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The one where Not Tom Paris kills that guy because the Federation's Blue Angels are awful at their jobs is actually pretty insightful into how these guys work and think, but without requiring much background on them.
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Sash! posted:The one where Not Tom Paris kills that guy because the Federation's Blue Angels are awful at their jobs is actually pretty insightful into how these guys work and think, but without requiring much background on them. True enough, but would you really want to introduce someone to TNG with a Wesley-centric episode, even if it is the best Wesley-centric episode? 
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Pakled posted:True enough, but would you really want to introduce someone to TNG with a Wesley-centric episode, even if it is the best Wesley-centric episode? look you have to deal with him eventually anyhow
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Mar 3, 2015 01:45
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The Onion's comic today: I freaking love it.
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Why is Time's Arrow such a joke? I know it's not perfect (being Trek) but I've always found it pretty dang fun.
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Trent posted:Why is Time's Arrow such a joke? I know it's not perfect (being Trek) but I've always found it pretty dang fun. Probably because Data swindles time-traveling Cowboy Dukat in the poker game.
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Trent posted:Why is Time's Arrow such a joke? I know it's not perfect (being Trek) but I've always found it pretty dang fun. Mark loving Twain. Goddamn, I wanna strangle him every time he speaks.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxCW9xmamzQ
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I'm not sure the motion blur on the title fly-bys is really consistent with the technique you're describing. Maybe they did it stop-motion for the first pilot? You know, I'm not sure about that motion blur. But I'm pretty drat sure they didn't have motion control when they did the title flybys. Perhaps they deliberately created motion blur with some additional technique for those shots?
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Mister Kingdom posted:Mark loving Twain. Goddamn, I wanna strangle him every time he speaks. I love every second he is on screen. edit: whenever he's not on screen all the other characters should be saying, "Where's Mr Clemens?"
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MikeJF posted:You know, I'm not sure about that motion blur. But I'm pretty drat sure they didn't have motion control when they did the title flybys. Perhaps they deliberately created motion blur with some additional technique for those shots? So here's what Inside Star Trek had to say about the process: quote:In earlier visits to the Anderson Company's Fairfax Avenue stage, Justman had been amazed to see how long it took to set up and film just one shot of the over twelve-foot model of the Enterprise. Using an old Fearless camera dolly and metal Durel tracks, Darrell Anderson filmed the ship by dollying toward or away from it or, for flybys, dollying past it sideways. The Anderson crew never knew whether the shots would be any good - they had to wait to see dailies. And even then, the slightest bump or wiggle, though not apparent when first screened, would show up disastrously when the shot was finally combined with the "moving-stars" background. Bob Justman then directly writes his own recollection of a meeting with Darrell Anderson where, expecting to see some twenty "must-have" composited shots of the Enterprise after several months of work, Bob and Gene are shown only six good ones (plus a few "partially usable" ones). Darrell Anderson then broke down screaming "You'll never make your first airdate!" and ran from the room, as he had worked himself to exhaustion over the prior months trying to produce the ordered material.
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I mean, keep in mind Mike, this is America; we're rich enough to shoot sitcoms on 35mm film, we can afford to blow some film on wasted takes of manual dollying. 
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Time's Arrow is the best episode of Doctor Who Star Trek ever made.
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Trent posted:Why is Time's Arrow such a joke? I know it's not perfect (being Trek) but I've always found it pretty dang fun. It's a great episode and people who disagree are lousy haters.
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Apollodorus posted:It's a great episode and people who disagree are lousy haters.   
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Mister Kingdom posted:Mark loving Twain. Goddamn, I wanna strangle him every time he speaks. Speaks, hoots, what's the difference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxCW9xmamzQ
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I will fight you. Seriously Mark Twain is awesome. The fact that Trek had an episode featuring him is reason number #4 that I prefer Star Trek to any other sci-fi out there.
