Are you saying all hew-mons look alike to you? Eh?
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Baka-nin posted:I had a look to make sure I wasn't going crazy, and yeah old Bones looks just like creepy old Admiral war criminal. How does the doctor loving make admiral even after they busted down Kirk while Bones was serving under him. Ugh my space continuity/irrelevant observations on how dystopian real military works
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 04:01 |
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Apollodorus posted:That's a really good point. If we have transporter technology, or even maglev technology, then someone could live in Schenectady but beam/maglev into Manhattan once or twice a week to see Broadway shows, eat at restaurants (presumably there would be a waiting list for reservations, which wouldn't cost anything but you'd have to wait your turn), go to museums, etc. Yeah. With transporters or very fast on-call aircars I'd imagine that cities would end up mostly dissolving as residential areas and living would be spread across the land in endless villages more than anything else, with people fast-travelling to the cities for social and occupational reasons. This actually came up when Rodenberry was making TMP: the San Francisco matte painting has much of the city replaced by greenery. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Jul 6, 2016 |
# ? Jul 6, 2016 04:38 |
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Is Nog a dual citizen? I recall that when Nog said he wanted to join Starfleet, Sisko said he would need a recommendation from an officer cuz at the time he wasn't a Federation citizen. Obviously he got it, graduated from the Academy and so on. He fights for the Federation in the Dominion War and never seems to care about being a Ferengi again. How does that work? Did he become a citizen later and I just missed it?
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 04:50 |
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You don't really even need cities for social gathering. With cargo transporters and endless energy, you could have a pop-up bar or restaurant anywhere in the world.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 04:50 |
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tigersklaw posted:Is Nog a dual citizen? I recall that when Nog said he wanted to join Starfleet, Sisko said he would need a recommendation from an officer cuz at the time he wasn't a Federation citizen. Obviously he got it, graduated from the Academy and so on. He fights for the Federation in the Dominion War and never seems to care about being a Ferengi again. How does that work? Did he become a citizen later and I just missed it? I believe RDM or maybe ISB said he was probably a Federation citizen by season...6? edit: here it is - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Nog#Background_information
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 05:02 |
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Cojawfee posted:You don't really even need cities for social gathering. With cargo transporters and endless energy, you could have a pop-up bar or restaurant anywhere in the world. Just attach engines to your house and keep the party going forever.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 05:11 |
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MikeJF posted:Just attach engines to your house and keep the party going forever. You mean like the Night Crew? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ApQrbhQp8
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 05:12 |
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Apollodorus posted:You mean like the Night Crew? I was going Life, the Universe, and Everything, but sure, why not.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 05:14 |
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MikeJF posted:Yeah. With transporters or very fast on-call aircars I'd imagine that cities would end up mostly dissolving as residential areas and living would be spread across the land in endless villages more than anything else, with people fast-travelling to the cities for social and occupational reasons.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 05:23 |
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Gammatron 64 posted:I just watched the one where Ensign Kim's girlfriend comes back from the dead as a Kobali. I kinda liked that one because she was kinda cute when they gave her some hair, even though she's still a living corpse. As per usual, one of Voyager's guest stars is more interesting and likable than the actual cast and I was just wishing she was a main character. I hate that episode with the fury of a thousand suns. If that had been a main character, Janeway would have mowed down the entire Delta Quadrant to save her and bring her back. Instead, she's like "eh, whatever" and lets one of her crew go off to become an alien for REASONS. A crewmember whose dead body was hijacked by an alien race and brought back with all her memories intact. "Dear Ensign Mary Sue's Mother, I regret to inform you that your daughter died in the line of duty. She was brought back to life by some aliens, but we decided to let them keep her. Them's the breaks I guess! Captain Kathryn Janeway, Commanding Officer, USS Voyager"
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 06:32 |
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Wasn't the point that over time the other girl's memories would take over and that's what happened?
