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H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

YOU A loving HAT posted:

yeah but even Quark had his limits on that second part, when he was selling with some arms dealer and was like "jesus HOW many people are gonna die? Sorry, I can't follow this rule, gently caress you."

quark straightup sold the station out in an early season by smuggling a dude on board who took it over to steal dax's chest worm

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RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
https://twitter.com/ChipHinkleman/status/914684367691280384

THS
Sep 15, 2017

damar has more development than central characters in 99% of other tv shows and he only appears in like 15 episodes

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
children of time is a drat good ds9 ep, and very underappreciated

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013


goddamn that's an unfortunate name

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

oh wow I somehow missed my alma mater chat. Gannon is super boring and filled with boring people who get trashed every night because Erie is cloudier than Seattle and you can get a beer for a quarter most nights of the week

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


...
remember the episode where Larry wouldn't have sex with the woman because she had a creepy picture of W. on her mantle?

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012



KOMPROMAT

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013


straight up hoa botherer always bitching that someone's grass clippings ended up on the sidewalk in front of his house name

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Reality Winner posted:

latinum, a special metal whose only notable property is that it cannot be replicated.

i bet the writers wish someone had come up with bitcoin in the 90s so they could copy that instead of coming up with the latinum bullshit

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Reality Winner posted:

latinum, a special metal whose only notable property is that it cannot be replicated.

in my head it can be replicated, because everything material and especially anything that can go thru a transporter should be replicable, but it takes a lot of energy, the latinum itself is delicate somehow (like it breaks down if not handled just so) and most critically it has no useful function other than i guess demonstrating the precision and versatility of the most high precision replicators

so theres no goddamn good reason to replicate latinum when you can replicate actual useful things w those replicators, ergo it became a prestige trade good among those societies that couldnt get onboard w pure post scarcity happy times

which i guess means the federation has to dedicate a lil time on those powerful replicators to making latinum for their officers to use in trade, instead of just cranking out warp engines or terraformers or w/e

capitalism literally robbing useful labor from a post scarcity utopia

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



colts bad

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

Squizzle posted:

garak is the best secondary character in all of trek

as a general rule tng has the best principal cast and ds9 has the best secondary characters

Yandat posted:

damar has more development than central characters in 99% of other tv shows and he only appears in like 15 episodes

:yeah:

its funy how much of what makes ds9 bad is all the things added to make it more trekky

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Squizzle posted:

in my head it can be replicated, because everything material and especially anything that can go thru a transporter should be replicable, but it takes a lot of energy, the latinum itself is delicate somehow (like it breaks down if not handled just so) and most critically it has no useful function other than i guess demonstrating the precision and versatility of the most high precision replicators

so theres no goddamn good reason to replicate latinum when you can replicate actual useful things w those replicators, ergo it became a prestige trade good among those societies that couldnt get onboard w pure post scarcity happy times

which i guess means the federation has to dedicate a lil time on those powerful replicators to making latinum for their officers to use in trade, instead of just cranking out warp engines or terraformers or w/e

capitalism literally robbing useful labor from a post scarcity utopia

nah its because the writers couldnt grasp the idea of a market economy without physical currency

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013


"teacher, you forgot to collect our homework" fucker chip hinkleman, hoping that getting an 82 on the multiplication tables will keep his grades high enough that he doesnt get kicked off the tetherball team

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


Agean90 posted:

goon international brigade when
Please, its called the Caro Corps

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene


Maybe if their fuckin stadium didn't look like goddamn Chernobyl

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeLHyyCN6YE

:unsmith:

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

FAUXTON posted:

Maybe if their fuckin stadium didn't look like goddamn Chernobyl

false, the wild animals outside chernobyl possess a lower rate of mutation and deformity than your average indiana resident

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004


is luck gonna kill some higher-ups sooner or later

FistEnergy
Nov 3, 2000

DAY CREW: WORKING HARD

Fun Shoe
I would gladly read a 1000 page thread of angry MAGA Facebook posts about the NFL national anthem protests. The outrage and crocodile tears are completely transparent and it's turning into a nice Sunday ritual

:munch:

