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Gammatron 64 posted:Michael Dorn also did well enough to afford his own fighter jet. No, I poo poo you not. Worf has a fighter jet. I hear he's a regular attendee and occasional participant at airshows these days. Apparently he's been interested in aviation for a long time, but it wasn't until after TNG he was able to pursue it.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Patrick Stewart, Levar Burton and Whoopi Goldberg already had fairly prolific acting careers before TNG. Patrick Stewart is also one of the greatest actors alive. I hear he's won 37 individual awards!
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Aug 4, 2016 12:44
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TheBigAristotle posted:I used to work with Avery Brooks' college roommate at Oberlin and he said his girlfriend was also hot, remembered her name and I looked it up and it was his wife. And she looks like she was probably hot back in the day. My mom was in a play with him in college. I don't think they were especially close but I believe they may have had orb experiences got high together.
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Aug 4, 2016 13:42
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Astroman posted:I hear he's won 37 individual awards! In a row?
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Aug 4, 2016 15:19
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Astroman posted:I hear he's won 37 individual awards! Yeah, for acting.
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Aug 4, 2016 15:20
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Gates McFadden taught an acting class for film majors at my college.
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Aug 4, 2016 15:28
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:In fact, the budget was reduced and the main sacrifice was made in razors for Frakes. And diet soda for Frakes.
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Aug 4, 2016 15:36
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Whoopi Goldberg was definitely the biggest star on the show at the time. LeVar Burton would've been second and I am not sure if Patrick Stewart was known at all in the US. I suppose I, Claudius would've aired.
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Aug 4, 2016 15:53
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The only way you would have known about Stewart would be if you were some kind of New York City richmans that went to off-broadway productions. So no, not a single person in the fandom would have been aware of him. Forgot about Whoopi. I guess Jumpin' Jack Flash was out by then. Also, didn't someone say Dorn made a shitload of money by investing in Fuddruckers when it was getting off the ground? That's how he can afford all his planes and stuff, not the Trek residuals.
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Aug 4, 2016 16:25
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Stewart was in Dune which is exactly the kind of poo poo Trekkies would have watched.
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Aug 4, 2016 16:32
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Was Whoopi even in the first season? I feel like Ten Forward was a season two innovation.
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Aug 4, 2016 16:33
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Dirty posted:Late-90s me can back this up. Late-90s me did extensive research. Leeta's boobs are part-costume. The original uniforms actually gave Patrick Stewart back problems.
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Aug 4, 2016 16:35
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Tunicate posted:The original uniforms actually gave Patrick Stewart back problems. What? How? Are you sure you're not mixing up stories with Frakes, who had back issues and that was why he did his amazing "leg over the chair" move? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIGhYMwRgs
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Aug 4, 2016 16:41
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I remember the same thing. The original uniform was so tight that you had to struggle against it constantly.
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Aug 4, 2016 16:43
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Skin-tight spandex with no give whatsoever meant they were constantly pulling down on the actor's shoulders.
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Aug 4, 2016 16:45
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Was Whoopi even in the first season? I feel like Ten Forward was a season two innovation. No. She first shows up in the b-plot of the season 2 premiere, the one where the a-plot is that Troi gets impregnated by an energy being in her sleep.
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Aug 4, 2016 16:50
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Plus the spandex-laced material retained body smell/odour like a mofo and they smelt bad under the studio lights.
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Aug 4, 2016 16:51
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Angry Salami posted:Skin-tight spandex with no give whatsoever meant they were constantly pulling down on the actor's shoulders. Yep. And ordered a size too small to make sure they absolutely had no wrinkles.
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Yeah, the original uniforms were a disaster. They gave everyone back problems due to the constant tension. They were also odor sponges, they could never get the stink out of the spandex. That's the main two reasons they went to two piece wool uniforms.
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English broadcloth is the only acceptable uniform material. Duck for lava planets at captain's discretion.
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Aug 4, 2016 17:22
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Nessus posted:Doesn't look like it, but S2 did only have 22 episodes due to other poo poo going on, so they'd have had more money rattling around on a per-episode basis - especially since one of those episodes was a clip show. Season 2 went over budget, which is why they had to do a clip show at the end. Rob Bowman posted:It was Paramount saying, 'We gave you more money for "Elementary, Dear Data" and the Borg show. Now do us a favor and give us a three-day show.' So that's what you do. It's an accepted part of the medium. Having said that, all their effort does show - Q Who is a fantastic-looking episode and it really helped sell the Borg as something new and different.