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 06:46 |
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Knormal posted:Not to mention you wouldn't need to devote huge tracts of land to farming, ranching, and the like with replicators. You could fill the Midwest and similar areas with tract housing or skyscrapers, alongside whatever areas they set aside for nature preserves. Or if they need all the space for people, just shove all the buffalo and sage grouse in a holodeck and call it a preserve. Plus in TNG they were getting ready to raise a new continent in the middle of the Atlantic. The current global population density is about 47/sq km or 120/sq mile. They'd probably be able to spread out so much that lots of the Earth would approach that, though I imagine a village approach would be popular. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Jul 6, 2016 |
# ? Jul 6, 2016 07:00 |
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MikeJF posted:Yeah. With transporters or very fast on-call aircars I'd imagine that cities would end up mostly dissolving as residential areas and living would be spread across the land in endless villages more than anything else, with people fast-travelling to the cities for social and occupational reasons. De-urbanizing the cities would be the greatest environmental disaster in human history, even with 100% clean energy, transportation, and waste disposal.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 07:09 |
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Apollodorus posted:That's a really good point. If we have transporter technology, or even maglev technology, then someone could live in Schenectady but beam/maglev into Manhattan once or twice a week to see Broadway shows, eat at restaurants (presumably there would be a waiting list for reservations, which wouldn't cost anything but you'd have to wait your turn), go to museums, etc. It's actually funny that Sisko's dad's restaurant is always the catalyst for these discussions, since the episodes where it's featured actually kind of implicitly address this point. Sisko is spending his days at Starfleet Command, in San Francisco. He then goes and spends his evenings with his dad, in New Orleans. Location doesn't matter nearly as much when you can travel anywhere instantaneously at little or no cost to yourself. Yeah, there are still going to be more or less desirable locations, but not for the reasons that exist today. Having a restaurant in the middle of Bumfuck, Nowheresville isn't going to prevent you from getting customers, so having no recourse when the government tells you that you can't have that sweet downtown location this year isn't really a big deal. You can have a single, highly urbanized street in the middle of nowhere if you wanted to. Seriously, if Star Trek has any problem, it's that the Federation's society and economy are too recognizable. Paradoxish fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Jul 6, 2016 |
# ? Jul 6, 2016 08:26 |
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Earth is really a barren, polluted, Matrix-esque hellscape, but everything, including what remains if nature, is in giant holodecks, like that one from Insurrection. A fake image is projected for any ships that happen to visit.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 08:27 |
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Astroman posted:I hate that episode with the fury of a thousand suns.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 09:03 |
OtherworldlyInvader posted:De-urbanizing the cities would be the greatest environmental disaster in human history, even with 100% clean energy, transportation, and waste disposal. This doesn't mean you wouldn't still have areas like that, but with the transporter you can go "visit" Manhattan at will, or at worst, with some degree of transporter credit rationing. But if you want to sell your statues or have an art gathering that could be almost anywhere. counterfeitsaint posted:Earth is really a barren, polluted, Matrix-esque hellscape, but everything, including what remains if nature, is in giant holodecks, like that one from Insurrection. A fake image is projected for any ships that happen to visit.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 09:15 |
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Nessus posted:(Maybe this is the point of the Atlantis project: mass housing in an ecologically non-important area.) I'd love it if Trek 2017 visits Earth and the entire moon is enclosed in a bubble and the surface is a verdant paradise.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 09:16 |
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Payndz posted:Janeway doesn't give a poo poo about any non-main-cast crewperson. Poor Joe Carey almost made it to the end of the series (only for his epitaph from Janeway to be "Turns out exploring the galaxy isn't worth risking a single life. Welp, on we go in our exploration vessel!"), but when Future Janeway comes back in time in 'Endgame' does she arrive a week or so earlier to warn her past self that he's about to die needlessly at the hands of some stupid whiny assholes? Nope, it's all about Seven!
