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Timby posted:The space combat is fun. PVP was actually super fun a year or two ago, but I hear they murdered it.
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Timby posted:The space combat is fun. I wish they'd gone full 3d with it.
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The_Doctor posted:Star Trek: Discovery’ Designers Reveal Look and Colors Will Evolve To Be More Like TOS The show hasn't premiered yet and I bet they're already gearing up for that same backpedal retooling ENT and JJ Trek did halfway through. "No, wait, we're sorry we tried that grim poo poo unsuccessfully for the billionth time in a row. Look... it's more like TOS now, you like TOS right? Colors! Fun!"
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Eh, for Enterprise I don't think aesthetic was ever a problem. Loved the set design and practical uniforms that felt like real astronauts piloting a space submarine. It was just a bit too boring and mostly retread.
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ironic that tree onion lampooned the new twerk as "fun, watchable" when a whole planet of our buddies exploded and Kirk lost two dads in an hour and Spock cried like it wasn't a fun movie emotionally Spock is put through the emotional wringer and Kirk loses a father figure in both the "new fun darker grittier" entries dang
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FlamingLiberal posted:Makes more sense tbh... Not Trek related, but I remember reading one of the Halo books in my youth, and there was this scene where a Covenant guy basically goes  over the fact that his human opponents don't put their bridges deep inside the guts of their ships, as
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Arglebargle III posted:ironic that tree onion lampooned the new twerk as "fun, watchable" when a whole planet of our buddies exploded and Kirk lost two dads in an hour and Spock cried like it wasn't a fun movie emotionally Wait what was the second dad he lost? Pike survived and promoted him to real Captain.
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Sep 7, 2017 18:33
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Wait what was the second dad he lost? Pike survived and promoted him to real Captain. Pike dies for good in Into Darkness.
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Oh I thought you meant the first one. Well whose the second dad he loses in an hour in into darkness?
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I like how Peter Weller was a terrorist who wanted to use a super weapon to seperate Earth from all aliens. Then like less than a hundred years later they take a dude who looks exactly like him and promote him to admiral and his plan is to take superweapon to seperate Earth from all aliens. It's the same drat guy!
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Oh I thought you meant the first one. Pretty sure Arglebargle just typed that post badly. He loses Dad Kirk and Pike in two different movies.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Oh I thought you meant the first one. Kirk's dad dies and then Pike gets kidnapped and crippled like within an hour of screen time. It's like dad murder, genocide, dad kidnapping fun packed extravaganzas. When Trek 2009 came out it was around my birthday and I tried to drag my girlfriend of the time to go with me and I'm glad she said no. It is a bad downer movie and a bad reboot. Pike doesn't die in the first movie but Kirk loses him. It's a big thing where they rescue him and put him in the beep chair. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Does Dad murder count if your feet ain't even out the vagina yet? He didn't lose his dad, he never even knew him.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Eh, for Enterprise I don't think aesthetic was ever a problem. Loved the set design and practical uniforms that felt like real astronauts piloting a space submarine. ENT was fairly boring and antiseptic looking until it's last season when they started adding in TOSy primary colours and more multicoloured blinking boxes of light in the computer displays, etc. Drink-Mix Man posted:The show hasn't premiered yet and I bet they're already gearing up for that same backpedal retooling ENT and JJ Trek did halfway through. "No, wait, we're sorry we tried that grim poo poo unsuccessfully for the billionth time in a row. Look... it's more like TOS now, you like TOS right? Colors! Fun!" Everything about their marketing for this show screams desperation, I hate to write this off before it airs especially considering what a gong show TNG's production was but jesus gently caress is there anything more pathetic than "Please keep watching, nerds! It'll eventually start to look like this thing you remember and love! We promise!"
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Arglebargle III posted:Kirk's dad dies and then Pike gets kidnapped and crippled like within an hour of screen time. It's like dad murder, genocide, dad kidnapping fun packed extravaganzas. When Trek 2009 came out it was around my birthday and I tried to drag my girlfriend of the time to go with me and I'm glad she said no. It is a bad downer movie and a bad reboot. That's how ds9 starts and you fuckers think that one's amazing
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Arglebargle III posted:Pike doesn't die in the first movie but Kirk loses him. It's a big thing where they rescue him and put him in the beep chair. Pike is his immediate superior/Starfleet mission runner when we see the stuff at the start of Into Darkness and he's even walking, so not really.
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Yeah don't try to tell me Pike isn't a father figure or that Nemo kidnapping him isn't a moment where Kirk loses his dad again and has to get a pep talk from future Spock so he can go rescue his dad and save the day. This has probably been mentioned before but do any parents survive Star Trek 2009?
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Arglebargle III posted:Yeah don't try to tell me Pike isn't a father figure or that Nemo kidnapping him isn't a moment where Kirk loses his dad again and has to get a pep talk from future Spock so he can go rescue his dad and save the day. Sulu does
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Arglebargle III posted:Yeah don't try to tell me Pike isn't a father figure or that Nemo kidnapping him isn't a moment where Kirk loses his dad again and has to get a pep talk from future Spock so he can go rescue his dad and save the day. I'm not saying that, because those are both accurate, I'm saying he has him back by the end of 09 and then loses him permanently in Into Darkness which is what causes him to accept the torpedoes with Khan's crew in them, because Into Darkness is very bad about forced character motivations. Also presumably Kirk's mom, since she's mentioned to be on a trip at the start of 09 and we never hear anything about her again.
