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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Warp Speed Mass Drivers make my dick hard. "Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpgxry542M
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I wonder what the whales told the cylinder probe the whales probably didn't realize there were only two of them left and that even in the future japanese people were still going to turn them into burgers
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frogge posted:Just got to the magnificent ferengi in this run through of the show. I still can't believe I didn't realize it was Iggy Pop until someone in this thread pointed it out awhile back. I saw it for the first time last night. I was thinking "Oh poo poo, this is the like best Vorta next to Weyoun!" and it's because Iggy Pop. I suppose it helped having the juxtaposition of Yelgrun and Keevan as Keevan sucked so loving much, which I'm sure was the point.
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Any unmanned probes Starfleet sends out would probably just get ganked by Ferengi and sold for parts, or stolen by Pakleds, or used for target practice by bored Klingons.
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Holy poo poo, the shameless plugging before the start of Generations on VHS is real bad. 
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Apr 7, 2017 04:51
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"A Rick Berman Production"
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Apr 7, 2017 04:52
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The Guinan angle could have been so good. Imagine if this movie was made but it was good?
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The Enterprise: a ship that it makes sense to have shitload of kids on.
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Look I tried to read all the posts before I started and the closest I ever got was 1000 away. I really want to participate. I watched DS9 and Voyager all the way through original and rewatched most of DS9 with my (loving girlfriend) last year. Lets make snarky comments about chakotay, A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh.
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Flutieflakes017 posted:Look I tried to read all the posts before I started and the closest I ever got was 1000 away. I really want to participate. I watched DS9 and Voyager all the way through original and rewatched most of DS9 with my (loving girlfriend) last year. Then you only have one final test to pass before you can join in. Please assign one of TOS, Animated Series, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT & STD to the following canned pastas.       
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shadow puppet of a posted:Then you only have one final test to pass before you can join in. Please assign one of TOS, Animated Series, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT & STD to the following canned pastas. Italian Sausage is DS9 and Spaghetti and meatballs is Enterprise because it's the worst. Something is the original series movies because I like those too.
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Enterprise is chicken alfredo because it's bland, mostly white, and most people in the mainstream probably don't even know it exists.
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I find it hard to respect a franchise that went as far as Star Trek did to avoid a decent makeup budget for aliens. So much so, that they invented a storyline reason for everyone looking mostly human. Give me Jim Henson's Farscape Muppets, Babylon 5's animatronic and full face makeup, and Lost in Space's rubber suits any day.
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Apr 7, 2017 07:03
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Flutieflakes017 posted:Italian Sausage is DS9 TOS is Beefaroni: the signature variety that's firmly in the popular lexicon TNG is Big Beefaroni: bigger, tastier version of the original TAS is Lasagna: hits a spot but it's kind of weird that it exists DS9 is the somewhat less widely-regarded flavor explosion Overstuffed Italian Sausage VOY is chicken ravioli, the weaksauce follow-up that's like, "Okay, we're running out of ideas. Let's retread one of our successful old products but with more milktoast ingredients."
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Mister Facetious posted:I find it hard to respect a franchise that went as far as Star Trek did to avoid a decent makeup budget for aliens. So much so, that they invented a storyline reason for everyone looking mostly human. B5 ditched the animatronics pretty early on.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:B5 ditched the animatronics pretty early on. Kosh has always been here. 
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:B5 ditched the animatronics pretty early on. Giant Mantis Guy was around for most of the first season iirc.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Giant Mantis Guy was around for most of the first season iirc. They generally keep him around for the occasional League of Non-Aligned Worlds scenes. Female VA, as I recall.
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TNG is beef flavored ramen, VOY is roast chicken, DS9 is oriental.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Giant Mantis Guy was around for most of the first season iirc. Then it got murdered by Buffy.
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Londo had animatronic genitalia throughout the entire series 
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ACRE & EQUAT posted:Londo had animatronic genitalia throughout the entire series And were dextrous enough to be used for cheating at poker.
