Star Trek: *hits blunt* The higher, the fewerrrrrr

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Gonz: Dec 22, 2009; "Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"

He was blown out an airlock by CBS for his crimes.

# ? Feb 12, 2017 23:39

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Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Gonz posted:

He was blown out an airlock by CBS for his crimes.

Goddamn, Bakula is ruthless.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 00:07

Delthalaz: Mar 5, 2003; Slippery Tilde

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

Wait, this just hit me. Grizzelas? Were they supposed to be a planet of bear-people?

...I love it.

Courtesy of http://star-trek-microheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Aliens

# ? Feb 13, 2017 00:25

Pwnstar: Dec 9, 2007; Who wants some waffles?

Delthalaz posted:

Courtesy of http://star-trek-microheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Aliens

Hahaha.

In Stargate one of the big important races of ancient advanced aliens was called the Furlings. Nobody ever found one or saw a picture of what they looked like so the characters just kind of came to the conclusion that they were Ewoks.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 01:15

TheBigAristotle: Feb 8, 2007; I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.
I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.; Grimey Drawer

Delthalaz posted:

Courtesy of http://star-trek-microheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Aliens

Is this Hyperriker's first officer?

# ? Feb 13, 2017 01:36

WampaLord: Jan 14, 2010

Hahaha he's just some idiot who saw Star Trek aliens and assumed "Klingons."

I was thinking that was a possibility. The average non-Trek fans only knows about Klingons.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 01:55

Evek: Apr 26, 2002; "It's okay. I wouldn't remember me either."

I thought it was "the one with the whales"?

# ? Feb 13, 2017 02:37

Angry Salami: Jul 27, 2013; Don't trust the skull.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

Wasn't that for all of one episode? And yeah there was the Sherlock "ooooops, nobody bothered to check whether this was public domain yet!" Holmes episode, but after that I don't think there's much at all.

Jesus from the way people get all boo-hoo over the dreadful way she treated our golden son you'd think she spent the whole season walking around the ship calling him "blinkyhead" and telling junior officers his orders carried no legal weight.

She wasn't that far off in early season 2, actually - In "The Child", she doesn't want Data in sickbay, dismissing him as 'cold technology'; in "Where Silence Has Lease", when Data's trying to explain the weird poo poo going on, she turns to Picard and demands 'Does it know what it's doing?!'

Like, she calms down a little bit, but early on, she's literally unwilling to accept Data as a sapient being.

(And people remember that because she doesn't really have any episodes of her own - there's 'The one where they rip off The Deadly Years' and 'The one where she's Moriarty's hostage', but she's not really the lead in either of them, so her most memorable moments are 'being a horrible rear end in a top hat' and 'being a technophobic idiot who inexplicably joined Starfleet'...)

Angry Salami fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Feb 13, 2017

# ? Feb 13, 2017 03:55

Astroman: Apr 8, 2001

Timby posted:

Continuity is an albatross.

Then just say you're rebooting it. :shrug:

# ? Feb 13, 2017 04:33

Scudworth: Jan 1, 2005; When life gives you lemons, you clone those lemons, and make super lemons.; Dinosaur Gum

The character trait I remember most about Pulaski other than hating Data is that she doesn't appear to have doubted herself once in her life, onscreen or off. Which puts her in a unique position among the crew (especially the women) until Ro shows up.

Also she banged Riker's dad.

Scudworth fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Feb 13, 2017

# ? Feb 13, 2017 04:47

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

Angry Salami posted:

She wasn't that far off in early season 2, actually - In "The Child", she doesn't want Data in sickbay, dismissing him as 'cold technology'; in "Where Silence Has Lease", when Data's trying to explain the weird poo poo going on, she turns to Picard and demands 'Does it know what it's doing?!'

Like, she calms down a little bit, but early on, she's literally unwilling to accept Data as a sapient being.

(And people remember that because she doesn't really have any episodes of her own - there's 'The one where they rip off The Deadly Years' and 'The one where she's Moriarty's hostage', but she's not really the lead in either of them, so her most memorable moments are 'being a horrible rear end in a top hat' and 'being a technophobic idiot who inexplicably joined Starfleet'...)

I guess I just really don't give a poo poo that she was kind of a jerk to the one person who literally cannot take it personally.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 05:22

Orv: May 4, 2011

Scudworth posted:

The character trait I remember most about Pulaski other than hating Data is that she doesn't appear to have doubted herself once in her life, onscreen or off. Which puts her in a unique position among the crew (especially the women) until Ro shows up.

Also she banged Riker's dad.

And probably Worf. She got around.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

I guess I just really don't give a poo poo that she was kind of a jerk to the one person who literally cannot take it personally.

