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Prison Warden posted:Which, thinking on it, I think the holosuites have only gonna bananas like one time, the civilian model seems way more safe than the military version. If your private holosuite breaks all the time, you lose money. The government doesn't care how many expendables get murdered in the holodecks as long as they are cheap.
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thexerox123 posted:Rom probably just pulls weekly all-nighters to keep them in working order.
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Ferengi holosuites are heavily optimized for interactive porn and soap operas. Starfleet's holodecks have to do all that as well as sophisticated scientific simulations and poo poo.
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FuturePastNow posted:Ferengi holosuites are heavily optimized for interactive porn and soap operas. Starfleet's holodecks have to do all that as well as sophisticated scientific simulations and poo poo. Or maybe Rom's just that good with machines. If he ever stepped foot on the Enterprise he would just be aghast about how everything is so haphazardly run.
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apophenium posted:I'm just glad they didn't have her in that horrible old-person make up the whole episode. Star Trek has never been good at old-people make up. What's an example of good old-people make-up?
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:What's an example of good old-people make-up?
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:What's an example of good old-people make-up? The Exorcist:  (Not a TV show, I know. But even among films, good old age make-up is rare.)
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In The Emperor's New Cloak, I enjoy Rom just tearing apart how the alternate universe doesn't make any loving sense.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:What's an example of good old-people make-up? Chakotay of Narn 
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Cojawfee posted:A ground war makes absolutely no sense with air ships. If you want to destroy an encampment, bombard it from the sky. It's almost as if there is some sort of agreement that when there is a ground battle on a continent, ships in the air won't engage with each other. 
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Chakotay of Narn Actually, now that I think of it, Admiral Janeway is pretty well done.
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You see, in Star Trek, there are no gays, so in the alternate universe EVERYONE is gay!  e: ["You could try putting your dick... in a vagina!"] "I haven't tried that before." "Few men have, but I think you'll find it very stimulating." The evidence keeps stacking up. I bet they really regret killing off alt-Odo as soon as they could, huh? I bet the alternate Founders are really nice. or not, who knows. Decided to catch a few minutes of Field of Fire before bed. This guy is doomed. I bet he dies like, ten minutes in tops. Rohan Kishibe fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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thexerox123 posted:The Exorcist: I think good lighting also goes a long way too.
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So if Dukat was banging Kira's mom and was prefect, how old is he? Unless Dukat was a prodigy and rose through the ranks super fast, he'd probably be at least middle aged when put in charge of the occupation. Thinking Kira is the same age as the actress, she'd be in her 30s, so thats probably 25 years or so. So Dukat's pretty spry for a guy in his 70s. Though Picard was supposed to be in his 60s in season 1 of TNG, who knows. Or maybe Cardassians are long lived, like Vulcans and Klingons. Or maybe better not thinking about it, it is Star Trek after all. Its too bad they never got a chance to round out the Romulans the way that DS9 did for the Klingons and Feringi, and to a lesser extent Cardassians (they appeared in like 3 episodes of TNG so they don't really count). I'd like to think of the Romulans as a people who desire order and conformity. They aren't exactly evil, just paranoid that everyone else is going to upset everything, and keep tabs on their own citizens because they shouldn't be rocking the boat either. Maybe one day we'll see that.
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twistedmentat posted:So if Dukat was banging Kira's mom and was prefect, how old is he? Unless Dukat was a prodigy and rose through the ranks super fast, he'd probably be at least middle aged when put in charge of the occupation. Thinking Kira is the same age as the actress, she'd be in her 30s, so thats probably 25 years or so. So Dukat's pretty spry for a guy in his 70s. Though Picard was supposed to be in his 60s in season 1 of TNG, who knows. Or maybe Cardassians are long lived, like Vulcans and Klingons. We found out from Garak that the Cardassians as a people appreciate the experience and status that comes with age, so it shouldn't be too unexpected that Dukat is still in the game after that long. I got the impression that Cardie life doesn't 'really' begin until their 40s or so, and we generally didn't see much youthful ambition in their ranks. quote:Its too bad they never got a chance to round out the Romulans the way that DS9 did for the Klingons and Feringi, and to a lesser extent Cardassians (they appeared in like 3 episodes of TNG so they don't really count). I'd like to think of the Romulans as a people who desire order and conformity. They aren't exactly evil, just paranoid that everyone else is going to upset everything, and keep tabs on their own citizens because they shouldn't be rocking the boat either. Maybe one day we'll see that. Ron Moore talked about the lost opportunity of not keeping around the Romulan officer assigned to the Defiant's loaned cloaking device, and personally I wish they'd brought the Romulans into the war about a season earlier so we could've potentially gotten more insights like this. "Unification" and "Face of the Enemy" were such good TNG episodes for that reason.