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ACRE & EQUAT posted:Londo had animatronic genitalia throughout the entire series Welcome to....Jurasik Park!
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Lifeline; Pathfinder's managed to create a way to talk to Voyager once every month using the peak of a pulsar's cycle to boost the Midas Array's signal. And somehow receive a response from Voyager, even though they had to create an artificial wormhole last time and this is just a broadcast. The Doctor's gotten a letter from Reg Barclay personally about Lewis Zimmerman, his creator, who is DYING! He begs Captain Jane to have his program sent to the Alpha Quadrant with a possible treatment plan based on Delta Quadrant research and experience, against common sense arguments like "We have no loving clue if we can actually send something back". The crux of a time issue is that they only have a 17-hour window to reply back in each month, and somehow this is argued into only have one possible shot at a reply instead of 17 solid hours of two-way transmission because...  Seven and the Doctor actually have a pretty nice little scene going through what gets excised from his program to fit the data stream. No singing. No athletic abilities. No sexual abilties. Yes, Seven actually mentioned that. Robert Picardo has some amazing fun acting against himself, being his own worst patient, for the entire run of the episode. The combined shots of him against himself are generally pretty well-shot and acted, and it's almost a good episode. The interactions between himself are fantastic, but the conclusion of the plot is a hackneyed guilt trip to make Zimmerman care about the Doctor because, oh no, his program's suddenly failing and only he can fix it. And Reg sabotaged the Doctor to cause it on-purpose. I wouldn't call it good, but it's definitely a fun watch for the 80-90% of it that is just Robert Picardo arguing with himself, and they actually managed to make a one-off "guest" character far more interesting than any of Voyager's main cast in terms of background scenery. Lewis Zimmerman is a lonely half-broken man who spends almost all of his time in a lab, with a holographic iguana that occasionally parrots back words in english Jerks, a fly he developed for Starfleet Covert Ops surveillance, and a holographic woman who is pretty much the closest thing he has to a daughter, and the only person he gives two shits about. Zimmerman's lab looks lived-in, and he traipses around it in unkempt casual clothes instead of a Starfleet uniform because he just doesn't care anymore. The B-Plot is a single scene between Janeway and Chakotay
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I'm curious as to why they bothered with the Maquis as a concept in the first place, especially if it was introduced solely for Voyager's benefit, when Voyager abandons it as soon as it could.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:I'm curious as to why they bothered with the Maquis as a concept in the first place, especially if it was introduced solely for Voyager's benefit, when Voyager abandons it as soon as it could. It did give us a few cool episodes (assassin Suder, one with Tuvok's holodeck program) but yeah such potential.
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Tyson Tomko posted:It did give us a few cool episodes (assassin Suder, one with Tuvok's holodeck program) but yeah such potential. Weirdly most of the Maquis plots are multiple seasons into the show - the missile Torres reprogrammed was season 3 or 4 (I think?), the Maquis hypnosis that causes them to murder was 6 or 7 at the earliest. It would have made a lot more sense as a running thread for season 1 or 2 than all the Alpha Quadrant stuff they kept finding. Having the Maquis slowly integrate could have let to a lot of good stories. That said the holodeck one did benefit from being after everyone forgot it was ever a problem. Tuvok making a training simulation and abandoning it when it was no longer relevant kind of made sense.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:I'm curious as to why they bothered with the Maquis as a concept in the first place, especially if it was introduced solely for Voyager's benefit, when Voyager abandons it as soon as it could. Because it was used to much better affect in DS9.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:I'm curious as to why they bothered with the Maquis as a concept in the first place, especially if it was introduced solely for Voyager's benefit, when Voyager abandons it as soon as it could. As someone that was ~12 when the maquis were introduced, it was especially confusing at the time. Like Star Trek is cool when the non-federation "other" civilizations are cool, and I'm obsessing over grainy photos of the crazy TOS aliens I've never seen (because having access to all of TOS wasn't really common), and I'm supposed to give a poo poo about Bajorans? Ugh jeez at least it's just one group that sucks. Wait, maquis? Just another bunch of whiny white people yammering about rights and borders? gently caress this, it's finally time to watch those "Star Wars" movies people keep talking about. *stops watching DS9 right before it got good*
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Meiers Goldbrick posted:Because it was used to much better affect in DS9. Was a great way for Berman to make Sisko a war criminal, along with being an alien traitor from another dimension who betrayed everything the Federation stands for, and, quite frankly, doesn't deserve to wear that uniform.
