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"There is no place for me in a 'civilized' society."
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He's implying he's going to commit suicide, like so many vets do. :ultimatesmith:
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Jul 15, 2017 06:10
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The gently caress did he just do??
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Jul 15, 2017 06:13
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He instantly incapacitated everyone in engineering but I guess they're all nerds who don't carry phasers so it makes sense.
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Jul 15, 2017 06:39
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drat this guy's powerful. Almost a Mary Sue.
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Jul 15, 2017 06:42
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Jeb! Repetition posted:drat this guy's powerful. Almost a Mary Sue. Does he have special colored eyes, like purple?
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Jul 15, 2017 06:45
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Oh, Worf confronting Danar, I wonder who'll win.
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Jul 15, 2017 06:50
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Worf why would you take your eyes off of him you gotdamned noob
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Jul 15, 2017 06:51
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Oh, Worf confronting Danar, I wonder who'll win. 
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Jul 15, 2017 06:55
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I really like but don't understand the part where he physically busts out of the transporter beam
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Jul 15, 2017 06:55
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Picard: "You asked them to defend your way of life, then you discarded them." Getem
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Jul 15, 2017 06:58
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Tighclops posted:I really like but don't understand the part where he physically busts out of the transporter beam Yeah they didn't explain that. Also they knew he survived it somehow, like it went from "no Danar you'll be killed" to "we must find him"
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Jul 15, 2017 06:58
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Whew Picard's not even saying anything and you can feel how pissed he is.
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Jul 15, 2017 07:00
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Now Danar's trying to commit suicide by cop. This whole episode is way too real about veterans.
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Jul 15, 2017 07:02
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Yeah they didn't explain that. Also they knew he survived it somehow, like it went from "no Danar you'll be killed" to "we must find him"
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Jul 15, 2017 07:05
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MisterBibs posted:Speaking of characters leaving, I still wish Second Chances (the Double Riker episode) had ended with their original concept: Commander Riker either dying or moving on to captaincy, Lt Riker taking Data's spot, and Data becoming First Officer. This could have been really cool. Though it might have robbed us of that fun DS9 episode about the Defiant clowning on the entire Cardassian fleet.
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Jul 15, 2017 07:49
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not to mention sideburns.gif
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Jul 15, 2017 10:01
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Larry Parrish posted:He's just a dem soc which by definition is a form of liberal. So I could care less what he does You mean soc dem, not dem soc (contrary to what Bernie himself says) but otherwise you're right.
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Jul 15, 2017 10:16
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Jeb! Repetition posted:The security team's holding the guy at phaserpoint, he moves on them so they shoot, but it barely even slows him down. There must be a setting even weaker than Riker used on that familial assassin girl Set phasers to tickle
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Jul 15, 2017 10:47
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Set phasers to tickle You do hear Riker command that phasers be set to maximum stun, why didn't they do that before?
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Jul 15, 2017 13:13
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Now Danar's trying to commit suicide by cop. This whole episode is way too real about veterans. Well, yeah. What do you think Rambo was actually about? The first one, not the sequels where he gets his job back.
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Jul 15, 2017 13:33
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Sad King Billy posted:You do hear Riker command that phasers be set to maximum stun, why didn't they do that before? People still get injuries and burns from sun settings and can even die from point blank fire. I'm sure the Feds default setting is "dissuade" rather than "probably an inch shy of death"
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Jul 15, 2017 16:08
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Phasers have 16 settings and 1-3 are all "stun" with, I guess, varying levels of agony. Then I guess 4-8 are the normal "kill" levels and 16 will vaporize a city block. There's some overlap between stun and kill if the target is really strong or really angry or the writers forget the numbers.
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Jul 15, 2017 17:12
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FuturePastNow posted:Phasers have 16 settings and 1-3 are all "stun" with, I guess, varying levels of agony. Then I guess 4-8 are the normal "kill" levels and 16 will vaporize a city block. There's some overlap between stun and kill if the target is really strong or really angry or the writers forget the numbers. Much like warp, phaser settings are at the power of plot. Doesn't the end of Empok Nor have O'Brien trying to kill Garak with a phaser set to detonate like a bomb, yet it fails and only knocks him out?
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Jul 15, 2017 17:26
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O'Brien isn't suicidal he would have set it to a low yield.
