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WampaLord posted:The dude passes his time traveling by playing loving multiple choice trivia with the computer and listening to the worst music imaginable. Imagine all the other possible things you could be doing even with just a shuttle craft's computer. He is precisely a small minded bore, and a creepy one as well. Ehhhhh, just because it's advanced Federation technology doesn't mean they're going to load cool video games into the shuttlecraft computer. (And also it would cost money to show that kind of thing.) That said, we probably should look down on him for not joyously spending his time on the shuttlecraft consuming technical manuals the way that Scotty did. Cojawfee posted:Holy poo poo guys. Geordi said it's unusual to recreate people you know. He isn't a hypocrite because he didn't know Leah Brahms when he created the sex doll of her. Also, Barclay's holoprogram 9 is him at a chipotle. He eats a bunch of chipotle and gets diarrhea, then he heads into the bathroom. He opens the stall door and then it turns out that Riker is the toilet and he shits into Riker's mouth. This is standard holodeck stuff. i fuckin' love that Blue Stripe
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Sash! posted:To be fair, Geordi didn't know Leah Brahms at that point, did he? No he was just trying to diagnose a problem and the computer basically suggested making a hologram of her. Of course the computer is a super genius who has full knowledge of Geordi's psych profile, so...
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The Bloop posted:No he was just trying to diagnose a problem and the computer basically suggested making a hologram of her. This takes "drat you, autocorrect" to a whole new level
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The Bloop posted:No he was just trying to diagnose a problem and the computer basically suggested making a hologram of her. The initial puppet was basically just giving the same verbal responses Geordi was getting previously from the technical journals. It was Geordi's idea to specifically ask the computer to spark up the puppet with a personality and make it more fun.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I mean, to be fair, writing weird sex stuff into Star Trek fanfiction* literally predates the Internet. Granted but you usually didn't get paid (as much) for that. Let me tell you that a 12-13 year old - my parents totally did not know anything about these books other than "Star Trek" - reading about the son of a literal god having implicit as-explicit-as-you-can-get-without-actually-being-explicit sex with a human-equivalent true intersex species was, despite that 12-13 year already being pretty socially liberal, still kinda weird. I remember that character, having been asked about what it was like by another character on the bridge (because everyone in Star Trek in also 13 years old when it comes to sex) explaining it as something like "it's even better when your partner already knows how to use what you've got." But then there's another scene where Calhoun and Shelby are "relaxing" in their quarters and half the cast decides that this is the best time to come in and talk about all their personal/Starfleet problems and despite being the typical "Is this really the best time?" kind of scene it's pretty funny so yeah, probably both.
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Say what you want though, at least New Frontier had a relationship between a cis male human and a masculine-identifying alien from a genderless race. So at least it did what Jonathan Frakes wanted to do in "The Outcast" and what Rick Berman was too much of a coward/homophobe to do. And in the mid/late 90s at that.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Ehhhhh, just because it's advanced Federation technology doesn't mean they're going to load cool video games into the shuttlecraft computer. (And also it would cost money to show that kind of thing.) Literally the only video game in existence in the 24th Century is Cones and Discs 3D, because something something as a society we evolved to take greater pleasure from learning and bettering ourselves via trivia games instead
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Vintersorg posted:Hit my first bad DS9 episode -- the one where Sisko, Dax, Kira and Bashir get warped into a multi-tier board game. Jesus gently caress I wanted that to end fast. You're dumb and it was a good episode.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:The initial puppet was basically just giving the same verbal responses Geordi was getting previously from the technical journals. Yeah, that's true. I assume if you just casually ask the computer to break the law or whatever it will refuse. I guess officers can just load the psych profiles of anyone they want whenever.
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The real hosed up thing is that he marries her in the future.
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Cojawfee posted:You're dumb and it was a good episode. Nope. It starts off good with the First Contact and all, the Sisko/Jake relationship fleshing out a bit more and then suddenly it turns into a bad episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark.
