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mycomancy posted:Is this on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison? I'd bet 2 strips of latinum that it was taken from in front of the Law school and those are the red doors on the Education building.
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Sep 30, 2017 06:26
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Marshal Radisic posted:As for the subject of "alternate Treks" in general, for some reason one of my favorite things are those "timeline where one character is replaced by someone else" episodes, particularly with speculation of what these characters are doing in the Prime timeline. I mean, Thelin was good enough to be first officer of the original Enterprise, and Thomas Halloway got to command the Enterprise-D, so how did their careers go in the regular timeline? They do occasionally pop up in regular EU novels, but they always seem to be treated rather poorly. (Thelin got killed by an avalanche on an away mission, while Halloway was killed at Wolf 359.) I'm always really disappointed they didn't go with their original idea in "Tapestry" of mentioning that Jellico was captain in the alternate timeline.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Same. Uh yeah this would have loving owned and been tons better than the "good" TNG movie we got.
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Sep 30, 2017 06:32
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First Contact will forever annoy me for giving the Borg a queen. My head canon is that the there was only one Borg cube ever-- and that the Hugh thing never happened. They got zapped by Q to meet the cube. The cube saw them, liked their technology, and spent 2 years at maximum warp to find Earth. Now that's a collective. Just one ship, getting bigger and bigger.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:This had to be an allegory for homosexuality right? Yep. That's why Frakes pushed so hard to have her part played by a male actor instead of female.
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Sep 30, 2017 10:13
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Yeah if that had been a male actor 90s people would have lost their loving minds. There probably would have been organized boycotts, dropped sponsors, and a lot of stations would have refused to show the episode. A couple would probably have dropped the series. I think today, if they tried to do a similar episode and it wasn't a male actor, they would be castigated online and there would be boycotts and dropped sponsors.
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Sep 30, 2017 14:11
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Astroman posted:There probably would have been organized boycotts, dropped sponsors, and a lot of stations would have refused to show the episode. A couple would probably have dropped the series.
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Sep 30, 2017 19:00
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Yeah if that had been a male actor 90s people would have lost their loving minds.  Astroman posted:I think today, if they tried to do a similar episode and it wasn't a male actor, they would be castigated online and there would be boycotts and dropped sponsors.  LividLiquid posted:There would be a couple blog posts about how gutless it was as a half-measure and a massive campaign from the right to boycott the show for being progressive propaganda and what about the children and the gays are all pedophiles and rapists, and then there'd be peaople making false equivalences about those two things and how they're two sides of the same coin. 
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Sep 30, 2017 19:22
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Astroman posted:I think today, if they tried to do a similar episode and it wasn't a male actor, they would be castigated online and there would be boycotts and dropped sponsors. I really doubt this. Show me an example of a show getting boycotted for being not-progressive enough. Tim Allen's "I'm a conservative male and this sitcom is all about me owning dumb liberals" show ran for 6 loving seasons and wasn't cancelled due to boycotts, just lack of ratings.
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Sep 30, 2017 19:28
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Astroman posted:There probably would have been organized boycotts, dropped sponsors, and a lot of stations would have refused to show the episode. A couple would probably have dropped the series. I really wish this would have happened at the time because this show was most station's crown jewel. It had spectacular ratings and the stations got to sell more ads for it locally due to it being syndicated. I have no doubt that several stations would have refused to air the episode, but how many would really have dropped the series? I tend to think none. Businesses like money. Too bad we'll never know.
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Sep 30, 2017 20:02
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Jeb! Repetition posted:It would be so confusing if this just happened to be the first episode anyone saw. This was the first episode of TNG I saw.
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Sep 30, 2017 20:20
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WampaLord posted:I really doubt this. Show me an example of a show getting boycotted for being not-progressive enough. I think had the episode in question done what we are discussing it would have caused a huge hullaballoo but I'm not sure how it would've shaken out. 'A huge hullaballoo' was exactly what Rick Berman was trying to avoid, I gather.
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Nessus posted:If you mean Home Improvement, I'm going to be fair to the convicted coke dealer that it seemed more like a regular situation comedy, based on the number of episodes I had to watch as a childe. His liberal sidekick was portrayed as being way more together anyway. No, Last Man Standing. It was just cancelled this year.
