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Rated 3. Get it together, Thread.
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Feb 18, 2019 23:11
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Zesty posted:Rated 3. Get it together, Thread. *dramatically looks up at Riker's collar, decompresses main shuttle bay*
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Feb 18, 2019 23:14
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CPColin posted:*dramatically looks up at Riker's collar, decompresses main shuttle bay* Thread still explodes
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Feb 18, 2019 23:15
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"Wow, I thought we'd lose Tom for sure in that shuttle accident." "Not to worry, We'll Always Have Paris."
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Feb 18, 2019 23:17
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Pull up, thread 
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Feb 18, 2019 23:19
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I have not watched Discovery, which I presume that is from. ... ... The saucer spins? Why?
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Feb 18, 2019 23:31
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if only there was some way for you to find out why..
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Feb 18, 2019 23:36
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I mean it’s not like the show tells you. It just looks neat.
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Feb 18, 2019 23:38
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Because the mushrooms fueling the thing are shrooms.
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Feb 18, 2019 23:44
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I have a pizza cutter like that
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Feb 18, 2019 23:53
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Cessna posted:I have not watched Discovery, which I presume that is from. Something to do with cavitation if I remember the background dialogue correctly. Anyway, they spin the saucer when they're using the EDIT: spore drive, displacement activated spore hub drive, and "skip across the galaxy on a highway made of mushrooms" are all literal excerpts from Discovery's dialogue. Farmer Crack-Ass fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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Feb 19, 2019 00:42
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Because the people runners who sign off on effects don't give a gently caress and it literally shows.
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Feb 19, 2019 01:24
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Cessna posted:I have not watched Discovery, which I presume that is from. You've perhaps also noticed, I would think, that the entire ship also spins, on a different axis.
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Feb 19, 2019 01:29
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Geekboy posted:This is the whitest thing I’ve ever read on these forums. Orrrrrrrrr maybe I know a lot about ethnic minorities in sci-fi (or at least enough to make FBTS not be teaching me anything)? Stop loving acting like you're king woke in every star trek thread. FBTS is too American, it wasn't what I wanted when it was an episode a week and we're in the middle of something big. AlBorlantern Corps posted:You seem upset Mr Tuvok. Perhaps you could be cheered up with a game of kadas kat? It's a strange thing that they come up with terrible future (or alien) sports/games but never bother with any other facet of culture at all.
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Feb 19, 2019 01:33
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:You've perhaps also noticed, I would think, that the entire ship also spins, on a different axis. At least it's not spinning on its intermediate axis, as that would be unstable.
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Feb 19, 2019 01:37
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tarlibone posted:(Some distance away, a battered and bloody offspring creature crawls across the floor and presses a button. Smash cut to a close-up of the creature's face, pull out to reveal a Brady Bunch style grid of all Star Trek characters ever. The refrain to the song "Too Many Treks!" begins to loop. Fade to black.) Man, with all the "character goes crazy/is replaced by an imposter" episodes of Trek you could probably make quite a decent Too Many Treks video. Edit: I stopped minding the spinning saucer when I realised it wasn't the whole thing spinning, but a shield or layer on top of it. It's different to the type of stuff we usually see in Trek but that reinforces the feeling that the whole jump system they are using is unique. Senor Tron fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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Feb 19, 2019 01:39
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Pull up, thread Please tell me this had a cartoon 'thonk' sound.
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Feb 19, 2019 01:43
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Cessna posted:The saucer spins?
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Feb 19, 2019 02:23
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You don't need to ask John Cena why his championship belt has a spinner, just roll with it.
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Feb 19, 2019 02:26
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DoctorWhat posted:Get over it. It's all fake. No hay banda. This is all a tape recording.
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Feb 19, 2019 02:28
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Something to do with cavitation if I remember the background dialogue correctly. I read "skip across the galaxy on a highway made of mushrooms" as "so they skipped across the galaxy on a highway made of 'shrooms," to the tune of the line "So he bought a one way ticket on an airline made of snow" from the song "Snowblind Friend" by Steppenwolf. Captain said to move real fast, too much time warp drive consumes So they skipped across the galaxy on a highway made of 'shrooms tarlibone fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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Feb 19, 2019 02:38
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MikeJF posted:Please tell me this had a cartoon 'thonk' sound. The bass-heavy synth sci-fi WHOMM equivalent, yeah. It was great. And for context, they intentionally hosed up that jump so that they’d be able to gently caress around in the shroom-filled pocket dimension for a while to rescue someone. Say what you will about Discovery, but season 2 has really doubled down on the weirdness and sometimes it’s great.
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Feb 19, 2019 04:46
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Disco, when it’s firing on all cylinders, is goofy, camp, and straight up weird - all in the best ways. It’s slowly starting to own it too. Last week’s episode was a perfect example of all three.
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Feb 19, 2019 04:57
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Watching "The Way of the Warrior", the double DS9 episode that they started Season 4 with Worf joining the cast. They do an outstanding job of basically rebooting the series. The show's finally paranoid about the changelings. There are several moments where Sisko has to make choices that can single-handedly drag the Federation into war. Worf basically gets all his gains with the Klingons reset to zero, but in a believable way. Dukat and Gowron get their proper entrances into the series. loving Bashir's giving the staff a quick rundown on battlefield medicine. It's got the scene where Quark and Dukat talk about how bad the Federation's cultural hegemony is. The effects shots rule. The shields go down and all hell breaks loose with great Star Trek style fighting all over the station.
