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The Bloop posted:Aren't incels by definition horny? Like isn't that the whole point? Also I wouldn't characterize the Ferengi as libertarians per se, despite being capitalists they have a very powerful centralized government, they're more mercantilist or crony capitalists. Also take into account their treatment of women. Doesn't seem like that would lend itself to incel, at all. Winifred Madgers fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Aug 23, 2017 |
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I think Klingons are have sweaty angry sex with each other all the time. Just not Worf.
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Paradoxish posted:I end up consuming like 10+ hours of podcasts a week since I mostly listen while I'm working. Even more than that on boring weeks where I can listen at like 1.5x or 2x and still focus on what I'm doing. Also like a poo poo ton of audio books. I totally forgot that there are jobs where you can basically listen to the radio for your entire shift because I haven't worked one for so long. My current job does give me a little time driving around but like maybe 2 hours a day at most and usually not even that.
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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away Picard as my TV dad and fully embraced the superiority of the Sisko
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A guy in the Greatest Generation FB group showed his wife Sub Rosa and posted her reactionsquote:Wife's reaction to "Sub Rosa". She has never seen it and has seen minimal Trek. She did not disappoint. I describe Sub Rosa in another podcasts terminology, Spookely Good-Bad. It's not good at all, but it is so bad it turns around to being entertaing. It's like The Room or Neil Breen universe.
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poo poo, I guess I gotta watch Sub Rosa now.
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twistedmentat posted:"This is written by a man. Like a teenage boy who thinks all girl sleepovers end in a sexy pillow fight." Don't they?
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Brannon Braga wrote the script but Jeri Taylor and spec writer Jeanna F. Gallo were credited with the story.
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They do. All of them.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Brannon Braga wrote the script but Jeri Taylor and spec writer Jeanna F. Gallo were credited with the story. So was this before or after they'd decided Braga was gonna be lead writer on their new show?
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Arglebargle III posted:So was this before or after they'd decided Braga was gonna be lead writer on their new show? Uh, a long way before. Braga didn't work on DS9 at all and his influence on Voyager wasn't that bad, in fact the Voyager episodes he wrote include some of the better ones. People hate him because Enterprise was a dog.
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skasion posted:Uh, a long way before. Braga didn't work on DS9 at all and his influence on Voyager wasn't that bad, in fact the Voyager episodes he wrote include some of the better ones. People hate him because Enterprise was a dog. It was his call to put Jeri Ryan in a catsuit, to go from the collaborative style of the TNG writers' room to basically pitting writers against one another, and to basically do TNG-lite. He was a pretty toxic influence on Voyager, and there's a reason everyone breathed a sigh of relief when he hosed off to develop Enterprise and put Kenneth Biller in charge.
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DrNutt posted:I totally forgot that there are jobs where you can basically listen to the radio for your entire shift because I haven't worked one for so long. My current job does give me a little time driving around but like maybe 2 hours a day at most and usually not even that. I'm pretty much entirely remote, so podcasts/audiobooks are just about the only things that keep me sane. If it weren't for them I'd probably end up doing something really crazy, like keeping Star Trek episodes on loop for background noise.
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Timby posted:It was his call to put Jeri Ryan in a catsuit, to go from the collaborative style of the TNG writers' room to basically pitting writers against one another, and to basically do TNG-lite. He was a pretty toxic influence on Voyager, and there's a reason everyone breathed a sigh of relief when he hosed off to develop Enterprise and put Kenneth Biller in charge. I asked myself "is he the guy responsible for Enterprise's weird decontamination chamber scenes" http://old.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20031008enterprise1008fnp2.asp
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So there's a new Star Trek RPG out at the moment (and it's pretty rad) and I'm going to be running a game of it for some friends. Most of them are largely unfamiliar with Star Trek though, beyond the broadest of cultural knowledge. Are there any sort of setting primers or resources I could use to get them up to speed on the tone and setting? I'm sure I could point at some episodes, but they're unlikely to watch them in the time frame before we start the game. This will be TNG era stuff, btw.
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I can't imagine playing a Trek RPG with no Trek knowledge. People certainly won't behave in the expected fashion. I suppose that might be interesting in itself in a way.
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Bullbar posted:So there's a new Star Trek RPG out at the moment (and it's pretty rad) and I'm going to be running a game of it for some friends. Most of them are largely unfamiliar with Star Trek though, beyond the broadest of cultural knowledge. Are there any sort of setting primers or resources I could use to get them up to speed on the tone and setting? I'm sure I could point at some episodes, but they're unlikely to watch them in the time frame before we start the game. This will be TNG era stuff, btw. https://youtu.be/HnDtvZXYHgE
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Bullbar posted:So there's a new Star Trek RPG out at the moment (and it's pretty rad) and I'm going to be running a game of it for some friends. Most of them are largely unfamiliar with Star Trek though, beyond the broadest of cultural knowledge. Are there any sort of setting primers or resources I could use to get them up to speed on the tone and setting? I'm sure I could point at some episodes, but they're unlikely to watch them in the time frame before we start the game. This will be TNG era stuff, btw. Just have your first game session be a group screening of a couple episodes followed by character creation.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Just have your first game session be a group screening of a couple episodes followed by character creation. Maybe like, Best of Both Worlds and Lower Decks? Get a sense of both ends of the rank spectrum.
