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TheScott2K posted:Data dropping an "ohhhhhhhhh poo poo" was the highlight of that movie and probably the only upside to the Emotion Chip subplot. Generations was a crappy, disappointing movie overall and was the worst send off to Kirk and the Enterprise-D you could have, but the movie certainly has its moments Even Star Trek V has its moments Into Darkness might be the only Trek movie where I can't think of a thing positive thing to say about it
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Gammatron 64 posted:Generations was a crappy, disappointing movie overall and was the worst send off to Kirk and the Enterprise-D you could have, but the movie certainly has its moments ID would have been so much better if the Cumberbatch as Gary Mitchell rumors were true.
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TheScott2K posted:Data dropping an "ohhhhhhhhh poo poo" was the highlight of that movie and probably the only upside to the Emotion Chip subplot. I also liked his Ten-Forward scene. "I hate this! It is revolting!" "More?" "Please."
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Gammatron 64 posted:Generations was a crappy, disappointing movie overall and was the worst send off to Kirk and the Enterprise-D you could have, but the movie certainly has its moments I know Generations is bad and I know why, but I can't not watch it when it's on. It's like someone told them they'd only get to do one TNG movie so they threw in every half-idea they like "Klingons! Kirk! Horatio Hornblower! Spying with Geordi's visor! Crash the D!" Plus seeing the D in widescreen with movie lighting is cool (not counting ST6)
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What do you call a key bioweapon ingredient smuggled off Bajor in crates of food?
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Arglebargle III posted:What do you call a key bioweapon ingredient smuggled off Bajor in crates of food? Kanarmageddon
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Aww, Levar, you big softie. Yeah, but you were an rear end in a top hat, so no.
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McNally posted:"Who the hell goes into a radiation-filled chamber wearing only protective gloves, anyway?" I stand corrected..
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Tunicate posted:Kanarmageddon Biomimetic Bagel
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McNally posted:"Who the hell goes into a radiation-filled chamber wearing only protective gloves, anyway?" Reminds me of my favorite bit from this Nemesis parody: DATA: The transporters conveniently failed after sending Picard, so I'm going to leap across space to get to Shinzon's ship. GEORDI: What about the transporters in the shuttles? DATA: Shut up. GEORDI: What about the Captain's Yacht? DATA: Shut up. GEORDI: Why didn't we just send a bomb instead of Picard? DATA: Shut up. GEORDI: What about the transporters in the cargo bays? They're independent units, remember? DATA: What part of "shut the gently caress up" do you not understand? This is my big heroic exit, rear end in a top hat. Don't gently caress it up.
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The only way I can think of for all the transporters to fail at once is if they use the same power supply or transceiver. And that would be incredibly stupid design.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The only way I can think of for all the transporters to fail at once is if they use the same power supply or transceiver. And that would be incredibly stupid design. Sir, I'm detecting an anti-transporton field. The transport particles in the transporter won't be able to transport until we clear the field.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The only way I can think of for all the transporters to fail at once is if they use the same power supply or transceiver. And that would be incredibly stupid design. Would that be more stupid or less stupid than self-destruct being "offline"?
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Would that be more stupid or less stupid than self-destruct being "offline"? "Captain, that last hit was so devastating that it made our ship incapable of exploding!"
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Would that be more stupid or less stupid than self-destruct being "offline"? I guess it depends how that's engineered to work. Is it overload the reactor? Because the reactor going dead would put a pin in that, I imagine.
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The Bloop posted:Sir, I'm detecting an anti-transporton field. The transport particles in the transporter won't be able to transport until we clear the field. Hold up, lemme check something. Yep. I can transmodulate the deflector particle emitter array to create a subspace anti-anti-transporter field. But it'll take 12 space hours to do it...
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Mogomra posted:Hold up, lemme check something. You have eight, chief.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I guess it depends how that's engineered to work. Is it overload the reactor? Because the reactor going dead would put a pin in that, I imagine. I always found it odd how they focus so much on warp core failures and not the gigantic tanks of anti-matter which just turning off the power to should release the energy of a small star. Then again those things must be really well reinforced given how many times we see them power up derilict ships and have things like Voyager crashing into a planet without a containment failure.
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Senor Tron posted:I always found it odd how they focus so much on warp core failures and not the gigantic tanks of anti-matter which just turning off the power to should release the energy of a small star.
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We know it's possible to gently caress up the containment pods because that was the ticking time-bomb scenario for TNG Disaster (and 11001001 to a lesser extent). It's just so grossly stupid because they have options. They could have loaded up all the shuttlecraft to go board the Scimitar. They could have rigged a phaser pointed at the main reactor or the antimatter pods to go off via timer/remote, or asked someone to volunteer to pull a Data and phaser the core/pods themselves. There were the aforementioned shuttlecraft transporters (as much as I think that concept is also dumb). There are possibly non-antimatter explosives around the ship to be used as scuttling charges in the event that the ship had previously ejected its warp core and antimatter pods and now needed to be self-destructed. I think it was just a replay of that stupid loving Voyager episode where the "secondary processors" got knocked out and oh no the self-destruct is broken. John Logan is a goddamn shithead.
