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I just watched a weird holodeck episode where Picard is playing as some centurion and takes over Rome. At least until the real emperor gets mad at him. Didn't remember that episode from watching TNG as a kid.
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Jul 28, 2016 08:06
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Minuet was really Picard in disguise.
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Jul 28, 2016 08:10
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Tectonis posted:I'd be Captain Proton's ship because I'm big, dumb useless and love campy scifi. I actually kinda liked the Delta Flyer having manual controls because Tom Paris liked that dumb campy sci-fi. It at least showed some personal touch to it rather than just being a new Starfleet vessel. Tectonis posted:Developing tech for the Federation must be like some sort of OSHA hell. Some aliens see in infrared so it has to be visible in that range, meanwhile this race is blind so it needs a haptic interface these are for cetaceans so make them work with a bottle nose and clicks. Then provide support for all these development standards. To be fair, you actually see some of that come up in TNG and it generally just has the aliens in question using prosthetics to cope with it. Tectonis posted:DaVinci episodes are good John Rhys Davis was a great DaVinci, carrying the episodes himself  .
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Jul 28, 2016 08:14
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Everyone knows that the Federation is a bunch of human-centric space racists because only humans are considered "normal" and all aliens have to figure out how to adapt to them.
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Jul 28, 2016 10:09
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So America won the Eugenics War?
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Jul 28, 2016 10:24
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I'm watching Prototype and I like these robots they're like lovely bland Star Trek versions of the Metropolis robot.
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Jul 28, 2016 10:26
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I understood the intent in their design direction, I just thought the execution was so lovely I couldn't get past it.
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Jul 28, 2016 10:28
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criscodisco posted:So America won the Eugenics War? Yes, but then went through a terrible civil war over which condiments/toppings are the best to put on a hamburger. The aftermath of that war is shown in First Contact. The Federation has suppressed the historical record, but that's the reason why you never see anyone eating a burger in any Trek series. It's all explained in this weird TNG novel I found at the bottom of a bargain bin in a thrift store in a crumbling coal town in the wilds of West Virginia.
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Jul 28, 2016 10:29
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cheerfullydrab posted:Yes, but then went through a terrible civil war over which condiments/toppings are the best to put on a hamburger. The aftermath of that war is shown in First Contact. The Federation has suppressed the historical record, but that's the reason why you never see anyone eating a burger in any Trek series. It's all explained in this weird TNG novel I found at the bottom of a bargain bin in a thrift store in a crumbling coal town in the wilds of West Virginia. It's common knowledge that Taco Bell won the Franchise Wars of the early 21st century. All restaurants are Taco Bell.
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Jul 28, 2016 11:00
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's common knowledge that Taco Bell won the Franchise Wars of the early 21st century. All restaurants are Taco Bell. Pizza Hut in Yurop. 
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Jul 28, 2016 11:07
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's common knowledge that Taco Bell won the Franchise Wars of the early 21st century. All restaurants are Taco Bell. 
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Jul 28, 2016 11:24
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Which two-parter Next Gen, Voyager, or DS9 episodes would you consider to be better than any of the TNG movies? At the absolute least I'd say Best of Both Worlds and Emissary.
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Jul 28, 2016 11:26
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cheerfullydrab posted:Which two-parter Next Gen, Voyager, or DS9 episodes would you consider to be better than any of the TNG movies? At the absolute least I'd say Best of Both Worlds and Emissary. The Maquis pt 1 and 2 (DS9) Past Tense pt 1 and 2 (DS9) Improbable Cause and Die is Cast (DS9) In Purgatorys Shadow and By Infernos Light (DS9) Scorpion pt 1 and 2 (Voy) I've got such a blind spot for Futures End (Voy) as well because it's just so cheesy and fun!
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Jul 28, 2016 11:32
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:what if Geordi asked the holodeck to create a simulation of a woman who would love him? what would the result be? Core breach due to cpu cascade failure poo poo? himself, but with tits
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Jul 28, 2016 13:00
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corn in the bible posted:himself, but with tits He said 'love' not 'loath'.
