Bobby Deluxe posted:

disappointed by the lack of dead bajorans needed for that recipie

garibaldi posted:

you're alright londo

McSpanky posted:

Obviously you order it in the club lounge at the execution stadium

mods changed my name posted:

I like your recaps fwiw.

my favorite part is when you do the opening credits

Pick posted:

casey biggs (Damar) has revealed his star trek cruise signature recipe

lol but seriously I posted:

going by the academic principle that if it two other people might read it you are good to publish the 11^th episode of the babylon 5

⭐ the president is on the way to the babylon 5. he is gifting the station a fighter wing and also building support for his new immigration/economic policies
⭐ garibaldi and susan bitch about the idiots in government giving them no notice and generally being fuckups while riding the monorail
⭐ susan mentions she is russian again just to hammer that home (or... seed of a plot point for later? {update: irrelevant to the episode})
⭐ EXPLOSION IN CARGO BAY 12 some poor sap gets blown out into the void
⭐ DAWN OF THE THIRD AGE ALONE IN THE NIGHT THE NAME OF THE PLACE... BABYLON 5
⭐ they manage to retrieve the spaced dude but he is not top notch. garibaldi & sinclair speculate on what caused the explosion
⭐ the presidents security person "leana" arrives. she and garibaldi have history. i recall that garibaldi has something of a sketchy past
⭐ she was the daughter of a friend. she is somewhat brisk and takes over the investigation. garibaldi offers no protest & leaves
⭐ sinclair catches up with garibaldi and asks him what the gently caress? "it is personal"
⭐ g'kar rocks up peeved about his seats at the banquet
⭐ girabaldi catches a "dagouhl" trying to pull a scam and gets real hot about it. i am no freud but i am thinking garibaldi is more upset than he wants to let on
⭐ sinclair pulls him away and asks him what the gently caress? again. garabaldi spills his guts
⭐ 17 years ago he worked security for a mine on europa. it was a shady place and he was the one decent man on a moon gone topsy turvy. he hit the bottle hard
⭐ he met leana's dad and they became fast friends
⭐ garibaldi ruffled some feathers, so they [the badguys] bumped off leana's dad and pinned the "accident" on garibaldi's incompetence. this got him blackballed most places hence his dubious seeming history
⭐ garibaldi boozed it up for a number of years but is sober now and entirely off the sauce
⭐ they get called to sick bay. leana and a government goon are stopping dr. ben from treating the exploded dude. leanna gives him a revitalising shot and interrogates him
⭐ it was no accident, there was a bomb! the interrogation kills the dude but not before he reveals garibald planted the bomb
⭐ a meeting is called. garibaldi claims that the guy had it in for him since getting busted a while back. nonetheless he is suspended pending investigation and leana takes over security
⭐ garibaldi cannot even crash in his bachelor hovel as leanna has had it secured. she really seems to have it in for him for getting her dad killed
⭐ he and leanna have a discussion. she is pissed that he just ran away and went off on a galactic bender after what happened
⭐ evidence has been planted in garibaldi's rooms- it is a frame up. he is arrested but he kicks his way free and books it. an alert goes out
⭐ sinclair cancels the fugitive alert over leana's protests and has susan escort her from the "observation dome" (bridge/ops)
⭐ susan: "try me motherfucker [paraphrased]." sinclaire goes off in search of garibaldi while susan does some bullshit maintenance on the communication systems to buy them time
⭐ cool little scene of extras in the bar watching some kind of holographic knight cockfighting surely a gif exists which i will locate
⭐ garibaldi turns up in stolen clothes and seeks out londo for info as to who set him up
⭐ londo "oh i would most definately gently caress you over in a heartbeat but it was not me on this occasion [paraphrased]" he has an idea
⭐ leana's sidekick discovers that garibaldi only has three fiends: sinclair, susan and londo. they go after londo and try to get around the block on communications with earth
⭐ londo points the finger at g'kar. the narn & centuari had some business which the naarn insisted be paid for in the same type of hard currency that turned up in garibaldis apartment
⭐ londo has had a win on the gee-gees and so loans garibaldi 50 ducats so he might buy his way into the diplomatic sector. also londo feels an affinity for garibaldi as they are both vice ridden fuckups
⭐

