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Pulaski is a jerk to childman Data is a plot that started off wrong but could eventually have been resolved, though. Crusher might be in love with Picard but can never act about it was universally boring and it was basically her whole story once Wesley was gone.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 21:22 |
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The most you ever really get out their relationship is in the finale.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 21:27 |
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Trying to imagine "Remember Me" but with Pulaski instead of Crusher. That would have been fun.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 21:33 |
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Crusher had a good bedside manner and personality that kind of gelled with the show overall. The most unfortunate thing about her character during the show was that she had so little to do, half her scenes seemed to be about her living vicariously through her assistant at one point.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 21:36 |
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To be honest, a lot of it is probably that when they do give Gates McFadden something to work with, she doesn't exactly have the acting chops to carry it, although I guess I have a similar problem with Frakes. At least once they let Marina Sirtis stop trying to talk in her made-up accent, she could kind of hold her own.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 21:41 |
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Bicyclops posted:To be honest, a lot of it is probably that when they do give Gates McFadden something to work with, she doesn't exactly have the acting chops to carry it, although I guess I have a similar problem with Frakes. At least once they let Marina Sirtis stop trying to talk in her made-up accent, she could kind of hold her own. My mind is reeling at this post. Like, she's no Sir Patrick stewart, but how DARE you suggest she's worse than Sirtis and an equal in suck to Frakes. Of course these rankings mean nothing in a world with Garret Wang and Robert Beltran and all those people on Enterprise whose names aren't even worth remembering.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 21:50 |
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Jonathan Frakes owns, I won't brook any other opinions on that subject.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 21:52 |
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Frakes directed that Thunderbirds movie. I will never forgive him for that.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 21:55 |
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Frakes has a weird, very slight lisp.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 21:56 |
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Bicyclops posted:Marina Sirtis stop trying to talk in her made-up accent, she could kind of hold her own. You should hear her mangled Israeli accent in her stint on NCIS. To be fair, I don't know if I've ever heard a real Israeli accent, but whatever the hell she does is so bad I can't possibly believe it's accurate to anything.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 21:58 |
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Skeesix posted:Never watched enterprise beyond the first episode. Possibly because I know I'll see a story arc about something called a"temporal cold war." I literally cannot fathom that being watchable. That's like some dialogue on big bang theory that someone made up to show that the main characters are irredeemably huge nerds.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:01 |
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Doctor Butts posted:You should hear her mangled Israeli accent in her stint on NCIS. To be fair, I don't know if I've ever heard a real Israeli accent, but whatever the hell she does is so bad I can't possibly believe it's accurate to anything. She tries to do a Russian one on Stargate. It's bad.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:03 |
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Slamhound posted:Frakes has a weird, very slight lisp. Quite a lot of actors do. I'd like to do a study about how recovery from speech issues might push children into the performing arts, but effort.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:03 |
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rypakal posted:Quite a lot of actors do. I'd like to do a study about how recovery from speech issues might push children into the performing arts, but effort. Ezri's speech impediment will get on your nerves once you identify it.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:15 |
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Bicyclops posted:To be honest, a lot of it is probably that when they do give Gates McFadden something to work with, she doesn't exactly have the acting chops to carry it, although I guess I have a similar problem with Frakes. At least once they let Marina Sirtis stop trying to talk in her made-up accent, she could kind of hold her own. Gates McFadden is the only Star Trek actor with the acting chops to masturbate on screen. I don't see Sir Patrick rubbing one out to Also, who names their kid Gates anyways?
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:15 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:She tries to do a Russian one on Stargate. It's bad. Her most offputting voice was in Mass Effect.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:20 |
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counterfeitsaint posted:Also, who names their kid Gates anyways? Her full name is Cheryl Gates McFadden, she probably goes by Gates because there's already a Cheryl McFadden in the SAG registry. A hella dumb rule, anyway.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:24 |
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The Dark One posted:Her most offputting voice was in Mass Effect. Holy poo poo, I never knew she did voice acting in Mass Effect. Neat. I know Michael Dorn did too, any other trek actors?
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:27 |
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Michelle Forbes does every video game ever but she was not in Mass Effect.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:29 |
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Apple Jax posted:Holy poo poo, I never knew she did voice acting in Mass Effect. Neat. I know Michael Dorn did too, any other trek actors? Armin Shimerman voiced the Salarian counselor.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:31 |
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Apple Jax posted:Holy poo poo, I never knew she did voice acting in Mass Effect. Neat. I know Michael Dorn did too, any other trek actors? Kaiden is voiced by Raphael Sbarge who was the Crew member on Voyager who was passing information over to the Kazon.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:33 |
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Apple Jax posted:Holy poo poo, I never knew she did voice acting in Mass Effect. Neat. I know Michael Dorn did too, any other trek actors? I don't know what roles he played, but Dwight Schultz is credited for various voices in at least Mass Effect 1. I was so very sad when I had to murder Worf.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:44 |
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rypakal posted:an equal in suck to Frakes.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 22:50 |
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The Dark One posted:Her most offputting voice was in Mass Effect. But it was also the most effective, the combination of her weird Troi accent and lower vocal register (possibly pitch-modulated?) really worked for a telekinetic thousand-year-old semi-genderless alien in fetish gear.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:03 |
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McSpanky posted:But it was also the most effective, the combination of her weird Troi accent and lower vocal register (possibly pitch-modulated?) really worked for a telekinetic thousand-year-old semi-genderless alien in fetish gear. "I can feel you are upset Sheppard, maybe you should consider a transfer to a transport ship"
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:14 |
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McSpanky posted:But it was also the most effective, the combination of her weird Troi accent and lower vocal register (possibly pitch-modulated?) really worked for a telekinetic thousand-year-old semi-genderless alien in fetish gear. And they didn't make any other Asari in the games look as interesting again, except maybe for Tela Vasir in LotSB.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:15 |
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eriktown posted:Armin Shimerman voiced the Salarian counselor. Thom12255 posted:Kaiden is voiced by Raphael Sbarge who was the Crew member on Voyager who was passing information over to the Kazon. drat, I played through all 3 Mass Effect games and didn't even know all these trek actors were in it. They must have had a trekkie in charge of casting voice actors.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:34 |
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It's not just Star Trek; there were actors from basically every major TV space opera series. Star Trek, Firefly, Farscape/Stargate (a twofer, thanks to Claudia Black), BSG and so on. I don't think anyone from Babylon 5 was involved, but that's about it...
