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McSpanky posted:Yep, it was set up in engineering when they were tapping the warp core for the explodium. I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't something on the ship that's actually called explodium. Maybe the rocks inside the consoles?
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Beachcomber posted:Not to sound ungrateful, but I have no idea what I was supposed to get out of that. Kevin Uxbridge is very important to the lore of The Greatest Generation and I can't imagine he won't show up in DS9 repeatedly
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After The War posted:Where are you in the series? The first two seasons were extremely underlit in a more "cinematic" style before switching to the flat lighting that would remain for the rest of 90s Trek. The remaster corrected the early episodes to be consistent with the later ones, but the now the high film speed shows. Makes sense, I didn't know there was a remaster. I just finished season 1, this is my first trek
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underage at the vape shop posted:Makes sense, I didn't know there was a remaster. I just finished season 1, this is my first trek Well, you've got that out of the way! There will other bad eras, but nothing like the sheer lunacy of TNG Season 1.
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dont even fink about it posted:In 2017 money that's maybe $3 million an episode, perhaps a little less. Wow, I didn't realize TV was in such a hot bubble. Although I'd point out that your second quote says it's not so much the last twenty years as it is the last five years that budgets have exploded.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Kevin Uxbridge is very important to the lore of The Greatest Generation and I can't imagine he won't show up in DS9 repeatedly They've even got a wiki for the rest of their running jokes. http://greatestgen.wikia.com/wiki/Running_Jokes
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WampaLord posted:Also I think he was in Star Trek 6. Generations. He was a bridge officer on the Ent B
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He served on the Excelsior under Sulu during the events of Star Trek VI though
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It's too bad there was only one episode with Sisko at maximum power, bearing both beard and full head of hair.
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After The War posted:Well, you've got that out of the way! There will other bad eras, but nothing like the sheer lunacy of TNG Season 1. without spoiling anything can you tell me what changes?
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underage at the vape shop posted:without spoiling anything can you tell me what changes? This is kind of a hard question because it’s nothing really specific. The show improves on basically every front, especially once you get to season 3. The writing improves, the actors get more comfortable in their roles, even the sets and costumes improve.
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It helps that a lot of the toxic stuff going on behind the scenes eased up once Gene's influence waned. The documentary Chaos on the Bridge covers the production of the first season, it's pretty interesting.
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Paradoxish posted:This is kind of a hard question because it’s nothing really specific. The show improves on basically every front, especially once you get to season 3. The writing improves, the actors get more comfortable in their roles, even the sets and costumes improve. Ah cool. I'm watching the first ep now, riker beard  thexerox123 posted:It helps that a lot of the toxic stuff going on behind the scenes eased up once Gene's influence waned. I'll check it out when I finish
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underage at the vape shop posted:Ah cool. I'm watching the first ep now, riker beard Fun fact, "Growing the Beard" has become a term to express a show finally getting good all because of Riker. E: VVV Oh my god, you're totally right. 
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And you know what? Riker shaves the beard halfway through insurrection. Coincidence? I think not.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Wow, I didn't realize TV was in such a hot bubble. Although I'd point out that your second quote says it's not so much the last twenty years as it is the last five years that budgets have exploded. True, it correlates pretty closely to Netflix turning itself into a movie studio, as well as Amazon doing the same thing.
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WampaLord posted:Fun fact, "Growing the Beard" has become a term to express a show finally getting good all because of Riker. Coincidentally, also worked well for Deep Space Nine via Sisko.
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Cythereal posted:Coincidentally, also worked well for Deep Space Nine via Sisko. And really, the only reason Sisko didn't start with the beard was because either Avery Brooks or the producers didn't want people tuning in and going "oh, hey, A Man Called Hawk."
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After The War posted:Where are you in the series? The first two seasons were extremely underlit in a more "cinematic" style before switching to the flat lighting that would remain for the rest of 90s Trek. The remaster corrected the early episodes to be consistent with the later ones, but the now the high film speed shows. I don't think they did anything to drastically alter the lighting in the remaster, it just looks brighter and more colourful because you're seeing it sourced from the original film negatives rather than grainy late eighties broadcast video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHmZGjoaHvI They did such a good job fixing up the show for Blu-Ray, I doubt any other series will get a prestigious upgrade like that again. Even the bad episodes are worth revisiting in this format, just to see how different they look without a layer of analogue soup in the way.
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Maelstache posted:I don't think they did anything to drastically alter the lighting in the remaster, it just looks brighter and more colourful because you're seeing it sourced from the original film negatives rather than grainy late eighties broadcast video. When I make $100 million I'm going to do it for Babylon 5.