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twistedmentat posted:Its too bad they never got a chance to round out the Romulans the way that DS9 did for the Klingons and Feringi, and to a lesser extent Cardassians (they appeared in like 3 episodes of TNG so they don't really count). I'd like to think of the Romulans as a people who desire order and conformity. They aren't exactly evil, just paranoid that everyone else is going to upset everything, and keep tabs on their own citizens because they shouldn't be rocking the boat either. Maybe one day we'll see that. I'd have really liked any new Trek TV series to focus on the Romulans, but that seems staggeringly unlikely at this point.
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Pasco posted:I'd have really liked any new Trek TV series to focus on the Romulans, but that seems staggeringly unlikely at this point. Just have a Romulan as part of the main cast the same way Worf was in TNG. McSpanky posted:Ron Moore talked about the lost opportunity of not keeping around the Romulan officer assigned to the Defiant's loaned cloaking device, and personally I wish they'd brought the Romulans into the war about a season earlier so we could've potentially gotten more insights like this. "Unification" and "Face of the Enemy" were such good TNG episodes for that reason. Yea, I wish they hadn't done that. At least we get that Senator in season 7. Valiant isn't a bad episode, but Nog and Jake on Feringinar would have been good to see too. And as someone who is from the Canadian East Coast, I understand the many different names for rain.
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Valiant is a pretty crazy dark episode. Like, DS9 did a lot of episodes were actually pretty dark and pessimistic, but Valiant is literally about a ship full of kids getting in over their heads and dying. The one person who survives doesn't even take anything meaningful away from the experience.
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twistedmentat posted:Its too bad they never got a chance to round out the Romulans the way that DS9 did for the Klingons and Feringi, and to a lesser extent Cardassians (they appeared in like 3 episodes of TNG so they don't really count). I'd like to think of the Romulans as a people who desire order and conformity. They aren't exactly evil, just paranoid that everyone else is going to upset everything, and keep tabs on their own citizens because they shouldn't be rocking the boat either. Maybe one day we'll see that. I think they might have had an opportunity to do that in Enterprise if they'd pursued the Romulan War storyline earlier, rather than the Xindi arc and the Temporal Cold War. It's my understanding that they wanted to cover that ground eventually, since the threat of invasion by the Romulans was meant to be a major factor in the establishment of the Federation, but they ended up leaving it too late. Of course, I'm pretty sure by the time "Balance of Terror" came about, nobody in the Federation had so much as seen a Romulan, but Enterprise had its crew meeting the Borg and Ferengi about a century before anyone in the Federation had ever heard of them, so they probably would've worked around it.
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twistedmentat posted:Its too bad they never got a chance to round out the Romulans the way that DS9 did for the Klingons and Feringi, and to a lesser extent Cardassians (they appeared in like 3 episodes of TNG so they don't really count). I'd like to think of the Romulans as a people who desire order and conformity. They aren't exactly evil, just paranoid that everyone else is going to upset everything, and keep tabs on their own citizens because they shouldn't be rocking the boat either. Maybe one day we'll see that. I think there can be a difference between "Romulans as a people" and "Romulans as a government/state". Why not have both scenarios: a police state quietly resented by its citizens (Romulans), and a police state well-regarded by its citizens (Cardassians)?
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Prison Warden posted:I bet they really regret killing off alt-Odo as soon as they could, huh? I bet the alternate Founders are really nice. or not, who knows.
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The Mirror Founders are super chill and never founded anything because, like, organizations are such a buzzkill, man.
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Metal Loaf posted:I think they might have had an opportunity to do that in Enterprise if they'd pursued the Romulan War storyline earlier, rather than the Xindi arc and the Temporal Cold War. It's my understanding that they wanted to cover that ground eventually, since the threat of invasion by the Romulans was meant to be a major factor in the establishment of the Federation, but they ended up leaving it too late. (Novel talk, if you're allergic to apocrypha, just ignore it!) The Romulan War post-series books had a pretty clever workaround for this. The drone ship technology they were testing in season 4 was a precursor to remote-hijacking tech where the Romulans basically turned the coalition's own ships against them, which led them to have to downgrade their ships and use older ones (the daedalus class rust buckets became the main fleet because of resistance to the tech). The Romulans themselves only used guerilla tactics to support the remote ship tech, and they would self-destruct their ships if boarded or disabled.