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 13:08 |
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The moon will never be a nice place to live. 14 days of sun and 14 days of night? Yuck.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 13:11 |
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Arglebargle III posted:The moon will never be a nice place to live. 14 days of sun and 14 days of night? Yuck. They could probably create artificial day/night cycles and use the holodeck like they do on starships.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 13:21 |
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Cojawfee posted:Wasn't the point that over time the other girl's memories would take over and that's what happened? Astroman posted:REASONS Imagine if it's been Tom Paris? She'd have found a way to technobabble him back I'm sure. Arglebargle III posted:The moon will never be a nice place to live. 14 days of sun and 14 days of night? Yuck. Same with Mars. It's no place to raise a kid, that's for sure. Too cold I hear.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 13:39 |
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So are we back around to the question of why anyone ever leaves their personal holodeck?
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 13:40 |
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Astroman posted:I hate that episode with the fury of a thousand suns. Well... the whole point of the episode is that she wasn't really Ensign Ballard anymore. She had some of her memories, and was recycled from her remains, but wasn't really the same person. She couldn't remember her father and thought in Kobali. Ultimately, she decided to go back to the Kobali. Janeway and Kim were more than willing to blow up the Kobali ships with her new family on them. The real problem with that episode is if you can't reproduce normally... why resurrect corpses of other species to reproduce? Why not use the dead of your own species? And while you're at it, why not just make clones? MikeJF posted:I'd love it if Trek 2017 visits Earth and the entire moon is enclosed in a bubble and the surface is a verdant paradise. It would be cool if Star Trek had a bunch of Gundam-esque orbital space colonies around Earth. Mostly because they look cool. It's a neat image to look up and instead of seeing the sky, you see more ground with some upside-down people on it. It's kind of surreal but still physically possible. Star Trek wouldn't have to make rotating habitats like these because they have artificial gravity technology, but they just look cool. A few days ago I was thinking about what a future Enterprise should be like, and I got a cool idea that's kinda similar. You know how the Enterprise-D was supposed to be a "city in space" but really doesn't come across as that? Well, take that concept and take it a few steps further. Okay, so starfleet ships have a saucer section. Now imagine literal cities and forests on the top and bottom of that saucer section. They're covered by a dome made out of a futuristic material that is normally transparent, but can become opaque when the need arises, giving the ship a more "traditional" look. During day cycles the saucer is opaque and a holographic sky is projected on the dome. At "night", it becomes transparent and you see space around you. Sandwiched in between the two cities on top and the bottom of the saucer is a middle section that always remains opaque and has more typical starship places like laboratories, sickbay, cargo bays, etc. Maybe the bridge is in this middle portion, or its atop a column in the middle of the dome. The rest of the ship has no real "windows" - walls just become transparent when someone wants them to be.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 13:47 |
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Something I just realized, why is it called a holodeck even when it's not a deck on a ship?
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 13:53 |
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WickedHate posted:Something I just realized, why is it called a holodeck even when it's not a deck on a ship? Why do you drive in parkways and park in driveways?!?!?!?!
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 14:09 |
Quark knew better.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 14:14 |
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Baka-nin posted:The Federations Oliver North, oh wait that's old McCoy, not that really old Admiral that got really young, then really, really young, Nevermind. I love that they'd originally wanted that character to be Kirk - that the consequences of the stupid TOS Cold War politics would come back to bite him in the rear end and by killing him off they'd move out from under their predecessor's shadow... like officers on a Klingon warship. Early TNG writers had some balls before Roddenberry stomped all over everything.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 14:15 |
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WickedHate posted:Something I just realized, why is it called a holodeck even when it's not a deck on a ship? Clearly DS9 had it right with holosuites.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 16:10 |
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Gaz-L posted:On the other hand, doesn't she just not appear in The Measure Of A Man, probably because they realised that she'd be the villain in that story? She appears briefly, at Data's going-away party. Also, by the time Peak Performance rolls around, she tries to give him a pep talk, and then goes to the Captain when she can't convince Data to stop moping because she's concerned about him. If she didn't care about him or space-hated him or whatever, she would have just sat back and let him fail. After The War posted:I love that they'd originally wanted that character to be Kirk - that the consequences of the stupid TOS Cold War politics would come back to bite him in the rear end and by killing him off they'd move out from under their predecessor's shadow... like officers on a Klingon warship. I've heard that story before, but I haven't yet seen a source for it.
