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Brawnfire posted:That's what I imagine, but it's difficult to figure out how it would rotate. Maybe the pylon and the interior of the ring are gravitically coupled, and the gravitic plating has opposing charges that push the ring tangentially? Well, the bottom of the top ring seems to be held in place by a paperclip. So maybe they took out the paperclip?
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Brawnfire posted:That's what I imagine, but it's difficult to figure out how it would rotate. Maybe the pylon and the interior of the ring are gravitically coupled, and the gravitic plating has opposing charges that push the ring tangentially? Don't overthink it. No reason you can't just rotate the whole ship. (Maybe even just counter the head to be static) Some people have said though that maybe it's an early human attempt at a warp drives trying to copy Vulcan ships with their ring nacelles. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Aug 1, 2018 |
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Kirk's white collared shirt/gray slacks uniform in TMP looks good, but those onesies that most of the rest of the crew wears, complete with the late '70s earth tones, are among Star Trek's worst. I watched Wrath of Khan today and noticed that Carol Marcus was wearing one of those blocky belt buckle things on the surface of Regula I. I guess it was a fashion accessory in the 2270s-80s.
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MikeJF posted:Some people have said though that maybe it's an early human attempt at a warp drives trying to copy Vulcan ships with their ring nacelles. I think it's probably the other way around. The ring ship was one of Jeffries' designs for the original Enterprise in TOS, that Roddenberry decided not to go with, but they stuck it in the background in one of the movies. Then, when they were designing the Vulcan ships for Enterprise, somebody remembered the ring ship and used that aesthetic for the Vulcan designs.
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Nessus posted:It would make a certain amount of sense if those huge-rear end rings were like a primitive single warp nacelle. That's what the warp engines on the Vulcan ships in Enterprise tend to look like. It's nice a trick of retconning, I think. The first warp ship was the Phoenix, then this Enterprise-XCV is supposed to be among the first warp 2 designs. It'd make sense for humans to design their first set of warp nacelles after the Vulcans that they made first contact with.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I watched Wrath of Khan today and noticed that Carol Marcus was wearing one of those blocky belt buckle things on the surface of Regula I. I guess it was a fashion accessory in the 2270s-80s. Wrath of Khan was made on the tightest of budgets (since it was produced by the television division, and was headed for television until guys like Eisner and Katzenberg started seeing footage and realized they had a legitimate movie on their hands), and Bob Sallin basically told Robert Fletcher to take everything left over from The Motion Picture and re-use it if possible (hence Carol's belt buckle, or the cadet uniforms being the Motion Picture onesies with a new dye job).
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Aug 1, 2018 01:47
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I just watched the Next Generation episode "Haven" and holy poo poo, Deanna almost married this guy: Fuckin' T-Bag. Also, that box that shits jewels with a face that yells at you is the stuff of nightmares.
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MikeJF posted:Don't overthink it. No reason you can't just rotate the whole ship. (Maybe even just counter the head to be static) Oh that makes sense, for some reason it didn't read as the cylindrical part being centered on the rings, so I pictured it drawing a ludicrous circle in space. But it could spin around that as hub so that part and the rings have rotational gravity, and then the pylon connecting them will have unidirectional gravity so it would be an easy walk between the separate areas. Cool, actually.
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The colors and production design of TOS are so incredible. It's so distinctive and iconic, it's something that's completely missing from the rest of the franchise. I love DS9 but it's so visually unpleasant. Like someone just vomited across everything. Like the "adult video" sections of old Mom and Pop video stores
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Aug 1, 2018 06:20
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Yeah, it's as if that whole station was designed by fascists that like to keep things grim.
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Binary Badger posted:Has anyone bought one of these hoodies? Ah, we get the same Facebook ads. I found they do Voltron hoodies as well, and I quite like those. EDIT: lol https://kevf.com/collections/movie/products/the-orville-hoodies-the-orville-zip-up-hoodie 
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Aug 1, 2018 11:37
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Low Desert Punk posted:The colors and production design of TOS are so incredible. It's so distinctive and iconic, it's something that's completely missing from the rest of the franchise. I love DS9 but it's so visually unpleasant. Like someone just vomited across everything. Like the "adult video" sections of old Mom and Pop video stores Yeah it’s super good. TNG era stuff has its own visual appeal but they’ve never recaptured the look of TOS even in the remakes. Even the Black Mirror episode about TOS doesn’t quite grasp it.
