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Sash! posted:Borg meatballs. 
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We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your meatballs. We will add your spice and sauce distinctiveness to our own. Your recipes will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
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Jul 1, 2014 03:34
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Snak posted:I recently tried to watch Enterprise again ( I couldn't, it was too boring ), but I was struck by a scene of T'Pol eating. T'Pol is a Vulcan, Vulcan's are vegetarian, so naturally, her plate consisted entirely of vegetables. Like five sticks of celery, some cucumbers and maybe some broccoli. Yes, that is the type of food that vegetarians eat. Holy poo poo. Starfleet should at least give the poor Vulcan some hummus. Sash! posted:We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your meatballs. We will add your spice and sauce distinctiveness to our own. Your recipes will adapt to service us. Resistance is delicious.
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Jul 1, 2014 03:58
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This simile is as lame as a Tarkalean Condor.
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Jul 1, 2014 04:01
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0DTXsk2GoM
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Jul 1, 2014 04:08
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Snak posted:Which is why her plate being half celery is so dumb. Well maybe T'Pol got tired of sipping cold Plomeek broth and just felt like eating a bunch of celery and stuff that day, why you gotta be so hard on her? 
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Jul 1, 2014 04:27
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Bitch, even Vulcans need motherfucking fiber in they diets, poo poo. You think T'pol wants to be straining on the can all loving day? Hell no, it's only logical to eat some goddamn celery and have a smooth move, know what I'm saying?
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Jul 1, 2014 04:34
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Vulcans control their bowel movements as well as their emotions.
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Jul 1, 2014 06:06
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Every seven years they get wicked shits.
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Jul 1, 2014 06:10
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I bought the Next Generation movie collection when it was on sale a few weeks ago, and it just got here yesterday. Obviously, the first thing I watched was Insurrection with the Frakes/Sirtis commentary, and it was outstanding. Next up is First Contact, and I'm wondering which commentary to watch. Is Frakes as good on his own as he is playing off Sirtis? Or should I go for the informative RDM commentary first?
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Jul 1, 2014 10:42
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tickle monster posted:I bought the Next Generation movie collection when it was on sale a few weeks ago, and it just got here yesterday. Obviously, the first thing I watched was Insurrection with the Frakes/Sirtis commentary, and it was outstanding. Next up is First Contact, and I'm wondering which commentary to watch. Is Frakes as good on his own as he is playing off Sirtis? Or should I go for the informative RDM commentary first? Does Marina Sirtis have an incredibly strange sense of humour, or is she just a bit of a bitch on the rounds of cons etc? Been watching some videos on YouTube and she doesn't half come off.. poorer, than the others.
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Jul 1, 2014 17:06
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I think she's just a bit... Londoner.
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Jul 1, 2014 17:08
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I'm watching behind the scenes stuff from TNG and when they talk about the cast having a go at each other and the laughs etc there is this amazing bit where Patrick Stewart, keeping a straight face, says, "I'll kill you Mike (Worf). I'll do it, I'll split you down the middle lad." Hahaha. At about 6.30 in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWxtE9geqyA
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Jul 1, 2014 17:24
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I remember not getting much out of the RDM/Braga Generations commentary. It was mostly "Rewatching this years later, we don't think we did that bad a job."
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Jul 1, 2014 21:21
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Sash! posted:Borg meatballs. Wouldn't meatcubes be more efficient?