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corn in the bible posted:That's how ds9 starts and you fuckers think that one's amazing DS9's grimdarkness is often overstated, for all the depressing stuff in the pilot and later episodes it still features lots of positivity including Sisko being the best space dad and O'Brien being a loving space husband and Worf not getting beaten up quite so badly/often, etc
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Tighclops posted:Worf not getting beaten up quite so badly/often, etc Getting beaten up consensually.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Trip report: DS9 season 5, episode 1 "Apocalypse Rising" Why the gently caress did that Changling out itself? It could have easily kept its deception going instead of going all tentacle arms to prove Odo right.
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jeeves posted:Why the gently caress did that Changling out itself? It could have easily kept its deception going instead of going all tentacle arms to prove Odo right. The paranoia it causes thereby is potentially more useful.
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Arglebargle III posted:Yeah don't try to tell me Pike isn't a father figure or that Nemo kidnapping him isn't a moment where Kirk loses his dad again and has to get a pep talk from future Spock so he can go rescue his dad and save the day. Pike is far more of a father figure to Spock than he is to Kirk in '09. When they're on Nero's ship, it's Spock who gets enthusiastic at discovering Pike's location. Also, Old Spock's pep talk is about the need to work together with QuintoSpock; I don't think Nimoy even mentions Pike once. quote:This has probably been mentioned before but do any parents survive Star Trek 2009? Sarek, Kirk's mother.
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Hey remember when NuSpock called up Old Spock to ask him how The Wrath of Khan ended These movies were trash
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Tighclops posted:Hey remember when NuSpock called up Old Spock to ask him how The Wrath of Khan ended This to me was the main reason Into Darkness was so garbage. In that single scene they confirmed that this new crew were a bunch of idiots and couldn't do poo poo without calling their prime universe buddy for help.
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I like that they make Jake Sisko vulnerable from time to time, like a kid would be. One of my biggest annoyances in shows and movies is kids that aren't afraid of things, or who are always emotionally competent. Kids in most horror movies should probably be closer to 'useless puddle on the ground' or 'can never stop screaming', instead of plucky or whatever - at least occasionally, but it's so rare. Jake's cried in a few episodes, just be cause he couldn't cope with what was happening around him, and it's great. I just saw one where he's in a war zone, and is cowering the whole time - which was the point of the episode, but I'm glad they used Jake for it. If it was Wesley, he'd just be doing calculations with that slack-jawed look on his face.
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I don't know if anyone else has noticed or mentioned it in the thread but I finally worked out what the Discovery costumes remind me of. The uniforms worn by the crew of Sealab 2020/2021. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYhLj2WORs&index=5&list=PLH5H20k8lifPf66hao-u-sF-tzfwpc4Sc
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Mogomra posted:This to me was the main reason Into Darkness was so garbage. In that single scene they confirmed that this new crew were a bunch of idiots and couldn't do poo poo without calling their prime universe buddy for help. i mean we all know it's because Quinto is a trash Spock who has zero chemistry with Kirk
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Ironically Gay Spock has less chemistry with Kirk than straight Spock.
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Karl Urban wasn't even given the chance to carry those movies, which sucks
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I'm watching Favorite Son, the one where Harry is(n't) an alien, and something occurred to me that I'd never really noticed before; So many species and cultures in Trek are represented by a single room, and sometimes an oil painting. Despite the fact that more than a few of the rooms get reordered and repainted as is the way of set reuse, if it's not a real room somewhere, a lot of them are actually fairly well done in terms of cultural personality. Races that get a single episode or even a single scene often have a pretty good snapshot of their culture. Of course it doesn't always work, and there's always a salsa dish lurking somewhere on set, but it's pretty impressive that they're generally seamless enough that I hadn't noticed it for years. E: Seconds later they have a really goofy marriage ceremony so it's not all perfect, eh Voyager? Orv fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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I decided to finally start watching TOS and I'm pretty taken with this guy right here http://i.imgur.com/HetPe3c.gifv
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http://io9.gizmodo.com/relive-star-trek-the-next-generation-with-posters-for-1801868199 Juan Ortiz has done individual episode posters for TNG like the ones he did for TOS. I was excited to hear that, but after seeing the examples I am underwhelmed. I don't think his retro art style, which worked so well for 60S TOS, is right for TNG.
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I like those couple of times McCoy is just like "As your doctor I order you to chug this glass of bourbon".
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Astroman posted:http://io9.gizmodo.com/relive-star-trek-the-next-generation-with-posters-for-1801868199 Yeah, for TNG he should go full 80's movie poster instead.
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Did we talk about this yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvodBh34FZA
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Watching In Theory. They're doing some kind of nebula thing and Data is awkwardly talking to some engineer girl.
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"As you requested, I will now remind you of the reasons you decided to end your relationship with Jeff." God I love Data
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