skasion posted:

Georgi La Forgie

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!

Edit: oh god it's a series! I assumed it was just a movie!

Astroman posted:

He's the alien, right?


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!

Tighclops posted:

quote:

The Motion Picture is terrible. All episodes of Voyager are more watchable. I'm not kidding.

[...] Voyager is criminally boring in the blandest, most inoffensively mid to late 90's ways possible for the vast majority of it's run.

vermin posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9sKeCE8V0

vermin posted:

Watch ye and despair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9sKeCE8V0

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.

Troi's "therapy" session is loving absurd even if you don't know how that sort of thing is supposed to go and mind boggling if you do. She spends the whole time acting like an HR director pretending to to be an employee's friend so she can figure out if she has to fire him and, despite being an empath (and, you know, female), has no idea why the lonely, male social anxiety patient seems uncomfortable when she sits next to him in a cleavage leotard.

This baffling indifference to basic psychology happens all the time on the Enterprise. Children are orphaned and left to stay, alone, in their parent's room (I think this happens twice, actually). Worf tries to kill himself twice because he can't cope with "insanity"/disability and both times no one picks up on it until the knife's in his hand. Picard endures horrific trauma (and has blatant PTSD) and only takes a week off work. Every loving anomaly episode, someone sees some crazy poo poo in the corridor and doesn't report it because they think they're just seeing things. Why the gently caress don't they report that they're seeing things? Are stress induced hallucinations normal? Is mental illness so stigmatized in the future that everyone would rather go untreated than risk being thought of as "crazy?" Real loving progressive, Star Trek.

It's just loving outrageous to me that a show that has a psychiatrist (well, "counselor") as a main character, literally never had a character suffering from a real mental illness that was identified as such. Everything Troi treats people for is situational -- grief, loneliness, workplace stress, that sort of thing -- but chronic mental illness basically doesn't exist in TNG (and wasn't exactly handled well in DS9). Sure there was space madness and alien diseases, but, apparently, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, schizophrenia, and a whole raft of other ailments simply don't exist anymore (even though various characters seem to have them).

Big Mean Jerk posted:

I was onboard until I saw Mcfarlane was starring, so that's a hard pass.

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.

vermin posted:

Watch ye and despair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9sKeCE8V0

Jeb! Repetition posted:

The Bloop posted:

He's basically one of those early Dominion grumps Quark was trying to cheat on their Tulaberry wine.

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

Cojawfee posted:

That's Voyager dude

mllaneza posted:

Are you sure those aren't scenes where Lore was pretending to be Data ?

mllaneza posted:

Are you sure those aren't scenes where Lore was pretending to be Data ?

The Bloop posted:

Quoting this super wrong post.

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.

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.

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."

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.