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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Now I'm the one without any ability to see beyond my bias, I guess, because that doesn't sound like any communist I've ever heard from. So that's a no, you haven't read the passage I'm talking about?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Believe an EU novel later explained (because of course) that Macet was Dukat's more liberal-minded identical cousin who grew his facial hair to distinguish himself from him. loving lol All EUs are trash. Admittedly, some small percentage of trash is actually treasure.
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Arglebargle III posted:So that's a no, you haven't read the passage I'm talking about? I haven't. But if you're saying I'm secretly a communist, unbeknownst to myself, and Jeb! is saying I'm a libertarian, both based on what I posted, then maybe we all have a lot more in common than we think and there's hope for a Star Trek future after all. 
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Ramadu posted:So I'm watching s4e12 of TNG The Wounded and I can't stop laughing at Marc Alamo playing Gul Marcet and he has the worst facial hair ever and is wearing weird bondage face gear They should have kept this. All cardassians should have handlebars.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:I haven't. But if you're saying I'm secretly a communist, unbeknownst to myself, and Jeb! is saying I'm a libertarian, both based on what I posted, then maybe we all have a lot more in common than we think and there's hope for a Star Trek future after all. The basic idea is that in full communism the individual is free to work as much or as little as he or she wants, on whatever seems best, without reference to earning a living or amassing power over others.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Believe an EU novel later explained (because of course) that Macet was Dukat's more liberal-minded identical cousin who grew his facial hair to distinguish himself from him. Identical cousins? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQTqKcojrVY
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Sep 28, 2017 13:45
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Watching Menagerie. McCoy thinks Vulcans can't lie. Bones, you somehow missed all of Enterprise.
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Southern ironic racist misunderstands foreign culture: hard to believe.
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Every time I see TOS assymetrical triangle candy service medals I zone out and try to figure out what design they were going for
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I don't know what's worse about Discovery: the asymmetric collars on the uniforms or the Shenzhou's bridge being on the bottom of the saucer. Not my Trek.
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Tsaedje posted:I don't know what's worse about Discovery: the asymmetric collars on the uniforms or the Shenzhou's bridge being on the bottom of the saucer. Not my Trek. I found it needlessly confusing when she was in the brig, and the computer said there was a hull breach on deck one, and I assumed that meant the bridge had been destroyed and the captain killed and now she'd have to take command... and then, of course, I remembered deck one isn't the bridge now. IT'S MADNESS!
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Tsaedje posted:I don't know what's worse about Discovery: the asymmetric collars on the uniforms or the Shenzhou's bridge being on the bottom of the saucer. Not my Trek. My god, those madmen. What hell hath they wrought?
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Angry Salami posted:I found it needlessly confusing when she was in the brig, and the computer said there was a hull breach on deck one, and I assumed that meant the bridge had been destroyed and the captain killed and now she'd have to take command... and then, of course, I remembered deck one isn't the bridge now. IT'S MADNESS! They really should've numbered the decks from bottom to top and kept the bridge on deck 1.
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It's kind of funny the Talosians are editing their telepathic camera footage. "The primitives would appreciate a shoulder-to-shoulder close shot here. Now they would enjoy a mid-range side shot to end the scene." Also I wonder what kind of Talosian chose the job to create the telepathic blonde woman who wants to mate with the human. Give that job to Terry you know he's into that weird poo poo. Edit: or not? I guess she's real? vermin fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Sep 28, 2017 |
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"The women!" "No, let me finish!"  Also I guess Pike's into the green ladies. I get the feeling the overweight trader would've been Ferengi if this was in TNG. "Gentlemen please, the Talosians need a commercial break" vermin fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Sep 28, 2017 |
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Brawnfire posted:Highly illogical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C70QRbawN8 (the fact that his son failed to launch a singing career is the real reason Sarek never spoke to Spock. The Starfleet thing as a 'backup real career' was just icing on the cake)
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It's funny to see people complaining about a black female captain being pandering or whatever. No one on these forums has, just mainly YouTube commenters probably trolling, but it is funny every time cause she isn't even the captain. The captain is a white dude. The black woman goes to jail in the first episode and the Asian captain kamikazes herself. They should love it.