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:40 |
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Vagabundo posted:Frakes directed that Thunderbirds movie. I will never forgive him for that. Yes the Thunderbirds movie was pretty bad, but it did have one good part. The part where they showed the hand moving the throttle, and it was a puppet hand. Frakes also directed "Clock Stoppers" which I like more than I probably should in public.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:40 |
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Raphael Sbarge makes me laugh. He's got that husky, romantic voice which he puts to good use as Kaiden in Mass Effect and as Carth in Knights of the Old Republic, but he's just so loving doofy-looking in reality
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:44 |
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Many years ago (quite literally, Jesus) I came to this thread. I asked the Mighty Regulars where I should start with Trek as I had never watched any. After the laughter died and open mouths closed, I was directed to TNG to begin my training. I embraced TNG with glee. I would watch episodes, come in here and ask what in the name of gently caress was that about, and what was that thing that killed Tasha Yar (an boy was that a dumb episode) and the thread would cradle me and lead me through the fog. Many would exclaim their joy at seeing one so young and would wish to be in my position. I watched all of TNG. The whole loving thing. By the end, that last season.. I was quite sure I would never watch Trek again. I got the remastered TOS series and toward the end of my TNG career found the love for TOS so many grandmasters would mumble about. TNG became a pattern, a matrix like code that I could see through.. I could accurately predict the future of episodes (Troi is going to solve this with bullshit, Data is going to have a sperg about being a human again, for fucks sake Picard you can be such a boring dick when you get going like this) in the last few I had not seen. It was an ugly state of affairs. Well.. here I am. I return to you, thread and Trek. I have seen the JJ and I am not amused (well 2009 was a bit of fun, wasn't it eh? but Into the Darkness can gently caress right goddamn off). I ask of you, sage and ancient masters of sperg.. What are the three good episodes of Enterprise? I do not wish to be sullied. I have not DS9ed. I believe that is all that is left in this dark, cold and endless void. I have seen a bit and thought it was drawn out and no pew-pew and about silly thing. I may have been wrong, very wrong. Is it truly the word of the spergmasters that I should continue my training there?
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:45 |
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You, sir, have saved the best for last.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:51 |
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The three best Enterprise episodes? Carbon Creek. Shuttlepod One. Dawn. Watch 'em, they're great.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:53 |
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Tony Montana posted:I have not DS9ed. I believe that is all that is left in this dark, cold and endless void. I have seen a bit and thought it was drawn out and no pew-pew and about silly thing. I may have been wrong, very wrong. Is it truly the word of the spergmasters that I should continue my training there? In a word, yes. If you can watch the first two seasons of TNG and not accuse it of being drawn out and silly, DS9 won't phase you at all. Also at no pew-pew in DS9. You have no idea!
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:55 |
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^^^^This guy knows what he's talking about. DS9 is the pew-pewiest of Treks.
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# ? Nov 22, 2013 23:56 |
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It's amazing that DS9 is the pew-pewest of Treks and yet still is basically the best at all the important stuff too.
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# ? Nov 23, 2013 00:00 |
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DS9 has battles with like a thousand ships on both sides going PEW PEW PEW PEW. CGI Mirandas blowing up left and right. It has Avery Brooks acting for the people in the back of the theater. Acting SOOO HARD. Yet it isn't afraid to have an episode where Quark ends up at Roswell in 1947 or Sisko plays holographic baseball with a bunch of smug spocks. It is the Best Trek.
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# ? Nov 23, 2013 00:06 |
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Slamhound posted:^^^^This guy knows what he's talking about. To be fair, most of the best DS9 episodes don't have much pew pew at all.
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Tighclops posted:It's amazing that DS9 is the Fixed that for ya. Seriously, go watch DS9. The first season or two can seem kinda slow compared to what comes afterwards, but there's still some good stuff in there. And while I have some serious complaints about the ending of the series as a whole, the way they build up to and fight the Dominion War is astounding.
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Grope-A-Matic posted:To be fair, most of the best DS9 episodes don't have much pew pew at all. Yet, strangely enough, that being entirely the case, it still manages to be the pew-pewiest of all the Star Treks. Go figure!
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