⭐ g'kar has been expecting garibaldi. he dickishly offers him a drink and denies involvement
⭐ he offers him asylum in return for his services. garibaldi would rather take his chances
⭐ the new ships arrive
⭐ garibaldi straps on a gas mask and goes to see nagrath (shady mantis dude). nagrath suspects a sting and turfs him out
⭐ garibaldi is immediately spotted and a chase ensues. he shakes the tail but immediately runs into dagouhl it is just a nonstop parade of poo poo for this guy today
⭐ they have a very 90's tv fight. dagouhl brings out a chain at one point but garibaldi gains the upper hand. two more toughs appear and lay a pounding on him
⭐ BY GAWD THATS SINCLAIR's MUSIC sinclair turns up and evens the score
⭐ sinclair receives notification of a ^{gold level} transmission and garibaldi slips away
⭐ the president is almost there. sinclair tells leana to get over her daddy issues. garibaldi is spotted
⭐ garibaldi is at some sleazy dive. he disguises himself from the cops with a hat and has a long old think about getting back on the booze
⭐ GARIBALDI IS OFF THE WAGON
⭐ astoundingly his latest plan of getting blasted and hoping the situation resolves itself does not pan out. he is captured by leana: "drunk again, uncle mike?"
⭐ the president's ship appears through the gate
⭐ leana gives garibaldi some poo poo. she tells him to confess.
⭐ space racist materials were found in "nolan [the spaced dude from the beginning]"'s apartment. you will recall garibaldi foiled a space racist plot in a previous episode
⭐ nolan blew himself up on accident. also the president intends to liberalise both immigration and trade policies which is the exact opposite impression i got from the first episode
⭐ leana has half a mind to believe all this, but cannot square how they knew to frame garibadli. no one knew he was fingered except her, him, sinclaire... and cutter!
⭐ the self same cutter who was just tasked with doing a bomb sweep of the docks. garibaldi convinces leana to do a personal sweep
⭐ she turns up to do the check with garibaldi but is stun-sticked by cutter. there are fisticuffs, cutter keeps calling him "wiseguy" maybe he is so space racist he hates italians idk
⭐ OH GOD THE PRESIDENT IS ALMOST THERE
⭐ garibaldi overcomes cutter tells susan to abort. the day is saved
⭐ sinclair, garibaldi and dr. ben do a wrap up. garibaldi is worried about his alcoholism. awwww him and sinclair really love each other
⭐ the president's reforms will cause turmoil
⭐ garibaldi and leana make amends, hug it out and she is back off to earth.

lots of character stuff for garibaldi. really enjoyed his scene with londo. the space racists are an ongoing menace. i am not sure if the earth governments policy of opening up the border is a change of position or i am just bad at paying attention but either way it is going to cause some friction and hopefully generate interesting ongoing plotlines for DANDYLION 5

lol but seriously I posted:

it gets me hype man i cannot contain myself

PostNouveau posted:

It's so loving good

https://vimeo.com/67326569

Baronjutter posted:

"Computer, replicate the most vile fried irish food imaginable, but give it the nutrients and health benefits of my wife's weird seaweed and plankton poo poo"
done

simplefish posted:

"Computer, create a meal capable of defeating Keiko and Miles' marital problems"

sweet geek swag posted:

"Unable to comply. This terminal is not programmed to dispense poisons. Do you wish to override?"

Pick posted:

and the episode where miles almost gets laid with the engineer lady

naem posted:

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Ghost Leviathan posted:

loving Sulu apropos of nothing, complete with the TOS uniform. Is there a more subtle joke to that or just deliberately winding up the nerds?

Automatic Slim posted:

It’s the same guy who played Sulu when William Shatner hosted. In that skit they turned the Enterprise into a revolving restaurant and Shatner chewed out ‘Sulu’ for taking too many liberties with the buffet. Iirc, he was a writer on the show. It’s a nod to Shstner's skit.

e: The Stewart skit was just a few years after Shatner’s. With much the same SNL cast were in both skits.

Baronjutter posted:

Wife and I keep watching through DS9 for the second time. Just got to the episode that both introduces recurring characters Ishka (Andrea Martin version), Coombs as Brunt, FCA, and Kasidy Yates who has not aged a day in 23 years between now and the Orville.

Zesty posted:

Is it wild she can have a sex scene at age 57(!)? Wild in a good way.

sweet geek swag posted:

Santiago's isn't anti-alien so much as he uses some of the nationalist rhetoric because anti-alien sentiment is running so high. He also had to give some rather important positions in his administration to anti-alien people, including the vice presidency. Which means that the current Earth gov policy towards aliens can probably best be described as 'schizophrenic.'

Pick posted:

God, you assholes have no loving taste. Really, every conflict, or so-called conflict, in that show is designed explicitly to rub the base of the dick of people exactly like you, who already have your opinions. You will never have one of your opinions changed by that show, or in any way meaningfully challenged. It is 100% masturbatory, which is exactly why you claim you don't like discovery.

FlamingLiberal posted:

I will say that Andrew Robinson really sells the horror of discovering in the finale that the Jem’Hadar have wiped out most of the planet

Automatic Slim posted:

e: In reality, it’s probably Gene Roddenberry's stealth commentary on studio heads with their ‘production notes’ and anxieties about ratings which has nothing to do what Kirk (Roddenberry) really wants to do. ‬

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Many pages back we decided that it was Gene having been in the military and hating the ambassadors that always seemed to interfere and look down on the military as just meatheads, which is how they always come across on Trek.

The only non rear end in a top hat ambassador is Lwaxana, because she was played by his missus, and even then she still has a massively disruptive effect on any plot she is a part of.

Admiralty Flag posted:

It's Ellen Cleghorn playing Guinan. I'm sort of struck by how bad the skit was. Not just bad writing, but subpar work from all the cast except Tim Meadows, Cleghorn, Sweeney, (can't believe I'm going to say this) Rob Schneider, and Al Franken (who I think was the Ferengi). Farley's Riker walk was funny (always walk as though you have to batter a door down with the side of your forehead!) but he big time flubbed at least one cue/line. Oh man I forgot how bad a cast member Melanie Hutzel was.