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counterfeitsaint posted:Every time a billionaire dies, his or her unearned wealth is equally redistributed and the world gets a little better. I'm pretty sure it just means that a gallon of milk would end up costing $5,000.
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Gonz posted:Hey, now. That's sounding a little space communist-y, comrade. Minsk. P.S. We're never ever getting off this rock because we're going to piss it all away on iPads and teledildonics
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Tighclops posted:Minsk. I could think of worse ways to go than teledildonics.
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Waterslide Industry Lobbyist posted:From a few pages back, but the company I work for is building this: Shame it won't have any bathrooms.
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Tighclops posted:Minsk. Hold on, let me ask Keiko. Apparently we're moving to Osaka 
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Hey thread people, where is this image from, and where can I find a larger version?
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Definitely fan-made.
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You would need a lot more than four pieces of scaffolding to hold that deflector array up while you attach it to the engineering superstructure. Who's running this job site?! Why isn't that man wearing a properly-coloured hardhat! This isn't OSHA-compliant! I'm filing a complaint with the union!!
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Oct 29, 2013 02:35
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In our glorious socialist future, all work is voluntary, therefore the entire planet is an at-will employment zone. 
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:You would need a lot more than four pieces of scaffolding to hold that deflector array up while you attach it to the engineering superstructure. Who's running this job site?! Why isn't that man wearing a properly-coloured hardhat! This isn't OSHA-compliant! I'm filing a complaint with the union!! Too bad, OSHA does not exist in the Federation, as millions of nameless red and yellow shirts can attest to. I mean, even on their most advanced warships, designed to destroy the Borg, a plasma conduit connected to the very impulse drives themselves can accessed simply through basically a cat-door flap.
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I had a dream last night about a new Star Trek show that was somewhere between that weird animated series pitch and the middle bits of Accelerando (or Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom). Red shirts died and it was totally okay because they just woke up in Sickbay the next morning. And it won't ever happen.
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Gau posted:Hey thread people, where is this image from, and where can I find a larger version? Which ship is that supposed to be again? I can't find a registry number. 
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In the prime universe Tiberius Kirk established space OSHA. He also whipped the Utopia Planitia crews into shape, catching an error that would have delivered Enterprise components to the middle of Iowa.
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Shadeoses posted:Spot is a fully certified plasma conduit technician https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7zbL2uBfko The plasma conduit door in this episode is just an absurdly flimsy thing! No wonder things are constantly exploding and frying people, if this is the safety standard on Starfleet ships!
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My absolute favourite workplace safety hazard in Star Trek was when that first Borg drone beamed into engineering. The first line of defense was sending that rookie yellow shirt security guy to go grab the Borg, and he promptly gets thrown across the room. Is there a right to refuse unsafe work when viable alternatives include lasers and force fields?
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Bucswabe posted:My absolute favourite workplace safety hazard in Star Trek was when that first Borg drone beamed into engineering. The first line of defense was sending that rookie yellow shirt security guy to go grab the Borg, and he promptly gets thrown across the room. Is there a right to refuse unsafe work when viable alternatives include lasers and force fields? That's such a great 'the poo poo rolls downhill' scene. Picard signals to Worf to take care of it, who then signals to Rookie McYellowshirt to take care of it. Not with his phaser, but by actually walking over there and physically restraining the space zombie. Only after that fails then Worf decides to shoot it.
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Clearly, because the Enterprise is the best of the best even the expendable nobodies are gung ho kool aid drinkers and charge headlong at danger despite knowing that they're wearing a season 1 uniform in season 5 and were dead as soon as that Klingon beamed into the room. The rest of the fleet is more like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khyzj5toqwA when word comes down for Burly Redshirt to get thrown across the room by an alien.
