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armoredgorilla posted:I'm always surprised at how much Star Trek and wrestling fans intersect. You haven't lived until you've heard a wrestling crowd chant "live long and prosper." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbCVCvr3bI8
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Also UPN was anchored entirely by the two for its whole brief lifespan. It was the Trek and Wrestling network.
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MikeJF posted:Also UPN was anchored entirely by the two for its whole brief lifespan. It was the Trek and Wrestling network.
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Mar 3, 2015 19:14
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I just remembered when TNN would air TNG reruns and the commercials had a huge crowd of Klingons just going apeshit. Good times.
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shadok posted:That is true. Ron Moore talked about it in That Interview. I guess I just forgive Piller because the net gain on writing quality was so dramatic when he joined the staff. The worst part of this interview is where Moore states that they could have done another season or two of DS9 no problem as long as the actors were on board. BLEARGHHHSAGSGHDSHSDHSDH
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I just remembered when TNN would air TNG reruns and the commercials had a huge crowd of Klingons just going apeshit. "Dude, would you?"
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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. First date with my girlfriend was seeing 2009 Star Trek. Things are going pretty well.
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Met posted:First date with my girlfriend was seeing 2009 Star Trek. Things are going pretty well. Sixth date, but first movie my wife and I saw in theater together was star trek 09. First episode of Star Trek I showed her was the one with Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan.
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I once broke up with a guy because of Star Trek in High School. I built a Geocities-like site back in 2000 or so and filled it with a lot of Star Trek poo poo, most of which I don't remember which is probably for the best. I do remember I had some rad sketches of starships I made (along with class names, specs, etc of course). This guy I was dating, a bunch of his rear end in a top hat friends were tremendous jerks and made fun of me for this website I made so I broke it off with him.  One of those jerks recently started getting into Star Trek and now posts about it on Facebook all the time which I still find freaking bizarre.
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Apple Jax posted:One of those jerks recently started getting into Star Trek and now posts about it on Facebook all the time which I still find freaking bizarre. The day after Robin Williams died, my feed was full of millennials getting into Mork and Mindy.
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I was with a high school senior when the Nemoy news came down. He popped his head up from a laptop and asked innocently, "who is Leenard Nemo?"
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^^^ I can't tell if you spelled Nimoy's name wrong (the first time) on purpose or not, but either way your post is reminding me of one of my favorite tweets of all time: https://twitter.com/tree_bro/status/79444819902074880Big Mean Jerk posted:The day after Robin Williams died, my feed was full of millennials getting into Mork and Mindy.
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The front page article of people mourning Stove Jobs is one of the thirty funniest things I've ever seen.
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So, I just moved into a new place and have extremely unreliable internet because I basically can only use my iphone hotspot, and it's not so hot (or cost-efficient) for streaming netflix, so I am without the comfort TV I fall asleep to every night (Star Trek, usually) barring the fact that I own seasons 1 and 5 of TNG on Blu-Ray. I decided to the local shop that sells this stuff at decent prices and see what they had, and sure enough there was a used copy of TOS season 1 on blu-ray, which was perfect and what I was looking for, and was it was being sold at a reasonable price ($30) so I'm psyched. I've watched most of these episodes on Netflix, but I watched them all out of order and skipped ones here and there, so it feels nice to just start from the beginning. The loving annoying thing is that I was sure the blu-ray would have organized the episodes by production date and not the totally absurd air date. But I guess that's much too much to ask and I'll be hopping from disc to disc just to watch all of this in the right order, though  At least it gets into a bit of a groove later on, especially if you just ignore the existence of The Alternative Factor entirely, which I entirely intend to do. In fact, I'm unaware that any such episode exists.
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armoredgorilla posted:He hated it, but didn't feel like he had the clout to protest. I did know his making a fuss got that changed, so I suspected he wasn't happy with Up The Long Ladder, but given that I don't know if they'd even called him Chief O'Brien instead of "Transporter Chief" at that point, I wouldn't rock the boat either.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:This is one of those "ironic" comics that parodies terrible editorial cartoons, right? Yeah, the comics he does under his real name have a very different tone. 
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greatn posted:First episode of Star Trek I showed her was the one with Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan. That's... interesting, I certainly wouldn't have led off with The Savage Curtain, but I'm glad it worked for you!
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Echo Video posted:watched Family Ties last night And you're not even at peak Crichton. Or peak Rygel.  peak Crichton is lying on the floor in agony screaming the star spangled banner
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armoredgorilla posted:And you're not even at peak Crichton.
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Watching the remastered The Next Generation, and I'm loving it, but for the first time I actually get it when people complain about the difference in 2/4/6 foot models of the D. And what a time to reach the Unification episodes. I really didn't notice it was this episode until Spock showed up on screen. It almost felt like the first time I saw it, and it was fantastic.
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I can still never quite get over what a different show TNG is in its remastered form. Everything being the smoothed out like that and the colors being so smooth and consistent, it's like realizing you had been watching a show through a thick haze of grime and dust caked onto your screen and it's all suddenly been wiped off and everything is amazingly clear or sharp. Or like your internet had been crapping out and a stream had been on a low bandwdith mode on netflix, and it just kicked into HD and everything suddenly kicks into coherency and look perfect.
