Star Trek: *hits blunt* The higher, the fewerrrrrr

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The_Other: Dec 28, 2012; Welcome Back, Galaxy Geek.

Windows 98 posted:

Where does Naomi on Voyager go to school. Who is teaching her brain while her mom works all day? It can�t possibly be Neelix, since he is a retard.

In the episode Once Upon a Time there is a scene were the Doctor is teaching her about plant cells.

# ? Aug 29, 2018 19:48

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# ? May 15, 2024 10:04

mllaneza: Apr 28, 2007; Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

In my opinion if you're going to do an animated space opera just go hire the studio that did Space Battleship Yamato 2199, that was such a gorgeously rendered series.

The second series, 2202, is somehow prettier. I hope this studio never runs out of work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSrYskeie-s

# ? Aug 29, 2018 20:12

Delsaber: Oct 1, 2013; This may or may not be correct.

Any new Star Trek animated series that's going for an old-school anime feel absolutely needs to get the music right, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GsQSJzmd1A

# ? Aug 29, 2018 22:21

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

Delsaber posted:

Any new Star Trek animated series that's going for an old-school anime feel absolutely needs to get the music right, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GsQSJzmd1A

Get this: an enka version of Gene�s vocal TOS theme version

# ? Aug 29, 2018 22:33

corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

The anime star trek was called Cowboy Bebop

# ? Aug 30, 2018 00:17

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

corn in the bible posted:

The anime star trek was called Cowboy Bebop

I regret to inform you Cowboy Bebop is anime Firefly

# ? Aug 30, 2018 00:20

Phylodox: Mar 30, 2006; College Slice

A.I. Borgland Corp posted:

I regret to inform you Cowboy Bebop is anime Firefly

Wouldn�t Firefly be the live action Cowboy Bebop?

# ? Aug 30, 2018 00:28

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

Yes

# ? Aug 30, 2018 00:31

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.

Phylodox posted:

Wouldn’t Firefly be the live action Cowboy Bebop?

Time is a wheel.

# ? Aug 30, 2018 01:06

IShallRiseAgain: Sep 12, 2008; Well ain't that precious?

Firefly is the terrible live action adaptation of an anime that Cowboy Bebop got.

# ? Aug 30, 2018 01:12

Low Desert Punk: Jul 4, 2012; i have absolutely no fucking money

anime is bad

# ? Aug 30, 2018 01:22

egon_beeblebrox: Mar 1, 2008; WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

anime is blood

# ? Aug 30, 2018 02:14

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egon_beeblebrox posted:

anime is blood

Hmmmm... Yes, anime is blood...

# ? Aug 30, 2018 02:41

mllaneza: Apr 28, 2007; Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952

Delsaber posted:

Any new Star Trek ~~animated~~ series ~~that's going for an old-school anime feel~~ absolutely needs to get the music right, too.

That, and I feel compelled to point out that they're doing the Yamato stuff this very year,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4O5jb2yZ4U

That's a solid soundtrack

# ? Aug 30, 2018 03:17

Sir Lemming: Jan 27, 2009; It's a piece of JUNK!

I just watched TNG's "The Icarus Factor" what a snooze-fest. They should've known not to title an episode "The _____ Factor" again, it never seems to bode well. I'm not even sure what the title means anyway, it's the one with Riker's dad. The only bright spot was the ending, for both good and bad reasons. Worf's pain-mitzvah party was pretty sweet. The Rikers suddenly going "LET'S SETTLE THIS WITH THE ULTIMATE EVOLUTION OF MARTIAL ARTS" and then playing American Gladiators for 2 minutes was the best kind of unintentionally hilarious.

# ? Aug 30, 2018 13:23

BrandonGK: May 6, 2005; Throw it out the airlock.

Sir Lemming posted:

I just watched TNG's "The Icarus Factor" what a snooze-fest. They should've known not to title an episode "The _____ Factor" again, it never seems to bode well. I'm not even sure what the title means anyway, it's the one with Riker's dad. The only bright spot was the ending, for both good and bad reasons. Worf's pain-mitzvah party was pretty sweet. The Rikers suddenly going "LET'S SETTLE THIS WITH THE ULTIMATE EVOLUTION OF MARTIAL ARTS" and then playing American Gladiators for 2 minutes was the best kind of unintentionally hilarious.

I'm glad Riker was able to come to terms with his dad running heroin out of Southeast Asia with Shadow Company.

# ? Aug 30, 2018 13:41

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Sir Lemming posted:

I just watched TNG's "The Icarus Factor" what a snooze-fest. They should've known not to title an episode "The _____ Factor" again, it never seems to bode well. I'm not even sure what the title means anyway, it's the one with Riker's dad. The only bright spot was the ending, for both good and bad reasons. Worf's pain-mitzvah party was pretty sweet. The Rikers suddenly going "LET'S SETTLE THIS WITH THE ULTIMATE EVOLUTION OF MARTIAL ARTS" and then playing American Gladiators for 2 minutes was the best kind of unintentionally hilarious.

I don't really understand the title either. I would expect the "Icarus Factor" would involve an A story where someone "flies too close to the sun" in some manner, leading to their downfall or at least a good solid knock on the rear end. I see nothing of the sort. What's Riker's hubris? Worf's?

