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I don't want to have to salute my own bed, thinkgeek.
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I'm a corrupt admiral that came back in time but I forgot which evil plan I was up to, so I just use the Internet a lot
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Apr 13, 2017 15:09
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Sash! posted:I'm a corrupt admiral that came back in time but I forgot which evil plan I was up to, so I just use the Internet a lot Your posting delayed the Eugenics Wars by 60 years and saved billions of lives but also violated the Prime Directive which is a bad thing this week. I hope you're happy.
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Apr 13, 2017 15:26
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Kingtheninja posted:Wow, even my pillows outrank me. Somebody has to be the ensign
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Kingtheninja posted:Wow, even my pillows outrank me. Guess it's time to do some laundry then!
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Kingtheninja posted:Wow, even my pillows outrank me. You shouldn't sleep with your superior officer.
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The Something Awful Forums >> The TV IV >> Star Trek: Wow, even my pillows outrank me.
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Sir Lemming posted:On my first full run-through of TOS, Journey to Babel's easily up there in my personal 'best of Trek' list, even if the rest of Star Trek's second season might actually be best viewed through a 'this is how weird life in deepest, darkest outer space can get' lens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbHtzqCge_8 Love how Cyrano 'Friend Kirk!' Jones and HAAAARCOURT 'Have You Been Drinking Again Mister' Mudd show up Kirk and co. for being stuffy no-fun-havers
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Apr 13, 2017 19:12
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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The "parallel earths" thing was a big part of Trek from the very first pitch. The generous view is that the goal was to comment intelligently on human potential and not just try and dazzle the audience with a bunch of weirdo aliens. On the other hand it sure kept the set/costume budget down, and kept a constant flow of samey scripts coming.
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Apr 13, 2017 19:33
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spincube posted:Love how Cyrano 'Friend Kirk!' Jones and HAAAARCOURT 'Have You Been Drinking Again Mister' Mudd show up Kirk and co. for being stuffy no-fun-havers I'm a huge fan of Kirk acting like Cyrano "I must tend to my ship, au revoir" Jones just to piss off Mr. Baris.
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Apr 13, 2017 20:21
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The first half of season 2 is way stronger. And there are still good episodes interspersed in the second half. But they just clustered way too many "parallel Earth" scripts together towards the end with almost no variation between them other than the costumes. (On that note, another negative side effect is that the inconsistencies stick out more than usual. One week they'll ask the computer to replicate period-appropriate clothing, the next they just say whatever.)
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Apr 13, 2017 20:44
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Sir Lemming posted:The first half of season 2 is way stronger. And there are still good episodes interspersed in the second half. But they just clustered way too many "parallel Earth" scripts together towards the end with almost no variation between them other than the costumes. (On that note, another negative side effect is that the inconsistencies stick out more than usual. One week they'll ask the computer to replicate period-appropriate clothing, the next they just say whatever.)
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Apr 13, 2017 21:30
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Nessus posted:Were they looking towards syndication then? If you're getting a random shuffle of Trek episodes then you'd get a better blend. It's possible they started doing that poo poo because they were costing too much money - sort of a proto-bottle episode setup. Not the same way as TNG was made with syndication in mind. I definitely don't think they were catering to a binge watching style of tv where people would complain about repetitive content though, they didn't expect the viewer to know anything about what happened last week apart from the boat is called enterprise and the guys are called Kirk and Spock. I think the repetitive quality may have more to do with the fact that they had to film a script every week for like half the year, with a pretty small number of regular writers. Coon and Fontana are the only ones I can think of who have more than a couple of writing credits.
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TOS wasn't made for direct sale to syndication, but the reason they used to pack so many episodes into a season was to make the series more saleable after it left production. Desilu deliberately produced and sold the show at a loss in hopes of making back their money off syndication revenue.
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Cross-Posting this from the VR thread!!!Lemming posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-uAsP41tLQ 
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Apr 13, 2017 23:57
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Hoping for some TNG era in Bridge Crew 2. 
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Apr 14, 2017 00:16
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skasion posted:Not the same way as TNG was made with syndication in mind. I definitely don't think they were catering to a binge watching style of tv where people would complain about repetitive content though, they didn't expect the viewer to know anything about what happened last week apart from the boat is called enterprise and the guys are called Kirk and Spock. I think the repetitive quality may have more to do with the fact that they had to film a script every week for like half the year, with a pretty small number of regular writers. Coon and Fontana are the only ones I can think of who have more than a couple of writing credits. This is certainly why I take a dim view of Voyager, it just wasn't made to be watched 3 to 5 episodes a day for weeks on end. It's not serialized so there's no payoff to doing this, so it just becomes repetitive and exhausting.
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The_Doctor posted:Hoping for some TNG era in Bridge Crew 2. Playing on the Defiant would be tons of fun thanks to the cloak.
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Apr 14, 2017 00:44
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Hell, even some TOS movie era. Relive Wrath of Khan!