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For ENT I'd do Minefield and Dead Stop, since they flow into each other, then cap it off with North Star.Sash! posted:Speaks, hoots, what's the difference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rd5DlT_m8I
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I'm not clear anymore on what prompted this whole best intro episodes thing, but if Star Trek somehow gets you laid, please update us asap.
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Zurui posted:I can't believe no one has suggested Data's Day. It's pretty much designed to be an introduction to Trek. This and also there's Keiko being a bitch less than 2min in. It's got everything. Scudworth fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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Apple Jax posted:The Onion's comic today: Goddammit when I find myself agreeing with a Kelly I know something's wrong.
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Apollodorus posted:I will fight you. I don't remember what he sounded like, but I'll always remember Jean-Luc's atrocious acting, and the landlady calling him "MISSter Pickerd!" Course I saw it when I was a young boy and funny mispronunciations of people's names was the height of comedy
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mind the walrus posted:Goddammit when I find myself agreeing with a Kelly I know something's wrong.  
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Low Desert Punk posted:Brooks would be loving terrifying to have a professor. I feel like he's always 2 seconds away from snapping someone's neck and laughing about it. My dad had him as a drama professor. He was fairly normal. This would've been real early in his career though, first or second year teaching.
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What, no Q-Who?
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Grand Fromage posted:My dad had him as a drama professor. He was fairly normal. This would've been real early in his career though, first or second year teaching. My mom co-starred in a play with him in college. She doesn't talk about it much, but I imagine some  might have happened.armoredgorilla posted:I'm not clear anymore on what prompted this whole best intro episodes thing, but if Star Trek somehow gets you laid, please update us asap. Star Trek got me laid--and better yet, engaged to be married. I knew I'd made a good call when we set up our first Christmas tree together and she had two Trek ornaments.
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Apollodorus posted:I will fight you. I was agreeing with you  I love me some Twain, and a Guinan episode, and a cliffhanger, and sensible chuckles throughout. The actual plot with the Branch Dividian snake handlers was whatever.
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armoredgorilla posted:if Star Trek somehow gets you laid, please update us asap.
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Trent posted:I was agreeing with you Sorry! You have excellent and refined tastes and are cool.
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armoredgorilla posted:I'm not clear anymore on what prompted this whole best intro episodes thing, but if Star Trek somehow gets you laid, please update us asap. Aatrek?
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Time's Arrow owns http://tf2tags.com/view-28894
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DrNutt posted:Aatrek? Can't be, didn't suggest "And The Children Shall Lead" or "Rascals" as intro episodes.
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This is one of those "ironic" comics that parodies terrible editorial cartoons, right?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:This is one of those "ironic" comics that parodies terrible editorial cartoons, right? Yes, it's from The Onion. Usually he puts a weeping Statue of Liberty in the background.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:This is one of those "ironic" comics that parodies terrible editorial cartoons, right? Kelly isn't ironic, he's satirical  He's also loving magical, as this thread evidences.Anyway best TNG episode is Up The Long Ladder. Space Irish Hillbillies! I wonder what Colm Meaney thought of it?
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Mister Adequate posted:Kelly isn't ironic, he's satirical He hated it, but didn't feel like he had the clout to protest. Later, in the first season of DS9, he did protest being assigned a dream leprechaun and they rewrote it to be Rumplestiltskin. This is not a joke.
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armoredgorilla posted:if Star Trek somehow gets you laid, please update us asap. It's not that Star Trek won't help get you laid, but you have to be attractive anyway. armoredgorilla posted:He hated it, but didn't feel like he had the clout to protest. After Up the Long Ladder I'd protest too.
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armoredgorilla posted:He hated it, but didn't feel like he had the clout to protest. This is also how some wrestling storylines get written. A wrestler will be given some terrible angle to work with and hate it, but won't have the courage to talk to Vince about it, so they'll get hit with something even worse down the road once their dissatisfaction and weak-willed response becomes known.
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I'm always surprised at how much Star Trek and wrestling fans intersect.
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Nerdy boys love the poo poo out of soap operatics and melodrama, and wrestling, Star Trek, and superhero comics have an abundance of both.
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