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

Vertical Lime posted:

is luck gonna kill some higher-ups sooner or later

he's reading dune

"offensive line" is a killing word to him

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Luck is being wasted bigly lmao, it's sad

https://i.imgur.com/vV62i7r.mp4

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




mormonpartyboat posted:

:yeah:

its funy how much of what makes ds9 bad is all the things added to make it more trekky

the worst part of ds9 was how the dominion war sorted their cast of rogues and assholes into p clean good guy/bad guy teams where the moral compromise was all "i do this good/bad thing.........but in support of bad/good causes" instead of the more complicated tapestry they were trying to build earlier

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009


my brain cannot comprehend if this guy is a gimmick or not

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



babypolis posted:

my brain cannot comprehend if this guy is a gimmick or not

that's Huckabee's humor coach

PDP-1
Oct 12, 2004

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

crazy cloud posted:

quark n garak n dukat tied 4 best characters but holy fuckkkkkkkkkkkk DS9 owns maybe i cancel all my social commitments for the next month and just watch all of ds9, that's probably a healthy + good course of action

compared to posting in c-spam 24/7 it's probably a wash

a lot of you regular posters are cool and good and all but i gotta wonder what kinds of lives you all have when i can check in with the thread at any time of day or night and there's a steady group of about 10 people who are always posting multiple times per page.

do you all ever work or sleep? do you ever go outside? how the hell do you all post 24 hours a day if you're not bots?

anyhoo, more curiosity than criticism here - you do you and ill do me, and y'alls posts are fun to read i just wonder how you people/bots keep up such a consistent pace of posting on this here little corner of a dead gay forum on the internet.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

redneck nazgul posted:

false, the wild animals outside chernobyl possess a lower rate of mutation and deformity than your average indiana resident

Also lmao like indy would ever find itself in the red zone

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




babypolis posted:

my brain cannot comprehend if this guy is a gimmick or not

he is

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

FAUXTON posted:

Also lmao like indy would ever find itself in the red zone

goddrat

TerminalRaptor
Nov 6, 2012

Mostly Harmless

Squizzle posted:

the worst part of ds9 was how the dominion war sorted their cast of rogues and assholes into p clean good guy/bad guy teams where the moral compromise was all "i do this good/bad thing.........but in support of bad/good causes" instead of the more complicated tapestry they were trying to build earlier

My friend, have you seen "In the Pale Moonlight"?

30 TO 50 FERAL HOG
Mar 2, 2005



mormonpartyboat posted:

:yeah:

its funy how much of what makes ds9 bad is all the things added to make it more trekky

the episode where sisko blows up a diplomat and frames the cardassians owns hard. its a straight up evil act and he does it anyways to help win the war

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

Epic High Five posted:

that's Huckabee's humor coach

yeah i know but is he for real?? or is he working on irony levels previously unknown to mankind

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




PDP-1 posted:

compared to posting in c-spam 24/7 it's probably a wash

a lot of you regular posters are cool and good and all but i gotta wonder what kinds of lives you all have when i can check in with the thread at any time of day or night and there's a steady group of about 10 people who are always posting multiple times per page.

do you all ever work or sleep? do you ever go outside? how the hell do you all post 24 hours a day if you're not bots?

anyhoo, more curiosity than criticism here - you do you and ill do me, and y'alls posts are fun to read i just wonder how you people/bots keep up such a consistent pace of posting on this here little corner of a dead gay forum on the internet.

per previous speculation on the subject im allegedly multiple people, a bot, unemployed, and prone to manic phases

like a neurotic skynet i guess

a.lo
Sep 12, 2009


:jerry:

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




TerminalRaptor posted:

My friend, have you seen "In the Pale Moonlight"?

yeah but thats the ultimate "i am doing all the bad, but my goals, they are.........good" ep

its fine viewing but its extremely that

FormerPoster
Aug 5, 2004

Hair Elf

babypolis posted:

my brain cannot comprehend if this guy is a gimmick or not

2017 has really captured the spirit of "When everybody's a gimmick, no one is."

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Naerasa posted:

2017 has really captured the spirit of "When everybody's a gimmick, no one is."

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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
was the casino heist the holosuite episode they haphazardly shoehorned into season 7

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