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I'm sure Star Trek engineers are going to figure out how to best weaponize the transporter's ability to create momentum out of nothing just as soon as they finish figuring out how to grant eternal life in 17 different varieties based on previous Trek episodes. Although strictly speaking the transporter can do something else that's more important to trekkies than living forever.   Edit: What a glorious snipe.
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It's insane to think hostile forces would EVER board a federation ship in the 24th century. So much of the basic tech could be deadly. Gravy plating makes your body 50,000 kg; holoemiters use invisible forcefield to sever your spinal column; shuttle transporters teleport a 1cm chunk of your brain out of your head, replicators fill the room with toxic glue, etc, etc...
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Dec 8, 2017 19:27
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Bucswabe posted:It's insane to think hostile forces would EVER board a federation ship in the 24th century. So much of the basic tech could be deadly. Suddenly I'm looking forward to Tarantino's Trek movie a lot more. If Trek is going grimdark some hosed up poo poo like this would be amazing.
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Bucswabe posted:It's insane to think hostile forces would EVER board a federation ship in the 24th century. So much of the basic tech could be deadly. One of my fav DS9 episodes was when the station's worker revolt program turned the whole place into ED-209 and replicators started replicating turrets to kill all non cardassians. Gul Dukat teleported in to swan around and gloat and then a beautiful thing happened. Cardassians knew how to use that kind of technology properly.
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I just watched the first episode of the Expanse. Thanks for the recommend goons. Looks good so far. Also, lol at Mars. Seriously, we need to blow that shithole of a planet up.
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Dec 11, 2017 09:53
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Conversely, I have found the second-worst Voyager episode: when the Ultra Logical Vulcan nerd goes all "pleeeeease have sex with me B'elana it's really messing with my mind pleeeeease, let me explain in detail all the reasons why you should have sex with me" and then the Doctor programs him a holo-whore. Star Trek should just never mention sex ever. The writers can't be trusted.
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Dec 11, 2017 10:12
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I'd pick Be'lanna too.
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Dec 11, 2017 10:15
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simplefish posted:Conversely, I have found the second-worst Voyager episode: when the Ultra Logical Vulcan nerd goes all "pleeeeease have sex with me B'elana it's really messing with my mind pleeeeease, let me explain in detail all the reasons why you should have sex with me" and then the Doctor programs him a holo-whore. A Vulcan trying to get a woman to gently caress him by explaining logically why she should sounds about right to me.
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Dec 11, 2017 13:36
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Yeah but did the audience really want to cringe through it? And the premise that 'a vulcun must get laid every 7 years or they die' and 'vulcans can infect girls with horniness if they touch them by accident' is just embarrassing.
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Dec 11, 2017 13:43
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simplefish posted:Yeah but did the audience really want to cringe through it? And the premise that 'a vulcun must get laid every 7 years or they die' and 'vulcans can infect girls with horniness if they touch them by accident' is just embarrassing. Makes you wonder why nobody has mixed Vulcan-Ferengi heritage. Perhaps its simply too dangerous to combine the pon farr with an elaborate barbed penis.
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simplefish posted:Yeah but did the audience really want to cringe through it? And the premise that 'a vulcun must get laid every 7 years or they die' and 'vulcans can infect girls with horniness if they touch them by accident' is just embarrassing. "Okay, here's the plan; We let B'Lanna gently caress Tom because she's under the influence of Vulcan mindrape." "What do you mean 'shoot to stun with phasers and tranquilize her'?
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Dec 11, 2017 17:07
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Wasn't part of the plot point that B'lana had to mate or they'd die? It's been a long time since I've seen it and I'm not watching it again.
