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cheetah7071 posted:It's a very Federation thing to do to honor a non-proliferation treaty made with a state you haven't had diplomatic relations with for a generation, during which time you fight at least two wars and meet the borg That phase shifting cloaking tech would've been cool to see in the Dominion War.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:That phase shifting cloaking tech would've been cool to see in the Dominion War. A Founder would have grabbed one of those and beamed off with it straightaway
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Mar 31, 2017 12:25
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Orv posted:As long as it's still Jeremy Irons, just as a Romulan. Stop reading my Dream Journal! 
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Mar 31, 2017 13:11
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Has Discovery been revealed to be an elaborate prank yet?
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Lightning Lord posted:Has Discovery been revealed to be an elaborate prank yet? Magic 8 ball says concentrate and ask again tomorrow
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Bohemian Nights posted:Magic 8 ball says concentrate and ask again tomorrow But wait tomorrow is... *checks calendar*... aha
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Hey guys, so, I was just watching Spectre of the Gun for the first time and.... I was utterly shocked by how UNBELIEVABLY loving CREEPY it was. I am just going to assume that this episode was made WELL before the film 'Wyatt Earp (which I've never seen) but I'm fairly sure it was both popular and cast its titular character in a very positive light. When in truth the Earps (and Doc Holliday) were probably a lot closer to how they were shown in this episode: dead-eyed psychotic murderers, that is to say. But this episode is a GREAT example where the limited budget for the reason works *fantastically*. The town they are in is an illusion, and *literally* looks like a half-completed set (which is exactly what it is) with the buildings having just a front wall and no ceiling, or the color of the sky being a static apocalyptic red that looks just like the vanilla backdrop with red lighting that it is. But all of this unreality works *perfectly* in this episode. The bizarre, detached craziness of the Earps and Holliday only adds to this. The guy who plays Holliday just scared the poo poo out of me with like 2 minutes of screentime with McCoy. Rarely have I seen such bizarrely creepy menace. "Your Emergency sure is real.... *near-silent rasp of laughter while his face never move a centimeter but just trembles with rage. "Here. Ha ha. Take my bag." That episode is so bizarrely creepy that it borders on Lynchian even though it predates Eraserhead by some 7 or 8 years. The whole thing is like some horrific nightmare.
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Apologies if this has been posted already.. HAAAAARRR--COOOUUUURRRRRTTTTTTT! http://www.startrek.com/article/rainn-wilson-his-name-is-mudd-on-discovery Rainn Wilson to reprise the role of Mudd! Wonder who's gonna be Stella?
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Mar 31, 2017 18:10
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Beachcomber posted:Apparently they did enough damage to get the Federation to abandon an entire technology tree. Romulans got the short end of the stick with that arms race. Even super advanced cutting edge cloaking technology only fools standard federation sensors for half a episode. Meanwhile, standard federation sensors can now detect individual humans from a different solar system.
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Mar 31, 2017 18:22
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Binary Badger posted:Apologies if this has been posted already.. Another TOS character showing up should be an annoyance, but I'm a-ok with anything Rainn Wilson.
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Mar 31, 2017 18:36
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What perfect casting. Now I wish Dwight were on the crew.
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Mar 31, 2017 18:38
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Yeah I can't be angry at that, it's just crazy enough to work and should be hella entertaining. Might as well, if we're doing this at all...
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Mar 31, 2017 18:40
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I just default to hating all news about Discovery, but I have to admit love I Dwight in anything. I hope someone puts his phaser in jello. Holy poo poo, that worked better than I thought it would.
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Mar 31, 2017 19:06
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Angry Salami posted:I like Voyager because the torpedo launchers and deflector give it a happy face. The Equinox is actually the coolest ship in 'recent' Star Trek.  Note the green and red navigation lights.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I just default to hating all news about Discovery, but I have to admit love I Dwight in anything. I hope someone puts his phaser in jello. Just a general PSA that everyone in this thread should watch Super at least once.
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Mike the TV posted:The Equinox is actually the coolest ship in 'recent' Star Trek. Actually it's pretty crazy how much of an impact that tiny touch has. It makes the ship feel more like a ship, and also more human. Do any other Star Trek vessels have that feature?