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The Bloop posted:loving lol You should find and read "How Much For Just the Planet?"
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vermin posted:
That's the origin of the 'Kirk beds green alien women' myth: an episode that didn't even feature Kirk that was arguably written before his character was even invented. Oh! You all must be watching "The Menagerie". Took me a moment to figure out what you were talking about. Decent episode, but yeah...they obviously spaced out the breaks in Talosian footage to remind us that this was Kirk-era Star Trek.
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The Bloop posted:loving lol I read a TNG novel years ago about Geordi joining the Challenger, which had a Klingon helmsman who liked to Tokyo Drift the ship into spacedock for no apparent reason. I still can't decide if that's the best or worst EU thing I've seen.
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The Bloop posted:loving lol The new Discovery tie in novel is a Shenzhou/Pike's Enterprise all star team up and it apparently gives Number One a name. Her name? Lt. Commander Una
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Zutaten posted:The new Discovery tie in novel is a Shenzhou/Pike's Enterprise all star team up and it apparently gives Number One a name. Her name? Lt. Commander Una Also, she's Chekov's godmother, Uhura's academy roommate, and secretly a changeling, probably
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"The haggis is in the fire, for sure."  I really hope that's an authentic Scottish phrase.
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Zutaten posted:The new Discovery tie in novel is a Shenzhou/Pike's Enterprise all star team up and it apparently gives Number One a name. Her name? Lt. Commander Una Haha I just started reading that out of morbid curiosity and completely missed that. David Mack is such a hack.
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Also the Discovery uniforms are apparently "utility jumpsuits" akin to the Enterprise coveralls while the Enterprise is using the new style shirt and pants uniforms they're just rolling out. ...this book sucks.
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vermin posted:"The haggis is in the fire, for sure." I'm pretty sure it became one, thanks to Jimmy Doohan.
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apophenium posted:Haha I just started reading that out of morbid curiosity and completely missed that. David Mack is such a hack.
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apophenium posted:David Mack is such a hack. He's such a ridiculously nice guy, too. It's hard to say whether he's a hack or if licensed fan-fiction just automatically sucks donkey dick; I lean towards the latter.
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In Taste of Armageddon, the Federation cleaned everybody out. They ended another civilization's traditions (as distasteful as they were), attacked their vital infrastructure, literally held a whole planet hostage, and put two populations at risk so they could be at the head of the negotiations for a peace treaty  . Those two planets probably joined the Federation afterward too.I get that they were put in danger for stupid reasons but I just now realized the difference between Picard and Kirk. Picard would've hightailed it out of there and let them keep their mass suicidal culture in tact. He probably wouldn't have approached the planet in the first place since they had a "don't come here" signal going out. Kirk on the other hand goes there, gets captured, forces them to play along by his standards, disrupts 500 years of quasi-peace, and probably gets a medal for it because the Federation comes out on top. This mission brought to you by Section 31 Kazinsal posted:I'm pretty sure it became one, thanks to Jimmy Doohan. vermin fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Sep 28, 2017 |
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I imagine churning out media tie-in novels is nicely soul sucking. I think all the Mack novels I've read start the same way: people we don't know yet get into trouble, then the people we do know find out about go to fix it. I think it's a result of having to create something new but still familiar and comfortable. So yeah I guess calling Mack a hack isn't fair. The book's bad either way.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Believe an EU novel later explained (because of course) that Macet was Dukat's more liberal-minded identical cousin who grew his facial hair to distinguish himself from him. What's our man Macet been up to in the EU no one might ask? "Macet remained on DS9 to represent Cardassia at Bajor's signing ceremony for admittance into the Federation, but instead witnessed the assassination of the First Minister Shakaar Edon - who it turned out was under control of a Bluegill parasite. A short while later another parasite attempted to take control of Macet." Bluegills are the parasites from Conspiracy. Macet leads a force of Cardassians to blockade the Bajoran sector to prevent the infection from spreading. When the Defiant comes across the blockade Ezri reveals one of her former hosts encountered the Bluegills during an expedition lead by Christopher Pike. Research into the Bluegills was interrupted by Pike's incident that resulted in his beepy chair. 
