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I always figured the dumb people got to be "colonists".
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Tsaedje posted:Who needs robotic cleaners when you can just transport the dirt away on a molecular level and re-constitute it into food or furniture or whatever? Yeah, I thought it was accepted that human biowaste was reconstituted into organic blah blah blah for food replicators.
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Jun 3, 2014 16:49
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all the emh mark I's get relegated to cleaning toilets I'm a doctor, not a janitor! 
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Jun 3, 2014 16:52
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Uh, no. They're 
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Jun 3, 2014 17:01
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Mogomra posted:Uh, no. They're
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Jun 3, 2014 17:20
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I really like how much enterprise got some things right. The fact that freighters have been out there for a while doing their business is an interesting tidbit. Kind of like the x series.
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Jun 3, 2014 17:28
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Entropic posted:I always figured the dumb people got to be "colonists". In the Enterprise-B-Ark, right?
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Jun 3, 2014 17:30
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I'm reminded of the two janitors from Babylon 5, who don't even know what the hell their machinery does. Are they buffing the floor? Fixing microfractures in the structure? What the hell do these things do? In Seaquest DSV there was a genetically engineered human who was the poo poo wiper on the ship.
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Jun 3, 2014 17:38
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Suck it, Hoshi. http://www.geek.com/microsoft/microsoft-emulates-star-trek-turns-skype-into-a-universal-translator-1595044/
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Jun 3, 2014 17:51
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Trickjaw posted:Suck it, Hoshi. Dude you're not gonna get anywhere on the holodating sim with that kind of attitude 
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Jun 3, 2014 17:56
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Also Riker says the ship cleans itself. He and the crew just sorta assume the ship takes care of it, somehow. It's close to a tautological non-answer: "Hey what happens to all our waste?" "Oh, you know, it ends up at the waste management facility." "Okay, but what's that?" "Uh, it's the thing that manages the waste."
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Jun 3, 2014 18:01
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happyhippy posted:In Seaquest DSV there was a genetically engineered human who was the poo poo wiper on the ship. He was genetically engineered to be Lenny though so what was he supposed to do other than mop the floor and crush puppies?
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Jun 3, 2014 20:31
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DirtyRobot posted:Obviously, Riker says that because he doesn't actually know what happens. Didn't Rom get his engineering start in waste extraction? Someone's gotta fix the poo poo recyclers.
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Jun 3, 2014 20:55
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poo poo recyclers, Barb, poo poo recyclers.
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Jun 3, 2014 21:17
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Well, the ship is basically one big robot... or a gigantic aggregation of smaller robots... Activate Multi-Vector Assault Mode!
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Jun 3, 2014 23:08
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I remember in one of Shatner's books he/his ghost-writers had a bunch of Borg cubes join up to form a gigantic mega-cube. ("You mean a hyper-cube?" no because that was a different part of the book...)
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Jun 3, 2014 23:37
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Blazing Ownager posted:I wonder how many unseen Federation FPS Holosims are about killing borg, the future version of endless desert warfare games. Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I remember in one of Shatner's books he/his ghost-writers had a bunch of Borg cubes join up to form a gigantic mega-cube. Marshal Radisic fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Jun 3, 2014 23:37
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Marshal Radisic posted:Does this mean that a TOS-era Federation-Klingon war is Trek equivalent of the conventional WW3-Fulda Gap scenario, and there's a whole mess of old simulator games adored by war nerds who love to argue if a Constitution could have taken out a D7 one-on-one? The latter is actually a solved question thanks to the events of Elaan of Troyius.
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Jun 3, 2014 23:39
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BBC America just started running HD TNGs, apparently. Encounter at Farpoint just started and its kinda hilarious looking.
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God, this up-pointed angle on Picard in Q's court must have seemed so loving avant-garde and cinematic at the time. E: And look at that depth-of-field focus shifting. That probably was almost completely lost at broadcast resolution. E: Those are some of the tastiest-looking apples I've ever seen. 
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Jun 4, 2014 01:41
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Data Graham posted:God, this up-pointed angle on Picard in Q's court must have seemed so loving avant-garde and cinematic at the time. The apples in that episode reminded me of the mealy, flavorless Red Delicious apples we used to get in school.
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Jun 4, 2014 01:51
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Data Graham posted:E: Those are some of the tastiest-looking apples I've ever seen. Also, O'Brien in red is just wrong.
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Jun 4, 2014 01:52
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"Data's using the shuttlecraft to transport an admiral over to the 'hood  "
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Still can't get over the part at the beginning when Picard is like "we'll foil Q's plans by faxing orders around! That'll show him!"
