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After The War: Apr 12, 2005; to all of my Architects
let me be traitor

Pick posted:

My favorite Odo moment is when he's going to kill Sebastian for Ariel's wedding.

Was that before or after he got Skeleton Drunk on invisible magic wine?

# ? Aug 27, 2018 05:24

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# ? May 31, 2024 15:14

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

After The War posted:

Was that before or after he got Skeleton Drunk on invisible magic wine?

# ? Aug 27, 2018 05:25

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

turn left hillary!! noo posted:

I liked Urban's McCoy a lot. I was semi disappointed to hear about Pine and Hemsworth, but if 4 is going to be by the original scriptwriters for Beyond then I'm just ambivalent either way. Kind of surprised about the Tarantino thing, I'd assumed the same as you, that it'd be a separate project.

Nobody knows much of anything about what the Tarantino project is. I tend to think it's separate from JJ Trek 4, based on the various articles I've read.

I wouldn't worry about the Pine/Hemsworth thing yet, but Paramount is having a lot of issues right now so I'm not sure if they are willing to pony up for the whole cast at this point. It's not like this movie even has a release date, so who really can say when this gets made. I do think it will be hard if it drags on too long, considering Pine and Hemsworth are all very busy.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 05:42

Epicurius: Apr 10, 2010; College Slice

So, CBS is being sued about Discovery:

http://trekzone.org/1701/201808232505

Apparently, this Kuwaiti game designer has been making a science fiction game since 2014, where the main character is this botanist who works out a system for intergalactic travel using giant tardigrades. I don't know that the lawsuit will get anywhere, but still.

Here's the game designer's blog, pointing out similarities between his trailer/game, and Discovery's plot.

http://anas-tronaut.blogspot.com/2017/10/star-trek-discovery-tardigrades.html

# ? Aug 27, 2018 05:53

Roadie: Jun 30, 2013

Epicurius posted:

So, CBS is being sued about Discovery:

http://trekzone.org/1701/201808232505

Apparently, this Kuwaiti game designer has been making a science fiction game since 2014, where the main character is this botanist who works out a system for intergalactic travel using giant tardigrades. I don't know that the lawsuit will get anywhere, but still.

Here's the game designer's blog, pointing out similarities between his trailer/game, and Discovery's plot.

https://anas-tronaut.blogspot.com/2017/10/star-trek-discovery-tardigrades.html

And I'm sure the use of space tardigrades definitely doesn't have a common inspiration in the repeated scientific studies on actual tardigrades in space every year since 2011, several of which centered on the idea of putting tardigrades on tiny space probes to send to other solar systems.

Edit: One of his examples of "plagiarism" is the blue static effect that Star Trek has been reusing for force fields since TNG.

Roadie fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Aug 27, 2018

# ? Aug 27, 2018 09:01

Drone: Aug 22, 2003; Incredible machine

Roadie posted:

Edit: One of his examples of "plagiarism" is the blue static effect that Star Trek has been reusing for force fields since TNG.

Also "has a black female character" and "has some gay characters".

# ? Aug 27, 2018 09:34

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

They also seem to be ignoring that the tardigrade isn't how discovery's drive works, they're just other travellers on the spores.

My favorite bit is 'my gay guys are in a long distance relationship and one of discovery's gay guys has a friend on another ship'

Oh and 'one of discovery's gay couple is blond and one of my gay guys spends a bunch of time hanging out with a blond guy'

MikeJF fucked around with this message at 12:21 on Aug 27, 2018

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:15

Astroman: Apr 8, 2001

Here's the biggest question: are there tardigarde nipple clamps in the game?

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:48

Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

I have to say greatest generation has grown on me as Adam and Ben advance in their film careers. They finally have interesting things to say about the episode, and since it's about production and direction it's a new angle on Trek for me. The latest podcasts are okay for a Monday drive to work.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:55

After The War: Apr 12, 2005; to all of my Architects
let me be traitor

Pick posted:

You are the sunshine of my life.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:58

John Wick of Dogs: Mar 4, 2017; A real hellraiser

Arglebargle III posted:

I have to say greatest generation has grown on me as Adam and Ben advance in their film careers. They finally have interesting things to say about the episode, and since it's about production and direction it's a new angle on Trek for me. The latest podcasts are okay for a Monday drive to work.

Their complaints are often pedantic but it just so happens The Search part 1 had basically nothing to complain about.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:59

Windows 98: Nov 13, 2005; Can't post for 11 hours!

It�s weird to me that I�ve never seen any nerd rage posted over Naomi from Voyager, while Wesley Crusher gets constantly dunked on. They are effectively the same obnoxious child who�s just in the way more than anything l.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 13:29

Angry Salami: Jul 27, 2013; Don't trust the skull.