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Phylodox posted:I just watched the Next Generation episode "Haven" and holy poo poo, Deanna almost married this guy: That's Armin Shimmerman
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T'bag was a model Vulcan citizen, except for one habit
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skasion posted:Yeah it’s super good. TNG era stuff has its own visual appeal but they’ve never recaptured the look of TOS even in the remakes. Even the Black Mirror episode about TOS doesn’t quite grasp it. The colors are just wierd and distinctive. You csn especislly see it if you tour the sets in person. Like "ok, here's s pink spotlight on a section of wall in a military spaceship. Now a purple one" You wouldn't think it would work but somehow it does .
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Astroman posted:The colors are just wierd and distinctive. You csn especislly see it if you tour the sets in person. Like "ok, here's s pink spotlight on a section of wall in a military spaceship. Now a purple one" Weren’t the directors basically given free reign (and encouraged) to light the sets as odd and colorful as they pleased, since they really wanted to hype the show up for color television?
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HD DAD posted:Weren’t the directors basically given free reign (and encouraged) to light the sets as odd and colorful as they pleased, since they really wanted to hype the show up for color television? Yes, it was basically the TV equivalent of colored lighting effects in N64 games.
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HD DAD posted:Weren’t the directors basically given free reign (and encouraged) to light the sets as odd and colorful as they pleased, since they really wanted to hype the show up for color television? It was more to do with coloured lighting gels being cheaper and quicker than actual repainting.
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The show's use of sharp lighting and big blocks of color is really noticeable coming from other series. It's minimalistic but also bold and visually arresting. Here's a neat article which touches on some of the things I like about it.
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Aug 1, 2018 12:53
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quote:The return to the Star Trek saga in the movies reminds us that, even if you think the enterprise is idiotic, Laddie.... don't ya think you should rephrase that?
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skasion posted:The show's use of sharp lighting and big blocks of color is really noticeable coming from other series. It's minimalistic but also bold and visually arresting. Here's a neat article which touches on some of the things I like about it. quote:“By treating the style of the original series as integral to the show — and not as a kind of regrettable defect — we can get a better grasp on the Star Trek phenomenon itself.” 
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https://twitter.com/trekcore/status/1024669331152461824
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Basically the same price as real jerseys, and they’re doing a hat? 
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I might wear this and I would definitely wear a Niners hat
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Astroman posted:The colors are just wierd and distinctive. You csn especislly see it if you tour the sets in person. Like "ok, here's s pink spotlight on a section of wall in a military spaceship. Now a purple one" The real genius comes through when your realize that the show was also designed to look good and distinctive in black&white, too, with the different uniform colors still being identifiable, and so on.
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Zesty posted:Yeah, it's as if that whole station was designed by fascists that like to keep things grim. But enough about Rick Berman.
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Mister Kingdom posted:
It works very well, thank you.
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I love how at the end of that episode they start trolling the heck outta the Vulcan guy for caring about winning so much.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:I love how at the end of that episode they start trolling the heck outta the Vulcan guy for caring about winning so much. The moral of that episode is "gently caress Vulcans and their stupid smug faces."
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Kibayasu posted:The moral of that episode is "gently caress Vulcans and their stupid smug faces." It’s the true epilogue to Enterprise’s ongoing “Vulcans are dicks” plot.
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That the Vulcan captain also repeatedly publishes academic papers about how he whooped Sisko's rear end is some good poo poo too
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Kibayasu posted:The moral of that episode is "gently caress Vulcans and their stupid smug faces." Honestly feels like a recurring undertone to DS9 overall.
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Blast Fantasto posted:That the Vulcan captain also repeatedly publishes academic papers about how he whooped Sisko's rear end is some good poo poo too My big question is, what does his crew think about all this?
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Epicurius posted:My big question is, what does his crew think about all this? Vulcans are all alike.
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Kibayasu posted:Vulcans are all alike. Interesting, although not supported by the Star Trek shows, I don't think.
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Blast Fantasto posted:That the Vulcan captain also repeatedly publishes academic papers about how whooped Sisko's rear end is is some good poo poo too How I read this the first time.
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Thanks, Pick!
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skasion posted:The show's use of sharp lighting and big blocks of color is really noticeable coming from other series. It's minimalistic but also bold and visually arresting. Here's a neat article which touches on some of the things I like about it. It's one of the things I liked about JJTrek. Stuff like brewery engineering was poo poo, but the bridge was an amazing updating that really feels like what they might have made if they had a 21st century budget.
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I disagree. The costumes are ok but there’s absolutely nothing about the JJTrek interiors that reminds me of TOS. Maybe the movies.
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I can't decide whether to put my kanar sticker on my car or my wet bar. Is it committed on the sticker side, so I could put it on the inside of a window?
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