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It's just now occurring to Worf that sending his son away right after his mom died might have upset him
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was listening to a podcast earlier where they alluded to (but didn't go into detail about) the people who made Star Trek games suing Star Trek about 10 years ago for being so uninteresting they were hurting their ability to develop and sell games. Is that true at all? Yeah, Activision sued Viacom back in 2003 over how bad Paramount was running the franchise, because Activision had paid for the rights to make Star Trek games. They settled out of court in 2005. Of course now the shoe's on the other foot and I think the last half-decent Trek game to come out might have been fuckin' Bridge Commander. My recollection is that the shooter based on 2009Trek was a buggy pile of hot dogshit, and most everything else since has been shameless shovelware.
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Sep 21, 2017 22:37
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 Riker sexually harassing a chair again
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Sep 21, 2017 22:41
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Everything went wrong in the worst possible way it could for Alexander
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Sep 21, 2017 22:44
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Yeah, Activision sued Viacom back in 2003 over how bad Paramount was running the franchise, because Activision had paid for the rights to make Star Trek games. They settled out of court in 2005. At least Bridge Crew is novel shovelware. If it had a campaign or even scenarios it might be worth some money!
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Sep 21, 2017 22:45
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Everything went wrong in the worst possible way it could for Alexander Oh the "everything goes wrong for Alexander" saga is only just beginning!
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Worf just became one of those mythological women who lift cars off their kids
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Sep 21, 2017 22:47
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It should be so easy to make a Star Trek sim mobile game with loot boxes and just make a poo poo ton of money
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Sep 21, 2017 22:51
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Episode over. Didn't seem like Worf and Alexander actually resolved their issues completely. I guess they're saving it for later eps.
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Sep 21, 2017 22:52
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God late TNG Season 7 has some really funny premises, like Worf's son is so unhappy that he travels back in time to kill himself and The Ferengi try to convince Picard that he has a son, so that he'll be sad when they say they've killed him. And the second-to-last episode is a weird choice; a regular guest character leaves in disgrace and everybody is shaken. TNG season 7 is a lot like Voyager. You have silly episodes with out-there scifi themes like Genesis, scraping-the-barrel episodes like Bloodlines where the story is pointless, and bizarre high concept episodes like Journey's End and Emergence that have some big ideas but don't quite land. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Sep 21, 2017 |
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Sep 21, 2017 22:56
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The problem with Voyager is that I don't give a poo poo about most of the characters for all 7 seasons.
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*Checks thread, sees 30+ new posts* *Jeb! doing some variation of "lol" / "what is happening" / "this is dumb" / "wait what" / "oh go to hell" * gently caress's sake, man. There's liveposting and then there's hooooly gently caress, settle down. Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Yeah, Activision sued Viacom back in 2003 over how bad Paramount was running the franchise, because Activision had paid for the rights to make Star Trek games. They settled out of court in 2005. The lawsuit actually brought to light how weird the game rights licenses were. Right now, STO exists in a happy place, which is the worst of worst worlds.
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Timby posted:*Checks thread, sees 30+ new posts* It's real, new content about TNG. Don't discourage it. Scroll past or even ignore list him if you hate it. It's good.
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Sep 21, 2017 23:16
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Timby posted:*Checks thread, sees 30+ new posts* What Jeb! is doing is cool and good.
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Sep 21, 2017 23:19
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Al Borland Corp. posted:It should be so easy to make a Star Trek sim mobile game with loot boxes and just make a poo poo ton of money That already exists: https://www.disruptorbeam.com/games/star-trek-timelines/
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Rewatching TMP. I know there's been a lot of theorizing over the years about a connection between V'ger and the Borg. First, this isn't a great idea because all it does is make the universe smaller. More than that, though, I think people are forgot just how powerful V'ger actually was, even if you go by the reduced AU. If the Borg had even a tenth of V'gers mojo they wouldn't have bothered to mess around with assimilating anything. And V'ger was just the machine planet messing around.
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Sep 21, 2017 23:28
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Beachcomber posted:Rewatching TMP. The best part is that the machine planet is never shown or explored. It is some external alien god like force. And it is left to the imagination with this small glimpse you see from V'ger.
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Sep 21, 2017 23:31
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Everything went wrong in the worst possible way it could for Alexander In real life too! http://www.coloradodaily.com/ci_13945077
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Jeb! Repetition posted:So this new propulsion form requires a nearby planet with a huge installation, and interferes with all the communications on ships that use it? Doesn't seem like that great of a replacement for warp drives Was it supposed to be faster?
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Sep 22, 2017 00:11
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Does anyone have a copy of that "Major, shut that thing off!!!" moment that Sisko gives in For The Uniform? Google Image Search is turning up lots of bits from that episode, but not what's clearly the best line of the episode.
