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*knowing full well that "maximum zoom" would just be a single molecule on the enemy hull, gives instead 6.6% zoom.*
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I just finished the episode where Ensign Ro and Geordi get phase inverted and are turned invisible or whatever. Maybe I just zoned out, but did that episode completely gloss over the fact the stranded Romulan ship was going to blow up the Enterprise at the end? They just turn off the Muon waves and are all like "Bye!"? Captain Worf would not stand for that nonsense.
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Oct 27, 2013 07:40
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Sanguinia posted:I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. It was supremely uncomfortable by design and it was indeed totally necessary to the story. It was the first step of Odo realizing how much he'd screwed up and a critical catalyst for him to examine the mistakes he'd made that led him to that point. I don't know how my post could have come across as sarcastic
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Oct 27, 2013 07:55
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President Kucinich posted:I just finished the episode where Ensign Ro and Geordi get phase inverted and are turned invisible or whatever. Maybe I just zoned out, but did that episode completely gloss over the fact the stranded Romulan ship was going to blow up the Enterprise at the end? They just turn off the Muon waves and are all like "Bye!"? Captain Worf would not stand for that nonsense. If I remember right, pretty much yep. The Federation greets mass murder attempts from rival empires with a "Ha! We caught you, you rapscallions!" Of course that's not my big problem with the episode: the fact they can connect with the floor is. Still, I liked that one, even though that bugged the hell out of me. Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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Oct 27, 2013 11:15
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I think they just straight up ran out of time to bring Geordi and Ro back AND quiz the Romulans. Anyway, that kind of bullshit would be handled (or made to disappear) through diplomatic channels, I'd reckon.
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Oct 27, 2013 13:51
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With the whole Odo and female changeling thing, the reason I thought it was out there was because Odo was established as having a great deal of self control and was quite reserved. He never really gave in to sexual temptation as he was always carrying a torch for Kira. But then suddenly he's getting freaky and ignoring everything else. The part where the "solid form loving" happens sort of makes sense to me, but with the joining, he'd already experienced it and turned away from it. Also, you know, supporting the other side of a galactic war. Maybe it is just me "not liking the actions of a character" and being childish. But that's just how I saw it.
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Oct 27, 2013 14:06
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Carnaticum posted:With the whole Odo and female changeling thing, the reason I thought it was out there was because Odo was established as having a great deal of self control and was quite reserved. He never really gave in to sexual temptation as he was always carrying a torch for Kira. Well my read on him not giving into sexual temptation was due to a lack of erogenous zones or sexual desire in general. It's curious to think how much this would have changed when he was sentenced to be a human by the great link. He was certainly always attracted to Major Kira's personality, but did sexual desire creep in when he became human? How much stuck around when he was again allowed to be a changeling?
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Oct 27, 2013 14:55
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I figure the link is basically loving on meth. Odo tried it once and went "this is neat" and just constantly had it in the back of his mind; when another changeling came on the station, the two of them just locked themselves in a room loving and getting high the whole time. I can't explain why they needed to show us the "solid sex" bit other than they never got a chance to show Jadzia and Worf's spiked sex swing, I guess.President Kucinich posted:Captain Worf would not stand for that nonsense.
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Oct 27, 2013 15:35
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Here's Worf suffering in awful work conditions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edflm7Hh3hs
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Oct 27, 2013 16:27
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I like to pretend that all the extras on the bridge secretly agreed with Worf every time. Worf: Alien ship approaching, their weapons are charged. Should I raise shields? Picard: No, Mr Worf, we don't want to provoke them. Blue Shirt in the Background: HE LOOKS PRETTY PROVOKED ALREADY.
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Oct 27, 2013 16:36
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It's because Picard watched Babylon 5 and knows the Earth-Minbari War was provoked by humans misunderstanding the Minbari tradition of approaching with open weapons ports as a gesture of friendship. He can't take that risk, no matter the cost.
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Oct 27, 2013 16:41
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The best part of In the Beginning was the Earth ship with no artificial gravity and people strapped to their work stations like some kind of fetish club. Captain Sheridan of the USS&M Enterprise.
