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latlh 'oy' 'oH SeH 'oH nab SoH (It hurts more because you coordinated it)
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I know it was really because of bad budget decisions, but there's a part of me that can't help wondering if the Enterprise-D getting punked out by a fuckin' Bird of Prey is supposed to be some kind of symmetry with Captain Kirk getting
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Apr 25, 2017 04:54
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If the movie had to kill both Kirk and the D, it should've ended with Kirk basically doing the same thing as George Kirk ended up doing in JJTrek. Sitting in the command chair of the D as he rides it, alone, to its final destruction to save the universe. Yes it would've been cliche but sometimes you have to accept cliche.
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Apr 25, 2017 05:10
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McSpanky posted:They're not magic wishing machines, we're told and shown repeatedly that replicated food doesn't hold up to the real thing Of course, this is hilariously inconsistent. "your computer here fixed about the best martini I have ever had" / / /  "Laddie, I was drinking scotch a hundred years before you were born. And I can tell you that whatever this is, it is definitely not scotch." / / / 
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Apr 25, 2017 05:19
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MikeJF posted:If the movie had to kill both Kirk and the D, it should've ended with Kirk basically doing the same thing as George Kirk ended up doing in JJTrek. Sitting in the command chair of the D as he rides it, alone, to its final destruction to save the universe. Jim, you'll be killed, just like Decker.
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Apr 25, 2017 05:19
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VitalSigns posted:Of course, this is hilariously inconsistent. Dude just got a new liver after partying for 30 years. He could have replicated mouth wash or vanilla extract and been ecstatic.
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Apr 25, 2017 05:35
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I just watched an episode of TNG, The Descent, and there was a really important point it didn't adequately explain. The biggest conflict in the whole double episode was caused by Data getting emotions, which started with him feeling anger when he was attacked by a borg. But the emotions he felt through most of it were artifically beamed into him by his brother and it didn't say whether the anger was too. They treated it like a natural development at the beginning but then by the end Geordi was saying "without that chip you'll never have emotions, sorry." So how was Lore doing that at the beginning to make Data angry? Wtf?
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Apr 25, 2017 05:39
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MrJacobs posted:Dude just got a new liver after partying for 30 years. He could have replicated mouth wash or vanilla extract and been ecstatic. Or he just likes not good martinis. Like people that think Wendy's has good french fries.
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Apr 25, 2017 05:55
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Sash! posted:
How could such a lowly creature exist?
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I just watched an episode of TNG, The Descent, and there was a really important point it didn't adequately explain. The biggest conflict in the whole double episode was caused by Data getting emotions, which started with him feeling anger when he was attacked by a borg. But the emotions he felt through most of it were artifically beamed into him by his brother and it didn't say whether the anger was too. They treated it like a natural development at the beginning but then by the end Geordi was saying "without that chip you'll never have emotions, sorry." So how was Lore doing that at the beginning to make Data angry? Wtf? Lore somehow gave the Borgs the ability to transmit whatever info the emotions chip contained, I think. Remember that Borg in the brig was able to turn off Data's ethical subroutine or whatever so he'd turn on his friends. So maybe Lore told those Borgs at the beginning to start sending Data the anger emotions.
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Apr 25, 2017 05:58
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dont even fink about it posted:How could such a lowly creature exist? It's hard to gently caress up a french fry too badly. Unless you make potato wedges. Useless hot tasteless things.
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MrJacobs posted:Dude just got a new liver after partying for 30 years. He could have replicated mouth wash or vanilla extract and been ecstatic.
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VitalSigns posted:Lore somehow gave the Borgs the ability to transmit whatever info the emotions chip contained, I think. I thought about that and rewatched the scene for any sign they could be transmitting but they don't even seem to recognize that Data is artificial until after he's had his anger episode, nor would Lore have had any reason to suspect he'd be there.
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Apr 25, 2017 06:26
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Scotty has also been consistently shown as hating on newer, modern tech since he bashed the Excelsior in ST:III so it's no shock he'd find ways to bitch about something like a replicated drink. Even if it did taste good he'd say it was poo poo. Scotty is the old guy who loves to soup up 50s cars and will mod them til the cows come home but hates all modern cars to the point of silliness.
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At this rate, we'll have caught up to the time in which Star Trek Discovery takes place by the time it comes out. WGA Members Vote For Strike Authorization – Star Trek Discovery Writers Voice Their Support quote:Some of the writers for Star Trek: Discovery voiced their support for the strike authorization via Twitter when voting began last week, including Bo Yeon Kim and Sean Cochran. Supervising Producer Ted Sullivan also urged his fellow writers to vote yes.
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Apr 25, 2017 20:09
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Here's to the last episode of Season 1 being a clip episode.
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VitalSigns posted:Of course, this is hilariously inconsistent. I'll explain this. In Star Trek, replicators are actually perfect and provide entirely superior food that can be tweaked to the user's wishes. A early 21st century human tasting replicated food would be blown away by it since by the measure of people living in our pre-replicator world, it's objectively superior. But for people who grew up with them? To them the perfection has grown samey, and there's a huge mental or emotional aspect as well. They're snobs, they're hipsters, purists, whatever you want to call them. "Real" food tastes better simply because it's different to them and they've decided because "real" food is more rare and hand made it's obviously better. It's entirely in their heads. Synthohol is probably fully bullshit though.
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Evek posted:Here's to the last episode of Season 1 being a clip episode. First episode
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Apr 25, 2017 22:44
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The Bloop posted:First episode The whole season is a paper-thin framing device wrapped around footage from earlier shows and films, cut footage, and CGI manipulations of old footage, etc.
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Apr 26, 2017 01:59
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The Bloop posted:First episode You joke, but the Clerks Animated Series did a clip show for the 2nd episode ever and it was great.
