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The final episode of the Orville will turn out to be just like Red Dwarf's "Back To Reality", and the reason there are so many Trek homages is because the simulation was based entirely off the Star Trek mythology.
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JediTalentAgent posted:The final episode of the Orville will turn out to be just like Red Dwarf's "Back To Reality", and the reason there are so many Trek homages is because the simulation was based entirely off the Star Trek mythology. fat elderly modern day frakes squeezed into 1990's tng uniform: "Computer, end program."
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Baronjutter posted:fat elderly modern day frakes squeezed into 1990's tng uniform: "Computer, end program." honestly every newly canceled star trek should end like this until Frakes dies
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Dec 7, 2017 04:49
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Kitchner posted:Tarintino talked about this once and he basically said what he'd love to do is take some episodes and stretch them out into a film. 
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i loving LOVE THAT GIF
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Recently just got past that episode By the way, Voyager is most wearing for two reasons: it relies on 1) Subspace Anomoly (or similar) as a plot device, or what I like to term 2) Mental Health Episodes, where the issue is related to cognition or perception of reality or false memories or other I/id/ego bollocks
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Watched DS9 Blood Oath last night, Klingons are fun and it was great they used actors from TOS to reprise their roles like 80 years later. Dax killed a bunch of random guards though which was kinda hosed up. Also apparently it's super easy to just make it so all phasers don't work in an area by shooting an energy beam over the area, sure glad they never use that again.
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Dec 7, 2017 19:13
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When Dax tells Worf he's a poo poo kingon because he never laughs or has fun is great. Worf really is a keeabo
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Dec 7, 2017 20:13
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Kitchner posted:When Dax tells Worf he's a poo poo kingon because he never laughs or has fun is great. Worf really is a keeabo Worf makes a bit more sense when you realize first and foremost he's Russian.
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Baronjutter posted:Watched DS9 Blood Oath last night, Klingons are fun and it was great they used actors from TOS to reprise their roles like 80 years later. Dax killed a bunch of random guards though which was kinda hosed up. Also apparently it's super easy to just make it so all phasers don't work in an area by shooting an energy beam over the area, sure glad they never use that again. As much of a franchise killer as it would be I really want them to not keep making phasers a weapon that still exists in any future Trek. Even if they just change the name and beam colours (again). Those things have been around for so long and have been more and more useless, why not go for something new? Heck they made Quantum torpedoes a thing just by colouring them blue and saying "no no these are totally stronger dude" and we believed it.
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Dec 7, 2017 20:23
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MMOs have shown us that making more powerful weaponry is as easy as coming up with a new descriptor or prefix Photon Quantum Transphasic Temporal uh uhhh Fluidic
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Dec 7, 2017 20:29
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Ben Nerevarine posted:MMOs have shown us that making more powerful weaponry is as easy as coming up with a new descriptor or prefix Iso
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Dec 7, 2017 20:40
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Probably "mycotorpedoes" now that we have fungus drive.
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Dec 7, 2017 20:42
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Gave er the ol' mushroom torpedo.
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Dec 7, 2017 20:43
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Facebook Aunt posted:The crew seems scared of the captain so I'm guessing he's not really a captain at all, he's a huge trekkie who has kidnapped those people or something. Pretty sure it'll be a Redshirts takeoff where they're all trapped as part of a TV show.
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:Gave er the ol' mushroom torpedo. poo poo. The answer was glaring us in the face all along. The mushroom drive is a penis metaphor.
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evilmiera posted:As much of a franchise killer as it would be I really want them to not keep making phasers a weapon that still exists in any future Trek. Even if they just change the name and beam colours (again). Those things have been around for so long and have been more and more useless, why not go for something new? You mean they need to call the rayguns by a different name or they should just shoot bullets like it's Stargate SG-1? Because honestly the phasers are already pretty much different from what they used to be, they used to all be beams and now they're nearly all zap shots like Star Wars blasters.
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It's not like they've been super consistent in how the kill shots look either, we've had "everything glows and then disappears", "impact point explodes in a shower of
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:"makes the flesh disappear leaving skeletons behind and then the skeletons disappear" This is the most metal one. I remember they used this effect in the Deaf Alien Guy episode of TNG and it was kickin' rad.
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Mr Tuvok, arm quantum transphasic tri-cobalt torpedoes
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Ben Nerevarine posted:MMOs have shown us that making more powerful weaponry is as easy as coming up with a new descriptor or prefix From the Star Trek Online wiki:
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what series had the black hole gun? DS9? edit: no, wait, I'm an idiot, it was some sort of teleportation gun I think?