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Jul 28, 2016 13:13
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Automatic Slim posted:Guinan has her own prime directive even though her civilization had been destroyed, she's still slumming it with the Federation. Q Who is still a really good episode. Q essentially telling Picard and in process the Federation to poo poo or get off the pot at the end was a really good character building moment for the show
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Jul 28, 2016 17:09
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I liked the followup to Deja Q where he lives as a 21st Century air traffic controller.
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Jul 28, 2016 17:19
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Yeah, Quinn rubbed off a little too hard on the Q we all know from TNG. It's kind of sad. at least that guy from the eternal warfare planet got to die for real, eventually
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Jul 28, 2016 17:36
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corn in the bible posted:himself, but with tits Also holo-Geordie can see.
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Jul 28, 2016 17:39
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I bet the Q Continuum is just Section 31 from the previous Big Bang cycle. Just a bunch of guys with complete space/time control who managed to outlive everyone thanks to being underhanded assholes, then see the universe reset and decide to sit this one out. Q himself is just that one rear end in a top hat who didn't get his fill on the last go around
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Jul 28, 2016 17:40
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I've always theorized that the horrible genetic and nuclear war that apparently happens some time between now and startrek is the reason we only really see americans in the federation. Most of the world was obliterated, only pockets of america survived. We see San Francisco a lot but no one has ever mentioned New York or DC or many other major US cities in trek, the reason is because they're gone. After the earth got its poo poo back together they decided to rebuild and repopulate the earth, but only had americans. Luckily america is pretty diverse, so people even remotely connected to a region's culture were sent there to rebuild although in a watered down americanized sort of version. In a lot of cases they didn't have enough of the area's original inhabitants to re-establish the culture, so they just sent people with matching last names or skin tones or what ever. This is why picard is english. England, france, close enough, just send some guys with accents over there and re-built their stupid tower and we'll say Paris is reborn. Asia was hit the worst by all this which is why indians and chinese are so super rare in the federation despite being almost half the population today. I mean it can't be that it was an american show made for american audiences so most all the actors end up being american and the federation ends up having a racial/cultural mix very close to america at the time of filming, it's all deep world building lore stuff showing the horrors of nuclear war.
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Jul 28, 2016 17:56
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Watching VOY and in addition to the Borg Cube and Borg Sphere, I forgot there was a Borg probe Twinkie/Shitbrick design as well. Goddamn Voyager.
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Jul 28, 2016 18:04
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Vulcans are the Asians, duh. They left Earth after WW3 and only came back when they saw that we got our poo poo together. They pretend they're from another planet and that they're not related to us at all.
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Jul 28, 2016 18:05
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FilthyImp posted:Watching VOY and in addition to the Borg Cube and Borg Sphere, I forgot there was a Borg probe Twinkie/Shitbrick design as well. There's also the "Tactical Cube", because thanks to power creep the normal cube wasn't strong enough
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Jul 28, 2016 18:07
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the ep where picard gets stuck in the turbolift with the kids is on and it just made me realize that troi outranks o'brien goddamn
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Jul 28, 2016 18:16
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:the ep where picard gets stuck in the turbolift with the kids is on and it just made me realize that troi outranks o'brien goddamn o'brien is the only non officer they ever portray an ensign outranks obrien. when wesley was done with the academy he out ranked obrien.
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Jul 28, 2016 18:19
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:the ep where picard gets stuck in the turbolift with the kids is on and it just made me realize that troi outranks o'brien goddamn Neelix outranked O'Brien. Ship's Morale Officer. A rat-being they found floating in a junk heap dying of thirst and trying to scam them into a hostage situation was seen as more worthy of leading men than Miles.