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Nessus posted:If you mean Home Improvement, I'm going to be fair to the convicted coke dealer that it seemed more like a regular situation comedy, based on the number of episodes I had to watch as a childe. His liberal sidekick was portrayed as being way more together anyway. His most recent sitcom was called Last Man Standing. You can pretty much extrapolate everything you need to know about it from the title.
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Sep 30, 2017 20:42
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Don't expect season 2 of Discovery until 2019.
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So CBS's big plan to get people onto All Access service is to make a few episodes of Star Trek and then not release anything more for 1.5 years? That's... stupid.
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Oct 1, 2017 00:20
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They're banking on all their other original programming they're going to be making. It's UPN 2.0! Homeboys in Outspace: The Next Generation here we come! And I still haven't seen the pilot yet so I have no opinion on it. That's my story.
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Oct 1, 2017 00:48
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Marshal Radisic posted:That was Dark Mirror, and I didn't really read him as "cringey" so much as beaten down and resigned. He does get a good moment at the end, when Picard gives him the "one man with a vision" speech. Ah, no, that's what I meant - "cringing" rather than "cringey". As in, he's the one doing the cringing, not the one making people cringe. Sorry I wasn't clearer.
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I'm just gonna say this again cause I'm watching it with my kid right now. The best Star Trek show on air right now is not Discovery or The Orville, it's Octonauts. It's just fantastic.
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Oct 1, 2017 01:30
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Al Borland Corp. posted:I'm just gonna say this again cause I'm watching it with my kid right now. The best Star Trek show on air right now is not Discovery or The Orville, it's Octonauts. It's just fantastic. My nephew is obsessed with that show
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Oct 1, 2017 02:12
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That's good, because I'm trying out the Orville and.... Well, man, this is trying to be funny and it's not. Some of the characters are ok? IDK, I'm only in episode 2, does it try to say anything or is it just Star Trek flavoured noise?
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Oct 1, 2017 02:29
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Yeah it says some stuff. Episode three is really the first social commentary episode. Episode four is some religious commentary. Both do a decent job of not being self righteous or overly preachy while getting an idea across.
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Oct 1, 2017 02:42
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Yeah it says some stuff. Episode three is really the first social commentary episode. Episode four is some religious commentary. Both do a decent job of not being self righteous or overly preachy while getting an idea across. Ok, I'll keep soldiering on then, I plan on giving both major shows their first seasons to win me over. I'm hoping both will.
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The Bloop posted:My nephew is obsessed with that show It's a shame all the characters look like Funko Pops or I'd watch it.
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Oct 1, 2017 02:45
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Watching Cause and Effect. The lighting made me afraid they were on yesterday's Enterprise for a second. Whoa what
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Oct 1, 2017 03:53
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Everyone's dead. They died.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Everyone's dead. They died. and so, star trek: the next generation ended
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Oct 1, 2017 03:59
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There a famous country song based on this episode, or is it the other way around?
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Oct 1, 2017 03:59
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And the warp field rolls.
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So Crusher must be outside of time somehow. That made more sense when it was Guinan, but maybe they'll explain it.
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Oct 1, 2017 04:11
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Oh maybe it's not just Crusher, since 10 other people heard voices.
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Oct 1, 2017 04:13
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Jesus, are they condemned to blow up for eternity because they got stuck in a spacetime loop
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Oct 1, 2017 04:16
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Yes.
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Oh boy more people can feel it. I like the first person Crusher POV shot when Riker predicts the future, it's just the right disconcerting vibe.
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Oct 1, 2017 04:18
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That's why this is the series finale
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I think they did a different, more spectacular explosion the third time. Anyway the premise is so simple and I like it so much I haven't had much to say.
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Oct 1, 2017 04:26
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When Crusher's giving examples of premonitions why would she start with Geordi happening to come into sick bay instead of the fact that their poker table predicted twelve cards
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I think they did a different, more spectacular explosion the third time. Anyway the premise is so simple and I like it so much I haven't had much to say.
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