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Apr 14, 2017 00:51
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Brawnfire posted:I wonder how much extra career Shatner has Shatner'ed his way out of at this point? The best part this is after he got super rich from Priceline stock
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Apr 14, 2017 01:41
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I'm here, flipping through the TV with one eye on my phone, when I hear a familiar nasally tone. Turns out Neelix got himself a human suit and ended up in The Purge 2 (3?) and gets murdered. The weirdest part is how deeply I've come to associate Ethan Phillips' voice with Neelix, to the point that his old white man real self is weird to me. I don't even like Voyager.
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Apr 14, 2017 02:52
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That Bridge VR game had better feature sparks, slag and rocks shooting out of the virtual consoles for maximum accuracy.
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ENT S3, E3: "Extinction" Another TNG retread, this time about "The Inner Light." My wife watched this one with me and we were both pretty "meh" about it. She said, "Isn't there a Next Gen episode kind of like this one?" She hasn't seen "The Inner Light," so I described it in about a minute. The sad face she made at the end of my pithy description was more emotive than anything that happened in "Extinction." I can see why writers are constantly tempted to reheat TNG and TOS classics, but in reality they never work. When have we ever said, "that newer version of that old classic episode was better"? It's an easy temptation for lazy writers to succumb to, and it never succeeds, unless we define success as "we killed off another 44 minutes of a season."
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Apr 14, 2017 12:02
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Eh, I think it's just by the time Enterprise came around, it was hard to come up with ideas that weren't at least somewhat reminiscent of one or two of the hundreds of other episodes. Not saying Extinction's a good episode, but I never saw it as an Inner Light rip-off. If anything, it's more like TNG's Genesis, and a bit like Voyager's Memorial or DS9's Dramatis Personae, but I don't think it was written with any of them specifically in mind. I mean, let's face it, "Crew is infected with something and act weird" is one of the basic Star Trek plots.
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Apr 14, 2017 12:14
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Gonz posted:That Bridge VR game had better feature sparks, slag and rocks shooting out of the virtual consoles for maximum accuracy. Of course it does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUGGeScLTVE
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Apr 14, 2017 13:06
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MikeJF posted:Of course it does. Jesus. Pop a Dramamine before watching this.
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MikeJF posted:Of course it does.
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On the one hand this game seems like the kind of game that gets a lot cooler when you understand the minutia of what you're doing, so it involves a lot of study time. On the other hand, it looks like you'd need a lot of friends to make it work. I don't know how well a grognard teamplay game would work with the masses. Unless this is a game being made for Twitch/Youtube streams.
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Apr 14, 2017 15:34
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I'm pretty sure it's designed around being able to mix local and online play, so you can join up with all your online-only grognard friends. It'll do positional audio on your headphones and everything.
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Apr 14, 2017 15:47
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Trying to fly a ship with individual buttons like that seems like it'd be incredibly hard.
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Apr 14, 2017 16:01
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It's also cross platform according to the devs so Vive, Rift, and PSVR players can all be on the same bridge.
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Apr 14, 2017 16:10
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8one6 posted:It's also cross platform according to the devs so Vive, Rift, and PSVR players can all be on the same bridge. Good, because the population of VR is still pretty drat low.
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Apr 14, 2017 16:27
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Sorry to say those buttons don't make nearly enough clicks, wheeps, doot doots, and general intergalactic dialup modem foley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lgHK0GQhrM
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Apr 14, 2017 16:59
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I love the ship-to-ship combat in a couple of the films, and episodes like "Balance of Terror". I guess that makes me kind of not a true Trek fan because that's not what Trek is really about, but I do love it so. I've seen all of TOS/TNG/Voyager, but not a single episode of DS9 or the newer Enterprise prequel series. Can anyone tell me if there are any good round spaceship pew-pew in those series? PS- the old Klingon D7 battlecruiser is the most badass-looking ship of them all 
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MrMojok posted:I love the ship-to-ship combat in a couple of the films, and episodes like "Balance of Terror". I guess that makes me kind of not a true Trek fan because that's not what Trek is really about, but I do love it so. DS9 features a multi-season arc of a major war. There's spaceship pew-pew in abundance. Starring Starfleet's first purpose-built warship. Edit: the first two seasons are slow and lacking in pew but once it gets going it doesn't really stop.
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Apr 14, 2017 23:55
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DS9 is the most pew pew of them all.
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Apr 14, 2017 23:57
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Yeah DS9 has the best pew pew of the franchise in my opinion.
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Apr 15, 2017 00:17
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Holy poo poo, that is awesome news! I literally know nothing about it other than that Avery Brooks is in it, and what you guys have said in the posts immediately above. Sounds like it's time for a marathon viewing. Thanks!
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Do keep us updated! We like these!
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DS9 went way overboard with the camera shaking and bridge pyrotechnics, they even had a main character have to get sent to sickbay from the bridge while the shields were still fully operational.
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