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Ghost Leviathan posted:are andorians the ones who have four sexes Yeah though I don't think it's ever mentioned in any of the series or movies, the closest thing was something about them having fourways or being poly or whatever.
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It's all based on a throwaway line (from Data, I think) about how Andorians have four genders. Or an Andorian marriage is between four people. Something like that.
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May 12, 2018 16:10
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either way, andorians are scum!
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May 12, 2018 16:24
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Shran was pretty cool though.
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May 12, 2018 16:43
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yet no one even mentions the possibility of beaming out a version of Tasha from 10 minutes before she got eaten by an oil slick. Then everybody pretends to be sad at her funeral. There is a black market in "Tashas" that get beamed directly to you quarters (in return for your holodeck hours)
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May 12, 2018 17:05
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naem posted:There is a black market in "Tashas" that get beamed directly to you quarters (in return for your holodeck hours) is there a version for her sister?
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May 12, 2018 17:07
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I maintain that the transporters don't kill you by design, they move you through ~~~SUBSPACE~~~, and you only get weird stuff like Thomas Riker when strange planets bounce your signal and create a clone of your pattern, or whatever. The rare edge cases where the transporter is used to change someone somehow (Pulaski in the case of the super-olds, Picard as mentioned above) is more like using the transporter to perform some weird surgery/genetic alteration, since while they only have the one pattern/person they can de/rematerialize somewhere, they do have a perfect record of that person's current state of being/health, and can modify elements to alter someone, rather than the equivalent of just wiping the current version and re-creating from the ground up with an old one. Future Federation Humans are crazy borderline transhumanists, but pretty much every species uses transporters, and they can't ALL be crazy 'psh dying for travel convenience is totally fine' weirdos.
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May 12, 2018 18:32
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willful denial is the most powerful force in the universe
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May 12, 2018 19:29
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Hector Beerlioz posted:either way, andorians are scum! Now look if you wanna believe that Voyager is somehow good, fine. Everyone's entitled to their terrible opinions and I can ignore that (look where I am after all!) But choose your next words carefully, Janeway-loving petaQ!
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May 12, 2018 22:36
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Wow, Ambassador Troi sexually harassing Odo is a lot less funny than it used to be. Being woke sucks.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Wow, Ambassador Troi sucks. ftfy
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EimiYoshikawa posted:I maintain that the transporters don't kill you by design, they move you through ~~~SUBSPACE~~~, and you only get weird stuff like Thomas Riker when strange planets bounce your signal and create a clone of your pattern, or whatever. The rare edge cases where the transporter is used to change someone somehow (Pulaski in the case of the super-olds, Picard as mentioned above) is more like using the transporter to perform some weird surgery/genetic alteration, since while they only have the one pattern/person they can de/rematerialize somewhere, they do have a perfect record of that person's current state of being/health, and can modify elements to alter someone, rather than the equivalent of just wiping the current version and re-creating from the ground up with an old one. It's honestly way, way, way easier (and entirely consistent with a multitude of episodes) to just assume that souls are real in Star Trek, and that the transporter beam can move souls. As for the Thomas Riker issue, TOS Mirror, Mirror presents another very easy answer: Thomas Riker is a Riker from a slightly parallel dimension where the log shows that he mysteriously and tragically disappeared during beamup from that planet.
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Now, there is still a certain horror element of "what if you step into this drat atom-scattering box and get sent to a hellish alternate dimension", but this only shows that there ought to be a regulation against beaming through ~spatial anomalies~ or "kelbonite deposits" or medium-sized electrical substations.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Now, there is still a certain horror element of "what if you step into this drat atom-scattering box and get sent to a hellish alternate dimension", but this only shows that there ought to be a regulation against beaming through ~spatial anomalies~ or "kelbonite deposits" or medium-sized electrical substations. The federation is an OSHA nightmare.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:It's honestly way, way, way easier (and entirely consistent with a multitude of episodes) to just assume that souls are real in Star Trek, and that the transporter beam can move souls. I guess that is, effectively, what "transporters are moving your ~~pattern~~ from one place to another, not just killing you and making a copy" represents, yeah. That it's still "you" that re-materializes, not just a different iteration of you. I mean, so long as that were the case, I'd be as fine with it as everyone on Trek is, but how can you ever REALLY know blah blah blah...