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So for some reason (boredom) I am watching through Voyager for the first time. And I just came to the first episode with the Hirogen aliens and I had to laugh out loud at their portrayal. They are just so over the top SPACE-EVIL it made laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. Let's run down the checklist, gravely voice, black armor, 7-feet tall, messed-up skin, dim lighting, spikes EVERYWHERE on their costumes (look like Shredder), and BONES everywhere on their ship and ALL they talk about is hunting people down to steal their bones. Apparently they want to attack Voyager so they can steal the bones of the crew to make trophies, that's novel I guess? For some reason it was these guys who broke my suspension of disbelief in this show. They just feel like they came rolling out of a bad Saturday morning cartoon, and even in that context they would have been eye-roll worthy. Their culture seems to be centered entirely around hunting, and everyone is either hunter or prey. Off the top of my head I remember a DS9 episode from season 1 that had aliens with a similar ideology. More than that it just feels like THE most tired and clichéd attribute to give the new baddies. I mean if Voyager was campy or fun I might think they are a pastiche of evil aliens from other Star Trek series, but Voyager's not really that show. Worst of all, at the end of the episode Tuvok says something along the lines of, "Wow, those guys sure were dangerous and we'll definitely be seeing more of them." 
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Reset Smith posted:So for some reason (boredom) I am watching through Voyager for the first time. And I just came to the first episode with the Hirogen aliens and I had to laugh out loud at their portrayal. They are just so over the top SPACE-EVIL it made laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. Let's run down the checklist, gravely voice, black armor, 7-feet tall, messed-up skin, dim lighting, spikes EVERYWHERE on their costumes (look like Shredder), and BONES everywhere on their ship and ALL they talk about is hunting people down to steal their bones. Apparently they want to attack Voyager so they can steal the bones of the crew to make trophies, that's novel I guess? The Hirogen are great, shut your mean jerk face 
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Sanguinia posted:The Hirogen are great, shut your mean jerk face They're seriously the least awful aliens on Voyager. The Ocampa, the Kazon, the Vidiians, the dinosaur people, Species 8472.. those all make zero loving sense at all, but at least the Hirogen are moderately consistent and sensible.
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You will find, as you go through Voyager, you will come to cherish the lesser evils as balms from Heaven. What I'm saying here is get out now.
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hailthefish posted:at least the Hirogen are moderately consistent IIRC their height varies depending on the budget / direction / editing of the episode, or of the distance from their first appearance as the show's pervasive apathy field slowly turns them to poo poo.
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You can not unsee when you realize the Hirogen were wearing armor that looks like beat up parts from a 1980s Datsun Sunny.
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Doesn't Tony Todd play a Hirogen at some point? The gravelliest-voiced legally-distinct and non-copyright-infringing space white hunter.
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Whenever I try to picture what the Hirogen looked like I just remember them in Nazi uniforms and give up.
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Data Graham posted:Whenever I try to picture what the Hirogen looked like I just remember them in Nazi uniforms and give up. Wait, seriously? No way that spoiler is real.
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Reset Smith posted:Wait, seriously? No way that spoiler is real. Totally real.
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The best bit about the Hirogen is that you could imagine Rita Repulsa happily existing on their ship and she wouldn't look the least bit out of place. That, and finally another humanoid species that isn't the exact same size as humans.
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Reset Smith posted:Wait, seriously? No way that spoiler is real. Never doubt how stupid Voyager can get. http://i.imgur.com/YenobH2.jpg
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So, so many Nazi planets out there in the Milky Way. Hundreds, perhaps.
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Vengeance of Pandas posted:Never doubt how stupid Voyager can get. The blatant use of tinfoil behind the swastika there just cracks me up. 3/5 of the Trek series have legitimate Space Nazis. This is a thing.
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Gonz posted:So, so many Nazi planets out there in the Milky Way. It wasn't a Nazi planet.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:It wasn't a Nazi planet. Oh, I know. I was just making a general statement.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:It wasn't a Nazi planet. It was a Nazi galaxy.
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Reset Smith posted:Wait, seriously? No way that spoiler is real. Yup. The Hirogen took over Voyager between episodes in season 4 and extended the Holodeck to most of the ship, where they ran a Nazi-occupied France around the time of the D-Day invasions sim. The crew, except for The Doctor and Harry Kim were all brainwashed into thinking they were their respective characters. The Doctor was basically made to fix up any of the crew that got hurt, while Kim was left out because gently caress that guy. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Oct 29, 2013 |
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