Same reason people don't hate Jake or Alexander the same way they hate Wesley; they're written as actual kids doing kid things and giving an alternate perspective on the show, not as a perfect wunderkind who takes over scenes that they have no reason to be in.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 13:36

skasion: Feb 13, 2012; Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

Naomi�s episodes are spread out across the whole second half of the show while Wesley�s are frontloaded, and there�s so many other things to bitch about with Voyager by that point that I doubt Naomi even registers with most people. TNG turns out good enough that that dope in his rainbow sweatshirt is one of the worst things people can remember about it.

Also Wesley is just way more annoying, come on.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 13:38

John Wick of Dogs: Mar 4, 2017; A real hellraiser

Naomi Wildman?

More like Naomi Docilewoman

# ? Aug 27, 2018 13:48

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Naomi was fine
Jake was fine
Nog was good (adult actor obviously, so that's different)

Wesley was an annoying twit.

The borg kids were the second most annoying.

Molly was terrible but maybe Miles and Keiko just had a poo poo kid

# ? Aug 27, 2018 14:23

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

I totally forgot Naomi existed, which I think works to the character's benefit.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 14:28

John Wick of Dogs: Mar 4, 2017; A real hellraiser

The Bloop posted:

Naomi was fine
Jake was fine
Nog was good (adult actor obviously, so that's different)

Wesley was an annoying twit.

The borg kids were the second most annoying.

Molly was terrible but maybe Miles and Keiko just had a poo poo kid

Molly was like three years old, and by season seven of DS9, was still somehow three years old and largely nonverbal.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 14:34

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

lmao IMDB lists Molly's actress on Renegades and she is still somehow Irish

Star Trek: Renegades (TV Series)
Ensign O'Riley

also lol at "TV Series"

# ? Aug 27, 2018 15:02

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

I wonder if Shatner has ever looked back with appreciation on the fact that 60 years later, teen girls would still be drawing Kirk as unrealistically hot

# ? Aug 27, 2018 16:08

John Wick of Dogs: Mar 4, 2017; A real hellraiser

60s Shatner is pretty unrealistically hot

# ? Aug 27, 2018 16:28

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

A.I. Borgland Corp posted:

60s Shatner is pretty unrealistically hot

Uh, no, he was handsome in a very normal way.

Now, Steve Reeves. That was unrealistically hot.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 16:50

Drone: Aug 22, 2003; Incredible machine

A.I. Borgland Corp posted:

60s Shatner is pretty unrealistically hot

That�s a funny way of spelling �60s Nimoy�

# ? Aug 27, 2018 16:51

John Wick of Dogs: Mar 4, 2017; A real hellraiser

Nimoy was always weird looking

# ? Aug 27, 2018 16:58

Kibayasu: Mar 28, 2010

A.I. Borgland Corp posted:

Nimoy was always weird looking

That�s what makes it unrealistic.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 17:05

Finster Dexter: Oct 20, 2014; Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

A.I. Borgland Corp posted:

Nimoy was always weird looking

In kind of a Benedict Cumberbatch sort of way.

This applies to Nimoy, imo:

# ? Aug 27, 2018 17:06

Drone: Aug 22, 2003; Incredible machine

Young Takei was quite the looker as well.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 17:36

Phylodox: Mar 30, 2006; College Slice

They were all fabulous and 60s Nichelle Nichols was impressively ripped. She looked like she could have deadlifted any one of her male co-stars.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 17:38

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

# ? Aug 27, 2018 18:40

skasion: Feb 13, 2012; Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

Really goes to show how poo poo those early TNG uniforms were

# ? Aug 27, 2018 18:42

Big Mean Jerk: Jan 27, 2009; Well, of course I know him.
He's me.

I know it would have clashed with his skin, but Data really should have worn a blue uniform. He was always doing science tasks anyway, and the TNG bridge was a really dichromatic place whenever Crusher wasn�t there.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 18:48

Dr. Fishopolis: Aug 31, 2004; ROBOT

Phylodox posted:

They were all fabulous and 60s Nichelle Nichols was impressively ripped. She looked like she could have deadlifted any one of her male co-stars.

as much as I try to forget that fan dance from star trek V, she was pretty ripped in the late 80s too.

# ? Aug 27, 2018 18:52

Tighclops: Jan 23, 2008; Unable to deal with it; Grimey Drawer

I can't hate the fan dance because of that one guy at the end who just goes "aww drat" when he realizes the trick

# ? Aug 27, 2018 19:00

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

A.I. Borgland Corp posted:

Nimoy was always weird looking

OK well all the women who are into Star Trek, such as myself, are super loving weird so maybe it's like the natural order of things to find Nimoy painfully attractive?? huh??? huh???!?

# ? Aug 27, 2018 19:03