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pseudorandom name posted:a short story I read when I was small has stuck with me for decades now:
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Beeftweeter posted:i'm just curious to see how yospos would have handled the rewrite picard and dr.malcolm mcdowell use the power of the nexus to do temporal battle with a series of moves and counter moves that seem infinitely regressive until malcolm pulls out a gun and shoots picard but then gun just poops out a little flag that says bang picard is amazed but kirk grins and says that they must have eventually won in the future, and then rufus shows up and hands kirk and picard some electric guitars. kirk and picard can't play so they let the nexus destroy the planet one last time and then they suddenly reappear several minutes earlier with cool leather clothes and long scraggly beards they play a sick soft prog rock guitar jam and the power of their solos cause the nexus to swerve away into space and the day is saved
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Mar 12, 2014 19:58
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Picard enters the nexus and finds his dead-irl family is no longer dead and he has a wife and kids and so he decides gently caress the universe malcom was right and he chills out and is happy for the rest of eternity.
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Mar 12, 2014 20:05
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future picard calls janeway for a favor and she sets him up with a shuttlecraft and orders for a "secret mission" so picard has cover. he slingshots around the sun and he beams some dummy bodies into his brother's house and rescues his family and brings them back to the future just after he received news that they were dead, with a note explaining the situation to real time picard
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Mar 12, 2014 20:20
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The crew of the enterprise is stunned by the apparent death of Picard and the destruction of the pre-warp planet. Starfleet's final report absolves the crew of any wrong doing and they attempt to move on with their lives. Riker takes command of the Enterprise, but what should be a proud moment in his career is soured by the loss of his friend and mentor. His heavy drinking takes a toll on his marriage and he and Troi separate after a year.
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Mar 12, 2014 20:39
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picard and kirk re-enter the nexus and emerge one year before soran blows up that first star. they find him and him a shuttlecraft so he can go to the nexus himself without endangering anyone else. kirk is offered command of the enterprise-d, and leads it on a new 5 year mission. the events of first contact, and especially insurrection and nemesis, never happen.
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Mar 12, 2014 22:02
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picard and kirk re-enter the nexus and emerge on the set of the star war prequels. they enlist the help of a friendly sfx guy to have fun on the green screen and get to meet the guy who played chewbacca
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Mar 12, 2014 22:04
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picard and kirk reenter the nexus and emerge in time to kill rick berman before voyager goes into production
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Mar 12, 2014 22:18
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Beeftweeter posted:lets say you were in charge of that reshoot (assume you can't change the rest of the film). how would you end it? that's an interesting problem to pose, because usually i think in terms of "man the whole second half is pants" if i have to stick with the (alleged) studio directive of 'kirk has to die in this one'... idk. i'd probably have kirk get killed by the exploding rocket somehow. picard sabotages the rocket, they spot soran sneaking back to it, and kirk rock climbs to where he can get the drop on soran while picard keeps him distracted. if i have to stick with the rest of the movie but can do w/e, i think i'd actually have him live. you know that would piss off the TNG/DS9 writers so hard.
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Mar 12, 2014 22:34
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Picard never leaves the nexus, rest of series is just Stewarts "Acting Shakespeare" DVD
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Mar 13, 2014 19:35
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Kirk and Picard enter the nexus but get eaten by a tiger.
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Mar 13, 2014 19:52
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Kirk and Picard enter the nexus, then google drops support and they are trapped forever in an old version of android
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Mar 13, 2014 20:06
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Trast posted:Kirk and Picard enter the nexus but get eaten by a tiger. should've picked the other door
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Mar 13, 2014 20:06
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Cocoa Crispies posted:should've picked the other door
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Mar 13, 2014 20:18
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the lady and the riker
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Mar 13, 2014 20:27
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infernal machines posted:Kirk and Picard enter the nexus, then google drops support and they are trapped forever in an old version of android lmao
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Mar 13, 2014 20:31
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:that's an interesting problem to pose, because usually i think in terms of "man the whole second half is pants" idk, i dont think you would have to stick with that studio directive if you didnt want to (its your reshoot/rewrite after all) i probably would have had kirk die a horribly gruesome death just because. maybe have his flesh burned off by the rocket and have him blindly swiping at malcolm until his face drips off or some poo poo
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Mar 13, 2014 20:32
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infernal machines posted:Kirk and Picard enter the nexus, then google drops support and they are trapped forever in an old version of android this implies there was ever support
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Mar 13, 2014 23:14
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Did Fox ever announce with Almost Human was off death row yet? I just want some more Judge Dredd and Sassy robot car banter.
