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Han Solo, spinoff, surely. Like, he's literally just Han Solo in Star Trek.
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May 28, 2017 09:21
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WampaLord posted:Han Solo, spinoff, surely. Except without the criminal background, monster sidekick, cool ship or casual violence!
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May 28, 2017 09:27
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Angry Salami posted:Except without the criminal background, monster sidekick, cool ship or casual violence! i.e. how future generations will remember Han Solo
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May 28, 2017 12:46
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Duckbag posted:I thought it was interesting that they chose to end the episode with Okona kickflipping away on his hoverboard while making the "smell you later" hand gesture and Geordie saying "something tells me we'll be seeing a lot more of him from now on." TOS did the exact same thing with Gary Seven. "Assignment: Earth" ends with Kirk saying something like, "Well, Mr Spock, I'm sure Gary Seven and his friends will have many more adventures." Imagine a Star Trek series produced by Lew Grade.
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May 28, 2017 14:00
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They had discussed doing a Gary Seven spinoff but I don't think that went far
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May 28, 2017 15:02
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I liked that episode for being an absolutely transparent pilot for another Gene Roddenberry show; and, well,
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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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Knormal posted:I think it was pretty drat insane of TOS to think we'd have suspended animation and interstellar travel thirty years from their air date. I know the space race was making all kinds of leaps and bounds, and maybe the general public had less of an idea of what those kinds of technologies would require, but here we are 50 years later and still I'd be astonished if we figure out suspended animation in our lifetimes. I suppose at least we could do sub-lightspeed interstellar travel if we really wanted to, and were really, really patient about it. Like "Hope you and the next 10 generations of your offspring don't mind living aboard this spaceship" patient. "Oh, and keep the plants alive or you'll all suffocate". I think you're forgetting what the 80s-early 90s thought the ~2020s would be like, or did you cyberjack into the matrix to order your replicant mining force to work on Titan this morning? Hell, for that matter most of our current scifi treats ad hoc genetic engineering, all kinds of nanotech and automated robotic smart everything as just as obvious and miraculous as the 50s did flying cars and nuclear-powered homes. The projections that don't pan out always seem silly with enough hindsight -- or enough foresight to realize that every generation thinks they're on the cutting edge and have this whole "future" thing finally ironed out this time.
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May 28, 2017 15:26
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Yea, it's more funny that Star Trek predicted tablets with the PADDs, but it was clearly a throwaway thing.
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May 28, 2017 15:43
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Sir Lemming posted:i.e. how future generations will remember Han Solo Reminds me of a play somebody did of people retelling Simpsons episodes around a fire 100 years from now after society has collapsed.
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May 28, 2017 16:12
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skooma512 posted:Reminds me of a play somebody did of people retelling Simpsons episodes around a fire 100 years from now after society has collapsed. Mr Burns: A Post Electric Play The musical number in the second act is a little long but the reat is great.
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May 28, 2017 16:20
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skooma512 posted:Reminds me of a play somebody did of people retelling Simpsons episodes around a fire 100 years from now after society has collapsed. There was something like that near the beginning of the movie Reign of Fire. Civilization's been destroyed for 20 or 30 years and there are small bands of survivors, trying to grow food without attracting the attention of the dragons. In one group, the adults are putting on a play to entertain and educate the children, staging a swordfight between a good guy and a bad guy. As we watch, we realize they're re-telling the lightsaber duel from The Empire Strikes Back. It's actually a really cool little moment, and it's a shame the rest of the movie doesn't live up to it.
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Powered Descent posted:There was something like that near the beginning of the movie Reign of Fire. Civilization's been destroyed for 20 or 30 years and there are small bands of survivors, trying to grow food without attracting the attention of the dragons. In one group, the adults are putting on a play to entertain and educate the children, staging a swordfight between a good guy and a bad guy. As we watch, we realize they're re-telling the lightsaber duel from The Empire Strikes Back. It's actually a really cool little moment, and it's a shame the rest of the movie doesn't live up to it. And then suddenly these Americans with a tank show up in the middle of the post-apocalyptic English countryside to save the day, for reasons.
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Drone posted:And then suddenly these Americans with a tank show up in the middle of the post-apocalyptic English countryside to save the day, for reasons. To this day Reign of Fire is the only movie I wish I'd walked out of the theater on.
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MikeJF posted:The best part of the Outrageous Okona is when he and Worf flirt and make plans to hook up later.  
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May 28, 2017 19:49
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I'm gonna say it, I like Okona and his stupid episode.
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May 28, 2017 19:55
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Is that his pizza? Then I'm outrageous whatever.
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May 28, 2017 20:01
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skasion posted:I'm gonna say it, I like Okona and his stupid episode. It is one of the better early TNG eps. That is not a high bar to clear. And it is also the one with the comedian subplot with Data. 
