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Force of Nature is amazing because of how unintentionally perfect it is as a climate change allegory. Technology is causing a problem that is going to kill us all, and the half-assed try at a solution is ignored all the time and eventually abandoned entirely because it's no fun.
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VitalSigns posted:Force of Nature is amazing because of how unintentionally perfect it is as a climate change allegory. It wasn't unintentional, it was beating you over the head with that point. The writers knew global warming was a thing. Back then, we all called it global warming. I kind of miss that description, it sounds a shitload scarier than "climate change"
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WampaLord posted:It wasn't unintentional, it was beating you over the head with that point. The writers knew global warming was a thing. Pretty sure the OP was referring to how it was unintentionally meta in that the show, like so many idiots in the world today, decided to just ignore it after it was made a big deal.
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CaveGrinch posted:Pretty sure the OP was referring to how it was unintentionally meta in that the show, like so many idiots in the world today, decided to just ignore it after it was made a big deal. Yep
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CaveGrinch posted:Pretty sure the OP was referring to how it was unintentionally meta in that the show, like so many idiots in the world today, decided to just ignore it after it was made a big deal. Nevermind, I figured out what he meant. Yes, agreed.
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Watching Emissary for the benefit of the Greatest Generation DS9 run (obviously should be referred to as The Greatest Gener-station), and it occurred to me that Sisko is a pretty terrible dad in it. At the start he says he's considering leaving because DS9 isn't a good place to raise a child. He's then proven correct when the Promenade almost completely explodes towards the end of the episode. Then Sisko finds Jake just wandering among the wreckage, suggesting that he could have easily been caught in the explosions. Sisko's response to this is to enthusiastically affirm that he wants to stay at DS9 after all.
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Oct 19, 2017 06:37
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Comrade Fakename posted:Sisko' response to this is to enthusiastically affirm that he wants to stay at DS9 after all. Wooden Bajoran spaceships aren't going to build themselves.
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Oct 19, 2017 06:53
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Georgia Peach posted:Wooden Bajoran spaceships aren't going to build themselves. Man's got fairy tales to save.
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dont even fink about it posted:Most of the "infamously" bad Star Trek episodes are actually not that bad compared to the really loving boring ones, like stuff involving Picard's love life or Kirk spilling ham all over the Declaration of Independence. This.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Watching Emissary for the benefit of the Greatest Generation DS9 run (obviously should be referred to as The Greatest Gener-station), and it occurred to me that Siskin is a pretty terrible dad in it. At the start he says he's considering leaving because DS9 isn't a good place to raise a child. He's then proven correct when the Promenade almost completely explodes towards the end of the episode. Then Sisko finds Jake just wandering among the wreckage, suggesting that he could have easily been caught in the explosions. Sisko' response to this is to enthusiastically affirm that he wants to stay at DS9 after all.
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Zonko_T.M. posted:
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Now I’m picturing him doing the chef voice from The Little Mermaid. That was Odo.
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Georgia Peach posted:Wooden Bajoran spaceships aren't going to build themselves. And don't forget the clocks!
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Man, that episode creeped me right the gently caress out when I was a kid. The reveal of that nebulous gray blob was just like "WHAT? THAT'S IT??" but in a good way, like "holy poo poo even the computer can't make sense of this insanity", good stuff.
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Stuff like gruesome violence and people swearing feels so weird and out of place in Star Trek. Which isn't to say it doesn't happen. There's that TNG episode "Conspiracy" which has a gigantic WTF moment you all know about. Before Discovery was out, the instant I heard they were like "well, this Star Trek is going to be darker and it'll have gore and f-bombs!" I was like "uh oh." When people do swear in Star Trek, it's usually played for laughs because nobody swears in Star Trek. I'm one of those guys whose favorite movie is The Voyage Home and not the Wrath of Khan or Undiscovered Country (but they're up there.) I also remember being a kid and seeing Data go "Ohhhh poo poo!" had me laughing my rear end off because I didn't expect it. In retrospect I'm not sure if that was supposed to be funny or not, because Data was the comic relief of the movie, but the Enterprise was crashing after all...
