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Jul 7, 2017 15:01
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poo poo I got some watching to do
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Lord Hydronium posted:That's Lloyd Braun. He's crazy. There was no wormhole. He just liked ringing that bell.
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Lord Hydronium posted:That's Lloyd Braun. WampaLord posted:Serenity now, Deanna.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:They made such a big deal about the advantages you can get as an empath but has there been a single time Troi gave the Enterprise an advantage in anything so far? Seriously. Even in this episode where she owned Creep at the end it didn't even matter because the wormhole was a dud and the agreement was already made. That's the advantage - Troi can keep her job even though she's useless.
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Lord Hydronium posted:That's Lloyd Braun. You know, not with the mindrape. Mindrape is part of the package. But did he have to be so close when he was mindraping. you mean he's a close mindraper?
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Jeb! Repetition posted:They're making a big deal about a stable wormhole's value but you'd think it wouldn't be as big of a deal if they already have FTL travel. I dunno maybe if it goes outside the classically observable universe or something. I don't know, I think a wormhole to the gamma quadrant might actually turn out to be kind of a big deal.
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Thanks to this thread I've been binging Star Trek: Enterprise. The first two seasons weren't as bad as I've heard, just mostly boring with a couple of decent hits. Not even close to Voyager terrible just... bland. Just finished season 3 and that was far better. I'm a bit sad knowing I only have one more season and that it ends on the wettest of fat man farts. Cast was pretty decent. No hologram Doctor but no Neelix. Jeffrey Combes is amazing and I sigh with longing every minute he is onscreen. Loved the idea of a the whole early days of Star Trek and seems like such a rich environment for stories. That and the brewing Romulan War seems like it would be fun to watch. Really wish this show would have lasted longer. The guy that introduced me to Star Trek hated this show but loved Voyager. Don't get that at all. Seems many on the internet hated this show and I just don't understand why. Also seems weird to blame this show for "killing Star Trek". Thanks Günes for the recommendation. Also laughed at the idea of a Beagle running amok on a starship and leaving poops everywhere. Wish they had devoted part of an episode to that poor red shirt that has to follow the dog around with a bag and the future equivalent of a pooper scooper. Porthos is officially my favourite Star Trek character. If only they would make him a sweet cosmonaut style suit to wear around the ship.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:They're making a big deal about a stable wormhole's value but you'd think it wouldn't be as big of a deal if they already have FTL travel. I dunno maybe if it goes outside the classically observable universe or something. Things like wormhole warp could result from it.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:They're making a big deal about a stable wormhole's value but you'd think it wouldn't be as big of a deal if they already have FTL travel. I dunno maybe if it goes outside the classically observable universe or something. Stable wormholes are incredibly valuable in Trek because the holy grail of 24th century science is to learn how to artificially construct stable wormholes exactly where you want them. Once you can do that you can cut a trip across Federation space that takes a month in a warp-capable starship down to a six hour ride in an impulse-only shuttlecraft (including the connection at Space Atlanta).
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Jul 7, 2017 19:05
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Von_Doom posted:Seems many on the internet hated this show and I just don't understand why. Also seems weird to blame this show for "killing Star Trek". I guess there were two possible ways to react to Enterprise after Voyager. You could either say "at least this isn't nearly as bad as Voyager" or "I can't believe they're squandering the premise of another Star Trek series." I think both of those things are true, but which one you choose to focus on depends on how prepared you are to forgive the franchise's shortcomings at the time you watch it.
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Warp drive is fast... but a wormhole is much faster. Cross the galaxy instantly instead of in decades. Or if you can figure out how to custom build a wormhole, cross the Federation instantly instead of in three months.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:He just looked directly at the camera, it's killing me This happened once in TOS:  "Well would you look at that - I finally got the last word!"  [Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry, closing credits][e] this was also the episode where they dubbed in the comedy coconut-falling-on-head *donk* sound to a Kirk fight scene spincube fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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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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spincube posted:This happened once in TOS: If you cover each half of his face, you either get Sad McCoy or Grinning McCoy.
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Jul 7, 2017 19:25
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MikeJF posted:There's also the limitation of poo poo breaking down; if you're running with enough energy to power replicators and getting raw matter and all your components are easily replicable that's fine if you have a crew to install poo poo. It's also easy enough to conjecture that a smaller ship like Voyager doesn't have the space to spare for an antimatter generator, and that it was considered an acceptable design trade-off for a ship not expected to go as far afield as one of the big explorer-type ships.
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Von_Doom posted:Thanks to this thread I've been binging Star Trek: Enterprise. The first two seasons weren't as bad as I've heard, just mostly boring with a couple of decent hits. Not even close to Voyager terrible just... bland. Just finished season 3 and that was far better. I'm a bit sad knowing I only have one more season and that it ends on the wettest of fat man farts. Cast was pretty decent. No hologram Doctor but no Neelix. Jeffrey Combes is amazing and I sigh with longing every minute he is onscreen. Loved the idea of a the whole early days of Star Trek and seems like such a rich environment for stories. That and the brewing Romulan War seems like it would be fun to watch. Really wish this show would have lasted longer. The guy that introduced me to Star Trek hated this show but loved Voyager. Don't get that at all. Seems many on the internet hated this show and I just don't understand why. Also seems weird to blame this show for "killing Star Trek". Thanks Günes for the recommendation. Too little, too late. That's pretty much Enterprise in a nutshell. It didn't commit to its premise, and instead doubled down on entrenched Star Trek tropes, which were already getting super stale with Voyager. It didn't ever do much to rise above the - you said it - blandness of workaday Trek. The entire franchise settled into a deep, deep rut because everyone involved was either burned out, checked out, or kicked out.