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Mar 14, 2014 19:18
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Trast posted:Did Fox ever announce with Almost Human was off death row yet? I just want some more Judge Dredd and Sassy robot car banter. well they renewed the following, which has worse ratings, so almost human is probably cancelled
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Mar 14, 2014 19:28
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angry_keebler posted:well they renewed the following, which has worse ratings, so almost human is probably cancelled I know this is probably true but I'm in denial.
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Mar 14, 2014 21:30
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when you lot said that Red Mars started slow you weren't kidding there's been two revolutions and a riot in the last 100 pages and Lovecraft himself couldn't have written it more dryly. gonna keep trying at it though. gonadic io fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Mar 14, 2014 |
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Mar 14, 2014 22:17
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the best part is the first book is the fastest paced of all of them
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Mar 14, 2014 22:17
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i loved the in-depth worldbuilding of the mars trilogy. he went out of his way to make the technology feel plausible and more importantly he made society's response to the new technologies plausible if you think about it there are only three radical new bits of tech in that universe: the life-extension treatments, the space elevators, and the fusion torchships. everything else stays firmly grounded in known physics. the rest of the story is just "what might life be like in the solar system if we have these things available" and it's awesome gently caress now i want to reread them again for like the sixteenth time
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Mar 14, 2014 23:38
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i just finished look to windward i really dont know how i should feel right now
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Mar 15, 2014 00:30
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Gus Hobbleton posted:i just finished look to windward existential despair
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Mar 15, 2014 01:08
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red mars is like 75% of the actual content in the trilogy
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Mar 15, 2014 01:13
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Beeftweeter posted:lets say you were in charge of that reshoot (assume you can't change the rest of the film). how would you end it? i would cut to modern day and have them zoom in on an advertisement of asimo dancing then they'd cut to the afformentioned guitar solo with kirk and picard but they would be playing 'all along the watchtower'
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Mar 15, 2014 01:33
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Davethulhu posted:existential despair yeah i think ill settle on that gently caress
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Mar 15, 2014 02:26
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Gus Hobbleton posted:i just finished look to windward rejoice for them, for they have found peace at last. it's actually a very happy ending
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Mar 15, 2014 02:27
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i guess but the leadup to it was pretty drat depressing not just sad depressing but hopeless depressing. quilan was a sad fursnake and hub was all kinds of empty soulless husk. ziller was fun though. at least worosei got revenge so quilan could join her  at least i think thats what happened
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Mar 15, 2014 03:03
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feel like you should read against a dark background 
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Mar 15, 2014 03:18
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Gus Hobbleton posted:at least worosei got revenge so quilan could join her if you're talking about the epilogue then i think it's just the culture sending an assassin at the people that tried to blow the orbital up. i know quilan definitely didn't go to heaven, he completely obliterated himself along with the mind; worosei was also completely obliterated in the attack vOv fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Mar 15, 2014 |
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Mar 15, 2014 03:41
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i wasnt sure because this is the first ive heard of edust and wasnt sure if that was beyond culture tech or not, but it would make sense since hub said that someone would pay. my initial thought was that it was actually someone from a separate, sublimed faction different from the chelgrian-puen and were from actual chelgrian heaven, not the manufactured one, or something
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Mar 15, 2014 04:43
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infernal machines posted:Kirk and Picard enter the nexus, then google drops support and they are trapped forever in an old version of android trapped in the primitive b-4 with Data, the trio go on exciting digital adventures in a new star trek animated series
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Mar 15, 2014 04:44
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Virion posted:trapped in the primitive b-4 with Data, the trio go on exciting digital adventures in a new star trek animated series from the dirextor of "that saab concept car video" and "the gears of war ad with the donnie darko song" and "tron legacy"
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Mar 15, 2014 04:48
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Gus Hobbleton posted:i wasnt sure because this is the first ive heard of edust and wasnt sure if that was beyond culture tech or not, but it would make sense since hub said that someone would pay. my initial thought was that it was actually someone from a separate, sublimed faction different from the chelgrian-puen and were from actual chelgrian heaven, not the manufactured one, or something "I am a Culture terror weapon designed to horrify, warn and instruct at the highest level." is a giveaway, but you probably forgot that by the time you got to the epilogue.
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Mar 15, 2014 05:24
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youre right i had forgotten but i went back and checked that chapter again and she did say that well, i guess it makes sense; i know from excession and player of games EXACTLY what happens when you gently caress with the culture i tihnk i need to read consider phlebas soon
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Mar 15, 2014 05:36
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something i was thinking about is that the culture never actually loses within a book. like consider phlebas talks about them losing orbitals, planets, and a few other things during the idiran-culture war and they gently caress up the chelgrian thing spectacularly, but neither of them happen within the book itself. i guess they sort of lose in excession
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Mar 15, 2014 07:39
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also hydrogen sonata
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