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I always thought that the Occampi should be somewhat more insectoid, like the Andorians. Being an insectoid species, a 9 year life span would be more acceptable, as well solve the birth rate issue. Since they would produce multiples, instead of the 1:1 that the episodes imply. Plus, and I dont remember if this is ever inferred or not, but a species with such short life span would have to have an amount of genetic memory. less than a year old and already know who you are, what you're doing, your place and purpose in society and all that? Very insect culture.
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"Yeah but a bug don't got no sex appeal in a unitard, plus think of the makeup budget!" - the studio guys, probably.
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Jan 12, 2018 18:00
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The Star Trek Voyager is being attacked by GHOSTS!!!!
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numberoneposter posted:The Star Trek Voyager is being attacked by GHOSTS!!!! 2spooky4me
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numberoneposter posted:The Star Trek Voyager is being attacked by GHOSTS!!!! But the Captain is a woman and we know how bad they are at busting ghosts!
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BSG > Voyager. Also, I didn't mind the end of BSG.
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Meiers Goldbrick posted:BSG > Voyager. You know what? I'm gonna make a bold claim here... SG:U > BSG > Voyager
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SGU got a little better towards it's end but the rest of it sucked so goddamn hard it didn't really matter it had the now familiar problem of the showrunners badly misjudging why anybody ever became invested in their franchise, only their franchise hadn't been around long enough or gotten big enough to support a crappy project like that for any longer than it did
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I enjoyed Star Gate Atlantis more than Farscape but less than Lexx or Babylon 5
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SG1 and Atlantis are just some great fun TV. Just the right balance of serialization, comedy, and science fiction.
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Writers wanted to explore a character that had a shorter life span in contrast to the crew. The reverse of what's usually done in science fiction with "short lived" human lives. The whole Kes age inappropriateness thing is over rated. numberoneposter posted:Neelix is the Sex Chef. Until you take this into account.
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Baronjutter posted:SG1 and Atlantis are just some great fun TV. Just the right balance of serialization, comedy, and science fiction. Also the luscious nature of Vancouver Planet #214
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Also the luscious nature of Vancouver Planet #214 Sometimes it's sandy quarry planet!!!!
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DS9, Farscape, TNG......................................... > everything else.
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Also the luscious nature of Vancouver Planet #214 My favorite is still BSG finding Kobol, ancient birthplace of humanity, and then showing us $100 of plaster ruins and 6 weeks of Vancouver forest
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No one bats an eye at humanoid aliens the galaxy over, but show them one too many temperate rainforests and they lose their minds! Maybe the temperate rainforest is simply the ultimate biome that any sufficiently advanced biosphere eventually evolves towards??!
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Maybe I just notice it in BSG more since the interior sets are so solid (even if they still suffer from redress fatigue). The second anyone steps outside or onto Cloud 9, it’s a big “oh that’s right, this is a SyFy show filming in Vancouver” reminder.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Maybe I just notice it in BSG more since the interior sets are so solid (even if they still suffer from redress fatigue). The second anyone steps outside or onto Cloud 9, it’s a big “oh that’s right, this is a SyFy show filming in Vancouver” reminder. They filmed a couple spaceship interiors on the car decks of ferries I know very well so that was a bit funny too. I kept waiting for the canned announcements telling people not to start their cars until after the ship has docked.
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Baronjutter posted:No one bats an eye at humanoid aliens the galaxy over, but show them one too many temperate rainforests and they lose their minds! Maybe the temperate rainforest is simply the ultimate biome that any sufficiently advanced biosphere eventually evolves towards??!
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I still maintain that Sarek is a sex weird and probable child molester because he dates and marries human women who are just barely in their 30s.
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counterfeitsaint posted:I still maintain that Sarek is a sex weird and probable child molester because he dates and marries human women who are just barely in their 30s. Sex weirds?!? In MY Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek?!
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Every trek species has weird dongs right? Ferengi with the barbs, klingon with the ridges, vulcans get what? What's the most logical penis possible.
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Star Trek: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
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Automatic Slim posted:Writers wanted to explore a character that had a shorter life span in contrast to the crew. The reverse of what's usually done in science fiction with "short lived" human lives. The whole Kes age inappropriateness thing is over rated. Yeah, they wanted to make a character grow up and grow old within the run of the series. It just didn't work out, instead of getting visibly older, her hair just got longer. Imagine if she'd gone from this to that during the show:  Hmm, still not very old looking, anything more recent than 2010?  No, that's not quite right.  What?  http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/15/entertainment/star-trek-arrest-jennifer-lien-feat/index.html quote:(CNN)An actress best known for "Star Trek: Voyager" was arrested on September 3. 
