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H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
lexx was like watching softcore porn except there was never any kinda payoff whatsoever (outside of the boobs they showed in the pilot during the dickshowering scene that's somehow on youtube)

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Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lexx was like watching softcore porn except there was never any kinda payoff whatsoever (outside of the boobs they showed in the pilot during the dickshowering scene that's somehow on youtube)

Lexx was a perfect blending of German and Newfie culture, it was amazing.

Burning_Monk
Jan 11, 2005
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to know

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lexx was like watching softcore porn except there was never any kinda payoff whatsoever (outside of the boobs they showed in the pilot during the dickshowering scene that's somehow on youtube)

Reminds me of Cleopatra 2525, haha what a loving mess of a show. It's was like Futurama without the comedy and Fry is a stripper.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Burning_Monk posted:

Reminds me of Cleopatra 2525, haha what a loving mess of a show. It's was like Futurama without the comedy and Fry is a stripper.

How the gently caress did that show get past a pilot. And which poor intern's soul did Gina Torres drat to Hell in order to salvage a decent acting career after it.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Neddy Seagoon posted:

How the gently caress did that show get past a pilot. And which poor intern's soul did Gina Torres drat to Hell in order to salvage a decent acting career after it.

we now know him as larry fishburne and his tv cowboy career was the sacrifice

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
didn't know they were married. good for him.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Watched Melora a few nights ago and it was an otherwise forgettable episode if not for her loving hilarious dumb superman punch in the runabout and also the awesome serenading klingon at the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3KqCeusyVE

the actor that played the fat klingon died of a heart attack at 49

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Fojar38 posted:

Watched Melora a few nights ago and it was an otherwise forgettable episode if not for her loving hilarious dumb superman punch in the runabout and also the awesome serenading klingon at the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3KqCeusyVE

the actor that played the fat klingon died of a heart attack at 49

Yeah, Superman punch and Klingon Chef are the only good things about that episode. I might be remembering wrong, but doesn't the chef also appear in a few other episodes?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Arcsquad12 posted:

Yeah, Superman punch and Klingon Chef are the only good things about that episode. I might be remembering wrong, but doesn't the chef also appear in a few other episodes?

He appears in one other episode, the one where Dax is assessing a potential trill host and O'brien tries and fails to deal with a vole rat infestation

It's the one where they accidentally picked up a universe in the wormhole and had to get rid of it without destroying it before it expanded enough to destroy their own universe

they solve it by dropping it off in the gamma quadrant which seems like it's just delaying the inevitable???

Hugh G. Rectum
Mar 1, 2011

Tectonis posted:

The late 90s - early 2000s were a mixed bag for scifi. You had Lexx and Farscape on one side and Voyager and Andromeda on the other.

don't forget SG-1. richard dean anderson :allears:

MrSlam
Apr 25, 2014

And there you sat, eating hamburgers while the world cried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwVNjNtZmKw

Reversing the polarity will flush Ensign Harry Kim out the airlock.
Will you continue? Y/N

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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voyager has the best opening credits and opening theme in all of star trek

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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deep space 9's opening credits are so loving boring i skip them every time but i never skipped voyagers

MrSlam
Apr 25, 2014

And there you sat, eating hamburgers while the world cried.

Fojar38 posted:

deep space 9's opening credits are so loving boring i skip them every time but i never skipped voyagers

:same: I can't even recall DS9's off the top of my head

Sten Freak
Sep 10, 2008

Despite all of these shortcomings, the Sten still has a long track record of shooting people right in the face.
College Slice
Spacerock.

Followed by trumpets and pans of the station, a runabout goes by and then the wormhole opens and closes with nothing visibly having gone in or out of it.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
DS9's opening got better when they added ships and people doing EVA's to repair a chunk of the station... but yeah, it's 2 minutes long. I skip it every time.

MrSlam
Apr 25, 2014

And there you sat, eating hamburgers while the world cried.
Babylon 5's theme meanwhile sounds like it's from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

I don't know what I'm talking about

MrSlam fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Aug 24, 2016

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lexx was like watching softcore porn except there was never any kinda payoff whatsoever (outside of the boobs they showed in the pilot during the dickshowering scene that's somehow on youtube)

That's the running joke of the series.
Last 4 survivors of an entire universe, one is desperate for sex and no one likes him, one is converted to a sex bot and only loves a dead man, a dead man unable to have sex, and a robot head who fanatically loves one or another of the crew who can't do anything about it.

Best sex scene in it is the guy who rapes the robot head, all dressed up in neon lights and fake lips.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
why do people keep ordering booze from quark

Triggered
Aug 21, 2016

Learn about this great man on mormon.org

Fojar38 posted:

voyager has the best opening credits and opening theme in all of star trek

Wtf. Picards dulcet tones, orchestral music pumped into your brain and the enterprise shooting back and forth getting you ready for a new adventure. 10/10

Could Voyager even separate the saucer section? Shittiest ship in the federation and I hated looking at it, Frasiers ship was better than voyager.

MrSlam
Apr 25, 2014

And there you sat, eating hamburgers while the world cried.

corn in the bible posted:

why do people keep ordering booze from quark

I got three theories.

