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Gau posted:Okay, you fuckers, I need a break from my eight-season Supernatural binge. What, in your opinion, is the best episode of Voyager to just pick up and watch? Timeless.
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Vagabundo posted:Don't. Just don't. I've tried it myself and even knowing what the episode is about I manage to make it passed the opening credits. Then I go looking for something else to do.
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Gau posted:Okay, you fuckers, I need a break from my eight-season Supernatural binge. What, in your opinion, is the best episode of Voyager to just pick up and watch? Flashback for Sulu, Real Life for Doctor, Worst Case Scenario for mutiny, The Thaw for creepy clown, Death Wish for Q, Meld for Suder, Revulsion for crazy hologram, Concerning Flight for John Rhys-Davies as Da Vinci, and that's about where I am right now.
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kelvron posted:Flashback for Sulu, Real Life for Doctor, Worst Case Scenario for mutiny, The Thaw for creepy clown, Death Wish for Q, Meld for Suder, Revulsion for crazy hologram, Concerning Flight for John Rhys-Davies as Da Vinci, and that's about where I am right now. Ooooh, Flashback is a good idea. What's the one where the Doctor is brought back to life hundreds of years later and it's Evil Voyager time? Edit: Just to be clear, I'm down to watch like, one episode of this stupid loving show, maybe three. Not pick it up and watch it through.
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Nov 6, 2013 03:00
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^^^Nope. Just Tuvok having flashbacks to his early career. If we're just picking good episodes, Future's End is basically a decent Star Trek IV ripoff with Ed Begley Jr. and Sarah Silverman.
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Nov 6, 2013 03:01
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Gau posted:Okay, you fuckers, I need a break from my eight-season Supernatural binge. What, in your opinion, is the best episode of Voyager to just pick up and watch? The one with the Narn.
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Gau posted:Okay, you fuckers, I need a break from my eight-season Supernatural binge. What, in your opinion, is the best episode of Voyager to just pick up and watch?
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Nov 6, 2013 03:14
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Dragon's Teeth is my favorite Voyager I think
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Nov 6, 2013 03:15
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Gau posted:Ooooh, Flashback is a good idea. What's the one where the Doctor is brought back to life hundreds of years later and it's Evil Voyager time? Living Witness.
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Nov 6, 2013 03:18
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Gau posted:Okay, you fuckers, I need a break from my eight-season Supernatural binge. What, in your opinion, is the best episode of Voyager to just pick up and watch? Once Upon a Time and after that you will go straight back to Supernatural.
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Nov 6, 2013 03:33
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Picard was completely wrong about the giant space christmas tree that was eating everyone
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Nov 6, 2013 03:36
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Sash! posted:Picard was completely wrong about the giant space christmas tree that was eating everyone I have to admit, I was kind of glad that woman blasted the living poo poo out of it. She deserved it.
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Nessus posted:I'd suggest "Little Green Men." Why would you do that? "Living Witness" is pretty good. Just don't think about it too much.
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Nov 6, 2013 04:00
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Concerning "Concerning Flight" -- John Rhys-Davies was a lot better at doing a Dwarf accent than an Italian one, I have to say.
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Mogomra posted:Why would you do that? Why not? Little Green Men owns.
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Vagabundo posted:Why not? Little Green Men owns. Yes, but it's not Voyager!
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DrSunshine posted:Yes, but it's not Voyager! That's the point why watch Voyager when DS9 exists. You're not a doctor at all are you?!
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LeafyOrb posted:You're not a doctor at all are you?! Sure I am. I'm a doctor of sunshine, I just have a PhD in making you smile. 
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DrSunshine posted:Yes, but it's not Voyager! What's your point?
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Vagabundo posted:What's your point? The original question was in reference to which Voyager episode should be recommended to someone who just wants to watch 2 or 3 episodes. The reply was "Little Green Men", which is a DS9 episode. The response to that was "Why would you do that?", obviously implying that saying that "Little Green Men" was a Voyager episode was a rather cruel joke. And, as LeafyOrb said, the ultimate point of the original reply was "Why watch Voyager when you can watch any given episode of DS9 instead?" Your mistake, therefore, was in taking the implied meaning of "Why would you do that?" literally and failing to get the joke. Edit: Anyways, my recommendation, as always, is Equinox. DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Nov 6, 2013 |
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Nov 6, 2013 04:58
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Watch the following: Death Wish Fair Trade Blink of an Eye
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gently caress it. Just watch Threshold followed by The Thaw and get it over with. I have a doctorate in making people sad.
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Nov 6, 2013 05:09
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Why isn't The Survivors on every top ten TNG episodes list? I don't remember ever seeing this episode before or hearing people talk about it but I was totally blown away. It's pretty much the perfect Trek mystery episode and the final reveal is amazing. It's also one of the rare occasions when Picard is left speechless. His response is basically "I can't even deal with how hosed this situation is, let's just get the hell out of here."
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DrSunshine posted:The original question was in reference to which Voyager episode should be recommended to someone who just wants to watch 2 or 3 episodes. The reply was "Little Green Men", which is a DS9 episode. The response to that was "Why would you do that?", obviously implying that saying that "Little Green Men" was a Voyager episode was a rather cruel joke. And, as LeafyOrb said, the ultimate point of the original reply was "Why watch Voyager when you can watch any given episode of DS9 instead?" Your mistake, therefore, was in taking the implied meaning of "Why would you do that?" literally and failing to get the joke. I'm not going to read all that.