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Facebook Aunt posted:Wow, Ambassador Troi sexually harassing Odo is a lot less funny than it used to be. Being woke sucks. It's a good habit to not "be woke" when watching decades-old TV shows. Just suspend your urges for an hour and enjoy Troi being Troi 
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May 14, 2018 20:12
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They've shown that there is continuity of consciousness within the transporter beam so no it's not murdering people every time they go somewhere e: Khan literally behaves like a PUA in Space Seed and I can't un-notice it
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Now, there is still a certain horror element of "what if you step into this drat atom-scattering box and get sent to a hellish alternate dimension", but this only shows that there ought to be a regulation against beaming through ~spatial anomalies~ or "kelbonite deposits" or medium-sized electrical substations. What if you end up in a slightly different dimension every single time you get transporter-ed Like there are an infinite number of dimensions right? So chicken tastes just slightly weird and, wait bernstain bears? That doesn't sound right, wait why is everyone left handed now
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May 14, 2018 20:27
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If the latest Cloverfield taught me anything it's that there is a dimension in which your disembodied parts retain sentience so that's pretty cool
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naem posted:What if you end up in a slightly different dimension every single time you get transporter-ed That just means Moriarty still has you in the holodeck. I've been in there for years man.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Wow, Ambassador Troi sexually harassing Odo is a lot less funny than it used to be. Being woke sucks. He's a pussy for not goo-ing the poo poo out of her.
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May 14, 2018 22:16
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Kitchner posted:He's a pussy for not goo-ing the poo poo out of her pussy.
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May 14, 2018 22:43
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Speaking of transporter issues, it's always got me how Picard walks int the transporter room and says "beam the diplomatic party aboard" and then... they just do. Like the diplomats or whoever have been standing around on their transporter pad staring blankly ahead for three minutes or whatever Nobody ever uses their own transporter to board the Enterprise either, they gotta stand staring at a wall until Picard shows up, then brings them across with no warning
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simplefish posted:Speaking of transporter issues, it's always got me how Picard walks int the transporter room and says "beam the diplomatic party aboard" and then... they just do. Eh, that's one of those things that can be handwaved as chain of custody or regulations. Gotta have a command officer and security to receive diplomats to ensure they're safe or never left unattended.
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If those diplomats had their own shows you'd find yourself asking how the captains always beam them at the most opportune of times.
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May 15, 2018 03:27
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Every star trek diplomat is such an rear end I image captains take glee in annoying them
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Every star trek diplomat is such an rear end I image captains take glee in annoying them All ambassadors and star fleet members are the assholes that everyone else tricked into risking being killed by sentient goo for no pay with color coded jumpsuits and command structures.
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I want to die like that dude did in the first movie just like haha you didn't expect that and maybe someone will say "drat it!" and slam their fist down. A few seconds later once everyone has moved on to more exciting space stuff and they teleported my body to the ships sewage tank (no way would I rate getting launched out into the void in a torpedo case) my ghost would smile and a single tear would roll down my face because it was the most anyone ever cared about me. Then i suppose I'd go haunt a holodeck or something they should have an episode about that in a week or two
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mods change my name posted:I want to die like that dude did in the first movie just like haha you didn't expect that and maybe someone will say "drat it!" and slam their fist down. A few seconds later once everyone has moved on to more exciting space stuff and they teleported my body to the ships sewage tank (no way would I rate getting launched out into the void in a torpedo case) my ghost would smile and a single tear would roll down my face because it was the most anyone ever cared about me. Sir, have you ever really considered the many advantages of inhabiting a candle?
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Johnny Aztec posted:Sir, have you ever really considered the many advantages of inhabiting a candle? You glorious bastard this is a brilliant idea
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central dogma posted:It's a good habit to not "be woke" when watching decades-old TV shows. Just suspend your urges for ... Troi never
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Johnny Aztec posted:Sir, have you ever really considered the many advantages of inhabiting a candle? I think you have to wait another 200 years or something before someone will come along and gently caress you though.
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Kitchner posted:I think you have to wait another 200 years or something before someone will come along and gently caress you though. poo poo, not again!
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mods change my name posted:I want to die like that dude did in the first movie just like haha you didn't expect that and maybe someone will say "drat it!" and slam their fist down. A few seconds later once everyone has moved on to more exciting space stuff and they teleported my body to the ships sewage tank (no way would I rate getting launched out into the void in a torpedo case) my ghost would smile and a single tear would roll down my face because it was the most anyone ever cared about me. Only if you get to let out an ear-piercing screech when you get recominated into a corn cob Man that noise from TMP traumatized an 8 year old nerd.
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MA-Horus posted:Man that noise from TMP traumatized an 8 year old nerd. It truly is blood-curdling. Wasn't TMP G-rated...?
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I just re-watched The Offspring last night and recognized Data's answer to his daughter's existential questions about purpose as a slight paraphrasing of Camus. I knew there was a reason he was my robo-pal.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:It truly is blood-curdling. Wasn't TMP G-rated...? Google says PG. And that was before they invented PG13.
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That 20 minute long warp scene is intense. I do like v'ger, I like crazy poo poo like that over Khan tbh.
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numberoneposter posted:TMP rules. Shanghaied disco medallion hobo Travolta chic McCoy rules. 
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