin’ em.

By: Anthem47

Anthem47 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:19:49 +0000

Well, my IE favourite still points to st-hypertext.com, one day you’ll drop that forwarding address and I’ll momentarily freak out (whaaat? It’s gooone!).

I’m guessing I found your website through a strange chain of internet browsing (you know the ones, where you set out to look up a train time and, six degrees of clicking later, find yourself reading about Guam on wikipedia for no particular reason).

I’m struggling to remember exactly when…I think about 2001, I was at uni at the time and never read a DS9 review ‘live’, only Voyager, so that’d be about right. I was happy to find a reviewer that posted long, interesting, considered essays on each episode, and it helped that we had similar general responses to DS9 (yay) and VOY (sigh) (although, I thought those Ferengi episodes had their moments).

Eagerly await your opinions on everything and anything (especially Lost, have I mentioned that? Oh yeah, I have. I’ll stop now =P )

By: Cian Devane

Cian Devane — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:13 +0000

Congratulations on 15 years Jammer. What are your top 10 favourite episodes of all the shows?

By: Chris L

Chris L — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:21:29 +0000

I found this site thru a link on one of your Deeper Side Of Trek essays on Space.com. Not quite the beginning, but close. I remember the Star Trek Hypertext name well, and also remember being concerned when you changed it. I was worried that you might have jumped the shark (as in, well Jump The Shark, for those who remember it), but was happy to see the same ole Jammer with just a site name change. Congrates on being able to stay alive and true in an Internet world that changes on a minute by minute basis.