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brylcreem posted:Thine own self Can you honestly say you'd pick someone else you'd rather have die, based on the choices available? The vast majority of his job can be automated by the computer anyway. poo poo man, even Miles can do his job.
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Jose Oquendo posted:So I just watched the new episode of Discovery. It's pretty good. If some of the stuff from the pilot turned you off, give it a shot. It feels much more like an episode of the Trek you're used to. the main story of the episode stands alone but it ties into a larger narrative. Is the alien science officer sticking around? He was one of the more interesting/better characters.
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Oct 2, 2017 02:18
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Geordi probably provides Troi with an incredible amount of weird telepathic incel arousal/hatred feedback just being in the same room with her. I can believe she'd happily send him off to his doom. Also, based on the composition of every away team that's ever been shown, Starfleet protocol is to send the most experienced, least replaceable personnel to their doom first.
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Blistex posted:Is the alien science officer sticking around? He was one of the more interesting/better characters. Yes. He's the first officer aboard the Discovery.
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Clark Nova posted:Geordi probably provides Troi with an incredible amount of weird telepathic incel arousal/hatred feedback just being in the same room with her. I can believe she'd happily send him off to his doom. I always thought it was required to have someone with command authority that can order the ship to target their site from orbit... just in case. Never know when you might find God out there, asking for a starship.
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Oct 2, 2017 02:25
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Testy gay scientist is the best villain on TV. He's just so testy.
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shadow puppet of a posted:Testy gay scientist is the best villain on TV. I thought it was cool how he's a dick and everything but when they were about to get eaten by that monster, he was all business. He just barked orders at Michael and she did them and they mostly got out of it ok. He totally cut the bullshit when he had to.
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Oct 2, 2017 03:41
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It was super jarring seeing how poorly that starfleet security officer treated the prisoners. There are hundreds of hours of recorded Star Trek productions including scenes where they hold absolute power over their worst enemies and we never see them acting like that. Feels weird.
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Oct 2, 2017 05:10
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What about when Janeway forcibly removed the implants from Seven? Seriously though, security guards in Trek have trended towards the "barely competent" end of the spectrum. If you don't see a named character beside the forcefield about to engage in some back and forth with the prisoner, then nine times out of ten, that prisoner is going to escape.
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Jose Oquendo posted:So I just watched the new episode of Discovery. It's pretty good. If some of the stuff from the pilot turned you off, give it a shot. It feels much more like an episode of the Trek you're used to. the main story of the episode stands alone but it ties into a larger narrative. Everyone on the show's an rear end in a top hat, with the possible exception of Saru.
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Oct 2, 2017 06:27
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Mister Facetious posted:Can you honestly say you'd pick someone else you'd rather have die, based on the choices available? The vast majority of his job can be automated by the computer anyway. There was a rando crewmember standing right there. Clark Nova posted:Geordi probably provides Troi with an incredible amount of weird telepathic incel arousal/hatred feedback just being in the same room with her. I can believe she'd happily send him off to his doom. lol, he probably had to go into therapy after real Leah Brahms chewed into him, so she knows all his little secrets 
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Oct 2, 2017 06:36
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Troi probably likes having Geordie around because he spits out such a constant din of unfocused lusty emotion that if she can just keep like 30 feet away from him then its like a soothing white noise generator that drowns out the feelings of everyone else who happens to be around her. Think about her sitting in 10 forward with dozens of ensigns and jr. lieutenants all counting down the minutes until its their scheduled time for the limitless room of unspeakable pleasures. You'd never be able to keep your food down.
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brylcreem posted:There was a rando crewmember standing right there. In the words of Johnny Five-Aces, "brylcreem, please. He had a family."
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brylcreem posted:Thine own self There's a specific point to it being Geordi rather than a random engineer, and Riker outright states this; can Troi, as a command officer, willingly send someone she knows to their death for the good of the mission/ship?
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Third episode of Discovery is better. Except for the shuttles. WTF is going on with the green screen or CGI or whatever in the shuttles? I guess they wanted to have cool space windows but the effect was terrible. Just make a windowless shuttle out of plywood, at least it would look like they were really inside a shuttle rather a bad photoshop.Mondian posted:It was super jarring seeing how poorly that starfleet security officer treated the prisoners. There are hundreds of hours of recorded Star Trek productions including scenes where they hold absolute power over their worst enemies and we never see them acting like that. The captain sets the tone of the ship, and this captain isn't hugs and rainbows. Besides this is set 10 years before the original series, so we should compare their morality to that of Kirk and crew, not TNG or DS9. That whole scene was weird though. Why unshackle them and then call them names? If you're going to be mean, might as well leave the handcuffs on until they get to the brig. I guess it was part of the 'test' to see if Michael would try something if she was free? But they still had phaser rifles so you'd have to be an idiot to try anything.