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This situation reminds me of the Alan Dean Foster prequel novel I read for the Transformers movies. It was super bad, even though he usually turns out decent enough genre fare otherwise (his novelizations of the TAS episodes are pretty solid, for example). I figure this kind of work is the writer's equivalent of all those unremarkable days you stumble into work half-asleep and just kinda drift through the shift for the paycheck. You know it's crap work but hey, still gotta eat.
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Doggles posted:Bluegills are the parasites from Conspiracy. Macet leads a force of Cardassians to blockade the Bajoran sector to prevent the infection from spreading. When the Defiant comes across the blockade Ezri reveals one of her former hosts encountered the Bluegills during an expedition lead by Christopher Pike. Research into the Bluegills was interrupted by Pike's incident that resulted in his beepy chair. Bluegill parasites we're also responsible for the Area 51 incident, Wolf 359, and the conception of Jake Sisko.
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Zutaten posted:Also the Discovery uniforms are apparently "utility jumpsuits" akin to the Enterprise coveralls while the Enterprise is using the new style shirt and pants uniforms they're just rolling out. Apparently DSC is going to introduce more TOSy uniforms down the line, so we'll see how that marries up, I guess.
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vermin posted:In Taste of Armageddon, the Federation cleaned everybody out. They ended another civilization's traditions (as distasteful as they were), attacked their vital infrastructure, literally held a whole planet hostage, and put two populations at risk so they could be at the head of the negotiations for a peace treaty Kirk wouldn't have approached the planet in the first place either. Eminiar sent the "do not approach, for any reason, at all" signal, Kirk said "welp, they said leave, guess that settles that!" and Ambassador Fox said "gently caress that, we need a base in this region, get in there already." quote:This mission brought to you by Section 31 gently caress thaaaaaaaaat
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Zutaten posted:The new Discovery tie in novel is a Shenzhou/Pike's Enterprise all star team up and it apparently gives Number One a name. Her name? Lt. Commander Una The Bloop posted:Also, she's Chekov's godmother, Uhura's academy roommate, and secretly a changeling, probably There's something like five different backstories for her, most of which contradict each other. Probably the nuttiest one out there is from the New Frontier series, which is basically a sandbox for Peter David to do whatever he wants. In those books, she's introduced as "Morgan Primus," and she's a human from Earth who became immortal sometime in the misty past, kinda like that Flint guy. She tended to swap identities every few decades, one of which was Number One, though there's also some jokes made about Christine Chapel and the ship's computer. She eventually ended up on the USS Excalibur, the main ship of the series, and eventually got killed by a Greek god, only to have her mind end up in the computer. She eventually contracted Cortana's space madness, and she ended up getting erased. Oh, and she's Robin Lefler's mother. Jesus, when I lay it all out like that, it's so incredibly stupid. How did I never see it before? Doggles posted:What's our man Macet been up to in the EU no one might ask? Those books did have one cool part. At one point in the proceedings, a bluegill tried to take over Taran'atar, a Jem'Hadar elder that Odo had sent to DS9 as an envoy. It leapt into his mouth, as bluegills do, only to...well, let's just say that for an engineered species that doesn't eat, the Jem'Hadar have incredible jaw muscles.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Kirk wouldn't have approached the planet in the first place either. Eminiar sent the "do not approach, for any reason, at all" signal, Kirk said "welp, they said leave, guess that settles that!" and Ambassador Fox said "gently caress that, we need a base in this region, get in there already." Yeah it really was Fox's fault. Scotty's disdain for diplomats makes me think they throw their weight around a lot. "New orders, we're going to the death zone." "Fuckin diplomats" vermin fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Sep 28, 2017 |
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