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TOS Vulcans were Space Chinese (this is canon), so I figured Romulans were basically Space Japanese, despite the obvious potential for Roman symbolism. Maybe it's Remans who are Space Koreans.
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If Vulcans are the Chinese (I haven't heard this before) then they're the ROC and the Romulans are the PRC.
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Apr 5, 2017 15:54
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Vulcans are pretty clearly Space Jews.
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Apr 5, 2017 15:56
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I thought that was the Bajorans.
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Apr 5, 2017 16:03
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The Ferengi are Space Jews, I thought we were clear on this.
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Apr 5, 2017 16:06
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I figured the Klingons were some kind of asian analog.
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Angry Salami posted:Vulcans are pretty clearly Space Jews. No, Leonard Nimoy is a Space Jew. As for Spock, Kirk seems to think he most resembles a Chinese person... Additionally, any glimpses of Vulcan culture seem very Asian-inspired. "Amok Time" in particular resembles Chinese opera. Of course there's also the more stereotypical stuff such as being emotionless, good at science, etc. Cojawfee posted:I figured the Klingons were some kind of asian analog. Quite possible in TOS, but of course ST6 pushes hard for the Space Russians angle.
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Cojawfee posted:I figured the Klingons were some kind of asian analog. By TNG I thought they were some sort of Japan metaphor. A culture we had fought in war, obsessed with honor and warrior pride, that we are now tentatively friendly with.
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Apr 5, 2017 16:24
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They are most honourable japanese vikings.
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Apr 5, 2017 16:27
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WampaLord posted:By TNG I thought they were some sort of Japan metaphor. A culture we had fought in war, obsessed with honor and warrior pride, that we are now tentatively friendly with. They even have signature swords and a tea ceremony. 
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Apr 5, 2017 17:02
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Baronjutter posted:They are most honourable japanese vikings. It's this, TNG/DS9 Klingons are very much Vikings with Samurai Bushido bullshit stapled to them.
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Apr 5, 2017 17:30
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Bohemian Nights posted:That is a really weirdly specific thing to think Kojima actually said he designed Quiet in Mgs5 the way he did specifically to inspire cosplay. It's not without precedent in the industry. I finished Voyager last night. I started from season 4 where I left off like 5 years ago when I quit it. It was a decent enough finale that probably could have done with some more episodes before it as buildup like DS9 had. It felt like a typical two parter with a scheme to get back to Earth that actually ended up working. The actors themselves seemed to like the script so it works for me. I respect what they were trying to do with this series but I felt it was unfocused and spread too thin a lot of the time. I like Janeway as a Captain. Tuvok was my favorite crewmember. Neelix wasn't as annoying in the last half of the show. The show probably worked better when you got it on a weekly drip instead of 3 episodes a day like I was doing. I dabbled with ENT and got past the Andorran Incident but I think I'm going to hold off and let my shields recharge before I start another ST series. Maybe I'll watch some TOS movies.
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Apr 5, 2017 17:59
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I'm gonna make this my avatar but am too stunted by autialcoism (autistic alcoholism) to think of a clever tag to put under it. Could you smartbrain goons help me out with a great tagline? Thanks!
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Apr 5, 2017 21:16
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I sense fear and arousal
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Apr 5, 2017 21:20
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I smell sex and... lilac?
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*CHOMP* edit: Which, I just realized, has added context because Klingons.
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Apr 5, 2017 22:48
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What is kind of cool about the Bajorans is that you can read them as Jews and as Palestinians. Shows you've got a decent sci fi metaphor going on there.
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Flesh Croissant posted:I'm gonna make this my avatar but am too stunted by autialcoism (autistic alcoholism) to think of a clever tag to put under it. Could you smartbrain goons help me out with a great tagline? "This is most dishonorable." "I must protest, I am NOT a Merry Man!" "Do not tell Commander Riker."
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Apr 5, 2017 23:56
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So I got MLB 16 and made Captain BEEEEEENjamin Sisko as my road to the show guy. Too bad I can't make Vulcan ears or mod in Odo as the umpire. I think I'll make part of the Pale Moonlight log one of his walk up songs  . He can live with it.
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Apr 6, 2017 05:31
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Found this on my hard drive when I was looking up another Trek image:
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skasion posted:This would be a lot more interesting than what it's actually portrayed to be, which is a paranoid, isolationist police state with bad fashion. Yeah like the Vulcans, they got more and more same-y as Trek went on. In TOS, the movies, and the beginning of TNG they had all kinds of individual distinctive looks. But I guess that's too confusing for TV audiences or whatever so now they all come from the Planet Of Everyone Has That Same Haircut
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VitalSigns posted:Yeah like the Vulcans, they got more and more same-y as Trek went on. Ahem 
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Apr 6, 2017 11:26
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God I loving hate the standard haircuts. There's like 8 races where everyone has the same horrible haircut. Even North Korea allows people to choose from a dozen options. And the shoulderpads, good lord.