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The Dark One posted:Does anyone have a copy of that "Major, shut that thing off!!!" moment that Sisko gives in For The Uniform? Google Image Search is turning up lots of bits from that episode, but not what's clearly the best line of the episode. 4:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGcAbI-4_io
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Zesty posted:Was it supposed to be faster? No, they implied it couldn't safely go above Warp 4. I guess its main advantage was efficiency? Since it was hundreds of times more efficient than warp engines
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Has it been decided if this is going to be the Discovery thread also or is it getting a separate one? CBS and Paramount have both been garbage for years when it comes to doing things like games with the Trek license. Right now your options are basically STO, Bridge Crew (if you really have that much extra money to burn), or one of those terrible mobile games. Some of the Activision games were bad, but they still made good ones like both of the Elite Force games, the two Armada games, and Starfleet Command III.
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"Alexander, Alexander." "Yes, father." "Eating sugar?" "No, father." "Hmmmm..." *simmering with rage*
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vermin posted:"Alexander, Alexander." Lol
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Arglebargle III posted:At least Bridge Crew is novel shovelware. If it had a campaign or even scenarios it might be worth some money! Bridge Crew isn't shovelware, it's the best skin possible for a modern VR tech demo (which, sadly, is only as far as any purpose-built VR game has managed so far).
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FlamingLiberal posted:Has it been decided if this is going to be the Discovery thread also or is it getting a separate one? I'd prefer a separate thread but I'm not thread arbiter or anything If I end up watching it it'll be three or four days late but I don't want to miss Jeb! posts by avoiding spoilers
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Timby posted:gently caress's sake, man. There's liveposting and then there's hooooly gently caress, settle down. JEB!'s pace is roughly coinciding with my partner's first time with TNG, so its been great to have timely and amusing discussions about these episodes (which I am also viewing for the first time in HD remaster.) It's also a more enjoyable read than the omnipresent Discovery chicken little-ing so basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcme3dPXARc#t=13
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:I'm more than willing to give the show an honest chance in itself. I'd like to put the I watched ST 5 today just for you. No browsing the forums, no multitasking, serious watching. Sybok just doesn't land for me. I totally get what they're going for, but I get "Gameshow Host", not " Cult Leader", or "Messiah". Must be a personal thing. Watching some Voyager thing now with TacticLoL Janeway in a sweaty tanktop with phaser rifle. I have it on good authority that Starfleet uniforms are designed to be comfortable in any environment, so she must be crazy. Discovery should stay here because I already have too many pages of bookmarks.
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in ST:D. Not all we've heard and seen is bad; there's enough there to pique my interest at least. I just won't watch it beyond the pilot until it is available by some other means.
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Beachcomber posted:I watched ST 5 today just for you. No browsing the forums, no multitasking, serious watching.
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The downside to keeping Discovery here is you'll have entire pages that look like classified CIA memos.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Nothing works in STV other than the Kirk/Spock/McCoy moments Balls. Say what you will about Shatner, but his blocking and camera setups are light-years beyond almost anything else in those first six movies. And Luckinbill as Sybok is nothing short of extraordinary. He just has otherworldly charisma.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The downside to keeping Discovery here is you'll have entire pages that look like classified Section 31 memos.
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I'm not modsplaining so don't take this as gospel but I think STD should have its own thread. There will be new people watching who aren't part of our incestuous nerd pile here and this is better as a general thread.
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Lol. I never watched Voyager because it kept putting me to sleep in the pilot, but I'm giving it another shot. It's hilarious how quickly it does away with any goodwill it started with for its novel setting and blended crew. By episode 3 the crew is pretty much integrated, the a plot is dependent on time travel and you've got Captain Janeway going with the most awful interpretation of the prime directive possible. Sprinkle in some idiotic technobabble and extremely clumsy social commentary. This show is loving dogshit and I'd sooner watch Enterprise again than another minute of this dreck.
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Beachcomber posted:I watched ST 5 today just for you. No browsing the forums, no multitasking, serious watching. Well, I do appreciate you going to the effort. I'm sure it's, like most things, at least partly a matter of taste. For me it's the earnest enthusiasm he brings; for all that he's a nut job it's hard to dislike him. He's not really a villain in the traditional sense, which is refreshing, and he gives Spock and especially McCoy great character moments. For me he's way beyond game show host and more like, maybe not messiah or cult leader, but a philosophy professor who's super into digging deeper for truth, and wants everyone to share in what he's found, not because it makes him look good but because of the truth itself. That's an archetype I can admire and be tempted to follow. But being a tragic hero, he dug too deep and his brilliance and dedication destroyed him. Timby posted:Balls. Say what you will about Shatner, but his blocking and camera setups are light-years beyond almost anything else in those first six movies. And the score, man. The score.
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Anyone have the link to the old BBS threads from when TNG had just come out? I think they had been posted up before, either as quotes or an archive url.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:And the score, man. The score. Yup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na76Mrl89Rs
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