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underage at the vape shop posted:without spoiling anything can you tell me what changes? As you've seen by now, Worf and Geordi get real jobs. Picard is no longer written as a doddering old man. A lot of the Roddenberry Visiontm stuff is gone, so lo loses a lot of the  about 24th century humans.You will never see costumes like this again:  You also lose a lot of the surreal, almost Lynch-ian elements of the first season, like Q's Small Person Court With Oven Mitt Drug Soldiers and Riker's "USS Lollipop." It basically becomes what can be recognized as a TV series. Season 2 will have some bad episodes, but they're bad in a comprehensible "dumb idea" way instead of "what were these people on?" There are also of the all-time most popular episodes in all of Trek.
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After The War posted:You will never see costumes like this again:  (From Cost of Living)
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Is the Lollipop thing now some kind of surrealist joke that only the enlightened could get? I thought it was clear that it was Riker throwing a tidbit in to see if this was an intelligent being who actually knew idiomatic Federation Standard Or Whatever as opposed to just mirroring him to sell him poo poo.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:When I make $100 million I'm going to do it for Babylon 5. A drat fine dream, my friend. Really, I'd just settle for owning a version which didn't have all the fx shots zoomed/cropped.
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While taking a bit of a break from the DS9 spree, I am slightly drunk and watching Chopped on the food network website and am for some reason longing for a Chopped: Star Trek episode with Sisko, Neelix (obnoxious first round chopped guy, natch), Data, and Q.
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Nessus posted:Is the Lollipop thing now some kind of surrealist joke that only the enlightened could get? I thought it was clear that it was Riker throwing a tidbit in to see if this was an intelligent being who actually knew idiomatic Federation Standard Or Whatever as opposed to just mirroring him to sell him poo poo. Yeah it wasn't anything fancy. Like if I was like saying "I served with Captain Hugedick on the USS Cockgobbler" to see if you're real because you'd be like wtf. Except they went G rated and something virtually everyone watching that episode would know was Riker using a fictional ship.
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Nessus posted:Is the Lollipop thing now some kind of surrealist joke that only the enlightened could get? I thought it was clear that it was Riker throwing a tidbit in to see if this was an intelligent being who actually knew idiomatic Federation Standard Or Whatever as opposed to just mirroring him to sell him poo poo. It’s referencing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLLSqpYyPD8 Riker even says “it’s a good ship”
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Cythereal posted:While taking a bit of a break from the DS9 spree, I am slightly drunk and watching Chopped on the food network website and am for some reason longing for a Chopped: Star Trek episode with Sisko, Neelix (obnoxious first round chopped guy, natch), Data, and Q. Add in the Klingon chef from DS9 as one of the judges and the host can be the holographic Doctor.
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Jimong5 posted:It’s referencing this: they're good ships, brent
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Jimong5 posted:It’s referencing this: I'm proud to have gotten this reference.
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Nessus posted:Is the Lollipop thing now some kind of surrealist joke that only the enlightened could get? I thought it was clear that it was Riker throwing a tidbit in to see if this was an intelligent being who actually knew idiomatic Federation Standard Or Whatever as opposed to just mirroring him to sell him poo poo. Oh, I didn't mean that it was intentionally surreal, I meant the effect of the weird, stilted direction and Riker referencing Shirley Temple (not the type of 20th century reference you'd see in later stories) on a TOS-style "plants+single color backdrop" set isn't just bad, it's... strange. You don't get that kind of thing after the first season. I guess I should have said "accidentally Lynch-ian", sorry.
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So, I can't quite tell who in this thread still has a positive opinion of DIS (my implant connecting me to the Goon Hive-Mind no longer functions), but with the end-of-fall-season two-parter, I'm having a hard time agreeing with the people positing "yeah, we've seen a militarized psychotic Federation, especially Captain Lorca, but it's obviously all set-up for his downfall and Burnham learning a lesson," because the whole thing on Pahvo comes off as "those poor dumb loving pacifist sound creatures, don't they know their harmony can only exist thanks to Hard Men Making Hard Decisions." Or am I just pre-disposed to hate this because I have absorbed the thread-salt? Also Jesus Christ, is anyone else completely unable to follow the Klingon subplot? It's simultaneously jumping ahead too fast and providing absolutely no personality or likability for any of the characters.
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Watching Lessons. Nothing's happened so far other than mention of a communication blackout. Picard's tinted-glass-with-wood-grain edge desk is so cool.
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Haha the stellar cartography department using all the ship's resources so Picard gets bored
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"Earl Grey? No wonder you couldn't sleep." Owned
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If they did an episode without a conflict that'd be interesting and experimental but I put the chance of that at 00.5%
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