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I like cause and effect as a really good episode that's "normal" instead of being good because it breaks the mold
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Bullbar posted:So there's a new Star Trek RPG out at the moment (and it's pretty rad) and I'm going to be running a game of it for some friends. Most of them are largely unfamiliar with Star Trek though, beyond the broadest of cultural knowledge. Are there any sort of setting primers or resources I could use to get them up to speed on the tone and setting? I'm sure I could point at some episodes, but they're unlikely to watch them in the time frame before we start the game. This will be TNG era stuff, btw. "The Federation is Space America. That's you. The Klingons act like Space Vikings but geopolitically they're Space Russia: they go back and forth between being friends and rivals. The Romulans are Space China but without all the trade. The Vulcans are Space Taiwan: they're just like the Romulans, who want to annex their planet, but that doesn't happen because the Vulcans are on your side (in fact they're part of the Federation) and you'd defend them in a war. You're on a spaceship in the Federation's navy, which is called Starfleet, and you do both the wide-eyed exploration of the cosmos, and also the warship thing, depending on the circumstances. When you're out exploring, there's a rule called the Prime Directive that says not to gently caress around with any primitive aliens you find that haven't worked out space flight on their own yet. Anyway, your mission right now is to go boldly into that unexplored star cluster and see what the gently caress. Enjoy."
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Suggestion: RED SQUAD RED SQUAD RED SQUAD RED SQUAD
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The Bloop posted:Suggestion: But which one? The one where they get their wingman killed and lie about it, the one where they help a corrupt admiral take down the government, or the one where they're all idiots and get themselves blown up?
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One of those was Nova Squadron
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Big Mean Jerk posted:But which one? The one where they get their wingman killed and lie about it, the one where they help a corrupt admiral take down the government, or the one where they're all idiots and get themselves blown up? behind enemy lines in an overpowered ship with too few skills to realistically complete the mission - sounds like a group of Player Characters to me!
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Update: most of them are going to watch Measure of a Man, Best of Both Worlds, and Darmok
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Bullbar posted:So there's a new Star Trek RPG out at the moment (and it's pretty rad) and I'm going to be running a game of it for some friends. Most of them are largely unfamiliar with Star Trek though, beyond the broadest of cultural knowledge. Are there any sort of setting primers or resources I could use to get them up to speed on the tone and setting? I'm sure I could point at some episodes, but they're unlikely to watch them in the time frame before we start the game. This will be TNG era stuff, btw. Darmok is one of the best stand-alone Trek episodes, I think. I'm not sure BOBW would have the relevant impact and it's pretty long, in the bargain. Do you ahve a feel for the group's preferred style?
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Nessus posted:First of all, tell me more about this Trek RPG, I'd never heard of it and I post in TGD. I'm definitely curious. Star Trek Adventures is by Modiphius who do the Conan and Mutant Chronicles RPGs among others. It's using a nicely cleaned up version of their 2d20 system which seems pretty cool but I haven't actually played yet. It kind of has that advantages/complications thing that FFG Star Wars stuff has going on. Mostly the players have expressed an interest in the exploration and diplomacy side of what they know, the dude who is going to play the captain is the most Trek fluent and wants to be more Picard-like. I want to show off the more thoughtful/cerebral side of it I guess.
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Bullbar posted:Star Trek Adventures is by Modiphius who do the Conan and Mutant Chronicles RPGs among others. It's using a nicely cleaned up version of their 2d20 system which seems pretty cool but I haven't actually played yet. It kind of has that advantages/complications thing that FFG Star Wars stuff has going on.
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I've not seen this before, but I'm glad I now have.
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hiddenriverninja posted:One of those was Nova Squadron Huh, I really thought that was Red Squad for some reason. Probably because it involves stupid ideas and cadet deaths.
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The bf and I have a deal where we trade episodes of Star Trek with episodes of Golden Girls, and this happened E: I can only assume it's part of a Voyager time travel plot we'll get to later VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Aug 24, 2017 |
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VitalSigns posted:The bf and I have a deal where we trade episodes of Star Trek with episodes of Golden Girls, and this happened EMHs of the Old West (who are really sheriffs): 
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Speaking of Trek actors popping up in 90's stuff, I've been skimming through the 90's Outer Limits revival. Nicole de Boer (credited as Nikki de Boer), William Sadler, Wil Wheaton, and Brent Spiner have all show up in the first couple seasons. Wil Wheaton plays a cadet blinded by patriotism (he's pretty bad in that episode), Sadler stars in a prototype Ex Machina, and de Boer is, uh... Spiner shows up in "The Deprogrammers" (easily the best episode I've watched so far) as the same kind of sarcastic tough guy role he employs as Lore and Arik Soong. This is the first time I've seen him outside of Star Trek, and I'm almost disappointed he doesn't show up as a villain in more shows. He's got limited range, but he knows how to play an entertaining rear end in a top hat. I think Michael Dorn shows up as a paranoid astronaut in the next episode I have queued.
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Just watched an episode where Tuvok says he doubts whether katras are real. What? There is so much documented evidence that they exist. Spock, the most famous Vulcan of all time, was resurrected in front of hundreds of witnesses in a society with ubiquitous miniature recording devices. Spock implanting his katra in McCoy was captured on video, and this is a normal thing that all Vulcans do (except the poor bastards on the USS Intrepid, I guess  )Tuvok has personal experience that souls or psychic energy or whatever can exist outside the body. He was possessed by one. He observed Chakotay's soul going around possessing different crew members in order to thwart the other souls' evil plans.
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