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In my eyes, indisposed In disguises no one knows Hides the face, lies the snake Logic in my disgrace Boiling heat, desert stench 'Neath the black these guys looks dead Call my name through deep space I'll save the Vulcan race Black hole gun Won't you come And wash away the rain Black hole gun, Won't you come? Won't you cooooooome
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Your Battle Buddy posted:what series had the black hole gun? DS9? It was DS9 that had the rifle with the teleporting bullets.
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Your Battle Buddy posted:what series had the black hole gun? DS9? The gun had a miniature transporter pad at the end of the barrel to beam a solid bullet around. This was never used outside that episode, despite the gun being available through replication, and better than phasers in basically every way. The gun makes no sense, though. For starters, the notion that momentum is preserved during transportation (which the gun supposedly relies on) means that transporters should have been complete death traps: anyone beaming anywhere would have to make sure their velocity at the source is safely matched at the destination. If the USS Enterprise and the USS Hood were traveling in opposite directions, Ensign Ricky's transfer to the Enterprise would be cut very short by the fact that he'd be flying through the transporter console, operator and about 3-4 bulkheads at 1/2 impulse power. Since nobody gibs on the walls after transporting, yet this gun exists and the bullet is still speedy, it's safe to say that the transport beam can apply momentum to the object by itself. This begs the question as to why the teleport gun needs a barrel or any sort of chemical or electromagnetic propellent for the bullet, when it can just beam the bullet with a modified velocity to the destination for the same effect. BurntCornMuffin fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Dec 7, 2017 |
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I think it's safe to assume the teleporter on the gun doesn't necessarily feature safety devices such as momentum nullifiers.
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popewiles posted:I think it's safe to assume the teleporter on the gun doesn't necessarily feature safety devices such as momentum nullifiers. A momentum nullifier is the exact same thing as a momentum imparter. It is just increasing velocity in the opposite direction of your current velocity. If you can do that you can increase velocity in any direction you want so there's no reason to actually propel a projectile through the transport beam.
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popewiles posted:momentum nullifiers. Is this actual trek jargon? Does it ever fail and send someone hurtling through the transporter room bulkhead at supersonic velocities?
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Clark Nova posted:Is this actual trek jargon? Does it ever fail and send someone hurtling through the transporter room bulkhead at supersonic velocities? It is actual trek jargon in the sense that it was just made up to communicate the workings of magic trek space tech.
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Why not just transport your enemy's internal organs 4 feet to the left
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Heisenberg Compensators.
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I would teleport poo poo into dudes heads and when they died i'd be like "heh poo poo for brains" and put my geordi visor on
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Locked door mysteries would suck. "How was this guy murdered when all the doors were locked?" "Transporters." "Oh, right."
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Facebook Aunt posted:Locked door mysteries would suck. "How was this guy murdered when all the doors were locked?" "Transporters." "Oh, right." It was his clone actually
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Doggles posted:From the Star Trek Online wiki: Those are all torpedoes, also all on Star Trek Online where only plasma counts or something. (In all seriousness I lpve that there is variety of weapon types at least in that game and that proper phasers are hardly ever used)
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localized chroniton displacement field aging his heart one century into the future from the rest of his body
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evilmiera posted:Those are all torpedoes, also all on Star Trek Online where only plasma counts or something. (In all seriousness I lpve that there is variety of weapon types at least in that game and that proper phasers are hardly ever used) Phasers used to be all the rage in that game, because the secondary trait would disable random subsystems (shields most importantly) on the target. Then they made secondary weapon traits barely proc and people just picked their favorite color and now nobody plays the game at all. So much like the shows I guess... just a slow inevitable decline to pure poo poo.
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naem posted:Why not just transport your enemy's internal organs 4 feet to the left The only series that ever even approaches the notion that teleporters are a loving horrifying weapon in the wrong hands is ironically Voyager, because all their enemies don't have them.
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evilmiera posted:Those are all torpedoes, also all on Star Trek Online where only plasma counts or something. (In all seriousness I lpve that there is variety of weapon types at least in that game and that proper phasers are hardly ever used) When I played it briefly I kind of liked that combat just assumed you'd fire with phasers and photons as often as possible and let you set them to just trigger whenever they were in range/arc and cooled down, and instead the focus was on maneuvering and presenting the optimal shield/weapon arc facing.
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