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armoredgorilla posted:As much as I loved Beyond, the shaky cam during fight sequences was awful I also did not care for that, but luckily I like the beats and shouting.
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I like that Starfleet ships apparently have some routine that teaches English to aliens who find the ship. If you think about it that would be a real concern in space salvage.
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I like that the USS Franklin is named after Justin Lin's father, Frank.
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So the new show's title will be shortened to STD. Somebody's gettin' fired for that.
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Rhyno posted:So the new show's title will be shortened to STD. Good thing it's not airing on Syfy.
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Rhyno posted:So the new show's title will be shortened to STD. We don't call the others STV or STDS9, so I don't see a reason to change the naming schemes for a joke. 
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ST: COV
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WickedHate posted:Star Trek: SVU In Starfleet, shipboard offences are considered especially heinous. In the United Federation of Planets, the dedicated crew who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Starship Victims Unit. These are their voyages. 
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After that Discovery reveal, we're all starship victims
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The_Doctor posted:In Starfleet, shipboard offences are considered especially heinous. In the United Federation of Planets, the dedicated crew who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Starship Victims Unit. These are their voyages. "Mr. Spock, you knew full well when you forced that meld on Valeris you could just call up Excelsior. So what was your real goal? Power? Dominance?" "I--" "ANSWER THE QUESTION, Mr. Spock! The meld was unnecessary, and you knew it... and yet you pressed on, through her suffering. You violated her. So I ask again... what did you want?" "I just wanted to see inside her. Inside her mind. I never thought-- I didn't know--" Spock looks around in panic, his steely Vulcan resolve melting into Human vulnerability. "No further questions, Your Honor."
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ST STTAS STTNG STDS9 STV STE all acronyms used frequently.
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TOS TAS TNG DS9 VOY ENT DSC Those are the official acronyms.
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Nitrousoxide posted:ST I have never, ever seen those used as the acronyms for those shows
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thexerox123 posted:I have never, ever seen those used as the acronyms for those shows 
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It's going to be STD. CBS will do everything they can do undo this but it's too late.
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I can't believe Idris Elba got wasted on a bad villain and now we'll never get him as Sisko in the inevitable ds9 reboot 
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Gorman Thomas posted:I can't believe Idris Elba got wasted on a bad villain and now we'll never get him as Sisko in the inevitable ds9 reboot Considering Into Darkness and Hollywood as of late, my guess for Sisko would be Tom Hiddleston.
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Hey man, if Marc Alaimo can be both Generic Cardassian Baddie and Gul Dukat, Elba can pull it off as well.
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Marc Alaimo got really fussy with my friend at a bar and then gave her a rant about how underage drinking is a crime and what she was doing was illegal. She couldn't tell if he was doing a law obsessed dictator bit at first but he seemed genuine and upset that rules were being broken.
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HD DAD posted:Hey man, if Marc Alaimo can be both Generic Cardassian Baddie and Gul Dukat, Elba can pull it off as well. And random poker player in San Francisco in 1893 or whatever
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How bad is Uplay, really? I want Future Soldier, but man, I just don't know. The reaction to Uplay required games is venomous.
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HD DAD posted:Hey man, if Marc Alaimo can be both Generic Cardassian Baddie and Gul Dukat, Elba can pull it off as well. Get Jon Hamm for Dukat. He's pretty much the Cardassian Don Draper.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:TOS None of those is an acronym.
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The first three are (kinda anyways, you can pronounce the first two.)
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armoredgorilla posted:As much as I loved Beyond, the shaky cam during fight sequences was awful  I do appreciate that the in-close quick-cut shaky-cam thing is a valid technique to make action feel more visceral, and it can be very effective when used in moderation. This movie abused its shaky-cam privileges. They seriously needed to pull back and give us a wider shot now and then, both literally and metaphorically. Let us see where the hell we are and what the hell we're looking at, and maybe even let that make it clearer just what the good guys and bad guys are trying to do in this particular scene of running and exploding. Hell, I kept waiting for a decent "beauty pass" of the Franklin -- I was curious about what details distinguish it from the NX class -- but we never even get one of those. But really, these are minor quibbles. Overall I enjoyed myself. There were some great character moments, and I think I may finally be comfortable thinking of the new actors as being "valid" in these old familiar character roles.
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Yeah, the cast finally seems to have relaxed into the roles. The performances were far more natural than previous films and felt less like impressions of the original cast.
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It's the first of the new films that let them just BE the crew instead of hitting us over the head with a bunch of forced conflict amongst them. I really didn't realize how much I've just plain missed having a functioning Star Trek family on the screen, and how the last few movies have not scratched that itch.
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Drink-Mix Man posted:I really didn't realize how much I've just plain missed having a functioning Star Trek family on the screen, and how the last few movies have not scratched that itch. I have this problem with popular ensemble films in general these days. A bunch of people just working together without friction is one of the things I like best in movies.
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qntm posted:I have this problem with popular ensemble films in general these days. A bunch of people just working together without friction is one of the things I like best in movies. Despite its mediocrity, that is one of the things I liked about Ghostbusters 2016, too. Like, they all meet and get along great (mostly) and become great friends at the end of the movie. All these origin stories and team-up movies the last decade seemed fixated on milking cheap drama out of the coming-together of the group, with the explanation of "We've got to show the rough origins of the team" and all that. Like, that's fine but plenty of people get along from the get-go in real life, too. Sometimes you just want to see a fun team.
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ZShakespeare posted:Anyone noticed yet that the Discovery design is clearly derived from the abandoned Star Trek Phase II 1977 concept? Absolutely no one has posted about this at least 20 times.
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Rhyno posted:Absolutely no one has posted about this at least 20 times.
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DOMDOM posted:Can I post about how the CGI looked worse than babylon 5 in 1994? Absolutely.
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Can I post about how lego star wars was pretty good and lego star trek seems like a slam dunk even if the cg is obviously way more ambitious than they can handle?
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Sadly Star Trek is licensed to the unworthy ptaQs at Mega Bloks.
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Hey that rhymes!
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There were meetings but Lucasfilm flexed their muscles to keep Trek out of the LEGO empire.
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I'm planning on seeing Beyond tomorrow at the local theater that's always busy as hell, so I'm scouting out to see how many tickets were being sold for the 10:30 show tonight (the screen is 100% reserved seats so you can see what's sold in real time on the site.) 7 tickets were sold for the 10:30pm showing tonight. Ouch. I know it's a later showing on a weekday night, but it's still summer and the target demographic isn't back in school yet. Well, I guess I don't have to worry about getting seats ahead of time tomorrow.
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Rhyno posted:There were meetings but Lucasfilm flexed their muscles to keep Trek out of the LEGO empire. I hope you're joking because this is actually pretty much what happened to kill off the classic Lego Space subthemes and if this is true also I've never trusted Star Wars and I never will I'll never forgive them for the death of my toys
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