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The_Doctor posted:Are you Levar Burton? LOL so Levar is watching Trek on Heroes and Icons tv every night like me then!  It's great, they air TOS TNG DS9 VOY and ENT. Every weekday! All Good Things was indeed on last night.
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The thing about core failures which bothers me most is that apparently in the future they don't engineer anything to fail safe. I know for dramas sake things must always be failing the most lethal way possible, but goddamn. Like the turbolift in Disaster, why does it fall? There should be no gravity in the tube, so when it loses power it should just lock into place due to the absence of voltage holding the locks open.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The thing about core failures which bothers me most is that apparently in the future they don't engineer anything to fail safe. I know for dramas sake things must always be failing the most lethal way possible, but goddamn. Like the turbolift in Disaster, why does it fall? There should be no gravity in the tube, so when it loses power it should just lock into place due to the absence of voltage holding the locks open. This is also why Utopia Planitia packs every third console with nitroglycerine.
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There should be little totally independent cubes with their own power sources and their own computer systems, communications transporters and sensors scattered through the ship that you can call up for when main poo poo fails. Wait that's just shuttles.
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The_Doctor posted:Are you Levar Burton?  Watched the first couple of episodes of ds9. I'm liking the cast so far; Garak is pretty great and it's cool to see Obrien doing things besides operating transporters
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The thing about core failures which bothers me most is that apparently in the future they don't engineer anything to fail safe. I know for dramas sake things must always be failing the most lethal way possible, but goddamn. Like the turbolift in Disaster, why does it fall? There should be no gravity in the tube, so when it loses power it should just lock into place due to the absence of voltage holding the locks open. Totally agree about the turbolift, that was dumb (it's still a great episode) but the warp core is different because there really is no safe failure mode for goddamn antimatter (or Romulan singularities either probably) Although... is that IN the core? Where is the anti-deuterium kept? Is that what's above/below the reaction chamber in that big tube they shoot out of the ship (way way not far enough to be safe from an antimatter explosion of that scale)?
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McNally posted:"Captain, that last hit was so devastating that it made our ship incapable of exploding!" - Kif, to Zapp Brannigan probably
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PenguinKnight posted:
You'll wish he'd go back to just the transporters soon. All O'Brien plots are the worst
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PenguinKnight posted:Garak is pretty great Oh, you have no idea how great he is. Just wait.
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The Bloop posted:Totally agree about the turbolift, that was dumb (it's still a great episode) but the warp core is different because there really is no safe failure mode for goddamn antimatter (or Romulan singularities either probably) Matter reserves are in the starboard nacelle, antimatter is in the port nacelle. That's why they need 2. Edit: the Enteprise from the future has 3 nacelles because, uh, hold on I'll think of something. speng31b posted:You'll wish he'd go back to just the transporters soon. All O'Brien plots are the worst What Ok, maybe the plots are something we can disagree on, but you'd better not be talking about O'Brien the character or Colm Meaney.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Ok, maybe the plots are something we can disagree on, but you'd better not be talking about O'Brien the character or Colm Meaney. Everything that happens to him is boring.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Edit: the Enteprise from the future has 3 nacelles because, uh, hold on I'll think of something. The third one holds their spores.
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speng31b posted:Everything that happens to him is boring. I thought your hot take would be "I dont like watching the same character repeatedly suffer, over and over" which isn't a bad take but his episodes being boring is super weird
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Lord Krangdar posted:The third one holds their spores. drat it.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Matter reserves are in the starboard nacelle, antimatter is in the port nacelle. That's why they need 2. They haven't done the matter-nacelle/antimatter-nacelle concept since TOS, everything since at least TNG has had the antimatter pods at the very bottom of the ship.
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The Bloop posted:Although... is that IN the core? Where is the anti-deuterium kept? Is that what's above/below the reaction chamber in that big tube they shoot out of the ship (way way not far enough to be safe from an antimatter explosion of that scale)? They inject the matter at the top of the tube and antimatter at the bottom, the tube constricts and guides and shapes the streams precisely into colliding exactly how they want it in the reaction chamber, and that is exposed to the warp plasma to generate energy. In Voyager the the entire glowy bit is a long reaction chamber, the glow is the warp plasma the reaction is pumping energy into and there are collisions along the length. When the core threatens to breach they're losing control of the antimatter stream already in the tube. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Oct 20, 2017 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:They haven't done the matter-nacelle/antimatter-nacelle concept since TOS, everything since at least TNG has had the antimatter pods at the very bottom of the ship. I was joking, hence the 3rd nacelle comment. "Everything I know about warp drive I learned from TOS" sounds about right though.
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PenguinKnight posted:it's cool to see Obrien doing things besides operating transporters
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