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DemeaninDemon posted:So other than the obvious reason of fighting robo-T-rex, why did they bring the dinos into STO? I would assume it's because they've burnt out on Klingons, Romulans, Dominion, Borg, and Species 8472, so they need another villain to pad things out until they decide to hang it up and have the Iconians as the final bad guys.
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DemeaninDemon posted:So other than the obvious reason of fighting robo-T-rex, why did they bring the dinos into STO? The playerbase voted that the devs should make the next update in the Delta Quadrant so they randomly picked the Voth as the mob to fight there. The Voth breed genetically enhanced Dino's as their ground troops.
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Nov 17, 2013 18:58
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Thom12255 posted:The playerbase voted that the devs should make the next update in the Delta Quadrant so they randomly picked the Voth as the mob to fight there. The Voth breed genetically enhanced Dino's as their ground troops. drat I wanted some wacky techno babble. It's been ages since I fired up that game...
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Nov 17, 2013 19:03
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Luigi Thirty posted:
I don't know if you are agreeing with them or not but I legitimately love Wild Wild West, even if anything negative anyone says about it is 100% true. 
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Nov 17, 2013 20:30
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Shoehead posted:I don't know if you are agreeing with them or not but I legitimately love Wild Wild West, even if anything negative anyone says about it is 100% true. Agreed. I watch it every time it's on TV. Same goes for Batman and Robin 
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Nov 17, 2013 20:46
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Tighclops posted:Wow they're really catering to their core demos with that game these days Dude, some enemy ships have Aceton assimilators (those things from Booby Trap). If you shoot them with phasers, they drain your power systems and fart out radiation so you can only destroy them with torpedoes. I think STO is a bad game but the attention to detail in its fanservice is impressive.
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Nov 17, 2013 20:47
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Gau posted:You'll be really thrilled with the one after that. It's a fan favorite! I got confused and thought you had said the race shows up in Episode 3. This episode is...uhhh.. Wow.
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Nov 17, 2013 21:30
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OK, just one thought on recently re-seeing Genesis from TNG (where everybody "de-evolved"; bleh, the things that does to my brain as somebody trained in the science of genetics...). When Picard gets freaked out by spider-Barclay Data diagnoses it as him starting to devolve into a lemur; while the thought of lemur-Picard is amusing, isn't the more obvious response "You're scared after being startled by a hideous spider-monster? NO loving poo poo, CAPTAIN!!!"? Really, you'd think Data and Picard would know Occam's Razor.
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Nov 17, 2013 22:12
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Woah the Ferengi sure do have some awesome energy dildos!
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Nov 17, 2013 22:32
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Ha ha, I just watched DS9 episode The Visitor - the one with Old Jake Sisko. It's a great  episode but it was pretty funny how they used a tall, well-built older actor for Jake, but then just put a little bit more make-up on the same little guy for Nog.
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Nov 17, 2013 23:26
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Shoehead posted:Woah the Ferengi sure do have some awesome energy dildos! In all seriousness, your next episode (Where No One Has Gone Before) is pretty good. It's a high point of Season 1. The vapid space perverts return in like, four episodes. (Whoever told you to watch TNG in order doesn't like you very much.)
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Nov 17, 2013 23:55
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Gau posted:In all seriousness, your next episode (Where No One Has Gone Before) is pretty good. It's a high point of Season 1. Me, it was me. And I guess I must not. I want to watch it all, good and bad. That last one had me rolling my eyes pretty hard at the end, what with the Ferengi being so goofy, the holdout guys weird, sped up halberd twirling and then Riker being all like "Sun Tzu, heard of him?" 
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Nov 18, 2013 01:04
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rypakal posted:It's clear she doesn't want to be there. Maybe that explains Beltrane. Maybe he's secretly a good actor Yeah she hated all the technobabble and the TV shooting schedule. Notice how there's not a single TV show in her IMDB listing.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Yeah she hated all the technobabble and the TV shooting schedule. Notice how there's not a single TV show in her IMDB listing. She also didn't like the idea of having more than one director.
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Mister Kingdom posted:She also didn't like the idea of having more than one director. If that's the case she should have tried out for Babylon 5. Not only for the director thing but the fact that most of the time she wouldn't have been out-acted
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Luigi Thirty posted:Yeah she hated all the technobabble and the TV shooting schedule. Notice how there's not a single TV show in her IMDB listing. As I recall she said it was comic book dialogue.
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MadDogMike posted:OK, just one thought on recently re-seeing Genesis from TNG (where everybody "de-evolved"; bleh, the things that does to my brain as somebody trained in the science of genetics...). When Picard gets freaked out by spider-Barclay Data diagnoses it as him starting to devolve into a lemur; while the thought of lemur-Picard is amusing, isn't the more obvious response "You're scared after being startled by a hideous spider-monster? NO loving poo poo, CAPTAIN!!!"? Really, you'd think Data and Picard would know Occam's Razor. Especially with Data being such a Sherlock Fan.
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I just realized that both the crazy grown-up feral Molly episode and the not-Dominion-but-kind-of-a-dickhead-changeling episode both concluded in similar ways- namely "oh man, it's going to be really awkward dealing with this new character who doesn't fit in here, I wonder what we'll do about that? Perhaps a new arc for the main characters involved will... loljk they've been accused of murder/assault and have to leave immediately or they'll be imprisoned! Ok, goodbye forever!" Like, is there no better way to get rid of inconvenient characters than to have them commit violent crimes?