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Also, don't forget that Geordi tried to get Aquiel stationed on the Enterprise so he could keep boning her after her traumatic ordeal with the coalescent organism.
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Cojawfee posted:You're dumb and it was a good episode. Well come on now, it's not a good episode. But it is a good bad episode.
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Vintersorg posted:Hit my first bad DS9 episode -- the one where Sisko, Dax, Kira and Bashir get warped into a multi-tier board game. Jesus gently caress I wanted that to end fast. ALAMARAIN
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MisterBibs posted:Isn't there a line that implies his former captain puffed up his credentials / talents so he could offload Barclay onto someone else? Yes, Riker immediately suspects exactly that. quote:PICARD: There's every indication he's served competently in Starfleet for years. His ratings aboard the Zhukov were satisfactory. In fact I recall Captain Gleason speaking quite highly of him before his transfer.
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Drone posted:Say what you want though, at least New Frontier had a relationship between a cis male human and a masculine-identifying alien from a genderless race. So at least it did what Jonathan Frakes wanted to do in "The Outcast" and what Rick Berman was too much of a coward/homophobe to do. And in the mid/late 90s at that. Yeah and that's basically how I look at it now. In fact I want to say that the character didn't even identify as strictly masculine as I recall conversations revolving around what the proper pronouns are for a species that is always both sexes but maybe that changed later in the series. I don't know enough if they were the contemporary terms being discussed at the time, I remember pronouns like "hir" being used, but there is another bit I remember where the intersex character talked with someone about how there was some kind of language council on their home planet that met to discuss and update the proper language to use, though not just for gender identification. This was then followed up by a joke where the minor character thought that was strange, being told that the French on Earth did the same thing, then that being written off as "Oh, well, they're French." So again, not sure if he was bringing up a serious topic or making a joke at its expense. I guess if nothing else the series made an impression on me given what I can recall once I start thinking about it 
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Drone posted:ALAMARAIN I think there is a pretty good bit of early Quark characterization in that episode. I like it. I don't care who knows it. (but don't tell anybody)
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The Bloop posted:I think there is a pretty good bit of early Quark characterization in that episode. I just informed your immediate family.
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Cojawfee posted:I just informed your immediate family. "Oh Bloop  The Nagus was more centered around Quark's character. Abloo bloo bloo."
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Ehhhhh, just because it's advanced Federation technology doesn't mean they're going to load cool video games into the shuttlecraft computer. (And also it would cost money to show that kind of thing.) Well, we already know that you can bring up any play/musical with 2 button presses, so if nothing else, Geordi could have been listening to Klingon opera or something. Also, I'd like to imagine you could put the shuttle on autopilot and then have the computer use the view screens as monitors and play various games or even do a flight simulator thing and run practice combat missions. poo poo would be fun as hell, but Geordi goes all basic bitch and says "Just multiple choice trivia, please!"
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Drone posted:ALAMARAIN COUNT TO FOUR
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:COUNT TO FOUR ALAMARAIN AND THEN THREE MORE ALAMARAIN IF YOU CAN SEE ALAMARAIN BETTER THAN TNG
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Watching The Most Toys. The back of Data's uniform is extremely wrinkly and there were so many fake words in the captain's log that I don't fully understand what's happening.
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MillennialVulcan posted:The Most Toys is one of my favorite non-top 5 episodes of TNG, it's so good. An interesting way to think about it, but.... agreed!
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MillennialVulcan posted:The Most Toys is one of my favorite non-top 5 episodes of TNG, it's so good. It's totally amazing. Can't wait to see the rest of Jeb!s post It might be the second best Data episode.
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Oh Data's alive. And looking at his hand. In a postmodern set.
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WampaLord posted:It's totally amazing. Can't wait to see the rest of Jeb!s post
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Whew this guy is the most hate-able anyone's been since the omnipotent child abductors in season 1
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The Most Toys is awesome, one of the only Data-centric episodes I really like. Looking forward to your reaction to that ending
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