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Trip report: DS9 season 1, episode 8 "The Passenger" Whoever told Siddig to act like that while Bashir was under the control of the bad dude, well, that was painfully embarrassing. Up until that point I was thinking this was a decent episode; I had pegged the new Starfleet security guy as the accomplice or dupe from the very moment he first opened his mouth, so good on them for foiling my expectations. They gave enough clues that it'd be Bashir, in retrospect. Also his repartee with Kira in the opening was interesting in light of his revelation as an augment later on. Yes, for the sake of my fellow meganerds who just can't wait to leap in with "did you know," I am aware that was not planned from the beginning. Auberjonois and Shimerman have quickly shed the few initial growing pains they had with Odo and Quark, and they're already easily the two strongest characters. Imdb is a pain on mobile so I'll just ask in here, was the investigator the actress who played Worf's wife? At the end when she phasered the neural containment unit, while Sisko, Dax, and Bashir all look on and just about chuckle, I turned to my wife and said, if this were TNG the episode would've been two minutes longer and Picard would've given her a stern lecture about the value of all life and due process.
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McSpanky posted:Holodeck teledildonics would be terrifying to contemplate for exactly this reason. At some point everyone will figure out you don't even need the person in the other holosuite. "Computer, create a sex partner capable of defeating Data."
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Mar 23, 2017 04:55
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Haha yep, that was the bit I was remembering! Very cool tactic. Blew away Teenage Star Trek Fan Me.
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Mar 23, 2017 05:03
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:
Nope, K'Ehleyr (yes I looked up how to spell it) was played by Suzie Plakson who played the female Q and a couple other 1-episode roles. The investigator was Caitlyn Brown, who was also G'Kar's aide Na'Toth.
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Mar 23, 2017 05:56
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Astroman posted:Haha yep, that was the bit I was remembering! Very cool tactic. Blew away Teenage Star Trek Fan Me. A fight where several ships are doing that would be cool in a movie.
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Mar 23, 2017 09:53
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FuturePastNow posted:Nope, K'Ehleyr (yes I looked up how to spell it) was played by Suzie Plakson who played the female Q and a couple other 1-episode roles. Who should not be confused with Mary Kay Adams, the second Na'Toth and also Grilka.
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Mar 23, 2017 10:09
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McSpanky posted:Holodeck teledildonics Mods, please change my name to "Holodeck Teledildonics." TIA
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Mar 23, 2017 12:09
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FuturePastNow posted:Nope, K'Ehleyr (yes I looked up how to spell it) was played by Suzie Plakson who played the female Q and a couple other 1-episode roles.  Now that you say that, I can see it.
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Mar 23, 2017 12:48
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Wasn't one also Dr Sehar? There were no shortage of Amazonian women in 90s genre TV.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:07
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Angry Salami posted:Who should not be confused with Mary Kay Adams, the second Na'Toth and also Grilka. 90s sci fi just passed the same guest actresses around in a big circle
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Mar 23, 2017 14:21
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twistedmentat posted:Wasn't one also Dr Sehar? There were no shortage of Amazonian women in 90s genre TV. Selar? Also Suzie Plakson. For some reason the words Amazonian and genre TV together made me think of Cleopatra 2525, and now I'm just going to grin like an idiot all day thinking about that mess. Orv fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mar 23, 2017 16:37
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Orv posted:
Victoria Pratt, 11/10
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Mar 23, 2017 18:36
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Wife and I are starting a DS9 watch through. For some reason I always thought that there was more of the Bajoran religious stuff in 'Emissary' but there really wasn't that much. I hadn't watched that episode since I was a kid when it aired though.
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Mar 23, 2017 19:28
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Orv posted:Selar? Also Suzie Plakson. If you haven't listened to the theme song for that show then go do it now. Dear god what a weird thing.
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Mar 23, 2017 20:31
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FlamingLiberal posted:Wife and I are starting a DS9 watch through. For some reason I always thought that there was more of the Bajoran religious stuff in 'Emissary' but there really wasn't that much. It takes a little while for the Bajoran mysticism stuff to ramp up. They were already doing Star Trek on a space station with a black single father (who wasn't the captain) as the lead on a show with a really heavy Nazi / Israel allegory. There were only so many elements Piller could play with in the early goings without Berman and Paramount saying, "Wait. Hold on. Shut the gently caress up, we're changing this."
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Mar 23, 2017 23:23
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Binary Badger posted:^^^ Nice job, Pacra! I've never made it through Prelude but I'm a fan of anything that fucks with them.
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sbaldrick posted:I've never made it through Prelude but I'm a fan of anything that fucks with them. Peters has already said that the two Axanar short films are going to be in the talking-head Prelude format because he can't afford to do anything else.
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Mar 24, 2017 01:37
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Mariachi Q is great, Deja Q is great. The season 3 train keeps chugging along!
