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They claim to be androids, but in the third season we find out they are just huge fans of Daft Punk.
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Facebook Aunt posted:They claim to be androids, but in the third season we find out they are just huge fans of Daft Punk. Not as huge of fans as Ensign(?) Daft Punk in STD
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Oct 6, 2017 00:13
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Iron Crowned posted:What kind we're they though? I had a bunch of the big Playmates ships. The Enterprise-D (actually I wound up with two of them somehow, the initial one and then a later one that had voice clips?), the Romulan Warbird, the Klingon attack cruiser, the Defiant, the big shuttlecraft you could put the action figures into. I also had a shitload of the Micro Machines ships. And Legos. So many Legos.
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Oct 6, 2017 00:20
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I had the Shuttlecraft, the phaser, I think a tri-corder? Mom used to work at a clinic that was close by a comic book store, so she'd give us some money and send us away up there until she finished work. Had a bunch of the crappy action-figures too.
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Oct 6, 2017 01:40
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The General posted:Not as huge of fans as Ensign(?) Daft Punk in STD God I want this show to be good but I'm so pessimistic
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Oct 6, 2017 03:11
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The best Sci Fi remains Red Dwarf
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Johnny Aztec posted:The best Sci Fi remains Red Dwarf You misspelled Earth: Final Conflihahahaha, ahh... I couldn't do it. (It's Alienation)
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Oct 6, 2017 04:07
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Johnny Aztec posted:The best Sci Fi remains Red Dwarf They fulfilled Roddenberry's dream of having Spock kill JFK. Well, close enough
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Johnny Aztec posted:The best Sci Fi remains Red Dwarf evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-NnVpvQ78
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Oct 6, 2017 04:16
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It has a laugh track; any argument in its favor is invalid.
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So, if I go and add a laugh track to whatever your show is, that invalidates it?
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As a matter of fact, yes. It's humanity's greatest entertainment mistake since the Civil War era.
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Mister Facetious posted:As a matter of fact, yes. there was a laugh track when you were conceived and yet you were still born somehow 
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Mulaney Power Move posted:there was a laugh track when you were conceived and yet you were still born somehow Well, that explains why SCTV was my favourite comedy show growing up... 
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Oct 6, 2017 04:49
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Putting a time travel paradox in the 5th episode was a bold move. Maybe dumb too. Those things never resolve cleanly.
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Oct 6, 2017 05:35
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Was kinda left wondering if the point of the episode was to let Seth Macfarlane smooch Charlize Theron.
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Oct 6, 2017 05:38
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Red Dwarf was actually filmed in front of a live audience for the first four or five seasons, which I believe that clip was from.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Red Dwarf was actually filmed in front of a live audience for the first four or five seasons, which I believe that clip was from. You sure about that? I thought the episodes were played to a live audience, so the laughter was authentic even though it wasn't from the actual filming. I could be totally wrong on that though. Mister Facetious posted:You misspelled Earth: Final Conflihahahaha, ahh... I couldn't do it. gently caress me. Until now I never realised there was a pun in that show title (Alien Nation -> alienation)
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:You sure about that? I thought the episodes were played to a live audience, so the laughter was authentic even though it wasn't from the actual filming. I could be totally wrong on that though. Your right, it's the latter
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Johnny Aztec posted:The best Sci Fi remains Red Dwarf i think i taped the last 5 minues of every episode because it came on right before dr who on pbs
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Kitchner posted:When you saw all the armed guards and poo poo I was actually expecting them to say Discovery was a Section 31 ship, and that would have been bad rear end as gently caress, but instead it's magic space fungus ship. It can be and probably is also a Section 31 ship. I'm not sold on the space fungus, but hey, The Expanse had something sorta similar to be fair.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I had a bunch of the big Playmates ships. The Enterprise-D (actually I wound up with two of them somehow, the initial one and then a later one that had voice clips?), the Romulan Warbird, the Klingon attack cruiser, the Defiant, the big shuttlecraft you could put the action figures into. Well poo poo, I guess I just never had any name brand space ships, because I built all of mine out of legos. Also I was in High School by the time the Defiant hit the scene.
