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I think I've finally accepted the fact that the last season and a half of DS9 is better than anything that TNG ever was save a few episodes. However, I do think that the last episode of TNG is the best episode of Star Trek ever made. Edit: best part about last episode of TNG is that troi is dead in the future lmbo slave to my cravings fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Feb 24, 2017 |
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Mentally Retarded First officer?
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 01:22 |
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Cojawfee posted:Trip, I'd like you to check out the decon chamber. Every time T'Pol and I come back from an away mission, "Unchained Melody" starts playing when we are rubbing decon gel on each other. Foreigners I Want to Know What Love Is would be fitting too considering A: Emotionally repressed Vulcan and B: I'm pretty sure Scott Bakula banged someone in an episode of Quantum Leap to that song.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 02:14 |
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Nessus posted:Maybe if it was pitched as restoration. I know I've heard a bunch of complaining about the redone effects shots in TOS and I'm used to sci fi fans on the Internet screaming their pants off the moment a computer generated image produced after the Clinton administration gets anywhere near a TV show. B5 was already CGI, whereas TOS had charming models.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 04:35 |
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I just want to remind everyone that they should really be watching The Expanse
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 04:40 |
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Given what Patrick Stewart wanted Picard to do in the TNG movies I wonder how much he would have loved to play a Sisko-equivalent in DS9 - punching super-soldiers, gassing planets, blowing up all the ships. Frakes directed at least a few episodes of DS9, not to mention Defiant, so I wonder if they'll interview him too about his brief time on DS9.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 04:52 |
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I just can't handle Ira's goatee, it looks like he just ate one of those bank vault dye packs
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 04:53 |
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slave to my cravings posted:Edit: best part about last episode of TNG is that troi is dead in the future lmbo Also neatly explains why the Enterprise-D is still around
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 04:53 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I just want to remind everyone that they should really be watching The Expanse Yes. Absolutely. I haven't read the books but I'm loving the show. It's probably the first sci-fi show since Trek went off the air that I'm genuinely excited to watch. I didn't even make it through the first season of BSG.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 05:25 |
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Frakes owns.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 05:26 |
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grilldos posted:Frakes owns. Thanks, Frakes. Thrakes.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 05:37 |
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Nessus posted:Maybe if it was pitched as restoration. I know I've heard a bunch of complaining about the redone effects shots in TOS and I'm used to sci fi fans on the Internet screaming their pants off the moment a computer generated image produced after the Clinton administration gets anywhere near a TV show. Nobody cares about CG replacing other CG.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 05:49 |
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MikeJF posted:Nobody cares about CG replacing other CG. Have you met the internet? Or classic sci-fi nerds?
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:03 |
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slave to my cravings posted:the last episode of TNG is the best episode of Star Trek ever made. If only they hadn't just barely gotten the time paradox wrong it would be perfect. Certainly top five even so.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I just want to remind everyone that they should really be watching The Expanse I want to remind everyone that they should go and watch Farscape again.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:25 |
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The Bloop posted:If only they hadn't just barely gotten the time paradox wrong it would be perfect. Go on
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Rhyno posted:I want to remind everyone that they should go and watch Farscape again. And to finish Battlestar Galactica.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:41 |
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:I'd prefer this. There is no way you could reliably replicate the chemistry of Londo and G'kar with new actors, as one example. But moreover, in general I maintain you could not make a show like B5 today. Everyone is too cynical to make something that threads the needle so well of the scrappy underdogs who somehow remain complex characters as they become legit Big drat Heroes. I fully believe any attempt today would either end up like the versions postulated by the armchair quarterback historians in The Deconstruction of Falling Stars, or leave them feeling flat. Honestly, at least in a modern show they probably wouldn't let Ivanova and Sheridan being bad pass so easily. Occasionally they do well, but some of their scenes are absolute trash, and Garibaldi and Delenn have stinkers as well. If they improved the acting of the leads and managed to not go so much to the Lord of the Rings references it could certainly be improved. This does not mean that they could ever replicate Katsulas and Jurasik's ability to ham it up. Mumy was also great.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:44 |
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Cojawfee posted:Go on It's an anti-time anomaly, so it should have been visible the first time they went to the Deveron System in the future. Also, Data says three inverse tachyon beams are all converging and they appear to have been fired from the same ship, but Pasteur fired one of them.
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CPColin posted:Also, Data says three inverse tachyon beams are all converging and they appear to have been fired from the same ship, but Pasteur fired one of them. When they were installing the big gently caress-off phaser and third nacelle on the D they had to take some poo poo out which they then installed in the Pasteur because a medical ship doesn't need a state-of-the-art deflector and they were having some materiel shortages what with the Klingon war and all. The reason they don't see the anomaly the first time is that the Pasteurs sensors were malfunctioning, but no one realised because a medical ship doesn't usually have to do a lot of fancy sensor-ing beyond "are we where we're supposed to be?", and they were good enough for that. Please send my No-Prize at your earliest convenience.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I just want to remind everyone that they should really be watching The Expanse I want to like The Expanse; it looks expensive and it seems like someone put a lot of effort into it. But I find all the characters (and drat there are so many) boring and the show overall just lacks dramatic sizzle. it doesn't have the zany frantic feel of Farscape, or the heroic monologues of shows like BSG or B5.