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Timby posted:Peters has already said that the two Axanar short films are going to be in the talking-head Prelude format because he can't afford to do anything else. The CGI guys must be getting a pretty pen- hahahaha what am I saying, they're getting peanuts while Peters builds a loving pool in his backyard or something
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This is from a while back, but:twistedmentat posted:Funny thing is they changed to this because the twist at the end of the movie was originally in the script going to be that they find out that Skynet is actually taking care of humans in a paradise. That was deemed to complex for the audience to understand. Do you have a source for this? I tried Googling it, but all I found was mention of two alternate darker endings.
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Mar 24, 2017 07:24
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I am liking the premise of this Voyager episode, good shepherd. Of course there are fuckups on Voyager ,and there's no way to get rid of them. Not sure why Janeway herself needs to personally take all the screwbies on a field trip for remedial Starfleet. This sounds like something she should delegate. She really shouldn't even be leaving the ship to be honest, she's holding the crew together and it would be a major setback if she dies on a milk run she doesn't need to be on.
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Mar 24, 2017 07:34
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Because Kathryn Janeway is literally incapable of making the right choice in 9/10 situations.
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Mar 24, 2017 09:06
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Because it's one of the fundamental premises of Star Trek that the captain and senior staff do everything, even trivial missions that really should be delegated.
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Mar 24, 2017 10:13
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Angry Salami posted:Because it's one of the fundamental premises of Star Trek that the captain and senior staff do everything, even trivial missions that really should be delegated. That's one of the only things that I liked better about early TNG that gets set by the wayside as the rest of the show gets better: Riker is meant to be Picard's guy down on the ground, so But what we get in exchange for that in later seasons is "Chain of Command" and "The Inner Light" and "Darmok" and stuff like that. So, sure, chuck the captain into stuff all you like, show.
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Railing Kill posted:But what we get in exchange for that in later seasons is "Chain of Command" and "The Inner Light" and "Darmok" and stuff like that. So, sure, chuck the captain into stuff all you like, show. To be fair, he was on the bridge in The Inner Light and Darmok, he just got probed/kidnapped.
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Mar 24, 2017 10:58
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Orv posted:Because Kathryn Janeway is literally incapable of making the right choice in 9/10 situations. Writer A: "We have to, because the Prime Directive." Writer B: "Screw Prime Directive! Slash and burn the Delta Quadrant!" Writer C: "The Holodeck is turning the dead crewmembers into ghooosts!"
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skooma512 posted:I am liking the premise of this Voyager episode, good shepherd. Of course there are fuckups on Voyager ,and there's no way to get rid of them. Because janeway also needs remedial starfleet lessons
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Railing Kill posted:That's one of the only things that I liked better about early TNG that gets set by the wayside as the rest of the show gets better: Riker is meant to be Picard's guy down on the ground, so Starfleet decided that "the First Officer should lead all away teams" was a bad policy when they took a look at First Officers' life expectancy.
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Pretty sure they re-thought it when they realized they were wasting the best actor on the show sitting in a chair all episode.
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CaveGrinch posted:Pretty sure they re-thought it when they realized they were wasting the best actor on the show sitting in a chair all episode. Marina Sirtis?
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J33uk posted:If you haven't listened to the theme song for that show then go do it now. Dear god what a weird thing. Ha. They just rewrote the lyrics to the old sixties tune "In The Year 2525", which was already a pretty odd song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA Later parodied on Futurama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQba92LBfHo I only vaguely remember the show, it was like a family-friendly version of Lexx with the campiness turned up to maximum.
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Maelstache posted:I only vaguely remember the show, it was like a family-friendly version of Lexx with the campiness turned up to maximum. Family-friendly? I remember a LOT of cleavage on that show, it was pretty explicitly geared towards titillation.
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WampaLord posted:Family-friendly? That was the first thing I ever saw Gina Torres in and to this day I have a hard time taking her seriously in other roles. It's totally not her fault, Cleopatra 2525 was just that corny.
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WampaLord posted:Family-friendly? Heh, maybe I should've said "network TV friendly".
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WampaLord posted:Family-friendly? If I remeber correctly the premise of the show was the main character had a boob job that was botched so badly she had to be put in cryogenic stasis.
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 lawl. Also, Peters' latest crowdfunding effort for his "studio" has already raised more than $12,000. Edit: On the IndieGoGo page, "defendantGarth" (almost certainly a Peters sockpuppet) says that the reason the company ran out of money was because of the CBS / Paramount lawsuit, forcing the studio to be "sitting idle for 14 months." No, it's not like you could have rented it out or anything. I swear, accountability always ends at least one layer away from these jackwagons. Timby fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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Trickjaw posted:Marina Sirtis? I sense....... Trickjaw is joking
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Mar 25, 2017 02:55
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Sorry, this week your powers only work as far as the next room over.
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Orv posted:Sorry, this week your powers only work as far as the next room over. And yet in Nemesis, Troi basically plays Ouija with Worf's hand to find the Scimitar. Christ, what an awful movie.
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That has always been one of my enduring spergy hangups, that Troi's empathy has basically zero rules and just works or doesn't because hand wave. Not really a patch on the real reasons Troi is bad, but still.
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