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Gammatron 64 posted:Stuff like gruesome violence and people swearing feels so weird and out of place in Star Trek. Which isn't to say it doesn't happen. There's that TNG episode "Conspiracy" which has a gigantic WTF moment you all know about. Before Discovery was out, the instant I heard they were like "well, this Star Trek is going to be darker and it'll have gore and f-bombs!" I was like "uh oh." It's certainly not uncommon to have moments of character-based humor during tense action sequences. See Bones' quips while they're loading the torpedo tube in WoK for instance.
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Zonko_T.M. posted:Any other S P O O K Y Star Trek episodes I should queue up? There's Catspaw (it's really boring though) and Sub Rosa (A G-G-G-GHOST!?). Voyager's The Thaw has Michael McKean as an evil clown. DS9's Empok Nor is like a slasher film.
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MillennialVulcan posted:Voyager's The Thaw has Michael McKean as an evil clown. Man that episode is underrated.
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Beware SISKIN
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Greatest Gen is a very bad podcast, even on the occasion they have something interesting to say. They need to cut like 80% of the show.
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What this post presupposes is... It's actually good?
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Arglebargle III posted:Greatest Gen is a very bad podcast, even on the occasion they have something interesting to say. They need to cut like 80% of the show.
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Did we just get…Schismed? Adam did say he thought "The Offspring" was one of the worst episodes of season 3, though.
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I'm having trouble with these greatest generation guys. They keep doing this nerd inhaling-laugh thing uehhuhhh hehhh uhheehhh and then he hehhhh uhheehhh uheh uheh went ehhhh uhh heehhhhhhh to ds9 hehhhh haaaa *snort*
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CPColin posted:Adam did say he thought "The Offspring" was one of the worst episodes of season 3, though.
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Baronjutter posted:I'm having trouble with these greatest generation guys. They keep doing this nerd inhaling-laugh thing uehhuhhh hehhh uhheehhh and then he hehhhh uhheehhh uheh uheh went ehhhh uhh heehhhhhhh to ds9 hehhhh haaaa *snort* I'm already used to that because I imagine those noises in every SA post I read.
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morn is the best character in all of star trek, no arguments
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PenguinKnight posted:I finished my first watch-through of TNG last night. The series finale was pretty good and I legit got teary-eyed at the last scene. Gonna watch the premier of DS9 tonight! Are you Levar Burton? https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/920743663885414400
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Data Graham posted:It's certainly not uncommon to have moments of character-based humor during tense action sequences. See Bones' quips while they're loading the torpedo tube in WoK for instance. Unless there's a deleted scene in WoK where Bones is making fun of dead Spock over Scotty's bagpipe playing, I think you mean Undiscovered Country where they're modifying the torpedo with gaseous anomaly (fart) sensors.
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Kanine posted:morn is the best character in all of star trek, no augments
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Binary Badger posted:Unless there's a deleted scene in WoK where Bones is making fun of dead Spock over Scotty's bagpipe playing, I think you mean Undiscovered Country where they're modifying the torpedo with gaseous anomaly (fart) sensors. "Who the hell goes into a radiation-filled chamber wearing only protective gloves, anyway?" "Not now, Bones." "Where's the damned logic in that?" "Bones." "Did he even need to go in there? I thought Scotty said the Radiation Room had remote manipulator arms." "Bones." "Why do we even have a Radiation Room?" "Bones!"
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Look, I love Morn as much as the next fan, but I do wish he'd shut up every now and then.
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Morn to be wiiiiild~
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Remember when worf violently assaulted morn to try to impress a klingon lady? 
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Morn is better-written than any major regular character on ENT.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Stuff like gruesome violence and people swearing feels so weird and out of place in Star Trek. Which isn't to say it doesn't happen. There's that TNG episode "Conspiracy" which has a gigantic WTF moment you all know about. Before Discovery was out, the instant I heard they were like "well, this Star Trek is going to be darker and it'll have gore and f-bombs!" I was like "uh oh." I'm certain "ohhhhhhh poo poo" was intended as comedy.
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The_Doctor posted:Are you Levar Burton? Aww, Levar, you big softie. https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/920902559665070080
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I'm certain "ohhhhhhh poo poo" was intended as comedy. Data dropping an "ohhhhhhhhh poo poo" was the highlight of that movie and probably the only upside to the Emotion Chip subplot.
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When I was a kid, I referred to "poo poo" as "the Data word" because that was one of the first times I'd ever heard it 
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