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Also tng enterprise seemed really lousy with shuttles like I get it you're sick with shuttles so why not but they seem to be giving them away or just leave shuttles on planets like it's nothing like can you imagine there's crazy poo poo on every loving planet they visit that would be the find of a lifetime
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Nov 16, 2017 07:13
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Plus you don't do anything you just go like oh computer take me to a planet where I can breathe also no dinosaurs also some scrambled eggs thank you baby
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Nov 16, 2017 07:14
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Shut up Wesley
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Nov 16, 2017 07:15
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What if you got to the first planet and looked in a cave and found an old VHS of your parents getting it on holy poo poo
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Nov 16, 2017 07:15
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It's usually guys with big penises who are jerks, VQL
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Nov 16, 2017 07:17
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Oh that was uncalled for I'm sorry VQL
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Some days I wake up and realize I'm not Andie McDowell and it puts me in a mood until I go back to bed
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criscodisco posted:It's usually guys with big penises who are jerks, VQL I didn't red text myself  Actually it is small there are just two now due to a transporter accident
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Nov 16, 2017 07:33
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Osric posted:Korean(?) communication lady. Hoshi Sato is Japanese, but the actor (Linda Park) is Korean. I think I mentioned it before in one of these threads, but apart from Sulu (and even that is arguable), no Asian character has the same nationality as their actor.
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Nov 16, 2017 09:32
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Finished DS9 Now on VOY, gently caress I hate the writers. Just look at Janeway - Episode 1: "we must violate the prime directive to let this planet live another few years" Episode 3: "no we cannot save this entire planet, that could probably live forever, from wiping themselves out because priiiiime dirrrrrective!"
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simplefish posted:Finished DS9 Oh look, another innocent soul has come venturing down the rabbit hole...  Run awayyyy!
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simplefish posted:Finished DS9 I'll admit it; Voyager eventually defeated me think I got 5 seasons in you will hate it coming off of DS9 especially the boring beige world of Voyager will break you over its knee as if you were a little baby
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Nov 16, 2017 16:50
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Osric posted:I like the episode of TNG where they introduce Barclay and expose him as a holo-perv. But it is always bothered me that they make a point of the other characters being all "WHAAAT? Making facsimiles of other people to live out your fantasises? THAT IS UNHEARD OF!" I just want to say, it's not infinite energy to mass conversion for the purposes of making medicine or food, or faster than light space travel that turns Earth into a paradise in the future. It's sex bots and holodecks. As soon as mankind has Westworld robots they can cum into all wars will end and the galaxy will be at peace.
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Nov 16, 2017 17:12
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simplefish posted:Finished DS9 That's a running theme. Later on it might be something like Episode 56: " We must accept our fate and that some of us will die so as to not violate the borders of the aliens and respect their culture" Episode 60: " We must fire our infinite amount of photon torpedos at those alien patrol ships who turned hostile when we decided to fly through their space for no real reason" VictorianQueerLit fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Nov 16, 2017 |
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Nov 16, 2017 17:22
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Didn't the actress literally start sorta playing Janeway as a crazy person because the writing for the character was so inconsistent
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Osric posted:I like the episode of TNG where they introduce Barclay and expose him as a holo-perv. But it is always bothered me that they make a point of the other characters being all "WHAAAT? Making facsimiles of other people to live out your fantasises? THAT IS UNHEARD OF!" "How outrageous you would persue romance/sex with something other than a real person! Summon the fainting couches to Ten Forward immediately!" *Meanwhile...* - Riker falls in love with a barfly hologram. - Geordi summons a recreation of a real person so he can "touch her engine". - Rando crew member gets the hots for Data. - Beverly gets seduced by a sex ghost.
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really they were just horrified that anyone would use the holodeck for something other than public domain yawnfests and unspeakably obscene fuckfests.
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So I started watching the Orville since a lot of people have been saying that it's THE REAL STAR TREK and uh...really? I mean it's okay, definitely a lot of superficial similarities to TNG and the episodic format is nice, but it's kind of hokey in a bad way. I don't hate it, but considering the praise it's been getting I'm surprised at how dumb it is.
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Space Camp fuckup posted:So I started watching the Orville since a lot of people have been saying that it's THE REAL STAR TREK and uh...really? I mean it's okay, definitely a lot of superficial similarities to TNG and the episodic format is nice, but it's kind of hokey in a bad way. I don't hate it, but considering the praise it's been getting I'm surprised at how dumb it is. The "real" Star Trek is aping all the grimdark "ends justify the means" and "democrat warawk militarism is the most moral end state of society" poo poo that has been en vogue and it's nice to have a hokey show where things are generally upbeat and optimistic and the humans and aliens are working together to try and solve people's problems peacefully like Picard used to. It's not like... Emmy worthy, it's just good fun comfort food TV that doesn't put on airs and graces of tying to be more than it is and apes a format of sci-fi that TBQH we need more of living here in Hellworld. Whether as a signpost that the future doesn't have to be the same runny poo poo as the present, or as escapism.
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For me, I like the hokeyness, and like the characters. It's refreshing to tune into a show week to week that has continuity and explores various issues but isn't too serious and doesn't require a lot of emotional investment, and is self contained. I have very little emotional investment to give right now. They just don't make shows like this except crime procedurals now. I wish there was more tv that was just like a different mini movie every week that didn't have to do with catching criminals.
