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skasion posted:I'm going insane here, that wasn't Kurtwood Smith? I'd swear to god he was in TNG somewhere. Nope, just ST6, DS9, and Voyager.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:That episode feels very run-of-the-mill, which is odd given the unique (for TNG) premise. I think that's why I hate it so much. The whole "am i insane or is this realllllll?" is such a cliched story, and its in every single sci-fi series. skasion posted:I'm going insane here, that wasn't Kurtwood Smith? I'd swear to god he was in TNG somewhere. He was the President in STVI, He's in Voyager as the guy who commands the time ship in year of hell, I think he was in DS9 as a Cardassian. But I don't think he was ever in TNG. Looking at his IMDB, yea he was never in TNG. James Cromwell was in a hell of a lot of TNG though. Speaking of him, it was brought up in the Greatest Generation live show I went to last weekend, what was Cochran's plan? He said he invented it to retire to an island full of naked women, but if everyone's living in Fallout conditions, who's around to buy the warp drive to give him his money?
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I don't think it was Fallout level, more like Great Depression with all the economies taking a tumble after WW3. They mention one of the other alliances still being around, so there was government somewhere.
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Aug 26, 2017 03:06
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I don't think it was Fallout level, more like Great Depression with all the economies taking a tumble after WW3. They mention one of the other alliances still being around, so there was government somewhere. They show everyone at the location is living in scrap metal huts in the forest. I'd think that they were living far away from major cities to avoid radiation. It's slightly better than Fallout, but not by much. Or this could be a temporary settlement for people working on the Phoenix. And Riker talks about how there aren't any major governments left as well. Actually, that's probably it, they're paying these people in booze to build his rocket ship.
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He says he prefers taking the train to flying, meaning that the US has (at a minimum) the same transportation options we have *now* but after absorbing a nuclear attack. One of my favorite things with the star treks is paying very close attention to the WWIII mentions. Its pretty clear to me that the ECONs got their poo poo hammered in, but the US-EU-Whatever side didn't do so badly, all things considered.
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Related, I've always felt, victory or not, WW3 (and the stuff leading up to it like the Eugenics Wars, and the afterwords) basically inflicted a huge physiological scar on humanity in general. They were on the loving brink as a whole species and probably would've died out had the Vulcans not noticed them, and never really got over it completely.
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Aug 26, 2017 03:41
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WW3 killed off all the assholes
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Aug 26, 2017 03:59
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A war not creating a new generation of assholes is a miracle.
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Aug 26, 2017 04:01
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Remember, we went from discovering the Warp engine, to kangaroo courts with out of work Christmas Carol extras and drugged up soldiers, to paradise.
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skasion posted:TOS already offered two "explanations" for this which were both equally stupid: the kind of eternal return idea in Miri where hey, the universe is a big place and I'm sure if you go far enough you're *eventually* gonna find a planet which looks just like a studio backlot populated by actors, It was cool to read that this actually is one of the less dumb things on TOS and is a real physics hypothesis. If the universe is infinite (or some types of multiverses work here) then this will happen because the number of combinations of matter and energy is finite. In an infinite universe, it is not just likely but required that somewhere out there is another planet that looks identical to Earth. It'd be so far away you'd never encounter it, but it must be there.
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Aug 26, 2017 04:06
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Hey they already came across a planet of aliens that had an American flag, so the odds can't be too high
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Watching Galaxy's Child for a double feature Friday. Had to double check because of the title that this wasn't the episode I already saw written by George R R Martin, but no, that was The Child.
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Hosting a special guest? Hopefully this isn't an episode focused around a guest actor that can't carry it. The last two times I was afraid of that it wasn't warranted but still
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Aug 26, 2017 04:18
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Wait a second is that the name of It has to be, right
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Jeb! Repetition posted:IT IS YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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This premise is giving me anxiety. He's going to meet her a few seconds after I hit post
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Aug 26, 2017 04:21
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Ooooooooooooh poor LaFooooooooooooorge
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Aug 26, 2017 04:22
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Jeb! Repetition posted:IT IS 
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Intro thought: He's even more of a GOT dam hypocrite for what he said to Barclay than I thought
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Okay maybe they just got off to a bad start.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I think that was my favorite Prime Directive episode. Imagine how depressing it must be to make first contact, and have it go so badly that you earnestly tell the aliens "You know what, give us a few decades at minimum."
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Aug 26, 2017 04:31
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Starship-sized biological life form. This is I assume what the Enterprise is for. Oh poo poo it's loving with them
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Aug 26, 2017 04:32
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They killed it with absolute minimum strength self-defense phaser
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Aug 26, 2017 04:34
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Aaaaaaaah Geordi's setting mood lighting for a date, save me
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Aug 26, 2017 04:36
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Big Cringin
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Aug 26, 2017 04:37
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You can see the exact moment Geordi's heart breaks
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Aug 26, 2017 04:40
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Yes YES The ultimate Geordi is pathetic episode.
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Aug 26, 2017 04:40
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So the Enterprise didn't just kill a one of a kind alien, it also killed a pregnant mother
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Aug 26, 2017 04:42
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Aug 26, 2017 04:44
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Aug 26, 2017 04:46
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Oh god is it is Geordi you poor loving pile of dog poo poo. aaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
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Thank god it cut away to a c-section
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The computer is just way too much of a people-pleaser isn't it
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