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Jul 1, 2014 23:22
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I found out last night that the guy who played Morn is Still making youtube videos about what it was like to play Morn. In like, a mall or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGtiSaN7_aw (if you haven't seen Morn To Be Wild yet, watch this first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9dolohDbQ )
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Jul 1, 2014 23:22
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Writer Cath posted:Wouldn't meatcubes be more efficient? No, because the corners would cook and dry out before the core would. Thus, you would have an inconsistantly cooked meat-a ball-a.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:00
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The Borg making their ships cubes instead of spheres doesn't really make all that much sense from a scientific standpoint, right? I mean, sure, you can stack them easier, but spheres have the most efficient ratio of surface area to volume of any shape. You'd think the Borg of all people would be totally into that. The reason they went with cubes instead of spheres is because cubes do a much better job of giving you an idea of what the Borg are all about just from a glance: they're utterly machine-like drones with no sense of individuality, or any other trait we associate with natural, living creatures. They've alienated themselves from the natural order of the universe.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:17
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If they were worried about surface area they wouldn't be covering the surface with a punch-through of holes and greebles, anyway.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:19
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Well Manicured Man posted:The Borg making their ships cubes instead of spheres doesn't really make all that much sense from a scientific standpoint, right? I mean, sure, you can stack them easier, but spheres have the most efficient ratio of surface area to volume of any shape. You'd think the Borg of all people would be totally into that. They have spheres which are smaller and take advantage of that. Cubes just appeal to the queen's love of 90 degree angles.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:44
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Writer Cath posted:Wouldn't meatcubes be more efficient? Wouldn't that basically be a meatloaf?
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Jul 2, 2014 02:03
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brb making borg meatcubes for dinner
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Jul 2, 2014 02:04
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Well, I saw Star Trek into Darkness, finally. I actually think it was better than the first one. Quinto does a better Spock than he did in the first one and the video game action sequences at least leave you with enough time to watch them in and for suspense to build a little before they move on. The principal flaw in both scripts is that alternate Kirk isn't terribly likable (also, not enough for Karl Urban and Simon Pegg, although there's a little more for both of them to do in STID than in ST09). There are definitely things I didn't like it about it (the arming for war because of the space terrorists was annoying in Enterprise and it's annoying here) and it certainly is far from the best Star Trek movie, but to read the post in here, you'd think it was the worst film made since Triumph of the Will. I sort of wish they'd stop with that continuity now, though. Young Kirk had his arc, such as it was, and now he's ready to be the Captain and go on his five year space mission. The end. Speaking of, now I have finally seen all the Star Trek. Thanks for getting me through it, thread. During the long Voyager nights where there was no evil Mr. Green computer clown or sociopath Brad Dourif to comfort me.
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Jul 2, 2014 03:21
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Sash! posted:Until 2009, the US didn't fly any enlisted astronauts. I'm pretty sure there haven't actually been any, even after they started allowing enlisted applications. I'm pretty sure no one's astronaut corps draw from enlisted men. My Google searches are coming up empty. Who as the first enlisted astronaut to fly in space?
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Jul 2, 2014 03:36
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McNally posted:My Google searches are coming up empty. Who as the first enlisted astronaut to fly in space? Oh, I'm pretty sure they haven't flown one. My poorly phrased sentence meant to say that before 2009 they didn't even accept applications from enlisted. I can't find them now, but I've seen the insignia the enlisted ratings would have worn in the USAF and USN back in the sixties when we had somewhat more ambitious long term plans. You know, back when they were like "we'll land on the Moon in 1961, then do a series of salvo launches of 150 Saturn Vs to build and man a Moonbase with a crew of 100 men by 1970." Apparently they expected to have a budget equal to the GDP of France. Sash! fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jul 2, 2014 |
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Jul 2, 2014 03:56
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But aren't a bunch of astronauts, like, civilian scientists? I guess that makes sense, but to be clear, you're saying that all the US astronauts who are/have piloted spacecraft are USAF officers?
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Jul 2, 2014 04:00
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Gau posted:brb making borg meatcubes for dinner Post pictures!
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Jul 2, 2014 04:23
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Snak posted:But aren't a bunch of astronauts, like, civilian scientists? I guess that makes sense, but to be clear, you're saying that all the US astronauts who are/have piloted spacecraft are USAF officers? Or Navy and at least one Army. From 1960 to 2009, it was easier to be a civilian astronaut mission specialist than an enlisted military anything in space (as in impossible). I'm reasonably sure this holds true across other space programs. For instance, the Israeli that was killed on Columbia was a combat pilot in the IAF that flew in the raid on the Osirak reactor in 1981. There's a British astronaut that retired from the Army in 2009 and the immediately became an ESA astronaut. Most astronauts, even the scientist ones, are former military anyhow. NASA's current class is an Army Lt. Colonel (MD), Navy Lt. Commander (fighter pilot), Air Force Lt. Colonel (test pilot), civilian (meteorologist), Marine Major (fighter pilot (lady)), Army Major (helo pilot (lady)), and civilian (physiologist).
