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HIJK posted:I'm watching Babylon 5. It's weird but I like it. There's a giant rear end space cricket just hanging out in the smoke machine room what the eff. Many people in weird make up sitting around conference tables yelling at each other so it's peak Trek. At times it really does remind me of the TOS movie era, especially later on when they change up Medlab and show the bridges of some Earth ships.
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It took me so long watching B5 to realise that some of the paintings decorating their offices and stuff were meant to be scenery out the window.
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MikeJF posted:It took me so long watching B5 to realise that some of the paintings decorating their offices and stuff were meant to be scenery out the window. I prefer to view B5 like a taped stage play, on account of some budgetary limitations, but who cares, the writing is stellar.
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Pick posted:It is good in season 1, but it takes off in season 2. I'm a fan of Star Trek (obviously) but my great sci-fi love is Babylon 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpb1OXvNNMc I think its fine.
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Pick posted:I prefer to view B5 like a taped stage play, on account of some budgetary limitations, And also the mild overuse of the monologue.
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watching ENT: Fusion and holy gently caress this guy has the most punchable face in star trek history
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Low Desert Punk posted:watching ENT: Fusion and holy gently caress this guy has the most punchable face in star trek history ahem 
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Pakled posted:ahem
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MikeJF posted:And also the mild overuse of the monologue. <  > look we all love space stations, let's just be friends
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Pick posted:< 
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Pick posted:< That is choice
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Pick apparently the next episode of Greatest Gen has a guest and they talk about Babylon 5 a little? They teased it earlier this week. Mind if I tweet that at them when it airs? (credit: Pick of SA forums? Twitter handle?)
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:Pick apparently the next episode of Greatest Gen has a guest and they talk about Babylon 5 a little? They teased it earlier this week. Mind if I tweet that at them when it airs? (credit: Pick of SA forums? Twitter handle?) Sure but it's not done yet. I intend to finish it up and color it late today probably.
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Someone recently mentioned Sector General in the thread, and it just popped into my head, making me google it and wow, how on earth hasn't this been adapted to television already- especially during that flood of hospital tv dramas we had a while ago.
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Bohemian Nights posted:Someone recently mentioned Sector General in the thread, and it just popped into my head, making me google it it's too "intellectual", the only sex is Conway/Murcheson (and all the stuff the sentient crystalline methane creatures get up to), CGI/special effects will cost too much, and our heroes don't shoot bad guys with laser beams?
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Bohemian Nights posted:Someone recently mentioned Sector General in the thread, and it just popped into my head, making me google it
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The Dennis System posted:This has probably been discussed before, but I just saw an episode of Deep Space Nine where some sort of high level Bajoran guy was doing some important negotiating with a Cardassian, and he was in a accident that almost killed him. To keep the Bajoran alive and functional, Bashir has to replace part of his brain with some sort of artificial positronic implants. Bashir worries that a special "spark of life" will be lost when he puts these artificial brain areas in the Bajoran guy's brain and, sure enough, when the Bajoran is conscious again he says that everything feels different and off. Later on, the Bajoran has some sort of stroke and is near death. Kira wants Bashir to replace the guy's entire brain with a positronic brain, but Bashir says that if he did that the spark of life would be entirely gone from the guy and that they should just let him die. And, sure enough, they just let the guy die. Uhh...that's a pretty big gently caress you to Data, who apparently doesn't have this magical spark of life because his brain is a completely artifical positronic brain. Granted, Data didn't start off as an organic person and then get changed into an artificial person, he was artificial from the start, but still. It's also a pretty big rebuke to people who want to upload their consciousness to a computer or the cloud or whatever, since they wouldn't have this spark of life anymore either. I mean, replacing someone's brain with an artificial brain is problematic, but the whole story line had a little too much of a religious feel for a star trek ep. Of course on another occasion, Bashir is totally cool mindwiping Worf's brother and reprogramming him with memories of being an entirely different person, thereby killing the actual man who walked into his operating room.
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VitalSigns posted:Of course on another occasion, Bashir is totally cool mindwiping Worf's brother and reprogramming him with memories of being an entirely different person, thereby killing the actual man who walked into his operating room. Turns out there's a reason all those Khan style genetic upgrades are hated and feared, eh?
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jng2058 posted:Turns out there's a reason all those Khan style genetic upgrades are hated and feared, eh? Is it because they're wildly inconsistent and have bad character arcs
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Pick posted:Is it because they're wildly inconsistent and have bad character arcs It's because they'll break out into song at the drop of a hat. Ceti Alpha V was poo poo to live on, but they had some great singalongs in their cargo containers. 
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Astroman posted:It's because they'll break out into song at the drop of a hat. just think of what Hamilton would have been like if Khan had successfully taken over Earth
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Low Desert Punk posted:which star trek captains would eat rear end Kirk, Sisko, Janeway, Lorca
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Low Desert Punk posted:which star trek captains would eat rear end
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Low Desert Punk posted:which star trek captains would eat rear end AbsolUTELY Picard. My God, he'd write a sonnet about it. To what shall I compare this lovely rear end? No two moons are anywhere akin in loveliness and roundness or gas pass'd, as this I chance to place my tongue within
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Low Desert Punk posted:which star trek captains would eat rear end to quote a popular twenty-first century comedian "if you don't eat rear end, grow the gently caress up"
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Watched the one with the Albino. Even though you don't see him till the final act they do a great job of establishing how competent and dangerous he is in one small scene. When everyone starts breaking into his base he pretty much immediately knows what good evening are doing, where they will be, realizes immediately what they've done to their weapons. Here's pretty great
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I watched the TNG episode where the little girl has the imaginary friend. I love how they jump back and forth between people on the bridge being amazed by the stunning view of the nebula while they are rocked back and forth, to Ten Forward where people are just sitting around bored (and they avoid showing the windows)
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Brawnfire posted:AbsolUTELY Picard. My God, he'd write a sonnet about it.
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Brawnfire posted:AbsolUTELY Picard. My God, he'd write a sonnet about it. 
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Brawnfire posted:AbsolUTELY Picard. My God, he'd write a sonnet about it. Tell me more!
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CPColin posted:Tell me more! You'll have to call again!
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the ep of enterprise where they accidentally murder an entire planet-full of colonists owns I love how frequently this crew makes enormous, horrible mistakes that kill thousands
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Just wait til the episode in season four where Enterprise encounters space Nazis and winds up getting 6 million Jews killed. Archer spends a whole Captain's log dispassionately listing the items that cost him Jewish lives. Like he's proud of it.
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Bohemian Nights posted:Sector General No bad guys. All violence is misunderstandings, bad biology, or solved by doubling down on being super-duper nice. More Trek than Trek?
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"Life Support" (DS9 S0313) was underwhelming because Vedek Bareil hadn't even been mentioned since The Collaborator, which ended with Kira and Bareil embracing like they were now a couple, after having overcome a major test in their relationship. They spent all that time on that build-up, only to send off the relationship with an "I love you" while he's comatose and dying in the next episode. It seemed like Bareil having his brain fully replaced was something that Bashir and Bareil would have previously discussed like a "Do Not Resuscitate" order in our time, but that would have denied Bashir a moral dilemma for the third act. All the previous episodes were great, though.
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