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I'm just going to say 'make it so' to customers today and see if they react
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 14:15 |
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mossyfisk posted:Doesn't the other Alpha Quadrant changeling we meet in DS9 shapeshift into a warp-capable starship? It was a space-faring creature, not a ship.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 14:19 |
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8-Bit Scholar posted:This may just be me, but I sort of saw all of DS9 operating on a much, MUCH larger scale than they depict. That's a Star Trek \ TV budget thing in general. The Enterprise-D is huge and has tons of rooms never shown onscreen, but in the show, we mostly just see a bunch of beige hallways and never really get that sense. Like, there's a huge shuttlebay we never see, plus a room where they literally keep whales and dolphins. Star Trek: TMP is one of the few times where we get a good sense of scale, because the movie did actually have a pretty big budget.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 14:41 |
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BBC-A is doing what CBS won't. A TOS marathon kicks off tonight at 8:30 with 'The Man Trap', all episodes will be unedited, they will not be cut down for syndication.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 15:11 |
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Clearly CBS would rather run a rerun of Big Bang Theory or one of their other garbage shows than anything else
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 15:18 |
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Big Bang Theory rerun is actually 8. 8:30 is some show called 'Life in Pieces.' I guess if they ran it at 8:30 it would run into Big Brother. The horror.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 15:27 |
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Gammatron 64 posted:That's a Star Trek \ TV budget thing in general. The Enterprise-D is huge and has tons of rooms never shown onscreen, but in the show, we mostly just see a bunch of beige hallways and never really get that sense. Like, there's a huge shuttlebay we never see, plus a room where they literally keep whales and dolphins. I was thinking about the scale of a Galaxy class the other day and wondered if, like during the Dominion War for example, they stripped a Galaxy class of all excess personnel (families, science crews, maybe beef up engineering and security a bit, I think you'd end up with a crew of like 500), consolidated them in quarters on the interior sections of the saucer, and then locked off the vacant areas and shut off power to them. No life support, no gravity, no replicators, no lighting, no automated cleaning robots (or whatever), in a considerable portion of a Galaxy class starship. Reroute that power to shields or weapons or both. Would that make an appreciable difference?
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 17:16 |
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Want. http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/jmgi/?cpg=nngnsornbst
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 17:23 |
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McNally posted:I was thinking about the scale of a Galaxy class the other day and wondered if, like during the Dominion War for example, they stripped a Galaxy class of all excess personnel (families, science crews, maybe beef up engineering and security a bit, I think you'd end up with a crew of like 500), consolidated them in quarters on the interior sections of the saucer, and then locked off the vacant areas and shut off power to them. Given that the energy-based weapons are designed to overload/damage/destroy other spaceships, I'm sure that their energy use is many orders of magnitude greater than what life support requires. Now if, instead of just leaving those areas empty, they were to convert them into additional dedicated weapon space, that would make the whole ship a massive terror death machine. Thematically, that would be devastating. The ship design we associate with peace and understanding become a form of horror and destruction? It would really drive home the sacrifices the Federation would be willing to make, but it would be enough of a mindfuck for viewers that it would require more than just a passing reference.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 17:46 |
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I think it would have been cool if we'd started seeing saucer-less Galaxys. EDIT: I mean, really, they should have separated Odyssey for what was obviously a combat mission.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 18:51 |
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Hell yes, the future is here
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 18:53 |
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One charge lasts 10 hours? Christ. Needs to be a bit longer than that. I guess it's ok for convention wear.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 18:53 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Barclay has a soul because he was able to remember everything during transport, even though it's been established multiple times that the transporter breaks you down molecule by molecule and turns you into energy. The Barclay particles that comprise the matter stream remain entangled during transport! Or something! / /
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 19:10 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I think it would have been cool if we'd started seeing saucer-less Galaxys. Saucer less galaxy looks really dumb though.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 19:11 |
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The_Doctor posted:One charge lasts 10 hours? Christ. Needs to be a bit longer than that. I guess it's ok for convention wear. Bluetooth tends to be quite energy intensive
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 19:12 |
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There's a TOS communicator bluetooth speaker/mic set I saw at Best Buy. An absurd $150 but you can answer your phone on it and talk. I'd never pay that much for a loving gimmick but drat if part of me doesn't desperately want one.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 19:30 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Bluetooth tends to be quite energy intensive Why? Is it literally always transmitting, even when nothing is going on?
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 19:39 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Why? Is it literally always transmitting, even when nothing is going on? There's a constant buildup of Bluetooth particles
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 19:57 |
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Subyng posted:Saucer less galaxy looks really dumb though. Way less dumb than some of the kitbash atrocities that cropped up
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:41 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Way less dumb than some of the kitbash atrocities that cropped up can you post some screens of the kitbashes that appeared on screen other than the wolf 359 scene and the nebula? I dont remember any more than those. I mean I remeber a bunch of designs, but never ones seen on the actual shows/movies.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:45 |
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Good place to start. http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/kitbash.htm http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/ds9tm.htm
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:46 |
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This forever remains the best ship in trek
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:48 |
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armoredgorilla posted:Good place to start. Note that he refuses referrals from SA
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:56 |
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Tunicate posted:Note that he refuses referrals from SA It's also written by an incredibly insufferable sperg who has a tantrum in almost every single Kelvin ship entry.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 20:57 |
After The War posted:Given that the energy-based weapons are designed to overload/damage/destroy other spaceships, I'm sure that their energy use is many orders of magnitude greater than what life support requires. Now if, instead of just leaving those areas empty, they were to convert them into additional dedicated weapon space, that would make the whole ship a massive terror death machine. So what I figured they did is they took those things, left out most of the advanced stuff, and loaded up extra power generators and poo poo in the empty spaces that normally hold Stellar Cartography and so on. The saucer section is much less of a liability if you replace the orphanariums with tertiary shield generators!
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:05 |
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Via General Chat:
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:09 |
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Spock, son of Spook, grandson of Spank
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:18 |
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I loved Spxyx's concept albums.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:20 |
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Tunicate posted:Note that he refuses referrals from SA Big Mean Jerk posted:It's also written by an incredibly insufferable sperg who has a tantrum in almost every single Kelvin ship entry. I said it was a good start, not that the writer is a particularly stable individual.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:27 |
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Mr. Spunk. Or my favorite Megaman villain, Mr. Spark.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:31 |
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My son is also named Spork
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:47 |
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Spork is on there twice. I mean, I know a spork is useful to have around, but come on Bob.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 21:48 |
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What the gently caress is Spxyx?
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 22:07 |
FlamingLiberal posted:My son is also named Spork That's Spokk to you
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 22:12 |
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Really not sure if Justman is trolling Gene or being sincere.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 22:14 |
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Evek posted:Really not sure if Justman is trolling Gene or being sincere. Both. Go through that list and say them aloud. A good third of them are audibly the same.
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 22:27 |
I know that I had heard of this "rule" as far back as the 80s when a schoolyard buddy told me about it. He also told me that all female Vulcan names started with T' Which I think they more or less still hold to, don't they?
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 22:33 |
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I could have sworn there was an ambassador whose name started with M. M'rel or something like that?
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 22:41 |
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T'pau, T'pol... Saavik? Valeris?
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# ? Sep 8, 2016 22:41 |
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Saavik being an example of the variation on the rule (which I think I also heard) that said all Vulcan names (regardless of sex) should start with S and end with K (which also gives us Sybok). I feel like there has been one hell of a game of telephone between all the various creative teams over the decades.
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