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Timby posted:He's not wrong. I bet you remember what beat Nemesis at the box office. Maid in Manhattan haha. Bet Berman loved meeting the execs after that.
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Maid in Manhattan was pretty good, though.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Maid in Manhattan was pretty good, though. If you say so. We run a broad church here.
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Trickjaw posted:I bet you remember what beat Nemesis at the box office. Maid in Manhattan haha. Bet Berman loved meeting the execs after that. I remember Berman tried to spin it by saying that everyone was saving their money because The Two Towers was coming out soon.
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dont even fink about it posted:Reading the paper in the 24th century is probably a harrowing experience. Can't be much worse than reading the paper in 2018.
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I will defend Generations and First Contact as good movies, Insurrection never lives up to its parts, but Nemesis is a special kind of awful.
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Trickjaw posted:If you say so. We run a broad church here. Jennifer Lopez is a gift.
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How about that time Serenity was beaten on its opening weekend by some dull Jodie Foster plane thriller from the previous week. I mean, it's a better movie than Nemesis, but that was still pretty funny.
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Mar 29, 2018 03:26
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I’m digging this The Thing homage with the changeling
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Timby posted:I remember Berman tried to spin it by saying that everyone was saving their money because The Two Towers was coming out soon.
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womb with a view posted:Okay, I've finally reached a point where I have space for a proper 90s science fiction television show in my life. I'm going to start watching DS9. Please give me tips on how to maximise my enjoyment of this. Tip 1: watch DS9. Tip 2: then watch Babylon 5. Tip 3: then watch Farscape. It still counts because it premiered in 1999!
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Alert: Cisco has shaved his head and lost 50% of his power. A bold move.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:
Just do this and skip Babylon 5.
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Not sure about this DS9 S4 intro song change. It sounds a bit weird.
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Mooseontheloose posted:skip Babylon 5. immediately go to a dungeon
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Mooseontheloose posted:Just do this and skip Babylon 5. look, I love DS9, but skip that too, i didn't realize Farscape was an option.
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Mar 29, 2018 03:58
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No, all 3 are good, so do not skip any of them.
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Farscape in one hand, Lexx in the other. Put your hands together.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:No, all 3 are good, so do not skip any of them. Watch Every loving THING or your opinions mean NOTHING
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Windows 98 posted:Alert: Cisco has shaved his head and lost 50% of his power. A bold move. No, no, the hair on his head was containing him. Now everything is free to flow.
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Tighclops posted:Watch I don't want to sound like a  but this. Everyone with their "what are the good episodes/must watch" lists don't understand that you can't really appreciate, say, In the Pale Moonlight without having watched not only all of the DS9 episodes leading up to it but all of the TNG episodes as well.Watch all the Star Trek. Even the bad episodes. Especially the bad episodes. Then watch Farscape because there are no bad episodes of Farscape, just ones that are too weird for the particular viewer.
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Proof that Stockholm syndrome is real. In the Pale Moonlight isn't any worse because you skipped Meridian
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You can pick and choose what you watch but when you're done you're left with a mass of lovely episodes/movies, festering in their own ineptitude and squandered potential A skin of lameness, left behind by a series of better episodes ready to bitchslap you across the soundstage to your doom at 3AM when you're jonsing for a fix and all you've got left are Sex Candle Ghost and the one with the Rock
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8one6 posted:I don't want to sound like a
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Tighclops posted:You can pick and choose what you watch but when you're done you're left with a mass of lovely episodes/movies, festering in their own ineptitude and squandered potential Are we talking about Lexx now?
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8one6 posted:Then watch Farscape because there are no bad episodes of Farscape, just ones that are too weird for the particular viewer. Ok, man, I love Farscape, but there are definitely bad episodes. Some of them, especially in Season 1, are just boring.
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First Contact is widely considered to be the good TNG movie... but it would be SO much better without the Borg Queen. Those scenes are a loving train wreck. In my ideal timeline, Generations never existed and they blew up the Enterprise-D in First Contact after all the same plot points of "THIS FAR NO FURTHER" "Picard, blow up the drat ship!"
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Zesty posted:First Contact is widely considered to be the good TNG movie... but it would be SO much better without the Borg Queen. Those scenes are a loving train wreck. First Contact mainly accomplishes being the least bad
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dont even fink about it posted:First Contact mainly accomplishes being the least bad That's a funny way to spell Generations
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First Contact isn't the best Trek movie, but it is the most entertaining, which automatically puts it firmly within in the top half of them. I will take this to my grave.