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Oct 27, 2013 16:45
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Hyperriker posted:Here's Worf suffering in awful work conditions: There's one there where Worf says "recommend we go to yellow alert" and Picard just stares at him and says "why?" and it's killing me because just last night I watched a season 1 TNG episode where Picard was hailed by a Ferengi ship and he just really casually tells the whole crew to jump to yellow alert to respond. Then again, season 1 TNG has Worf constantly referring to poo poo from Qo'noS as being "back home" and "from my childhood." e: ahahah poo poo, Worf just mentioned Yar's rape gangs and Crusher just rolled her eyes and says "I can handle myself."
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Oct 27, 2013 17:24
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Whalley posted:Then again, season 1 TNG has Worf constantly referring to poo poo from Qo'noS as being "back home" and "from my childhood." Was that before the Klingons joined the Federation?
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Oct 27, 2013 17:27
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Luigi Thirty posted:Was that before the Klingons joined the Federation? Season 1 of TNG is really hard to re-watch without laughing now 
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Oct 27, 2013 17:36
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Whalley posted:Then again, season 1 TNG has Worf constantly referring to poo poo from Qo'noS as being "back home" and "from my childhood." Yeah, I don't think they had quite figured out yet just how young Worf was when he got adopted by the Roschenkos. So you get references here and there to things like his pet targ, and I don't know about you, but I don't really remember anything before the age of five/six, which is about when Worf was adopted. So they clearly wouldn't have known about Worf headbutting a child to death during a soccer match, either 
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Oct 27, 2013 18:01
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Whalley posted:Then again, season 1 TNG has Worf constantly referring to poo poo from Qo'noS as being "back home" and "from my childhood." Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Yeah, I don't think they had quite figured out yet just how young Worf was when he got adopted by the Roschenkos. So you get references here and there to things like his pet targ, and I don't know about you, but I don't really remember anything before the age of five/six, which is about when Worf was adopted. I love, love, love the fact that Worf is, by culture, a Russian. His childhood would have been full of ice cream in the winter, reading Gorky, drinking tea out of a glass with a metal holder, air-kisses with his parent's elderly relatives, and he probably has an adorable little nickname that ends in "-a". Everything this man knows about Klingons he taught himself--the man is a weeaboo for his own people, like an American of Irish descent on St. Patrick's Day. That's why he has such a stick up his rear end about being a Klingon, more so than actual Klingons do. (Put the things he says about his personal code in Gowron's mouth and it would be flagrant hypocrisy; in K'Ehleyr's and it would just be funny.) And the subplot where he gets stripped of his honor and exiled is the breaking of that naive dream. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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Oct 27, 2013 18:54
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"Weeaboo" seems like an incredibly unfair (and inaccurate) characterization considering that his parents were Klingons and he himself was being raised Klingon until his parents were killed.
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Oct 27, 2013 19:00
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:"Weeaboo" seems like an incredibly unfair (and inaccurate) characterization considering that his parents were Klingons and he himself was being raised Klingon until his parents were killed. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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Oct 27, 2013 19:06
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Whatever happened to the Wife of Mogh? Was she with Mogh and Worf, or was she off with Kurn, explaining how he got away?
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Oct 27, 2013 19:10
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The most they ever did with Worf being Russian was when DS9 ended and O'Brien was going back to Earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=138gX3wolOo And really, how can you improve on perfection?
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Oct 27, 2013 19:12
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The Rozhenkos were from Belarus, and Minsk is the capital of Belarus.
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Oct 27, 2013 19:39
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Yeah, I don't think they had quite figured out yet just how young Worf was when he got adopted by the Roschenkos. They hadn't even figured out the Klingon political situation. They're definitely members of the federation in s1.
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Oct 27, 2013 21:51
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McSpanky posted:There's no reason why they wouldn't! The material simply has to be strong enough to contain the internal force of the expanding gas without any external atmospheric compression to aid it. poo poo, this company wants to make inflatable space stations.
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Oct 27, 2013 21:58
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Orange_Lazarus posted:Just finished "The Uniform" I am loving the fact that you and I are literally watching DS9 at the exact same pace. I keep seeing posts from you about episodes I've just seen.
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Oct 27, 2013 22:02
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Wowbagger2004 posted:The Rozhenkos were from Belarus, and Minsk is the capital of Belarus. I feel like there's some link between TOS Klingons being the USSR analogue and Worf being raised in a former Soviet state.
