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skasion posted:Georgi La Forgie He's the alien, right? The_Doctor posted:I'm honestly surprised it's taken Seth Macfarlane this long to make something like that. I don't hate it? Also, Julian's dad! Looks like it's Galaxy Quest: The Series. And it has high production values, Macfarlane loves this kind of stuff, and the humor doesn't seem to be too sophomoric. Hell, it might be a high brow US Red Dwarf. I can dig it. I'm surprised that the set design passed legal muster though--the uniform and bridge look more like the 1701-D than some fan productions!
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Astroman posted:He's the alien, right? And Norm MacDonald is the voice of that Jello dude.
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# ? May 16, 2017 00:44 |
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Scott Grimes as the helmsman makes me hope for some sweet soul singing.
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# ? May 16, 2017 00:54 |
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I was onboard until I saw Mcfarlane was starring, so that's a hard pass.
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Tighclops posted:
Yes. We are correct. Sure, I'm in. Zesty fucked around with this message at 01:10 on May 16, 2017 |
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All these people talking about Bashir's dad and not even mentioning Kasidy flippin' Yates
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# ? May 16, 2017 01:26 |
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Adrianne Palicki is a good get.
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# ? May 16, 2017 01:32 |
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That actually doesn't look not decent, so hey! Although I must say it reminds me a little of Hyperdrive, which is both a bad and good thing.
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# ? May 16, 2017 01:38 |
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Didn't Yahoo attempt a similar show with the AT&T woman and Joel Hodgson?
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# ? May 16, 2017 02:00 |
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Yeah, Other Space, it was actually pretty good.
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# ? May 16, 2017 02:04 |
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how come insurrection was the (second) most expensive tng movie? was it just cast rates driving the budget up? it doesn't look like they really splurged in the production values good movie 6/10 also here's a book from the screenwriter (and guy who ran the non-bad tng writing room) about writing the movie: https://nightly.net/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_id=5159
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# ? May 16, 2017 02:47 |
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vermin posted:Watch ye and despair I laughed at one joke out of the entire thing, which is more than his stuff usually gets out of me.
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# ? May 16, 2017 03:06 |
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Just watched Datalore. Spiner's performance was great and his name being "Lore" was clever, but it had some of the sloppiest writing so far. Full of plot holes. And not nitpicky ones either, but ones that affect make it harder to understand the plot on the most basic level. For example, a major point is that Lore can use contractions and Data can't, but Data uses them several times throughout the episode
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# ? May 16, 2017 03:08 |
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Duckbag posted:Well, part of the problem is he has a mental illness in a society that allegedly cured that sort of thing a hundred years ago. Dude obviously has some sort of anxiety disorder, but everyone just treats him like the weird kid at school. His "holo addiction" is an unhealthy coping mechanism (Troi even says so), but no one seems particularly troubled by the fact that whatever issues he's been coping with have been dogging him at least as long as he was on the Enterprise and they're just now noticing. He never gets any real help. They all just feel bad for picking on him and try to include him more. I've been poking though the old parts of the thread and can I say you are totally right. I think psychology, like economics was one of those real world things that was often too messy for trek to deal with.
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# ? May 16, 2017 03:11 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I was onboard until I saw Mcfarlane was starring, so that's a hard pass. I'm kind of in the same boat. Dude's a true nerd and I have no doubt he loves Trek and could supervise/produce a great parody of Trek. But on screen he's obnoxious and not funny. Prove me wrong, show.
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Nebakenezzer posted:I've been poking though the old parts of the thread and can I say you are totally right. I think psychology, like economics was one of those real world things that was often too messy for trek to deal with. The other issue is that Troi was the product of 80s pop-psychology.
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vermin posted:Watch ye and despair I will watch this and probably enjoy it way too much. It already looks better than Discovery...
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# ? May 16, 2017 03:20 |
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Watching Angel One now. I've heard it's one of the worst, but not as bad as Code of Honor, and it's definitely meeting those expectations.
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# ? May 16, 2017 03:50 |
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Hmm well that thing looks better than Voyager and I've watched that more than once, so... Yeah. Here's hoping it's decent.
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# ? May 16, 2017 03:51 |
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God the episode's about literal MRAs
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# ? May 16, 2017 03:56 |
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Geordi in red feels like one of those universes Worf leapt into in Parallels. I know he had it for a season, but it's just wrong. On the other hand, Data actually pulled red off nicely: (Couldn't find a good enough quality shot from Chain of Command, so fake alternate future will have to do.)
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# ? May 16, 2017 03:57 |
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How does this episode have so many great out of context screenshots
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# ? May 16, 2017 03:59 |
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# ? May 16, 2017 04:02 |
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The Bloop posted:He's basically one of those early Dominion grumps Quark was trying to cheat on their Tulaberry wine. That's Voyager dude
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# ? May 16, 2017 04:08 |
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Jeb! Repetition posted:For example, a major point is that Lore can use contractions and Data can't, but Data uses them several times throughout the episode Are you sure those aren't scenes where Lore was pretending to be Data ?
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# ? May 16, 2017 04:10 |
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Cojawfee posted:That's Voyager dude Quoting this super wrong post.
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# ? May 16, 2017 04:11 |
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mllaneza posted:Are you sure those aren't scenes where Lore was pretending to be Data ? Eh, Data uses contractions all the time though. "I mean, being a robot's great, but we don't have emotions, and sometimes that makes me very sad."
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# ? May 16, 2017 04:12 |
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mllaneza posted:Are you sure those aren't scenes where Lore was pretending to be Data ? That's what I thought it must have been at first. Like a twist ending where Lore really won. But no, I looked it up and other people noticed the same thing. They hosed up really bad.
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The Bloop posted:Quoting this super wrong post. Whoosh
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Jeb! Repetition posted:That's what I thought it must have been at first. Like a twist ending where Lore really won. But no, I looked it up and other people noticed the same thing. They hosed up really bad. Now you might just ask "So why doesn't he use his super computer brain to pre-write and then recite everything he says in real time" and I'll say "You should really just relax."
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# ? May 16, 2017 04:27 |
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Nessus posted:Here's my no-prize explanation: Data is capable of comprehending the use of contractions and can use them in pre-prepared statements that he composes, and then recites. However, when spontaneously generating speech in response to novel queries, he cannot do so. There's no saving it dude.
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# ? May 16, 2017 04:29 |
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I wouldn't care or even probably notice if they just said "data can't use contractions" at some point but he did anyway. It's that they elevated it to the way to tell between him and his brother and made you pay extra hard attention to it.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I wouldn't care or even probably notice if they just said "data can't use contractions" at some point but he did anyway. It's that they elevated it to the way to tell between him and his brother and made you pay extra hard attention to it.
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# ? May 16, 2017 04:46 |
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Patrick Stewart did such a perfect hoarse weak voice at the end of the episode. He's a treasure.
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# ? May 16, 2017 04:54 |
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Not being able to use contractions is the stupidest loving thing Linguistically they're not any harder to use than any other part of English. Unless he has the language literally hardcoded into him at a very basic level there's no reason he shouldn't be able to pick up contractions as easily as he picks up any other aspect of the language
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# ? May 16, 2017 04:55 |
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I believe he was programmed that way so he wouldn't appear as human. People hated Lore because he was so lifelike or whatever. Data was programmed to be as robotic as possible so people would be more accepting of him.
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