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Pikestaff posted:Clearly DS9 had it right with holosuites. This is how I know everyone either has me on ignore, or else I'm phase-shifted
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 17:05 |
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After The War posted:I love that they'd originally wanted that character to be Kirk - that the consequences of the stupid TOS Cold War politics would come back to bite him in the rear end and by killing him off they'd move out from under their predecessor's shadow... like officers on a Klingon warship. Yeah that would be a pretty good concept provided they ditched that awful and useless de-aging gimmick. Too short a season is probably the most glaring example of two plots that have nothing to do wit each other being crammed into the same episode. It would be a nice sequel to TOS a Private Little War where Kirk was considering a proxy war with the Klingons. I honestly think Admiral Jameson, is probably the most evil Federation character Star Trek has ever had on television. All the other characters like the Admiral who leads a coup in DS9 had reasons for their actions, fear of the Dominion, the need for magic health radiation etc. Or were controlled by alien neck tics. But Jameson just deliberately escalated a war for forty years because of his warped interpretation of the PD and then covered it all up. Had the episode bothered to focus on that it'd probably be up there with the Siege of AR-558 instead of typical early TNG weirdness.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 17:44 |
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We also could have gotten the Kirk and Riker fight that the world truly deserved.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 17:51 |
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Baka-nin posted:Yeah that would be a pretty good concept provided they ditched that awful and useless de-aging gimmick. Too short a season is probably the most glaring example of two plots that have nothing to do wit each other being crammed into the same episode. It would be a nice sequel to TOS a Private Little War where Kirk was considering a proxy war with the Klingons. While I generally hate Roddenberry's insistence on making Star Trek a completely boring utopia and note that the movies where he is least involved are the best, I am OK with him protecting Kirk's character from "actually he's a dumb rear end in a top hat, guilty of war crimes!"
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 18:04 |
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Young TOS Kirk is a dumb rear end in a top hat though. Movie Kirk is a relatively competent dude.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 18:06 |
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Plus, if fan reaction was already bad in the first season, there would have been riots and lynching if that plot point came to pass. Burning down the original beloved series and salting the earth isn't that endearing.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 18:07 |
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I have a copy of the Phase II pilot script "In Thy Image" that eventually got adapted into TMP. It's description of Earth is 1000% Roddenberry. Kirk does down to Golden Gate Park to pick up Disco Beard McCoy and Earth is described as being Garden of Eden-like, with the script specifically calling out for people to be walking around who would implied to be naked, as well as animals like Leopards that are somehow tamed and around people like it isn't a big deal, which is where Kirk finds McCoy, taking care of one of leopards. OneThousandMonkeys posted:While I generally hate Roddenberry's insistence on making Star Trek a completely boring utopia and note that the movies where he is least involved are the best, I am OK with him protecting Kirk's character from "actually he's a dumb rear end in a top hat, guilty of war crimes!" Behold the quintessential devil of these matters, James T. Kirk renegade and terrorist! EDIT: WickedHate posted:Plus, if fan reaction was already bad in the first season, there would have been riots and lynching if that plot point came to pass. Burning down the original beloved series and salting the earth isn't that endearing. Going by the handful of Usenet posts I've been able to dig up from 1987, people really didn't like TNG at first. Which is admittedly understandable when you look at the first 4 episodes of the series. Instant Sunrise fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Jul 6, 2016 |
# ? Jul 6, 2016 18:11 |
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Instant Sunrise posted:I have a copy of the Phase II pilot script "In Thy Image" that eventually got adapted into TMP. It's description of Earth is 1000% Roddenberry. That's awesome. Star Trek should have more of that and less "we have to fight the space terrorists to protect Our Way of Life"
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That's some dumb Logan's Run poo poo right there.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 18:23 |