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Funnily enough I'm watching DS9 for the first time and just watched Take Me Out last night. I do not give a single solitary poo poo about baseball, i know nothing about its rules or culture But that episode was a whole lot of fun
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Nov 2, 2018 10:28
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This is actually an instruction to the Magmarians not to overheat. I like the little warning signs in STO  They actually did a better job on exhaling vs inhaling than the real Star Trek.
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Nov 2, 2018 10:58
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No smoking? So vaping is A-OK!
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Nov 2, 2018 11:00
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On Vulcan humour, TAS 1x5 Kirk: Well, what do we do now? Spock: We could always throw Tribbles at them. Kirk: I thought Vulcans didn't have a sense of humour. Spock: We don't. Kirk: *eyebrow raise* Also, Kirk removing increasingly larger Tribbles from his chair. ed: giving up when the Tribble is bigger than he is Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Nov 2, 2018 |
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Nov 2, 2018 11:40
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One of the only episodes of SG-1 I ever saw was a clip show but it was done very well. Robert Picardo had just been sworn to in as president, in his first day in office, and then a military dude comes in and is like "Ok now we need to brief you about aliens. They exist, here's a summary of all our contact with them" followed by a summary of show events with clips. And Picardo reacting like "well holy poo poo". The other episode I saw was one where the muscle man with the gold forehead thing has to live in the suburbs for some reason and saved the neighborhood from petty crime while winning the hearts of neighborhood moms? Also very fun. John Wick of Dogs fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Nov 2, 2018 |
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Nov 2, 2018 14:13
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MikeJF posted:This is actually an instruction to the Magmarians not to overheat. ESD gets blown up twice in (in-setting) six months in STO, so that would explain why those signs are around.
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Nov 2, 2018 14:39
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Ghost Leviathan posted:On Vulcan humour, TAS 1x5 That episode is legit great. Like it's a for-real awesome episode.
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Nov 2, 2018 15:18
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I don't trust anyone who willingly skips Take Me Out to the Holosuite. I understand not enjoying baseball. Most baseball fans don't enjoy baseball for 50% of the season, but how could anyone not enjoy just watching the cast flail around trying to play an extinct sport? I just love how the actors are all playing their characters, and their characters are, in turn, acting out the roles of 'this is how we think baseball players act.' It's delicious.
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Nov 2, 2018 15:19
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Al Borland Corpse posted:One of the only episodes of SG-1 I ever saw was a clip show but it was done very well. Robert Picardo had just been sworn to in as president, in his first day in office, and then a military dude comes in and is like "Ok now we need to brief you about aliens. They exist, here's a summary of all our contact with them" followed by a summary of show events with clips. And Picardo reacting like "well holy poo poo". It was William DeVane playing the president, Picardo heads up the International Oversight Advisory.
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Nov 2, 2018 15:26
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Actually seems like a lot of TAS episodes end with sick burns from Spock.
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Nov 2, 2018 17:01
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Actually seems like a lot of TAS episodes end with sick burns from Spock. Spock is downright catty sometimes. Nimoy and Lenard understood that Vulcans control their emotions, they aren't organic robots.
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Nov 2, 2018 19:51
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Al Borland Corpse posted:One of the only episodes of SG-1 I ever saw was a clip show but it was done very well. Robert Picardo had just been sworn to in as president, in his first day in office, and then a military dude comes in and is like "Ok now we need to brief you about aliens. They exist, here's a summary of all our contact with them" followed by a summary of show events with clips. And Picardo reacting like "well holy poo poo". Honestly if you liked that stuff you'll probably dig the show. Yeah it was on for ages so eventually it got lame, but it was cool and good for many years! Tealc (gold forehead man) is fun, he's the token really strong Worf alien who gets beat up but he also has to learn to be human so he gets some cool episodes and scenes.
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Nov 2, 2018 20:12
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corn in the bible posted:Honestly if you liked that stuff you'll probably dig the show. Yeah it was on for ages so eventually it got lame, but it was cool and good for many years! Indeed.
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Nov 2, 2018 20:27
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The team behind Teal'c were keenly aware of Worf's failings as a character and this becomes obvious as his badass quotient increases exponentially through the series
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Nov 2, 2018 21:46
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He took like a basketball or a brick or something and casually chucked it like half a kilometer knocking out some would be purse thief, it ruled
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Nov 2, 2018 21:51
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Funnily enough I'm watching DS9 for the first time and just watched Take Me Out last night.
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Nov 2, 2018 21:54
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Al Borland Corpse posted:He took like a basketball or a brick or something and casually chucked it like half a kilometer knocking out some would be purse thief, it ruled And then he nails Lois Lane
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Nov 2, 2018 22:00
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LividLiquid posted:Most of the characters don't know poo poo about baseball either, which is fun. I love when they're going over the more esoteric rules and are just flummoxed as all hell. Reminds me of how I was trying to explain the rules of baseball to a friend this year when we went to a ballgame (they had very little familiarity with it) and I had to explain the dropped third strike rule, the rule about it not being a hit by pitch if you were swinging at it, and so on and so forth because almost every esoteric thing that could happen in a ballgame happened in that one game.
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Nov 2, 2018 22:24
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And then there was a balk and you went, "Don't worry, I don't know, either."
