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twistedmentat posted:Is that Free Pool or Free Poo!? Free Pool. It's a good night to work on your bank shot since...Uhh... It's Monday and only weirdos like me have Tuesdays off. E: Star Trek related pic 
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Didn't Genesis win a makeup emmy or something? Deserved it. Pity the plot wasn't tweaked slightly to the left to be alien experiments or some poo poo that would've made slightly more sense.
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Jan 31, 2017 08:20
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Genesis started my "let me see the damned monster" belief, I think. Still can't imagine that 80% of that proto-Klingon was in shadow the entire episode. Still, I just can't hate the episode. Data tells Picard he'll become a pygmy marmoset, and there's a scene with PStew climbing subtly like a monkey later on. It's dumb but awesome.
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Jan 31, 2017 08:37
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The real problem with Genesis is that it builds up all this great tension with the dim lighting, the grotesque props, the over the shoulder camera, hideous monsters, strange growlings and bellowings filling the air, Picard degenerating into a pitiful terrified man-ape, and then the plot climaxes in loving nothing. Oh, Data found the cure and everyone was fixed and they had a laugh, cool  They don't even bring up that Worf melted Crusher's face off with his acid sputum or (presumably) ripped Lt. Redshirt Helmsman's spine out through his rear end. Like, doesn't he feel guilty? gently caress knows. The episode seems like it might be trying to say something about fear and primitive nature vs reason and logic, but it isn't, that's all incidental to the real point which is the bitchin' makeup. It's a memorable episode but thematically lame, even for late TNG.
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Jan 31, 2017 08:40
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Lack of continuity is what bugged me about a lot of TNG's episodes and it's why I've always loved DS9 more. It manages to make the trek universe feel full of actual ramifications.
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Jan 31, 2017 08:57
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twistedmentat posted:... I had to take a test once where the teacher had the lights out so we could see x-rays on a projector and then everyone was supposed to bring a small flashlight so they could see where they were writing their answers. The room was filled with the sound of flashlights being irregularly clicked on/off by 100+ people. "I've been in this room before."
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Jan 31, 2017 09:27
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Just finished reading "The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 years" and it was a great read. Now I'm on to the next 25. We also finished watching Enterprise a couple of weeks ago, and good god, who thought that killing Trip like that was a good idea?
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Jan 31, 2017 11:59
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Tikifire posted:Just finished reading "The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 years" and it was a great read. Now I'm on to the next 25. I think the next 25 is better than the first twenty five but you gotta read between the lines.
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Jan 31, 2017 12:30
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MisterBibs posted:Genesis started my "let me see the damned monster" belief, I think. Still can't imagine that 80% of that proto-Klingon was in shadow the entire episode. All the pre-transformation acting is great and fun when you know what's coming. Barclay is twitchy and spreads himself out/looms over other people, Ogawa gets up from a table with the tops of her fists like an orangutan, etc.
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Jan 31, 2017 13:48
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MikeJF posted:Didn't Genesis win a makeup emmy or something? Yeah it did, and as dipshit dumb as the plot was, the makeup work was amazing. When mutated Paris coughs up his own tongue while his face skin looks like it's about to slough off Brundlefly-style, that was gross as hell.
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Jan 31, 2017 14:16
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going to stream Star Trek The Next Generation: A Final Unity soon: http://www.hitbox.tv/mateo360
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Jan 31, 2017 16:48
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Cat Hatter posted:I had to take a test once where the teacher had the lights out so we could see x-rays on a projector and then everyone was supposed to bring a small flashlight so they could see where they were writing their answers. The room was filled with the sound of flashlights being irregularly clicked on/off by 100+ people. Don't you hate being in a situation like this where you can't just bust out the one-liner right then and there because even though it's dark and it would be funny you know nobody else would get it?
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Jan 31, 2017 16:48
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Data Graham posted:Don't you hate being in a situation like this where you can't just bust out the one-liner right then and there because even though it's dark and it would be funny you know nobody else would get it? I know right? I had to sit on that one for years so I could tell all my real friends in the Star Trek thread. ...and then everybody stood up and clapped.
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Jan 31, 2017 17:38
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I actually didn't think Genesis was SOOOO bad at the DNA stuff, at least relative to other examples in the series. I appreciated that they at least tried to make it sound plausible (introns and junk DNA that were vestiges of previous evolutionary forms) My biggest gripe in any of these DNA changing episodes is how the changes happen almost instantly (like the transporter turning the cast into children). And then how people are reverted back to 100% health. Do you even get a sick day? I can't imagine what kind of mental trauma would be involved in my brain turning into a lizard and back.
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Jan 31, 2017 18:09
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Martha Stewart Undying posted:Lack of continuity is what bugged me about a lot of TNG's episodes and it's why I've always loved DS9 more. It manages to make the trek universe feel full of actual ramifications. You're mistaken, Rick Berman invented the idea of series continuity in season 3 of enterprise, it was never done before that.