# ? Aug 30, 2018 17:39

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

Low Desert Punk posted:

anime is bad

# ? Aug 30, 2018 17:47

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

Part of it is due to Roddenberry fuckery, apparently:

Memory Alpha posted:

Director Robert Iscove accepted this assignment as he was a fan of the original series. He remarked, "It was an emotional piece, a character piece between two people. The father has deserted Riker for 25 years, then he comes back and they have this confrontation. Well, according to Roddenberry, by the 24th century we've all kind of resolved those feelings of anger. So it's very hard to play. If you're not going to serve the resentment and the anger, what happens once the two of them get together, you can't get into any real Human drama... The original series was much more humanistic in its approach."

While Rick Berman and others supported Iscove's attempts to add more emotion, they were all overruled by Roddenberry. Iscove's dissatisfaction with Roddenberry's handling of this episode led him to turn down offers to direct further Star Trek installments. He commented, "If you can't deal with the emotion, what's the point?"

As for the title, maybe someone only remembered the "son not doing what his father said" part of the myth?

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:00

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

Feelings are banned.

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:02

HD DAD: Jan 13, 2010; Generic white guy.; Toilet Rascal

Brawnfire posted:

I don't really understand the title either. I would expect the "Icarus Factor" would involve an A story where someone "flies too close to the sun" in some manner, leading to their downfall or at least a good solid knock on the rear end. I see nothing of the sort. What's Riker's hubris? Worf's?

Star Trek episode titles (minus TOS and a lot of DS9) are just really uninspired sometimes and downright nonsensical in others. Like, The Cost of Living - sounds like an intense episode, right? Nope, Lwaxana mud bath.

The worst offenders are episodes where the title is literally just the name of the Alien Guest Star of the Week.

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:06

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

Nothing like Falling Towards Apotheosis

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:07

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

HD DAD posted:

Star Trek episode titles (minus TOS and a lot of DS9) are just really uninspired sometimes and downright nonsensical in others. Like, The Cost of Living - sounds like an intense episode, right? Nope, Lwaxana mud bath.

The worst offenders are episodes where the title is literally just the name of the Alien Guest Star of the Week.

Excuse me, do you have something to say about �The Outrageous Okona�?

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:08

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

One of the first Trek things I remember being exposed to online is a series of joke scripts answering the question �how would each series of Trek change a lightbulb�. The scripts were probably not that funny, but they absolutely nailed the naming conventions. TOS was �And Who Shall Bring Us Light?�, TNG was �The Change� or something similarly bland...probably all lost to the bowels of the web now.

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:12

Sir Lemming: Jan 27, 2009; It's a piece of JUNK!

See also "The Dauphin"

That was another mediocre episode with a good Worf moment near the end. Everyone's like omg this person is actually a changeling who can morph into a beast that can kill Worf, and Worf is just like lol that owns

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:16

Drink-Mix Man: Mar 4, 2003; You are an odd fellow, but I must say... you throw a swell shindig.

HD DAD posted:

Star Trek episode titles (minus TOS and a lot of DS9) are just really uninspired sometimes and downright nonsensical in others. Like, The Cost of Living - sounds like an intense episode, right? Nope, Lwaxana mud bath.

The worst offenders are episodes where the title is literally just the name of the Alien Guest Star of the Week.

I'd say the worst offenders are all the single words they used toward the end of Voyager a and Enterprise.

I'll take alien episode names over stuff like "Relativity" or "Gravity" because I at least can remember what they are about from the title

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:17

Sir Lemming: Jan 27, 2009; It's a piece of JUNK!

skasion posted:

One of the first Trek things I remember being exposed to online is a series of joke scripts answering the question “how would each series of Trek change a lightbulb”. The scripts were probably not that funny, but they absolutely nailed the naming conventions. TOS was “And Who Shall Bring Us Light?”, TNG was “The Change” or something similarly bland...probably all lost to the bowels of the web now.

http://www.st-minutiae.com/humor/light1.html

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:18

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

^^^ hey, there we go! What a blast. And it�s by the evil overlord list guy! Very Web 1.0.

Dauphin isn�t her name, it�s a slightly jokey reference to her position. I like the episode ok. It�s corny and still in the period where the series was finding its feet, but at least the joke is on Wesley for once.

skasion fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Aug 30, 2018

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:19

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

DS9 would be "Luminescence: Part 1"

Voyager would be "Decade of Darkness"

Enterprise would be "Electrician"

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:19

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

ENT's episode titles sucked rear end. Welp the engines broke! Episode title: "Impulse"

like, gently caress

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:23

HD DAD: Jan 13, 2010; Generic white guy.; Toilet Rascal

Just replace all of Voyager and Enterprise�s episode titles with Friends-styled ones.

The One Where Harry Kim Actually Dies But It�s Inconsequential

The One Where Trip Gets Raped But It�s Funny For Some Reason

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:34

Drone: Aug 22, 2003; Incredible machine

The One With Jeffrey Combs

The Other One With Jeffrey Combs

Would make compiling lists of worthwhile Enterprise episodes muuuch easier.

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:37

Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

Ah yes, my favorite DS9 episode, The One Where It's A Faaaaaaaake

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:51

Drone: Aug 22, 2003; Incredible machine

Give episode names based on background minutiae, throwaway lines, or inconsequential scenes.

"The Lucky Loonie"
"Captain Boday"
"Luau in the Wardroom"

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:55

Brawnfire: Jul 13, 2004; 🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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"Cellular Peptide Cake with Mint Frosting"

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:57

corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

Michael Burnham is haunted by her failure to change a lightbulb which killed five million people, and must conquer her fears to convince Starfleet to change a different lightbulb in the present

# ? Aug 30, 2018 18:58