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brylcreem posted:Thine own self Also she sent the only black guy to sacrifice himself (Worf doesn't count because black is the Klingon white). Conincidence? I think not. Why else would you send one of the only 3 black guys in the Federation to their death when a white random dude was right next to him.
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FilthyImp posted:The Orville just throws out that TNG 'evolved sensibilities' bullshit and posits that even in a technologically advanced civilization with confirmation of intelligent extraterrestrial life, humans still deal with the inane bullshit of modern life. There's actually something nice about that in that humanity doesn't have to become unrecognisable to built a better society and get along with alien life, that better things are possible with just a bit more cooperation and a society that puts taking care of people first. Mondian posted:It was super jarring seeing how poorly that starfleet security officer treated the prisoners. There are hundreds of hours of recorded Star Trek productions including scenes where they hold absolute power over their worst enemies and we never see them acting like that. Odo was a borderline fascist and still the best security officer in the quadrant because he cares about justice and the job first and foremost and doesn't gently caress around.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Third episode of Discovery is better. Except for the shuttles. WTF is going on with the green screen or CGI or whatever in the shuttles? I guess they wanted to have cool space windows but the effect was terrible. Just make a windowless shuttle out of plywood, at least it would look like they were really inside a shuttle rather a bad photoshop. That's just Netflix production values, they have to greenscreen the poo poo out of everything because they want to make sci-fi on a sitcom budget. Also the cultural shift in the world should have happened in the 21st century starting with the Bell Riots (in only 7 years from now  ) and have been pretty much finishes before the establishment of Starfleet.
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brylcreem posted:Lwaxana was always commenting on how Picard had these naughty thoughts about her. Was that real, or just her being eccentric? Picard, like all starfleet captains, thinks of his starship as a woman and desperately wants to gently caress it. And then troi's mom shows up and her voice sounds just like the ship's computer, you know he's thinking about the possibilities...
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Odo ain't Starfleet, what peak debt said about the bell riots is what I'm talking about. Star Trek's always been about humanity transcending that petty bullshit, Kirk never taunted a prisoner or called him called any sentient being an animal and he met a lot of huge assholes in his time. poo poo, even Archer had that restraint and he was dealing with space 9/11 a century earlier. Meanwhile Lieutenant Abu Ghraib here on STD is a few beats shy of just flogging some rando prisoners that just stepped off a shuttle.
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Masks Just absolute poo poo. I cannot find anything redeeming about this episode.
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Everyone is joyless and gives clumsy exposition this show sucks
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Oct 2, 2017 18:26
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brylcreem posted:Masks Brent Spiner
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Iron Crowned posted:Brent Spiner No. No, that's not it.
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Iron Crowned posted:Brent Spiner Brent Spinneret. Like a big spider, with Brent's head.
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gently caress you all, Masks owns MASAKA IS WAKING
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Masks would be better if Jim Carrey guest started as Ensign Stanley Ipkiss.
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A monster is chasing people in a corridor, better film it in near-total darkness so our low budget cgi doesn't look like balls.  Possible Gorn skeleton? 
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red letter media's take on this is kinda how i feel. I rarely agree with those dudes about nerd poo poo beyond laughing at bad movies, but STD really isn't very good trek, but it's an ok... whatever it is.
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I upped the gamma and brightness with VLC, works great.
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bitterandtwisted posted:A monster is chasing people in a corridor, better film it in near-total darkness so our low budget cgi doesn't look like balls. Also what appear to be two dead Cardassian voles.
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mycomancy posted:Also what appear to be two dead Cardassian voles. Is it truly a Cardassian vole if you can no longer bet on it?
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I'm warming up to both STD and ORV. It's unique that they're both airing together, they kind of balance each other out. They both definitely have problems but they focus on different things that make Star Trek Star Trek. I hope we get to see less people being stressed out assholes on STD and I hope we get less  jokes from Seth that make me what to kick him in the nuts.Trekkies being Trekkies though, I think we're destined to endlessly argue over why one is objectively the best, and the other is the worst cancer ever inflicted on humanity.
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I really don't see what makes people so mad about the jokes on Orville. They're good jokes.
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Oct 2, 2017 21:58
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Only people who hate themselves are watching the Orville. It's complicated.
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jeez why is STD so full of horrible people? im not sure i like grimdark star trek without goatees
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Oct 2, 2017 22:21
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mirror STD: everyone is nice and having a lovely time but has a goatee
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gender illusionist posted:mirror STD: everyone is nice and having a lovely time but has a goatee
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i bet nice mirror universe everyone has handlebar moustaches, even the women
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