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Jan 31, 2017 18:33
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Bucswabe posted:I actually didn't think Genesis was SOOOO bad at the DNA stuff, at least relative to other examples in the series. I appreciated that they at least tried to make it sound plausible (introns and junk DNA that were vestiges of previous evolutionary forms) Every time Westley talks you just start hissing and your eyes roll around wildly.
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Jan 31, 2017 18:36
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Uhura is singing and Spock is playing the harp. Am I high? Am I not high enough?
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Jan 31, 2017 18:53
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WampaLord posted:Uhura is singing and Spock is playing the harp. I'm pretty sure you're just watching the only episode of the original series JJ Abrams ever saw.
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Jan 31, 2017 18:55
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WampaLord posted:Good god, the sexism. WampaLord posted:Uhura is singing and Spock is playing the harp. I see you're learning the joys of 1960's TV.
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Jan 31, 2017 18:58
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Mister Kingdom posted:It's been a while since Harry got bitch slapped. Yesssssss  POST GIFS OF HARRY KIM GETTING OWNED      
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Jan 31, 2017 19:10
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Pakled posted:I see you're learning the joys of 1960's TV. Surely this was weird even for then, Gene was a weirdo pervert regardless of era. E: I am now seeing TOS' idea of what a gym is. 
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Jan 31, 2017 19:11
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WampaLord posted:Surely this was weird even for then, Gene was a weirdo pervert regardless of era. If it wasn't weird even for then it wouldn't have stuck around. Dramatic TV in the 60s was poo poo.
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Jan 31, 2017 19:19
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Speaking of the Great Weirdo Pervert of the Galaxy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9QHrNdgX4U
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Jan 31, 2017 19:31
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WampaLord posted:Surely this was weird even for then, Gene was a weirdo pervert regardless of era. I like the guy in the background on the two ropes in the wall.
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Jan 31, 2017 19:31
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WickedHate posted:If it wasn't weird even for then it wouldn't have stuck around. Dramatic TV in the 60s was poo poo. NO DISAGREEING!  Just making a joke, you have a point
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Jan 31, 2017 19:35
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Cross-Section posted:Speaking of the Great Weirdo Pervert of the Galaxy... Here's one that still works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOkN6kgxS4w John Eaves is involved in this isn't he, I can see his fugly rear end design work in there
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Jan 31, 2017 19:45
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Tighclops posted:
I actually don't think so, his involvement with Trek has been steadily declining -- he did a lot of ship work on '09, but for Into Darkness he only designed some Klingon props, and then he just did some prop concept art for Beyond.
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Jan 31, 2017 19:57
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Genesis is a really entertaining episode with some genuinely disturbing bits, it just has the misfortune of being centered around a really stupid misunderstanding of how evolution works. Evolution actually is a directed process in trek, though. There was a whole episode about it and everything.
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Jan 31, 2017 20:01
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Tsaedje posted:All the pre-transformation acting is great and fun when you know what's coming. Barclay is twitchy and spreads himself out/looms over other people, Ogawa gets up from a table with the tops of her fists like an orangutan, etc. Oh, totally. Riker going Algernon talking to the computer was awesome too.
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Jan 31, 2017 20:19
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Here's another working one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu_W_5oZf7c
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Jan 31, 2017 20:22
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Lookin terrible.
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Jan 31, 2017 21:04
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WampaLord posted:E: I am now seeing TOS' idea of what a gym is. I personally love the sickbay foot-powered ceiling-bellows diagnostic (not from that scene/episode)
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Jan 31, 2017 21:06
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The_Doctor posted:Here's another working one: I cant recall, is discovery taking place in prime universe or kelvin?
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Jan 31, 2017 21:07
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Martha Stewart Undying posted:I cant recall, is discovery taking place in prime universe or kelvin? Kinda neat that the uniforms look like a bridge between Enterprise and TOS.
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Jan 31, 2017 21:29
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Martha Stewart Undying posted:I cant recall, is discovery taking place in prime universe or kelvin? Prime.
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Jan 31, 2017 21:29
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Well it's in both really, right? Since it's pre-Kelvin?
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Jan 31, 2017 22:19
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Croatoan posted:Well it's in both really, right? Since it's pre-Kelvin? It's not pre-kelvin. It's 10 years prior to TOS, so about 20 years after the Kelvin. It actually would be taking place concurrently with the new movies considering how that was accelerated. 2254 is when discovery would be taking place. So the same year when Kirk got promoted to Lt in the prime timeline. Kelvin incident took place in 2233 and ST 2009 took place in 2258. bull3964 fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Jan 31, 2017 |
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Jan 31, 2017 22:25
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McSpanky posted:Yeah it did, and as dipshit dumb as the plot was, the makeup work was amazing. When mutated Paris coughs up his own tongue while his face skin looks like it's about to slough off Brundlefly-style, that was gross as hell. That was Threshold
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Jan 31, 2017 22:42
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Haha of course there's a comment on the trailer complaining about the use of the USS Enterprise Delta insignia. I'm more bothered by that hideous ship design still being used.
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Jan 31, 2017 22:47
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So....still stickin with CBS All Access, huh?
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