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Oct 27, 2013 22:57
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rypakal posted:They hadn't even figured out the Klingon political situation. They're definitely members of the federation in s1. They're not members of the Federation. They're allies. High lighted in that Tasha Yar daughter episode where Starfleet cites the Prime Directive for not getting directly involved in the Klingon civil war. A member would be the Trill or someone like that.
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Oct 27, 2013 23:20
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DemeaninDemon posted:They're not members of the Federation. They're allies. High lighted in that Tasha Yar daughter episode where Starfleet cites the Prime Directive for not getting directly involved in the Klingon civil war. Did you purposefully ignore the fact that I said season 1?  Also in season 2, Wesley says that the Klingons joined the federation. Later they changed their minds, but Gene originally liked the idea of the former enemy being in the Federation.
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Oct 27, 2013 23:30
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I thought for sure they mentioned during S1 how Worf was the only Klingon ever to join Starfleet. If they're members, they're like, lazy, lovely members.
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Oct 27, 2013 23:41
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counterfeitsaint posted:I thought for sure they mentioned during S1 how Worf was the only Klingon ever to join Starfleet. If they're members, they're like, lazy, lovely members. Powers in the Federation still had their own navies. It's like being the first Congolese to be a UN Peacekeeper or something.
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Oct 27, 2013 23:50
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Remember that ring-shaped Enterprise? Well, you can buy a model of it now. If you're fast. And have $1500. 
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Oct 28, 2013 00:14
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I forgot DS9 opened with a crawl. Still not happy about it  I worked 20 hours yesterday, and thought that falling asleep while watching Voyager was a good idea. It definitely got more interesting. Phage turned into Torres getting her lungs stolen and developing a mobile lung holographic emitter. They still hunted down the Vidiian, and got him to bring back the lungs for Torres, but she decided to stab him with a real scalpel while lying on the operating table. Janeway's animal guide turned out to be an otter. They ended up contacting Tomalak through the wormhole and beaming him aboard Voyager, but couldn't send him back. He was too big to send back through because it was a micro wormhole. He stayed with the ship for the rest of the trip. Voyager. Not even once. :edit: Rewatching those episodes, and it turns out I missed "There's coffee in that nebula." I was alright with that. :edit2: And apparently Chakotay is a bear-type. Brute Squad fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Oct 28, 2013 |
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Oct 28, 2013 00:51
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rypakal posted:Did you purposefully ignore the fact that I said season 1? Shows how much attention I paid during the beardless era.
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Oct 28, 2013 00:54
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Is it just me, or is this design incredibly cool and futuristic?  I mean look at it, it just looks like nothing earthly comparable at all. All the Star Trek ships, when you come down to it, end up looking vaguely like something that might conceivably fly in an atmosphere if a lot can be handwaved due to "future technology". But this thing, it looks undeniably like a creature of space. It's amazing!
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Oct 28, 2013 01:10
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DrSunshine posted:Is it just me, or is this design incredibly cool and futuristic? It's a reliable way to get artificial gravity. Spin that ring around at the right speed. Sweet looking too. In my opinion, space ships should look badass. Don't really need a design for drag or flight or anything. Maybe stick the engines somewhere away from everything else?
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Oct 28, 2013 01:25
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DemeaninDemon posted:It's a reliable way to get artificial gravity. Spin that ring around at the right speed. Sweet looking too. I recently learned there are a lot of complications with the spinning ring thing. Apparently if you turn your head perpendicular to the direction of rotation, it makes you puke.
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Oct 28, 2013 01:48
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Sash! posted:I recently learned there are a lot of complications with the spinning ring thing. Apparently if you turn your head perpendicular to the direction of rotation, it makes you puke. Complication? That sounds more like a hilarious feature.
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Oct 28, 2013 02:07
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rypakal posted:Did you purposefully ignore the fact that I said season 1? I watched a metric fuckton of TNG, and I don't remember this. Sperg-A says this just shows the alliance, which makes more sense to me. When does Wesley say they joined the Federation?
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Oct 28, 2013 02:10
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Gau posted:I watched a metric fuckton of TNG, and I don't remember this. Sperg-A says this just shows the alliance, which makes more sense to me. When does Wesley say they joined the Federation? There's some line where he says "that was before the Klingons joined the Federation." Someone confirms that. I'm pretty sure its a lovely episode.
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You can write it off as Wesley not being very informed or precise or alternatively you can accept that early TNG is a goddamn mess and just ignore a lot of it.
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