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Please post more 1990's Canadian MacGuyver ripoffs.
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Animal-Mother posted:Please post more 1990's Canadian MacGuyver ripoffs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdfNRlZnij0 We have an unlimited supply of these. Careful what you ask for.
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Baronjutter posted:SG1 and Atlantis are just some great fun TV. Just the right balance of serialization, comedy, and science fiction. There was one year of college where my laundromat somehow always had sg1 playing, in the late 2000's. you never had to worry about the plot because every episode was the same. Lots of pine trees and at some point McGyver yells LOOK OUT and everyone does a freeze frame jump before a commercial
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Call me old fashioned but to me Stargate will always be a feature film where Snake Plisskin's character arc is overcoming his suicidal depression over his son's tragic gun accident death by training and equipping a child army.
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Automatic Slim posted:Writers wanted to explore a character that had a shorter life span in contrast to the crew. The reverse of what's usually done in science fiction with "short lived" human lives. The whole Kes age inappropriateness thing is over rated. No, it really isn't. The show goes out of its to infer just how immature she is by her own species standards. Especially when she shows up in Fury at the ripe old age of six and looks sixty. Or that the normal age to have kids is about three or four. All you gotta do is divide by ten compared to a normal lifespan.
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mycomancy posted:You know what? I'm gonna make a bold claim here... Where does Seaquest DSV fit in?
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The General posted:Where does Seaquest DSV fit in? Off the edge of the thread and into FYAD.
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Alright guys I am going to start watching Discovery now, nipple clamps and all
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shovelbum posted:Alright guys I am going to start watching Discovery now, nipple clamps and all Why would you watch any show other than earlydays Babylon5?  Mismatched leathers? Oakleys? Curly antenna space walkie-talkies? Sci-fi perfection.
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shadow puppet of a posted:Why would you watch any show other than earlydays Babylon5? I'm sorry I watched that in one continuous malt liquor bender in college... To think of my beautiful liver inflamed
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Just starting Disco, this stuff about Klingons being rare and Vulcans hiding stuff from the Federation is all very Enterprise and doesn't make a ton of sense while Pike is out there lasering foam rocks.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:No, it really isn't. The show goes out of its to infer just how immature she is by her own species standards. Especially when she shows up in Fury at the ripe old age of six and looks sixty. Or that the normal age to have kids is about three or four. All you gotta do is divide by ten compared to a normal lifespan. Fury never made sense because they suggested in the beginning of season four she effectively had ascended to another plane of existence. Oh and whichever Trek, idiots love to watch on Netflix?  Also just finished TNG in it's entirely, even watched Geneis and Masks.
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:no they jumped to the mirror universe, from the prime universe. I'm still holding out hope that they jumped from a third, crappy, edgy universe into the mirror universe and will jump out into the "prime" universe where all the sets are in technicolor.
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Finally finished my rewatch of Farscape and it actually holds up a lot better than I remembered some of it. I could've sworn there were more trainwreck-terrible Talyn episodes in the third season aside from Meltdown, but the others are pretty watchable at the very least. The fourth season's pretty drat solid all the way through too, aside from John Quixote. Even a few of the deliberately-weird episodes can be great when there's an underlying point to them. Unrealized Reality leads into both the Earth and Katratzi story arcs with an instructive lesson on the dangers of multiverse travel, and even Won't Get Fooled Again in the second season has a coherent thread of logic to its madness to keep it entertaining. Along with introducing Harvey the Invisible  Scorpius is also one of my favourite villains just for being so drat pragmatic. Perfectly capable of honoring a bargain or arrangement as long as it suits his needs, but beyond that... he tidies up his loose ends quite efficiently. He doesn't get as much opportunity to be truly villainous in the last season, but his early appearances as a recurring threat as just delightfully menacing .
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Crowsbeak posted:Fury never made sense because they suggested in the beginning of season four she effectively had ascended to another plane of existence.
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numberoneposter posted:people watch the voyager ending episodes because no one, even a lot of trek fans, actually ever watched the show. so they all want to just see how it finally ends. You know that, I know that, we as a whole know that. But some C-tard executive will look at that list and, without a blink of an eye, decide that viewers really like the Borg and long-form stories. They will then make Star Trek: Borgs, which is just a pair of swearing cybernetic tits roaming the Zeta Quadrant.
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