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Jul 15, 2017 17:29
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Don't phasers also have a wide beam setting which magically hits all the shooter's intended targets and nothing else
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Jul 15, 2017 18:05
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Don't phasers also have a wide beam setting which magically hits all the shooter's intended targets and nothing else Do you mean the scan setting from DS9 where they're chasing Odo around the station in case a changeling ever got on board? That always struck me as weird cuz apparently it bothers Odo but doesn't harm any of the real furniture
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Jul 15, 2017 19:45
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The Next Phase is a bad episode, but I love how Ro is pretty much immediately 'well, i'm dead, that's that, being dead is cool' while Geordi gets huffy about being a 'blind ghost with clothes' before storming off through a bulkhead. I can't put my finger on it but there's something 'off' about Data in the episode too, it's like in all his scenes they used the wrong take. [e] Ro casually shooting up their funeral while Riker jams on the trombone. Wild spincube fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Jul 15, 2017 |
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Jul 15, 2017 20:21
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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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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Don't phasers also have a wide beam setting which magically hits all the shooter's intended targets and nothing else They used it once on Voyager. Tuvok phasered everyone on the bridge at once.
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Jul 15, 2017 20:26
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8one6 posted:They used it once on Voyager. Tuvok phasered everyone on the bridge at once. They do it a couple times in DS9, too, mostly in the context of "sweeping for Changelings." A wide beam spreads out and hits everything in a triangle shape in front of the shooter, except I guess they have it set low enough that it doesn't have any effect on inanimate objects.
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Jul 15, 2017 20:48
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FuturePastNow posted:Phasers have 16 settings and 1-3 are all "stun" with, I guess, varying levels of agony. Then I guess 4-8 are the normal "kill" levels and 16 will vaporize a city block. There's some overlap between stun and kill if the target is really strong or really angry or the writers forget the numbers. But sometimes that poo poo was goofy. Remember when the ship's phasers were used? On a planet? ON STUN?
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Jul 15, 2017 20:52
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Yeah on the ep where the scientist lady hates the crystaline entity, Riker and Data (i think) phaser the inside of the walls of a cave to make LIGHT. Imagine how much heat that made while they were trapped in there for hours and hours! They were sweaty afterwards, I'll give them that, but phasers are magic!
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Jul 15, 2017 20:55
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But Data is a robot!
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Jul 15, 2017 21:00
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Gonz posted:But Data is a robot! I bet he sweats though if he wants to. He's fully functional, don't you know
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Jul 15, 2017 21:06
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Jul 15, 2017 21:07
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Nessus posted:But sometimes that poo poo was goofy. Remember when the ship's phasers were used? On a planet? ON STUN? What's wrong with that? Sensors + adaptive optics to deliver the correct... uh, dosage, for lack of a better word, through the atmosphere. It easily makes as much or more sense than lots of things in Star Trek, like a beam weapon with a stun setting in the first place.
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Jul 15, 2017 21:21
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The Bloop posted:Yeah on the ep where the scientist lady hates the crystaline entity, Riker and Data (i think) phaser the inside of the walls of a cave to make LIGHT. Imagine how much heat that made while they were trapped in there for hours and hours! They were sweaty afterwards, I'll give them that, but phasers are magic! Maybe the crystals were uh, just really efficient.
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Jul 15, 2017 21:23
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spincube posted:The Next Phase is a bad episode, but I love how Ro is pretty much immediately 'well, i'm dead, that's that, being dead is cool' while Geordi gets huffy about being a 'blind ghost with clothes' before storming off through a bulkhead. It's a bad episode but it's a favorite of mine because I love watching bad sci-fi and fantasy TV, and that episode (people caught in another dimension/phase/whatever) comes up in every single one of them and it's always funny to see the same episode eighty times with different lines.
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Jul 15, 2017 21:42
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:What's wrong with that? Sensors + adaptive optics to deliver the correct... uh, dosage, for lack of a better word, through the atmosphere. It easily makes as much or more sense than lots of things in Star Trek, like a beam weapon with a stun setting in the first place. Nah though it was actually really impressive, but it does suggest that phasers are not just glorified red lasers. If I had to put in for a Marvel No-Prize on the topic, I'd say that phasers probably emit some kind of weird radiation that numbs and fucks up voluntary nervous system activity, which is normally icing on the cake when it's on "burning skeleton" levels. The "Stun" setting just dials back the energy levels so it's just a burst of the nerve gently caress-up with little or no burning force applied. This explains why they did 'phaser sweeps' for changelings (if it messes with their shape-holding, which seems to be something like a held "posture" rather than a fundamental "change") and also why you can gut through it if you're mad enough.
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Jul 15, 2017 23:02
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Whenever various tinkerbell entities possess the crew they also become immune to stunning, usually. Maybe their minds are stunned but it doesn't matter if someone else is driving.
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Jul 15, 2017 23:13
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