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If Voyager had been lost in the Gamma Quadrant, the series would have lasted a single episode, with a Jem'Hadar warship sniping Voyager the moment it got thrown across the galaxy.
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I enjoyed BSG to the very end. I didn't finish the last few episodes. It just had Not Jesus and some others sitting in a goddamn apartment and I looked at the episode list and saw I was at the end and I genuinely wondered in that moment if they just ran out of money and ad-libbed that finale. I'll never know because i never finished it. All Along The Watchtower being a secret song of universal truth or whatever is the dumbest poo poo i've ever seen, but the show recovered and became pretty good again until that finale.
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I thought it was kinda cool watching Saul go nuts trying to figure out where the hell that drat music was coming from
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Arcsquad12 posted:If Voyager had been lost in the Gamma Quadrant, the series would have lasted a single episode, with a Jem'Hadar warship sniping Voyager the moment it got thrown across the galaxy. It might be a problem until Torres manages to re-direct the warp matrix into the EPS conduits, generating a asymmetrical warp field that can stream tachyons outwards. How would this help? Well good thing Seven also re-configured the astrometrics antenna array with borg technology to convert verteron particles into an energi..... Voyager wins basically.
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Dec 27, 2016 21:50
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Nigmaetcetera posted:You beat me to it. shadow puppet of a posted:So was Tosk. He could have totally run off with the Major as well. That episode of those two desperately trying to not gently caress was one of the better character episodes for both of them.
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Dec 27, 2016 21:57
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basic hitler posted:I enjoyed BSG to the very end. I didn't finish the last few episodes. It just had Not Jesus and some others sitting in a goddamn apartment and I looked at the episode list and saw I was at the end and I genuinely wondered in that moment if they just ran out of money and ad-libbed that finale. I'll never know because i never finished it. I never watched BSG, but every time I read some new revelation about the show, I think it can't get any dumber than this. And now this. That show can't get any dumber than this, can it?!
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Dec 27, 2016 22:02
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:He could have totally run off with the Major as well. That episode of those two desperately trying to not gently caress was one of the better character episodes for both of them. Naw, there was never any real risk of them running off together, just banging eachother in a painfully beautiful moment of tragic, beautiful, romantic weakness. A 9 1/2 weeks type scenario would've been the absolute farthest things would go. God, now I want to see it. To be fair though I'd like to watch almost any two people have sex.
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Dec 27, 2016 22:04
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I never watched BSG, but every time I read some new revelation about the show, I think it can't get any dumber than this. you should watch it if you have netflix. There's some really good TV in there, but it's a show that always had a sword dangling over its head waiting to cut it off so you get some bizarre season finales and the series finale is a huge letdown but the ride to it is solid.
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Dec 27, 2016 22:09
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Colm Meaney not on the list of people I'd like to see naked
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Dec 27, 2016 22:11
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Nigmaetcetera posted:To be fair though I'd like to watch almost any two people have sex. Mullibok and Vic Fontaine? Cassidy Yates and First Omet'iklan? George Primmin and The Grand Negus? You sick gently caress.
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Dec 27, 2016 22:15
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I never watched BSG, but every time I read some new revelation about the show, I think it can't get any dumber than this. You know about Starbuck coming back as an angel a few episodes after her ship visibly crashes and explodes?
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Dec 27, 2016 22:19
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:That one Cardassian Scientist was pretty okay. 
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Dec 27, 2016 22:24
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Quark's ex was cute.
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Dec 27, 2016 22:25
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BSG took Trek's autistic aversion to spirituality and did the exact opposite. You have robots who believe in Jewish God, humans in space colonies referencinf the greek/roman pantheon, Dr. Not Bashir at one point starts a harem cult that sounds suspiciously christian except for damaged women. Its kinda refreshing if only because i really hate how averse sci-fi can be to that stuff
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Dec 27, 2016 22:25
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basic hitler posted:I enjoyed BSG to the very end. I didn't finish the last few episodes. It just had Not Jesus and some others sitting in a goddamn apartment and I looked at the episode list and saw I was at the end and I genuinely wondered in that moment if they just ran out of money and ad-libbed that finale. I'll never know because i never finished it. Oh wow, so you didn't even see the montage of dancing Japanese robots. Bloody Hedgehog posted:I never watched BSG, but every time I read some new revelation about the show, I think it can't get any dumber than this. Silly me. Silly, silly me.
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Dec 27, 2016 22:37
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Powered Descent posted:Oh wow, so you didn't even see the montage of dancing Japanese robots. What?
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Dec 27, 2016 22:40
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Miles O'Brien's wet dream right here. EDIT: Mods please rename me to "Miles O'Brien's Spoon Love"
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Blistex posted:What? Oh-no -i]no[/i], context is required for that little gem. You want to know, you gotta see the series finale  .ZenMasterBullshit posted:That one Cardassian Scientist was pretty okay. You guys do know you can see her sans-makeup in Babylon 5, right? She played Captain Lochley in season 5.