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kaworu posted:Or like your internet had been crapping out and a stream had been on a low bandwdith mode on netflix, and it just kicked into HD and everything suddenly kicks into coherency and look perfect. The first scene in the entire show looks like it was made for the HD remaster. I'm talking about where there's a longshot closing in on the Enterprise. It zooms in on the captain's ready room, and Picard steps out of the shadows. It's a beautiful shot!
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tastychicken posted:Watching the remastered The Next Generation, and I'm loving it, but for the first time I actually get it when people complain about the difference in 2/4/6 foot models of the D. I knew about the 4 and 6 foot models, but I had no idea a 2 ft model existed.
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tastychicken posted:The first scene in the entire show looks like it was made for the HD remaster. How do Data's boobs look in HD Sadly another thing, like the skant, that was dropped after the pilot 
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MrL_JaKiri posted:How do Data's boobs look in HD I thought that was just really bad padding for his pecs, like the shoulder padding Wil Wheaton got.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I knew about the 4 and 6 foot models, but I had no idea a 2 ft model existed. It was rarely used. Its most notable appearance is the shot of the Enterprise approaching a Starbase in 11001001.
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kaworu posted:I can still never quite get over what a different show TNG is in its remastered form. Everything being the smoothed out like that and the colors being so smooth and consistent, it's like realizing you had been watching a show through a thick haze of grime and dust caked onto your screen and it's all suddenly been wiped off and everything is amazingly clear or sharp. You know, I bought that "The Next Level" trial balloon blu-ray when it came out, partly out of curiosity but mostly because there were about five different times in old Trek threads where I wrote that the TOS remasters were cool but there was no possible way that Paramount would ever embark on remastering TNG because reasons. I felt it was my little "welp, you showed me" gesture. And it was nice and all, but I wasn't that blown away. Maybe I'll give it another try and just get season 3 or something.
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Those chairs that Data and Wesley sit in to pilot the ship are uncomfortable as poo poo; I experienced them first-hand at the bridge recreation/Star Trek Experience.
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Gonz posted:Those chairs that Data and Wesley sit in to pilot the ship are uncomfortable as poo poo; I experienced them first-hand at the bridge recreation/Star Trek Experience. Which ones? I think the design changed between the first and second season, or maybe it was the second and third season. They were originally more reclined like in that picture, but then later were made more upright.
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The first season chairs look like those ugly gaming chairs that were all the rage ten years ago.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Which ones? I think the design changed between the first and second season, or maybe it was the second and third season. They were originally more reclined like in that picture, but then later were made more upright. The ones that were more upright; many back aches were likely to be had in those later chair designs.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The first season chairs look like those ugly gaming chairs that were all the rage ten years ago. All that's missing is a cup holder and a speaker in the seat.
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Think of how efficient Data would be at cleaning cheeto dust.
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Crossposting from the Stargate thread, because it doesn't really belong there: SPOILERS FOR STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE: TRIP DIES BECAUSE HE PLUGS TWO EXTENSION CORDS TOGETHER (hilariously someone made a video tribute to him set to Kelly Clarkson and spelled his name wrong in both the title and the description)
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Total newbie to Star Trek but I decided to try jumping into The Original Series. I figured after Leonard Nimoy's death now it would be a good time to start.
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BigRed0427 posted:Total newbie to Star Trek but I decided to try jumping into The Original Series. I figured after Leonard Nimoy's death now it would be a good time to start. Godspeed and good luck to you. Feel free to come back here and let us know what you think as you watch the show! We love that kind of first impression report 'round these parts.
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jng2058 posted:Godspeed and good luck to you. Feel free to come back here and let us know what you think as you watch the show! We love that kind of first impression report 'round these parts. I was thinking of making a new thread or something about a newbie's look at Star Trek, from TOS to the new movies. I'm only on Charlie X so far. 1) This episode is SUPER,  awkward 2) Is this suppose to be Star Trek's version of It's a Good Life?
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Watching Agents of SHIELD, and the early show is kinda poo poo but the setting is one I'd actually quite like adapted into a Star Trek series - the show's set on a big cool plane with onboard labs and offices and lounge and quarters and cars in the back. The thing's permanently flying around out in the field and the home to a team of a half a dozen or so that zooms around as a rapid response and investigation team. (Although it's basically a Star Trek craft anyway:  )
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BigRed0427 posted:I was thinking of making a new thread or something about a newbie's look at Star Trek, from TOS to the new movies. I'm only on Charlie X so far. 1) This episode is SUPER, 1) It was the '60s, man. You've barely sniffed the awkward from a 21st century perspective. 2) Wished into the cornfield? Yeah, pretty much. Early Trek liked to play the omnipotent godlike beings card. This one's the Godlike Teenager. There will be others. You can do just fine posting your reviews and thoughts about your journey through Trek here...we've got a couple of goons who've been doing that very thing with Deep Space Nine, as a matter of fact. But if you want your own thread to avoid spoilers in, like the way Occupation's doing with Doctor Who, that's certainly your prerogative. Just make sure to post a link here so the rest of us can find it.
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