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Hollismason posted:The Prophets also never make sense anyway because Sisko supposedly joined them but also met them in the past and if the prophets exist at all times then why the gently caress didn't Sisko appear to himself and be like " Look this is what's going down". Prophet Sisko is prolly the Sisko we saw in that episode he got Hope that answers your questions!
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Jul 7, 2017 22:34
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Hmm so Jadzia just died. Worf really can't be allowed happiness can he.
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More like Ron Moore loves killing women whenever he can. (I know it's a cheap shot, I don't care, deal w/ it)
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:More like Ron Moore loves killing his wife whenever he can.
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Please tell me this guy is a known shitfucker and you didn't just find this lying around.
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FuturePastNow posted:Warp drive is fast... but a wormhole is much faster. Cross the galaxy instantly instead of in decades. Or if you can figure out how to custom build a wormhole, cross the Federation instantly instead of in three months. Isn't Federation space only like an hour across at most. The Defiant can go from DS9 to earth in less than an hour. The Enterprise E made it from the Romulan border to Earth in like 5 minutes.
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Hahaha, I'm watching Covenant. Is Dukat the most committed to being a shithead of any Star Trek Antagonist? Like, being a total rear end in a top hat at every given opportunity?
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Orv posted:Please tell me this guy is a known shitfucker and you didn't just find this lying around. It was posted in the funny politics forum, C-SPAM. But yes Matt Yglesias is a fairly well known pundit.
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VitalSigns posted:Isn't Federation space only like an hour across at most. The Defiant can go from DS9 to earth in less than an hour. The Enterprise E made it from the Romulan border to Earth in like 5 minutes. Warp speed and the size of the Star Trek universe have never been consistently or sensibly quantified and Star Trek is probably better off for it.
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Orv posted:Please tell me this guy is a known shitfucker and you didn't just find this lying around. Yes, Matt Yglesias is a known shitfucker.
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I think it is funny that some random planet wanted to charge everyone to use the wormhole just because it was around their system. It's not like they built it. If I see a magical portal that just happened to open up in my neighbor's backyard that could instantly transport me to work everyday, you bet your rear end I would just jump the fence and use it.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I think it is funny that some random planet wanted to charge everyone to use the wormhole just because it was around their system. I mean, countries regulate and tax travel on waterways in their territory in the real world It seems like a pretty similar situation to me
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I accidentally hit Google Now On Tap while at the thread list. The only search result? Home Soil.
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Good news, a Star Trek fan was involved in a felony not related to pedophilia: http://okcfox.com/news/local/police-fight-over-star-wars-and-star-trek-led-to-assault quote:OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Police say a fight over Star Trek and Star Wars led to an assault in the metro.
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dont even fink about it posted:Warp speed and the size of the Star Trek universe have never been consistently or sensibly quantified and Star Trek is probably better off for it. You aren't really wrong or anything, but Star Trek takes this so far in the opposite direction that it's usually impossible to get any sense of place or distance.
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Paradoxish posted:You aren't really wrong or anything, but Star Trek takes this so far in the opposite direction that it's usually impossible to get any sense of place or distance. I dunno the new Star Wars movie are far worse about it.
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socialsecurity posted:I dunno the new Star Wars movie are far worse about it. Star Wars has always had absolutely zero sense of how long space travel takes. It's always "time to go to x!" CUT TO SHIP FLYING INTO ORBIT
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VitalSigns posted:Isn't Federation space only like an hour across at most. The Defiant can go from DS9 to earth in less than an hour. The Enterprise E made it from the Romulan border to Earth in like 5 minutes. Early TNG had a couple episodes where the Enterprise-D was the first Starfleet ship to visit all these remote Federation worlds in so-and-so years, which makes me think that Federation space takes a really long time to traverse, or at least, they have some outlying colonies that are really far away from the core worlds. Of course, the real answer is what dont even fink about it said, all distances in Star Trek are whatever the plot demands.
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Spoeank posted:Star Wars has always had absolutely zero sense of how long space travel takes. It's always "time to go to x!" In TFA it's pretty much just VWOOM - *psssh* WOOM and they're there. They have the same issue with the Starkiller base gun. It isn't like you need a TON, but like, Star Trek Beyond managed to do this.
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VitalSigns posted:Isn't Federation space only like an hour across at most. The Defiant can go from DS9 to earth in less than an hour. The Enterprise E made it from the Romulan border to Earth in like 5 minutes. IIRC, in First Contact's book, it takes the E three days, during which there's a running battle from the Typhon sector (where the film said they were meeting the cube) to Earth.
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Nessus posted:Both the originals and the prequels would tend to at least cut away for another scene elsewhere in the movie after dudes jumped to hyperspace, and ep 4 suggested it was a long enough trip that Obi-wan had time to bust out the trainers and teach Luke a few tricks. It's not clear whether it's just a few hours or like a week, nor does it need to be, but you get the sense of time passing. Agreed on all points, but I interpret that last TFA jump as an artistic choice. Any pause in that sequence would have messed with the pace of the scene.
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