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I re-watched the last episodes of Voyager just to confirm that the show did not in fact have any kind of ending. I don't even remember most of what happened. Something about Batmobile armor and Janeway being an rear end in a top hat and then I think I fell asleep because Generations was playing when I woke up. I guess it was on autoplay. So I turned it off. Space Camp fuckup posted:So I started watching the Orville since a lot of people have been saying that it's THE REAL STAR TREK and uh...really? I mean it's okay, definitely a lot of superficial similarities to TNG and the episodic format is nice, but it's kind of hokey in a bad way. I don't hate it, but considering the praise it's been getting I'm surprised at how dumb it is. In a world where the last Star Treks were Enterprise and Voyager and the pay-per-view CBS fiasco where Michelle Yeoh isn't even the captain goddamnit. Yeah, people are pretty keyed up over a ho-hum not great show that has a few laughs. I get it. I just saw the Orville episode which is totally a ripoff of the Black Mirror episode where people rate each other on social media. Black Mirror did it better, but I see a lot of people responding positively to the message thanks to Orville, so kudos to Seth I guess.
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Orville probably wouldn't be getting so much attention if CBS Streaming Service Trek wasn't turbo edgy grimdark suck
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I hope Netflix manages to get their Galaxy Quest series into production and we have not one but two joke treks that are on the balance better received than the "real" Trek.
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revwinnebago posted:I just saw the Orville episode which is totally a ripoff of the Black Mirror episode where people rate each other on social media. Seth said this was the inspiration for the episode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You%27ve_Been_Publicly_Shamed quote:So You've Been Publicly Shamed (2015) is a book by British journalist Jon Ronson about online shaming and its historical antecedents.[2] The book explores the re-emergence of public shaming as an Internet phenomenon, particularly on Twitter. As a state-sanctioned punishment, public shaming was popular in Colonial America. Between 1837 in the UK and 1839 in the US, it was phased out as a punishment, not due to the increasingly populous society, as was widely held,[3][4] but instead in response to rising calls for compassion.[5] Black Mirror didn't exactly invent the concept, they just commented on it.
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Monkey Fracas posted:Orville probably wouldn't be getting so much attention if CBS Streaming Service Trek wasn't turbo edgy grimdark suck The single greatest thing ever done by The Orville was to come out two weeks early. Its like the Go Bots toy line coming out before the Transformers. For millions of people its probably good enough and scratches that space n' ships itch better than an extra $6 handed over to CBS.
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Nov 16, 2017 18:15
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It's me. I'm the one giving CBS my money. (Well, not CBS, but CraveTV & whomever owns that). I hope more networks go that route. I am never going to buy a cable package to watch your trash with commercials. I watch so few shows that it's worth 'voting with my dollars' or whatever to get more of what I want to see.
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Nov 16, 2017 18:22
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I have just been watching on Netflix thru a VPN.
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Nov 16, 2017 18:23
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But then I'd have to give a VPN my money, and how does that help them decide to make more grim dark trek?
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The General posted:But then I'd have to give a VPN my money, and how does that help them decide to make more grim dark trek? SetUpVPN is a free chrome extension, friend; and we just want to hate watch and mock, not actually encourage this.
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Nov 16, 2017 18:44
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It's not really Trek, but I do kinda like it. I just wish the Klingons weren't so joyless, and that the middle eastern guy wasn't so traitorous.
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Nov 16, 2017 18:46
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VictorianQueerLit posted:Seth said this was the inspiration for the episode Eh. Lemme rephrase, I think he Orville'd Black Mirror. Which isn't a crime. He's a huge fan of Black Mirror so it was definitely on his mind, and his episode is way closer to Mirror's Nosedive than it is to the book. In fact that article says another Black Mirror episode is based on that book, which is a bit of trivia I would expect Seth to be aware of. Maybe his original script was more like the book, and then when it came time to film it he decided to mix in more Nosedive. Zero wrong with that. But it's really hard to deny the influence. The scene where they rate each other at the coffee shop and someone is refused service, c'mon, that's Nosedive.
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hemale in pain posted:They were a bit more fun in the last episode but they all got blown up Yeah the warlord guy was having fun with the knife fight and there was a bit of the old klingon goodness for a bit then welp.
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revwinnebago posted:Eh. Lemme rephrase, I think he Orville'd Black Mirror. Which isn't a crime. He's a huge fan of Black Mirror so it was definitely on his mind, and his episode is way closer to Mirror's Nosedive than it is to the book. In fact that article says another Black Mirror episode is based on that book, which is a bit of trivia I would expect Seth to be aware of. I'm not sure if I've pointed this out here or on reddit, but Nosedive was first aired like 11 months before the first episode of the Orville was aired. I highly suspect that they had already written and possibly even shot that episode of the Orville then. I also want to echo that on the STD front (lol) that seeing a Klingon knife fight on a bridge was great, and then the show reminded me with the rest of the episode why it's annoying.
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Space Camp fuckup posted:people have been saying that it's THE REAL STAR TREK... but it's kind of hokey in a bad way. 
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Space Camp fuckup posted:So I started watching the Orville since a lot of people have been saying that it's THE REAL STAR TREK and uh...really? I mean it's okay, definitely a lot of superficial similarities to TNG and the episodic format is nice, but it's kind of hokey in a bad way. I don't hate it, but considering the praise it's been getting I'm surprised at how dumb it is. It's not that it is an amazing show, it's that expectations were real low. If you go in expecting 'Family Guy in Space' it surprises you. The first 4 or so episodes are a bit rough, but better than anyone was expecting. And then it gets better. They start respecting the audience to remember Alara is strong, so they don't need to contrive a reason for her to 'open a jar of pickles' every episode. In a couple other episodes strange things are going on and Alara has to figure it out using her brains, not her crazy strength, showing that she is actually qualified to be a security officer. Then they have an episode featuring the doctor and the robot, an actual ensemble cast and not just the Captain Seth show! But in the end it's not going to blow your socks off or change your life. It is more like TNG than Voyager, Enterprise, or Discovery though. The closest thing to "more TNG" that we've had so far.
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