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WampaLord posted:You joke, but the Clerks Animated Series did a clip show for the 2nd episode ever and it was great. Beat me to it. The great thing was that it was broadcast, but the episode they were clipping from never was, making it even loonier during that glorious two-week first run.
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Apr 26, 2017 02:16
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After The War posted:Beat me to it. The great thing was that it was broadcast, but the episode they were clipping from never was, making it even loonier during that glorious two-week first run. Ah yeah. Community did an episode where they did a clip show from non-existent episodes, albiet a lot later in the show.
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Apr 26, 2017 03:29
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Watching 'The Changeling' I'm starting to seriously question Kirk's competence or his concern for his crew or both. The Nomad probe only listens to Kirk because it thinks he's its creator, and the last two times he left Nomad alone it started killing people and wandering about the ship causing havoc. Okay maybe the second time is a Mulligan, Kirk, but why are you leaving it alone with some redshirts a third time? Aaaaaand they're dead too. Should be an interesting letter to their families.
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Apr 26, 2017 04:05
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Brawnfire posted:The whole season is a paper-thin framing device wrapped around footage from earlier shows and films, cut footage, and CGI manipulations of old footage, etc. Episode 1 "Guardian of Forever, why is our trek through the stars so important?" BEHOLD, a visual representation of captain's logs from your future! Series Finale "Why have we been spending almost a third of our time watching some crew bumble around the Delta Quadrant?" SILENCE! Neelix is telling a joke.
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Doggles posted:Episode 1 Hahaha it's like Ireland but on the holodeck! I love it!
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Apr 26, 2017 06:41
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When I was a kid I hated Lwaxana episodes but as an adult I really like them. I think "The Forsaken" is my favorite.
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While I remain optimistic about Discovery (because why not?) it's starting to remind me a little of Michael Ironside's ICE PLANET, a planned TV series that never made it. In the end it seems to have emerged as some kind of half-episode, half-documentary about it all falling apart. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2805062/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
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Apr 26, 2017 14:46
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Kind of a decent summery of the issues with Discovery http://io9.gizmodo.com/what-the-gently caress-is-going-on-with-star-trek-discovery-1794639961 I wonder how much money they offered Dorn?
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Apr 26, 2017 16:57
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Quark's bar makes sense to me even aside from money he can make on the gambling and holosuites. When you go to a bar IRL you're getting a huge markup on the drinks but you're going for the ~experience~, you know, to be in the public space and bask in all of it's bar-ness. I have some introvert friends who love bars because they get all the social interaction they want by sitting there and soaking up people rays or something. (Paradoxically as an extravert to me hanging out in a bar for hours sounds boring af.) As for Garak, he probably is something of a fashion consultant as well. All the perfectly fitting replicated clothes in the world can't make you look good if you have poo poo taste. Not to mention if you go to a physical retail location it can be fun to see things you didn't know you wanted. So he too sells an experience. Somehow this can be tied into how business in real life will survive in the shadow of Amazon.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:07
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Xibanya posted:As for Garak, he probably is something of a fashion consultant as well. All the perfectly fitting replicated clothes in the world can't make you look good if you have poo poo taste. Not to mention if you go to a physical retail location it can be fun to see things you didn't know you wanted. So he too sells an experience. I feel like all the aliens look down on humans for their naive fashion sense. Except for the ferengi who have no room to talk.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:14
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vermin posted:I feel like all the aliens look down on humans for their naive fashion sense. They're not wrong. It always seems like in sci fi it's assumed that fashion in the future will become simpler and more practical. If anything it should involve the impractical complexity of your average final fantasy character's costume. Imagine what designs would be popular if a designer can go straight from sketch to finished outfit in a moment's time. In other words, what Jake needs is more buckles. Lots more buckles.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:21
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Xibanya posted:what Jake needs is more buckles. Lots more buckles. And pouches. And pouldrons.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:24
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Xibanya posted:They're not wrong. Hunger games got it right.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:30
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The Bloop posted:And pouches. poo poo yes. And one pant leg shorter than the other and some more eyeshadow. Guinan's outfit was p cool. Love me some flowing robes and impractical poo poo. Star Wars had the right idea about fashion at the very least.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:30
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If your answer to post-scarcity is not "Let's wear the dumbest poo poo we can come up with" I don't want to know you.
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Apr 26, 2017 18:33
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The canonical reason for "why doesn't Picard get his baldness cured with super future technology" is because by that point, society has advanced beyond caring about superficial things like baldness. Which I guess also means they've evolved beyond having any kind of taste in fashion.
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Apr 26, 2017 18:40
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After WW3 all textile plants were destroyed, all fabric was either radiated or completely ruined. The only exception being a large storage warehouse of old couches and window curtains. Since then all clothing have been modeled after the upholstery found in that one place.
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Apr 26, 2017 18:42
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Burning_Monk posted:After WW3 all textile plants were destroyed, all fabric was either radiated or completely ruined. The only exception being a large storage warehouse of old couches and window curtains. Since then all clothing have been modeled after the upholstery found in that one place. The survivors clothed themselves in bus seats and we never moved past it. The Ferengi had taste. Of course, I think it's gaudy as hell, but they looked like they had personal styles and a variety of options. Quark and his waistcoats seemed like something an actual person would wear.
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Apr 26, 2017 18:45
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Pakled posted:The canonical reason for "why doesn't Picard get his baldness cured with super future technology" is because by that point, society has advanced beyond caring about superficial things like baldness. Which I guess also means they've evolved beyond having any kind of taste in fashion. Which is too bad because the explanation works if we say it's no longer stigmatized and Picard doesn't give a poo poo, which makes sense for his character but some people might get a futuristic cure for their baldness because they wanna have a space Mohawk or something.
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Picard has lots of hair. It's just not on his head.
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