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May 28, 2017 20:55
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I can't be bothered to look up if they're the same person, but Okana always reminds me of the guy from Streets of Fire. They're both generic stubblemen and the supporting cast keeps trying to tell you how cool they are.
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WampaLord posted:It is one of the better early TNG eps. I dunno, man, season 2 actually has four or five pretty top shelf episodes and a handful that are mediocre to decent. I'd put Okona on the bottom of the pile even given the company he was in at the time. It'd be a pretty poor episode even relative to season 1 stuff.
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May 28, 2017 21:06
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It's certainly my favourite marketing tie-in for the Nutrageous bar.
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WampaLord posted:Yea, it's more funny that Star Trek predicted tablets with the PADDs, but it was clearly a throwaway thing. Amazon is trying to get a $20 tablet to market, disposable PADDs are close.
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It seems more likely that the PADDs inspired and drove the creation of tablet computers - it helped of course that the technology was already semi-there, as opposed to transporters and fusion power, which are still a little f urther off.
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May 29, 2017 00:00
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A lot of technology gets inspired by science fiction. There was no reason for flip phones to exist but they looked like star trek communicators, so.
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skasion posted:I'm gonna say it, I like Okona and his stupid episode. I'm wondering if the original idea was for Okona to be the new Harry Mudd or Cyrano Jones, and recur every so often. This wouldn't surprise me, as they were hamfistedly aping TOS quite a bit in the beginning.
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Tragedienne posted:It's certainly my favourite marketing tie-in for the Nutrageous bar. Wait what?
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Cojawfee posted:A lot of technology gets inspired by science fiction. There was no reason for flip phones to exist but they looked like star trek communicators, so.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Wait what? "The Nutrageous Okona" was the original name for the episode. Okona originally had six sex scenes and they called him "nutrageous" because he was nutting all over the place. Hershey's made a candy bar to go along with the episode.
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Cojawfee posted:"The Nutrageous Okona" was the original name for the episode. Okona originally had six sex scenes and they called him "nutrageous" because he was nutting all over the place. Hershey's made a candy bar to go along with the episode. That had to use that title since "Space Seed" was already taken.
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Reese's. Huh. Didn't know til now that Hershey owned Reese's.
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Kazinsal posted:Started watching Babylon 5, having heard good things here. Come join us in the Babylon 5 thread.
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Duckbag posted:Voyager watch throughs are a rollercoaster. I am easing into step 10 right now.
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24th Century Schizoid Man
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God this episode is goofy. Mainly because of Graves.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:God this episode is goofy. Mainly because of Graves. But... to know him is to love him is to know him. 
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I think it's hard the most ridiculous moments of any episode so far, other than Code of Honor obviously. Sampling: - Graves saying "women aren't people" - The ominous music when Grata whistle If I Only Had a Heart as if anyone hadn't figured it out at that point - Speaking of which, Graves basically making no effort to conceal his identity - Picard getting pissed at the funeral because Grata said too many nice things about Graves. Like I could understand if he was perplexed or had to gently stop Grata eventually but he was acting like he was going to dishonorably discharge him and forced him to apologize in the next scene - Grata's over the top petulant excuse for why he knocked out Geordi ("they told me to come down... they should not have done that!") - Graves finally giving up his plan because he might accidentally hurt people as if that would matter at all to a narcissist like him I guess a lot of it could be explained if when Graves transferred his consciousness he'd already had the neurological damage from Draenei's disease so his digital self was frozen in that mentally ill state but that feels like giving the show way too much credit.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Are there any bad Garak episodes, because I don't remember there being any. Quickly running through my memory of the episodes where he stars or at least plays a major part, no, no there aren't. There's a few I remember that aren't amazing but nothing bad.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:- Picard getting pissed at the funeral because Grata said too many nice things about Graves. Like I could understand if he was perplexed or had to gently stop Grata eventually but he was acting like he was going to dishonorably discharge him and forced him to apologize in the next scene To be fair to Picard, Graves was an unbelievable rear end in a top hat hated by literally everyone (and I mean everyone) in the galaxy who had ever met him, so I'm sure Picard wanted the shortest most perfunctory service he could possibly justify to the guy's family, and the last thing he wanted to do was stand around listening to a rambling monologue about how great Graves supposedly was.
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Kibayasu posted:Quickly running through my memory of the episodes where he stars or at least plays a major part, no, no there aren't. There's a few I remember that aren't amazing but nothing bad. Mirror Garak, meanwhile, was a total waste... which, I suppose, makes thematic sense. Regular Garak's a multifaceted character with hidden depth and secret agendas, so the reverse is an utterly forgettable one-dimensional thug!
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