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Nov 2, 2018 23:17
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Fortunately the infield fly rule basically never comes up in practice because it's just saying "intentionally failing to catch a ball is the same as catching a ball" but in a really confusing way
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Nov 2, 2018 23:34
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CPColin posted:And then there was a balk and you went, "Don't worry, I don't know, either." I'm pretty sure a balk is just a rule for an umpire not liking a team that day.
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Nov 2, 2018 23:40
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Kibayasu posted:I'm pretty sure a balk is just a rule for an umpire not liking a team that day. 
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Nov 2, 2018 23:48
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Nov 3, 2018 00:33
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people who love star trek, make wonderful things. - cap-janeway
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Nov 3, 2018 00:46
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Pick posted:people who love star trek, make wonderful things. Mistakes into miracles
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Nov 3, 2018 00:51
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Star Trek spinoff about janeways salamander kids joining the academy
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Nov 3, 2018 01:18
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Along similar lines:
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Nov 3, 2018 04:15
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Awwww  so guys, what's the absolute worst book of all the Star Trek novels?
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Nov 3, 2018 05:17
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I haven't read enough to answer that but I've read enough to know that's one loving hell of a question. Are you sure you want to do this to yourself Pick? Are you okay?
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Nov 3, 2018 05:21
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Pick posted:Awwww So it's a Voyager/TNG book (mostly VOY) where Starfleet finds a dormant Borg cube (this is post-VOY) and sends Admiral Janeway to take a look at it. It was a sequel to an earlier book called Resistance (a TNG novel) where the Ent-E found a new Borg cube and Picard briefly had to become Locutus again or something, it was not good. The long and short of it is that this Cube reactivates, literally absorbs Janeway into itself (because somehow these Borg have evolved to be able to assimilate by absorbing objects into the Cube), and Janeway becomes a Borg Queen. The rest of the book is Starfleet, Picard, and Seven of Nine trying to stop this new super-advanced Borg, which is finally ended with Janeway dying. Except that Janeway is not dead, her body is gone but her consciousness is rescued by Lady Q (Q's wife or whatever) from oblivion. Janeway gets resurrected down the line when Q's son has to sacrifice himself to stop the entire multiverse from destabilizing and one side-effect of that is Janeway comes back.
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Nov 3, 2018 05:42
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Pick posted:so guys, what's the absolute worst book of all the Star Trek novels? I remember thinking that Mutiny on the Enterprise and Crisis on Centaurus were pretty bad, but I don't remember why. It's been quite some time.
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Nov 3, 2018 05:45
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FlamingLiberal posted:The long and short of it is that this Cube reactivates, literally absorbs Janeway into itself (because somehow these Borg have evolved to be able to assimilate by absorbing objects into the Cube), and Janeway becomes a Borg Queen. The rest of the book is Starfleet, Picard, and Seven of Nine trying to stop this new super-advanced Borg, which is finally ended with Janeway dying. Except that Janeway is not dead, her body is gone but her consciousness is rescued by Lady Q (Q's wife or whatever) from oblivion. Janeway gets resurrected down the line when Q's son has to sacrifice himself to stop the entire multiverse from destabilizing and one side-effect of that is Janeway comes back. If Lady Q is on your side, why is anything a problem?
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Nov 3, 2018 05:46
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It was also part of the post-Nemesis TNG novels where they'd been trying to introduce new characters to fill in the gaps caused by Riker and Troi leaving for their own ship and Data being dead. Except Peter David apparently decided, without consulting with anyone else, that he was going to have all the new characters try and mutiny against Picard because they didn't like the plan he comes up with to stop the Borg. So all the new characters ended up having to be written out of the series in the next book because they'd all been turned into insubordinate idiots. Also, the Borg destroy Pluto. And there's a brief scene where a Federation ambassador tries to negotiate with the Borg, announces 'peace in our time', then immediately gets killed, because lol diplomacy is for pussies, right?
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Nov 3, 2018 05:47
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not pluto!!!!
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Nov 3, 2018 05:52
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Pick posted:not pluto!!!! Who cares? It's not even a real planet anyway!
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Nov 3, 2018 05:52
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tarlibone posted:Who cares? It's not even a real planet anyway! Nice avatar/post combo. What about the TNG/X-Men crossover? (not to be confused with the TOS/X-Men crossover)
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Nov 3, 2018 05:54
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The Man From Pluto had to be stopped somehow.
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Nov 3, 2018 05:57
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While looking over the list of the old Pocket Books TOS novels to find terrible ones, I noticed a few I remembered really liking: Dreadnought! and its sequel Battlestations!. Remember the TNG episode Lower Decks? It's kind of like that, but in TOS. Uhura's Song. The gang goes for a lengthy adventure on a planet of cat people. Vulcan's Glory. An adventure of Captain Pike, Number One and Spock set sometime during the era of The Cage. Written by D.C. Fontana, no less. Granted, these impressions are from when I was in junior high school, so don't put too much stock in them. (The premise of Uhura's Song in particular makes me worry that it might actually suck and I just had terrible taste.)
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I only ever read the numbered Pocket books and some of the non-numbered ones and while I’m pretty sure very few of them qualified as good I don’t remember any of them being bad. I guess Shatner-Trek series was probably the worst but if it was “written” by anyone else I’d have probably just read over the Kirk fawning.
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