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Jun 4, 2014 02:41
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Wow, the actual blu-rays look quite a bit better. MPEG2 compression for rebroadcast mutes some detail.
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Jun 4, 2014 02:52
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Entropic posted:I always figured the dumb people got to be "colonists". I pinned colonists as future hipsters. Get closer to the land, live off the sweat of labor, the Federation is losing touch with good old-fashioned hard work, true pioneer spirit is carving out a home not jaunting around in a hopped-up cruise liner packed with creature comforts, etc. etc. Like if Worf grew up reading only Little House on the Prarie books and killed a child with a tractor.
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Jun 4, 2014 03:18
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After watching Django Unchained, that group of back-to-the-earth types who kept shoving Sisko in The Box look even more evil.
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The Dark One posted:After watching Django Unchained, that group of back-to-the-earth types who kept shoving Sisko in The Box look even more evil. The ending to that episode really bothered me. The correct course of action would be for Sisko to arrest the crazy nature cult lady on murder charges for the "colonist" deaths and 100+ counts of kidnapping. Then Starfleet sends a ship to recover the colonists for years of therapy and deprogramming.
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Jun 4, 2014 03:51
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YES. VAK-SEEN in HD. Now my life is complete
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Jun 4, 2014 04:01
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Gonz posted:The hell with holodecks. There are REAL TOILETS and REAL BATHROOMS on Earth. And janitors have to clean those toilets/bathrooms each day. The longer I live the more I become convinced the greatest application for the transporter would be cleaning. Next time you're scrubbing a pot, mopping the floor or cleaning a toilet imagine how loving nice it would be to just transport all that dirt and grime away in an instant.
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Jun 4, 2014 04:17
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Even easier, just have a force-field hugging the surface. I meant, look how good it is at protecting today's toilets!
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Jun 4, 2014 04:59
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The TV IV: Star Trek: The Science of Poop
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No one would ever be constipated because transporters.
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If we're gonna talk about internal transporting and we've already mentioned Neelix's holo-lungs, can we talk about B'Elanna's holo-fetus? Creepy.
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OtherworldlyInvader posted:The longer I live the more I become convinced the greatest application for the transporter would be cleaning. Next time you're scrubbing a pot, mopping the floor or cleaning a toilet imagine how loving nice it would be to just transport all that dirt and grime away in an instant. Holographic cookware, you don't even need to clean it. Just set it down on a sheet of paper when you're done, "Computer, delete holograms", and just take the leftover food and waste, wrap it up into a little ball and throw it into the recycler.
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Soylent Pudding posted:The ending to that episode really bothered me. The correct course of action would be for Sisko to arrest the crazy nature cult lady on murder charges for the "colonist" deaths and 100+ counts of kidnapping. Then Starfleet sends a ship to recover the colonists for years of therapy and deprogramming. Well they did get the first part right. She was arrested and hauled back to answer for that very thing. The second part should have happened though. Trying to leave it on a "Maybe they're better off there!" note is absolutely silly. Those people needed a ship load of psychiatrists. JediTalentAgent posted:Holographic cookware, you don't even need to clean it. There's always that one hilarious episode of TNG where a hologram explosion was so potent everyone picked up a real explosion... for reasons.
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CeeCee posted:I was just thinking Riker took a bite of wax fruit because I've never seen an apple that shiny. You do get apples that shiny in real life, by (appropriately enough) buffing them with wax.
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Jun 4, 2014 09:25
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A good prank in Star Trek would be to, instead of sticking a "Kick me" or "Kirk is a Jerk" sign on someone's back, stick the EMH hologram emitter on 'em, and program it to a) make itself invisible, and b) make it seem like the person's face is turning all ugly and pimply or something, or that they got pregnant (better if they're a male) or whatever. edit: actually, considering the magic superpowers of the holograms in trek, if you had the EMH emitter stuck on your belt, you would pretty much be some kind of weird superman who had Glitch from Reboot
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DirtyRobot posted:edit: actually, considering the magic superpowers of the holograms in trek, if you had the EMH emitter stuck on your belt, you would pretty much be some kind of weird superman who had Glitch from Reboot Well it'd basically be a mini forcefield emitter
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Sash! posted:YES. VAK-SEEN in HD. Now my life is complete There's something really freaking bizarre about HD in 4:3. And that's on top of HD rape gangs and HD Wesley falling in puddles and HD Picard's Butt-head Laugh.
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