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Dec 11, 2017 17:17
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Yeah that's the standard pon far. But you can also fight to the death, which is how it got resolved. With 24th century medicine they're generally fine afterwards
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Dec 11, 2017 17:32
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Ponn Farr is one of the worst Star Trek things they ever etched into the canon
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Dec 11, 2017 18:41
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The pan flutes that play for any spiritual species in star trek are the worst
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simplefish posted:Conversely, I have found the second-worst Voyager episode: when the Ultra Logical Vulcan nerd goes all "pleeeeease have sex with me B'elana it's really messing with my mind pleeeeease, let me explain in detail all the reasons why you should have sex with me" and then the Doctor programs him a holo-whore. This is also the ep that introduces the borg in voyager
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Ponn Farr is one of the worst Star Trek things they ever etched into the canon
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The General posted:I just watched the first episode of the Expanse. Thanks for the recommend goons. Looks good so far. Also, lol at Mars. Seriously, we need to blow that shithole of a planet up. Every Martian on The Expanse is an obnoxious idiot and I hope the series ends with their terraforming poo poo failing hardcore
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im gonna watch a poo poo load of star trak tonight and maybe smoke a bowl and smash some beers
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numberoneposter posted:im gonna watch a poo poo load of star trak tonight and maybe smoke a bowl and smash some beers lol if you do this and pick STD as the trek. All that reading of the Klingon dialogue.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Every Martian on The Expanse is an obnoxious idiot tbf I think the Earthgov lady and... maybe one or two other people? are the only characters who aren't obnoxious idiots
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Mulaney Power Move posted:This is also the ep that introduces the borg in voyager Yeah, in the last 5 seconds. The real introduction of the Borg is not the next episode (they seem to have forgotten about the Borg, not at all worried) but the episode after. It just felt like someone wrote the Borg episode, then someone else said "no we're doing arcs now, foreshadow this" so they hamfistedly jammed the reveal on the end of that episode. Like the pon farr Vulcan was in an episode for a few minutes before. And in DS9 iirc for Dax's previous hosts being played through her "closest" friends, there's the main cast and "random Dabo girl who we saw a couple episodes ago?" And who then pretty much disappears again until she's with Rom and we care that her name was Leeta
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In like the loving 21st century savage loving army if we had anything like a holodeck malfunction they'd shut down the whole loving program but in the 23rd century nobody care because they wanna gently caress them holograms like
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simplefish posted:Like the pon farr Vulcan was in an episode for a few minutes before. And in DS9 iirc for Dax's previous hosts being played through her "closest" friends, there's the main cast and "random Dabo girl who we saw a couple episodes ago?" And who then pretty much disappears again until she's with Rom and we care that her name was Leeta
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mods change my name posted:In like the loving 21st century savage loving army if we had anything like a holodeck malfunction they'd shut down the whole loving program That's because 23rd century people are logical and rational and know that there are over 16 billion holodeck programmes run every day and only 0.0001% result in murders or mass murders. Also, considering that there is a mass shooting every week in the US but there's no extra gun control because people like owning guns, I think you're overestimating our 21st century fellow inhabitants.
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Dec 12, 2017 09:16
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I wish the Vulcans would come save us.
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mods change my name posted:I wish the Vulcans would come save us. lol if u don't think that would go a little something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXw6hC7hxBA
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Dec 12, 2017 16:02
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Lol, Enterprise could be so good at times.
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Kitchner posted:Also, considering that there is a mass shooting every week in the US but there's no extra gun control because people like owning guns, I think you're overestimating our 21st century fellow inhabitants. When holograms are illegal, only criminals will use holograms.
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mods change my name posted:Lol, Enterprise could be so good at times. It's really clever how they added a few insert shot closeups to recut the First Contact scene with the reshot footage to get their MU new scene without having to start from scratch pay James Cromwell money out of their TV budget.
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:It's really clever how they added a few insert shot closeups to recut the First Contact scene with the reshot footage to get their MU new scene without having to start from scratch pay James Cromwell money out of their TV budget. For all of fifteen seconds' worth of footage, yeah, wouldn't be surprised. Although it could also have just as easily been that he was busy with other work at the time; he certainly wasn't above doing roles on Trek episodes, hell half his Trek characters had huge face makeup going on.
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Chomp8645 posted:When holograms are illegal, only criminals will use holograms. If I had have been there with my hologram, oh boy that woulda went down differently. The whole place would have been taken over by a swing band while a dude crooned and fixed everyone's problems. NHA. I do like that most series has a distinct moral quandry that creeps up on you or you at least read in to. TOS: gently caress the system. TNG: The System, gently caress. DS9: gently caress you guys, but I will gently caress you with the system by loving the system. STV: No system here, but lets gently caress each other with the system in this new system so nobody gets to go home. STE: A Grappling hook maybe? I didn't watch. STD: I have so many shrooms in my system I think I can see and move through the galaxy by eating more and like there's like an evil dude with a room full of skeletons and everything is black. gently caress. PSA: Type "system" several times it doesn't look like a real word.
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having a real good LOL over here!!!
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wit posted:If I had have been there with my hologram, oh boy that woulda went down differently. The whole place would have been taken over by a swing band while a dude crooned and fixed everyone's problems. NHA. ST:Enterprise's moral quandry is "we have no system, but we should act like the Prime Directive will one day be a thing, nudge-nudge wink-WINK DO YOU loving GET WHAT WE'RE INSUATING EVERY SINGLE EPISODE INVOLVING ALIEN CULTURES!?"
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Reed Alert
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mods change my name posted:Reed Alert Shields up!
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I loled at Reed Alert because it was a clever bit of wordplay mixed with a cute reference to future trek and if it was their only attempt at wink-winking the audience up until that point the early seasons might not have felt so forced.
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