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Panzeh posted:Honestly, at least in a modern show they probably wouldn't let Ivanova and Sheridan being bad pass so easily. Occasionally they do well, but some of their scenes are absolute trash, and Garibaldi and Delenn have stinkers as well. If they improved the acting of the leads and managed to not go so much to the Lord of the Rings references it could certainly be improved. For best B5 experience, just watch the G'kar and Londo episodes, skip everything else You don't really need to know the story about JMS-the-elf-Jesus, or JMS-the-guy-who-bangs-an-elf
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Tunicate posted:For best B5 experience, just watch the G'kar and Londo episodes, skip everything else That's most of the episodes though.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 09:11 |
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CPColin posted:It's an anti-time anomaly, so it should have been visible the first time they went to the Deveron System in the future. Also, Data says three inverse tachyon beams are all converging and they appear to have been fired from the same ship, but Pasteur fired one of them. More to the point, the anti-time anomaly shouldn't have appeared later on, even if they did do something to create it.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 12:10 |
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I thought I remembered Night Terrors... I didn't remember poo poo.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 12:27 |
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Apollodorus posted:More to the point, the anti-time anomaly shouldn't have appeared later on, even if they did do something to create it. I just assumed what we saw in the future wasn't real, what with Warp 13 and Geordi being married to Leah Brahms and all.
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Apollodorus posted:More to the point, the anti-time anomaly shouldn't have appeared later on, even if they did do something to create it. The anti-time portion grew into the past. The normal-time portion grew into the future. It's symmetrical on either side of its creation.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:The anti-time portion grew into the past. The normal-time portion grew into the future. It's symmetrical on either side of its creation. it should still have already been there
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The Bloop posted:it should still have already been there And Picard's leaps were back into the resulting timelines, because... Q.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:40 |
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Beachcomber posted:I thought I remembered Night Terrors... Before I watched TNG, I'd always assumed Guinan was a bigger character. Sure, she's a pretty big supporting character, but for some reason I'd always had the impression that Whoopi Goldberg was in the main cast for maybe a couple of seasons then left when her movie career took off (when, of course, she was already a big name movie star when TNG started and got into it because she loves Star Trek).
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Wheat Loaf posted:Before I watched TNG, I'd always assumed Guinan was a bigger character. Sure, she's a pretty big supporting character, but for some reason I'd always had the impression that Whoopi Goldberg was in the main cast for maybe a couple of seasons then left when her movie career took off (when, of course, she was already a big name movie star when TNG started and got into it because she loves Star Trek). If I recall, they put in her some of the group photo shots with the rest of the cast so that impression isn't unwarranted. Hell, she had her own action figure.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 15:36 |
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She somehow ended up in most of the good episodes (excluding the one where she, Picard, Ro, and Keiko get turned into children).
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 15:47 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:She somehow ended up in most of the good episodes (excluding the one where she, Picard, Ro, and Keiko get turned into children). They also put her in a movie! There is a rich history of celebrities show-horning themselves into Star Trek, just ask the Ensign Rivers:
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 16:04 |
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is that ross matthews?
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 16:04 |
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Rhyno posted:I want to remind everyone that they should go and watch Farscape again. Wait why is farscape good again I forget : [ I liked BSG but stopped in the middle because of the constant religious baltar stuff
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:They also put her in a movie! There is a rich history of celebrities show-horning themselves into Star Trek, just ask the Ensign Rivers: Apparently Nolan North was in Star Trek '09 simply because JJ Abrhams liked Uncharted 2 so much he had to work with him, so he had a small cameo/background shot.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:They also put her in a movie! There is a rich history of celebrities show-horning themselves into Star Trek, just ask the Ensign Rivers:
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:They also put her in a movie! There is a rich history of celebrities show-horning themselves into Star Trek, just ask the Ensign Rivers: Seth MacFarlane is one of the few creative types I have heard talk about Star Trek that made me think they actually understood it. I kind of wish he had helmed the `09 reboots instead of Abraham's, but I have no clue is he is even capable of doing anything remotely serious. Then again, with all of the shoe-horned nostalgia references that the new movies had, I am not sure it would have made any difference.
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I wonder what would've been more disturbing, a CGI Stewie cameo or Nurse Anime Face.
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Lord Hydronium posted:Also the current king ofJordan as an extra on Voyager: And Bryan Singer in Nemesis:
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