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Jul 2, 2014 05:23
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You either have to be a pilot or some kind of scientist. Likely you are a scientist AND a pilot.
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Jul 2, 2014 05:25
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Vagabundo posted:Wouldn't that basically be a meatloaf? Was Meat Loaf ever on Star Trek? I just had this weird feeling that he was a guest star once.
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Jul 2, 2014 05:25
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There's a friend of my mother's family who flew on Challnger in 1985 for the Spacelab 2 mission. If this entry on Space Facts is any indication, he was on the list to go into space years before he actually flew. Even as a civilian with all the right credentials, getting into space is not easy.
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Jul 2, 2014 05:33
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Cojawfee posted:You either have to be a pilot or some kind of scientist. Likely you are a scientist AND a pilot. There was a time when you had to be a test pilot and a scientist. That's how Buzz Aldrin got turned down the first time he was interested. Buzz had two kills in Korea, then got his doctorate in astronautics, THEN got to go to the Moon. Neil Armstrong was just a badass pilot. He was the first US civilian to fly, at all, and even he was an experienced Navy combat pilot. Collins was also an Air Force pilot, but he never flew combat missions and I'm going to choose to believe this is why he wasn't considered awesome enough to land on the Moon.
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Jul 2, 2014 05:34
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Cojawfee posted:You either have to be a pilot or some kind of scientist. Likely you are a scientist AND a pilot. My name is John Crichton, an astronaut...
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Jul 2, 2014 05:58
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IASA is clearly not NASA. They have far lower standards, both in qualifications and in mental health.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:IASA is clearly not NASA. They have far lower standards, both in qualifications and in mental health. Pretty sure Crichton's mental health only started deteriorating after the Aurora Chair
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Jul 2, 2014 06:08
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Star Man posted:There's a friend of my mother's family who flew on Challnger in 1985 for the Spacelab 2 mission. If this entry on Space Facts is any indication, he was on the list to go into space years before he actually flew. Even as a civilian with all the right credentials, getting into space is not easy. If you want to get a great feel for the whole thing, I can't recommend Chris Hadfield's autobiography enough. It was a great look at the life of someone who wants to be an astronaut.
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Jul 2, 2014 07:34
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For the record the rest of the novels aren't in the Star Trek Online timeline, this was a one-off. STO did use the novel timeline as a starting point for their post-Nemesis events, but they forked it off and went crazy with their bizarre starship porn. For anyone who's played the game, do they even give a justification for why you can still fly an NX-class or un-refit Constitution around?
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Jul 2, 2014 08:19
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Knormal posted:For the record the rest of the novels aren't in the Star Trek Online timeline, this was a one-off. STO did use the novel timeline as a starting point for their post-Nemesis events, but they forked it off and went crazy with their bizarre starship porn. For anyone who's played the game, do they even give a justification for why you can still fly an NX-class or un-refit Constitution around? Those are beginner ships that you fly basically at the very start of the game and captain as a lieutenant, and in a match against a real starship explode in a few seconds. The justification is that because of the war taking all the real fighting ships they've had to pull the old poo poo out of retirement for the good ol' patrol missions. The hilarious thing about that cover is that that's one of the game-launch ship skins which are terrible. After the entire playerbase hated them they utterly abandoned that art style and changed direction and pretty much pretend the old ones don't exist. Like, this is the Sovereign Alt Skin on the cover:  And this is the new game style Sovereign Refit look: 
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Jul 2, 2014 09:24
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Gau posted:brb making borg meatcubes for dinner 
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https://twitter.com/vectorpoem/status/484213616485224448 The extension can be found here.
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