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[quote="“Facebook Aunt”" post="“477104740”"] Was kinda left wondering if the point of the episode was to let Seth Macfarlane smooch Charlize Theron. [/quote] As if that's a question.
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Oct 6, 2017 13:00
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Wow, The Orville really is some good classic TNG-era Star Trek  . I actually don't mind Seth McFarlane's jokes too badly in this, because at the very least they're acknowledged as being bad jokes told by his character and treated as such by the rest of the crew.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Wow, The Orville really is some good classic TNG-era Star Trek In the first episode there's a scene with a dude up on the viewscreen and his dog is just in the background licking his balls, it was an amazing background joke that unfortunately the bridge crew had to comment on. Sometimes I think I can see the producers/execs meddling, "will they really understand what was going on if we don't point it out".
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Oct 6, 2017 15:31
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I don't get people upset at it being commented on. It would be much more unrealistic for nobody to mention it.
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Oct 6, 2017 15:36
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I'm surprised that wasn't a thing in Star Trek: Enterprise.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:I don't get people upset at it being commented on. It would be much more unrealistic for nobody to mention it. Agreed. It's a situation that anyone who sees it is gonna say something. Plus it's the pilot, and the series proper drops the extraneous visual comedy for just straight Star Trek-style stories.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Agreed. It's a situation that anyone who sees it is gonna say something. Plus it's the pilot, and the series proper drops the extraneous visual comedy for just straight Star Trek-style stories. The TNG bridge crew probably wouldn't have mentioned it, they'd just exchange amused glances. Because they were so enlightened they were barely human anymore.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:I don't get people upset at it being commented on. It would be much more unrealistic for nobody to mention it. There's a parallel timeline where nobody commented on it on the show, and there's posters going "oh come on, surely someone would have commented on a dog licking his balls on the viewscreen!" It's the same timeline where Star Trek frequently had original futuristic music playing in the background of like Ten-Forward and such, and people bitch about how hokey and dated it is. 
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And one step over from that timeline is the timeline where they frequently used pop tunes in the background, and thousands of internet nerds think they're infinitely clever for saying "heh, guess popular culture ended sometime in the late 80s, huh?  "
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I quite liked the second episode's solution. Giving the Kaylon Zoo an entire microcosm of human culture to exhibit with 10,000+ episodes of 21st-century reality television  .
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The Orville is blowing my mind, I don't even understand how it can be this spot-on. I just finished the fifth episode and everything about it could have been a TNG episode (and arguably was). Now they have a piece of 29th century hardware and Seth is maybe setting up consequences for his Star Trek parody show. That dude obviously loves TNG and this show oozes that love and attention to detail. If there are any holdouts left in this thread consider that the Orville is essentially a porn, shot with the finest of handheld camcorders, where you watch a Seth who has clearly groomed himself for the event, tenderly gently caress the absolute poo poo out of 90s Trek in a thoughtfully decorated room on sheets that have a threadcount so high you need an electron microscope to count it. That's the level of love this man has for the franchise and it shows.
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Yeah the first couple eps were loving trash but he traversed the shitiness of S1 TNG by E4. I'm impressed.
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I'm just watching Orville episode 2 and the incidental music is 100% TNG. I loaded up a TNG episode to compare and hooooly poo poo its dead on.
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Was there any kind of in-universe reason given for why starfleet adopted the Enterprise pointy badge as its organization emblem?
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Gutcruncher posted:Was there any kind of in-universe reason given for why starfleet adopted the Enterprise pointy badge as its organization emblem? i dont think so
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Gutcruncher posted:Was there any kind of in-universe reason given for why starfleet adopted the Enterprise pointy badge as its organization emblem? I read somewhere that it was the only Constitution class starship that came back from its 5 year mission, so its symbol was adopted, but I don't think it's ever been mentioned in any of the shows or movies.
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