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Dec 28, 2016 02:13
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basic hitler posted:BSG took Trek's autistic aversion to spirituality and did the exact opposite. You have robots who believe in Jewish God, humans in space colonies referencinf the greek/roman pantheon, Dr. Not Bashir at one point starts a harem cult that sounds suspiciously christian except for damaged women. Its kinda refreshing if only because i really hate how averse sci-fi can be to that stuff It was refreshing up until it went precisely nowhere with any of that religious poo poo and now I don't want to see or hear a whiff of gods or godlike entities in my sci fi unless some rear end in a top hat starship captain happens along to talk them into destroying themselves I mean I know there was a writer's strike at the time but slapping "god did it" onto your plot holes and dead end storylines was unsatisfying as gently caress, especially after 4 years of "...and they (the writers) have a plan" Star Trek did a lot of dumb poo poo over the years but a relatively hard line against religious crap that gets a pass everywhere else is something I'd miss from a new series
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Dec 28, 2016 02:46
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Thats the thing though it doesnt get a pass anywhere else. Unless it's some vaguely humanist or Buddhist/Taoist view of the world to sell tickets in Asia it's just an embarassing topic to most shows and that sucks because theres a lot you can do with it in a sci fi setting. Trek's devout borderline spectral adherence to atheism sucks hard and makes that pah wraith poo poo in ds9 even more irritating in how its handled. I just want a sci fi show that handles spirituality like The Leftovers does. I want the BSG or trek that's season one of The Leftovers except in space. Something really loving tragic and just get real weird with it imk
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Dec 28, 2016 03:37
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basic hitler posted:Thats the thing though it doesnt get a pass anywhere else. Unless it's some vaguely humanist or Buddhist/Taoist view of the world to sell tickets in Asia it's just an embarassing topic to most shows and that sucks because theres a lot you can do with it in a sci fi setting. Trek's devout borderline spectral adherence to atheism sucks hard and makes that pah wraith poo poo in ds9 even more irritating in how its handled. I mean you've just described Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica.
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Been watching some TNG lately 1.) Hi I'm Samuel WOOT HA HUH Clemens HOO WAH I say now boy HOOO 2.) Is it ever explained what's up with the jars of blue and red goop in sick bay
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Emerson Cod posted:I mean you've just described Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica. Sorta but that's too light hearted. Fleeing from Murderous robots in the face of an extinction-level apocalyptic genocide on mankind is dark but it's portrayed almost as a challenging space adventure. The leftovers in space is like voyager, but the warp corse is busted, and navigation is shot, and they've just been moving at sub-warp impulse speeds in a random direction for a year and despair has fully set in, and Q is malevolent, not a trickster, and people keep disappearing and dying horrifically. Kind of like Event Horizon meets BSG i guess.
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angerbeet posted:Been watching some TNG lately https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxCW9xmamzQ and because this thread needs some loving class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgQidVzdneE
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angerbeet posted:2.) Is it ever explained what's up with the jars of blue and red goop in sick bay Goop desk toys were real popular in the 90s. I had some of the ones like they used for background med lab props on Babylon 5. If they were in McCoy's sickbay I'd say he was brewing up some bathtub romulan ale
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Dec 28, 2016 05:07
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Every time I hear about Mark Twain, I instantly think about this video.
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angerbeet posted:2.) Is it ever explained what's up with the jars of blue and red goop in sick bay They need a ready supply of high-quality lubes on hand to keep up with Rikers voracious appetite for sandy space-vag.
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That episode is great is you pretend it's an amazing troll on every time travel story ever. What if we went back in time and met Mark Twain? Awesome, that can work. What if he were an insane crackpot who grunted, groaned, and barked randomly? Now we're talking!
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angerbeet posted:Been watching some TNG lately It's never explicitly explained but if you're looking for an in-universe explanation, you could make an argument that at least one of them is bio-mimetic gel.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:They need a ready supply of high-quality lubes on hand to keep up with Rikers voracious appetite for sandy space-vag. That was only for the Pulaski season.
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Shab posted:It's never explicitly explained but if you're looking for an in-universe explanation, you could make an argument that at least one of them is bio-mimetic gel. It's just jars of that stuff barbers keep combs in. It's just hipster Federation doctors acknowledging how barbers/doctors used to share the profession.
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You guys linking the TNG Edit videos should do yourselves a favour and watch the insanity that is the Fair Use Parody series.
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Arcsquad12 posted:You guys linking the TNG Edit videos should do yourselves a favour and watch the insanity that is the Fair Use Parody series. O'Brien laughing after Keiko's fall off the promenade was gold. Blistex fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I never watched BSG, but every time I read some new revelation about the show, I think it can't get any dumber than this. I'm most of the way through a re-watch. The show is good and worth watching.
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I have to admit; Year of Hell is pretty good for the most part but there's a glaring plot hole in Part 2; There's a good hundred-odd days unaccounted for of Voyager making allies to go up against the Timeship, you would think one of their new friends would've offered to help fix Voyager even a little instead of leaving it hosed to hell.
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Dec 28, 2016 10:13
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I never watched BSG, but every time I read some new revelation about the show, I think it can't get any dumber than this. It's a good show that's worth watching at least once. Goons poo poo all over it now because of 1) the flawed final season and 2) the overt religious themes and plot points in the last season that goons claim were unexpected, even though the show made no attempt to hide them in the previous seasons. Just watch it without any expectations.
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basic hitler posted:BSG took Trek's autistic aversion to spirituality and did the exact opposite. You have robots who believe in Jewish God, humans in space colonies referencinf the greek/roman pantheon, Dr. Not Bashir at one point starts a harem cult that sounds suspiciously christian except for damaged women. Its kinda refreshing if only because i really hate how averse sci-fi can be to that stuff Star Trek's aversion to religion can be weird, antiseptic, and a little creepy but watching BSG felt at times like wandering into some high level Mormon cult meeting complete with after-party orgy. It was creepy as gently caress and off putting. The lack of a good payoff on any of it made it all the worse.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It's a good show that's worth watching at least once. Goons poo poo all over it now because of 1) the flawed final season and 2) the overt religious themes and plot points in the last season that goons claim were unexpected, even though the show made no attempt to hide them in the previous seasons. This is lazy and dumb and wrong. It's not that there were religious themes. You can have religious themes without having a dozen glaring plotholes and ending your story with 'cause god did it the end'
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If "God did it. Destiny is real. All of this has happened before" was a shock then lol .
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It was the show that killed a baby in the first episode for funsies. In retrospect I think we should have realized then that the show was going to be stupid.
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