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Jul 28, 2016 18:20
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oh man and I was watching Dark Matter and Wesley shows up and woo boy he's pretty hefty
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Jul 28, 2016 18:20
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BattleMaster posted:There's also the "Tactical Cube", because thanks to power creep the normal cube wasn't strong enough Begin production of the Tactilol Cube  A big lol at the Hanson's rolling book carts inside their little ship. And little Anika's crayon drawing of a Conan O'Brien in the background.
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Jul 28, 2016 18:20
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how the gently caress do you fight in wars and spend your whole life in starfleet and not make officer. they should have given obrien a backstory where he was about to make captain and then flipped out and went ham on some cardassians and got busted down to private
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Jul 28, 2016 18:24
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:how the gently caress do you fight in wars and spend your whole life in starfleet and not make officer. they should have given obrien a backstory where he was about to make captain and then flipped out and went ham on some cardassians and got busted down to private well thats how the military works in the 21st Century you can't just enlist and make officer one day. In the 23rd Century I guess they still hang on to the tradition of keeping Nobles and peasants divided
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Jul 28, 2016 18:25
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I guarantee you its all from the apostrophe. That character fucks up databases readily and even a couple hundred years in the future, Miles would be permanently capped from ever having his keyfield added to the officer listing table.
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Jul 28, 2016 18:26
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:oh man and I was watching Dark Matter and Wesley shows up and woo boy he's pretty hefty I quite like Dark Matter. Killjoys too. They're not great shows, but it's nice having some fun sci-fi on TV .Hillary Clintons Thong posted:what if Geordi asked the holodeck to create a simulation of a woman who would love him? what would the result be? Core breach due to cpu cascade failure poo poo? "Computer, generate a sexual companion who is interested in me". "Computer, stop laughing." Nefarious 2.0 posted:how the gently caress do you fight in wars and spend your whole life in starfleet and not make officer. they should have given obrien a backstory where he was about to make captain and then flipped out and went ham on some cardassians and got busted down to private Ehhh, having an old soldier not want to be an officer isn't an unknown thing. There's a lot of things can point and laugh at O'Brien for, but that's not necessarily one of them.
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Jul 28, 2016 18:26
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:well thats how the military works in the 21st Century you can't just enlist and make officer one day. In the 23rd Century I guess they still hang on to the tradition of keeping Nobles and peasants divided drat you right it seems like the whole point of this episode is to point out that o'brien knows everything and troi doesn't know jack poo poo. evidently the only requirement to make officer is a willingness to kill geordie
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Jul 28, 2016 18:29
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Dark Matter is ok. Took awhile to get into. First season surprise ending was kinda dumb imo. Just started season 2. Using the "android just got knocked out" as a story hook for about half the episodes gets real old though.
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Jul 28, 2016 18:29
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Baronjutter posted:I've always theorized that the horrible genetic and nuclear war that apparently happens some time between now and startrek is the reason we only really see americans in the federation. Most of the world was obliterated, only pockets of america survived. We see San Francisco a lot but no one has ever mentioned New York or DC or many other major US cities in trek, the reason is because they're gone. WW3 is when all the capitalists and religious people nuke each other to death, then the survivors are uplifted by the Vulcans
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Jul 28, 2016 18:31
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Dark Matter is ok. Took awhile to get into. First season surprise ending was kinda dumb imo. Just started season 2. Yeah, they definitely wrote the Android as a little too powerful/omnipotent I think. There's one more episode like that (so far at least) in Season 2, and it actually is a good episode sparking off a few new questions, but it looks like they're at least doing something with the Android in this week's episode. The only real bad thing with season 2, so far, is the new crewmembers have gotten pushed largely into the background for only one or two scenes per episode.
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Jul 28, 2016 18:32
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All O'Brien wants in life is to shout, "don't salute me. I work for a living!" at someone, but no one has ever accidentally saluted him.
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Jul 28, 2016 18:37
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It's pretty funny that Seven's parents were documenting Borg behavior the way we observe chimps in the wild and poo poo. "Here we see Needles and NoDick, engaged in a rare repair ritual. Fascinating"
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