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Mar 31, 2017 19:59
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Beep Beep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeRIe9WY-u8 Best ship coming through
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Binary Badger posted:HAAAAARRR--COOOUUUURRRRRTTTTTTT! Oh yeah... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nTlgM4tgWs "f-f-f-five hundred.. ppppbbbbppptttttt!" Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Mar 31, 2017 20:02
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vermin posted:Beep Beep Smooth and matte light-grey, checks out.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:04
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I wonder what happened to the 497 other Nagdroids
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Nessus posted:The Romulans just don't seem to be real big players, even if they're obviously not like... small, at least by the TNG/DS9 era. (They may have been relatively more impactful earlier.) I wouldn't be surprised if they had less political and economic clout than the Cardassians did. I always got the impression that everything the Romulans do is designed around pretending that they're more capable than they are. They have big hollow ships that look much more massive than they are (like a puffer fish) and they use cloaking devices so you can't tell how many ships they have. That way they can put a ton of armament on each ship in a smaller fleet, but nobody knows how large the fleet is (in Way Of The Warrior, DS9 couldn't even keep track of how many Klingon ships were flying around just outside the window). Did the Romulans only contribute half the ships the Klingons or Federation did to the task force because they're keeping a bunch in reserve for after the war, or because they don't have any more to spare? Do we want to find out the hard way? I still think they could probably beat the (pre-DS9) Cardassians in a war, but they keep to themselves because if they don't completely steamroll them like the Klingons did then there will be blood in the water and the other powers might start challenging them more openly. Brawnfire posted:I had assumed a hostile situation, so no sneaky cold-war stuff just classic pounce and smash. I feel like being literally surrounded by an enemy's vessel is a strategically poor time to begin firing weapons, but I'm not a starship captain. That seems like a lot of weapons to devote to blowing up smaller weaker ships (that are now inside your shields and you are now unprotected from, even just them exploding probably wouldn't do you any favors). If you get into it with a Galaxy class, you might wish you had more disruptors on the outside of the ship where they can shoot at things other than the other half of your own ship. And shields can stop a ship coming in from the outside, but I'm not sure if they could stop one from leaving.
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vermin posted:I wonder what happened to the 497 other Nagdroids Beamed into the engine room of a passing Klingon battlecruiser, where they'll be no tribble at all.
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Delsaber posted:Beamed into the engine room of a passing Klingon battlecruiser, where they'll be no tribble at all. And thus began the final chapter of the Klingon Empire.
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vermin posted:Beep Beep Aside from the massive design flaw of the main shuttlebay door being front and centre on the saucer ("AIM HERE"), I've just noticed it has 3 more shuttlebays along each side. What does a ship that small need with 7 shuttlebays? 
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Cat Hatter posted:Romulan warbird stuff Would be neat if they had some sort of special dampening field that basically shut down the electronics of anything inside the denial zone between the hulls. That way, they'd be able to sneak up on smaller ships and sort of just go "Hi you're ours now". Then they can take prisoners, then falsify the ship's logs to say whatever you want, then leave the empty ship there to induce an interplanetary incident. Especially effective if nobody knows you can do this poo poo. Y'know, Just Romulan Things. I like Romulans, I guess I may be fantasizing a bit much.
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The_Doctor posted:Aside from the massive design flaw of the main shuttlebay door being front and centre on the saucer ("AIM HERE"), I've just noticed it has 3 more shuttlebays along each side. What does a ship that small need with 7 shuttlebays? Different ships have different roles, and if anything you'd think more ships would have huge cargo bay doors and poo poo. A huge door leading to a huge storage/shuttle/flex space would be extremely useful.
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Brawnfire posted:Actually it's pretty crazy how much of an impact that tiny touch has. It makes the ship feel more like a ship, and also more human. Do any other Star Trek vessels have that feature? The NX-01 Enterprise does.
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vermin posted:Beep Beep Orwell, probably posted:Four nacelles good, two nacelles bad.
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The Bloop posted:One nacelle I love the Kelvin and I don't care who knows it.
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slap me and kiss me posted:Four nacelles good, two nacelles bad. Gotta go fast.
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Four nacelles good, one nacelle better.
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Baronjutter posted:Different ships have different roles, and if anything you'd think more ships would have huge cargo bay doors and poo poo. A huge door leading to a huge storage/shuttle/flex space would be extremely useful. How else would they transport things?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I love the Kelvin and I don't care who knows it. USS Cannoli Edit: actually the Kelvin looks balanced, there are others out there that look like total rear end. Still seems to defy internal consistency but whatever
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After The War posted:Stop reading my Dream Journal! We can't both have the same dream journal, it'll cause a paradox. A paradox of Jeremy Irons, mmmmm.
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I should probably defend My Bird of Prey best ship ever that's not the Connie Refit. It is a ship that just in every way says agression, it showed that the Klingons from ST3 onward were a people who sought conflict and everything was about going forward and attacking, but also speed and grace. It resembles a body builder flexing when it moves its wings into attack posture, which is a good detail.
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Peter David is the author of some of the better Star Trek novels. It seems he's run into a bit of trouble with the IRS and is now trying to crowd-source a bunch of money. http://www.peterdavid.net/2017/03/31/i-am-in-desperate-trouble/ I figure what the heck, I've enjoyed his stuff over the years, I'll toss him a few bucks.
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Brawnfire posted:Would be neat if they had some sort of special dampening field that basically shut down the electronics of anything inside the denial zone between the hulls. That way, they'd be able to sneak up on smaller ships and sort of just go "Hi you're ours now". Then they can take prisoners, then falsify the ship's logs to say whatever you want, then leave the empty ship there to induce an interplanetary incident. Especially effective if nobody knows you can do this poo poo. Y'know, Just Romulan Things.
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Watching TOS. They are now on the planet of the cowboys. They had the set didn't they? They had the set and they wrote the script around it. It is kind of eerie though that the inside of the saloon looks a lot like the horizon. Has a Twilight Zone feel to it.
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