1) Quark's drinks are complimentary and are there to get people gambling their latinum away
2) Replicators have a Library of things to choose from and the Federation's Default Library is really bland earth food, so Quark put together a menu by purchasing other people's/species' recipes
3) Since the station is Bajoran and not Federation, free Replicator access could be restricted to the command decks

Also even though the Federation has evolved beyond the concept of "money" they sure do trade things and foreign currency in exchange for goods and services like the rest of the galaxy.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Voyager would be fine if it didn't have those stumpy nacelles. Give it the excelsior's engine array and it would look nicer.

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.
Quark definitely says to one of the Starfleet people, "I'll put it on your account." at least once. What account? Are these people just running up endless tabs without ever paying?

I also like when they show Quark's when the Dominion takes over the station he's yelling, "Throw out all the root beer!"

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

corn in the bible posted:

why do people keep ordering booze from quark

The DS9 cre are basically 24th century despicable renfair nerds who love to spend their off time roleplaying as backward 21st century humans who earned poo poo money doing lovely jobs and then pissing it all away in a horrible bar with awful drinks.

Blood Shart
Sep 23, 2010

happyhippy posted:

That's the running joke of the series.
Last 4 survivors of an entire universe...

Last 4 survivors of the light universe and now they have to spend the rest of their lives in this lovely dark universe with the rest of us.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

cheerfullydrab posted:

Quark definitely says to one of the Starfleet people, "I'll put it on your account." at least once. What account? Are these people just running up endless tabs without ever paying?

I also like when they show Quark's when the Dominion takes over the station he's yelling, "Throw out all the root beer!"

Starfleet serving in areas that require money are probably given an allowance of local currency. The federation probably gets the local currency through trade.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
yeah using currency on someone's planet makes sense cause theyre not part of the federation but quark is on a federation space station and he replicates poo poo all the time, that's even a plot point early on

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.
Come to Quark's, Quark's is fun.

Sten Freak
Sep 10, 2008

Despite all of these shortcomings, the Sten still has a long track record of shooting people right in the face.
College Slice
Dabo girls: Are they hookers or just like sexy waitresses?

May have been covered in S1, we skipped most of it

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Starfleet charges Quark for replicator usage in local currency. Quark charges crew members for drinks in local currency. Starfleet gives allowance of local currency to crew members. Quark is basically making a profit selling use of starfleet replicators back to starfleet, which seems a very Ferengi thing to do. Starfleet doesn't care because they can make the difference back selling medication or something.

MrSlam
Apr 25, 2014

And there you sat, eating hamburgers while the world cried.

Sten Freak posted:

Dabo girls: Are they hookers or just like sexy waitresses?

May have been covered in S1, we skipped most of it

There was an episode I saw the other day where a Dabo girl said Quark made her sign a contract that fine-printed her into sexual favors. I want to say it was the same episode where Vash gave Quark a bunch of lobe-jobs in public.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Triggered posted:

Wtf. Picards dulcet tones, orchestral music pumped into your brain and the enterprise shooting back and forth getting you ready for a new adventure. 10/10

Could Voyager even separate the saucer section? Shittiest ship in the federation and I hated looking at it, Frasiers ship was better than voyager.

frasier was also rockin that cholo lean in his chair

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Why is Frasier's uniform in the process of slowly mutating into a romulan uniform?

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.

Sten Freak posted:

Dabo girls: Are they hookers or just like sexy waitresses?

May have been covered in S1, we skipped most of it

The holosuites are the metaphoric prostitution.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx5I7uEEEYo

Triggered
Aug 21, 2016

Learn about this great man on mormon.org

cheerfullydrab posted:

The holosuites are the metaphoric prostitution.

I still havnt been answered, could someone get pregnant from holodeck jizz?
Does the holographic projection actually go down to the DNA level?
If you sat in the holodeck for 9 months with the program still running and gave birth to said baby, when you walked out would it melt into goo or would it be okay because all the cell division stuff is done and all incorporated into the baby?

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Triggered posted:

I still havnt been answered, could someone get pregnant from holodeck jizz?
Does the holographic projection actually go down to the DNA level?
If you sat in the holodeck for 9 months with the program still running and gave birth to said baby, when you walked out would it melt into goo or would it be okay because all the cell division stuff is done and all incorporated into the baby?

No. No. According to memory alpha it creates molecule size bubbles. DNA is out the window because it operates at an atomic scale.

MrSlam
Apr 25, 2014

And there you sat, eating hamburgers while the world cried.
That's a Steven Universe question too

Trast
Oct 20, 2010

Three games, thousands of playthroughs. 90% of the players don't know I exist. Still a redhead saving the galaxy with a [Right Hook].

:edi:
Quark serves real food and its a theme that replicated food is blander than real food. Shipping in real food costs money, hence he charges. Also you can't get a good margarita in the Federation due to them relocating all the indigenous populations to hell holes in the DMZ.

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Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Germstore posted:

No. No. According to memory alpha it creates molecule size bubbles. DNA is out the window because it operates at an atomic scale.

So you're saying we have to adopt a holographic orphan.

Which will vanish if it ever tries to leave the holodeck, no matter how much we love it.

Cool, got it.

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