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Apr 6, 2017 11:51
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Wigs and wardrobe are expensive. Making them uniform makes them reusuable and probably gives a bulk discount or something. I hate it too, but you have to accept a certain degree of cost cutting in syndicated scifi.
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Apr 6, 2017 12:55
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No I refuse. I want to see a Romulan with a mohawk dammit
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Found this on my hard drive when I was looking up another Trek image:  ungh, don't care what anybody says. Connie refit best Enterprise hands down. I still remember as a kid riding my bike to Hobby Lobby to buy a bottle of duck egg blue to paint the deflector dish on the model I got as a birthday gift.
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I don't think it's wrong for all the Romulans to look the same, any more than it's wrong for all the Romans to wear togas in a show about Rome. It's just a way of conveying at a glance what culture they are. They all looked the same in TOS as well. But the TOS look has aged WAYYYYYY better than the TNG look. The forehead thing is also insanely stupid. Literally the whole point of the Romulans that they were created as a concept to make is that you can't tell them from Vulcans. It's a moral about how you can't judge someone's politics or personality by how they look. The TNG-era redesign in addition to being ugly as sin 100% of the time (even the Nemesis version of the uniform sucks) reenvisions the moral as "actually you totally can judge, just look at that hosed up forehead".
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Flesh Croissant posted:I'm gonna make this my avatar but am too stunted by autialcoism (autistic alcoholism) to think of a clever tag to put under it. Could you smartbrain goons help me out with a great tagline? Can you try to find a better quality source image, jeez.
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Apr 6, 2017 20:44
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Woah check out the ship with 3 nacelles in the background.
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Baronjutter posted:Woah check out the ship with 3 nacelles in the background. Yup that's basically a refit Dreadnought from the StarFleet Battles game.
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Alien A)______ arrive(s) on Deep Space Nine and makes everybody B)_______. Move Along Home A) Gamblers B) play a game Babel A) biological warfare B) talk in word salad If Wishes Were Horses A) diplomats B) see things from their imagination Dramatis Personae A) history books B) paranoid A Man Alone A) clones B) hate Odo
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Apr 6, 2017 23:00
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If Discovery has a trans character they should be an alien that switches gender every episode.
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Flesh Croissant posted:I'm gonna make this my avatar but am too stunted by autialcoism (autistic alcoholism) to think of a clever tag to put under it. Could you smartbrain goons help me out with a great tagline? If you are bitten by a counselor, you become a counselor.
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sbaldrick posted:If Discovery has a trans character they should be an alien that switches gender every episode. It's been done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzzFuN0QJx0
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Sir Lemming posted:No, Leonard Nimoy is a Space Jew. As for Spock, Kirk seems to think he most resembles a Chinese person... 
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Flesh Croissant posted:I'm gonna make this my avatar but am too stunted by autialcoism (autistic alcoholism) to think of a clever tag to put under it. Could you smartbrain goons help me out with a great tagline? with mint frosting
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Apr 7, 2017 02:48
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Cellular peptide frosting all day e'rry day. Accept no substitute.
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Apr 7, 2017 06:22
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It was a cellular peptide cake, with mint frosting.
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skasion posted:I don't think it's wrong for all the Romulans to look the same, any more than it's wrong for all the Romans to wear togas in a show about Rome. It's just a way of conveying at a glance what culture they are. They all looked the same in TOS as well. But the TOS look has aged WAYYYYYY better than the TNG look. The forehead thing is also insanely stupid. Literally the whole point of the Romulans that they were created as a concept to make is that you can't tell them from Vulcans. It's a moral about how you can't judge someone's politics or personality by how they look. The TNG-era redesign in addition to being ugly as sin 100% of the time (even the Nemesis version of the uniform sucks) reenvisions the moral as "actually you totally can judge, just look at that hosed up forehead". Nah in TOS they all had individual hairstyles and even had clothes that didn't look like like the same drab outfit   It was halfway through next gen that they were like "whatever, put a spock wig on everyone, or else our dumb fans will scratch their heads and be like 'hey who are those people with pointy ears, are they elves or something, I can't tell what they're supposed to be if they all don't cut their hair exactly like spock.' " The eyebrow ridges were real dumb though.
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