The_Doctor posted:

Bioware talking about the new player character in Mass Effect: Andromeda:

Pakled posted:

Beyond lost the Makeup & Hairstyling Oscar to Suicide Squad. Bluh.

Gonz posted:

In the fall, expect it to be pushed to Spring 2018.

City on the Edge of Duke Nukem Forever.

https://twitter.com/slashfilm/status/836334478876364800

The_Doctor posted:

I've come to the conclusion that everyone in DS9 is really small. Jake Sisko towers over everyone, but I've met Cirroc Lofton, and he's shorter than me.

Chromatic posted:

Watching TNG's conundrum.

After the crew gets their memories back they(picard especially) completely glance over the fact that the Enterprise just slaughtered 50 innocent Lysians aboard that sentry ship.

Like, that would give most people ptsd or at least cause a massive international(in space terms) incident.

Timby posted:

With the exception of Michael Dorn (who's like 6'5) and Lofton (6'2", maybe 6'3"?), the male cast hangs around 6'0 or so. I suppose Shimerman is a tiny guy, as is Eisenberg.

But if you're taller than Lofton, then you're taller than the vast majority of people in America.

Chromatic posted:

Watching TNG's conundrum.

After the crew gets their memories back they(picard especially) completely glance over the fact that the Enterprise just slaughtered 50 innocent Lysians aboard that sentry ship.

Like, that would give most people ptsd or at least cause a massive international(in space terms) incident.

Gonz posted:

In the fall, expect it to be pushed to Spring 2018.

City on the Edge of Duke Nukem Forever.

Lord Hydronium posted:

At this point there have to be clauses in everyone's legal codes providing mitigating circumstances for alien mind control. Which would probably make a great excuse for anyone inclined to crime: "It wasn't me who robbed that bank, your honor, it was the all-powerful energy being possessing me at the time. Oh, now? It's gone."

There's your next series: lawyers in space. The trial episodes were always Trek's best, anyway.

Lord Hydronium posted:

There's your next series: lawyers in space. The trial episodes were always Trek's best, anyway.

WampaLord posted:

I would watch Starfleet JAG

Evek posted:

Normal JAG sucked. Space JAG would suck even more.

FuturePastNow posted:

I'm sure the Federation Diplomatic Corps has an entire wing dedicated to patching up problems with races too weak to avoid a starship stepping on them but advanced enough to complain.

Evek posted:

Normal JAG sucked. Space JAG would suck even more.

Gonz posted:

City on the Edge of Duke Nukem Forever.

turn left hillary!! noo posted:

In the event we can ever rid ourselves of this old repeat of a thread title, I nominate this to replace it.

FuturePastNow posted:

I'm sure the Federation Diplomatic Corps has an entire wing dedicated to patching up problems with races too weak to avoid a starship stepping on them but advanced enough to complain.

quote:

Dear Zendrackians,

On behalf of the United Federation of Planets, allow me to deeply apologize for the unfortunate incident on Stardate 59142 when the Federation Starship Exeter accidentally destroyed your starship/space station/spacecraft/colony/culture/planet due to an accidental weapons discharge/time travel/undue alien influence/mind control by a god-like entity/space parasites/subspace rupture due to elevated thoron emissions.

We greatly regret this sad loss of life/planetary genocide/property damage/timeline change/irreversible ecological damage/cultural pollution. While we would like to compensate you in some way, we do not use money or monetary instruments at this time, and our laws forbid us to share any technology with civilizations such as yours that are at what we consider Type 0/1/2/3/4 AND/OR are involved in localized interplanetary war.

Perhaps some day we will be able to encounter you again, when your civilization and ours are more compatible. Until then, Live Long and Prosper.

Sincerely Yours,
Undersecretary G'lash Vrandan
United Federation of Planets,
Earth, Sol

The_Doctor posted:

Bioware talking about the new player character in Mass Effect: Andromeda:

Chromatic posted:

Watching TNG's conundrum.

After the crew gets their memories back they(picard especially) completely glance over the fact that the Enterprise just slaughtered 50 innocent Lysians aboard that sentry ship.

Like, that would give most people ptsd or at least cause a massive international(in space terms) incident.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

(Alternately: what, they got super-physics (FTL, transporters, etc) but they can't have super-psychology? And besides, "oh whoops we accidentally whacked a boatload of suckers" is probably way less stressful than what Geordi went through with that Romulan brainwashing.)

MikeJF posted:

Have you seen Troi?

Powered Descent posted:

twistedmentat posted:

If you watch the PBS Documentary about Prohibition it has lots of clips with sound of people in the 20s talking, and its really interesting for example Figerello LaGuardia and Al Smith, both New Yorkers, sound completely different. Not like they're from different parts of the city, but from different countries. There's other accents that are from the moon as well in there.

Some accents survive purely as parody, like the Mid-Atlantic accent, which would be what rich women in the Simpsons tend to have, very clipped and precise. Come to think of it, Admiral Satei had it in the Drumhead.