This I wholeheartedly agree with, and I think the "She was a dick to Data" is a bad reason to dislike her because of it. When you can go on a three minute rant to someones face, calling them inhuman, potentially-non-sapient walking garbage, and their reaction is mild puzzlement, you're not exactly starting a career in ruining lives.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 05:35

WampaLord: Jan 14, 2010

Orv posted:

This I wholeheartedly agree with, and I think the "She was a dick to Data" is a bad reason to dislike her because of it. When you can go on a three minute rant to someones face, calling them inhuman, potentially-non-sapient walking garbage, and their reaction is mild puzzlement, you're not exactly starting a career in ruining lives.

That just makes it pointless then. Would you go on a tirade to your computer about how you don't respect it?

# ? Feb 13, 2017 05:38

Orv: May 4, 2011

Like, almost daily.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 05:38

PostNouveau: Sep 3, 2011; VY till I die; Grimey Drawer

Scudworth posted:

The character trait I remember most about Pulaski other than hating Data is that she doesn't appear to have doubted herself once in her life, onscreen or off. Which puts her in a unique position among the crew (especially the women) until Ro shows up.

Also she banged Riker's dad.

She's boozing all the time IIRC.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 05:46

Winifred Madgers: Feb 12, 2002

WampaLord posted:

That just makes it pointless then. Would you go on a tirade to your computer about how you don't respect it?

I get irritated with stupid customer service phone AIs all the time, from her perspective there's not much difference.

I mean imagine everyone else is ok with like an insurance company's phone bot running the ship, you'd freak out too.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 06:00

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

WampaLord posted:

That just makes it pointless then. Would you go on a tirade to your computer about how you don't respect it?

this is basically the mission statement of YOSPOS

# ? Feb 13, 2017 06:03

After The War: Apr 12, 2005; to all of my Architects
let me be traitor

Angry Salami posted:

'The one where they rip off The Deadly Years'

Speaking of which, how much were the DS9 writers hoping we forgot that episode when they were retconning Bashir? The genetic engineering in that one was insane.

Unnatural Selection posted:

: We're growing kids that are telepathic. And telekinetic! And they mature super fast! And they have external immune systems somehow!
: Hmm, okay.

Doctor Bashir, I Presume posted:

: So, the truth is, I can do math and science fast, and have pretty advanced dexterity.
You, sir, are a monster!

There was an eight year gap between the two, but it's weird to see that TNG episode post-DS9.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 06:03

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

skasion posted:

M'Benga owns, if only for that scene where he slaps the poo poo out of Spock.

Given how often Spock gets his rear end kicked they should probably have put M'Benga in more episodes.

M'Benga is the main doctor in the Vangard novel series. I appreciate that in TOS they actually had African characters from Africa, even if you'd never really know it culturally. Modern Trek all the diversity is filtered via America or Western Europe. I think Hoshi was supposed to actually be from Japan itself, but off the top of my head every other non-white human character was a whatever-American or British, which is pretty lame. That's one thing Discovery at least seems to be fixing, but they're hopefully not going too out there on the China ship and making it all-China all the time.

MikeJF posted:

The guy who posted it:

So everyone just... chill.

Also he's been fired because he's an NDA-breaking idiot.

I'm not sure I believe that this guy's not just trying to cover his rear end after the fact, other than the tall heads those aliens look a lot like the JJ-verse Klingons. I hope I'm wrong. Now if they are some long-lost ancient sect then I don't mind it, since clearly we've seen Klingons have a lot of variety in ridge type. As long as "modern" Klingons look like we'd expect them to, then I won't have to be a huge sperg over it.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 09:28

VitalSigns: Sep 3, 2011

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

I guess I just really don't give a poo poo that she was kind of a jerk to the one person who literally cannot take it personally.

Eh publicly dissing a co-worker and questioning his competence in front of everyone like that is just unprofessional, and for no reason too. If she had a problem with him she should take it to the first officer or the captain privately instead of undermining him to the whole crew. That's some childish poo poo.

You don't need a crew member who decides she's the authority on who is sentient and starts going off on people because her stone age rear end feels like they're too weird to really be "people".

Everyone's lives depend on accurate information, if you reject what the ops officer is telling you because his biology is wrong then maybe Starfleet isn't the career for you.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 09:50

Nessus: Dec 22, 2003; After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!

I thought Geordi was explicitly from Mogadishu, Somalia, it just never came up, not even to the extent it did with Uhura. Was Daystrom given a specific nationality? If not, the Sisko was I think the first explicitly "African American" Trek character.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 09:56

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Nessus posted:

I thought Geordi was explicitly from Mogadishu, Somalia, it just never came up, not even to the extent it did with Uhura. Was Daystrom given a specific nationality? If not, the Sisko was I think the first explicitly "African American" Trek character.

You're right, I guess he was. For some reason I thought Geordi was explicitly American too. I stand corrected.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 10:05

Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Geordi does use the expression "beaucoup trouble" at one point, which made me think he was from Louisiana.

But of course Sisko is the one canonically fron Louisiana, so :shrug:

# ? Feb 13, 2017 12:30

WeAreTheRomans: Feb 23, 2010; by R. Guyovich

Apollodorus posted:

Geordi does use the expression "beaucoup trouble" at one point, which made me think he was from Louisiana.