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Feb 19, 2019 06:24
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I'm pretty much down with FTL travel being shown as weird and crazy looking.
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Feb 19, 2019 06:27
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm pretty much down with FTL travel being shown as weird and crazy looking. I want some kind of FTL drive system that involves a transmission that has to be shifted. A hyper stick shift. And when you grind 'em, the whole ship shudders. In my Trek, the original USS Excelsior's new tech is an automatic drive.
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Feb 19, 2019 06:40
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tarlibone posted:I want some kind of FTL drive system that involves a transmission that has to be shifted. A hyper stick shift. And when you grind 'em, the whole ship shudders. Isn't that basically the TARDIS and the Doctor not knowing how to use a clutch?
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Feb 19, 2019 07:05
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tarlibone posted:I want some kind of FTL drive system that involves a transmission that has to be shifted. A hyper stick shift. And when you grind 'em, the whole ship shudders. They did a parking brake joke in JJTrek. That's probably as close as we're going to get.
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Feb 19, 2019 07:06
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tarlibone posted:In my Trek, the original USS Excelsior's new tech is an automatic drive. Your Trek is weird but cool.
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Feb 19, 2019 07:08
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Admiralty Flag posted:Isn't that basically the TARDIS and the Doctor not knowing how to use a clutch? The signature sound of the TARDIS warping is apparently because the Doctor leaves the parking brake on. And it's supposed to be crewed by at least six people. Steven Universe has a fun case where the characters don't listen to the instructions of how to use the Alcubierre Drive properly and poo poo ends up getting crazy.
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Feb 19, 2019 07:13
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END CHEMTRAILS NOW posted:It has to spin. It's round! Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning. "I'm the
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Feb 19, 2019 07:45
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PostNouveau posted:Watching "The Way of the Warrior", the double DS9 episode that they started Season 4 with Worf joining the cast. They do an outstanding job of basically rebooting the series. The show's finally paranoid about the changelings. There are several moments where Sisko has to make choices that can single-handedly drag the Federation into war. Worf basically gets all his gains with the Klingons reset to zero, but in a believable way. Dukat and Gowron get their proper entrances into the series. loving Bashir's giving the staff a quick rundown on battlefield medicine. It's got the scene where Quark and Dukat talk about how bad the Federation's cultural hegemony is. The effects shots rule. The shields go down and all hell breaks loose with great Star Trek style fighting all over the station. Way of the Warrior owns. Some of the best Trek out there
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Feb 19, 2019 07:54
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END CHEMTRAILS NOW posted:It has to spin. It's round! Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning. To be honest I think when I was a kid I wondered why the Enterprise's saucer section didn't spin.
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Feb 19, 2019 08:07
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Cessna posted:The saucer spins? In order for the displacement activation to occur to travel using the mycelial network, a ship must first generate an asymmetric subspace field potential. The Discovery (and its sistership, the Glenn) had hull-based field generators that required additional, counter-balanced angular momentum to successfully form the characteristic potential in spacetime. Actually, no, I just made all of that up. It spins because it looks neat
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Feb 19, 2019 08:44
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Something to do with cavitation if I remember the background dialogue correctly. The first time they were powering up the drive dramatically it was 'excess energy cavitation initiated' to turn the spinning on.
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Feb 19, 2019 09:30
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ashpanash posted:In order for the displacement activation to occur to travel using the mycelial network, a ship must first generate an asymmetric subspace field potential. The Discovery (and its sistership, the Glenn) had hull-based field generators that required additional, counter-balanced angular momentum to successfully form the characteristic potential in spacetime. As a kid I was obsessed with things like the TNG Tech Manual and it's quite relieving to have a Trek show that doesn't feel like it needs to explain the details of how everything works.
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Feb 19, 2019 13:41
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Hey there, Star Trek thread. I'm planning on watching (binging) all of the Star Trek. As I go along, should I post my thoughts here? You don't need to warn me, I know what I'm getting into.
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Feb 19, 2019 14:22
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It's like that Hitchhiker's Guide spaceship that uses an Italian restaurant to power FTL travel using the advanced mathematics of dividing up the bill, as a revolving restaurant.
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Feb 19, 2019 14:22
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Watch it in chronological order, so start with All Good things as it has scenes in pre-life Earth, then move into Times Arrow which takes place in the 19th century, then one scene from Past Tense, then City on the Edge of Forever, then Carbon Creek, then Little Green Men, then Times Orphan, then Assignment Earth, then another scene from Past Tense, then Star Trek IV, then Futures End, then 11:59, then the rest of Past Tense, then First Contact, etc and so forth
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Feb 19, 2019 14:36
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But seriously, just watch all of it and watch each series in the order it came out (even though for the first few episodes of TOS that's a little tricky). If you get bored with an episode, just like use your phone while it's on or something, or I guess skip it if it's that bad. And don't bother with "essential episodes" lists, they're pointless, unless you have to write a research paper about Star Trek or something.
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