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hope and vaseline posted:(Novel talk, if you're allergic to apocrypha, just ignore it!) The Romulan War post-series books had a pretty clever workaround for this. The drone ship technology they were testing in season 4 was a precursor to remote-hijacking tech where the Romulans basically turned the coalition's own ships against them, which led them to have to downgrade their ships and use older ones (the daedalus class rust buckets became the main fleet because of resistance to the tech). The Romulans themselves only used guerilla tactics to support the remote ship tech, and they would self-destruct their ships if boarded or disabled.
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 ONLY ONE MORE DAY FOR BEARD/BIJ NOMINATIONS!! Here's the post with all of the information. Deadline for nominations is December 31st at Midnight EST, so get those last-minute nominations in! Nominations will be posted and the voting period will start sometime on January 1st!
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The Mirror Founders are always assuming the forms of the species they encounter and have lengthy debates over which race of beings has the superior sense of fashion.
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The mirror founders never left their home world because it is so chill there. Except for the evil ones like Mirror Odo. They left to be douchebags across the galaxy.
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The Mirror Founders take out billboards in all the adjoining systems to invite passing ships over to hang out with them. e: The Mirror Founders tolerate species that have no concept of money, but really wish they could chip in a little something to cover the cable bill. HBO and those pay-per-view UFC fights ain't cheap, you know. insert_funny fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Mirror Founders have been hunted to near extinction by the races of the Gamma Quadrant. In a last ditch effort to save their species they launched their newborns into deep space hoping that a few would survive and thrive on some distant part of the galaxy. They were all quickly tracked down by the Jem'Hedar legions and destroyed, except for Odo thanks to the Wormhole.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The Mirror Founders are super chill and never founded anything because, like, organizations are such a buzzkill, man. The mirror Founders spend most of their time in a cloud of the Great Haze  except for those Young Obsidian narcs like Odo, what a solid.
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Oh man. Cocktail waitress Ezri from Badda-Bing Badda-Bang  I'm so, so glad Jadzia died in season 6. So incredibly glad. edit: Also please tell me someone has a gif of Sisko making it rain handy. Damo fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Metal Loaf posted:I think they might have had an opportunity to do that in Enterprise if they'd pursued the Romulan War storyline earlier, rather than the Xindi arc and the Temporal Cold War. It's my understanding that they wanted to cover that ground eventually, since the threat of invasion by the Romulans was meant to be a major factor in the establishment of the Federation, but they ended up leaving it too late. Also, one of the planned plot points was T'Pol being revealed to be half-Romulan. This was apparently in response to Blaylock being a Vulcan fangirl and bitching throughout the series that T'Pol is atrociously written as a Vulcan (Tim Russ had the same issues on Voyager). Making her half-Romulan was apparently the writers' plan to explain why, well, the character suffered from awful and inconsistent writing.
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I have to admit, the Vulcan retcon in Enterprise was something I actually liked. It even made sense, because a culture that valued "logic" above all could become rather authoritarian and dogmatic. I never noticed before that Brunt actually has really small ears.
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Cojawfee posted:He doesn't have the lobes for business.
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Odo should have made Ferengi ears in order to mock him. Like, grossly oversized ones. (more so)
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Cythereal posted:Also, one of the planned plot points was T'Pol being revealed to be half-Romulan. This was apparently in response to Blaylock being a Vulcan fangirl and bitching throughout the series that T'Pol is atrociously written as a Vulcan (Tim Russ had the same issues on Voyager). Making her half-Romulan was apparently the writers' plan to explain why, well, the character suffered from awful and inconsistent writing. So all the characters were Half Romulan?
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Three members of Voyagers crew were intentionally assimilated. Four episodes later, are any lasting effects mentioned? Any character development? Anything at all? Voyager remains poo poo. Why am I still watching this loving thin- oh god the Doctor's hiding in Seven's body now. \/\/\/ SPEAKING OF THE PON FARR, let me introduce you to Vulcan holo-prostitution... Chicken Doodle fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Jan 1, 2015 |
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