Or Vietnam

# ? Feb 13, 2017 12:55

macnbc: Dec 13, 2006; brb, time travelin'

Knormal posted:

M'Benga is the main doctor in the Vangard novel series. I appreciate that in TOS they actually had African characters from Africa, even if you'd never really know it culturally. Modern Trek all the diversity is filtered via America or Western Europe. I think Hoshi was supposed to actually be from Japan itself, but off the top of my head every other non-white human character was a whatever-American or British, which is pretty lame. That's one thing Discovery at least seems to be fixing, but they're hopefully not going too out there on the China ship and making it all-China all the time.

I'm not sure I believe that this guy's not just trying to cover his rear end after the fact, other than the tall heads those aliens look a lot like the JJ-verse Klingons. I hope I'm wrong. Now if they are some long-lost ancient sect then I don't mind it, since clearly we've seen Klingons have a lot of variety in ridge type. As long as "modern" Klingons look like we'd expect them to, then I won't have to be a huge sperg over it.

The question is what would you call "modern", since the show takes place prior to TOS.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 14:04

Orv: May 4, 2011

Didn't Geordi spend time as a kid on that dumb planet that dumb ensign was from in that dumb episode on the communications station?

No I have zero opinions about that episode why do you ask.

Orv fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Feb 13, 2017

# ? Feb 13, 2017 15:29

Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

VitalSigns posted:

Eh publicly dissing a co-worker and questioning his competence in front of everyone like that is just unprofessional, and for no reason too. If she had a problem with him she should take it to the first officer or the captain privately instead of undermining him to the whole crew. That's some childish poo poo.

You don't need a crew member who decides she's the authority on who is sentient and starts going off on people because her stone age rear end feels like they're too weird to really be "people".

Everyone's lives depend on accurate information, if you reject what the ops officer is telling you because his biology is wrong then maybe Starfleet isn't the career for you.

Yeah I feel like if Pulaski was openly being racist to her android coworker in today's workplace, much less in 2362, she would be in trouble before too long.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 16:34

remusclaw: Dec 8, 2009

Arglebargle III posted:

Yeah I feel like if Pulaski was openly being racist to her android coworker in today's workplace, much less in 2362, she would be in trouble before too long.

While I actually like Pulaski, and feel that her mini story about coming to accept Data is a good part of the second season, I also do not deny that it is possible and perhaps even likely that the reason she was gone in the third was due to a backlog of EEO complaints finally catching up to her.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 16:38

McSpanky: Jan 16, 2005

Tighclops posted:

I love that Star Wars gets slavishly adherent 1977 styled period pieces but nobody can handle a vision of the future that isn't covered in terrible bump mapping otherwise it seems

I mean I'm not saying it'll all suck because of one or two photos, we have no idea who these guys are or what the rest of the show will look like but it seems a bit dubious to say "we're setting this show 5 minutes before TOS!" and then there's no real visual indication of that aside from one or two little tiny bits in the back that only nerds like us would be able to pick out.

I bet the computers won't even have physical buttons.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 16:39

Orv: May 4, 2011

McSpanky posted:

I bet the computers won't even have physical buttons.

Even as a kid I refused to believe you could pilot anything at any sort of speed with TNG and on control surfaces. That poo poo dumb.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 16:42

Pwnstar: Dec 9, 2007; Who wants some waffles?

I liked in Voyager when Tom Paris designed the Delta Flyer he put in flightsticks and buttons as well as the touchscreen just so he could use them if he felt like it/needed to.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 17:48

Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

I always figured that the helmsman on the Enterprise-D wasn't really directly controlling the movements of the ship, but rather, entering movement paths in the form of lines or vectors in 3D space.

Pakled fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Feb 13, 2017

# ? Feb 13, 2017 18:59

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

remusclaw posted:

While I actually like Pulaski, and feel that her mini story about coming to accept Data is a good part of the second season, I also do not deny that it is possible and perhaps even likely that the reason she was gone in the third was due to a backlog of EEO complaints finally catching up to her.

"I've come to realize Data is just like us, unlike those filthy glorfors like the one we have as an ensign. Good thing I don't let him in sickbay or he'd steal all the drugs."

# ? Feb 13, 2017 19:25

socialsecurity: Aug 30, 2003; Can't post for 4 hours!

Pakled posted:

I always figured that the helmsman on the Enterprise-D wasn't really directly controlling the movements of the ship, but rather, entering movement paths in the form of lines or vectors in 3D space.

Yeah they gotta be just typing addresses into the space-gps.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 19:34

Wheat Loaf: Feb 13, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

WeAreTheRomans posted:

Or Vietnam

Djibouti.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 19:58

Orv: May 4, 2011

socialsecurity posted:

Yeah they gotta be just typing addresses into the space-gps.

Yeah but, and this is the stupidest thing to hang up on, their inputs must be some crazy shorthand or something. But I won't actually travel that idea any further because I know they're just making poo poo up and my brain is dumb.

# ? Feb 13, 2017 21:01