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Hard Clumping posted:If that's the case she should have tried out for Babylon 5. Not only for the director thing but the fact that most of the time she wouldn't have been out-acted ? Babylon 5 had rotating directors like every other tv show.
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Nov 18, 2013 13:46
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Yeah, it was writers where B5 mostly had just the one.
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rypakal posted:? Babylon 5 had rotating directors like every other tv show. Please don't talk about Babylon 5 and rotation without throwing out a trigger warning first.
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Nov 18, 2013 15:25
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I always figured Stewart cared far more about his theater work then Star Trek, but I guess not! "Patrick Stewart: 'Star Trek' Work Is Just As Valid As Shakespeare Work" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/17/patrick-stewart-star-trek-shakespeare_n_4284639.html Kinda funny how the (very short) article has a serious tone about how Stewart feels about his work, but at the bottom of the article they include a TNG gag reel.
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Nov 18, 2013 16:45
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So it only took like 5 episodes for them to find the naked people planet? Wesley looks disgusted!
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Apple Jax posted:I always figured Stewart cared far more about his theater work then Star Trek, but I guess not! Oh yeah, he's said this a lot of times. I remember him talking about how he considered all his theater work and Shakespeare mere preparation for his true life role of being Picard.
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Wowbagger2004 posted:Ha ha, I just watched DS9 episode The Visitor - the one with Old Jake Sisko. It's a great Ferengi are short 
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Watch the interview he did with Shatner for 'The Captains'. Apparently he used to kind of dislike the fact that Picard and Star Trek had become his career milestone, but has since grown to enjoy it more. I mean you could do a lot worse.
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You can definitely tell Stewart has mellowed quite a bit since he stopped doing Star Trek. I'm sure the residuals help with that attitude.
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Thwomp posted:You can definitely tell Stewart has mellowed quite a bit since he stopped doing Star Trek. I think he is also able to reflect a lot more on the good work he did whilst being on Trek and not inundated by the incredibly hectic shooting schedules/movies etc.. When half your time is spent doing pretend space poo poo and talking technobabble your tolerance for it withers. Now he can look back and relish in lines such as "you dont deserve to WEAR THAT UNIFORM" and "NOT GOOD ENOUGH drat IT. NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" and so on.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Watch the interview he did with Shatner for 'The Captains'. Apparently he used to kind of dislike the fact that Picard and Star Trek had become his career milestone, but has since grown to enjoy it more. I mean you could do a lot worse. I assume also when he was filming Trek he was not able to do plays that he wanted to do.
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That may have been part of it. Also I believe he says in the same interview how the difficulty of working in LA but having a home in London with the family there ended up destroying his first marriage. But he's clearly mellowed since even the end of the TNG films.
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Not doing Trek left him free to play the role he was born for, Professor Charles Xavier. 
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FlamingLiberal posted:Watch the interview he did with Shatner for 'The Captains'. Apparently he used to kind of dislike the fact that Picard and Star Trek had become his career milestone, but has since grown to enjoy it more. I mean you could do a lot worse. Isn't this basically the same path Shatner followed? At least I think he used to hugely dislike being only associated with Kirk then just went "gently caress it" and rolled with it.
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So I got myself sick and decided to watch some Star Trek. The Wounded is a great episode, I'm pretty sad that Marc Alaimo didn't get to have a dope goatee for Dukat to wear though. It's a shame TNG didn't do more with Cardassians or even Romulans.
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Kibayasu posted:Isn't this basically the same path Shatner followed? At least I think he used to hugely dislike being only associated with Kirk then just went "gently caress it" and rolled with it. The difference is, Patrick Stewart seems to be reasonably well-liked by the people he's worked with. Shatner, on the other hand, at times comes off as little more than a bitter, egotistical old shithead who's upset that every event in the universe isn't focused solely on him.
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Shatner had no career after Trek, though, so of course he'd have resented it. He couldn't hardly get cast in anything anymore because he was Captain Kirk. I don't think Stewart really had that same kind of career-death as a possibility, because I think he could have just resumed his theatre career more or less where he left it, and it wouldn't have been an issue.
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Nov 18, 2013 21:43
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Shatner's best Star Trek episode was that one he did before Star Trek, with the Twilight Zone. No, not that Twilight Zone episode. The other one.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Shatner had no career after Trek, though, so of course he'd have resented it. He couldn't hardly get cast in anything anymore because he was Captain Kirk. I don't think Stewart really had that same kind of career-death as a possibility, because I think he could have just resumed his theatre career more or less where he left it, and it wouldn't have been an issue. What were Shatner's book sales like? I read a couple of them and thought they were okay, although I was 16 at the time.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Shatner had no career after Trek, though, so of course he'd have resented it. He couldn't hardly get cast in anything anymore because he was Captain Kirk. I don't think Stewart really had that same kind of career-death as a possibility, because I think he could have just resumed his theatre career more or less where he left it, and it wouldn't have been an issue. What about TJ Hooker, Rescue 911, and Boston Legal?
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Those were all after Trek came back. Isn't the popular story that he was so impoverished for part of the 70's that he lived in a trailer somewhere?
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Thwomp posted:What about TJ Hooker, Rescue 911, and Boston Legal? That was all 80s on. The 70s he was stuck doing anything that he was offered.
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