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After The War posted:Season 2 went over budget, which is why they had to do a clip show at the end. The clip show was due to the writer's strike more than anything else.
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Aug 4, 2016 18:28
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WampaLord posted:What? How? Stewart's chiropractor told him that he would suffer permanent spinal damage if he continued wearing the costume, and so he demanded costume changes before he would show up to start shooting the third season.
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Aug 4, 2016 18:34
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Timby posted:Stewart's chiropractor told him that he would suffer permanent spinal damage if he continued wearing the costume, and so he demanded costume changes before he would show up to start shooting the third season. Man, that's really hosed up. How bad do you have to gently caress up costume design to cause that?
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WampaLord posted:Man, that's really hosed up. How bad do you have to gently caress up costume design to cause that? As mentioned earlier, Roddenberry insisted that all the uniforms be ordered one to two sizes smaller than the actors' actual size. Just another example of how he had totally lost the plot.
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Timby posted:As mentioned earlier, Roddenberry insisted that all the uniforms be ordered one to two sizes smaller than the actors' actual size. Just another example of how he had totally lost the plot. Man, gently caress Stewart for going against Gene's Vision by trying to avoid permanent spinal damage. 
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Maybe Worf would have been fine after his fall if he'd still been wearing his compression unitard. Makes you think.
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I hated the first TNG uniforms anyway; something about the lack of a defined collar just makes them look like tight potato sacks.
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BattleMaster posted:I hated the first TNG uniforms anyway; something about the lack of a defined collar just makes them look like tight potato sacks. Nothing looks less professional than a bare, scrawny neck. Especially on Picard. What a bad neck. Bad neck.
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Brawnfire posted:Nothing looks less professional than a bare, scrawny neck. Especially on Picard. What a bad neck. Bad neck. In the future, civilization has evolved beyond petty neck opinions.
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Aug 4, 2016 20:02
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Why am I seeing that weird H everywhere suddenly? It's all on the same lovely people too. Hats, t-shirts, jackets, it's all that loving H. Is it some brand that a country singer or some white bread icon sponsored so now every dumpy white suburbanite wears it?
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Mogomra posted:In the future, civilization has evolved beyond petty neck opinions. I don't care how evolved we are, no WAY am I taking orders from some dude looking like a bare dick
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Baronjutter posted:Why am I seeing that weird H everywhere suddenly? It's all on the same lovely people too. Hats, t-shirts, jackets, it's all that loving H. Is it some brand that a country singer or some white bread icon sponsored so now every dumpy white suburbanite wears it? Not sure if you're joking. That's the logo for Under Armor.
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Yeah I managed to google what the "H on clothing" stood for and figured it out. Has this brand recently exploded or is it just a bias that I'm suddenly noticing it a lot more? Reading up on it, it claims to wick sweat away and be comfortable for sports in some special or novel way. I'm guessing most people buy it for the brand and not their needs as high performing athletes, because I'm mostly seeing it on dumpy middle aged white dudes.
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah I managed to google what the "H on clothing" stood for and figured it out. Has this brand recently exploded or is it just a bias that I'm suddenly noticing it a lot more? Reading up on it, it claims to wick sweat away and be comfortable for sports in some special or novel way. I'm guessing most people buy it for the brand and not their needs as high performing athletes, because I'm mostly seeing it on dumpy middle aged white dudes. It's been around a long time, and there's tons of copycat products. I think they have NFL contracts or something.
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah I managed to google what the "H on clothing" stood for and figured it out. Has this brand recently exploded or is it just a bias that I'm suddenly noticing it a lot more? Reading up on it, it claims to wick sweat away and be comfortable for sports in some special or novel way. I'm guessing most people buy it for the brand and not their needs as high performing athletes, because I'm mostly seeing it on dumpy middle aged white dudes. The Rock wore it in the newest Fast and Furious movies, therefore people buy it because they want to be as cool as The Rock.
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Aug 4, 2016 20:40
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Remember how everyone was covered in Stüssy and British Knights logos in school in the late 80s/early 90s? Same reason.
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Data Graham posted:Remember how everyone was covered in Stüssy and British Knights logos in school in the late 80s/early 90s? Same reason. Or Zubas. Or Jnco. Or any other horrible fashion trend.
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Speaking of clothing, the costumes in trek are often pretty bad. Gene had some wierd ideas that pockets were somehow something that would be totally obsolete in his advanced utopia. Pockets are for THINGS and we've evolved past the need for things. Certainly no one has any need to carry around tools or bits of technology with them. I think the first pocket on a federation uniform we saw were the cadet cargo pants in ds9?
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