Arglebargle III posted:

Supposedly Ron Moore inserted the tongue in cheek technobabble scene with Riker and the Ferengi guy in Rascals.

After The War posted:

Copied from Memory Alpha, because I love the hell out of Fizzbin scenes.

"Okay, Morta. The Enterprise computer system is controlled by three primary main processor cores, cross-linked with redundant melacortz-ramistat 14-kiloquad interface modules. The core element is based on an FTL nanoprocessor with 25 bilateral kelilactirals. With twenty of those being slaved into the primary Heisenfram terminals. Now, you know what a bilateral kelilactiral is?"

"Of course I do, Human. I am not stupid!"

"No. Of course not. This is the isopalavial interface which controls the main firomantal drive unit. Don't touch that - you'll blow up the entire firomantal drive."

"Alright, wa..wa..Wait! Wha..what is a, a ferromactal drive? Just explain it to me!"

"That is the firomantal drive unit, it controls the ramistat core and keeps the ontarian manifold at 40,000 KRGs. The firomantal drive is powered by..."

T.C. posted:

I had only ever seen the scene in the badlands where they get grabbed to the delta quadrant, which is entirely lacking in intensity... I didn't realize there was more.

https://youtu.be/SaWyA6F3Qxc

Like, some of that is pretty darned good for early production. The waterless planet stuff sells really well, and she feels troubled in the tuvok scene. You have to change your expectations a little, because she's certainly playing a more brooding and thoughtful character then Mulgrew, but that's fine.

The bridge stuff is definitely subdued.

Rhyno posted:

So why did Bujold bail out of the show?

quote:

she dropped out after filming just a few scenes of the first episode, citing the lengthy work schedule for a TV series and her unwillingness to do news interviews.

Echo Video posted:

she's great in the tuvok scene and gets great results from tim russ, it's just everyone else is overacting hams

also I wish she could have been the first quebecois captain, just yelling tabernac across the spaceways

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

Also, her Janeway was intended to be Iraqi and she didn't know how to pronounce Farsi words.

FlamingLiberal posted:

I've never heard that....where did that come from?

Rhyno posted:

So why did Bujold bail out of the show?

Gorewar posted:

"Captain, the Kazon are back"

"ah ostie de tabarnak, fire de torpedoes, un gang du crosseurs caaaaalisse"

Crew stares at each other blankly

Rhyno posted:

Man, Future's End is horrifying. They panned across the LA boardwalk and it took a few seconds for me to realize that yes, this is what 1996 actually looked like.

Knormal posted:

I remember watching that episode back in '96 and thinking even at the time that everything was especially ugly. I chalk it up to their costume department not being used to working with real styles. It makes sense for the Voyager crew to be dressed kind of strangely, but it seemed like even the time-natives were dressed like they were out of an after-school special or something.

Timby posted:

In addition to being totally unprepared for working 15-hour days, she didn't get along with anyone in the cast and crew.

Duckbag posted:

Some of the other time travel episodes have the same issue, but you're less likely to notice if, say, the 19th century costumes are cartoonish exaggerations (no, Mark Twain didn't dress like that all the time) than when it happens to the present day. Star Trek's costumers have always struggled with their non-Star Fleet wardrobes. The Fed civilians in TOS have this very weird mix of flamboyant contemporary (or somewhat old fashioned) styles or drab jumpsuits and space pajama.. The aliens usually wear repurposed costumes from old historical epics or more bland jumpsuits. For the civilian attire from the movies, everyone had those awesome (but not particularly future-y) leather jackets and McCoy had that inexplicable disco medallion. TNG only had two main characters who weren't in standard uniforms and they were a nerd in a weird one-piece space turtleneck and a grown woman who went to work all day in a variety of tight blue leotard get-ups. Weirdly, Troi's mom, whose outfits are supposed to say "loud and flashy," comes across as pretty much the only character who actually dresses with a sense of style. Factor in the upholstery fabrics in DS9 and the horrible nonsense then came up with for the aliens of the week in Voyager and it's not a pretty picture. I read a little bit of the Fashion It So blog, but it was too depressing (also I'm a nerd who doesn't really care about fashion).

What amazes me though, is that despite Trek being on the air for half a century, we never got a coherent picture of how Federation civilians dressed and, aside from the love of one-pieces, how it's actually different from our era.

The Dark One posted:

Quark's outfits are the high point of Trek fashion. It's not even close.

The Dark One posted:

Quark's outfits are the high point of Trek fashion. It's not even close.

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PenguinKnight posted:

the guy that's captured data in "The Most Toys" is shatnering like a motherfucker


this is some a+ scenery chewing

also, season 3 of TNG is the season of shameful holodeck usage, with Barclay's larping and data's ship boning

Tunicate posted:

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

What the gently caress is that?

Big Mean Jerk posted:

in the 24th century, we have put aside our petty differences. we now have the technology to create clothing from live bees.

Gonz posted:

It's that time, again.

The goddamn Space Irish episode is on.

Bales of hay and the horny redheaded lady all over the place.

Cojawfee posted:

The script for "Captain's Holiday" describes Ajur and Boratus as simply, "Two sleek and well dressed aliens"

WTF

Duckbag posted:

Yeah, I'd say the turning point for their relationship comes in Scorpion. It's a pretty solid two-parter (certainly by Voyager standards, anyway), so I don't want to ruin it for you, but be on the look out for the way it "resolves" the tension that comes up between them.