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Vagabundo posted:I'm not going to read all that. That's fine! You asked a question and I merely sought to answer in the best and clearest way I could. As always, I live only to serve! 
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Nov 6, 2013 05:25
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One Voyager episode? the one with the Emergency Command Hologram.
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Bolian Blues posted:Why isn't The Survivors on every top ten TNG episodes list? I don't remember ever seeing this episode before or hearing people talk about it but I was totally blown away. It's pretty much the perfect Trek mystery episode and the final reveal is amazing. It's also one of the rare occasions when Picard is left speechless. His response is basically "I can't even deal with how hosed this situation is, let's just get the hell out of here." loving love that episode too.
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Alright, so having exhausted Good Trek I have turned to Voyager. I am following this watch list to try and avoid the worst of the merely substandard bij, while experiencing the obligitory sublime bij. Now the pilot was hot, rancid garbage... but you know what? Eye of the Needle and Prime Factors were fully tolerable Trek that did acceptable Trek things. Eye of the Needle hooked me with the tiny wormhole and the mystery of what was going to be on the other side, and doled out little developments and rays of plausible hope for the crew that were dashed in unexpected ways. I bought the Romulan dude, and like them dudes in general. His guarded, cynically skeptical caution and the care with which he was won over rung true. Prime Factors was a decent premise. "What if the shoe was on the other foot with the Prime Directive" got my attention, especially since most Prime Directive episodes turned Picard into a stupid, stupid rear end in a top hat extolling the virtue of genocide by omission of action. hough the execution sort of fell apart in the final minutes with the "it wouldn't have worked anyway" dodge. Now the characters still aren't fully speaking to me, but Janeway is less aggressively terrible than I remember her. I'm starting to buy her central internal conflict of "Uphold starfleet values at all cost, but also look out for my people at any cost." It doesn't quite have the charm of Picard's urbane diplomacy or Sisko's reluctant, brooding savior bit. But by gum, I'm going to give her another chance if for no other reason than to convince myself I hate it for my own reasons and not because of the goon/trekkie hivemind.
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Pascallion posted:One Voyager episode? Those pips are the only thing that even come close to rivaling the Riker beard-off scene in terms of greatness.
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Just watched "Concerning Flight". That was a pretty good episode, I should say. The final bit with the glider was actually really fun, and I just had a big ol' grin on my face seeing their maiden flight! And John Rhys-Davies is a splendid actor -- it was pretty entertaining seeing the hologram of a 16th century man interpreting a futuristic alien society. I think this episode really did a good job of fleshing out the sort of character Janeway is supposed to be.
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Otisburg posted:Alright, so having exhausted Good Trek I have turned to Voyager and will soon be admitted to my nearest mental asylum You're doing the lord's work here, delivering an entirely fresh view on precisely how poo poo that show is just at a point where some are starting to question it. Your work will form the basis for discussion for threads to come. e: i should add, if you decide you like the show I will intercept you and ...escort you back
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Just one Voyager episode? Okay, the one where Chakotay is unstuck in time, because it touches on all the cool poo poo from the previous seasons. It's like the glossy highlight reel of the series, with Robert Beltran saving the day to top it all off.
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Mogomra posted:gently caress it. Just watch Threshold followed by The Thaw and get it over with. I have a doctorate in making people sad. Wow, that is an awful lot of poo poo followed by an amazing last two minutes. The whiplash may kill him. Vagabundo posted:Sounds like Shades of Gray. The unstuck in time one doesn't recycle footage, it just literally revisits the old episodes.
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Good god, The Valient was dark. I mean I could pretty much see where that plot was going but... the ENTIRE crew? Yikes
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Bolian Blues posted:Why isn't The Survivors on every top ten TNG episodes list? I don't remember ever seeing this episode before or hearing people talk about it but I was totally blown away. It's pretty much the perfect Trek mystery episode and the final reveal is amazing. It's also one of the rare occasions when Picard is left speechless. His response is basically "I can't even deal with how hosed this situation is, let's just get the hell out of here." Worf is :worf: as hell in that ep, too.
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showbiz_liz posted:Good god, The Valient was dark. I mean I could pretty much see where that plot was going but... the ENTIRE crew? Yikes The thing I don't get is why in a world with mostly-conquered scarcity and near-perfect fidelity simulations it would be at all desirable to let a cadet crew of untrained but promising young adults loose with minimal supervision in an actual factual state-of-the-art warship during wartime. If nothing else, I found myself feeling sad for all the crews of decorated veterans that were assigned to Miranda-Class Deathtraps while a bunch of pimple-faced teens were going for a joyride in a Defiant-class Assbeater for On-the-job-training.
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Basically the Federation is terrible at everything. For instance, Bashir is an insubordinate weiner that has no business being on the bridge...ever. And why are they letting Garak do anything on the Defiant at all? He doesn't work for the Federation and is a foreign national AND was an intelligence operative. I guess that's why the Federation's enemies can pretty much do whatever they want.
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Sash! posted:I guess that's why the Federation's enemies can pretty much do whatever they want. Except actually defeat the Federation. Who sucks, the guy who's terrible at war, or the guy who can't beat the guy who's terrible at war? 
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Vagabundo posted:Don't. Just don't. That's like telling Andy Zaltzman not to man during a test match.
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