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Zesty posted:First Contact is widely considered to be the good TNG movie... but it would be SO much better without the Borg Queen. Those scenes are a loving train wreck. The idea of the Enterprise getting thoroughly borged up, blown up by Picard's hand, and then them somehow getting sent back to their present with a lingering thread of like, a Borg beacon blinking in the wreckage putting Earth on their radar to some degree does appeal to me. Time warping with 21st century tech or without involving the Vulcans and polluting the timeline is a hell of a hurdle to get past though. I dunno, maybe Q does them a solid. It wouldn't be a bad way to end the movie series if they all ended up stranded in the past and just accepted it as a noble sacrifice and settled down to civilian life, maybe gave Zefram a few small tips. You get a bit of time paradox Data too since he'd be the only one to potentially still be alive beyond that point, and bonus points if the epilogue is him revealing himself to Starfleet right after the Enterprise goes to the past and tells the story of what happened, and for the first time ever Trek does time travel without popping right back to where they came from and without blatantly causing paradoxes and such. It's a shame that first contact is about as good as the next gen movies got, there was a mountain of potential there and it just never quite came together. I'm still glad we got them though, even the bad ones have some fun scenes or ideas to them.
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8one6 posted:Then watch Farscape because there are no bad episodes of Farscape, just ones that are too weird for the particular viewer. I'm finally watching Voyager at the moment (I saw early seasons at the time before university interrupted). Talking about Farscape highlights just how same-y VOY's alien can be; humans but for (cheap) face painting/prosthetics living in (cheap set) provincial outdoor-market towns. By comparison Farscape does such an amazing job of coming up with weird and wonderful aliens species, who have weird and wonderful cultures, living in the sort of busy trading places you'd actually expect t come across in spacefaring societies.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Until Voyager does it.. i did my time with voyager never again
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NowonSA posted:The idea of the Enterprise getting thoroughly borged up, blown up by Picard's hand, and then them somehow getting sent back to their present with a lingering thread of like, a Borg beacon blinking in the wreckage putting Earth on their radar to some degree does appeal to me. Time warping with 21st century tech or without involving the Vulcans and polluting the timeline is a hell of a hurdle to get past though. I dunno, maybe Q does them a solid. Pull a Futurama, have the crew seal themselves away in stasis somewhere they know they won't be disturbed and pop up after they leave the 24 century.
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Okay, trip report, here we go: S01E01/S01E02: Emissary Parts 1 and 2 quote:-Wow starting off with a bang Definitely preferred this to The Vulcan Hello.
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womb with a view posted:Okay, trip report, here we go: The Vulcan Hello sounds like a program that I can run at Quark's for 2 strips of latinum.
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8one6 posted:The Vulcan Hello sounds like a program that I can run at Quark's for 2 strips of latinum. So does "A Night in Sickbay" And 11001001 but for a different reason
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8one6 posted:The Vulcan Hello sounds like a program that I can run at Quark's for 2 strips of latinum. TNG- "This is the holodeck. All of your dreams made real! We put on realistic Shakespeare plays! And It let's us play characters in adaptations of 19th century literature! We use it to consult with great scientific and artistic minds throughout history to help educate and inspire us, to solve our problems and help improve ourselves as people." DS9: "Welcome to Quark's, home of the loosest Dabo tables in the sector. Ask about our loyalty specials. This week only, holosuite specials...rent a half hour, get the second half hour half price. What's a holosuite? Eh, mostly people use it to watch porn." I also like the advice Quark gives to Jake at one point, which is basically, look, I know you want to be a great novelist, but the real money is in erotic holonovels. Write some, I'll get you in touch with some distributors, and we can both make a fortune." Epicurius fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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The Ferengi simply understood what people would actually use a holo And also hanging out in rat pack casino lounge. Epicurius posted:... Quark wasn't wrong.
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dont even fink about it posted:First Contact mainly accomplishes being the least bad First Contact is, to me anyway, visually very pretty, has good action scenes, and balances the Enterprise stuff and the stuff on Earth fairly well. The opening scenes with the Borg taking over the ship are legitimately creepy. The Borg Queen wasn't executed very well but I kinda get why they added her to give the movie a proper villain. I think the first battle should of been longer to really sell the Borg threat but still that first battle is fun too. Welp, that's my First Contact defense.
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