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Brofessor Slayton posted:Weirdly most of the Maquis plots are multiple seasons into the show - the missile Torres reprogrammed was season 3 or 4 (I think?), the Maquis hypnosis that causes them to murder was 6 or 7 at the earliest. It would have made a lot more sense as a running thread for season 1 or 2 than all the Alpha Quadrant stuff they kept finding. Having the Maquis slowly integrate could have let to a lot of good stories. The holodeck episode is actually pretty good, but it really didn't need the "Seska hacked it before leaving Voyager" twist. A better show could've just hung a "what-if" story on the basic premise and it nearly gets there anyway.
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So I've been watching SG1 for the first time ever and I just happened across the best holodeck episode ever: S02E04 Highlights: Reginald Barclay traps Daniel Jackson on a holodeck and forces him to watch his parents get crushed to death by big styrofoam blocks over and over again while gleefully exclaiming what fun it all is.
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Mondian posted:So I've been watching SG1 for the first time ever and I just happened across the best holodeck episode ever: S02E04 Early SG-1 is very Star Trek Away Mission. It eventually becomes its own thing about mid-season 2, I think? Also you are in for a real treat if you've never seen SG-1 before  .
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Wormhole X or whatever was great. I just finally watched SG1 a year or two back, was really pleasantly surprised by how good it was
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Wormhole X or whatever was great. I just finally watched SG1 a year or two back, was really pleasantly surprised by how good it was Wormhole Xtreme is great fun watching them riff on their own show. Especially in 200 with the interviews with the "cast" at the end.
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Mister Facetious posted:Was a great way for Berman to make Sisko a war criminal, along with being an alien traitor from another dimension who betrayed everything the Federation stands for, and, quite frankly, doesn't deserve to wear that uniform. Or giving Sisko a white whale, since Picard has the borg.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Wormhole Xtreme is great fun watching them riff on their own show. Especially in 200 with the interviews with the "cast" at the end. Yeah, that had me rolling "I'm Christian Bocher. I'm portraying the character of Raymond Gunn, who portrays the character of Dr. Levant, which is based on the character Daniel Jackson, portrayed by the actor Michael Shanks. Originally portrayed by the actor James Spader, in the feature film." I do appreciate that they're fine poking fun at themselves. There was a great line in one ep where RDA was explaining the goauld to some people with something along the lines of "You know: glowing eyes, constant cliches, cartoonishly evil?"
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Meiers Goldbrick posted:Or giving Sisko a white whale, since Picard has the borg. Except the Maquis didn't personally wound him, and after being talked down twice (I, Borg and First Contact), he still tried talking when given the chance. Sisko is an alien omni-race from another dimension that doesn't even understand what "time" is. He killed a planet biosphere as a dick waving measure.
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Mister Facetious posted:Except the Maquis didn't personally wound him, and after being talked down twice (I, Borg and First Contact), he still tried talking when given the chance. I agree, Sisko is awesome.
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Mondian posted:Yeah, that had me rolling "I'm Christian Bocher. I'm portraying the character of Raymond Gunn, who portrays the character of Dr. Levant, which is based on the character Daniel Jackson, portrayed by the actor Michael Shanks. Originally portrayed by the actor James Spader, in the feature film." After awhile I think SG-1 crawled up it's own "well we're just joking about all the tropes this genre typically takes seriously, which excuses increasingly lame stories/characters/etc." hole, it probably should have ended around season 5
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